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A85411	A post-script, or appendix to a treatise lately published by authority, intituled, Hagio-Mastix, or the scourge of the saints displaid in his colours of ignorance and blood. Being an explication of the third verse of the thirteenth chapter of the prophecie of Zacharie; (the tenour whereof is this: and it shall come to passe, that when any shall yet prophecie, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, thou shalt not live, for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him, shall thrust him through when he prophecieth.) According to the analogie of the Sriptures [sic], the scope and exigency of the context, and the sence of the best expositors upon the place. / By John Goodwin a servant of God and men, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.; Hagiomastix. Appendix	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1191; Thomason E383_10; ESTC R201432	31,560	34

am ingaged in a war against the world and do not intend to send or supplicate for conditions of peace nothing doubting but that I have sufficient strength the strength of Heaven to meet any adversary that cometh against me in the field I make no question but I shall perswade the judgements of some to accept of that Truth whose cause I plead but the strength and glory of my comfort is that of the Apostle We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish 2 Cor. 2. 15. Ezekiel must prophecie whether the people to whom he is sent will hear or whether they will forbear that they might know there hath been a Prophet amongst them Ezek. 2. 5. Men are then prepared for destruction upon the best terms for the glory of God therein when his Truth hath been effectually made known unto them they persisting in their former wayes of disobedience unto it This is that which the Scripture calls Rebellion 1 Sam. 15. 23. and walking stubbornly against God as the former translation reads it Lev. 26. 21. 23. 27. And in this respect they who make known his Truth unto me are a sweet savour unto him even in those who perish through disobedience to it As for him who it seems counts it an honour to be an Officer in blood unto Satan the Scourger of the Saints under the name of Fools * for so indeed they are called in the dialect of the world the language which this man speaketh the God of Recompences a will provide a scourge for him and that of Scorpions in due time unlesse by Repentance he becomes one of those Fools whom now he scourgeth and will declare from Heaven with an astonishing demonstration who is the Fool and who is the wise man And Reader were it not for fear of making my gates too big for my city I should here in further vindication of my self against the pretended crime of denying the Divine Authority of the Scriptures have directed thee to such passages in that discourse it self which is constrained to bear the crosse of this forged cavillation wherein I clearly acknowledge and assert the same As 1. to pag. 29. Where I suppose the fouls of men to have been ransomed by the precious blood of Iesus Christ So again to page 36. where I expresse my self thus And though for my self I can and do without scruple subscribe to the truth of this doctrine yea and am ready God assisting to die for it that God is one in three persons c. Certainly he that asserts or takes for granted that the souls of men were ransomed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ and again that God is one in three persons professing himself ready to die in attestation hereof asserts his belief of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures with as much plainesse and evidence as is lightly possible for any man in words to do For who can really and cordially and with a Faith animating unto death for the obsignation of their Truth believe either of these upon any lighter or looser foundation then the Authority or word of God himself The latter place I desire all the world to take knowledge of it which is the more pregnant of the two wherein I professe my subscribing without scruple to this Doctrine that God is one in three persons and further that I am ready to die in attestation of it God assisting me is in the very next page unto and but a very few lines before that unChristianly yea and sencelesly perverted and mis-used passage wherein my Informers would fain perswade the world that they see me under a deniall of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures with my pen Miserable mend who know not how to refrain from making themselves more miserable then they are by making sin of innocency in other men and innocency of sin in themselves Yea the truth is that I am so far from denying the Divine Originall or Authority of the Scriptures in the said book that Sect. 25. beginning at the foot of page 32. I assert the same as demonstrable by many grounds and Arguments otherwise whereas the Presbyterians more generally as there I shew hold and affirm it undemonstrable upon such terms by all arguments and reasons whatsoever excepting onely the immediate illumination or revelation of the Spirit of God But I remember that he that glorified God more then all the world besides was notwithstanding again and again charged with blasphemy a and that by those who thought they knew as well as all the world besides what blasphemy was yea and judged themselves as holy just and zealous men as far from that great abomination of unrighteousnesse of condemning the innocent as were to be found among all the living yea this great and blessed factour for God and his glory and for the salvation of the world was at last notwithstanding all his faithfulnesse unto both worlds sentenced even by such men as I spake of worthy of death as a blasphemer b Reader I cannot but comfort my self with these words The Lord give thee a discerning spirit between things that differ and keep thee from being either ravished with the spirit or rapt up into the third Heavens of this present world Farewell From my Studie in Colemanstreet March 2. 