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Animadversions by way of answer to a sermon preached by Dr. Thomas Kenne, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, in the Cathedral Church of Bath, on Ascension-Day last, being the fifth day of May, 1687
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Reed, John, Father.
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the convertible Points I took notice of in your last Ascention Sermon and unless I be much mistaken that days controversie was in order to take away all suspicion of your being Roman Cotholickly inclined For your Lordship living as Seneca saith sine impedimento that is to say without a Wife and having the reputation of one that lives morally well which is enough for the Rabble to say you are Popishly affected you undertook that days work to take away the scandal which had no other ground than your good Works thank then my Lord your own Church for this abuse which proceeds from that unhappy Merit-killing Doctrine which prives out of your Schools all good Works and Meritorious actions To this purpose I remember the Friday following your Lordship us'd all means in your instruction of Faith to perswade your Auditors that Abrahams Justification was for his Faith and not for his good Works All your Proof was because Abraham believed before he was circumcised a very weak or rather no argument indeed quasi vero that all Abrahams good Works were only comprehended in his circumcision Pray tell me now if you have this positively in Scripture You can never do it my Lord but you will find the contrary in positive Terms both in the New and Old Testament What shall be the final Judgement of Predestination and Reprobation Shall it not be for Doing or not doing good Works Witness the very words of our last Sentence recorded in the Gospel venite Benedicti patis mei esurivi enim dedistis mihi manducare c. Come ye blessed of my Father c. I was hungry and you gave me to eat c. And the other Sentence shall be most terribly terrible against the Reprobate for want of good Works Ite maledicti in ignem Aeternum c. Go ye cursed to the everlasting Fire c. And why Esurivi enim non dedisti mihi manducare c. Because I was hungry and you did not feed me c. I will content my self now with one Proof out of the Old Testament it is in the 30th Chapter of Deuteronomy 19 verse I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you that I have set before you Life and Death Blessing and Cursing therefore choose Life that thou and thy seed may Live. How cou'd God Almighty call Heaven and Earth to Judge them if he had not endowed them with Free Will for you cannot Lawfully hang a Cripple for not running nor a Man Born Blind for not Reading You must make God then far more cruel than Man if he damns for not doing Good Works you supposing he deprives him of Free-will which is the Doctrine of our pretended Reformers who attribute all to Faith and nothing to Merit As for your Lordship I think I cannot deal fairer with you then to remit you to the Western Window of that Cathedral wherein I heard you Preach and there you will find in Capital Letters your own Judgement drawn out of the 2d Chapter of St. James v. 26. For as the Body without the Spirit is Dead so Faith without good Works is Dead also This is all I have to say against those two Sermons I heard your Lordship Preach now I beseech the Almighty God that you may rather soon then late make it your main Concern to find out Truth and for this purpose you must invoke faithfully and fervently the Holy Ghost to Englighten your understanding that you may see your errour and enflame your will to embrace truth and return speedily to the bosome of Christs only saving Church on Earth and then you will have the Sign of the Holy Cross in Veneration you will make use of it in the beginning of all your undertakings You will own out of the words of God himself a Visible Spiritual Supream Head of his Church on Earth and that the Sacrament of the Altar cannot be a Sacrament according to the Institution thereof if Christs most Sacred Humanity be not there substantially and really present And finally you will confess that Free-will and Meritorious Actions are absolutely necessary for Salvation Recant timely my Lord otherwise it is much to be fear'd that this just Judgment shall surprize you ignorans ignorabitur Do what lyes in you and God will never refuse his helping hand It is a Principle with us in Divinity that facienti quod in se est Deus non denegat Gratiam Do it again I say with all the speed possible for S. Ambrose assures us that the Holy Ghost doth not Love to be put off Nescit tarda Molimina Spiritus Sancti Gratia. Tertulian says Christiano Christianum non est a Christian has no to Morrow but will say with the Royal Prophet ecce nunc coepi Your Lordship will Pardon me I hope for exhorting you to mind your Salvation timely having no other Interest in your Conversion but the Glory of God and the good of your Soul. But if you shut your ears to this spiritual Admonishment I call God to Witness that there is not a Tittle in this silly Scroul but shall arise in Judgement against you I am but a poor Begger I own nay a Begger indeed that begs his bread daily and feeds only on the Charitable Benevolence of Christians and will do so while I live in please God for I can never aspire higher but do not despise the words of the little ones quia infirma mundi elegit Deus ut confundat fortia I am the weakest of all men I confess in utroque homine yet my poor Prayers shall be for your Lordships speedy Conversion to the greater Glory of God to your own Eternal Felicity to the great Joy of all the Angels and Saints of Heaven to the publick Edification of your fellow Subjects to the Conversion of Thousands of your poor stragling Sheep and perishing Lambs and finally to the unspeakable comfort and satisfaction of My Lord Your most humble Servant and Well-wisher in Soul and Body F. J. R. 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