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A41192	A view of an ecclesiastick in his socks & buskins, or, A just reprimand given to Mr. Alsop, for his foppish, pedantick, detractive and petulant way of writing	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1698 (1698)	Wing F764; ESTC R476	85,805	132

from all Antinomian Tincture It is all but Banter and Grimace or if spoken in earnest doth only shew that the Man was Delirous and Raving thro' the Height and Power of Distemper in that he could neither think nor write Coherently and that his Quarrelling with and contradicting others is to be the more dispensed with in that the Nature of his disease will not allow him to agree with himself The several Paragraphs in his Book are like my Lord Roscommon's Cocks which tho' reckoned all of one side do when taken out of their several and respective Cribs Encounter and Destroy on another Nor is he only at Variance and Discord with Himself by reason that what he hath written of late in Favour and Vindication of Mr. Williams is altogether Irreconcileable with what he wrote several years ago in opposition to Dr. Sherlock and that the two Poles may as soon meet as what he hath delivered in his Antisozzo then and now in his Faithful Rebuke and the Vindication of it be brought to Harmonize and Agree but in that there are Divers things in each of his late Pamphlets which are perfectly contradictious and subversive of one another The Man being of one mind in the Intervals of his Paroxisms and when under his Lucida and of another mind when in his Phrenzy and Fits of Distraction But to proceed to other Instances of his Insincerity whereof the next shall be his Accusing of Mr. Lobb as if he were not now of the same sentiments in several material Points of Theology which he was heretofore and that what he asserted and maintained about Seventeen Years ago in a Book which he then wrote against Antinomianism call'd The Glory of Free Grace display'd were both departed from and overthrown in what he hath lately published as well in his Account stil'd the Report as in those Papers intituled the Defence of it and that therefore the Display and the Report could not be indited from one Head nor conceived in one Heart nor written by one Hand and Pen p. 25. unless Alteration in Interest may have warped him change in Dependencies perverted him new Friends and Alliances begat in him new Counsels or an implacable Hatred against Mr. Williams obliged him to alter his Principles in meer spight and to face about to the other Extream And that if they came from the same Mint the Report has wretchedly clipt what the Display had coyned and the Display is now splay'd p. 26 27. In which Passages besides the foppish and ridiculous Puns the nauseous and undesent Drolling and Fantastick Pedantry in his way of expressing himself there is the height of Insincerity Detraction and Calumny Nor could Mr. Alsop assume this Licentiousness of Traducing him in a matter of such Importance in it self and whereof the Belief if admitted must wonderfully hinder the Success of his ministry without doing Violence to his own Conscience as well as transgressing the Laws both of Justice and Charity Seeing of all the Pastors in and about the Town there is not one and that to Mr. Alsop's own knowledge who hath more endeavour'd to put a Discountenance upon all Antinomian Notions than he hath done And tho' he can neither apply that Character and Denomination to every one whom Mr. Williams is pleased so to mis-call that he may the better thereby disguise and cover his own Vergencies both to Socinianism and Arminianism and weaken their Credit in reference to Accusations of those kinds which they advance agaist him nor can pronounce every one to be an Antinomian who ascribes more to Christ in the Work of Satisfaction and to his Obediential Righteousness in the Justification of Believers than our new Refiners upon the Covenant of Works and of Grace will allow yet if a Judgment may be formed of him either by his Books which I have read or by his Sermons whereof I have had particular Accounts convey'd to me by those that attend upon them or by his Oral Discourses both in the Assemblies of Ministers and in more private Conversation there is not one either of the Ecclesiastical Order or of the number of Laicks Professors of the Christian Religion in this Nation who is less Tinctur'd with an Antinomian Dye or at a farther Distance from approving their foppish unreasonable and Anti-Evangelical Tenets than Mr. Lobb both is and hath always been known to be whereof Mr. Alsop was not only fully inform'd by others