A vindication of the answer to the popish address presented to the ministers of the Church of England in reply to a pamphlet abusively intituled, A clear proof of the certainty and usefulness of the Protestant rule of faith, &c.
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             A vindication of the answer to the popish address presented to the ministers of the Church of England in reply to a pamphlet abusively intituled, A clear proof of the certainty and usefulness of the Protestant rule of faith, &c.
             Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
          
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             1688.
          
           
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           A
           VINDICATION
           OF
           THE
           ANSWER
           TO
           THE
           POPISH
           ADDRESS
           Presented
           to
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           
             In
             Reply
             to
             a
             Pamphlet
             abusively
             Intituled
             ,
          
           A
           Clear
           Proof
           of
           the
           Certainty
           and
           Vsefulness
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           IMPRIMATUR
           ,
        
         
           
             Liber
             cui
             Titulus
          
           ,
           [
           A
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Answer
           to
           the
           Address
           ,
           &c.
           ]
        
         
           
             Guil.
             Needham
          
           RR.
           in
           Christo
           P.
           ac
           D.
           D.
           Wilhelmo
           Archiep.
           Cant.
           à
           Sacr.
           Domest
           .
        
         
           April
           26.
           1688.
           
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Printed
           for
           Ric.
           Chiswell
           ,
           at
           the
           Rose
           and
           Crown
           in
           St.
           
           Paul's
           Church-Yard
           .
           M
           DC
           LXXXVIII
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           A
           VINDICATION
           OF
           THE
           ANSWER
           To
           the
           POPISH
           ADDRESS
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           
           A
           Clear
           Proof
           of
           the
           Certainty
           and
           Usefulness
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           Scripture
           ,
           after
           the
           Help
           of
           
             Ministerial
             Guides
          
           ,
           finally
           Interpreted
           by
           each
           Man
           's
           private
           Sense
           .
        
         
           
           A
           Title
           seemingly
           belonging
           to
           a
           Protestant
           Book
           ,
           and
           a
           Book
           wrote
           by
           a
           Protestant
           ,
           if
           the
           Title
           and
           Book
           do
           agree
           :
           But
           that
           they
           are
           so
           far
           from
           ,
           that
           if
           Truth
           and
           Ability
           had
           been
           on
           the
           Author's
           side
           ,
           it
           might
           have
           been
           more
           truly
           call'd
           ,
           with
           respect
           to
           his
           Design
           ,
           
             A
             clear
             Disproof
             of
             the
             Certainty
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           But
           why
           so
           much
           Caution
           ?
           Why
           is
           not
           the
           Address
           or
           Answer
           to
           it
           ,
           so
           much
           as
           named
           in
           the
           Title
           ?
           We
           are
           left
           to
           guess
           ;
           and
           because
           every
           man
           may
           in
           such
           a
           case
           use
           his
           liberty
           ,
           I
           could
           upon
           Perusal
           of
           his
           Book
           ,
           guess
           at
           no
           reason
           sooner
           ,
           than
           that
           the
           Prover
           was
           not
           very
           confident
           of
           the
           sufficiency
           of
           his
           Defence
           ,
           and
           might
           by
           such
           a
           clandestine
           Title
           ,
           secure
           himself
           against
           a
           further
           Reply
           ;
           unless
           his
           Adversary
           had
           nothing
           else
           to
           do
           than
           to
           read
           all
           the
           Pamphlets
           printed
           by
           
             H.
             H.
          
           ;
           or
           some
           unlucky
           
           Chance
           should
           make
           the
           Discovery
           .
           And
           to
           say
           the
           truth
           ,
           the
           Prover
           might
           have
           succeeded
           in
           his
           Design
           ,
           and
           have
           triumphed
           in
           the
           Victory
           he
           had
           thus
           secretly
           stollen
           ,
           had
           not
           a
           little
           Accident
           ,
           though
           somewhat
           late
           first
           ,
           brought
           it
           under
           his
           Adversary's
           eye
           .
        
         
           
           This
           proof
           is
           drawn
           from
           the
           Answer
           to
           the
           Address
           presented
           to
           the
           
             Ministers
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             .
          
