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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

became ungodly men because they were afore ordained to destruction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before decreed or afore written for destruction and therefore became ungodly The tenth lies like the father the second Article For Adam's fall brought in Eternal deaths as well as Temporal I said afore and if all are under that Condemation Rom. 5.16 17 18 19. Ex. 16. Rom. 6.21 then Infants for Infants are part of all Beside all that are fallen into Condemation which all are cannot be saved till they are born again of Water and the Spirit or baptized with Fire and the Holy Ghost Mat. 4. Jo. 3.3 5. 1 Jo. 5. Heb. 10. Ez. 36. Water in all which places is not your Baptism but the cleansing of Christ's Blood applied by the Spirit to the Elect in their Conversion and Regeneration of which Baptism is but a meer figure to Abraham and his believing Seed as Circumcision was before the actual payment of the Debts of the Elect by Christ on the Cross at Jerusalem Heb. 13.11 12 13. Heb. 9.26 Heb. 1.3 Heb. 10.54.10 14. see 18 Q. of the Assemblies Catechism and Answer Four things issue to all Adam's posterity by his fall First The guilt of Adam's first sin Secondly The privation of Original Righteousness Thirdly A depravation of the whole nature of Body and Soul by Hereditary descent And fourthly All actual Sins flowing from it Ro. 5.12 19. and 10. Ephes 1.1 2 3. James 1.14 15. Mark 15.29 Ro. 7. See Doctor Willet's 81 Gen. Controversie against Papists the Elect have their Sins transacted on Christ and his imputed Righteousness covering them and the Spirit of Christ in his time converting them to it and the rest great and small are blinded and damned Ro. 11. The whole Law broken by Adam and his Posterity in him comprehends both Faith and perfect and sinless obedience which Covenant being broke he brought both himself and posterity under Condemnation Rom. 5.18 19. temporal and Eternal for such is the Wages of Sin Ro. 6.21 and lying under the breach of the whole Law of God are eternally condemn'd except they be elected called justified and sanctified freely by his Grace Rom. 8.29 30 31. Christ did not come into the World to save men if they would Ephes 2.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. for then none would be saved but he came positively and absolutely to save them that were eternally given to him to save Jo. 17. and Jo. 10.26 to 29. Christ's death and passions were not Temporal and Bodily only Mat. 27.46 and Chap. 26.36 37 38 42. Mark 14.3 4. Luke 22.42 44. Joh. 18.11 but Spiritual and Infernal passions Acts 2.31 Ps 16.10 Lament 1.12 And if Christ's Sufferings were such then Adaw's fall must procure such But this Hellish Doctrine denyeth both By this Doctrine the Covenant of Grace was made since the fall of Adam and not from Eternity as the Scripture inculcates Titus 1.1 2 3. Ps 89. and Zach. 6.13 2 Sam. 23.5 and then the Covenant of Grace is but a new Covenant of Works viz. Faith and Obedience as if Faith was not included in the Covenant of Innocency and fulfilling the conditions of the pardon of Sin in the Gospel upon pain of Eternal Damnation so that by this Doctrine the new Covenant of Grace is a thousand times more bondaged servile and legal than the Covenant of Innocency For the forfeitures of that say they was but bodily and temporal and so was Christ's death that satisfied for it But the forfeitures of this new Covenant of Grace according to their Doctrine is Spiritual and Eternal Damnation and no help or satisfaction neither in the Covenant of Innocency Christ made up the breaches but the breaches of this Covenant of Grace we our selves must make up by our Free-will Faith Repentance and Obedience or else perish eternally And from the Pelagion Arminian Papistical new Covenant of Grace wherein Christ is only or chiefly an example only by his Kingly and Prophetical Offices in Heaven he prays for me my Faith Victory and Repentance but if I do it not or cannot his Prayer is in vain And as for his Priestly Office as Dr. Hammand saith it dyed with him For it was only to remove the Covenant of Works which was by a temporal death easily removed its forfeitures being but a temporal death from such a New Covenant Lord deliver me and his Elect and from the Promulgators of it Another Juggle they have is that Election is not in the Covenant of Works or from Eternity but in Christ since that is they that