SAnnieticus King of Egypt being taken Prisoner by Cambyses , sees his Daughter in a servile Habit drawing of Water , and his Son guarded by armed men to his death , he looks upon them both with dry eyes . Afterward he sees one of his friends half naked and almost starved , begging food to keep him alive , he abandons himself to grief , weeping and lamentation . The solution of this knot being very difficult , Cambyses desires to know the reason , and causes Sannieticus to be examined about it . The captive King answers , That he having no grief so equal to the two first calamities had sacrificed it to the third as worthy of it . So to see the Sons and Daughters of professing Protestants abused and wheedled into Popish principles , drawing the Romish waters of slavery and error out of the Wells of zeal and pretended holiness , with the buckets of Popish and Jewish ignorance , and implicit faith ; and her Sons attended with a black guard of Heterodox and Heterogenious Sycophants to their own death and perdition , as being out of the faith of the Covenant of free Grace , exhibited by the love of an eternal Father , purchased by the love of a gracious Son , and tendered to sinners out of the Word of Grace by the Spirit of Grace . All this as being above the springs of my grief , I have beheld for some years past , with too too dry eyes . But when I see my Friends , Protestants and Presbyterians , and others , stripped half naked by rending of Christs Imputed Righteousness , and only having a few stinking menstruous rags of their own dung and dross on them , being indeed but a meer phantasm or image , and not the true Righteousness , being half starved for want of the Divine heat and life of Love , the efflux only of the true faith of Jesus , having forsaken their Fathers Bethlethem , or house of bread , feeding upon husks , and besotted with the Cambysean dregs of Popish , Arminian , Pelagian and Socinian Errours . This makes me wish my head a fountain , and my eyes springs of tears for Sion the Daughter of my People . I have been lately traduced by an unknown Author for an Antinominian , now by another for a Papist ; as if these two were of the same Principles , which rationally are as notoriously Antiperistical , and Antiphrastical , as the qualities of two contrary Elements one to the other . The Antinomian I own , as far as the Apostle Paul himself owned it , Rom. 3.8 , 31. {αβγδ} , We make not void the Law through faith ; but {αβγδ} , we establish or make it to stand in Christ our surety , who hath fulfilled it and satisfied it , for our compleat , full , perfect and total righteousness before God . Rom. 8.2 , 3. Because Righteousness by the Spirit wrote in man , and by man , at best being mixed with some dregs and remains of sin , Rom. 7. ult . No such righteousness never did , never will , or never can satisfie the holy , pure and perfect Law of God , for sufficient and required satisfaction ; therefore the Law requiring of us , as says Wolleb . Omnimodam conformitatem cum eo , as inward and pure perfect sanctity of mind , as before the fall , such as no mortal never had since , and also an external perfect obedience to it , and obsolving Divine Justice the just penalty of a treble death , viz. spiritual , bitter , stinging , temporal and eternal , all which none but the blessed Jesus ever could or did undergo so as to satisfie thereby Divine Justice . Therefore this treble Righteousness of him alone ; viz. Original , Actual , and Passive , hath fully satisfied and fulfilled the Law , and offended Justice , and by Gods Gracious Imputation become the Legal and Evangelical Righteousness of the Elect , and is both our Sanctification and Justification before God , that by faith alone receive it . I am also with the Apostle ( v. 8. ) slandered to be a broacher of sinful liberty , for maintaining this Faith once delivered to the Saints ; and now a Papist for maintaining the Doctrine of Justification by free Grace without works . And that the Law neither justifies , for that is done by Christs Righteousness Imputed , nor does it sanctifie inwardly , for that is the work of the Spirit of Christ in his justified children . And yet is the external Law a rule ( the Law of the Spirit of Christ being in the heart by love ) to direct a believers foot in this world in the paths of righteousness to manward , for the glory of God . And this Doctrine never Bellarmine or any Papist in the world ever held ; but bitterly opposed the Protestants in it ; as Dr. White , Luther , Calvin , Jewel and Willet , do all bear me witness . And yet this Gentleman blushes not to say , I am a Papist . His charges lye desperate against me in the eight and ninth pages of his Pamphlet . The first charge is for the Alarm . To which my Name is not , and therefore can't be justly charged with it . But what is there in it that looks like a Papist ? Why , it reviles the Clergy . I answer , then you may as well Popisie the Prophet Isaiah as that Author : for Isa . 56 ult . he exclaims against the vices of the Jewish Clergy ; and if Popery be so ancient as Isaias's time , then our Chronologists are much mistaken in the computation of the Popish Epoca's , or beginning . And the Apostle taught that you call Popery , 1 Tim . 5. Them that sin rebuke before all . Especially sins of Errour and Heresie , which looking with a more gastly visage than errours of life , are to be soundly chastized , when errours of life may be covered with charity , 1 Pet . 