1 An account of the controversy to wliieh this Appendix relates will be found in a prefatory note to Owen's treatise " Of the Death of Christ," in reply to Baxter. See vol. x. p. 430. — I'.v.
2 Sophocles, Aj- 866. ' Chrysost. Con. i. mpi frpovtiKs. i Sueton. in Vit. Tib.
592 OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST,
arietinum, adamas supernas, Tiberinum margaritum, Ciliiiorum smaragde, jaspis figulorum, berille Porsennaj, carbunculum Italiae," ko.) "va a-wrifiui ^ravra:, etc' I hoped, therefore, this business had been at an issue; others also were of the same mind, especially considering that he had almost professed against proceeding far- ther in this controversy in some other treatises and apologies. For my own part, I must profess my thoughts arose only from his long silence. The reason of this I knew could not be that of him in the poet, tpiXii yap ixviTv -rpayfi dvhp Tpaitaoiv fi'iya,^ seeing he could have done it as speedily as have written so much paper. The expressions in his books seemed to me as the fermentation of a spirit that, at one time or other, would boil over. I confess I was something delivered from the fear of it, when, not long before the publishing of his confession and apology, I met with him, and had occasion of much conference with him at London, even about justification, and he made not the least mention of this confutation of me which he hath now published; but (piXixaTs svsiSsv o^^ao-zv.. But though this present contest mi^it have been easily prevented (as the reader will instantly perceive), yet I presume the book was then wholly printed, and Mr B. was not to lose his pains, nor the world the benefit thereof, nor the printer his ink and paper, for so slight a cause as the preventing of the aspersion of me for an Antiiiomian.
But "jacta est alea; " now it is out, we must make the best of it; and I hope the reader will excuse me in what follows. 'f!f olx l-yrapx'^t dxxa. ri;ji.upoii[/,vjiis.
But why must my arguments be answered and myself confuted ? Two reasons hereof are given. The first by very many insinuations, namely, that I have de- livered dangerous doctrines, such as subvert the foundation of the gospel, — plain Antinomianism. And these two positions are laid down to be confuted, namely,first. That the elect are justified from eternity, or from the death of Christ, before they believe ; secondly, That justification by faith is but in fo7~o conscientice, or in our own feeling, and terminated in conscience, and not in foro Dei ; farther, then, conscience may be so called: and my arguments for them are answered, chap. viii. p. 189. But what should a man do in this case? I have already published to Mr B. and all the world that I believe neither of these propositions. Must I take my oath of it, or get compurgators, or must we have no end of this quarrel? Let Mr B. prove any such thing out of any thing I have written, and, as Nonius says out of Nsevius, " Ei dum vivebo fidelis ero." I am sure this minds me of that passage in the Jewish liturgy, " Placeat tibi, Domine, liberare me a lite diffi- cili, et ab adversario difficili, sive is ad foedus tuum pertineat sive non pertineat." The following examination of the particulars excepted against by Mr B. will make this evident, whence it will appear that fycixpa -rpotpacri; Iffr) roZ -rfa'fa.i xoi.kZs.^ Yea, but, —
Secondly, Two or three reverend brethren told him that, as to that part which he hath considered, it was necessary I should be confuted.* Who these reverend brethren are I know not. I presume they may be of those friends of Mr B. that blame him for replying to Mr Blake, but say for all the rest with whom he hath dealt (of whom I am forced to be one) that it is no matter, they deserved no better. Whoever they are, they might have had more mercy than not a little to pity poor men under the strokes of a heavy hand. Nor do I know what are the reasons of the brethren wliy my name must be brought on this stage ; nor, per- haps, is it meet they should be published. It may be it is necessary that Mr Owen should be confuted among Antinomians, and that U t-^/toS^,-.^ But what if it should appear in the issue that Mr Owen hath deserved better at their hands, and that this advice of theirs might have been spared ? But not to complain of I know not whom, to those reverend advisers I shall only say, E'As irSv 'ix^i x-axZi, tSi Tuiyvi^,
i Thv XlVO^O^ic.v us TiXiOTCiioV ^tTUVOt Vi '^V^Vt ^Xl^VXiV oi^OTiQiO'BoCt.
« Sni)hii(h-s, Kleo. ;iiO. 3 Menainlir. 4 Mr B.'s preface.
5 Ai/Tw xaxii, TEi^^^si i-vi.p, ccWoi xa.xu, tiu'^^ttir JjSs xaxr^ /3ou?.-^ tu ^auXiicrxyri xaxurTHi.
AND ur JUSTIFICATION, 693
lirt Kforov, xai ^dvTii vfiiTs fiiTo, x'^f"'^ Tro'Tr-TruffaTi. But if it appear in the issue that I was charged with that which I never deUvered nor wrote, and that my argu- ments to one purpose are answered in reference to another, and that this is the sum of Mr B.'s discourse against me, I shall only recommend to them some verses of old EnniuSj as I find them in Aus. Pop. : —