THE
TRANSLATOR
to
the
Reader
.
Christian
Reader
,
THere
fell
lately
into
my
hands
,
a
Latine
Copy
,
of
the
ensuing
Parallell
drawne
,
(
as
I
am
giuen
to
vnderstand
)
by
two
English
Diuines
,
at
the
request
,
and
for
the
satisfaction
of
a
forraigne
Minister
of
State
.
At
the
first
view
I
laid
it
aside
,
as
an
euidence
whereof
I
conceiued
the
truthes
aduocates
,
especially
in
this
Kingdome
,
had
no
present
vse
.
But
afterwards
reuiewing
it
more
fully
,
and
finding
it
very
particular
and
punctuall
in
this
kinde
:
and
that
on
the
by
,
it
gaue
much
light
to
the
Disquisition
of
some
points
now
in
agitation
.
I
thought
fit
to
translate
it
,
for
more
publique
vse
.
For
as
Zanchius
complaineth
with
much
regret
of
the
Lutheran
Vbiquitaries
,
that
he
found
them
vbique
,
euery
where
to
vex
and
molest
him
:
So
it
is
to
be
feared
,
that
the
error
of
the
Vniuersalists
is
too
vniuersally
dispread
.
Many
men
haue
too
much
free-will
,
and
take
to
themselues
too
free
liberty
now
a
dayes
to
aduance
and
maintaine
free
will
.
I
would
to
God
more
had
the
power
of
grace
to
contend
for
speciall
and
sauing
grace
,
and
resolutely
to
defend
her
Supremacie
aboue
corrupt
Nature
.
The
errors
touching
these
points
,
of
no
lesse
consequence
then
difference
,
are
here
briefly
set
in
view
in
a
two
leafed
Tablet
,
representing
on
the
one
side
the
olde
,
and
on
the
other
the
new
Pelagianisme
varnished
ouer
with
a
faire
glosse
by
the
pensil
of
Arminius
,
and
his
Schollers
.
The
occasion
of
drawing
this
Tablet
,
as
I
finde
in
the
Latine
Preface
,
was
this
.
Acacius
Baron
of
Dona
residing
some
moneths
in
England
,
to
sollicite
the
recouery
of
the
Palatinate
,
was
often
set
vpon
,
and
much
laid
at
by
a
stranger
there
named
Roerghest
,
a
man
deepely
engaged
in
the
Arminian
party
,
who
,
though
he
could
not
draw
him
from
the
trueth
to
that
side
,
yet
cast
such
mists
of
doubts
before
him
,
that
his
Lordship
for
better
clearing
,
desired
the
conference
of
some
English
Diuines
,
versed
in
controuersie
of
this
Nature
.
And
opportunely
meeting
with
two
at
once
,
after
kinde
and
respectiue
salutation
,
he
demaunded
of
them
why
the
Diuines
of
England
so
generally
distasted
the
doctrine
broached
by
Arminius
.
Their
answere
was
.
That
albeit
those
tenets
were
plausible
to
corrupt
reason
,
and
set
out
to
the
best
aduantage
,
by
the
wit
and
Art
of
the
patrons
thereof
,
yet
that
the
sacred
Scripture
(
to
which
Naturall
reason
must
bow
,
and
strike
sayle
)
throughly
searched
,
and
impartially
scanned
,
gaue
no
support
at
all
to
this
new
modell
of
Gods
counsels
framed
in
mans
brain
,
And
that
the
prime
Fathers
of
most
eminent
note
in
the
Church
aboue
1200.
yeares
agoe
,
at
the
first
birth
of
those
mishapen
Brats
,
dashed
them
against
stones
,
and
consequently
that
by
the
same
Orthodoxe
ancient
Church
,
the
new
reuiuers
of
those
errors
at
this
day
were
then
before
hand
condemned
in
lumbis
parentum
,
in
the
loynes
of
their
parents
,
the
whole
and
halfe
Pelagians
.
The
Baron
somewhat
affected
with
this
answer
,
as
it
should
seeme
,
taking
it
indignly
that
Roerghest
should
offer
thus
to
delude
him
with
false
shewes
.
What
say
you
,
quoth
he
?
The
Doctrine
so
much
strouen
for
,
and
so
highly
extolled
by
some
,
is
it
nothing
but
olde
heresie
new
furbished
ouer
?
Certè
si
Arminius
Pelagium
refodit
,
meritò
vos
Arminium
defòditis
.
Verily
if
it
be
so
,
as
you
affirme
,
that
Arminius
diggeth
Pelagius
out
of
his
graue
,
you
haue
all
reason
to
bury
Arminius
deepe
,
that
he
rise
not
againe
.
It
was
not
long
that
this
Honourable
personage
,
was
againe
encountred
by
this
sollicitor
Roerghest
,
and
further
vrged
vpon
his
former
motiues
.
Whereupon
the
Baron
acquainted
him
with
the
English
Diuines
answer
,
which
like
strong
Physick
wrought
presently
with
his
queasie
stomack
,
and
brought
forth
from
him
the
Catalogue
ensuing
,
with
a
challenge
,
Quid
tandem
Arminio
cum
Pelagio
?
What
kindred
or
neighbourhood
hath
Arminius
with
Pelagius
,
or
with
the
Demipelagians
?
This
Catalogue
being
then
sent
from
him
,
and
receiued
by
those
two
Diuines
,
they
iudged
not
complete
enough
to
set
out
the
bounds
of
the
question
;
but
thought
needfull
thereunto
to
take
in
more
ground
out
of
the
larger
fields
of
those
Fathers
that
entred
into
the
lists
of
this
combat
.
