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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

to believe those three too And therefore twelfthly Mr. Barlee subscribeth implicitly to my whole volume of Accusations and stigmatizeth his second book for pretending to vindicate his first The reason is evident because in this most signall and remarkable place wherein he protests before God and men he doth not offer so much as to say that they were not Fictions with which I charg'd him but he sweares that they were Fictions by swearing that he gave no credit to them For what other reason can be imagin'd why he gave no credit to them but because he believ'd them or knew them to be but Fictions Behold now the streights into which this writer hath cast himself for I am only an Index to shew him how He must confesse himself guilty for fear he confesse himself guilty It must be his refuge to say that he was slanderous before that he may not seem perjur'd in having sworn that he was slanderous I have his publick Protestation to clear my self nay to clear the very charge which I brought against him At least the utmost that he can say is that he excepted three things which what they are his next words tell us by way of reference W. B. The first is that which here he hath and which again he makes a great stirr about Philanthrop chap. 3. p. 81 82 83. The second is that about the 600. Copyes mentioned by him chap. 3. p. 54 55. The third is about the Dialogue of two Ladyes about Artificial Beauty mentioned from p. 150. to 552. of chap. 3. T. P. § 8. Now he names the three things to which alone he protested he seemed at least to have given credit But he slily passeth over that of which in particular he swore that he did not so much as seem to give credit to it and yet that he did not take it up upon bare hear-say c. which must therefore be examin'd before I goe forward to the three particulars expressed Whilst he was speaking of Gods Decree in relation to sin he brake out most impertinently into these very words Look you to that formidable Ergo who are said to be against all second Marriages of Ministers This passage he was willing to give the slip because he knew it would convince him of a twofold perjury For first if he did not believe or give credit to it at least he seem'd so to doe and yet he swore he did not as hath been shew'd and if he did but seem to believe the fiction by having printed it in his pamphlet of Predestination but did not believe it in good earnest what a wicked Impertinence must it needs have been to publish a fiction quatenus ipsum without connexion to any syllable before or after as if in the midst of his thoughts concerning eternal Predestination it had occurr'd to his memory that the day before he swallow'd the Ace of Trumps and so forgot where he lef● and then he remembred what he thought a fine thing a sh●ed of Latin Baculus stat in angulo c. which suggested a slander from a pretended hear-say And this inferres his second perjury For his protestation before God referres to all that period as hath been shew'd and so to his pretention of not having taken upon bare hear-say Yet he had printed that I was said to be against the lawfulnesse of all second Marriages of Mini●●ers which how could he tell if he never heard it If he heard it he did but hear it and then we know he is forsworn if he did not 't was his invention Thus having shewed his miscarriage which he so cunningly huddled up I will hasten to that which is more amazing his three excepted particulars which are of most weight with him and for which he thinks he hath most to say as being the onely three things in all his book against me to which he protested his having giving some credit Stand forth Malefactor and name the first of your offences W. B. First if my Reader will be pleased once more to turn to my Correptory Correction p. 39. he will find that I used my utmost care and diligence to inform my self of the Truth of it and I farther back it there with a probable Argument from what he hath in his uncorrect Copy T. P. § 9. Now he enters upon that which will paradigmatize him to all posterity the greatest slander and the most groundlesse that I believe hath been brewed in the brain of man And because by that which I shall say his utter undoing in point of Credit if at least he hath any must needs ensue I desire his well-willers to carry this in their minds That should I abstain from doing that which may seem a siverity to Mr. Barlee I cannot fail of being guilty of perfect cruelty to my self besides a double injustice both to the Truth and to the world I have turn'd to the page where the great slander is recorded where I find a bare narrative of a pretended report from a reverend Minister who is said at first to have told him alone and afterwards many more Ministers in his hearing and as heard by him from my own mouth viz. that I believe no sin to be in me that I was above sin that by my own power I could abstain from all sin and that he wrote this Testimony as the Testator of it did dictate it to him First observe that here is nothing of care and diligence expressed in finding out the truth of it but only a hearing the words at one time and transcribing them at another Here is not a syllable concerning the care which he took to try the truth or the falsehood of that report for the finding out of which he professeth that in that place p. 39. he used his utmost of care and diligence To find out the truth or the falsehood of such a strange Tale he should have examined the Relator about the time when and the place wherein and the occasion upon which such words were spoken he should have asked who heard them besides himself and have told him out of St. Paul that against a man of my calling which is their own also an accusation is not to be admitted but before two or three witnesses he should have consulted with me about it to try if I did remember or would acknowledge any such words or any other words like them or if I never said something which might occasion such a mistake in him who heard me or if that would not prevail he should have tryed to catch me in several stories he should have moved every stone to have found out the truth had he used his utmost of care and diligence But what did he in stead of all this he bids us look but whither to his p. 39. for what even his utmost care and diligence wherein employed in finding out the truth of what was told him by a Reverend Divine wherein did

