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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

ANIMADVERSIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS UPON A Sheet Printed for Francis Smith CONTAINING A Confession of the Faith of several Catapaedobaptists 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. Tolle Lege Judica LONDON Printed for W. Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-street 1679. THE PREFACE TO all true Protestant and Christian Readers into whose hands this little piece may come I desire to let the World know that it is not for the sake of any Interest I have in the World or in any Sect or Party of People this day in the present Age that engages me to this present Affair No let the World know that I knew long since upon whom I have cast the infinite weight of both my Soul and Body viz. upon Jesus that is upon him as fulfilling and having fulfilled in his mediatory person the whole Law of Works and for justification of Faith and Love for me and for all his Elect that were given to him by the Father before the world was The Truths once delivered to the Saints declared in the Scriptures of truth witnessed by the Fathers and Sons of the true Protestant Church since the Apostles days before the Supremacy of the Pope of Rome to the five or six Centuaries though then opposed by the Arrians Nestorians Sabellians Manichees and others and since by the Papists the Head of Antichrist and by the Kenites and pretending Reconcilers of Protestants and Papists I mean the Bridge-makers for a passable way for Papists o're to us or we o're to them viz. the Grotians Armenians and all that hang that way since those unhappy names as well as persons received their Being in the World are the alone and only Motive that carries me into this Affair at this juncture of time And particularly by providence hearing this man for whom this Sheet was printed by name Mr. Francis Smith a Stationer in London preaching up at the Field Town in the County of Oxford this Novel Papistical Doctrine of Arminianism Free-will and General Redemption and Conditional Election in time under the notion of an Anabaptist or Catapaedobaptist if you rather please and having then opposed him as to his Doctrine and finding him and his Adherents stubborn and Heretical and withal scattering the Poison of their Doctrine in this Sheet under the notion of a Confession of their Faith to the subversion of the unsetled and ignorant people I as a Servant to the royal truths of my Soveraign Lord Christ and for the better information of his Elect have according to my poor abillity cast in this Mite into the Corban as my Testimony to him and his truth in this lowring yet Evening Tide of Antichrist The Apostle Paul is my President Gal. 2.5 6. who would not give place for an hour to the Enemies of the Gospel neither did he respect any mans person though they seemed by their external deportment and manners to be some body in the peoples Eyes My Judge is Christ my Soveraign my Jury the twelve Apostles at that great and approaching Sessions when he shall again descend the pregnant clouds to judge the World Acts 1. Heb. 9. ult and crown his Saints and witnesses If any shall think my Language too harsh or Vnchristian let them know 't is not the Sword of the Flesh but that of the Spirit I fight with The Prophet Isay call'd them in his days dumb Dogs the Apostle of the Gentiles Hereticks and I call but all such as come forth in any of the VVhores Trinckets but barking Dogs who are far worse than those dumb Dogs and Hereticks were because they are stubborn Promoters of the Papal Doctrines though not of Popish Ceremonies according to that ancient definition of Heresic by that ancient witness of truth Bishop Grosthead once of Lincoln Heresis est sententia contraria sacrae scripturae palam docta pertinaciter defensa And as it was said by the Protestant Divines of Germany concerning Grotius Quod Hugo Grotius papizat so say I of all these who promote the same Doctrines as he did who instead of flying out of Babylon as the Holy Ghost exhorts Rev. 18.4 5 6. they hover under her inchanting skirts to whose charge if they repent not all the Blood of the Martyrs will be laid as well as to the direct Papists when the Lords time shall be accomplished And till they have answer'd Jewel White Willet against the Papists in the very same points they say nothing against me or my Animadversions though they attempt a Reply And so Reader Farewel Thine in what I may as to these truths herein defended while I am Joh. Humphrys ANIMADVERSIONS and CONSIDERATIONS upon an Heretical Catabaptistical Pelagian Arminian Papistical Sheet lately published entituled A Confession or Declaration of Faith lately presented to King Charles the Second Printed for one Francis Smith which because the Doctrine therein contain'd is partly Papistical and partly mixed with the Ingredients of of Quakerism as Free-will General Redemption and falling away from Christ and such like Trash against the Doctrine of the Gospel primarily taught by Christ and his Apostles and secondarily witnessed to by the Protestant Christian Divines of all Ages and by the Martyrs in the past times of Popery I think fit to declare to the World for the sake of Gods Elect chosen in Christ by the good will and pleasure of God alone from before the foundation of the World to Eternal Salvation by the Transaction of their sins by the Father on Jesus and the free imputation of the Righteousness of the Law fulfilled in him to them which they do in his time when he gives them Faith receive it by Faith alone LET me tell you you Arminian Pelagian Papistical Baptists are not built on the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Ephes 3. but upon the Foundation of the Papists and Antichrist for the Papists are true in nothing but in the Doctrine of the Trinity as said Mr. Philpot Martyr and dying men especially Martyrs should be believ'd You peep your Heads out to shew your Antichristian Horns because you are in hope that some lately honoured at the Sturn may countenance your Sect as being inclinable to the same Opinions as being newly whasted by Divine Providence from the Transmarine Territories of Papistry upon the Christian Protestant Shores who yet it is yet to be doubted hath too much of the Pelagian dust of S. Omers cleaving to his feet or shooes But this will fail you in the day of the Lord when the true Jesus Son of God and Son of Mary High-Priest Prophet and King in one Person will plead his own Truths that you and such as you have most abominably abused and belied Your first Article professes Faith in one God and the Father of whom are all things which the Turk and Mahometans do acknowledge as much as you or more See the Alchoran

