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A57394	Rusticus ad clericum, or, The plow-man rebuking the priest in answer to Verus Patroclus : wherein the falsehoods, forgeries, lies, perversions and self-contradictions of William Jamison are detected / by John Robertson.	Robertson, John.	1694 (1694)	Wing R1607; ESTC R34571	147,597	374

therefore he will do well with the next to give us Scripture for proving this lunscriptural Dogma of the damnation of Infants for Adams sin Or else acknowledge that the belief of it is not necessary to Salvation And certainly if it necessary the Scriptures will be sufficient to prove it Tho our Author be pleased to call our saying so an Antiscriptural dottage His words concerning Augustine I have told him before were cited by R B to prove that Infants are under no Law Which he ●●veth and deceitfully insinuateth that R B cited these words to make Augustine say That Infants are not guilty of Adams sin Which he never intended further then the words bear To witt That they are under no Law Yet our Author defends Augustine in condemning Infants And again cannot chuse but condemn Augustine for saying That Infants dying without Baptism are condemned So he owneth Augustine when he pleaseth him and rejecteth him when he dilpleaseth him In the end of page 141 He gloryeth a little upon his false Insinuation which only manifests his deceit and folly as is his ordinary Custome In page 142 He returns to prove that Infants are under a Law which he acknowledgeth cannot be found in Scripture in so many words but may be gathered by a Presbyterian Commentator from the 13 and 14 verses of Romans 5. For until the Law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed where there is no Law Nevertheless Death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them who had not sinned after the similitud● of Adams transgression who is the figure of him that was to come Now let the unbyassed Reader judge whether any word h●●● c●● inferr that insants are under a L●w or are condemned for Adams sin To prove this he saith Infants die and the death here mentioned is a bodily d●ath and Death is a punishment of sin and referrs ●● to his former Section already answered But R B saith it may rather signifie that which Paul cals a body of Death and is often called Death and Old Adam and flesh and the Law in the members b● which co●ruption os mans nature Man kind is made obnoxious to fall under the temptations of Satan and is naturally in clined to evil as R B hath described a● large in his Vind page 57 which he sliely or rather deceitfully passeth by and then crycth out a Pelagion exposition as if R B had said that men sinned only by imitation then which he could hardly have devised a greater lie and I intreat the Reader to see the page now cited and consider what faith these men can deserve And as to the comparison betwixt Adam and Christ in R B his Apologie and again in his Vind page 58. he sayes they are not to be regared because they are to be accounted among the grossest Sooinian● who make the the Death and suflerings of Christian occasion or example only c. But not at all the procuring cause of Salvation This needs no other answer but this Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Brother and I hope we should know our own Faith better then this li●ing Priest His next to prove Infants guilty of Adams sin is Ephes 2 3. The words a●e Among whom we all also had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh sulfilling the d●fires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the Children of wrath as well as others Who is he that reads this verse and seeth not that it mentions actual sins And that by nature is understood that corrupted nature which hath brought forth these forenamed transgressions But that any word here can intimate that Infants are condemned for Adams sin is a wild consequence He saith if the Apostle had meant otherwayes he would have excepted Infants But he might as well have said he meant no such thing as the damnation of Infants because he hath no where afserted i● But to prove that by nature is meant original sin he citeth some Scriptures but so impertinently as a man might think he dreamed Gal 2. 5 and 4. 8. 1 Cor. 15 44 46 c. Which the Reader may see and consider his citation of Calvin he might have spared his pains and if R B pasled by them it was because they were not worth his while and so his conclusion resolves in Wind. Next he gives us a whole page of Augustine and some others against the Pelagians and what then Will he own all that these men have written but he tells us of fourteen Bishops and therefore I must ask him whether these fourteen Bishops were L●mbs of Anti-christ as our Bishops use to be called Or if a Bishop can be a good Christian His next is Psalm 51. 5. I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother Conceive me Saith he R B denyeth the inference which yet is clear from Nehemiah 9 But hath not been so honest as to tell the verse and I can find no such thing there except in the 2 verse whether it is said they Confessed their sins and the iniquities of their Fathers and so throughout the whole Chapter but no mention of Adams transgression What he saith of the Marriage duty is most impertinent except he can say that Davids Parents had no sin except it were the marriage duty which I think no ●resbyterian will assert But he thinks he hath done a brave late in asking when his adversary readeth of actual sin because R B asketh him in what Scripture be readeth of Original sin but he may find if he will that he shall receive according to the deeds done in the Body whether good or evil And 1 John 3. 8. He that committeth sin is of the Devil and John 8 34. He that committeth sin is the servant of sin and many more Let him bring as plain Scripture that Infants are condemned for Adams sin and he hath done this busmess In page 146 He oflers us several pregnant arguments as he words it to demonstrate his Doctrine as first Infants are deprived of the Image of GOD therefore they are guilty of Adams sin he proves his consequence because to be deprived of the Image of GOD is a punishment equal with if not greater then the torments of hell But our Author hath mistaken all his measures here For if it be a punishment to be deprived of that which a man never had then it is a punishment for Patroclus to want the Bishoprick of St. Andrews so called that it was a punishment to Adam who once had it I deny not but he cannot prove that Infants had it and so cannot be deprived of it His next is None go to Heaven ex●ept those th●● were guiltyp●rsons therefore Infants who ha●e never committed actual sin are guilty before GOD None are saved but sinners which was Christs ●r●and to the Earth c. And such like trash of John Browns fully answered by R B page 60 and 61. He at last resolves all