is Truth is not inconstancy but improvement as I interpret When I left those Doctrines into which my Teachers at first betrayed me I cannot say I revolted but I was rather set free To be fickle is one thing but to grow and increase is quite another Whatsoever I could intend as an honour to my cause I could not choose but intend to their honour also by whom I could think my cause was honoured When I say that King Iames Bishop Andrews Philip Melanchthon Tilenus Dr. Potter Dr. Godwin and many others whom I could name of eminent learning and integrity did turn away from those Tenents which are called Calvinistical in exchange for those other which unconsidering persons do call Arminian I make accompt I commend them for bowing to the sceptre of soveraign truth And this doth justifie my Intentions in all I said of our Reverend Primate But the question still remains concerning matter of Fact whether his Grace did change his judgement from what it formerly had been I began in the affirmative but you say No And both perhaps with good reason because we are diversely informed unless we can shew by some Inquiry where lyes the Error I grounded my affirmative upon the Difference which I found betwixt the judgement of the Primate when he writ the History of Gotteschalc and that account of his judgement which I had from those Persons who are of vast Importance in my esteem To transcribe their Certificates which they have severally given me under Hand and seal of what they severally heard from his Grace his mouth is too large a task in the present hast that I am in nor am I sure that you desire it And therefore deferring for a time the special part of my Advantage I will offer to your Equity and Christian candor what I have just now observed from several passages in your Book First you thank Mr. Barlee for the large expressions of his affection to the late Archbishop of Armagh and the readiness to clear him from some injury done him by Mr. Thomas Pierce whereas it seems very evident by that account which you give of the Primates judgement about the true intent and extent of Christs Death that Mr. Barlee is less qualified for the Bishops vindication in that affair then any man in the world in all respects I beseech you bear with me whilst I give you my reasons 1. Mr. Barlee in his last book declares himself a Supralapsarian Yet 2. in Correptory Correction he had again and again usurpt the name of the Primate for the patronizing of his opinions He doth in one place oppose him to Bishop Overal as a more moderate Bishop affirming Bishop Overal to have played upon Calvin and to have traduced the Puritans whom the Reverend Primate he saith did clear He citeth the History of Gotteschalc against that notion of Christs death and satisfaction which you have now printed from the Primates own Hand He directs me to him as to a choice orthodox writer in the Barlean conceipt of the word Orthodox besides what he doth in other places which I have not leisure to search after 3. But now you tell him in your Letter that the Primates judgement was in a middle way different as well from Mr. Barlees as from mine Whether from mine we shall see anon But if at all I am sure much less then from my neighbours In the mean time it is demonstrable that if Mr. Barlee was in the right when he vouched the Primate for his opinions I was also in the right when I said that the Primate had changed his judgement And for this your book shall be my warrant as well as the Primates own words That he concurred with Bishop Overal Next I pray Sir consider whether any one Paragraph in all my books touching the true intent and extent of Christs Death is any way dissonant from what now you publish and that say you very truly without all Question from the Primates Letter of Resolution to the request of a Friend First I have nothing in behalf of the two extremes p. 2 3. in any part of my writings Next I have jumped with the Primate in what I publisht before I had the possibility of seeing that which you have sent me not onely much to my comfort but truly almost to my Admiration For his Grace writes thus That the satisfaction of Christ was once done for all the application is still in doing The satisfaction of Christ onely makes the sins of mankind fit for pardon All the sins of mankind are become venial in respect of the price paid by Christ to his Father but all do not obtain actual Remission because most offendors do not take out or plead their pardon as they ought to do By this way being made that is by assuming our nature God holds out unto us the Golden sceptre of his word and thereby not only signifieth his pleasure of admitting us unto his presence c. but also sends an embassage unto us and entreats us that we would be reconciled unto him 2 Cor. 5. 20. By the vertue of this blessed oblation God is made placable unto our nature but not actually appeased with any untill he hath put on the Lord Iesus All men may be said to have interest in the merits of Christ as in a Common though all do not enjoy the benefit of it because they have no Will to take it The well-spring of life is set open to all Rev. 22. 17. Faith is the vessel whereby we draw all vertue from Christ The means of getting this Faith is the hearing the word c. Ephes 1. 13. which ministreth this general ground for every one to build his faith upon This Gospel of salvation many do not hear at all being destitute of the ministry c. Many hearing do not believe or lightly regard it and many that believe the truth thereof are so wedded to their sins c. that they refuse to accept the gracious offer that is made unto them Yet we may truly say that good things were provided for them on Christs part and a rich price was put into the hand of a fool however he had no heart to use it Prov. 17. 16. Our Saviour hath procured a Iubile for the Sons of Adam his Gospel is a Trumpet to proclaim liberty c. Luk. 4. 18. but that some desire no deliverance derogates nothing from the generality of freedom annext to that year Luk. 4. 18. The slavish disposition of him who will not be free Exod. 2. 5. maketh the extent of the priviledge of that year not a whit the straiter because he was included in the general Grant as well as others however he was not disposed to take the benefit of it The neglect of the men invited v. 5. doth not falsifie the word of the King v. 4. See Rom. 3. 4. Ezek. 18. 29. 30. The proclamation was general

from persons whom I can name Iam more then confident I could make his Ears Tingle But whilst I keep to this Rule of divulging no more of his misdemeanours then I find divulged by Himself which yet will so vehemently tend to his disadvantage that his Abettors will be apt to think me cruell unlesse they consider all along that I am no more then a Defendant and that the follyes of my Neighbour were wilfully printed in both his Books before it was in my power to reprint them in mine own I say whilst I keep to this special Rule I am hitherto perswaded I do not deviate from my duty To prove that I am slander'd is but to do my self right and to do my self right is no man's wrong To punish an evil Doer is no injustice It is rather a great Mercy to punish him lesse then he deserves because in the doing of corrective or vindicative justice an Arithmetical proportion is still allow'd Yet should I think my self cruell for having shew'd how out of measure I have been wrong'd and injur'd by my provoker but that I find within my self a perfect willingnesse to forgive him and upon competent satisfaction though but half so much as I may require I shall readily offer him a solid Friendship But now in order to this end I must convince him of his guilt and let him see his necessity of coming in by shewing the dangers of holding out I must make it undeniable that he hath charged me with things which because I am not able to expresse their nature any otherwise I must discover and expresse by the name of Slanders Diverse of them being such that the Cabbidge whose Diameter was half a mile and the Furnace erected to boyl it in were but puny Fictions in Comparison I am very well aware that whilst I am using the means for the attainment of the end that undeniable conviction