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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

pregnant Relation wherein they stand unto God as their Father That herein I charge them not but with the royall assent of Truth is evident from hence There is scarce any Divine or Protestant Author having a like occasion to speak of the same subject but have expressed themselves upon the point wherein I am made an offender in terms far more obnoxious to exception then mine a and yet my accusers are all thoughts made for them and as men in whose mouths there are neither complaints nor reproofs Why these Authors either have ordered the Scriptures and High Presbyterie and made them to agree or else they had no occasion to take notice of any disagreement between them But because I have so demonstratively proved that the Scriptures and High Presbyterie point like East and West one diametrally opposite to the other Ergo therefore my saying that it is no foundation of Christian Religion to beleeve that the English Scriptures are the word of God is a deniall of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures simply though another mans saying twice as much would have amounted to no such sum of indignation But that I daily fight with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men what advantageth it me if the Scriptures be not the word of God Or why have I bought so many Scripture Truths at such great rates as I have done as with the losse of Friends credit esteem with men estate yea of all hope that I say not possibility of bettering my portion and condition in the world as low as it is if I beleeve them not to be the word of God Why did I so lately suffer a Sequestration from or ejection out of my free hold the best means I had in the world for the support and livelyhood of my self wife and seven children for none other cause or crime that ever I could hear of but for endeavouring to go before others in an example of a reall Reformation .i. For my conscientious and faithfull observance of the solemn Covenant after by publique Order and injunction from Authority I had taken it if I believe not the Scriptures to be the word of God Certainly if I did not really and cordially beleeve them to be the word of God I would beleeve them as prudently as many others do I would so beleeve them as not to be disturbed by them or any thing in them in my worldly interests I would so believe them as to keep fair quarter with soft raiment great purses full tables and benches of honour notwithstanding nor would I sacrifice the least degree of my hope of rising in the world upon the service of any thing whatsoever contained in them Nay did I not verily believe them to be the word of God I would not for their sakes nor for the vindication of any thing which they say expose my self as now I do to the clamorous and stingling tongues of an ill imployed and I fear a worse spirited generation of informers God forgive them for I hope charitably that they know not what they do I would write no books that should deserve burning by the common Hangman * but such onely which should be welcome to and judged worthy to be sold at the signe of the Bible it self For I confesse that I am neither Stoick nor Cynick I had rather abound then be in want I had rather have the good wills and the good words of my generation then their bad and that the greatnesse of this world should rather smile then frown upon me And for the acquirement and injoyment of my desires in all these I conceive I had as fair and large opportunities as others of my Brethren in the Ministery and had a price in my hand as sufficient I make no question for the purchase as many of those who have bought possesse and injoy whose felicity or advancement by their purchase I God is my witnesse no waies emulate or envy For I judge it in many cases best for the peace and accomodation of the world that they should enjoy the great things of the world who least know how to want them or what to do without them But that which mainly separated between me and the injoyment of my desires in this kinde was nothing else but my believing the Scriptures to be the word of God this principle within me was I confesse too stiffe and stately to bow down at the feet of worldly accomodations and these on the other hand thought themselves too good to subject themselves unto or comport with that my principle and since they thus mutually resented the genius and temper one of another they have been strangers and kept at a distance and by this time scarce know remember or take much care one for the other It was a very irrationall and incongruous imputation which some cast upon Paul that he should preach Circumcision when as he suffered so deeply as he did for non-preaching at least for non-practising of it And I Brethren saith he if I yet preach circumcision why do I yet suffer persecution then is the offence of the crosse ceased a And certainly reasonable and considering men being Judges my accusation of denying the divine Authority of the Scriptures is every whit as senselesse and importune when as I suffer and have suffered every waies in my credit name friends estate ease yea and expose my self daily to further sufferings onely for believing and acting this my belief of their Authority My belief in this kinde hath dealt as hardly by me as the Lord did by Balaam in Balaks interpretation I thought saith he to him to promote thee to great honour but so the Lord hath kept thee back from honour b But that belief I speak of which hath reigned in me and over me hitherto and hath blessed me with such an abundance of peace and comfort in sufferings for it will not I hope forsake her throne till either she hath overcome mine enemies and so delivered me from suffering further or else changed the contemptiblenesse of what I am yet capable to suffer further in into that spirit of glory which resteth on those that suffer for the Name of Christ b For I am resolved God assisting not to be ashamed of any of Christs words c nor to forbear upon occasion the freest utterance and asserting of them before what generation soever and hope that neither Name nor Friends nor Estate nor Liberty nor life it self which have not betrayed me hitherto will ever for the future prove any snare of death unto me or hinder me from finishing my course with joy d If I shall miscarry or fall in any of my standings up for the Truth the inconvenience or losse is already cast up by Luthers Arithmetique Malo cum Christo ruere quam cum Caesare stare I had rather fall with Christ then stand with Caesar I have begun to build a tower and trust I have wherewith to finish it I

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

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