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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54839	The divine purity defended, or, A vindication of some notes concerning God's decrees, especially of reprobation, from the censure of D. Reynolds in his epistolary praeface to Mr. Barlee's correptory correction by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2180A; ESTC R181791	123,156	150

do not come or if they come they do not stay with him they wilfully reject the counsel of God against themselves And so have received the grace of God in vain § 3. The Fourth proposition in this Section being wholly the same with the seventh and eighth of the former Section may be sent thither for its Answer as having there sufficiently been spoken to yet here my Assailant is to be thank't for saying so plainly and expresly That men do fall into Damnation as they themselves know by their own wills and whereof themselves are the alone Causes and Authors For if this is heartily acknowledged as here it is very plainly Then 1. Farewell to Austin's rigid sentence pronounced upon un baptized Infants for the Infants fall not by their own wills or against the light of their understandings they having no use of either faculty 2. Farewell all consideration of Adams sin in the Damnation of any Creature for they that are damned saith my Assailant are the alone Causes and Authors of their Damnation and if so then was Adam no part of the Cause or Author If I had said thus much how many times had I been called a Semipelagian and of what Correptory Correction had I been thought worthy But now 3. Farewell to all that is said by Mr. Barlee against the second Chapter of my Notes For I had said only that man is the sole efficient Cause and explain'd my self sufficiently by saying that Satan and the Protoplast were Promoters of my Guilt p. 6. But my Assailant saith farther that mans own will is the alone Cause aud the alone Author of his Sin and Damnation Which gives me occasion to admire how M. Barlee could read this passage in his worthiest Friend and raile so vehemently against it as to say it fights against God against Scripture against all Authority antient and later Again I admire how D. Reynolds could read all that bitterness of his Friend against this part of his own Epistle and yet retain this proposition which is there so rai'ld at yea and how he could commend his Reviler's work for an Elaborate and learned Thing Nor is the wonder lessened in that the ill language of all those pages is directed to me by name and not to D. Reynolds since the Doctrine against which the ill language is levell'd is delivered by D. Reynolds as well as by me nay by D. Reynolds after me nay by D. Reynolds in defense of me even in that Epistle which was intended against me in partiality to Mr. Barlee nay by D. Reynolds more obnoxiously and more unwarily then by me nay more like Massilian and Pelagian by D. Reynolds then by me Let both our words be considered and I do seriously believe that he himself will say as much § 4. What is added in the position concerning God's Permission and gubernation c. is gratis dictum as to me and cannot with any the least colour be fitly aimed against my words who said as much in my Notes § 12. But only against his and my Correptory Corrector who besides permission and Gubernation disposing and ordering is for Determination and stirring up as a Man puts spurs to a Dull Iade it is his own simile So that if my Rd. Assailant doth here mean no more then he speaks not conceiving that God's will of permitting sin is efficacious nor that he doth impel men to any thing that is unlawful nor that he did Decree Adam to contract a vitiosity by his Fall as Dr. Twisse speaks then the things which I accused as blasphemous may still be blasphemous by his free leave and I shall once more thank him for having thus joyned with me against the Correptory Corrector And since he professeth to be sorry for having been led so far in another mans proper work I will have so fair an opinion of him as to believe that from this time forward he will express his sorrow by his Amendment CHAP. XII E. R. I was glad to see two orthodox and sound Axioms stand before the book of your Author as the Basis of his Superstructure Two men of quite different judgments in these very Arguments I find to have done so before The one Cassianus the Collator of whom Prosper hath these words Catholicarum tibi aurium judicia conciliare voluisti quibus de praemissae Professionis fronte securis facile sequentia irreperent si prima placuissent Which words of his bring into my mind a saying of the Historian Fraus fidem in parvis sibi praestruit ut cùm operae pretium sit cum magnâ mercede fallat and the censure of Austin upon Pelagius Gratiae vocabulo frangit Invidiam offensionem declinat The other the famous Arch-Bishop Bradwardine whom learned and good men will honour notwithstanding the hard censure passed by Hugo Grotius upon him who premiseth two Hypotheses as the ground of that profound work of his De Causâ Dei I will have so fair and just an opinion of your Author as to believe that he did this in Candor and Integrity following therein rather the learned example of Bradwardin then if Prosper's Censure may be taken the Artifice and cunning of Cassianus yet because this is a course which may by the Credit of true Principles draw the less cautelous and circumspect Readers to consent to deductions not naturally consequent upon them it is requisite as for writers as Pliny adviseth Saepius respicere Titulum so for Readers to follow the Apostles Counsel to prove all things and hold fast that which is good T. P. § 1. THis is somewhat a strange Paragraph in several respects For first 't is apparently unkinde because although he professeth that I had two great patterns for what I did whereof one was most excellent in his own opinion nay though he professeth to have so just an opinion of me as to believe I followed Bradwardin rather then Cassianus and that I did what I did in Candor and integrity he did yet make choise to begin his Descants upon the other not insisting on the good mea●ing of Arch-Bishop Bradwardin but on the fraud cunning of the Presbyter Cassianus Yet secondly he makes me some part of requital by confessing my two principles to be a couple of orthodox and sound Axioms and that they were the Basis of my superstructure Now he cannot but confess that where the deductions are duly made nothing but truth can be inferred from truth such good Trees as two orthodox and sound Axioms cannot bring forth such corrupt fruit as my Notes were accused of by the Correptorie Corrector Had not my Deductions been naturally consequent upon my grounds as here it is hinted and meerly hinted but no where held forth that I can find no doubt but some of the grieved party would have endeavoured at least to find it out And had they found any such thing no doubt but I should have heard on 't with both my