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A90688	Heautontimoroumenos, or, The self-revenger exemplified in Mr. William Barlee. By way of rejoynder to the first part of his reply, viz. the unparallel'd variety of discourse in the two first chapters of his pretended vindication. (The second part of the rejoynder to the second part of his reply being purposely designed to follow after by it self, for reasons shortly to be alledged.) Wherein are briefly exhibited, amongst many other things, the rigidly-Presbyterian both principles and practice. A vindication of Grotius from Mr. Baxter. of Mr. Baxter from Mr. Barlee. of Episcopal divines from both together. To which is added an appendage touching the judgement of the right Honourable and right Reverend Father in God, Iames Lord primate of Armagh, and metropolitan of Ireland, irrefragably attested by the certificates of Dr. Walton, Mr. Thorndike, and Mr. Gunning, sent in a letter to Doctor Bernard. By Thomas Pierce Rector of Brington.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.; Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.; Thorndike, Herbert, 1598-1672.; Walton, Brian, 1600-1661.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2181; Thomason E950_1; ESTC R207591	167,618	192

could have such an advantage as he is not able to pretend to for I could say that my three Dutchmen or my three Reverend Divines from whom I had my Intelligence are all six dead and so escape the necessity of bringing them forth to the Tribunal whereas Mr. Barlee's one man is implyed by him to be still alive as we shall happily observe anon And truly Reader the chiefest Reason why I use these Impellents to force my confident Accuser unto the naming of his Informer without delay is my rational jealousie and fear that if he stay a long time before he doth it he will impute it to any Minister within the compasse of his Acquaintance who betwixt this and that shall chance to die or else for want of a better way he may take an occasion to die himself at least he may hope to be my Surviver and then may use me as well as Mr. Rivet and others have used Grotius And because I find at the later * end of his book he hath provided a pretense for his saying nothing to this charge by professing to be * resolved to cut off all the advantages which in this kind I may take against him and to cut them off by an obstinate kind of silence for the future I am afraid he will pretend he must not answer to my charge because he dares not break his promise and that the clearing of himself by aspersing the Minister who did inform him will not any way consist with his obstinate kind of silence nor with his stedfast Resolutions of cutting off all my advantages from this day forward But this is just as if a Felon should take an oath before his trial that he will cut off all advantages by an obstinate silence and refuse an answer to his Inditement under pretense of his duty to keep his oath Indeed I have heard of a cunning School-boy who when the Master was brand●shing over his back the terrible Instrument of his anger besought him only this favour that he might not be whipt until he first had said his prayers The Master pleas'd with the petition thought good to grant it Why then said the Boy I w●ll never say my prayers until I am grown too big for such correction But Mr. Barlee must consider that if he shall refuse to name his Reverend Informer because he resolved to write no more and confirm'd it with his promise in the conclusion of his book the Slander will be ascribed to his invention Or if he will not write he may read at least before the Magistrate and take the advantage of being Plaintiff for if he hath not slander'd me nor his Informer neither then they may worthily implead me for all this wrong And therefore let me perswade him either to crave my forgivenesse and to make me a little satisfaction for I will not rigidly require my due or else let him speedily produce his man who was the Author of his Report I know that most Souldiers doe love to make a golden bridge to a flying enemy because even cowards and conquer'd men will doe strange things when they are desperate But so sure am I of being innocent as to that wherewith I have been slandered and so very desirous to know the bottom of the report that I will not willingly accept of Mr. Barlee's Tergiversation nor so much as afford him a wooden bridge For suppose the worst that can arrive to wit that he and his Congerro should both conspire to be perjur'd at a dead lift or suborne false witnesses as Iezebel did yet so much doe I rely upon the Integrity of my cause and upon the good providence of God upon it that if I could not evince them to be suborn'd and perjur'd by either the multitude or strength of reasons I should not despaire of a miracle for the making a D●scovery of Truth and Falsehood But I find I am so farre from having spoken the Totall of what I have to say for the proving this slander to be demonstratively a slander however demonstratively prov'd already that I doe think it fit for another Section § 10. Because a namelesse Informer he knew was worth nothing he tells us that he back't it with a probable Argument from what he found in my uncorrect