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A86881	Animadversions and considerations upon a sheet, printed for Francis Smith containing a confession of the faith of several catapædobaptists, whose names are thereunto subscribed. As also the absurdities of the doctrine of arminianism, free-will, and general redemption; and that it is a popish doctrine; and their objections briefly answered. By J. H.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Humphreys, John, b. 1637.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3666A; ESTC R224279	30,889	102

Christ the Lord. And lastly the old Whores Purgatory is better than your mortality for a live Dog is better than a dead Lyon Eccles 9.4 The one and twentieth Article acknowledgeth a general Judgment but tacitly denieth the particular Judgment because the Authors of the Article deny the Immortality of the Soul from the time of the death of the Body to the general Resurrection as I said before It is saith Paul appointed once for every man to die and after that death to Judgment that is every particular man for the Premises is particular therefore the Assumption must be particular the death he speaks of is a particular death Ergo the Judgment that follows is a particular Judgment which I say these good Gentlemen tacitly deny It is absurd that the Soul should not live a moment for if the Soul be immortal à parte post that is from the instant of its infusion into the Body it may not desist from life a moment for then it would lose its Immortality If we grant you Mortality of the Soul for a time they may as well beg its Mortality for ever for to unreasonable persons that have not the true Faith of Christ grant an Inch and they will crave an Ell. But I pass to the two and twentieth Article which is like a Jewel in a Swines Snout What the Kingdom of Christ set upon the Foundation of the Whore of Babylon and Antichrist it loaths my Soul to see it The Reign of Christ in the Kingdoms of the World in his Saints in a restorative Apostolical manner before the final dissolution of the World is and ever was the Judgment and Faith of Saints and not only so but at the general Judgment when Christ shall again the second time appear Acts 1. in that glorified body of his and descend from the Throne in that flesh he did ascend with the innumerable Societies of Saints and Angels the then living Saints being changed 1 Thes 4. ult Phil. 3. ult to meet the Lord in the Clouds of Heaven and together with him to return to take the Kingdoms of the World into his possession Dan. 7. Rev. 11. and so to judge the Earth and give his beheaded and suffering Sons Rev. 20. quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the new Heavens and new Earth Isai 63. and 2 Pet. 3. till the second and last Trumpet 1 Cor. 15. whether numerically for a thousand years or less or more may be disputable by some but for the sum and substance hath been owned from the very Apostles days by the Fathers as Papias Justin Martyr and Irenaeus and almost if not all except August and Jerom who yet spake very favourably fo the Chyleasts or fifth Monarchical Judgment Licet non sequamur tamen damnare non possumus quia mult● Ecclesiasticorum virorum ista dixerunt Jer. 23. Ep. de regnand secundo Christi But to set up this glorious Truth and Kingdom of Jesus Christ upon a rotten Papistical Pelagian Arminian Heretical Antichristian Foundation you will receive the reward of the Pharisees Mat. 7. Lord we have prophesied in thy Name and cast out Devils but saith Christ depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for unbelievers The three and twentieth Article pleads for the holy Scriptures to be the Rule of Faith and Life it is one thing to take the Letter of the Scripture with the Doctrine and sense of the Holy Ghost included and another thing to accept for our Rule the humane glosses of mens natural or deluded spirits the latter of which is equal with their Errour that deny the regular Authority of the Scriptures The Letter of the Scriptures and the Spirit of Jesus are both in Commission from Christ our Prophet to teach his people they that exclude the Spirit and pretend the Letter are as unfortunate as Arminians Socinians Pelagians and other Carnal Hereticks but they that reject the Letter and pretend the Spirit are swallowed up of Enthusiastical Delusions as Quakers and such like For whom God hath joyned together we must not dare to separate asunder without incurring the Curse of adding or diminishing The twenty fourth Article pleads for Liberty of Conscience in spiritual matters It is not to be doubtted but that the Saints of God ought to have their liberty to worship God and to hinder them is the greatest sin next to the sin against the Holy Ghost but the question is who are the Saints 2. Whether false worshippers may have liberty from godly Magistrates 1. Saints are either called to the Faith of Christ and so to the profession of it and such are visible though they may differ among themselves in some circumstances 2. Saints that are Elect but uncalled may be among them