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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

Reynolds his opinion in these Controversies as Mr. Barlee himself appears to be But when by reading better Books than I had formerly done and by conversing with better company and by not-resisting the Grace of God I look't through the fallacies wherewith I had been blinded and observed the uglinesse of their looks whilst now I beheld them without their Visard I was gladder to be recovered from those diseases of my Soul than from the painfullest maladies which have ever happened to my body And if my Reverend Antagonist is not affraid of a recovery as that which implyes him to have been sick He may change his judgement as I have done though not because I have done it At least King Iames and Bishop Andrews and good Melancthon and the late Primate of Armagh and learned Dr. Potter are sure most worthy his imitation And therefore § 2. In the second place I offer him this short Dilemma Is a mans later opinion to be preferred before his former or is it not If he say Yes His own example of King Iames doth fly back into his Face But if he say No His only Father S. Austin must be neglectfully cast behind his Back And by necessary consequence his worthy Friend Mr. Barlee in the plausiblest part of all his Plea must be contemptibly trampled beneath his Feet Let him escape which way he pleaseth there is a Praecipice before him and behind him there is a Wolf But yet the greatest of his Dangers is still to come For § 3. In the third place I offer him another Dilemma with sharper Horns since Logicians will needs callit Argumentum Cornutum Is K. Iames his judgement of any Authority or is it not If he saith it is not why is it urged so largely against Arminius and Bertius and their followers in the very Front of his Epistle which is intended for a strengthening to Mr. Barlees Book And if he saith Yes as of necessity he must his inconvenience is worse than if he sayd No for then farewell to the Presbytery both Head and Tail it is the King 's own word which was never so much hated by any one of the Hierarchy as by the Orthodox King Iames the very Epithet that is given him by the very Correptory Correptor Witnesse his Excellent Basilicon Doron and his remarkable Predictions what the world was to look for from the Presbyterian sect of which he gave so many black and dismal characters witness all his resentments of their incōparable behaviours in the sixth and seventh Books of the History of Scotland most impartially composed by Arch-Bishop Spotswood with so much Wisdom Temper and Moderation as may well commend it to all mens Readings witnesse his Answer to Dr. Reynolds at Hampton-Court where that Doctor had seemed to plead for something like a Presbytery A Scottish Presbytery said the King as well agreeth with Monarchy as God and the Devill Then Iack and Tom and Will and Dick shall meet and at their pleasures censure me and my Councel and all my proceedings Then Will shall stand up and say it must be thus then Dick shall reply and say nay marry but we will have it thus And therefore here I must once reiterate my former speeches Le Roy s'avisera stay I pray you for one seven years before you demand that of me and if you then find me pursey and fat and my windpipes stuffed I will perhaps hearken to you for let thae government be once up I am sure I shall be kept in breath then shall we all of us have work enough both our hands full But Dr. Reynolds till you find that I grow lazie let that alone And this puts me in mind of a remarkable passage in his Basilicon Doron where speaking of the fiery spirited men in the ministery of the Kirk who getting a guiding of the people at the time of confusion and finding the gust of Government sweet began to fancy to themselves a Democratick form and having by the iniquity of the time being over well baited upon the wrack fi●st of his Grandmother and then of his own Mother and after usurping the liberty of the time in his long minority setled themselves so fast upon that imagined Democraty as they fed themselves with the hope to become Tribuni Plebis and so in a popular Government by leading the people by the nose to bear the sway of all the Rule speaking I say of these Men whom he calleth a little after the unruly spirits among the ministery he adviseth his son to take heed of such concluding in these words I protest before the great God and since I am here as upon my Testament it is no place for me to lye in that ye shall never find with any Highland or border Thieves greater ingratitude and more lies and vile perjuries than with these phanatick spirits And suffer not the principles of them to brooke your land if ye like to sit at rest except ye would keep them for trying your patience as Socrates did an evil Wife The Reader cannot but observe that these expressions are very sharp and I hope he cannot but consider that they were spoken by King Iames and were publickly legible from the Press before they came to my knowledge and that I have quoted them no otherwise than in my Necessary Defense My Reverend Aggressor hath drawn me to it by his Assault and by the quality of his weapon hath forc'd me to use this very Helmet I am no Bertian or Arminian yet he proclaimed me to be such if he will own having been pertinent in the second Paragraph of his Epistle by urging King Iames his sharpnesse against those Persons on that occasion And if it was charitable or pertinent to set upon me in such a manner and in the beginning of such a Book with King Iames his declaration against Vorstius Arminius Bertius and their Followers including me to be one how much more hath it been both to defend my self as I have done by the same Kings writings From all which together § 4. It cannot but follow in the fourth place That if King Iames his judgement and authority is of any weight or moment against Arminius and Bertius whom yet I am not concern'd to plead for any farther than my Assaylant hath made me mistaken for an Arminian it is of much more weight against the Sect of Presbyterians of which Arminius himself was One. The Danger and Distemper which this controversie caused to the Belgick Nation if it must be said to have risen from the controversie in hand arose from that very Party and from those very Doctrines which I oppose as I could easily Remonstrate were this a place for so much Length and which I shall do if need require And therefore I seriously advise my Reverend Adversary that in his next undertaking against me and my writings he will be pleas'd to think twice before he utters his Conceptions that he