PART IL Rel'erendMr. Richard Baxter._ Mr. Nye, and Dr. Goodwin and Mr. Syd.Sympfon were his Affiftants and Dr.Cbey- Nell his Scribe t Mr. MarJhall (a lober worthy Man ) did fomething: the rell ( fober Orthodox Men ) faid little, but fuffered the Heat of the rest to carry all. § f4. When I faw theywould not change their Method, I faw alfo that there was nothing for rite and others of my Minh todo, but only to hinder them from doing harm, and nutting in their own Opinions or crude Conceits, among our Fundamentals. And prefently-Dr. Owen in extolling, the Holy Scriptures,. put in that [ That noMan couldknow God to Salvation by any other means ] : 1 tolti him, that this was neither a Fundamental nor a Truth : and that if among the Papilis or any others a poor Chriftian Ihould believe by the teaching of another, without ever knowing that there is a Scripture, he thould he fared, becauí: it is promiiètl, that whoever believedfhould be,laved, He faid awhile, That there could be no orner way ofSaving Revelation of Jefus Chrifi: I told him that he was lìsvipgly. ruee,sl.. ed by Preaching many years before the New Teftament was written. He told us that the Primitive Church was bound to believe nomore, from the Apoltlesbut what was written before in the Old Teftament, and proved thonce : I told him that by that Affertion he fubverted the Chriltian Church and Faith : r. By ,.verthrow- ing the Material, z. and the Formal Objeít of our Faith , or the medium ec B,o y thereto. r. For the Matter, it is not in the Old Teftament , [ Thai rho fejea is the Chriff ; that he is already incarnate, conceivedby the Holy GbolE, born of the Virgin Mary, fulfilled the Law, Meted, Was 'crucified, buriedand rofe again,afcended into Hea- ven, and u there at the right bandof Godin our Nature, and therein interçedeth for the Cbureb; rho he bath inflituted theSacraments, finebis Apojlles , given the Holy Gho!E to than to direít them into all Truth, &c.] with more of the like. ,a. That if Lhrift and his Apoftles were not tobe believed forthe Image of Godappeal r y.m their Doctrine , and the Divine Atteítation of Miracles confirming h, then Nsc,/ès and the Prophets werenot for thofe Reafons to be believed : And confequently not to be believedat all; for there was no reafon to believe them, 'which Chrill allô gave us not for the belief of him and his Apofles. After a deal ofwrangling about there Things, becaufe the Dosilor was the.hotter, and better befriended in that .Afferh- bly, and 1 was then under great Weaknefs and Soporousor Scotomatical liners of my Head, I asked their leave to give them the Reafons of my Opinion in-Wri- ting : which I brought in, and never received any Anfwer to ir. And yet if Mr. Vine, ( who came but feldom) had not !tuck to me when he was there, they would have made the World believe, (as fome of them endeavoured) that I was Pa- pilla, and.pleaded for the Sufficiency of Tradition,toSalvation,without the Scrip- ture. But BithopUfher was of the lame mind with me, and told me, that h ehad faid the fame to the jefuiro Challenge, Cap. de Trrsdit. § yp. Many other fach crude and unfound Paffages_(like the Savoy Articlesof Jultifcation after putinto the IndependantAgreement) bad come into our New Fundamentals: And all becaufe the over-Orthodox Doors, Owen and Chepell, took it to be their Duty in all their Fundamentals to put in thofe words, which (as they faid) did obviate the Heretics and Errours of the Divines : Whenas I told them, they Ihouid make the Rule tolook no way but (trait forward, and put in their Rejetfiom after (as the Synod of Dort doth), as being the Contradistions ofthe Rule. One merry paffage I remember occafioned laughter : Mr. Sympfan caufed , them to make this a Fundamental, That [ He that adowetb bimfelf or others in any knownfin, cannot be laved]. . I pleaded againft the word [ allowed ] : and told them that manya Thoufand lived in wilful fin, which they could not be laid to [ allow rhemfelves ] in, but confeffed ir to be fin; and went on againft Confcience, and yet were impenitent, and ina Bate of Death : And that there Teemed a little contradictionbetween [ known fin] and [ allowed] ; fo far as a Man knowetb that he finneth, he doth not [agaw], that is, approve it. OtherExceptions there were; but they would have their way, and my oppofition to any thing did but heighten their Refolution : At laB I told them, As Biffas they were its their opinion and way, I would forcethem with one word-to change or blot out all that Fundamental. I urged them to take my wager; and they would not believe me', but marvelled what I meant : I told them that the Parliament took the Independant way of Se- paration to be a fin : and when this Article came before then, they would fay, By our Brethrens own Judgment we are all damned Men, if we allow the Independants or any other Seakaries in their fin. They gave me no Anfwer, but they left out all that Fundamental, The Papers which 1 gave them in were there. [With-
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