that are false worshippers till called the first only worship God truly because none can worship God truly but such as truly believe in the Son of God according to the Declaration of God and that Record he hath given in the Word of his Son viz. that Christ was made Sin and a Curse that he laid their sins on Christ and so freed them and their Curse and so that Righteousness of the Law fulfilled in his Person as God-man is imputed to them for their whole Righteousness which they by Faith alone receiving are visible Saints and do worship God truly they that have not this Faith though Angels in appearance are but false worshippers because the Law of Faith in Christ is the fulfilling of the whole Law directly the first Table towards God Exod. 20. containing first four Commandments that is fulfilled compleatly in a true Believer and forasmuch as Love flows from Faith so is the second Table fulfilled in a true believer but this fulfilling the Law by Faith in a Believer is not his Justification or Righteousness before God for that is Christs fulfilling it in his Person Rom. 8.2 3 4. and Gods imputing it to the sinner Rom. 4.5 6 7. and Faith as an Instrument receives it and applies it to its self So then the Act of Faith in us doth not justifie for then our Works and the Law would justifie but it is still Christ alone that justifies Rom. 8. To the second question the Magistrate may restrain false worshippers See Rev. 2.20 and 2 Cor. 10.5 the Instruments of the Church for this purpose are spiritual 1 Cor. 5. delivering the proud and contemptible to Satan and the godly Magistrate is but a Ruling Elder whether in a Congregation or Nation Let the Tares grow with the Wheat some say is meant of secret Hypocrites but I suppose that blood-shed consiscation or any corporal persecution in this day is not to be in any wise inflicted on deluded Consciences The twenty fifth and last Article seems to contradict his Predecessor for he allows the Magistrate to punish evil doers and incourage the good but his Predecessor flatly denies the Magistrate to have any thing to do with matters of Divine Worship Now among the Pretenders to Spiritual Worship three

Chap. 17. entitled Of the Voyage by Night and Chap. 18. called the Chapter of the Cave 27 28 29 30 lines To the second that all the misery and death and condemnation of the World brought in by the fall of the first Adam is but temporal corporeal and only as to this life is a Lye against Scripture Reason and the Authority of good and approved Authors This Opinion was held by Jacobus Faber and many other Papists but not by Bellarmine Gen. 2. In the day thou eatest thou shalt die the death is a Hebrew phrase signifying eternal and temporal death moriendo morieris Eph. 2.23 Rom. 8.6 7 8. Rom. 5.6.8 Rom. 6.23 Rom. 7.14.17.20.23 Rom. 5 14. to 21. Ezek. 16.3 to 9 10. Mat. 25.41 Gal. 3.1 the wages of all sin is death in that kind that the gift of God is life But the gift of God is life eternal to all Abraham's Seed ergo the wages of all sin is eternal death by the Rule of compar contrar My Authorities are Calvin Instit lib. 2. cap. 1 2 3. the Assemblies Catechism Quest 19. and Answer to it Dr. Willet against Papists in his eighteenth general Controversie read at large besides Luther Zuinglius Melancthon and more Ancient Augustine Hierom Chrysostom Ambrose Tertul. Justin Martyr The third Article professes General Redemption that the Father gave Christ out of his love to the whole world and a Ransom for all universally wherein 1. The Fathers gift is diminished and 2. The Sons Ransom belied for the Father gave him to be a Propitiation for the sins of the world of the Elect and none else that is to all the Elect of Jew and Gentile so is all taken 2 Cor. 5. definitely and John 17.6 7. and 10. he gave him to the Sheep only whose sins he laid on him Isai 53.6.11.1 Pet. 2.24 25. 2. Cor. 5.21 and to whom only he gave and imputed his Righteousness 2 Tim. 1.9 10. Gal. 1.15 16. The Elect Jews were his Sheep and other Sheep I have that is the Elect of the Gentiles and the Reprobates he called Dogs Wolves Lyons c. which he ransomed not neither was given to ransom so he did more for his Elect than you acknowledge viz. transacted and bore their sins on his own body 2. He did it not for all but only for them whom the Father gave to him and him to them Joh. 17.2.6.8.9.11.29 Joh. 6.44.39.37 Joh. 10.3.11.15 16 26 27 28 29. These only by his Blood hath he cleansed in his sight not by Water-Baptism but by his Blood 1 Joh. 1.7.9 and Chap. 5. and of this is the Water of Baptism a Figure and by his Blood hath satisfied Justice for all their sins past to come and present and redeemed them and of this is the Supper a Symbol or Sign 1 Cor. 11. c. The fourth Article sings the same Song wresting the word All to a false sense that God is willing that all should come to repentance and none should perish and that the pardon of sins should be preached to every Creature that none might suffer in Hell The Word of God is belied making it speak what it intends not and the Gospel sophisticated For first