1646. Thine and all mens in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ John Goodwin ZACH. 13. 3. And it shall come to passe that when any shall yet prophecie then his Father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him Thou shalt not live for thou speakest lies in the Name of the Lord And his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophecieth BEcause there are some amongst us who look upon this passage of Scripture as undoubtedly comporting with such a practise which it seems too much comports with their desires I mean the inflicting of civill punishments by the Magistrate upon spirituall Delinquents persons uttering or teaching erroneous doctrines in Religion and having had no occasion ministred to argue this as I had for severall others in my late Treatise intituled Hagio-mastix c. I conceive it may be a good and acceptable service both unto God and man to make a district and narrow search into the minde of the one in it for the accomodation and benefit of the other partly in rectifying the judgements and practise of some partly in preserving others from undue sufferings We shall steer our inquiry by the compasse partly of the sence minde of the holy Ghost in other Scriptures partly of the coherence and scope of the context partly of the sence and import of the words themselves partly by the analogy of phrase or manner of expression found elsewhere in Scripture partly also of the apprehensions and judgements of the best and soundest Expositors we have had opportunity to see and consult about the meaning of the place So then that

in the world in the Doctrine of his word certainly if this word be but effectually preached there will be no necessity of driving them away by fire and sword except we mean thus to pursue them after they are departed far away from us as indeed the Papists many times do who use to destroy the lives of those that recant and abjure their errours as they call errour as well as theirs who persist obstinate So that it is neither agreeable to the scope of the place nor minde of the Scripture elsewhere nor to the sense of many Orthodox Interpreters upon the place nor to the judgement of the chief Modern Writers of the Protestant partie otherwise to understand the phrase of thrusting through in the Scripture in hand literally or of thrusting through with sword spear or the like unto death especially with relation to the Churches of the Gentiles under the Gospel And though some of our Protestant Expositors seem to carry it in such a sense yet the great crie of this interpretation is heard out of the midst of Rome Iesuits and others the children of that mother thirsting after the blood of the Saints being with open mouth the great abettors and proclaimers of it But 9. Whereas the Latine translation reads transfigent eum and our English they shall thrust him through the Septuagint readeth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. they shall joyntly tread upon him or kick him with their feet which imports only a disgracefull or disrespectfull carriage towards him But 10. And lastly If there be yet any place left for a further conjecture upon a difficult and obscure place for peremptoriness and magistrality become difficulties no otherwise then a full career the deepest ways it may I conceive relate in the direct and full import of it to those times of refreshing which shall come from the presence of the Lord and of the restitution of all things viz. to the Jewish Church and Nation whereof Peter speaks and prophesies Act. 3. 19. 21. and our Saviour himself Mat. 23. 39. For I say unto you yee shall not see me henceforth till ye say Blessed be he that commeth in the Name of the Lord and the Apostle Paul Rom. 11. 26. And so all Israel shall be saved and the Prophet Ieremie before them all But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more Ier. 31. 