Copy that is from a manuscript which he transcribed I know not when nor from whence nor with how many Interpolations such as I never yet saw nor would he suffer me to see it when I desir'd that favour by way of Epistle Yet he confessed in his Epistle that there was non sense in two places and that if he should send it I could not possibly read it and other Transcripts which I saw were strangely alter'd from my Originall and yet he calls this my uncorrect Copie uncorrected indeed of all his Interpolations and to the world of Readers who never were in his desk nor had ever a sight of his Manuscripts he citeth no body knows what to prove his Slander How much better might I accuse him of having written whatsoever I please to fancy who have so much of his own hand whereon to father it But secondly admit in his Manuscript there are such words from whence he can draw a probable Argument as by and by I shall shew the contrary yet is that sufficient to back a story which if not true is an incomparable slander Probable is that which as it may possibly be true so it may possibly be false too Behold the manifold unluckinesse of this D●sputer The very Topick from which he argues he confesseth to be Apocryphall a jen-scay-quoy an uncorrect Copy in the dark a Manuscript lying in his Desk or at least in his closet and yet from this unknown thing he pretends to no more then a probable Argument which he hopes will perswade but cannot hope it will prove unlesse he understands not what probable signifyes and so hath printed he knew not what But thirdly his greatest unluckinesse is yet to come For that which he calls a probable Argument of my having said I am without sin and above it and by my own power can abstain from all sin is rather a probable Argument that I never said it Because the words which he citeth from the manuscript Copy which he calls mine are expresly these You say that Adam's sin was none of our own contrary to the Apostle Rom. 5. 12. In which few words how many wayes hath he miscarried and even ruin'd his own interest for which he spake them For 1. suppose I had said that Adam's sin is none of our own had I thereby inferred that we are without sin and above sin had I not rather infer●'d the contrary that though another mans sins are not ours yet ours are our own Is there no difference betwixt another man and our selves the things of another and the things of our selves and was not Adam an other man was not Adam's whole person body soul and spirit and the qualityes of each a different thing from our persons bodyes souls and

maintainer of the same opinions with low-spirited plebeian mechanick Sectaryes an Angel of Darknesse an Apostate and a Wolf mischievous to God and his Church superciliously scornfull a great Delinquent and as an Herring-man the composer of a Play-book for my Iovial proselytes against the merry Time an able Jester playing upon him before Lords and Ladyes Inhuman Barbarous like him in whom the evill spirit was and like the Spanish Bulls falling upon their Drivers a facetious and most dexterous Roscius one of the three great wasps of the Nation one by whose Abilityes the Devil is adorned guilty of Socinianism true to the cruell Grotian design of extirpating the Protestants Calvinisticall of the Grotian Caball a filcher of his Parishoners of Schismaticall Practises against his Parish as infecting it with Arminianism Soci●…anism Pontificianism in part a carryer on of vile designes a fawning Tertullus an insolent Provoker a Tom Tell-troth of a malevolent design a breaker of St. Paul's Hand disingenuous unconscionable of a frontlesse Front and scornfull Spirit a notorious Lyar virulent proud slanderous and of furious indignation one whose very light is darknesse and who takes the Presbyterians to be more Knaves then Fools a great wanton full of malice and poysenous mischief a circumstantial rituallson of the Church a demure Junior justly called a Sorcerer one to whom the Anabaptists and Quakers are great Friends one who bewitcheth the people and deserves to be ranked among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or witches a clamorous Brazen-fac't person of insufferable insolence one that hath lost his conscience with his eyes prodigiously Satyrical to a Miracle beyond imitation one who intended to gull the world and delude the Church a Monster of ingratitude of a stony and brazen fore●ead a Iuvenal Divine a wilfull Impostor setting up an Idol Fancy of Grace a Pope above all Councells except the Papall guilty of minor Atheism at least devoid of all Christian ingenuity as well as Grotius a gracelesse Person Grotius his Imitator a monstrous uncharitable Censurer as well as Grotius a Prevaricator without regard of conscience a master Railer one who recedes from Arminius to the worse towards rank Pelagianism and Socinianism whose Correct Copie begins and ends in Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism guilty of much Hereticall pravity irrational a Submortuarian an Apostolarian a Neophyte Antiscripturall a downright Pelagian in the very chief point deeply drencht with Massilianism of ridiculous shifts crafty insinuations supercilious Arrogance putting gulls and cheats upon his Mother the Church wretchedly