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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90680	Autokatakrisis, or, Self-condemnation, exemplified in Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Barlee, and Mr. Hickman. With occasional reflexions on Mr Calvin, Mr Beza, Mr Zuinglius, Mr Piscator, Mr Rivet, and Mr Rollock: but more especially on Doctor Twisse, and Master Hobbs; against whom, God's purity and his præscience ... with the sincere intention and the general extent of the death of Christ, are finally cleared and made good; and the adversaries absurdities ... are proved against them undeniably, out of their own hand-writings. With an additional advertisement of Mr Baxter's late book entituled The Groatian religion discovered, &c. By Thomas Pierce rector of Brington in Northampon-shire.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2164; Thomason E950_2; ESTC R210640	233,287	279

and this by the confession of Mr. Calvin himself who as he calls it their superstition so he confesseth that S. Austin was not alwayes free from it But Mr. Calvin in despight of the Fathers piety which he brands with the Title of Superstition doth very dogmatically pronounce of those later sins of men which are called the punishments of the former that as they are punishments God is * Idem l. 1. c. 18. Sect. 2. Author praecipuus the prime or chief Author and that the Devil is onely subservient to him Satan verò tantù Minister And though he saith that the Ancients were somewhat too religious in their fear of speaking the simple truth as he calls it yet he confesseth their fear was very sober because the thing which they feared was the * Idem ib. l. 2. c. 4. Sect. 3. fol. 95. opening a passage unto impiety of irreverently defaming the works of God Now what it was which misled Mr. VV. and Mr. B. from that holy fear of those Fathers to speak of God in such a fearless and frightful manner as I have partly already shewed and am partly to shew in my following Chapter I believe most Readers do judge as I do Sect. 21. 1. The desperate nature of Mr. u's Salvo's and the hardness of his very emollients Mr. W. having now done with the prime part of his enterprise wherein he hath often made God to be the Author of sin and often very much worse goes on talking to himself from p. 29. to p. 35. in an indeavoured excuse of what he hath hitherto delivered And in the very entrance on that attempt he makes himselef unexcusable by dropping out such excuses as stand in need of an excuse but cannot find one 1. Though Gods permission of sin is an operative permission saith Mr. W. yet he is not the Author of the evil permitted His reason is because what the wicked do wickedly God doth holily p. 29. Which is only to say that God is not the Author of sin in Himself not that he is not the Author of sin in others The Question is not whether God is a Transgressor but whether he makes men Transgressors as Zuinglius publickly affirmeth Not whether David's lying with Bathshebah was a good Adultery and so no sin in as much as it was the work of God and in as much as God did impel him to it as Zuinglius also speaks This is not the Question but the sordid begging of the Question and a taking that for granted which we deny and abominate with all our might as most blasphemous and irrational The Question is whether God impelled David to that Adultery or did work in the sin of that act as Mr. W. speaks which whilest I deny as a most impious and a most senseless proposition he must first of all prove and make apparent before he comes to infer upon it that the very same thing which man doth wickedly God doth holily and justly For God doth it not at all nor can he do it because he is God 2. What he saith of the Physicians occasioning the sickness yea the death of the Patient 2. by giving Physick which meets wi ha malignant Humour who yet cannot be said to be the Author of those effects p. 29 30. is as impertinent a similitude as he could easily have chosen and shews he considers not of what he speaks or understands not any thing of the word Author or seeks to amuse his illiterate Reader 3. He hopes to excuse himself by uttering these following Aphorismes 3. which pass with him for fan and soft and suppling speeches 1. God may be said to administer occasions of sinning and so to have some kind of hand in it The mollifying expressions of the harsh speaker by his word and by his works p. 30. 2. The Law hath an efficacy in stirring up sinful motions p. 30. 3. The good word of God doth accidentally stir up the corruption that is in mens wicked hearts p. 31. 4. Christs preaching and Stephens preaching had an EFFICIENCY in stirring up the wrath of their Hearers p. 31. 5. The good word of God doth stir up evil affections in the hearts of wicked men p. 31. Thus he puts upon himself that thick and palpable Fallacy non causae pro causâ Because when the word of God is preached the evil affections of the wicked are stirred up he concludes that Gods word doth stir them up As if my writing were the cause of those things which come to pass when I am writing Again he doth not distinguish betwixt the giving of occasions and taking occasions when none are given God hath spoken and done those exceeding good things from which men have snatched an occasion of evil but to administer or give occasions of doing wickedly is so ill a phrase that it is very unskilfully applyed to God to say no worse And I had hoped that these times had taught the unlearnedst to distinguish betwixt Scandalum datum acceptum Acceptum sed non datum Though David was pardoned his sin of Adultery yet because by that deed he had given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme his Infant Child did surely dye 2 Sam. 12.13 14. If Mr. W. did not consider that there is such a thing as the sin of scandal or did not know what scandal is and wherein it stands he may both know and consider it another time He who in doing what is lawful intends to make another man sin as well as he who doth it by doing what is unlawful without out intending any such thing is properly said to give occasion to scandalize to lay a snare in his Brothers way 4. His open profession that Gods secret wil is contrary to his revealed will in respect of the very same objects 4. I am urged to enlarge upon another passage in Mr. W. where he saith that the wicked in their evil actions doe that which is contrary to the revealed will of God though the same things which he wills viz. by his secret will which they know not p. 34. But I count the number of my pages and am exhorted to spend but little time against a man of no greater strength and have already acquainted him with enough of his unhappiness and whatsoever I shall omit of his other misadventures I shall abundantly meet with in my Account of Mr. Barlee and Mr. Hick whom I intend for the Subjects of the following Chapter CHAP. III. Of Mr. Barlee's forging God to be the Author of Sin and very much worse then so too in his very endeavours to speak as warily as his Principles will suffer him Sect. 1. BEing now to consider the Doctrinal part of Mr. Barlee's Book which he Intitles A Necessary Vindication or full Abstersion I must begin with his Third Chapter where omitting his Buffonery as that which serves to no end but to proclaim him to the world for the most lantentable Zanie