33 34. These with many more passages of like tendencie and import in the Scriptures plainly shew that God hath yet amongst the sealed treasures of his counsels and decrees precious thoughts towards his ancient people the nation of the Iews purposing in his time to build them up again into a Church of far more Inward grace and holiness into a nation of far more outward beauty strength and glory then ever was their portion since they first became a Church or nation unto this day either in the one kinde or in the other Now then I conceive that the intent and scope of the Prophet Zacharie in the first part of his 13. Chapter to the end of ver. 6. was to encourage and raise the faint spirits of that small remnant of his nation to whom he was sent by God with the message of this prophecie by representing unto them how glorious a Church and nation God intended to make of them and their posterity in time and what a spirit and rich anointing of zeal and holiness and knowledge and purity of Religion should be found upon them in that day insomuch that no touch or tincture of Idolatrie no mixture of errour or false doctrine should deface their beauty or stain the brightness of their glory yea and that their zeal towards God his Law and truth should be so exceeding fervent and strong that it shall command and subdue under it all carnall yea or naturall affections dispositions and desires all other ends purposes and intentions whatsoever By the way this interpretation doth neither suppose or imply either that there will be any son or child that shall then prophecie lies amongst them or that parents whether Fathers or mothers should or would slay them or thrust them through in case they did but such expressions as these are figurative as we lately heard from Mr. Deodate and our English Annotations upon the Bible taken from what was commanded against false Prophets Deut. 13. that is they only note or express such a degree measure or intensness of zeal to the truth and puritie of Religion which God in his Law commanded to be expressed by naturall parents against their children and by others against persons in neerest and dearest relation to them in the case of seducement to Idolatrie Now as the same degree either of love or hatred doth not necessarily import a specificall indentitie or sameness of expression but a generical only viz. by way of equipollencie or equivalencie yea and this only when there is occasion or opportunity in like manner it is no ways necessary that they who are as zealous for the truth and Law of God as those Parents were who in vindication thereof did lay violent hands upon their own naturall children should act or express this their zeal with the self same kinde of expression I mean should slay their children also there being several other ways and kinds of expression by which the greatest zeal for the Truth and purity of Religion whereof the nature of man is capable may be proportionably declared and expressed upon occasion But for the interpretation of the place in hand last mentioned and explained there are these reasons abundantly sufficient as I conceive to carry it First there is scarce any figure or propriety of speech more frequent in the Scripture then to express a proper and particular sense by words importing another sense equivalent to it Thus God promiseth victories and deliverances to his people by saying Psal. 68. 22. I will bring again from Bashan I will bring my people again from the depths of the Sea meaning that as he had delivered their fore fathers from Og king of Bashan and given them victory in battell against him and had brought them out of the Red sea so delivering them from Pharaoh who pursued them so he would for the future deliver them from other their enemies and give them victory and success against them a Thus he threateneth them with bondage and captivity by telling them that they shall return to Egypt Hos. 8. 13. Now will he remember their iniquity saith the Prophet

visit their sins they shall return to Egypt In this figure or phrase of speech to forbear further instances the Apostle Paul affirmeth that if any provide not for his own especially for those of his own house he hath denied the faith b his meaning is not that by such a neglective and ungracious course he doth properly or formally deny or disclaime Christian Religion but that he doth that which is tantamont or equivalent to such a deniall in respect of the prejudice which is thereby like to accrue unto Religion Secondly it is a common observation among Writers that the holy Ghost takes a delight to make the New Testament and the Old as it were inter-commoners in language and phrase of speech i. to express matters proper to the one by words and phrases which in propriety and strictness of sence signifie things appropriate to the other c Thus Malachi prophecying of the worship of God under the New Testament expresseth it thus My name shall be great among the Gentiles and incense shall be offered unto my Name and a pure offering Mal. 1. 11. And after cap. 3. 3. he prophecieth of the ministers of the Gospel under the names of the sons of Levi And cap. 4. 5. of John Baptist under the Name of Elijah the Prophet But as none of these expressions are in their literall proper and Grammaticall significations appliable to the times of the New Testament no neither is it necessary no nor so much as probable in the least degree that the Old Testament or Lawphrase of Parents thrusting thorough their children for prophecying lies wherein our prophet expresseth and foresheweth the great zeal for Truth and purity of Religion which should be found in men under the Gospel should be understood in the letter or in the formall sence or signification of the words Thirdly the context it self and the series thereof plainly shew that the passage and prophesie in hand particularly relateth to these times specified viz. wherein the receiving again of the Jewish Nation by God shall be as life from the dead d unto the world and their Church and State restored to seven times more then their ancient beautie and glory For ver. 10. 