and unconscionably abusive a great Practiser of Hypocrisy one whose Proselytes are but too great Approvers of Hobbs his Leviathan a maker of saplesse senselesse subitane Comments of Scripture a wofull Calumniator a Thrasonicall Boaster stubborn wormish Fancy intolerable extravagant an Helvidian Antiscripturist like the old Hereticks making their brains their Bible wanting honesty loud lying horribly wicked absurd foolish childish malicious frantick slanderous insolent scornfull ridiculous against whom the dreadfull judicial hand of God is highly lift up and again one who hath the just hand of God upon him and likely to be dementated by God for perdition a Manichee holding that which the boldest Jesuite would tremble to admit into his Creed one who flurts and flounceth at his Neighbour for want of Logick a gracelesse Traducer odious hatefull without shame or modesty or any the least love of the Truth one who hath drawn a Brawn upon his forehead and his conscience one who proclaimes his sin as Sodome and worse then Sodome with a stubborn mind which Sodom never did having a design highly Jesuitical rendring the soundest Protestants odious to make room for the Pontificians taken into his bosome basely abusive contrary to conscience blowing hot and cold like a Satyr of a lavish Tongue a broad conscience a crafty pate one whose Religion grows upon the stock of Policy far in the way to Rome like malicious persons guilty of the Plague and to shew that he goes out at the same Door which he came in at I am finally an Heretick to be rejected That these are all his own complements is so well known to as many as have had the patience to read his second book and so almost-impossible to be denyed by himself that I think it not needfull to mark the pages where they are written which would prove a greater trouble to the Printer and to the Corrector of the Presse then matter of satisfaction to any Readers But as I have them all in readinesse and given a view of them to many who have desir'd to be Spectators of so strange a SIGHT so if Mr. B shall murmur at my omission of the pages he shall not fail of them as soon as I know what he would have So far are these from being more then what his book hath afforded that they are only a sprinkling of his behaviour For a Gentleman in the Country having a great curiosity to know how much of the Volume might have been spent in meer railing if it were thrust up together took the courage for once to make a Tryall And the totall of his collection did amount to no lesse then eleven whole Pages in a spacious Quarto all as full as they could hold and overflowing the very margins Now had I the leisure to take account of all the like courtesies bestow'd on others for the 11. pages-full I spake of were all on me I leave the Reader to imagin how fine and slender his book would be if such large Collops were par'd away In the little account which I have given there is a greater affluence then he could meet with in his Textor's Epithets or in his Sylva Synonymorum It may be wonder'd at by some how a man of his diligence in the way he goes should forget this bout to call me Devil but in stead of that should chuse to call me an Angel of darknesse p. 7. The reason of it is very evident For he confesseth that before he was somewhat playsome and had ex●berances of passions but now he is reformed upon the admonitions of his Friends who did give him a Hint that he was somewhat over-heated therefore he gives them most solemn thanks He now mislikes the hare-brain'd fury of some men falsely called zeal He is for prudence and necessary moderation And therefore having before called my Copie of Notes a Noon-day Devil he is now contented to call my Person an Angel of Darknesse which amounts to no more then a Mid-night Devil which is not so bad as being a modester Devil then that which walketh about at Noon In his first Book indeed I was a Satanicall and Diabolical blasphemer nay an exceeder of the Devil himself in blasphemy and worse then Diabolically wittily wicked But that was one of his extravagances for which he will not defend himself And therefore now the world is mended to my unspeakable comfort and I am only a

spirits and all personall qualityes whatsoever Every child could have taught Mr. B. that though Adam and we do agree in specie yet we are with a witnesse numerically different 2. It seems Mr. B. is so unsufficient for the Ministery that he knows not what is meant by our original sin amongst the men of his own way He thought that Adam's actuall sin of eating the Apple had been that which we call original sin in our selves which none of his party if they have more wit then he will ever say and if they should they would imply unavoidably that our original sin is not inherent in our souls but only in Adam who being forgiven dead and happy hath that sin done away from his imparadised soul and so there is no such thing remaining as original sin by that doctrin And by the same it would follow that original sin is actual sin that actual sin is no sin that Mr. Barlee's Daughter is guilty of his books as having been in ipsius Lumbis though she never had a hand in them and I verily believe was never willing they should be written 