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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

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

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 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 Ioh. 7. 24. Judge not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgement Quidam Christianae ac fraternae charitatis obliti in tantum existimationem nostram quoquo modo student laedere ut suam se evertere nocendi cupiditate non videant Aug. in Resp. ad Artic. Sibi false impositos Prophetae fuerunt viri eloquentes crebróque sunt usi tropis in scribendo quibus multa obtexerunt Aug. de Doctr. Christ l. 4. c. 7. Mira profunditas eloquiorum tuorum quorum ecce ante nos superficies blandiens parvulis sed mira profunditas Deus meus mira profunditas Horror est intendere in eam horror honoris tremor amoris Aug. Confess l. 12. c. 14. Quod est gladius ad vaginam granum ad aristam anima ad corpus hoc est sensus genuinus ad ipsa verba Sacrae Scripturae Corn à Lapide In Argumento super 12. Prophetas London Printed for H Overton and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Ally A Preface to the Reader GOOD READER I Have almost daily occasion as well to reverence as remember this gracious dispensation of God which elsewhere I have taken knowledge of in some of my writings that whereas his Saints and Servants commonly lie under the sorrow and shame of many infirmities and some unworthy doings yet he so governs and orders the ill will of their adversaries that they seldom in their defamations or hard speakings against them hit upon these but commonly lay the burden upon the whole shoulder where the Saints are strongest and best able to bear it charging them with such crimes and matters of disparagement not onely whereof they are altogether innocent and free but which are most contrary to their choicest vertues and to the tenour of such practises which are their chiefest honour and commendation Joseph as great a pattern of chastity as Abraham was of faith was yet defamed and accused as an Adulterer and a violent attempter of the chastitie of others a Moses who was meek above all the men on earth b was yet charged to take too much upon him and to lift up himself above the congregation of the Lord c The Prophet Elijah who was indeed the chariot and horsemen of Israel d i. a speciall means and noble instrument of the safety of Israel was neverthelesse arrested by Ahab as he that is as the onely man that troubled Israel e To passe by for the present many more instances of like consideration the Lord Christ himself was represented and accused as an enemy unto Caesar f who yet was Caesars best friend being he by whom Kings reign and Princes rule g For my self I know my self to be compassed about with as many infirmities as the weakest of men and my great unworthinesse in many things is daily before me yet it hath pleased my God whom I serve in the Gospel of his dear Son still to hide my nakednesse from mine enemies though many in number and diligent inquirers after it and so to dispose of their hatred and ill will against me that the fiery darts of their accusations have still hit where my brest-plate of righteousnesse is and hath been most firme and of best proof It is too much for me to say of my self nor will I say it but it would be a truth comely enough in the mouths of some others to say that I am if not the best yet none of the worst Friends which the Divine Authority of the Scriptures hath amongst men and that I have been as diligent as faithfull as laborious an Assertor thereof as any of those who think themselves more worthy of the crown All that I shall say of my self in this behalf is that if I have done any service for the world since my entrance into it or if the souls and consciences of men have any cause at all to blesse me it is because I have cloathed them with strength and confidence of the royall parentage and descent of the Scriptures and subdued their fears and jealousies of any subornation in that kinde under their feet or rather that I have attempted with all my heart and all my soul to do them Notwithstanding with what importune clamour and virulency of spirit I have been of late traduced not onely to vulgar cognizance but to Authority it self as an enemy unto and opposer of the heavenly Originall of the Scriptures by some who out of zeal to God for so they glosse the practise neglect their own Trades and Imployments to follow Satans in accusing the Brethren h is so well known throughout the City that any farther information from me would be an impertinency But though Joseph was accused as an enemy to the chastity of his mistresse yet the true reason and ground of his accusation as the Scripture informeth us was not his enmity but his faithfulnesse thereunto in like manner though the matter of my accusation from the mouths of men he opposition to the Scriptures yet I make little question but that the reall and true cause hereof was not my opposing but my avouching the Scriptures as the Oracles or word of God by a strong and pregnant eviction from them of a notorious unworthinesse in those practises and proceedings against the Saints wherein these men with their fellows were to the reproach not of Christian Religion onely but of humanity it self engaged But all things saith the Apostle that are to be reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light i. is by this act of manifestation or discovery clearly evinced to be light Eph. 5. 13. And as Joseph's Mistresse accused him to his Lord for an adulterous attempt upon her because he refused to be adulterous with her so because I have constantly refused to misfigure the face of the Scriptures and destroy the character of the Divine glory which is stamped upon them by compelling them to serve in the wars of High Presbyterie against both themselves the Saints and the Truth therefore have these men accused me before Authority as if I had blasphemed their honour and contradicted that manifest and

