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A90683	The divine philanthropie defended against the declamatory attempts of certain late-printed papers intitl'd A correptory correction. In vindication of some notes concerning Gods decrees, especially of reprobation, by Thomas Pierce rector of Brington in Northamptonshire.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing P2178; Thomason E909_9; ESTC R207496	223,613	247

to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God And 't is the joy of my Soul for which I am bound to thank God that my small performance in those Papers hath redounded to the benefit at least of some § 10. He professeth not to put on the Spirit of meeknesse p. 10. much indeed to his commendation but to come against me with the Rod Ibid. Yet he hath made so many Rods for himself that I am even weary to lay them on What I said and meant only of the Accusor of the Brethren Rev. 12. 10. he takes unto himself p. 10. and so is Felo de se as if this were a mark of his being faithful chosen and true Ibid. that he hates his Neighbour not as himself though the Refuser of instruction despiseth his own soul § 11. He is content to have his Cause tried by any ten noted senior Sym-Presbyters who since the times have been upon their Tropicks have been least of all Tropical p. 11. 'T is well he acknowledgeth his Cause so ill as to submit it only to the judgement of his own Dear Brethren to whom he Dedicates his Book But 2. how came he to say they have been least Tropical since the times have been upon their Tropicks Are they the Men that have stood their ground Indeed S. Hierome hath said Bos vetulus fortiter figit pedem But did he not ●ell them in his Addresse that they adhered yet to one part of the 39 Articles implying their Apos●acy from all the rest What was that which he call'd an unchristian thing and four things more How many turns and removes have some of them made since they subscribed the three Articles which were cont●ived by Bishop W●itgift Since they owned the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical agreed upon with the License of Orthodox King Iames in the Synod held at London An. Dom. 1603. and commanded to be observed under the Great Seal of England Since they took their Degrees either in Oxford or Cambridge Since the Day of their Ordinations when they were upon their Knees and the Bishops hand upon their Heads Since they Read Common Prayer like other mortals and preached some Sermons like other men The time would fail me to speak of what I will not here speak of And will he never leave jeering the very men of his way But 3. perhaps he had need to utter his fine Clinch which he therefore mark't with Italick letters and of which he is so amorous as to repeat it verbatim p. 48. lin 7. 8. 9. where he calls them grave Incumbents onely as if he distinguish't betwixt right and possession Had he not done better to have kept his ●est whole then thus to have broken it upon his friends Tropicks and Tropical would sure have kept § 12. He concludes the necessity of railing in that he ought not to be a dumb Dog nor to be toothlesse at his tongues end and pens end and that it is within his commission to be cutting p. 12. lin 45. 6. 8 Thus he squeezeth the Text till blood comes from it Scripture was ever made a Lesbian Rule by which all sorts of men have undertaken to set their Errours right The very Gnosticks and Nicholaitans pretended to it as much as any but hardly ever was it put to viler uses then now by our Correptorie Corrector because Titus a Bishop had the sharpnesse of Rebuke commited to him as part of his Episcopal Censures Tit. 1. 13. Mr. B. a meere Presbyter defends his railing and slandering against a person over whom he cannot pretend a jurisdiction Which abuse of this Text he seems to have borrowed from his first Epist'ler with what successe or Discretion we shall see more hereafter § 13. He is much pleased that our Divines at the Synod of Dort were the visible lawful Representers of our Mother the Church of England there p. 18. I am very glad of this confession because he adds another to it not many lines after That when a motion did but seem to be made somewhat prejudicial to the Hier●rchick Flaunt of the English Church they our English Divines in that Synod of Dort did unanimously enter their joynt attestation against it 1. It seemes they were not so much against the Remonstrant as against the Presbyterian party For 2. They were so far at agreement with the former that Bishop Davenant in his Pacificatory to Duraeus is very expressly for universal Redemption and saith that nothing belongs to the Catholick and Fundamental faith in these points of Free-will and Predestination but this one thing that all good is from Gods Grace and all evil from our selves Which as it is the total sum of what I desired to be granted me in the two Grounds of my belief and Book so it is also of what the Bishop there mentions He saith too that the word Calvinist is rather a signe of Faction then a badge of brotherly union and sets down Theses of Gods Decrees which are flatly contrary to many Anti-Romonstrants if not to all So that whatever his opinions might once have been he shewes evident marks of his change as the Primate of Armagh and other great ones have done as well as my very inconsiderable self It s very well known that in the Synod of Dort the English were more moderate then the rest of that way nay sometimes opposite Bishop Hall of late hath publickly shewed his dislike of all that party who ascribe eternal misery to the absolute will of an unrespective power and rebukes them for their distinction of a positive and negative Reprobation Which Mr. B. so much relies on p. 1. he calls it blasphemie as I did to make God the Author of Sin and pleads in effect for my whole second Chapter which Mr. B. hath so much railed at yet he and Bishop Davenant were both at Dort Besides it is certified by a most learned and pious person of that Synod that things were carried at Dort somewhat worse then at Trent it self rather by violence then Reason Their Arguments were all iron their Syll●gismes no other then Stocks and Fetters the Pretor made the Major proposition the Lictor was the Minor and the prison was the conclusion 3. Besides if those very few of our men at the Synod of Dort were the visible lawful Representers of our Mother the Church of England how much more were all Those who composed the Catechisme the Communion Book the 39. Articles of our English Church to some of which some Articles of the Synod at Dort have a most evident Repugnance what shall we say of all those who composed our Canons and Constitutions A. D. 1603. which were ratified by the learned and Orthodox King James as Mr. B. calls him when he thinks it is for his turn to which notwithstanding Mr. B. and his Masters do stand in perpetual opposition if so