power As for his saying We charge all the Reformed Churches as Enemies to the Spirit of GOD because they try all Doctrines and Practises by the Scriptures This contains two Lyes First That we condemn all the Resormed Churches For R B hath cited severals of them who are of his Judgement and more may be cited in its place And Secondly The Reasou is a gross Lye For we alwayes owned That all Doctrines and Practises of Men were to be tryed by the Scriptures Next he saith Hence we find That the spirit of the Quakers is Diametrically opposite is the scriptures and therefore the spirit of lyes and delusion Whence I pray thee Patroelus Because we reject private Presbyterion Interpretations Which are but Mans wit and work This Consequence will be made out as thou sayest ad Kalendas Graecas When in a vapouring humour he giveth a Latine phrase and maketh us Ghosts and Hobgoblins But he hath not yet fallen upon the right spell to conjureus except it be his cutting our Juglar Veins which he yet wants power tho not will to do His next os any weight is That from our denying their Interpretations It follows That our Saviovr laboured invain when he proved the Resurrection of the Dead from the scriptures But he might have considered that he was GOD as well as Man who spoke there and that his Word was sufficient Secondly That this Scripture was an Argument ad bominem to the Sadducees who believed Moses Law better then Christ Thirdly The Consequence will be very gross That because Christ who had the Spirit above measure proved an Article of Faith by Scripture Therefore every Presbyterian Priest pedant may by his own natural and acquired parts without the Spirit interpret Scripture But there is at present too great contraversie which seems to bring a firie brand in the tail of it like to destroy all that is profitable or beautysul in the Nation as it hath once already done and to hazard the lives and estates of many well meaning men and good Patriots That is whether there be any difference betwixt the office of a Bishop and a Presbyter in the Church Now if our Author can decide this contraversie by Scripture to the silence of the Malignants as our Saviour did the Saddusees he will do better service to his Native Country then by all his weak and deceitful wranglings against the poor Quakers who are not compeating with him for the Chair But his next consequence is very odd Yea saith he if this Doctrine be true A man doth not sin if he worship the Grocodale lbis Dog or Cat with the old Aegyptians Yea a man may believe or do whatsoever cometh in his Brain c. First ' This Doctrine that the Spirit of GOD is the only true interpreter of Scripture can bring no such consequence along with it For GOD never taught a man to commit Idolatry and to say that a general prohibation is not binding upon a man because his name is not in it is rediculous and no man that I know ever thought it But Secondly If his consequence be true then no Idolater sinned before Moses Law was written Yea according to our Author the Aegyptians he speaks of did not sin For if they had no inward Law sure they had no outward Law And borresco referens the old World sinned not to deserve the Flood because they had no written Law nor any Presbyterian Priest to interperate scripture Next he sayes we deny all Commentaries and expofitions of scripture He should have added which are meerly mans work without the Spirit of Christ if he will not be accounted a liar Then he chargeth R B for laying that the Holy Ghost is not a distinct Person of the Trinity I shall set down R B's own words that the Reader may see how fairly he deals with R B Thus I desire to know of him in what Scripture he finds these words that the Spirit is a diltinct Person of the Trinity For I freely acknowledge according to the Scripture that the Spirit of GOD proceed eth from the Father and the Son and is GOD And then asketh him whether any hath reason to think he truely makes the Scripture the Rule of his Faith notwithstanding his pretence when he either will not or cannot find words in it to express the chief Articles of his Creed And now whether R B hath not fully confessed the the Mystrie and only denyed words of mans invention let the Reader judge Next he challengeth him for taking the words 1 John 2. 27. At the first sound and without any explication but he hath no leasure to give us any explication nor to disprove what he said from the words But concludes thus So that what ever they say or can say to liberate their doctrine from this most weighty but just charge they shall only twist contradictions the faster This is a great blow from a Graecian Gallant but hath not the weight of a Fear ther For we own the scripture for a Rule and the best outward Rule in the World and yet disown the Presbyterian expositions and Commentaries on them so long as they deny the assistance of the Holy Spirit in the work And whereas he challengeth us for not writing Commentaries The World is so overloaded with Commentaries of Mans making each almost contradicting another upon the same text that we think it best to let Patroclus abound in his own sense till GOD reveal that also unto him Phil. 3. 15. After this for about a page he doth nothing but rail and rove at randum as if Patroelus like he had the Trojans in chase and were upon execution And to sum up his Victory he concludes us Bapists because forsooth we deny the Scriptures to be the principal Rule of Faith and 〈◊〉 and the chief Judge of contraversies Answer First He hath need here of some of his Metaphisical formalities to distinguish betwixt the Rule or Law and the Judge But this we may expect next The Reason he giveth is because our Arguments as he alleageth conclude with theirs and instanceth that of Revel 22 18 compared with Deut 4 2 but hath brought nothing to disprove the inference Only telling us to this purpose may Bellarmine answer and the rest of the Jesuites But the difference lyeth here the Papists would thereby set up the Roman Church and unwritten Traditions to be the primary rule But we the Teachings of the Spirit of CHRIST so that according to patroclus own words in page 32 we differ as far as Heaven and Earth And he hath chosen a middle place for himself and his Brethren in which of the Limbos he may tell us next And let this suffice to answer all his Rovings to the end of the Chapter Chapter II. of Immediate Revelation HE begins this Chapter with an h●dgpodg of railing lyes nonsense and contradictions such as a man pretending to sense and Learning may be ashamed of if his desperate malice had