the Gospel is ministerlally offered to all Mark 16.15 but by recommunication of the Spirit only to the Elect Rom. 9.11 12 13 18 19 20. with 1 Pet. 3.17 Mat. 13.11 To the Elect it is given to know the Gospel but not to the Reprobate Joh. 12.40 Rom. 11.7 8 9 10. And Piscator a Protestant Divine saith Gratia affertur à deo animo communicandi eam folis Electis hand quaque singulis To the fifth I say degrees of Christianity abstractively adapt not to the Ministry beside I deny you to be a Church of Christ Ergo have no power to give your approbation in Ordination Beside the Church alone though true cannot by Divine Authority ordain Ministers or Commissionate them to go forth to Preach The sixth Article is ambiguous as most of your Preachments are to deceive the simple and obtain Proselites Rom. 16.17 18 19. Submelli Hybleo venenum latet Faith don't justifie as an Act nor is it the Root of Justification as Papists say it is Christ and his Personal Righteousness that justifies the ungodly being Elected Rom. 4 Rom. 8.33 Psal 32.1 2 3. and they by Faith when God gives it them Ephes 2. apprehend and receive this Righteousness of Christ wrote in his Person for their justification Rom. 8.2.3 Joh. 1.12 where you say Believers commit themselves to his Grace I boldly assirm you Arminians Grotians and Pelagians don't mean by Grace to the imputation of his Righteousness wrought in his Individual Person for all his Sheep and given to them for their justification and received by Faith of them Thus all true Protestants but you with Bellarmine and all the Papists mean that the Act of Faith in this your Opinion and new-fangled Gospel and Christ with repentance and obedience to your holy Baptism this is your justification and the Papists for which you will be ashamed in the day of the Lord Jesus when the Thrones of the Kingdoms of the World shall bow before him Phil. 2. and all that own and receive not his imputed Righteousness shall be slain and cast in the Lake Rev. 21.8 and 22.15 The seventh Article tells a loud Lye like his Fellows for God gives his Spirit to his Elect Sons before you do believe or can believe repent or obey for all these are done by the Spirit or some Power else but no Power else but the Spirit can work these Ergo the Spirit is given first not before their Redemption Reconciliation and Justification but before the Application of this Grace by the Office of the holy Spirit this Grace is revealed received and applied to the Elect only Gal. 4.6 Col. 2.10 11 12. Joh. 14.15 16. Chap. 1 Cor. 2.10 11 12. Rom. 8.15 16. Ephes 1.13.18 19 20. The eighth Article is swoln big with the poyson of Sophistication and Contradiction and that because you hide your Errours under a disguise like a hitter Pill wrapt up in a little Sugar or Wormwoodseeds in Plumbs to deceive the simple and Children for you would make us believe you own the Decrees of God while indeed you deny them 2. Acontradiction because if they be Elected for foreseen Faith works or repentance then it is not of meer mercy and good will and nothing in the Creature but sin So that the second part of your Article contradicts the first and the first is sophisticated You say God Elects from the Foundation of the world such as believe that is when they believe he Elects them that is he hath decreed to Elect all that believe but he Elects them as meer sinners and because he Elects them they believe and not that he Elects them because they believe The ninth is like his Fellows full of falshood for they were ordained to Condemnation before they were ungodly men and because of their Reprobation

his prescience Rom. 8. Whom he knew he did predestinate there is his Knowledge act of Will and determinate Counsel and the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prius denifinivit prepositus signifies an act of his will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pono 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 terminus by his determinate Counsel and it was 500 years before this Errour was seen or heard in the Horrizon of the World till in the fifth Century Pelagius preached it at Rome and all the Fathers then especially St. Augustine opposed it Now saith Tertullian id est verius quod est prius id est prius quod est ab initiis ab Apostolis Then in latter times about six hundred years ago when Popery and the Babylonian Whore brought forth her great Bastard Antichrist she laid him on the Foundation of this Metropolitane Errour And then in Germany Arminius and Grotius lick'd up the Dust of the crooked Serpent and King James tollerating it in England then it began to spread and infect with its poysonous Breath the Universities and Doctors of our Island and then since our Vineyard hath been rifled and undertrod by the croaking Jesuits they have filled every Puddle and Lake not only Fountains anf Rivers with their Horrible Spawn The fifth Absurdity that Man hath power and free will of himself to believe and to convert or help to convert himself he would have all say they to believe then all have power to do it or else God mocks them All