been no index of his Amendment But 5. An exulcerate Erysipelas is no such innocent thing as he would make it nor did Fernelius tell him any such thing as I have shewed in my Margin Or if he had he had deceiv'd him For Frambesarius and Celsus with Hippocrates added to them do speak so hardly of an exulc●rate Erysipelas that I had rather believe then feel it And so all the contumelies of that Page do fly back into the Face of him that vents them and do admonish their Author from this day forward not to meddle with matters above his reach and when he shews himself in publick to use more skill or more integrity But both will do best § 6. He confesseth he is jealous over me pag. 8. Because I say with S. Paul That God will render to every man according to his works not his opinions Ibid. Jealousie even here too is as cruel as the Grave Suppliciumque suum est How sad a life doth he lead who is afflicted and troubled at all I say Even Scripture will not please him if proceeding from my Pen. Certainly none but a Solifidian can have unkindnesse to such Texts Yet perhaps he hath not an ill opinion of the innocentest passages in my Book but only takes a round course to quarrell at all that in case there should be Pelagianisme in any one Period he may not fail to meet with it As Herod in another case had not the least aversion to any one of those Infants who were of two years old and younger but yet gave order to slay them all that he might be the surer to light on Christ Secondly I said it is not so good a task to make Men Orthodox Christians as to make them honest and syncere ones Upon which Mr. B. is very angry p. 8. Is that my fault if he thinks otherwise I am sorry for him but cannot help it And if he doth not why should he be angry that we agree If he thinks it is better to know much then to do well and prefers a cleer Head before a sound and upright Heart what a case is he in and how ill hath he done to * commend his preaching And if on the contrary he thinks as I do why should he be froward for want of power to dissent § 7. He addes a little after p. 8. That I and the pi●us men of my way are great Admirers and Followers of a Practical Catechism the sixth time published What greater commendation could he have given us then that we follow the good which we admire Would he have us know our Lesson but not observe and keep it Orthodox Christians but not Practically honest syncere ones too If He and the Godly men of his way as he and they are wont to word it do neither admire nor follow that Practical Catechisme I wish they did and beseech God they may If they neither do nor will I will rather be a pious then godly man that is as he hath distinguisht I will rather be of them whom he calls the pious then of them whom he calls the godly § 8. He calls his opinions in these matters The very fundamentals of the Covennant of Grace pag. 8. lin 12. but in which of the Three Creeds shall we finde either of them What Poperty is this to o●trude upon us new Articles of Faith I see King James was a wise as well as a Learned and Onthodox Man And so was He of the Lower House who told Mr. Speaker in his Speech An. Dom. 1640. That if they were listen'd to who would extirpate Episcopacy speaking of the Presbyterians they would instead of every Bishop put down in a Diocesse set up a Pope in every Parish And if the Presbyterian Assemblies should succeed they would assume a Power to Excommunicate Kings as well as other Men And if Kings were once Excommunicated Men would not care what became of them And Mr. Hooker as I take it doth say of such Men that they might do well enough to live in a Wildernesse but not in a Kingdom or Common-wealth For all who differ from their opinions that is their mistakes shall be said to erre in the very fundamentals of the Covenant of Grace and so be lookt upon as Heathens and so be us'd as Vessels of Wrath. And that their Censures do extend to the Supream Civil Power is apparent to all who know the History of Scotland or the Book of Paraeus upon the Epistle to the Romans which was burnt at Oxford by order of Conv●cation An. Dom. 1622. It is here to be noted by Mr. B. and his Abettors that the Reverend Bishop Davenan● in his famous Epistle to Duraeus which was one of the last if not the very last thing he writ and that not long before his death affirmeth That nothing is Fundamental which is not comprehended in the Apostles Creed Amongst these he reckons the Redemption of mankinde in general as really different from Gods * peculiar people which he therefore doth distinguish into two several Articles And this is one of those Articles which he alledgeth as an Expedient to reconcile the Protestant Churches Which whosoever shall deny is pronounced by the Bishop to deserve an Excommunication and to be a Christian only in Name And this perhaps may be the reason why Mr. B. tells us of a Damnatory Sentence to be pronounced upon that Bishop however he was one of the Synod of Dort were it not that he is pacified with some Orthodox put-offs § 9. He saith That some Diseases do better when they break out then when they are kept in p. 9. Yet the Diseases of Railing and Forgery had been better kept in then be suffered to break out For that which cometh out of the mouth defileth the man And our Saviour doth instance as well in False-witnesse and Blasphemies as in Murders Adulteries Fornications and Thefts Now whether or no Mr. B. hath not born false witnesse against me and others let every Man judge by the third Discovery And whether he hath or hath not blasphemously spoken concerning God let it be judged by what I have proved and by what I shall prove before I leave him 2. For the publication of my Notes which he expresseth by the breaking out of a Disease I have this to say That though at first I was unwilling to publish any thing which I thought might prove 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Apple of Strife and Contention yet when I saw that peace could not be had with the quarrelsome and was perswaded by Friends to prevent the Calumnies of a False Copie by the publication of a True one I did in all singlenesse of heart make my Appeal to common Readers whether or no I was a Pelagian c Or whether my secret did belong to the Depths of Satan In this I am sure I did very well For he that doth truth cometh