of which I spake he may say in a third Book as now he doth in a second that I am much more pungent in my Defense then he hath been in his Accusations Concedo Torum I am exactly of that opinion It being not the pungency but the Rancidity of a writer which men of clean nostrills are wont to nauseat Very far were the Pharisees from being pungent unlesse by moving our Saviour's pity when they called him Glutton Wine-bibber a Friend to sinners one who wrought by the power of Beelzebub But sure our Saviour was very pungent when he proved them malicious and senselesse slanders To shew that another is abusive is much more smarting then to abuse And therefore with pardon to the comparison I think it more my Neighbour's Torment that he is evinced to be injurious then it can possibly be mine that I am injur'd It is not a little for my comfort that my greatest severity doth consist in a manifestation that he is cruell and that no other miseryes do fall upon him as from me but what he hath pulled upon himself with all his might It is not so little as seventeen Times that he hath called me an impudent and a brazen-fac't Person which I never could indure to call him once Without a circumlocution he hath often given me the Lye for having spoken the greatest Truths much more then I had given Him for having printed the greatest falsehoods Times without number he calls me proud and insolent much good doo 't him with all his meeknesse To sum up all in a word The more injustices and wrongs he hath industriously done me I shall be still the more resolute to do him none I confesse that slander is a very hard word but unavoidable to those who are obliged to distinguish it from other species of untrue speaking Whatsoever is not true comes under the notion of a lye but one sort only is call'd a slander And to call a thing slander whilst it is proved to be such and in part confessed as well as denyed by its Author cannot possibly be a slander unlesse which implyes a contradiction it be also proved to be none In so much as for the usage of this one word it will be needless to ask my neighbour's pardon There are now remaining but 3 things more of which my Reader may be pleased to be premonish't 1. Mr. Barlee seeming to me to be professedly immethodicall and to have made a kind of Thicket wherein to hide his Argumentations which he hath also so fenced with Thornes and Briars and hollow Teeth as to forbid the Reader an Accesse unto the nakednesse of his Doctrins I determin'd so to order my account of the whole as that his Doctrins and his manners may no longer afford an umbrage to one another This is therefore no more then the first part of my Rejoynder It is indeed but the prolusion to those approaching Calamityes wherein Mr. Barlee and Mr. Whitfeild will be made appear to have involved their dearest Doctrins For I reserve the second Part for a peculiar work to follow this at some Distance with a strict injunction upon my Stationer that he shall never permit the one to be bound up with the other And I contrive it thus to this End that what concerns Gods Decrees and the subjects depending thereupon may be put farr asunder from those exorbitant subjects which however very usefull in severall kinds are wholly forreign and impertinent to the professed subjects of our Debate My Aime being now to set out personals by themselves that I may shortly with greater comfort fetch all his Doctrinals out of their Dens and expose them stark naked divested of those Capparisons wherein they are labour'd to be disguis'd that the abused people of the land may behold them clearly as they are and start back at their Appearance keep aloof from the Danger of being ever again led captive by them 2. As I have now d●scharged but half my Debt to Mr. Barlee so he may probably stay the longer for what remaines because of grave Mr. Whitfeild his Fellow-Labourer in the work who it seems conceiving very wisely that one at once was insufficient for the maintaining of many errors against one single man who hath never a Second but the Truth to take part with him in this Contention took advantage of the time to joyn his forces to Mr. Barlee's as being very well assur'd that my Actions are successive not instantaneous that I must first do one thing and then another before it is possible to do a third Now because his whole Book is at least Intitled against mine though the greatest part of it is against no-body-know'swho and because he is superiour to Mr. Barlee in point of manners at least though not at all in point of learning in regard of some other things of which I shall shortly give account I do intend in the next place to make him acquainted with himself to whom I find he hath been hetherto a very great stranger all for want of such friends as

hath not a mousehole through which to run from it The many falsehoods which he affirmed in the word of a Priest only for he is a Priest or a Lay-preacher he did lustily seem at least to credit and did he not so much as seem to believe what he said upon his Oath Behold two Oaths as perfectly opposite to each other as the Scotish Covenant was opposite to any Oath which can be nam'd And will be do no penance for being perjur'd At what Crevice will he creep out He cannot say either in reason or in charity to himself that by his phrase of giving credit he only meant taking up upon Report from other men For 1. if that had been his meaning he would certainly have expressed it in a significant Phrase whereas habere fidem to give credit and credere to believe are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 two expressions of one thing A man may give credit to the false suggestions of his own heart and again his own Fancy may create such Fictions to which himself can give no credit 2. In that very objection which he proposeth unto himself as that to which he must shape his Answer there are two sorts of falsities with which he stands charged viz. the Fictions of his Brain and Things taken upon report to the first of which he is to give his first answer or at least his second or to give a reason for the omission 3. As a man is said to be vainly credulous who believes his own Iealousyes without just ground so had Mr. B. meant otherwise by that expression in that place it had been more to his miserie then now it is For 4. no sooner had he sworn that he knew but three things to which he gave credit but he immediately lets fall a fourth concerning second marriages which he confesseth to have taken upon the report of a Reverend Divine which plainly proves him to be perjur'd if he meant there were but 3 things which he took upon Trust Nay 5. there were many amazing portentous falsehoods with which he was charged in my book and clearly proved to be guilty of which he must either now say he had but taken upon Trust from other men and then he is perjur'd as before or that at least they were the Issues of his Invention Such was that of rifling the Batavian Cabinet and of being * beholding to such Roguish Pamphlets as Fur Praedestinatus and to my Domestick Doctor Iackson and to Castalio for flowers of Rhetorick c. neither of which is in the number of those 3. fictions to which alone he sweares his having seemed to give credit And be it known to all his Readers that he neither indeavours to prove the truth of those things nor declareth his