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A41483	The banner of justification displayed: or; a discourse, concerning the deep, and important mystery of the justification of a sinner wherein the severall causes thereof, being both numerous and various, are from the first to the last diligently enquired after, and their severall contributions towards so great and happy a work, clearly distinguished, and assigned to their proper causes (respectively.) and more particularly is shewed, how God, how the grace of God, how the decree of God, how the soveraign authority of God; how Christ, how the active obedience [of] Christ, how the passive obedience of Christ, how the resurrection of Christ, how the knowledge of Christ; how the spirit of God, how faith, how repentance, how works, how remission of s[in,] how the word, how the minister of the word, how the P[ope?] himself which is justified, may all truly, though upon severall accounts, and after different manners, be sayed to justifie.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing G1150A; ESTC R221574	62,441	91

which my Accuser intended to humble me but rather the subject matter or inward thought imported in the words as that I should arrogate unto my self an attainment so incredible and rare as not to be put to a stond or be at a loss in my understanding what to answer to any thing I had met with in any the Writings of the three men if this I say be the Sword that passed through the Soul of my Accuser and be apprehended by him so highly Criminall as to deserve that heaped measure of Indignation which he hath troubled his Learning to pour upon it I shall for the composure of his Spirit and for the dissolving of the unhappy appearance of so much guilt where none was administer unto him that well-approved Dosis of Augustine Non est arrogantia sed ●ides praedicare ●a quae accepisti Upon occasion to professor declare what a man hath received of undeserved favour and bounty from God is no point of arrogance o● pride but of Faith And the truth is that God hath so blessed me in the labour and travail of my Soul about those great Points of Election Reprobation the Intent or Extent of the death of Christ c. wherein I have with some diligence and with no less integrity and simplicity of heart exercised my self for severall years past that before the coming forth of any thing Printed by the three men against me I was Master of such Principles and Grounds partly from the light of Nature and common Impressions found in the Hearts and Consciences of all men concerning God partly from the Writings of learned and worthy men as well of the Contra-remonstrant party as Calvin Beza Musculus c. as the Remonstrant but chiefly from the Sriptures by which I was able to give my self present satisfaction about any thing I met with objected in my way by any of those three men And I partly believe that Mr. Hickman himself though but a young man comparatively yet conceiveth of himself at not much a lower rate then to be able without much study to maintain the peace of his present Judgment against all the Attempts that either I in any of my Writings or any other of my Judgment in theirs have made upon him to disturb him However if he should make a Declaration or profession of such a Tenor or Import I judging him to be a man of Conscience and sober minded should not reflect upon him nor do I judge it my duty so to do as a man speaking that which was not nor yet conclude him to be a man of a lofty and confident arrogating or self-willed Spirit much less should I arraign him openly as a person guilty of such misdemeanours I confess it is very incident to men to abound in their own sense to such a degree as to presume that they want nothing wherwith to answer any man that shall oppose it Indeed if he should declare or profess after this manner or the like Viz That he is resolved whatsoever hath been written or whatsoever shall be written by any man or men whatsoever yea or whatsoever can be written in opposition to his present Judgment in those Points that yet he will stand by this Judgment unto death this I confess would put me into thoughts of another nature concerning him But I have not put him to the trouble of any such consideration as this about me my Profession with which notwithstanding he vexeth his impatient Soul being of a far different Spirit But 4. and lastly As to those words And indeed a spirit of most Childish insultation seems to have possessed as many as have lift up an English Pen against the Orthodox in this quinquarticul●r Controversie I am reall in believing the truth of the●e words but not in the meaning of him that wrote them But admit his sense and meaning in them for truth never was the Spirit of Childish insultation more Childishly reproved or with less authority and power in respect of the Tenor and notion of the reproof For the credit of that old saying of grave Cato is Authentick to this day Turpe est Doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum A burning shame it is when Teachers will Reprove and yet themselves commit the ill Or is there any species of Childish insultation more impertinent and weak then Ante pugnam canere victoriam to sing Victory before the Battell be begun or whilst it is yet with great heat of Courage and Confidence prosecuted and maintained by the opposite side Or is there any Soloecisme in Logick broader or more illogicall then that which they call Petitio Principii when that is presumed or taken for granted which is the main question in Dispute Or when Mr. Hickman takes the honour unto himself and his Party in the Quinquarticular Controversie of being the Orthodox and more signally and peculiarly such in the said Controversie doth he not cry Victory before the Battell or whilst his Adversaries in good order with their Troops unbroken yea undaunted without the loss of so much as an Inch of their ground keep the Field Or is it not by a neer-hand interpretation the very Spirit and quick of the Controversie between him and them which of the two be the Orthodox yet Mr. Hickman gives us this Pill to swallow without chewing that he and his have the right end of the Staff are the Orthodox in the Points and Questions depending He doth not walk by the King of Israels advice unto Benhadad 1 King 20. 11. For he hath but newly girded his ●●arness to him and yet boasteth as if he were putting i● off But I would gladly here know of him how by what Title or right of Claim he and his come to be the Orthodox I am affraid they came not to the Honour as orderly or honestly as Aaron did to the Priesthood but that they took it unto themselves being never called to it by God or the Truth Our Saviour even in his own Ca●e acknowledgeth equity in that Maxime of Law That a mans Testimony of or for himself is invalid If I saith he bear witness of my self my testimony is not true i. Not true or valid in course of Law John 5. 31. I never heard nor can I beleive unless Mr. Hickman or some of his Friends could lend me their Faith that they hold the Title of Orthodox by any other right of Claim then that by which the Jews held that honour which they received one of another John 5 44. No● do I know any reason why they should bear away the Bell of Orthodoxisme from their Brethren their friendly Adversaries unless it be because they are the far better Ringers ever and anon upon occasion and without occasion Pealing and sounding it in our Ears that they are the Orthodox And as the Jews of old made great treasure of the●Templum Domini and thought themselves safe enough under the p●otection of it ever and anon having it in their mouths