3. But if I had said that Adam's sin was none of our own and had implyed thereby what he supposeth yet having spoken in the plurall number including all the posterity of Adam of which Mr. Barlee is a part I had by consequence implyed that every man in the world Mr. Barlee too is without sin and above sin and by his own power can abstain from all sin And thus we see that Mr. B. was an unpolitick projector for he should have fancyed my words were these Adams sin was none of mine own but he would needs have it thus Adams sin was none of our own 4. That which I call original sin in my self is the pravity of my nature my corruptnesse of Disposition by which I love darknesse better then light unlesse God by his Grace doth make me able to choose better to have better loves desires and inclinations then I can possibly have without it And through this pravity of Nature there is not any meer man who can possibly be without sin And the spirit of this Doctrin doth run through all that I have published from presse or pulpit But I must not lye and speak non-sense and abuse the Scriptures and imply a thousand contradictions for fear of displeasing an angry Neighbour I say I must not commit these Crimes by saying that Adams sin was very really mine own Indeed if Adam had never sinn'd I hope I should ever have been Innocent But Death having entred into the world by sin and sin by Adam I have too many sins which are peculiarly mine own both Original and Actuall to need another man's sin for the completing of my Number Perhaps a few country people who have been taught by such Pastors as were put besides the right use when they were dedicated to learning may think it sense to say that Adam's sin was our own before we were or that his sin which began above 5600. years since did also not begin till yesterday when we were borne or did begin a thousand times and was ten thousand times begun before its beginning Such men as these must be taught to say that all our own sins did enter by Adam not that our sins were Adam's much lesse that Adam's sins were ours And before I shew this from Mr. B's own Text which he thought had been pertinent but is nothing lesse I will thus reason him into his wits If Adam's sin was none of Mr. Barlee's own it was none of mine or thine Reader but it was none of Mr. Barlees own For did he eat of the fruit in the midst of Eden many thousands of years before he had a mouth no more did I or t'other man What the Jewes said to Christ and very rationally in respect of his Manhood Thou art not yet 50. years old and hast thou seen Abraham that may I say more rationally of my self I am not yet 40. years old and have I ever seen Adam whom Abraham was too young to see and could his sin be mine without my commission and could I commit it without existence Nothing is mine in any sense right or wrong unlesse I find or conquer or purchase or inherit or claime by prescription or receive it by deed of gift Now it cannot be pretended that Adam's sin is mine own unlesse by right of inheritance and that is but weakly pretended too For when I say in my confessions and prayers that I was born in sin and in sin my mother conceived me and the like I do not mean that I was born in the act of eating forbidden fruit growing in the midst of the Garden of Eden nor that I did eat it with Adam's mouth before I was born nor that my mother Eve conceived me in sin as she once conceived Cain or Abel nor that I was born in the guilt of those actuall sins which my mother committed who brought me forth into the world but I mean that I was born in original sin that is a pravity of nature a corruptnesse of disposition which makes me naturally prone to obey the law that is in my members to rebell against the Law which God hath imprinted in my mind So that that which I inherit is a depraved nature common to me with all mankind considered in specie but numerically consider'd it is peculiarly mine own and no mans else Whereas if I inherited in a proper sense as well the sin as the substance of my progenitors then the sins of my particular immediate parents would be mine own rather then Adams And therefore fifthly let us consider how perfectly contrary to common sense Mr. B. opposeth that Text Rom. 5. 12. where the Apostle saith that by one man Adam sin entred into the world and death by sin He doth not say that one mans sin is the peculiar sin of all men or all mens own as the word was nor can he mean it in such a sense as if the numericall sin of Adam's eating the Apple were successively propagated as mankind was throughout the universe of men for then as all the sons who descended from Adam were the same kind of Creatures that Adam was to wit men so all the sinners as sinners descending from Adam should be the same kind of sinners that Adam was to wit Apple-Eaters and eaters of that Apple which was forbidden And if every thing of man which entered into the world by Adam were Adam's own and our own too then as Adam's sin should be our sin so his personall qualityes and members should be our own too And Mr. Barlee must say that Adam's Nose was Mr. Barlee's own Nose or deny himself to be Adam's Son or say that he was born without a Nose and that this which he now weares is not an