5. As said Reverend Usher , I can bear with men in Circumstantials , but in errours of Doctrine I may not . Gal. 1.8 . Cursed therefore be the broachers of another Gospel , than that of free Grace to Gods eternally ordained Elect , for whom Christ only died , and God the Father chose in him before the world was , by his own act , before by the act of Faith they were in him . And the Spirit quickens to believe , and not mans lye , call'd free will . If to reprove men of different opinions , for supposed Errours be a symptome of Popery , then is this Gentleman himself to be suspected for reviling against me and my Books , as differing from him and others . And if the words of Tacitus be credible , Suspectus semper invisus ; then is he to be suspected for concealing his Name , the usual form of Jesuits . Nor can he plead justly the imitation of the Author to the Hebrews ; for he being for Justification alone by faith in Christ without works , wrote to the Jews that were blindly zealous for works , as ours are now , and yet most remote from doing them . This therefore is not his or others case now . But Patronius will resolve the doubt , Quam male est extra legem viventibus , quicquid meruerunt semper expectant , fat swine cry hideously when medled with . Because — if sharp ironical sarcasmick reproof between Conformists and Dissenters be adjusted to the marks of Papists ; how will the Reverend Dr. S. escape your lash , for preaching against Dissenters ? and those long winded Pipes that unitim let fly against him , as if every blow would cut him in twain , when a Reverend Divine had sufficiently and m●stestly before reprehended his fault . Either I am a Papist or a Child , crys the Child , ( the Eagle took , for no body knew whose it was ) a fool , a Knave , or what the black stroke silently denotes , crackt-brain'd , &c. Ut ait stultus in fabula , as says the Fool . Must a man then be either a Papist , or a Fool ? Pray , Sir , then what are you ? a Fool or a Papist ? If there be no medium between your Extreams , therefore they are not well set together . But yet I will chuse the Fool , because I am bid become a Fool for Christ . And for your second Popish Miracle , which so much strain'd your wit to bring out , 't will amount to no more than the Mountain brought forth , a Mouse . For a man may be first hanged , and then judged , as well as St. John , 1 Joh . 2 , says , That he that hates his brother is a murderer ; and yet the person hated , is not properly kill'd , though he be mentally , or Metaphorically . So am I by you and others first hanged , and then judged , according to the Corinthian Law ; and yet no second Popish Miracle in the case . Therefore lay your lyes closer together the next time , as the fellow that at once shot a Deer through the right foot and left ear , your Q. and A. need spurs , they are not acute enough , nor do they parallel the inbred enmity in your heart . And had I a boy that used no wittier expressions , I would chastise him for a dunce . A [ Gang ] say you , Sir , the word sounds theevishly and not Popishly , which first you have not taxed me with . But some of my [ Gang ] are sober persons , they are beholding to you for your Clemency , if you will tell us who they be , and who you are , we 'l return you as much thanks as you deserve . Another charge is for reviling the Conformists and the Presbyterians too , ( by which I judg , ex equo & asino procreatus es , ) and therefore comes up the learned Conclusion , and lays flat Popery to my charge . I answer , a man may reprove ( not revile ) several sects or sorts of persons for their errours , and yet neither separate from them in affection , or society . Many Species may be contained under a Genus , and yet the other Predicables , as proprium accidens , or differentia , not commit a Schism in the Genus ; so a man may see cause to reprove Conformists and Dissenters too , if they are both faulty , and not be a Papist , no more than Paul was a Heathen , for reprehending the Romans and Galatians and other Churches , for doting upon works for Justification , and so slighting Christs Righteousness , when the mean time he was both an Apostle and a member of Christ in the same Churches . Therefore your Logick is as criminal as your charity . For my part I love all , ( by what name soever called ) that love the Blessed Jesus , and his Righteousness alone exalt ; but such as depart from the ancient Apostolical Principles and true Protestant grounds , and lean to free-will in all men , to help to save themselves , general Redemption , and falling from Grace , and such Popish Trash , I am bid to depart from such , 1 Tim . 3.1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6. Yet to love them , but not communicate in their sinful unscriptural Worships and Doctrines . Nor will I judg the Consciences of any that profess the true Jesus , and are civil in the Common-weal ; nor have their bodies punished for their Consciences . I never did represent any Sect among Protestants to be a bloody people , therefore the Pamphleter charges me with an abominable falshood , for I well know 't is the Scarlet Whore , Rev. 17. that sheds the blood of the Martyrs ; for Saints dare not hate their brother , because they have the seed of God remaining in them , and God in Christ , is love . But this I have found , that there are many great prating proud Professors and Preachers too , that make nothing to hate , backbite , revile others if they do but an hairs breadth depart from their Oracles , for which there is no more ground in Scripture , than for Thomas Aquinas Divinity , or Scheiblers Metaphysicks .

And as for my Faith , I believe an Apostolical Episcopacy , and Evangelical Independency is a better Government in the Church , than Popish Bishops , or Classical Prelacy ; and yet I allow a Prelacy bottomed upon Love and Christian preference . I believe the Scriptures to be the Rule of Faith and Life , without , and the Spirit of Christ within , I believe a sinner is freely justified by Christs Blood and Righteousness imputed without Works ; and yet that the Faith that justifies , is not without good Works and true Love . I believe the Church of Christ as to the Conscience hath no other Tribunal than Christ , his Word and Spirit , and that mens Bodies , Estates and Names ought not to suffer for their Consciences . And that the Kings , Princes , Parliaments and Governours of the World may wholly without interruption of spiritual persons rule the civil and bodily State , till Christ come from Heaven , Dan . 7.22 . Acts. 3.20 , 21. and be honoured , loved , and prayed for by all men , and obeyed as far as Christ Commands , Rom. 13. 1 Pet . 2.1 3 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17. Actively or Passively . Now , Sir , put on your spectacles , and see if you can discern an Old Q. E. Protestant , from one of your own faigning , and shoot not your — bolt so at random .

And now , Sir , I must tell the world that I 'le wipe my Pen , and resolve never more to nick it again in Answering such malicious foolish unlearned Trash ; for Nam si cum stercore certo , vinco seu vincor , semper Ego maculor , by no Middleman or Halter between Baal and Jehovah , but a real Believer and Asserter of Free-grace .