Accordingly
partly
out
of
that
Catalogue
,
and
partly
out
of
the
auncient
Fathers
,
they
make
vp
a
kinde
of
list
of
the
olde
errors
:
and
as
for
the
new
,
they
take
them
out
of
the
Treatises
of
some
principall
Belgique
Writers
of
that
side
:
which
,
collected
into
a
small
map
,
they
exhibite
to
the
Baron
to
be
deliuered
to
the
confident
chalenger
.
Who
vpon
the
receipt
thereof
,
vndertooke
to
returne
forthwith
a
direct
and
punctuall
answer
.
But
this
Dutch
Champion
quitting
the
field
,
tooke
Sea
,
and
returned
into
Holland
,
casting
his
promise
to
the
same
windes
,
that
filled
his
sayles
.
So
is
his
forthwith
drawne
forth
now
diuers
yeares
,
and
his
answer
in
vaine
expected
.
So
deuine
and
admirable
is
the
course
of
grace
,
that
it
reacheth
an
helping
hand
euen
to
those
who
through
error
ioyne
hands
and
pennes
against
it
,
and
enlightens
the
vnderstandings
euen
of
those
that
cast
mysts
to
dimme
the
light
thereof
.
There
may
therefore
bee
hope
,
that
as
Pighius
endeuouring
to
euert
Caluins
writings
in
point
of
Iustification
,
was
in
that
point
conuerted
himselfe
by
them
:
so
this
Challenger
considering
of
this
answer
,
though
with
intent
to
refute
the
same
,
was
himselfe
confuted
by
it
,
and
rectified
in
his
iudgement
.
For
in
this
mirror
of
both
grosse
and
refined
Pelagianisme
,
any
man
that
looketh
not
through
a
Iesuites
spectacle
,
may
(
though
in
small
modell
)
behold
the
true
shape
and
temper
of
Pelagius
his
frenzie
in
Arminius
his
fancie
,
and
resolue
,
as
St.
Ierome
did
,
in
a
like
case
,
Aut
Plato
Philonizat
,
aut
Philo
Platonizat
,
Either
the
Pelagian
predestination
was
ex
praenisa
fide
Arminij
,
out
of
the
foreseene
faith
of
Arminius
,
or
Arminius
his
deuise
out
of
the
fore-read
faith
of
Pelagius
.
If
any
,
after
hee
hath
viewed
this
table
,
cast
a
scorne
vpon
it
,
as
composed
by
some
gloating
Puritane
,
and
condemne
Criminis
inauditi
,
of
a
new
found
crime
,
namely
of
doctrinall
Puritanisme
all
those
that
giue
any
credit
to
such
Parallells
,
or
differ
from
him
in
those
points
,
I
will
giue
no
sentence
against
him
,
but
referre
him
to
reade
it
in
Tully
,
Jnter
caecos
luscum
regnare
posse
,
That
among
blinde
men
,
a
purblinde
or
blinkard
may
dominere
,
and
put
trickes
vpon
them
.
But
,
God
forbid
,
that
any
of
the
Seers
of
Israel
should
mistake
old
heresie
new
coyned
,
for
current
truth
.
At
the
first
setting
of
the
Mint
on
work
by
Iames
Harman
at
Leyden
,
when
a
peece
new
stamped
was
transported
,
and
presented
to
King
JAMES
,
our
late
Soueraigne
,
of
most
blessed
memory
,
vpon
the
very
first
cast
of
his
eye
,
he
discouered
it
to
be
no
better
then
an
halfe
faced
groat
of
the
Semipelagian
alloy
.
Et
statim
perfodit
stylo
Regio
,
and
forthwith
stabbed
it
through
with
his
Royall
pen
,
and
branded
the
Master
of
the
Mint
with
the
title
of
the
enemie
of
God
.
And
that
the
same
iudicious
King
persisted
in
this
his
Iudgement
,
both
of
the
Co
ne
and
Coyners
euen
to
the
end
,
to
mee
it
is
a
thing
most
euident
,
by
a
faithfull
and
allowed
relation
,
which
I
haue
seene
of
diuers
remarkable
directions
and
instructions
giuen
by
his
Maiesty
to
two
Diuines
,
about
a
moneth
before
his
death
,
questioned
before
him
about
a
booke
then
published
,
touching
the
Doctrine
of
St.
Austen
.
In
that
discourse
,
his
Maiestie
hauing
occasion
to
touch
vpon
the
Treatises
of
St.
Augustine
,
that
are
extant
in
the
seuenth
Tome
,
(
which
hee
might
seeme
prophetically
to
recommend
as
a
soueraine
antidote
against
an
euill
vpcreeping
since
his
death
)
hee
stiled
them
St.
Austins
Polemicall
tracts
against
the
heretickes
that
agree
with
our
Arminians
:
and
presently
calling
to
minde
their
proper
name
,
termed
those
hereticks
(
from
the
Author
of
that
Sect
)
the
Pelagians
.
Which
Paraphrase
of
his
Maiestie
,
because
it
giueth
much
life
to
the
ensuing
Tablet
,
and
this
Tablet
light
to
his
Maiesties
speech
,
I
haue
made
bold
to
borrow
the
Character
of
the
Presse
,
to
imprint
both
more
deepely
in
thy
memory
:
and
to
expresse
to
thee
my
desire
to
serue
as
a
voluntary
,
(
as
did
that
excellently
learned
and
zealous
Archbishop
Bradwardin
)
In
causa
Dei
contra
Pelagianos
,
in
Gods
cause
and
quarrell
against
the
Pelagians
.