sorrow for their falsehood but passeth them over in a very deep silence hoping that I would forget them as well as our lesse-concerned Readers In a word if he will say his meaning is That of the Numerous Calumnies and Forgeries which I demonstrated to be such and himself also confesseth partly implicitly and partly explicitly there were three and three only which he received upon Trust from some other man he is not only perjur'd as hath been shew'd but also ownes the greatest wickednesse that any man in this kind can be guilty of It being much a greater fault to be the Coyner of adulterate mony than only to take it with the one hand and put it off with the other That is such a betraying subterfuge that I conceive he dares not use it I have taken his words not only in the most rationall but the most favourable construction and therefore knowingly he will not cast Anchor upon Quick-sands But whither then will he flye for Refuge He cannot say that the place is false-printed for the sense is intire the words exact they are not alter'd in the Errata nor yet with his pen and he jogg'd up to London immediately before his book came forth 't is said on purpose to set all right as he would have it He cannot say that he excepted but three things only of some one sort or in some one part of his Correptorie Correction for the words of his Oath are these expressely I must protest once for all before God and men that I know but three things in all my Book which I did so much as seem to give credit to against him and which yet I did not take upon bare hear-say c. Observe good Reader All his book is the widest expression he could have us'd whereby to justify me and defame himself Nor will his last words afford him any the smallest chink For what he took not up upon bare hear-say he either saw or felt or smelt at least afarr off and then why gave he no credit to them or if he did why did he not so much as seem to do it or if he did and did seem too why doth he swear that he did neither when in the very same Oath he sweareth that he had reason and ground for both Here he sweares that which implyes a contradiction and that within the compasse of not many words of which his Oath is composed For if he alledge as a Salvo for Name and Conscience that the last words do not relate to any thing else then the three particulars excepted his Calamityes will increase by all the things that he hath spoken in their defense as I shall clearly demonstrate when I come to consider them apart yet the sadder is his condition they cannot regularly belong to any other then those three nor truly should I have guess't it to be his meaning but that I know it his lesser Evill and find him often at false construction and so in charity would hope that some degree of his guilt may be imputed unto his Ignorance rather then all should be laid on the back of Conscience Yet that he may not be ingratefull for so much favour as I afford him as he formerly hath been I will shew him very shortly how ill he chooseth for himself in case he chooseth to be thought a good Grammarian But I may not yet passe from the present passage lying before us For sixthly I must not omit any means whereby to lessen the unhappinesse of this unfortunate Creature if any means may be found for so good a purpose The best excuse that I am able to prompt him to is to put a speciall Emphasis upon the words I know for so run's his Oath I must first once for all protest before God and men that I know but three things in all my book which I did so much as seem to give credit to against him c. But alas this best of excuses is so vehemently bad that I know not how he will be able to take it kindly For if he did not see the greatest part of my book nor of his own whilst he was labouring in the work of

the new Rule Ans Yes saith Mr. Baxter As it was possible for Adam to have fulfilled the law of works by that power which he received by nature so is it possible for us to performe the conditions of the new Covenant by the power which we receive from the grace of Christ Nay farther yet the same Mr. Baxter who saith That the Tenor of the new Covenant is not believe in the highest degree but believe sincerely and you shall be justified so that our righteousnesse formally considered in relation to the condition of the new Covenant is perfect or none doth also say that a mans sincerity doth especially lye in his own will And that it is under God in a man 's own choice whether he will live a blessed life or not Thus Mr. Barlee hath shew'd his enmity against all he hates and against all he loves too And which is his opus naturalissimum he hath revealed to all the world whereabouts his shoe wrings him Yet fourthly I commend him for his confession Totum orbem exercere Histrioniam though he knew it was not for his credit to translate it But I will doe that for him All the world is employed in the art of stageplayers or Hypocrites Totus orbis saith Mr. Barlee All the world is pharisaicall given to counterfeiting and cheating and holy co●senages the Godly party not excepted Totus Orbis is a capacious phrase as a Circle is the most comprehensive of figures and the world of Circles it includes Mr. Barlee when he plaid his part in that notorious ●omoe-Tragoedie equally sad and ridiculous which he and others lately acted in Daintry Church intil'd by the Actors An Ordination of Ministers but by many of the Spectators An Ordination of Lay-Preachers to be Lay-Preachers still and without repentance for ever incapable of the Priesthood by being ordained by such Priests as were incapable of ordaining Such horrible things are committed in the land and some of the people a love to have it so and what will they doe in the end thereof Ordinationes eorum ●●m●rariae leves inconstantes c. Tertull. de praescript● adversus Haereticos § 15. It now becomes me to be sensible how many sections I have bestow'd upon those manifold absurdityes thrust up together by Mr. B. in his pretended vindication of himself from the first slander of the three to which alone he protested to have given some credit A running pen in conjunction with a most obnoxious and faulty adversary have betray'd me to this length even whilst I still hoped I should be brief Should I proceed as I have begun two inconveniencyes would follow I should first reprint his voluminous Libel and I should write such Volumes of Animadversions thereupon as would speak me too prodigal of time and paper nor would my Stationers whole estate suffice for half the impression I will therefore take up before I go any farther and setting down his pages if not his very lines too as hitherto I have done I will mark out his follyes in the narrowest compasse that I am able § 16. In his ch 2. p. 18. lin 32 c. he confesseth that he lyed about the second thing excepted although he excepted it from his lyes His 600. copies are now dwindled into 200. Good news for the Brethren Things are better then they expected For in the reckoning of 200 Mr. B. did overlash no more then 400 beyond the Truth Besides that he excuseth it by saying that his memory was intolerable false to him or W. C. was swayed by frowns or favours to a deniall of his words But W. C. is amaz'd at the incongruity of the falsehood because it is most for his secular interest to please that party And yet he professeth not to have