ΣΥΜΒΟΑΗ, sieve Conflictus cum Antichristo: Or,  
Reflections upon, and an Answer to Mr. No-bodies Dialogue, feigned between an Old Q Elizabeth. Protestant, and his Neighbour, as far as the Writings and person of John Humphries, are therein abused and calunniated through the malice of a second Bo-peep Author.  
Wherein falsely and maliciously he is made a Papist by Mr. Momus that lies hide in the Belly of the Trojan Horse; with a Parallel of the Principles of a Papist and a true Protestant, and a brief confession of the Faith of the Author.  In Divinis nihil minimum. Tertul. 
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 heterogeneous 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 beholded 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 mere 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 errors. 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 voided 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 complete, 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 satisfy 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 triple death, viz. spiritual, bitter, stinging, temporal and eternal, all which none but the blessed Jesus ever could or did undergo so as to satisfy thereby Divine Justice. Therefore this triple 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 sanctify 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 lie 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 rebuk before all. Especially sins of error and heresy, which looking with a more ghastly visage than errors of life, are to be soundly chastised, when errors of life may be covered with charity, 1 Pet. 5. As said Reverend Usher, I can bear with men in Circumstantials, but in errors 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 choose 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 lie, called free will. If to reprove men of different opinions, for supposed errors be a symptom 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 pled 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 meddled 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 extremes, therefore they are not well set together. But yet I will choose the Fool, because I am bid become a Fool for Christ. And for your second Popish Miracle, which so much strained your wit to bring out, 'twill 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 killed, 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 lies closer together the next time, as the fellow that at once shot a dear 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 judge, 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 errors, 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 accidence, 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 logic 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 judge 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 falsehood, for I well know 'tis 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 metaphysics.  

1. Pap. Are for free-will to co-operate with the Spirit in Regeneration, for general Redemption, and falling from Grace; they deny eternal free Personal Election, and that Election is no act of Gods will, but only foreknowledge. See Bell. de Elect. Co. Trent. But old Queen Elizabeth-Protestants hold the contrary. See Willet Con. Pap. White, Jewel, Whita●er, Luther, and Calvin.  
2. Pap. Are for Justification by works and faith too, as a work and habit in the soul, and not as an instrument only to receive Christ our Righteousness. See Bell de Just. Co. T. but old Q. is Protestants are for Justification by Christs Blood and Righteousness alone being received by faith alone. See Dr. Willet, Con. Pap. Jewel Con. Hardin. Malan. Zanchy, &c. Perkins, Calv. Davenant, Sybs, Twiss, &c.  
3. Pap Set up an human, Civil, Political Tribunal in the midst of Christs Church, and in the Consciences too; but old Protestants set up Christs Word and Spirit for the judge of the Consciences: compare Co. Trent with Willet Con. Pap.  
4. Pap. Will not suffer Kings and Princes to live, if they dont act to uphold their usurped Ecclesiastical Tyranny o'er Gods Church, but the old Q. E. Protestants pray for Kings, Princes and Parliaments, that they may prosper, and rule for the Glory of God and encouragement of the Article of Free Justification, by Christs Righteousness alone, received by Faith. And freely desire that Earthly Governours may rule the Bodies and Civil State, without interruption, and Christ alone by his Word and Spirit the Conscience. See Will. Con. Pap.& Bellarm. de disc.  
5. Pap Brag that Christ Merited that the Eternal punishment of sins might be taken off, but that the Temporal punishments are born by the Church, and that Christ bore only the punishment, not the guilt or filth of sin, but left that for us to take away by our good Works, together with the Spirit within. And that Christs Merits makes the Spirits work within passable to Gods Justice for Justification. Bel. de Mer. C. T. but Old Protestants believe Christ bore all, finished sin, and the effects of sin too, Dan. 9.24, and that for Justification he himself in their room and stead did all to satisfy divine Justice, and fulfil the Law; therefore merited not Justification, but wrought in himself, 2 Cor. 5 21. and merited that all wrought in or by us for his Glory alone, should be accepted, 1 Cor. 15. ult. But if we should go about to satisfy and fulfil the Law for our Righteousness and Justification, we shall not be accepted, for all our Righteousness is as filthy rags, Isa. 56.4. Phil. 3. and that Christ hath bore and taken away all iniquity itself, guilt, filth punishment and all, and bore our filthy garments, Zac. 3.1. Jo. 1.9. Heb. 1.3. and we are sanctified before God in his blood, as well as justified, Heb. 10.10 14. Heb. 13.12. Can 5 7. Numb. 21.23. Rev. 14.5. Eph. 5.26, 27. Col. 1.22. Col. 2.9, 10. but yet Christ was not formally a sinner, but imputatively, and by an act of Grace, all was transacted on him, and finished in him, Dan. 9.24. Gal. 3.13. 2 Cor. 5.21. Now people, that have Eyes, judge if my Writings be like the Papist, or if this Pamphleter be not a false accuser, Rev. 12. the accuser of the brethren. And whereas the subtle Papists have gone about to lay the Plot on others most falsely; yet I do believe that it is a judgement of God upon them, for creeping so near the damnable Errors of the Pap. and Doctrines of Antichrist, since the Sun hath been darkened, and the Article of Free Justification obscured: for as Dr. Usher said, that the Pap. should prevail against them, because they scraped so great acquaintance with the Whore, in favouring her damnable Doctrines of Free-will and pretended Works against the grace of God in Jesus.   
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 pference. 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 obeied 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 feigning, and shoot not your— boult so at random.  
And now, Sir, I must tell the world that I'll wipe my Pen, and resolve never more to neck 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.  
Jo. Humphryes.   

THere is lately published [ Ccleus●●●,] or an Answer to a Book called( but falsely) the Glory of Free Grace displayed; wherein is plainly proved by Scripture, that that Book, is the Glory of Free Grace obscured, like the Authors Name, sold for 6d the piece, at Mr. Woods in Barbican, a brazier. at Mr. Williams in Long Acre, at the Hand and Pen, and at Mr. Foxes near the Christian Coffee-house in Holborn, and at Mr. Jacksons in the back side the Bores Head near Smithfield-Bars. Written by John Humphryes.   

Printed for the Author 1681.