in that Text is not Universal but Definitive all the Elect of Jew and Gentile as in 2 Cor. 5. it is used and so is All taken for the whole World lies in wickedness but we are of God there all the World is taken for a part and Christ healed all Diseases and John Baptist baptized all yet Herod and many more were not by him baptized all put for many Isai 53.11 and Joh. 12.40 it is apparent that God doth harden and soften whom he will and it is no derogation to his Justice or Mercy for Rom. 9. he may do with his Clay what he will and he only offers Grace universally by the external Ministry but by the Spirit internally only to the Elect and none else Acts 13.48 The sixth Absurdity Man may resist his Effectual Calling if he will and the Jusuit Hemingius brings in Mat. 23.33 but that Bone will not be so picked for Christ speaks that in reference to his external Ministry and Manhood as an external Minister only in that place and so in other places too you may find him acting the part of an external Minister though he was God blessed for evermore The seventh Absurdity is falling away from Election and Faith and Unbelief the only cause of Damnation This last I have elsewhere answered to but to the first part of the Absurdity there are a Cloud of Witnesses against Saints falling away for Hypocrites falling away we admit readily according to which acceptation Heb. 6. and such like places are to be understood Tertul. Ireneus Justin Martyr and Jerom yea all the Fathers of the first five Centuaries yea and all the Orthodox since and Bernard though living in corrupt times in the twelfth or thirteenth Cent. on Cant. 3.4 v. Venerunt flumina venti slaverunt impegerunt in eam non recidit eò quòd fundata supra Petram ea est Christus And Tertul Nemo sapiens nemo fidelis nisi Christianus nemo Christianus nisi qui ad finem usque perseveravit And S. Aug. on Joh. 10.26 Eorum qui Electi sunt si quispiam perit fallitur Deus sed nemo eorum perit quia non fallitur Deus And Bernard on Rom. 5. Seoumdum tempus pro peccatoribus inimicis sed seoundum praedestinatinem pro amicis And August Cent. 5. Electi sunt ad regnandum cum Christo And Ambrose Cent. 4. Omnibus qui sunt ex ejus corpore vitam acquisivit And August Illi Christo intelliguntur dari qui praeordinati sunt And John 10.26 27 28 29. Joh. 17.2.6.9 10. and Jon. 6.29.37.44 cum multis aliis quae nunc longum est praescribendum The eighth Absurdity is general and universal Redemption contrary to the Scriptures and to Joh. the 6.37.44 and Joh. 10.26 27 29. and the whole Chapter and Ephes 1.4.7 and to Acts 13.48 he only Heb. 2. 9 10. tasted death for every Son whom Joh. 17. the Father gave him from Eternity If Christ died for all he either died effectually or sufficiently effectually he did not because all are not saved sufficiently he did not because his death only extends to them the Father gave him who are beloved in the Womb Rom. 9. before they have done good or evil If he died for all and all are not saved then is his Death and Grace in vain but that is against both the Honour of God and Dignity of Christ Compare Isai 49. to Isai 42. The ninth Absurdity that Unbelief is the only cause of Condemnation I have said something to this before but this is contrary to Rom. 2.12 to Heb. 6. to Rom. 5.12.16 Then all the Gentiles before Christ and Faith was preached were freed from condemnation and all the Jews too for ought I know for Faith was not publickly preached to them till Christ came Gal. 3. ult Acts. 17.30 and 14.16.17 Then Infants of Unbelievers cannot be damned contrary to Ezek. 9. for they were slain that belonged to the Parents that did not mourn for sin and if you say that was only but a temporal death I answer God did not even under that temporal conditional Covenant destroy his own People that were saved by Christ so rashly they were certainly the Reprobates The tenth Absurdity Why did the Apostle cry Rom. 11.33 Oh the depths of God c. his Counsels c. if your Doctrine be the truth there is no mystery no depth in that for it s built on Reason and every Creature that hath but common Reason may fathom it easily that God gave Christ for all 1. To put them into a condition of peace and re-instate them in Innocency as before the Fall that they have naturally free will in part or whole to convert themselves and to believe that Christ abolished the Covenant of perfect obedience and purchased a milder Law that it they obey the Command of Christ in the Gospel and repent and be sorry for sins committed which they all have power to do if they will and that but sincerely in your sense for in the sense of Truth sincerely is to do the Will of God without any flaw as the word and the use of it truly imports Sincerè id est sine cerâ all Honey without any drege of wax 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first word is derived of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 splendòr solis and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secerno to do ones works in the light of the Sun A Metap taken from the Eagles that try their young by holding