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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87010	A brief vindication of three passages in the Practical catechisme, from the censures affixt on them by the ministers of London, in a book entitled, A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, &c. / By H. Hammond D.D.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1648 (1648)	Wing H518; Thomason E424_9; ESTC R202516	8,057	16

A BRIEF VINDICATION OF THREE PASSAGES IN THE PRACTICAL CATECHISME FROM The Censures affixt on them by the Ministers of London in a Book ENTITLED A Testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ c. By H. Hammond D. D. LONDON Printed for RICHARD ROYSTON in Ivy-lane 1648. A VINDICATION OF THE PRACTICAL CATECHISME SEeing it again appears to me by a book that came to this town on Saturday last entitled A Testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ c. pretending to be subscribed by 52 Ministers of Christ within the Province of London that it is Gods good pleasure to deliver me up to be evill spoken of and accused and to bear a yet deeper part of his bitter cup then many others of my Brethren have done I desire to bless and praise his name for this his goodnes and mercy to me and to embrace all those who have joyn'd their hands to be instruments in this as those whom by Christs command particularly belonging to me on this occasion I am bound to love to blesse to pray for and not to think of any other way of return toward them This I thank God I can most cheerfully do and would satisfie my self to have done it in private between God and my own soul were there not another occasion which makes it a little necessary for me to say somewhat publickly and that is the vindication of the truth of Christ Jesus which they who are willing to give testimony to it will I hope take from me in good part These men p. 4. in the beginning of the second branch of their testimony which it seems by p. 37. the whole number of the 52 Ministers have subscribed make mention of unsound opinions especially abominable errours damnable heresies and horrid blasphemies which are broached and maintained here in England among us under the notion of New lights and new truths many of which they have reason to judge destructive to the very fundamental truths of Christianity c. All of them utterly repugnant to the sacred Scriptures the occasion of much grief of heart to all the friends of truth and piety at home the scandal and offence of all the Reformed Churches abroad the unparalleld reproach of this Church and Nation totally inconsistent with the Covenant and the covenanted Reformation and in a word the very dregs and spawn of those old accursed heresies which have been already condemned c. After this preface and expression of their zeal to Gods truth they conclude the period with a profession that they more particularly abominate these infamous and pernicious errours of late published among us and hereafter recited in this ensuing Catalogue viz. Errours c. In this Catalogue three particulars there are recited from the Practical Catechisme of H. Hammond 2. Edit. London 1646. From which premises I suppose any Reader will conclude that those three particulars are by these Ministers thought guilty of all those Charges which they had affixt to All the unsound opinions c. noted by them viz. that they are utterly repugnant to the sacred Scriptures c. and in the modestest of their expressions that they are infamous and pernicious errours Upon this supposition I hold it my duty by setting down these three particulars punctually to refer it to all impartial Christians to judge whether it be a Testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ to passe such censures on them The first is recited by them p. 9. and it is this That Christ was given to undergo a shameful death voluntarily upon the Crosse to satisfie for the sin of Adam and for all the sins of all mankind This is thus plainly set down in their catalogue of infamous pernicious errors but without the least note to direct what part of this proposition is liable to that charge any farther then may be collected from the title of the Errours under which 't is placed viz Errours touching universal or general redemption From whence I presume to discern their meaning to be that to affirm Christ to have satisfied for or redeemed all mankind is this pernitious errour by them abominated And such I confesse I should acknowledge it to be if it had any right to be joyn'd with that other by these men set under the same head that the damned shall be saved but I hope that error hath received no patronage from that Catechism nor sure from that assertion of Christs redeeming all mankind These two propositions being very reconcileable that Christ redeemed all men and yet that the whole number of the impenitent unbelieving reprobate world shall never be saved by him If there were any need of it I should easily shew the way of reconciling these two by adding that the great Benefits of Christs Death which I affirm to be general are given upon condition not absolutely as Gods love to the world the effect of it giving his Son is not designed that all absolutely but that all conditionally i. e. whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life and that they which do not perform that condition as God knows a great multitude doe not shall never be saved by his death To which purpose is that of Prosper one far enough from all kindnesse to the Pelagians Redemptor mundi dedit pro mundo sanguinem suum mundus redimi noluit c. the Redeemer of the world gave his bloud for the world and the world would not be redeemed ad Gall cap. 9. But to confine my discourse without consideration of the consequences to the assertion it self I desire it may be observ'd that this was not crudely set down in that Catechisme but with this immediate addition to tast death for every man Heb. 2.9 by that plain testimony of Scripture confirming the truth of what was asserted as punctually as could be imagined For sure every man signifies all mankind as that notes singulos generis humani in the largest notion of the word and tasting death for them is satisfying for their sins If this testimony so clear that it alone hath to my knowledge convinc'd one as learned a man as doth in this Church of ours maintain the doctrines contrary to the Remonstrants be not thought sufficient to support this assertion I shall then ex abundanti adde these other plain testimonies Not only that of Gods giving his only Son mention'd by Christ as an effect or expression of his love to the world which it would not be if he did not give him for the world whom he is said to love but to prevent all distinctions concerning the notion of the world as if it signified only the Elect more particularly these two First that of 2 Pet. 2.1 where the Lord i. e. Christ is plainly said to have bought i.e. paid the price satisfied for them who deny him and bring upon themselves swift destruction to which agrees that of 1 Cor. 8.11 where the weake brother of whom 't is said that by another mans scandal he