spoken of 200 neither so that now Mr. B. must prepare a new Salvo and lay the fault on his invention which was terrible false to him no longer on his memory unlesse he forgets that 't was the babe of his invention Nor was it I but Mr. B. who told the world my book●●old well I rather labour'd to refute him and to fleece his 600. And therefore this was his waggery to lay his ordures in my Dish § 17. In his ch 2. p. 19. lin 8. c. he confesseth also that he lyed or if you please that he slander'd when he reported me the Author of the book intitl'd Artificial Handsomnesse But he excuseth it by saying that he was told this lye by a most conscionable Divine is not he more conscionable who tells no lyes at all He farther commendeth the conscionable Father of that lye for a man that makes as much conscience of not telling or believing lyes as any man in England He should sure have said Crete because he gives no instance of his Conscience besides his having by his confession foulely slander'd his Neighbour But he gave three Arguments to back his lye Which first were weak ones because they did almost perswade Mr. B. to a belief and because he is ashamed to name one of them which he could not have failed of if it had been for his advantage And secondly likely to be none at all because his conscience or his fear or something like conscience flew fiercely into his face and made him draw over it an invisible deleatur so as the Printer might admit it into his book and then be chid for that admission if the worst came to the worst The phrase mentioned before doth shew that the man had been at it long ago but it seems had consider'd that he needed not in the same book tell the same untruth twice Though that was also another untruth to say that a thing was before mention'd which now he saith was never mentioned before And this besides is a contradiction What he tells us of his letter sent up to the Stationer does but aggravate his crime for it proves that he knew it to be a slander and when it was printed for the use of the world he blotted it out of a few copyes to be sold in this County which were indeed very few this he thought an expiation of such a generall slander But his book slew abroad as far as the Mercury could carry it And I was taken to be the Author of that book by men who lived in other Countyes by whom I was also severely censur'd And therefore to make me amends he should have stood in a white sheet upon the stool of Repentance with a Noverint Vniversi upon his Forehead that what he said was a Slander for the forgivenesse of which he intreated the prayers of all his Readers But now he shews us what a Repentance he recommends to his Parishoners by his example He confesseth that he had wrong'd me but doth not shew that he is sorry he rather labours to prove it a very good injury which it was fit he should do me for three strong reasons

Wentworth and Charke and Egerton and others of the Presbyterian Ministry made privy to the plot to which they were accessary by their concealement Perhaps Mr. B. is not acquainted with those affairs And therefore to requite him for his care to have me very well inform'd about the Faction which played Rex in King Iames his Court p. 69. lin 32 33. c. for which he adviseth me to a book writ in elegant verse by Thomas Hepey if I am able to procure it for love or money I will direct him for information to a most admirable volume printed in the year 1593. and intitled thus Dangerous Positions and proceedings published and practised within this Iland of Britain under pretense of Reformation and for the Presbyterial discipline If King James did intercede for those mens release perhaps being then but King of Scotland he did not know the whole cause of their imprisonment here in England or he was not out of his wardship to those fiery spirits as he call'd them and so might intercede in complaisance to his Guardians however unfit for that office to a King of his Age or he was not yet perfect in his mystery of King-Craft or let the cause of his intercession be what it will he did many things of which he afterwards repented that they were done § 4. What Mr. B. is pleas'd to add p. 66. lin 19 20. of K. James his writing into Scotland that he would labour to reduce the Church-government of England to that of Scotland rather then conform that to England's is for many reasons very incredible First because Mr. Barlee tells it and citeth no other Author then the unwritten words of a Scotish Minister At every dead lift he tells us something that he was told be it of me or any man else Secondly K. James was so far from such a preference that his a version to Presbyterianisme was as great as to Pigg or to Tobacco Witnesse his words at Hampton-Court where speaking of Dr. Reynolds and other chieftaines of the party If this quoth he be all that they have to say I will make them conform themselves or I will harry them out of this Land or else do worse Witnesse his letter from White-Hall A. D. 1617. to the Presbyterians of the Kirk wherein he upbraided to them their ignorance and profanenesse and resembling them to the Heathenish Constable of Castile told them they would indure both Lions Dragons and Devils to be figur'd in their Churches but would not allow the like place to the Patriarchs and Apostles Witnesse his chiding speech in the Diet held at St. Andres when he pressed upon them to keep a yearly commemoration of our Saviours greatest blessings bestow'd upon mankind as his Nativity Passion Resurrection Ascension and Descent of the Holy Ghost the private use of both Sacraments in urgent cases the Reverent administration of his holy Supper the catechizing and confirming of children by Bishops much too long to be here inserted Witnesse his very angry letter directed to the Arch-bishops of St. Andrews and Glascow representing the wrongs he had received from that sort of men and saying He was of that age that he would not be content to be fed with Broath as one of their Coat was wont to speak Witnesse his other angry letter directed singly to the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews wherein he complained of their ridiculous and scornfull dealings with their Soveraign their greater irreverence towards God himself saying The Ministers ease and commodious sitting on his Taile they are the Kings own words hath been more look't to then that kneeling which for reverence he had required to be enjoyned to the receivers of so divine a Sacrament Neither can we conceive as he there goes on what should be meant by that Table which they required even in their private administrations to people upon their Death-beds unlesse they meant to make a round Table as did the Jewes to sit and receive it In conclusion seeing we and this Church here must be held Idolatrous in this point of kneeling or they reputed rebellious knaves in refusing the same they are the Kings own words it is our pleasure c. Witnesse his third severe letter sent with this unto the Councell for inhibiting the payment of stipends to any of the rebellious Ministers they are the King own words in Burg or Landwart Witnesse his first letter of indignation to the generall Assembly indited at Perth wherein he charged all the rebellious dispositions of the people who of their own dispositions were most Loyall upon them and their Doctrins minding