as appears from what he hath recorded in his own Book p. 37. of a Friend of his and Mr. L. telling him that the Author of the Report was no more an Antinomian than himself but he was likewise abundantly convinced of it in his own Conscience as well thro an antient and long Familiarity which they had together as by a Perusal of what he had declared in all his publick Writings So that neither his Acknowledgment P. 43. that Mr. Lobb is now become more Orthodox than when he wrote his Report Now his having said P. 37. That his Charity inclined him to think he was no Antinomian will not in the least extenuate but does rather greatly aggravate and enhance the Guilt of the foremention'd Defamatory Slander And what he there delivers as an Apology is a proof of his Criminalness Seeing his Allegation of his preaching one thing and printing another of his being one Man in the Pulpit and another from the Press c. is not only gross Calumny towards Mr. Lobb but pure Fiction in Mr. Alsop's Interest and is at present his Duty to consider to whom the Character and Denomination doth belong of being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Accuser of the Brethren which Title seems to be ascrib'd unto the Devil in the Place which I have my Eye upon because of the many false and flanderous Accusations fastned upon the Christians under the Pagan Persecutions of which they were altogether innocent so he ought to dread the Fate to which Backbiters Lyars and Slanderers are adjudged both in the Decree and in the Judicial Sentence of the Righteous God Nor possibly should I in any measure depart from Moral Truth if I should both suspect and pronounce Mr. Alsop's Book to have been stuff'd with those defamatory Slanders of the Congregational Brethren and written with that Acrimony and Malice which appear in every Page of it in prospect of and in subserviency to the raising a Persecution against them which some Men's Counsels as well as Hearts are pregnant with whensoever thro' the Favour and Assistance of the Latitudinarian Divines of the Church of England they can obtain a Comprehension and be placed on the same Bottom in relation to Parochial Settlements and Emoluments with those of the Establish'd way of which they were then full of Hopes as well as diligent in their Endeavours to compass But if the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or he who contrary to his own Knowledge shall teach or write what is of no other Tendency but to make a Schism Division and

and good manners It hath been hitherto accounted the duty of every honest man to speak and write as he thinks and believes And hath been also esteemed a piece of Morality as well as of good Breeding for a Person that is virtuous or discreet to avoid every officious lye by which he may serve himself or create sport to others and much more to shun a malicious one tho the Consequence of it be never so Trivial and that it bring no Considerable Damage upon him that is Slander'd To throw dirt is a Clownish way of Fighting and becomes no man that lays claim to the Ability and Art of Weilding a Pen. For one that calls Himself a Scholar to fasten Opinions upon an Adversary without other Ground or Reason save the seeking an occasion of Combating of Him is neither the part of the Brave or Learned but of the Coward the Knave or the Madman And the best that will be said of it by the Wise Virtuous and Impartial is that it is only one 's buckling on his Armour to Encounter the Wind-mills in his own Brains Now as to the Insincerity of Mr. Williams either in his Concealing his own Opinions or the bringing them forth in Masquerade and Disguise or in his Transforming and Metamorphosing the Opinions of others into Forms and Shapes Forreign unto and specifically different from what they are in their Genuine and Nat●ral Features I shall adjourn the consideration of it at this time intending if the occasion of it continue to give him full satisfaction hereafter with an Allowance of Interest for the forbearance in point of Payment which I do now demand But I am told that the Learned Grave plain hearted and upright Mr. Humphreys is about saving me and others that Labour who as he has had better opportunities of knowing the Man and his Sentiments than I will Boast of so none do understand better than that Ancient Person how to Disrobe him of his Vizor Mask and the rest of his Theatrical Habit and to shew him in his own Colours For tho' that Ancient and Learned Divine be himself Guilty of some Aberrations from the commonly received Doctrine of Protestants yet because of his dissenting from others with Meekness