do believe the Doctrine they preach believe repent obey and be baptized are Elected and this God foresaw and knew and willed And to uphold this Babel and Whores Doctrine of Babylon they turn upside-down the very Heart and Entrails of the whole Scriptures to the last of the tenth Article I say the Jews were under a Covenant of Grace and by the sign thereof Gen. 17. brought by Divine Command their Children into the visible Church We are under the same Covenant of Grace and the matter and manner of the sign was changed under the New Testament or Administration of Grace but not the Subjects for then it had been necessary that Christ should have forbidden Infants Baptism or John Baptist his Messenger for Christ knew it was once commanded as the New Covenant sign but he never repealed the Subject nor his Messenger that came before him or the Ministers that followed after him Ergo what is not repealed by Divine Institution abides stedfast as a Nail fastened by the Masters of the Assembly given by one Shepherd Christ Jesus Therefore till the Catabaptists prove by Scripture that Christ or his Predecessor John Bapt. or his Successors the Apostles forbid the Subjects in Gen. 17. licensed till then you do all of you shamefully beg the Question and you shall be with your Antichristian Spirit famished for me before you shall have a Morsel from me to feed your Heresie wherefore leave that unlawful Trade of Begging and work for your livings that is prove out of the New Testament by Gods Word that Infants are commanded not to be Baptized or that Circumcision was not a Sign and Seal of the Righteousness of Faith Or that Baptism did not come in the room of Circumcision do one of these or be silent before the Lord for ever For because you have rent the Seal of his Covenant God will rend you and your Sect into a thousand pieces This will be the end of you to perish in your own Dung Phil. 3. Except the Elect among you and true Converts they only shall be preserved and in due time come out of your Babylon as well as Rome's or England's Babylon The Eleventh Article builds up your Idol Baptism and sets it on your sandy Foundation for there is not one word of Teach before Baptise but contrary after Baptism to Teach Mat. 28. latter end For the first word rendered to Teach is in the Greek Matheteusate that

Errour and Heresie and therefore your Righteousness shall not profit you in the day of Christ because you are not wholly freed by Christ but Sons of the Bond-woman There were never but two Covenants for Matter and Form that of Works and that of Grace directly opposite one to the other The Covenant of Works was never by Divine Institution established to men since Adam's fall but immediately taken up by Christ the Elects Surety and laid on his Shoulders Isay 9. Being freely wrought in and by him for them is a Covenant of Grace to them but of Works to Christ who obtained all by his Works for them This Covenant of Grace hath two Administrations one under the Old Testament before the Law at Horeb and after the Law to Christ's time in the Flesh Then began the New Testament and Administration of Grace to the Elect more glorious by far than the other for Administration though in respect of the very Substance of the Covenants the Stipulator and Mediator Christ who undertook it for them the Father gave him from Eternity Titus 1.1 2. 2 Tim. 1.9 10. Rom. 8.29 30 31. Ps 89. Isay 53.6 Zac. 9.11 and 6.14 In that of Works in Paradise there was Faith and perfect Obedience but no Repentance Confession or Sorrow of Sin or new Obedience was admitted in that but in that of Grace there is Faith but different from that Faith in the Covenant of Works and new Obedience and Repentance Confession and Sorrow for sin admitted of none of these but to formally justifie only Faith in Christ receives justification and Repentance and New Obedience follows as fruits of Faith and of the pardon of sin which sundamentally hangs on Christ's bearing sin away and satisfying for it once for all Neither doth our Faith or Repentance or new Obedience make us Righteous but Christ's Righteousness fulfilling the Covenant of Works in his own person and imputed to us and received by Faith as given of God for that purpose Ephes 2.5 6 7. Neither is our Repentance or Confession or New Obedience or sorrow for sins committed any part of our Righteousness before God but as to man being wrought by the Spirit of Christ in us follow the pardon of our sins and our being made Righteous and follow Faith