Q L I The LIEE of the B. I. are affuredof their San&ification, and yet do not hold the certainty of Perfeve- rance. But a great Storm of Jealoufie and Cenfure was by this and fome fuch Words raifed againft me, by many good Men, who lay more on their Opinions andParty than they ought.Therefore,whereasfotne wouldhave had me to retraEt it, andothers to leave it of the next Impreffìon, I did the latter, but inftead of it I publilhed not long after § 16o. s. My Book called [ R. B's. Judgment about the Perfeveranceof Believers] In which I !hewed them the Varietyof Opinions about Perfeverance, and that Aegufline and Profper themfelves did not hold the certain Perfeverance of all that are truly fanaified, though they held the Perfeverance of all the Elea ; but held that there are more Sanetiñed than are Elea, and that Perfeverance is affixed to the Elea as fuch, and not to the Sanetified as fuch. I which BifhopUjAer averred to Dr. Kendal before myFace to be moft certainly Auffin's Judgment, though both he and I did incline to another). From hence, and many other Arguments I inferred, that the (harp Cenfures of Men againft their Brethren, for not holding a Point which Auftisì him(elf wasagainft, and no one Author canbe proved to hold from the Apoftles Days till long after Auflin, dorh argue left Judgment and Cha- rity thanmany of the Cenfurers feem to have. I never heard of any Cenfurè againft thefe Papers, though the few Lines which occafioned them hadfo much. 16i. 6. Before this I had publilhed two Affize Sermons, entituled, True Cbri- flianity, one of Chrift'sDominion, and the other of his Sovereignty over all Men as Redeemer : The firft was preached beforeJudge Atkins, SirThe. Roes being high Sheriff : The fecond before Serjeant Glyn, who defiring me to print it, I thought meet to print the former with it. $ 162. 7. Alfo I publifhed my Apology againft divers,that had printed Books againft many things which I had written. It confifteth of five parts: a. An An- fwer to Mr. Blake. 2. An Anfwer to Dr. Kendall. ;. A Confutation of Ludlow- :a Colvinus. 4. An Anfwer to Mr. Crandon. s. An Anfwer to Mr. Eyres. The firfI, Mr. Blake, a reverend worthy Man of my acquaintance, in a Trea- tife of the Covenants had written much, I thought miftakinglyagainft me; and though I replyedwithout any fharpnefs, it was very difpleafingto him. Dr. Kendall wasa little quickSpirited Man, of great Oftentation and a Confide- rableOrator andScholar : He wasdriven on farther by others than his own Incli- nationwould have led him : He thought to get an Advantage for his Reputation, by a Triumph over f obn Goodwin and me ; for thole that fet himon work would needs have him conjoin as both together, to intimate that I was an Arminian ; while I was replying to his firft Affault, he wrote a fecond ; and when I had be- guna Reply to that, meeting me at London, he was foearneft to take up the Con. troverfy, engaging Mr. Vines to perfuade me that BifhopUfáer might determine it, and I was lowilling to be eafed of fuch work, and to end any thing which might be made a Temptation againft Charity, that I quickly yielded to Bifhop Ufhers Arbitriment, who owned myJudgment about Unvverfal Redemption, Per- feverance, NYC. but defired usto write againft each other no more ; and fo my Se- condReply was fuppreft. As for Ludiomasa Colvinue, it is Lsdovicus Molinarsa Doaor of Phyfick, and Son to Pet. Molinaro, and publick Profeffor of Hiftory in Oxford : He wrote a fmall LatinTraaate againft his own Brother Cyrus Molinaro, to prove that Jufti- fication is before Faith : I thought I might be bold to confute him who chofe the Truth and his own Brother to oppofe. Another fmall Affault the fame Author made againft me (inftead of a Reply) for approving of Camera and Amiraldus's way about univerfal Redemption and Grace :To which I anfwered in thePreface to tirerBook : But thefe things were fo far from alienating the Efteem and Affenion of the Doaor, that he is now at this Day one of thole Friends who are injurious to the Honour of their own Underflandings by overvaluingme, and would fain have fpent his time in tranflating force of my Books into the French Tongue. Mr. Crandon was aMan that had run from Arminianifm into the Extream of halfAntinomianifm, and having an exceffiveZeal for his Opinions (which feem tobe honoured by the extolling of Free - grace) and withal being an utter Bran- gee to me, he got a deep conceit that I was a Papift , and in that perfuafiots wrote a large Book againft myApborifms , which moved laughter in marry, and pity in others, and troubled his Friends, as having difdvantaged their Caufe. As loon as the Book cameabroad, the news of the Author's death came with it, who died a fortnight after its birth. I had before hand ;got all fave the beginning and
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