Humility and Modesty in himself and with respect and deference as well as with Charity towards them he is therefore Notwithstanding his Errors had in all due Esteem and Veneration even by those that do both most oppose and dislike his Opinions which are only Accounted the Infirmities of his understandings the mistakes of his Judgment but no wise the Faults of his will or the Blemishes of his Conscience But as to Mr. Alsop's Insincerity In Relation to what he hath written both of Persons and Things I do take the Accusing and Reprimanding of Him for it to fall within the Province which I have undertaken And which I shall therefore uncontroulably justify by Quotations out of his own Books Of this kind is his Fallely and Maliciously mis-representing Mr. Lobb as if he out of the Account which he gave of the substance of the Gospel had Expunged Regeneration Conversion Repentance Holiness Sanctification a new Heart new Obedience and Good works and that he had discarded Faith from any concern in the Justification of a Sinner and made it unnecessary to our Vnion with Christ that so we might have an Interest in his Righteousness p. 4. And that thereupon he is Metamorphosed from an Hyperaspistes of Truth into an Hector for the Antinomian Errors so easy is the Conversion of an Hector into a Ranter p 5. While in the mean time he knew the whole of this Accusation to be Altogether Groundless and purely Romantick and Consequently to be highly defamatory and Slanderous and not becoming any one that pretendeth either to Conscience or to Moral Honesty From which Unchristian as well as Uncivil and rude Misrepresentation Mr. Lobb having fully vindicated Himself beyond the possibility of Mr. Alsops replying tho I would say of him were he not called a Minister of the Gospel that his Forehead is Brass double gilt and his Vnderstanding as to one great part of it's Function Callous and Dedolent The whole which remains incumbent upon me will be in a Reflection or two anon to provide a chain and Muzzle for this Mastiff and to give him the Correction that is due to one who hath turn'd his study whatsoever he hath done his Pulpit into a Calumny office Of the like Complexion and dye with the foregoing falshood is that barefaced and Impudent calumniation of all those divines as well as of Mr. Lobb who have called Mr. William's Orthodoxy in some particulars into Question which the Reader may find on the File of his Book p. 35. Where after his Huffing and Oracular manner and with the assurance of a Knight of the Post he says That he is confident that whatever has been the pretence the real cause of all the Enmity manifested against Mr. Williams ' s Book of Gospel-Truth was cheifly that it gave a Mortal wound to Antinomian Opinions And that that is a Crime which shall never be forgiven him but Prosecuted with Vatinian hatred by the Reporter and all of the same Kidney Which is not only an Accusing a Great Number of very Holy and Orthodox Divines for they are not a few who have testified their dislike of Divine things in that Book of Mr. Williams's of being tainted with and Patrons of Antinomianism But it is the Arraigning them as Guilty of the Vilest Hypocrisie thro' their Alledging other Reasons as the Motives of their dissatisfaction with it when the real cause was it's having given a Mortal wound to Antinomian Opinions Nor doth he only hereby pretend to have gotten that Window into other Men's Breasts which neither King James's Prerogative nor Power could give him in reference to Mr. Alsop's tho' he Complementally i. e. deceitfully wished it him but he hath usurped the Tribunal and Seated himself in the Throne of the Omniscient thro' assuming to have an Intuitive knowledge of the Hearts of Men and to have obtained a view of their Intentions and Thoughts not only without the assistance of the Mediums and Organs of Intellectual sight but in despight of and contradiction unto all the means of Intelligence which God hath furnished us with and staked us down unto in our knowing and judging of others Upon which I will also en passant further observe that it is not one or two of the Congregational Brethren whom he here accuseth of Antinomianism but it is the Bulk and Generality of that Party tho' he calls Mr. Lob's charging him with it a Nuisance and an Invidious Mis-representation of Him p. 23 Seeing in a manner the whole Body of the Congregational Ministers have signified their dissatisfaction with many Notions in that Book of Mr. Williams's And as for the Complement there which he bestows upon Many of those Brethren of his knowing them to be sound in the Faith and wholly remote