11. 12. of the preceding Chapter the Prophet clearly describes that great and generall conversion of this people unto to God partly by the causes or means of it partly by the consequents or effects of it And I will poure upon the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon And the land shall mourn every family apart the family of the house of David apart and their wives apart the family of the house of Nathan apart and their wives apart the family of the house of Levi apart and their wives apart the family of Shimei apart and their wives apart And all the families that remain viz. all besides these every family apart and their wives apart First evident it is that the tenour of the things here spoken carries the scope and intent of the passage directly upon the nation and people of the Jews and doth not suffer it to be understood of any other This needs no other proof except haply a second and more serious perusall of the words Secondly as evident it is that it relates not to a remnant or lesser part but to the generality or body of this Nation And the land shall mourn saith the Prophet every family apart c. And again And all the families that remain c. Thirdly and lastly the expression and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced plainly implies that this Nation shall see and behold Christ viz. when upon their Repentance implied by the spirit of grace and supplications poured out upon them he shall appear or come unto them to raise up the tabernacle of David which had been a long time fallen and to build them up both Church and State in excellency of beauty strength and glory according to the express tenour of that grand motive by which Peter inviteth them to Repentance Act. 3. 19 20. 21. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. not when as our Translation hath it but that or to the intent that times of refreshing may come not shall come as our English Translation again mis-readeth it from the face or presence of the Lord And that he may not and he shall as our English yet again mis-translateth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heavens must receive untill the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began So that the Repentance and conversion of this people unto God when or how soon soever it shall take place shall be immediatly or soon after rewarded by him with the sending of his Son Jesus Christ their long expected Messiah unto them * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. as the word properly imports to restore or re-constitute all things viz. in their Church and State as they were before yet not formally but eminently and with abundance of superadded glory Upon this sight or beholding of him viz as coming or come unto them with this abundance of grace and love and mercy who had for so many ages together so injuriously and despitefully intreated him shall ensue and follow that most solemn affectionate and unparalled mourning viz for their strange inveterate and long continued unkindness and hatred towards him which our Prophet describes in the latter end of the transcribed passage which also is elsewhere foreshewed in Scripture upon the same occasion a Now having thus foretold the general conversion of this Nation unto God towards the end of cap. 12. he goeth on in the beginning of this chapter and declareth how happy holy and glorious the State and condition of this Church shall be upon and after this their conversion and amongst other spiritual priviledges wherewith it should be invested inriched and adorned mentioned ver. 1. 2. he shews that the zeal of this Church and people for the truth and purity of Religion shall be signall eminent so as to reign over all inferiour ends counsels inclinations and desires in men yea over all even the nearest and dearest natural relations themselves which are the hardest to be commanded or brought into subjection Fourthly It no where appeareth either by the Scriptures or by any History of credit nor is it in it self a thing any ways probable or worthy belief

that ever the nation of the Jews I mean the main body or generality of them were ever so zealously affected to the truth and purity of Religion since the time when this Prophesie was uttered as the tenour and import hereof seems to bear and require Nay since the promulgation of the Gospel in the world which is the time contested for by many as wherein the said Prophesie was to take place and be fulfilled the generality of this Nation hath been so far from any zeal for the Truth that they have been as violent and desperate opposers of it as any other Nation or generation of men in the world Therefore doubtless the days appointed for the accomplishment of the Prophesie in hand are not yet come Fiftly Severall other of the Prophets of God are wont in their writings upon the like occasion viz. for the incouragement of the Church and People of God in their days being under any affliction or discouragement yea and otherwise to re-minde them of the said Jubilean times which God hath in store amongst his treasures for them and their posterities and will bring forth and give into their bosoms in his appointed season See Esa. 11. 