vado I am in no danger of just blame for doing that by which they have been provoked For that Saying of Seneca will at this turn guard me round about Recti argumentum est pessimis displicere The worst men are commonly most displeased with that which is best And thus we see with how great weakness and unworthyness Mr. Hickman hath quitted himself in levying the sore Charge mentioned against a person that never did him nor thought him the least harm But in the Passage now examined he hath only Chastized me with his Rods elsewhere he makes a Scourge for my Back of Scorpions For thus my Transcription reporteth him And indeed a spirit of most Childish Insultation seems to have possessed as many as have lift up an English Pen against the Orthodox in this Quinquarticular Controversie I 'le instance only in Mr. John Goodwin who in the Preface of his Triumviri sayth That he hath not met with any thing in the Writings of any or of all the three men contesting with him which had in the least shaken his Confidence concerning the truth of the things by him asserted or that for the least space of time put him to any stond or loss in his understanding concerning them or to seek what to answer to any thing they offer or object against any of them Which Lines the greatest Charity must look upon as so much vapouring Rhetorick dropt from his Pen in the absence of Judgment and Conscience or as an Essay of the Spartans Valour who being struck down by a mortall blow used to stop their mouthes with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their Fellows or animate their Enemies Here is work enough for all day But 1. I perceive the truth of the old Saying is not yet out of date Obsequium amicos veritas odium parit Comply and Friends thou shalt create Speak truth and look for mortall hate I perceive if instead of speaking the truth in the Passage cited by Mr. Hickman I should have comported with him in his sense and notion and have sayd that the three men had given my confidence a Mortall wound and had objected such things against my Tenents which put me to a stand and that I knew not which way to turn me for an Answer unto them or the like this might have purchased me the right hand of his Fellowship and have restored me to the Synagogue of the Orthodox out of which I was cast long since and have remained an Out-cast severall years When the Lord Christ had said unto the Jews that God was his Father and that he knew him which they did not this Saying as it seems was ill resented by them their desire being that he should unsay it and that he should not assume unto himself any other or any more knowledge of God then what they had If I should say sayth Christ I know him not I should be a Lyar like unto you But I know him c. John 8. 55. If I should have sayd that I met with that in the Writings of the three men of whom Mr. Hickman speaks which did put me to a stand c. I should herewith have pleased him because in so saying I should have complyed with him and made my self like unto him But 2. Mr. Hickman Arraigning me for the High Misdemeanour of speaking untruth for his charging me to have written as I did in the absence of Judgment and Conscience amounteth to no less he should have done well to observe the due process of Law and Reason and first have made substantiall proof of the Crime or matter of Fact objected before he had proceeded to a sentence of Condemnation and have produced some Argument or Objection one or more out of the W itings of some of the three men which he should substantially prove did put me to a stond or loss in my understanding what to answer If he could name any such Argument or Ob●ection from any of the said men that to his knowledge did the Feat which he presumes was done though I deny it I mean which did put me to a stond c. this would not justifie him unless he could give a sufficient account of such his knowledge unto others For the Rule is Non esse non apparere aquiparantur in jure That which is not and that which appears not are of the same consideration in Law And yet I judge it an easie matter for him to give an account of all the knowledge he hath in this kind But the Law of Conscience and Christianity forbids the sacrificing of any mans Reputation at the loudest instance of Probabilities or Conjectures at least or such which have no more weight or reason in them then those upon which Mr. Hickman hath offered up mine upon the Service whether of his pleasure or displeasure But if either he or any of his Colleagues in Judgment could and would be pleased to afford me the inter-view of any such Argument or Objection against my Tenents by-named Erroneous whether out of the Writings of some of the three men or out of their own Treasuries or out of the abundance of any of their Judgment which would put me to such a stond that I should not remove or to such a loss in my understanding that I could never recover or repaire they would be the best Benefactors unto me in the good things of this World that I have met with these many years especially they would have been such unto me had they be-friended me in that kind heretofore whilst and when I was more capable of the Courtesies and Benefactures of the World then now I am expecting daily to remove into that Climate where the Sun-shine of this world hath no warming or cheering influence at all For certain I am that those Tenents from under the Conscience whereof I might well have been delivered by the means specified have divided between the world and me and kept many the good things thereof from me by reason of their insupportableness unto the greater part of men and more especially unto the great men in the state of my sojourning and to those who by their consent yea they love to have it so exercise Dominion over their Faith under the importune claim of being Orthodox and sound in their Judgments from the one end of them even unto the other in matters appertaining unto God I have neither any disposition within nor occasion without to turn Plaintiff against the World a man with a competency of wisdome may very well be content with my portion in it For my good God Etiam in vitâ mundi Minerva hath fed me and mine with food convenient yea and cloathed and harboured us accordingly And the truth is that for things greater then these it is best receiving them at the Resurrection Or 3. If it be not matter of untruth in my words of his angry Observation lately mentioned wherewith and for