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

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

's Web And such is the Works and Endeavours of all unconverted and unbelieving persons whatsoever though not to so good an end as hers was and this is as good an Answer as your Objection Add to it the Testimony of Christ Mark 7.7 In vain do they worship me and of Jer. 12.1 2. Object 12. What if this Doctrine be Popery yet if it be true it is not to be rejected Answer Philpot the Martyr said to Bonner Bishop of London That the Papists held not one Truth but the Doctrine of the Trinity and yet they held this of Universal Grace and the Words of a Dying Man are true ut aiunt much more of a Dying Martyr and Christian Man Object 13. 'T is Life and Conversation that saves us and makes us like God and not Opinion Answer The living Principles of the Doctrine of Christ are not Opinions but Fundamentals preached by the immediate in spiration of the Spirit confirmed by the ancient Testimony of the Prophets and sealed with the Signet of real Miracles and attested to by the ancient Fathers of the first 500 years and by all the true Churches to this day and the Scriptures are the rule and ground of Faith Ephes 2.20 But such is the Doctrine of Election ab eterno and Reprobation free and personal a good Life and Conversation built upon Christ is the fruit of Christs Spirit working love in the called Elect But such a visible Conversation built on the Law and mans own Righteousness or mans Faith and Repentance though wrought in time is no other than the superstructures of the Scribes and Parisees of old and of Mistical Papists and Antichristians the Bastards of the great Whore in this day Rev. 17.1 2 3. Rev. 2.26 'T is Christ's works Faith and Conversation in him that gives life to his and not that wrought in them though by the Spirit that does but testifie that they have life in Christ to the World 14 Ob. God then made man to damn him Answer with the Apostle But who art thou man that repliest against God Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me so And beside the Scripture saith He that made them will not save them Isai 27.11 15. Ob. The easiest way is the wrong but eternal free Personal Election is the easiest Answer you know not what you say no man is saved no man believes no man truly repents but it cost Christ his dearest Heart-blood and must cost us the farewel of dearest delights and sin and the loss of our own hearts self and interests Luke 14.28 29 30. 2. That that is the rationallest way is the easiest because all men have naturally reason but your General Redemption and Conditional Election and Free Will is the most rationallest and agreeable to reason therefore the easiest and the way of God above reason and is only fathomed by Faith as Heb. 11. Chap. appears And that gate is straight and narrow Mat. 7. and few enter into it 16. Ob. That whatever we do or sin we shall be saved by the way of Election Answer that is your carping Calumny against the Truth Gods people cannot sin that sin that God cannot or will not forgive 1 Joh. 5. ult There is a sin unto death and a sin not unto death the Elect are beloved when they do no good or evil they are beloved when they do evil their persons not their sins I mean Gal. 2.20 Rom. 9.11 and 13. 2 Tim. 1.9 10. and they are beloved when they do good and they shall do good because they are beloved Phil. 2.13 Heb. 12. two last verses Again the Truths of Christ believed and received and not Errours is the only ground of sobriety righteousness and godliness Tit. 2.12 and 13. 2 Cor. 5.14 And again pray inspicite vobis look upon your Peacocks feet how much unlike the Devils they are though like the Pharisees your Feathers be fine your envy your malice your pride your errours your instability your factions and schismes and Popish Principles back-biting whispering tale-bearing vain discourse tatling 1 Tim. 5. busi-bodying in other folks matters 1 Pet. 4.15 these and such like are the Ingredients that your holiness and righteousness is composed of crying out with the Pharisees Isai 66. Stand far off me I am more holier than thou art And this is the manners of you Baptists most of you in this latter day and Quakers and others too the more is the pity Ob. But we love one another Answer O! Do you so so do the Papists so do the arrantest Hereticks in the World and 't is but self-love and with dissimulation neither for to prop up Self and honour Self and secure your Reputations that is dearer to you than Christ's Blood or love Prate not thus See you what Christ saith Mat. 5.46 47. Luke 6.30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37. 1 Joh. 2.10 11. and Chap. 4.20 Joh. 5.40 41. Measure your life by these Scriptures and deal truly with your hearts Because you have Free Will answer me these Questions 1. Had the Angels Free Will to stand or fall if they had why did they fall or did the Elect Angels stand by their Free Will the other having no sin to tempt them to fall more than the Elect had and why are they called Elect that stand and the other not that did fall 2. Had Judas free will to believe and repent as much as Peter if he had why did he not do as Peter did or did Christ pray for Judas as he did for Peter Mark that 3. When Satan entred Judas and Saul had they power to resist and abandon him or not if they had why was it so great a burden to them that the one was mad the other hanged himself 4. If no sin be damnable but unbelief against the Gospel how came the Angels to be damned and how came Sodom and Gomorrah to be cast into Eternal Fire if the sin against the first Covenant be only the cause of a temporal death and punishment as is by you asserted Ocellos vobis Jehovah aperito c. Per Johannem H. FINIS