35. Chapters throughout And again Isa. 65. 17 18. and to the end And yet again Isa. 66. 20. to the end See also Jer. 31. 31 32. and to the end of the Chapter Other places of like import as very obvious and frequent both in these and other Prophets Yea I conceive that there is scarce any one of all the Prophets if any but in some place or other casts an eye at least upon those times and days we speak of though in some of them it be hard to discern where The ground of my conception in this is that of Peter formerly touched where speaking of the times of a Restitution of all things to the Jewish nation as was said he adds which God hath spoken of by the mouth of all his Prophets since the world began Sixthly and lastly it seems by a brief touch which I finde in Grotius Commentaries upon the Scripture in debate that the Exposition last propounded and hitherto argued for was indeed the sence of the ancient Rabbins and Jews themselves how weak and inconsiderable soever it seems unto this Author For having delivered his own sence upon the words as was formerly represented he closeth thus Haec et alia quaedam stultè Rabbini referunt ad tempus post Resurrectionem 1. These and some other things the Rabbins fondly refer and apply to the time after the Resurrection What they may further mean by the Resurrection I am not able to say but doubtless they include herein or presuppose that happy and blessed estate of their nation which Peter cals as we have heard {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the restitution of all things and which hath been their earnest and constant expectation for many generations and is not let fall by them to this day By that which hath been taken into consideration in this discourse to discover the minde of God in the Scripture first proposed it fully appears that there is but a very slender appearance in it of any ground if any at all whereon to build the lawfulness of any compulsory proceedings by way of civill penaltie whether death or other against Persons deemed erroneous in these times of the Gospel This trumpet gives no distinct sound at all to prepare any man to that battell But when men delight in war the whistling of the wind will serve for a signall It is the observation of an English Divine that the Papists where ever they meet with the word fire in the Scriptures they finde a proof for purgatory A deceived heart saith the Prophet Esay concerning the Idolater hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul a When men please themselves and gratifie their affections with the belief of any conclusion before they have seriously and impartially debated the truth of it the shadows of the mountains will seem men unto them for the guard and support of it and on the contrary the strongest men will seem but as the shadows of mountains unto them for the eviction and dethroning of it FINIS a Gen. 39. 17. b Num. 12. 3. c Num. 16. 3. d 2 Kin. 2. 12. e 1 Kin. 18. 17. f Iohn 19. 12. g Prov. 8. 15 16. h Revel. 12. 10. a No translation is simply authenticall or the undoubted word of God In the undoubted word of God there can be no errour But in translations there may be and are errours The Bible translated therefore is not the undoubted word of God c. Dr. Featly in his Treatise intituled The Dippers dips p. 1. 2. This Treatise was printed with License and since reprinted 5. or 6. times long since the sitting of this present Parliament no man that ever I have heard of finding himself agrieved in the least at any of these expressions * Some of my accusers made it their most affectionate request that my late book might be burnt by the common Hangman a Gal. 5. 11. b Num. 24. 11. b 1 Pet 4. 14. c Mar. 8. 38. d Act. 20. 24. * A scurrilous Pamphlet lately put forth Tam fine re quam fine nomine called Mo●o mastix a Ier. 51. 56. a Ioh. 10. 33. Mat. 9. 3. Mat. 26. 65. c. b Mat. 26. 65 66. a Rom ●5 8. b Deut. 32. 21. See also Mal. 1. ver. 10. compared with ver. 11. c. a Summa hujus capitis est brevis narratio tum praecipuorum Dei donerum tum etiam eventorum quae in populo Judaico i. Ecclesiâ Dei contingere debebant ac reipsa contigerunt post instauratum à Maccabaeis populi Ecclesiae statum usque ad extremam urbis Hierusalem obsidionem ac excidionem quae cap. sequenti continetur Itaque ordinem temporis continet haec prophetia et aptè superiori capiti connectitur Ceterum commemorat duo quae dam summa Dei in Ecclesiam seu Iudeos futura beneficia nimirum peccatorum expiandorum rationem et expurgationem Idololatriae a suâ Ecclesiâ Templo Lambe●tus Danaeus in Zac. c. 13 v. 1. See also Hugo Grotius upon the place b Luk 9. 54. a Rom. 10. 2. b Iob. 16. 2. a Act. 22 3. 4. * Act. 26. 9. b Non quod tamen omnis falsa Doctrina illiusque Doctor 〈◊〉 sit puniendus c. Dan. in Zach. 13 3 a Hoc intellige de Pseudoprophetâ populum volente abducere ad cultura falsorum Deorum nam in tales quemvis Iudaeum Lex armabat Deut. 13. 8. 9. quae lex expresse addit in tali crimine nec filio parcendum Hugo Grotius in Zach. 13. 3. a Quid quod nec {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} id est transfodit semper significat ita transfixit ut inde mortuus sit siquidem expresse habetur apud Ieremiam cap. 37. 10. reliqui essent