them of his patience under their manifold provocations their slandering the truth of God they are the Kings own words by walking disorderly under the cloak of seeming holynesse shaking hands as it were in this their disobedience to Magistracy with the upholders of Popery still the Kings own words Witnesse his fourth sharp letter directed to the Bishops at the last Parliament which was held by that King in Scotland telling them they had to deal with two sorts of enemyes Papists and Puritans that they should go forward in action against the one and the other That Papistry was a disease of the mind and Puritanisme of the Brain they are the Kings own words and that the Antidote of both must be a grave settled and well-order'd Church in the obedience of God and their King Whereof he will'd them to be carefull and to use all means for the reducing those that either of simplicity or willfulnesse did erre Witnesse his speeches at Hampton-Court when he trounced Mr. Knewstubs for taking exception to the Crosse in Baptisme when he said of him and his Brethren I have lived among this sort of men ever since I was ten years old but I may say of my self as Christ did of himself that though I lived among them I was never of them since I was able to judge neither did any thing make me more to condemn and detest their courses then that they did so peremptorily disallow of all things which at all had been used in Popery Witnesse his words upon the third day of that Conference when he pleaded for subscription to the three famous Articles which the Church-men of England were to approve by subscribing namely the Kings supremacy the Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer The necessity of which he did presse so home and evinced by three such excellent Reasons as he thought it fit to conclude in these words That if any after things were well ordered would not be quiet and shew his obedience the Church were better without him he were worthy to be hanged Praestat ut pereat unus quam unitas Yet how favourably he used them notwithstanding his Threats and how much mercy the Bishops shew'd them in spight of all their guilts and provocations many thousands can witnesse and have found too soon

And that sufficience of Grace which Dr. Ward maintained with my Lord Primates Approbation that the Gospel bringeth to all that hear it preached argueth the Intent of his Death and not only the value of it being given in consideration of it Thus much as by a witness will be deposed by H. Thorndike THere were two persons more who did contribute to my Belief of what I published of the Primate But the one will not be named nor can I honestly do it without his leave and the other spake what he had heard only but not immediately from the Bishops own mouth Nor indeed do I care for their Attestations though if I did I could produce them because the Three which I have given you are from persons very eminent for exactness of judgement and of integrity acute Discerners and careful searchers and faithful Relaters of the Truth Now Sir if you shall possibly deny that His Grace was ever of Calvins judgement as to the matters above mentioned I shall not be concerned to prove the contrary but rather taking you at your word I shall require all those who have endeavoured to gain credit to their Calvinist-Opinions by their unjust usurpation of that venerable Name that they make him satisfaction for having done him so great a wrong Amongst whom I am sure Mr. Barlee is one who either injured the Primate in a very high measure by urging Him as a patron of what he held against me or else I righted him very highly by making known his change of judgement And certainly you will say that you were very much mistaken when you acknowledged your self much Mr. Barlees Debtor for his I-know-not-what Readiness to clear the Primate from some injury done him by Mr. Pierce because you know he neither did clear the Primate nor was capable of clearing him nay farther yet that he had injured the Primate and that he had injured you also by having injured that Account which you have publickly given of the Primates judgement it being irreconcileable with that for which he vouched him in his Book extremely often Nay farther yet you know my own great Readiness to clear the Primate and that I am qualified for the work and that in all my Letters put together I have actually cleared him And though it seemeth very sufficient to serve my turne that if ever the Primate had been exactly of the opinions which Mr. Barlee affirmed him to have been of he went off and departed from those opinions and if he was never of those opinions he was grievously injured by Mr. Barlee yet I have more to alledge in mine own behalf then what is abundantly sufficient for the defeating of Mr. Barlee For let the Terminus a quo be what it will from which the Primate departed unto the Terminus ad quem of which I speak it is clear that he admitted a change in judgement on supposition if he removed from one opinion unto another and even that change in judgement of which I spake on supposition that he departed from that which is called Mr. Calvins in adherence unto that which I declaredly am of That so he did in good earnest appears to me by a Certificate which I received from your self For in your second printed letter to Mr. Barlee p. 67. you say the Primate was appointed by the Synod at Dublin A. D. 1615. as a principal Person to draw up the Articles of Religion agreed upon which fully determine the points we speak of But the 32. Article agreed upon by that Synod is in effect the very same with the 7. Article of Lambeth and saith in plain termes That there is not such a sufficient measure of Grace vouchsafed unto every man whereby he is enabled to come unto everlasting life It is not said in that Article that every man is not actually saved or not effectually brought unto life everlasting but that every man is not enabled to come which is as much as to say if I am able to understand it that every man is not put into a savable condition or doth not receive a possibility of coming to life everlasting For if the former had been the sense it had amounted only to this that every man in the world is not one of the elect but some are Reprobates all are not saved but some are damned which is so jejune a saying and so unnecessary a Truth to have a place in that succinct Body of credenda that I cannot imagin it to have been the thing meant And we know to be enabled is just the same as to be render'd able and to be render'd able is to receive a capability which is clearly also imported by a sufficient measure of Grace as the word sufficient is distinguished from effectual And if this is the meaning as I conceive it needs must then the contrary to this is often asserted by the Primate in your account of his judgement of the true intent and extent of Christs Death Again you say in your first printed letter p. 45. That there is one Doctrine of Calvins which must be exempted from my universality and which will not be found to have been rejected by the Primate viz. that Massa corrupta was the object of predestination Which how it can consist with the Primates words to my three informers mentioned before in their Certificates as I cannot possibly discerne my self so I conceive that no man living will ever be able to demonstrate