To the Chniftian Reader. t Pelagiani[me oft called Hie- refis. hide Dr. Featly'spreface to his - Peleg. Red.VidAme[. ya1, conte. u- nira etPerl¿insç Whobothwere \n'áyear. Herefie i. He tuas a 'irong, and clear parted man; and as it is raid of origen, Ubi bene, neme inch- us ubi malè nemo us : o there are rame excellent ' 3 P 1 difcourfes in his works, and others as defperately oppofite to the Covenant of Grace, Jbattering all the links of the golden chaire of our falvation,,vhich is the great evill of Arminianifin. From à young Student, Junius prefaged of that hervouldlie 4 very ufeficll, ar molt pernicious infiniment in the Church of Chri4t. By this Junius (when the Lord had converted him from Atheifine, by reading the beginnig of thefrfì; Chapter of the Gofpell of7ohn, wherein he faw fuch majefty, that he thought that the Lord did therein detonate ab al- to) the Lord gave a foveraign antidote to his Church in thole parts, againft the infection: of Arminianifme. As about the fame time, by that glorious light, Matter Perkins in England, whom the Lord made a Malleus both of Papiiis and Ar- minians, and by more clear and condefcending difcoveries of Chrift made the deep myileries of-fpeculative, and the heavenlyfecrets of practi- call Divinity, to meet in the Pulpit ; and all this in a little time ; (for he lived but about 44. Years, being born (ni fallor) in the fink and dyed in the !aft of 2ueen EliZ beths reign. Oh,how much did he in a little time ! , But /till the Dived will be rafting weeds in- to Chrifis garden , picking up thofe that have keen rooted out, and trowing them over the wall a- gain, Now he madeuf of Barneveult in Holland, to bring e I
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