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

visit their sins they shall return to Egypt In this figure or phrase of speech to forbear further instances the Apostle Paul affirmeth that if any provide not for his own especially for those of his own house he hath denied the faith b his meaning is not that by such a neglective and ungracious course he doth properly or formally deny or disclaime Christian Religion but that he doth that which is tantamont or equivalent to such a deniall in respect of the prejudice which is thereby like to accrue unto Religion Secondly it is a common observation among Writers that the holy Ghost takes a delight to make the New Testament and the Old as it were inter-commoners in language and phrase of speech i. to express matters proper to the one by words and phrases which in propriety and strictness of sence signifie things appropriate to the other c Thus Malachi prophecying of the worship of God under the New Testament expresseth it thus My name shall be great among the Gentiles and incense shall be offered unto my Name and a pure offering Mal. 1. 11. And after cap. 3. 3. he prophecieth of the ministers of the Gospel under the names of the sons of Levi And cap. 4. 5. of John Baptist under the Name of Elijah the Prophet But as none of these expressions are in their literall proper and Grammaticall significations appliable to the times of the New Testament no neither is it necessary no nor so much as probable in the least degree that the Old Testament or Lawphrase of Parents thrusting thorough their children for prophecying lies wherein our prophet expresseth and foresheweth the great zeal for Truth and purity of Religion which should be found in men under the Gospel should be understood in the letter or in the formall sence or signification of the words Thirdly the context it self and the series thereof plainly shew that the passage and prophesie in hand particularly relateth to these times specified viz. wherein the receiving again of the Jewish Nation by God shall be as life from the dead d unto the world and their Church and State restored to seven times more then their ancient beautie and glory For ver. 10. 11. 12. of the preceding Chapter the Prophet clearly describes that great and generall conversion of this people unto to God partly by the causes or means of it partly by the consequents or effects of it And I will poure upon the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon And the land shall mourn every family apart the family of the house of David apart and their wives apart the family of the house of Nathan apart and their wives apart the family of the house of Levi apart and their wives apart the family of Shimei apart and their wives apart And all the families that remain viz. all besides these every family apart and their wives apart First evident it is that the tenour of the things here spoken carries the scope and intent of the passage directly upon the nation and people of the Jews and doth not suffer it to be understood of any other This needs no other proof except haply a second and more serious perusall of the words Secondly as evident it is that it relates not to a remnant or lesser part but to the generality or body of this Nation And the land shall mourn saith the Prophet every family apart c. And again And all the families that remain c. Thirdly and lastly the expression and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced plainly implies that this Nation shall see and behold Christ viz. when upon their Repentance implied by the spirit of grace and supplications poured out upon them he shall appear or come unto them to raise up the tabernacle of David which had been a long time fallen and to build them up both Church and State in excellency of beauty strength and glory according to the express tenour of that grand motive by which Peter inviteth them to Repentance Act. 3. 19 20. 21. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. not when as our Translation hath it but that or to the intent that times of refreshing may come not shall come as our English Translation again mis-readeth it from the face or presence of the Lord And that he may not and he shall as our English yet again mis-translateth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heavens must receive untill the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began So that the Repentance and conversion of this people unto God when or how soon soever it shall take place shall be immediatly or soon after rewarded by him with the sending of his Son Jesus Christ their long expected Messiah unto them * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. as the word properly imports to restore or re-constitute all things viz. in their Church and State as they were before yet not formally but eminently and with abundance of superadded glory Upon this sight or beholding of him viz as coming or come unto them with this abundance of grace and love and mercy who had for so many ages together so injuriously and despitefully intreated him shall ensue and follow that most solemn affectionate and unparalled mourning viz for their strange inveterate and long continued unkindness and hatred towards him which our Prophet describes in the latter end of the transcribed passage which also is elsewhere foreshewed in Scripture upon the same occasion a Now having thus foretold the general conversion of this Nation unto God towards the end of cap. 12. he goeth on in the beginning of this chapter and declareth how happy holy and glorious the State and condition of this Church shall be upon and after this their conversion and amongst other spiritual priviledges wherewith it should be invested inriched and adorned mentioned ver. 1. 2. he shews that the zeal of this Church and people for the truth and purity of Religion shall be signall eminent so as to reign over all inferiour ends counsels inclinations and desires in men yea over all even the nearest and dearest natural relations themselves which are the hardest to be commanded or brought into subjection Fourthly It no where appeareth either by the Scriptures or by any History of credit nor is it in it self a thing any ways probable or worthy belief