Nor indeed can it consist with that Account which you have given in the above-cited pages For if Christ did dye for all mankind to procure for all a salvability to make the sins of all venial to put them all without exception into a possibility of being justified and so by consequence of being saved of which they that fail to reap the benefit do only fail for this reason because they have no will to take it which are the Primates expressions if I say Christ dyed for all the sins of the whole world both actual and original as saith the Article of our Church to which the Primate hath subscribed how can the greatest part of mankind be absolutely reprobated or but passed by in massa without respect unto their Actual sins For if that can be true Christ dyed not for them the passing by being contrary to the giving of Christ for their Redemption In stead of which the Calvinistical writers do solemnly use Gods offering of Christ not for them but to them who were passed by in that mass And this they labour to reconcile with the full intention of God Almighty that they to whom he is offered shall not possibly enjoy him Of which what reason can they imagin but only this that they think he was not offered for them so as to make their sins pardonable and their persons capable of Mercy I will not here take a view of what Infusions have been received by such Mistakers as Mr. Barlee from his Lordships History of Gotteschalc

Dei c. 7 〈◊〉 a Ier. 5. 30 31. † The Reason of Brevity in all that follows Of the 600 Copies of my Correct Copy which Mr. B. said were sold in this County within 2. months of which see Div. Philan. Def. ch 3. p. 54. Of my being the Author of Artificial Handsomnesse of which see Div. Philan. Def. ch 3. p. 150. * He saith he did but almost believe what he thought fit to publish as if he believed it altogether and which he lately excepted from the number of those things to which he swore he gave no credit * The foul Nature of his Repentance Of cruell and causelesse provocations in private letters Of his competent Iudges of his scurrility and calumny * Note that he excuseth only the later confessing the former in an implicit way * Before his Correp Corr. P. 9. † C. 2. p. 55. and p. 52. a C. 2. p. 19. a Ib. p. 17. Mr. B's godly ●bul●itions b He had it first in one of his letters to me then in the Epistle before his Corr. Corr. now again in his Reply c p. 6. d Ibid. in marg si quid intumuit pietas ignoscat e Ibid. f p. 8. h p. 6. i p. 55. k Ep Ded. p. 2. and 3. l Ch. 1. p. 8. g g p. 9. a Postscript p. 6. Of Assaults made upon all the Protestant Name and Glory upon Mr. B's bare word b Div. Philan Advertis to the Reader c Ibid. d Ibid. e Ch. 3 p. 61. f Ch. 1 p. 17 18. g Ch. 4. p. 23 24. a Ch. 4. p. 14. b Ibid. p. 15 16. c Ch. 3. p. 37. d Ch. 4. p. 7. e Ib. p. 11. f Ch. 3. p. 73. Mr. B. passeth sentence before Dooms-day g Corrept Corr. p. 221 222. * Note that he prayeth in these words The Lord he grant Mr. T. P. Repentance that he may avoid all divine censures c. 2. p. 42. and saith I want his prayers p. 23. as being averse from the true Faith by way of masculine opposition p. 4. a Postscr p. 5. Mr. B. feares Danger without being of opinion that there is any b Formido est de intrinseca ratione opinionis c M●t. 13. 30. let bo●h grow toge●her untill the Harvest a Mat. 3. 12. * Correp Corr. p. 178. * Ibid. p. 114. Of Socinianisme falsely charged * Note that consequential is here added as a Fig-leaf And in this his second Book c. 2. p. 38. he layes Socinianisme to my charge without the least Reservation b Correp Corr. p. 69. c Ib. p. 157. e Ib. p. 15. dd Ib. p. 178. f See with how much more Reason he might have called Calvin a Socinian who called the three persons the three proprietyes of God and disapproved of Christs being God of God Grot. in voto pro Pace p. 15. Hunnius apud Grot. Discuss Rivet Apol 185 186. Of his tendernesse to me and to Servetus Compare this with §. 19. a Serveti libri non Genevae tantum sed aliis in locis per Calvini diligentiam exusti sunt fat●or tamen unum me exemplum vidisse libri Servetiani in quo certe ●anon reperi quae ●i objicit Calvinus c. Vot pro Pace p. 16. b Calvini Epist 164 165 c. c c. p. 15. a Ep. Ded. p. 2. b Words which he plainly applyes to me if he is not guilty of somewhat worse c. 2. p. 45. lin 6. 7. c. c P. 16. lin 1. 2. c. * I mean the Correptorie Correctors only that is the men of Mr. B's spirit † By Him M. B. was ordained c. 2. p. 40 61. however Mr. B. may wrong that Bp. I can prove his practice in ordinations to have been strict and wary against the least appearance of Presbyterianism or noncon-formity a De praecavendis Novitatibus in Doctrina Regimine secundum Canonem nupertime editum c. Note that the Bp. rejected those who refused the taking of that Oath and would not give them Holy Orders this I can prove See the Book of Ordination of Bishops Pri●sts and Deacons p. 18. Ibid. p. 17. * Note that he confesseth he subscribed the 39. Articles when ordained c. 2. p. 61. a Artic 20. b Artic. 2 3. c Artic. 34. d Artic. 35. e Artic. 36. f Artic. 37. a When this is done they shall go to the Communion which all they that receive Orders shall take together and remain in the same place where the ●ands were said upon them c. see the Book for Consec and ord p. 19. b Ibid. p. 19. c Ibid. p. 17. d Ph. 2. p. 67 68. * Note he confesseth it was no rash Oath c. 2. p. 22. and therefore ought to have been kept e See that manifested in D●v Philan. c. 1. p. 17 18. f c. 2. p. 40 41. * Note the Iudgement of the late Primate set ou● by Dr. Bernard p. 126 was this That the ordination made by such Presbyters as have severed themselves from those Bishops unto whom they had sworn Canonical obedience cannot possibly be excused from being Schismaticall † That is Tempora mutantur nos mutamur ab illis Of his denying his own hand Mr. B's Accusation of my Dispatch of which he might have accused St Austin and Origen and the greatest Luminaries of the Church with much more reason a Ep. Ded. p. 1. His Recriminations the saddest part of his Adventure b c. 2. p. 19. lin 36 37 c. c p. 20. lin 2 3. † c. 2. p. 9. * Div. Phila●th c. 3. p. 99. lin 19. Of the ground of his malignity a Philanth c. 2. p. 46. in marg and c. 3. p. 122. b His words were in Latin susceptor gregis alieni non certe abacti sed sponte fugientis c His word was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 d See Philanth c. 3. p. 56. e Of which there is a section Philan. c. 3. p. 72. a Correp Corr. p. 22. * Note Reader that this is as contrary to Truth as any thing that is false See what I said Philan. c. 2. p. 46. lin 4 5. b It is his Thrase of himself p. 5. lin 7. c My words were these Perhaps my neighbour doth consider that it lyes in his power c. and thinks that I am of his opinion c. Philan. p. 3. * Luk. 6. 26. Of hiring his book to be printed * I find it since in his ch 2. p. 28. Of his swearing and cursing and railing and Pulpit-scuffles a p. 22. lin ult p. 23. lin 1 2 3. b Correp corr p. 174. c Ibid. p. 25. lin 1 2. d C. 2. p. 38. lin 19 20. Of his Correctors Apologie and being in the Diurnall a Philanth conclus●●um 7. p. 66. Mr. B's Dream of the Printers Boy His sin against conscience and common sense Of his false Greek and Latin * See Philanthr c. 3. p. 99. His ad phalerandum populum His multa rara † Calvin Instit l. 3. c.