also in this administration of Grace publickly Gal. 3. and are not the Grounds or Causes of pardon or Receivers but the absolute Fruits and Effects in the Elect believing Besides The Law at Horeb was to the Jews a conditional Covenant for Temporal Blessings and being broke incurred Temporal Cursings which as such a Covenant expired when Christ came and the Paedagogy of the Jews ceased only the Law as in the Spiritual Power of it as a demonstrative Law in the hand of Christ and the Spirit to humble the Elect and make them sensible of their condition and misery by the fall from the Covenant of Works in innocency as in Adam the only Hole at which all Curse Wrath and Misery Spiritual and Temporal entred Rom. 5. That they may fall on Christ and at his Feet for all Redemption and Help out of themselves thus the Law continues still and for want of this Spiritual Ax Mal. 4. to cut down and humble you that you may appear as nothing but Firebrands for Hell it is that you and all your proud Generations have perverted Christ's Gospel and established a new one Gal. 1.8 9. the which makes your case worse you are insensible of it but glory and triumph in your cursed Bondage Gal. 4. Your justification is full of sin and you make Christ to purchase a sinful justification Gal. 2. and so the Minister of sin you make him while you prate that he removed the Covenant of Works and satisfyed that and procured a Lex remediens a milder Law that is that by Faith Repentance and Obedience we may be justified and so you make sin to justifie for all our Faith and Repentance and Obedience is but filthy Rags Isay 64.6 Phil. 3. and full of sin And Christ faith That when they have done all that 's their duty that is to believe to repent and obey Luke 17. then are they unprofitable Servants Ergo you make sin to justifie when you make Faith actually to justifie 2ly you make Christ the upholder of sin when you with the Papists your Brethren make Christs Blood to purchase a sinfull justification that is that our Faith and Repentance shall justifie Do you see the Pelagian Arminian Papistical Crew upon what Rocks and sholes you split your selves and all to bring in a new and another Gospel to damn you and to exclude Christ's everlasting Righteousness or the Law of works perfectly fulsilled in his person to be imputed to poor sinful undone ruined Worms for their free and real justification Now all these Imperfections are covered to true Believers with the same Righteousness that covers their persons Tit. 1.15 And so both they and all their Performances and Righteousness though in it self faulty is accepted and sanctified and all the sinfulness of it and them covered Ps 32. Rom. 4.5 6 7. This is a benefit peculiar to the Elect who truly believe and receive the imputation of Christ's Righteousness and not to you that cannot cry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose Ruine Damnation lingers not except in infinite Mercy he give you humility and poverty of Spirit Faith in that truth of the true Jesus and everlasting Covenant and Repentance for your Blasphemies and Errours as a Fruit of the pardon of your sins by their transaction on him and the Evidence of your Faith in receiving his Righteousness c. So unless you are freed by Jesus from all sin and misery in esse or posse coming on you in Gods sight from Adam's fall or by your own actual and daily Transgressions and from all the sin and spottedness of all your most holy Duties your Faith Prayers Repentance and new Obedience though wrought puerly in you by Christ's Spirit as true Believers and freed from allsin past present and to come by the transaction of them on Christ by the Father Isa 53.6 and the imputation of his pure Righteousness to your persons received by Faith alone you are not free indeed by the Son Jo. 8.31 32. but in Bondage under the Law and Curse thereof Deut. 27. ult with your Children Your twelfth Article is swollen big with an absolute Errour drawn from the practice of the Apostles laying on of hands not ministerially as a sign of the approbation of Elders but as an Apostolical practice which did with them cease as being fruitless and uneffectual beyond their time and unpractised in the ordinary Churches nor at all upon any Record of Command more than James anointing with Oyl which Papists make a Sacrament or Christ's washing his Disciples Feet But because it is sufficiently confuted by Colonel Danvers a Brother of yours in the water but I hope in the Spirit built on better Principles