But, then, still this
is no medium to to infer that charge. The doctrines which he thus
maintained were neither branches nor characters of Popery, but
asserted by some of the first and most learned and pious Reformers.
Witness the writings of Hemingius in his _Opuscula_, most of which
are on these subjects. Whereas on the contrary side, Zuinglius and
others, who maintained the rigid way of Irrespective Decrees, and
infused them into some of this nation of ours, are truly said, by
an excellent writer of ours, Dr. Jackson, to _have had it first
from some ancient Romish Schoolmen_, and so to have had as much or
more of that guilt adherent to them, as can be charged on their
opposers. So that from hence to found the jealousy, to affirm him a
papist because he was not a contra-remonstrant, is but the old
method of speaking all that is ill of those who differ from our
opinions on any thing; as the Dutchman in his rage calls his horse
an ARMINIAN, because he doth not not go as he would have him.
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