a most necessary truth to say that God is the Author or cause of sin I have more abundantly made apparent in Three distinct Tracts viz. Correct Copy p. 9 10 50. especially Div. Philanthropy defended ch 3. sect 34. p. 132. c. to p. 139. sect 35. p. 141. and again Div. Purity def ch 4. sect 3. p. 19 20. And I shall do it yet more effectually in the second and third Chapters of this following Work in particular ch 3. sect 13. 27. And therefore Thirdly That they would not so frequently and affectionately contend for that very Doctrine which sometimes though very rarely they confesse to be false blasphemous but that they find it must follow from their espoused Principles of God's Decrees so as they see they must relinquish either both or neither I have abundantly evinced in the Div. Pur. def ch 4. sect 7. p. 33 c. to p. 39. especially from the citations out of Doctor Twisse Du Moulin Remigius and the other friends of Gotteschalc Bishop Cuthert Tunstal and above all out of Prosper whom they many times dream to have been their Patron and therefore cannot gainsay him without Discomfort And again I shall evince it in several parts of the following work and in particular ch 3. sect 8. 10. Besides that the thing is so conspicuous of it self that I may venture to make the Adversary the sole Iudge of the Businesse For Nothing but their Principles of Gods Decrees can lead them to blasphemies of such a nature Sect. 8. I demand of any man living what should move such learned men as Huldericus Zuinglius Doctor Twisse Piscator Zanchy Triglandius Beza Calvin Martyr Borrhaus and many others to teach posterity in their printed works That God doth make men transgressors For the several pages of their works see the Div. Philan. def ch 3. sect 34. especially the Div. Purity def ch 4. sect 3. p. 19 20. sect 6. p. 31 32. and is the Author of adultery and that murder is the work of God and that sinners do sin by the force of Gods will that God predestines men to sin and to sin quatenus sin that he is the Author of evil not onely of punishment but of sin too that he is the cause not onely of humane actions but of the very defects and privations that he effecteth sins that he exciteth and tempteth and * All the excuse Mr. B. makes for the saying that God doth compel men to sin is that they use it but seldom See what shall be said ch 3. sect 27. num 5. compelleth men to sin and a world the like stuff I say what moved them to print such loathsom Doctrines Was it that they esteemed them as flowers of Rhetorick or witty sentences or pretty conceits or well-sounding periods or soul-saving preachments or Hosanna's to the most High This cannot be no not so much as to be imagined What invited Mr. Hobbs to say That Mr. Hobbs of Liberty and Necessi●y p. 23 24. sin may be necessarily caused in man by God's ordering all the world that God doth will it and necessitate it and * Id. in Animadvers p. 11. 107. 106. cause men to erre and is the principal Agent in the causing of all actions which he who saith doth also say that he findes no difference betwixt the action and the sin of that action from which great truth he should have inferred that God cannot be the cause of sinful actions not that he is the cause of sins What made the * p. 36 37 Comforter of believers to say that God is the Author of sinfulnesse it self and hath more hand in mens sinfulness then they themselves Were these Writers afraid lest men should think too reverently of God too hardly of the Devil and too profanely of themselves or were they moved with an itch to revive the Doctrine of Carneades and to make men believe that sin is nothing but a name invented by Ecclesiasticks and that the thing call'd sin is just as good as the thing call'd virtue as being equally the work of God 't is very hard to think this Or if this was one of their reasons yet it was not certainly the first But I have yet a harder Question What should move Mr. Whitfield and Mr. Barlee in the very books which they have printed on purpose to vindicate their Doctrine from all the horrible absurdities wherewith they stood charged and wherein they knew it concerned them to speak as warily as they were able as knowing that they were liable to be publickly called to an account what I say should move them at such a time and in such a manner to affirm that God * For Mr. W's several pages where these things are taught see the first and second chapters of the following work especially the second and in that for instance Sect. 14. doth will and work sin that he hath an efficiency in sin that in all the wickedness in the world God hath a hand a working hand yea the chief hand that sin doth make for Gods glory and that it hath a respect of good and that God hath a hand in effecting it yea that God doth act in it as a natural cause that God decreed the sin of Adam and so ordered the whole business that he should certainly fall that it was necessary the first man should sin that the Gospel doth stirr up evil affections in the hearts of wicked men and hardens mens hearts and God intends it should do so and sends it for this very purpose that of sinful actions God is the Author and proper Cause yea that he doth both will and work in the Sin of the Act because not onely the action simply consider'd but the very Pravity and Deformity of it makes way for Gods glory What moved Mr. Barlee to adde his suffrage to Mr. Whitfield and to say in plain terms That * For Mr. B's several pages where these things are taught see the third whole chapter of the following work and the Index of the Divine Philanthropy Def. which will direct to the rest God is the Soveraign Author of the material part of sin which is the doing or leaving undone not onely a natural but moral act such as David's lying with Bathshebah or Cain's killing Abel as Doctor Twisse himself interprets the material part of sin nay farther that God is the cause of the very Obliquity of the Act of Sin that God exciteth men to the act of adultery that he stirreth them up to unjust acts as a man puts spurrs to a dull Jade that he tempts men to sin and a world the like blasphemies Nay what made him and Mr. Hick to tell the World † See what shall be said ch 3. Sect. 18. that if sin is a positive Entity either God is the Creator of sin or else sin it self is God Did this prodigious pair of Writers think that these were quaint Apophthegms which