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AN ADDITIONALL APPENDIX, &c-
THat flood of Follies and Absurdities, that (loud of Confusions and self-Contradictions, which diffuses and shatters it self up and down by plats in sundry showers thorowout the sun dry Pages of these four mens Books, Every eye that reads them (as they lye at a distance in theirs, and in mine, by which theirs is more largely answered) may possibly not set sight on them easily: Therefore I shall cull some few of them only out (for the whole number passes my skill to cast account of) and clap them a little closer together; Not so much to shame them as to honour the Truth, which they would shame; That they may be the more ready to be read, and apparent to the view of every ordinary Reader; That any (save such as seeing will not see) may see the Sword of the Lord already laid on the Arm and Right∣eye of the Idol-Shepheard; To the drying up of the one and the darkning of the other; For perverting the right way of the Lord, so that he not only seeth not the Sun of Righteousnesse, which he loves not that it should shine (as Elimas of old did not, for his seeking to turn away the Governor from hea∣ring the Faith, Acts 13.10, 11, 13.) nor yet the Moon of so much as common sense and reason, but groaps about with him in the mist of his own muddy mind, so as to need some to lead him by the hand, and to shew him (in answer to his Question 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) whereabouts he is, and what a shaking, sandy ground he stands on.
Self-Contradictions, Confusions, and Rounds about Iustification.
1. As to the Doctrine of Iustification by Christ and his Righteousnesse with∣in us. 1. They tell us one while, that the 3. Question debated on at Sandwich, and held in the affirmative by the Quakers, was stated in these terms. Whether [Our] Good works are the meritorious cause of Our Iustification? which is a Lye with a witness, witnesse T.D. who tells it, P. 14. of his first Pamphlet.
Otherwhiles (to go round again) leaving out the Term [Our] which quite al∣ters the state of the Question, and makes it altogether another, This Truth is told us; viz: That the Terms of the 3. Question were, Whether Good works be the meritorious cause of our Iustification? which was expressely affirmed by the Qua: Witnesse Hen: Oxenden Iohn Boys Esquires; Mr. Nath: Barry, Mr. Thomas Seyliard, Mr. Char; Nicolls Ministers, a few (of very many) Witnesses (quoth T.D. in his Epist: to the Reader) of the Terms of the Questions agreed to by the Qua: who will free me (and how well they free him let all the world judge) from the suspition of a partial Relator; Witnesse also T.D. himself, who (if it be the same T.D. (as no doubt it is) who wrote both that Book and the Epistle, and Narra∣tive thereto annexed) in p. 58. of the self-same Book to the Contradicting and Confounding of himselfe in the former Tale, together with those his own Wit∣nesses, tells all that Truth that is last related.
2. They tell us one while (that is, when we not only assert it, but evince it from the Rule of contraries) that its rank Popery to say, Good works de∣serve Iustification.