his utmost both care and diligence consist in giving ear to the words and in writing them down Here then is one falsification in the beginning of his Defence Secondly He pretends to no more than a naked hear-say forth t Invention for so I shall prove it in the end whereas he swore a little before that he did not take it up upon a bare hear-say Nor doth he pretend that any more than one man did ever say that he had heard me to speak such words and he a Sympresbyter of the Gang too who cannot therefore pretend to so much as one witnesse but the Apostle saith expresly An accusation must not be received against a Priest without two or three witnesses and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to admit or receive a Complaint or Accusation was but the first part of the three which were to goe before the sentence in the judicial proceedings among the Iews by which that Text must be explain'd next the complaint must be confirmed by the oaths of those witnesses and because the witnesses may be perjur'd whether brib'd with money or suborn'd by their own malice the cause is thirdly to be searched and considered by the Iudge for if the witnesses are two but made appear to be sons of Bel●al if they are proved to be greedy of filthy lucre or if the Plaintiff is known to be a Iezebel and apt to be a suborner with either money or moneys worth if Naboth is known to be both honest and religious and yet accused at once of blaspheming God and the King if Ahab is known to have been in love with Naboth's vineyard and that he could not obtain it by fairer meanes a considering Judge will be suspicious of such mens oaths But Mr. Barlee's Informer is the original accuser and cannot be his own witnesse for where two single men say yea and no to one sentence the result is nothing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an endlesse strife of contradiction Nay thirdly that one Informer is but pretended neither named in the first book nor now in the second and I really believe he is not yet christen'd If there is any such creature let him not hide his head and his name together nor any longer expose his brother Zelot to shame and censure If his Name be Simeon let him not suffer little Levi to bear the whole odium of such a slander At least let Mr. Barlee have so much mercy upon himself as to lighten his load of guilt and hatred by laying part of it upon a new pair of shoulders When I reported that I had heard of the Primates change I thought my self obliged to name my Authors first in private and now in print And if there is any other case wherein this Iustice shall be requir'd I will not fail to perform it or make satisfaction for the wrong I require no more of my Accuser then what I offer at his Demand If he had an Informer on this side his bosome or his Brain let him be brought into the light that the deed of darknesse may be made manifest and Mr. Barlee be freed at least à Tanto But untill he doe this he must remain on that Gibbet on which he hath truss'd himself up His upper lip must be thought the reverend Divine unto his lower or his tongue did dictate whilst his ear and his hand did both receive the information and so at once he is Simeon and Levi too But fourthly that I may force him by cogent Reason to take this course which is more for his interest then he can think it to be for mine for whilest he names not his Informer he is concluded to have none I shall intreat him to remember that he may make it a leading case to as many sons of Belial as either for malice or for money shall ruine themselves or their dearest friends in point of fame or fortune or life it self by raising a false Report upon pretence of an Author without a name if it were fit that such a report should passe so easily for its own proof As for example If I my self had any malice to Mr. Barlee's person or any love to his parsonage or any envy of his parts or had been publickly non-plust in some dispute and thereupon had a design to contrive his mischief I could easily publish a Declaration That September the eight 1649. he was found under a hedge in the act of Adultery and that this I was told by three godly Ministers who riding that way were all three witnesses of the thing And many yeares before when Mr. Barlee was in Holland he was commonly drunk every week as three Dutch Merchants told me first when I was alone with them and afterwards upon the Exchange when many more heard it as well as I and this they protested to have been eye-witnesses of and they were most conscronable men who I think made as much conscience of not telling or believing lies as any men in Holland Such slanders I say I could invent or cause others to invent if I had his Conscience which God of his mercy and by his grace defend me rom or if I could indure to repay him in kind Nay let Mr. Barlee lay to heart that these two fictions are more commendable or to speak more exactly l●sse intolerable then his First because in the former I name the year and the day and the place of commission secondly because I pretend to three witnesses all as reverend as his one thirdly because the subject matter is much more probable as I conceive then that which is the subject of his invention Or I could say that Mr. Barlee had kill'd a man in his wrath when he was at Leyden for worsting him in dispute about the point of Praedestination and thereupon fled into England c. and for this I could give a more probable Reason then he can give for my saying I am without sin c. for is it not true that he was at Leyden and that he came into England and that he is strangely cholerick as himself confesseth and that he is vehement in dispute impatient of opposition much more impatient of being worsted And since wilful murders are sometimes committed manslaughter often in fits of passion is it not infinitely more probable that fire should burn down a house or a cholerick man kill in a fit of rage then that a man should say he believes he is without sin and above sin and by his own power can keep himself from sin who hath breathed nothing so much as confessions of sin ever since his very boyage The former case hath so much colour of probability in it and Mr. Barlee hath discovered so much virulence of spirit that many men have consider'd how great a happinesse it is that neither he nor his kinsmen have got the power of the sword Nay fifthly should I invent such a slander as one of those above mentioned I