           The
           Author
           thereof
           had
           required
           that
           clear
           and
           plain
           Texts
           of
           Scripture
           be
           offer'd
           ,
           which
           interpreted
           in
           the
           
             Protestant
             way
          
           ,
           by
           those
           who
           receive
           it
           thus
           expounded
           for
           their
           whole
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           should
           so
           prove
           the
           two
           principal
           Articles
           of
           Christian
           Belief
           ,
           the
           Trinity
           and
           the
           Incarnation
           of
           Christ
           ;
           as
           also
           the
           Obligation
           of
           keeping
           holy
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           and
           not
           Saturday
           ,
           as
           one
           of
           the
           Commandments
           seems
           to
           require
           ;
           and
           that
           so
           convincingly
           ,
           that
           a
           Christian
           might
           ground
           on
           them
           his
           Faith.
           Interpreted
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           in
           the
           Protestant-way
           ,
           without
           any
           deciding
           Church-Authority
           when
           doubts
           arise
           about
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           Letter
           .
        
         
           
           The
           
           Prover's
           Design
           is
           to
           expose
           the
           Protestant
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           because
           he
           had
           no
           better
           way
           ,
           is
           forced
           to
           Misrepresent
           it
           .
           For
           thus
           he
           saith
           ,
           
             Scripture
             interpreted
             in
             the
             Protestant
             way
             ,
             is
             received
             by
             them
             ,
             thus
             expounded
             ,
             for
             their
             whole
             Rule
             of
             Faith.
          
           But
           he
           well
           knew
           ,
           or
           should
           know
           ,
           that
           the
           Scripture
           is
           with
           Protestants
           ,
           a
           
             Rule
             of
             Faith
          
           as
           it
           's
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           their
           whole
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           as
           it
           's
           the
           only
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           so
           is
           as
           uncapable
           of
           taking
           in
           any
           humane
           Exposition
           to
           be
           a
           part
           of
           that
           Rule
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           of
           any
           new
           Revelation
           .
           That
           is
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           depends
           not
           upon
           the
           sense
           given
           it
           by
           any
           man
           ,
           or
           Order
           of
           men
           for
           its
           being
           thus
           a
           Rule
           ,
           but
           upon
           its
           own
           Authority
           .
        
         
           
             But
             he
             ventures
             a
             little
             further
             by
             way
             of
             Explication
             .
          
           Scripture
           ,
           
             saith
             he
          
           ,
           interpreted
           in
           the
           Protestant
           way
           ,
           without
           any
           deciding
           Church-Authority
           ,
           when
           doubts
           arise
           about
           the
           Sense
           of
           the
           Letter
           .
        
         
           But
           supposing
           there
           are
           no
           
             doubts
             about
             the
             sense
             of
             the
             Letter
          
           ;
           then
           it
           seems
           there
           is
           in
           that
           case
           no
           use
           of
           any
           such
           
             deciding
             Authority
          
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           may
           be
           certain
           of
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           Letter
           without
           such
           Authority
           .
           If
           so
           ,
           then
           it
           would
           be
           known
           of
           what
           kind
           that
           Certainty
           is
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           attained
           without
           such
           Authority
           ,
           and
           whether
           it
           be
           not
           attained
           by
           the
           use
           of
           Reason
           and
           Understanding
           ;
           and
           so
           is
           at
           last
           resolved
           into
           what
           he
           decries
           ,
           
             Private
             Sense
          
           .
        
         
         
           But
           put
           the
           case
           as
           he
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           and
           supposing
           there
           be
           a
           
             doubt
             about
             the
             sense
             of
             the
             Letter
             ,
          
           I
           demand
           whether
           we
           may
           not
           by
           the
           like
           use
           of
           our
           Reason
           ,
           arrive
           to
           the
           same
           sort
           of
           certainty
           in
           the
           things
           we
           now
           doubt
           of
           ,
           as
           we
           have
           arrived
           to
           in
           the
           things
           we
           are
           at
           present
           certain
           of
           ,
           without
           any
           
             deciding
             Church-Authority
          
           ?
           As
           for
           example
           :
           Suppose
           a
           
             doubt
             ariseth
          
           about
           this
           deciding
           Church-Authority
           it self
           ,
           how
           shall
           the
           doubt
           be
           decided
           ?
           If
           we
           seek
           to
           the
           
             deciding
             Church-Authority
          
           ,
           that
           is
           the
           thing
           in
           question
           ;
           if
           we
           repair
           to
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           the
           Sense
           of
           that
           is
           to
           be
           declared
           and
           determined
           by
           the
           
             deciding
             Church-Authority
          
           ;
           and
           if
           we
           take
           any
           other
           measures
           for
           understanding
           it
           ,
           we
           fall
           into
           the
           dangerous
           and
           abhorr'd
           extreme
           ,
           of
           
             finally
             interpreting
             it
             by
             private
             Sense
             :
          
           So
           that
           either
           the
           matter
           is
           uncapable
           of
           proof
           ,
           and
           must
           be
           taken
           for
           granted
           ;
           and
           there
           is
           a
           
             deciding
             Church-Authority
          
           because
           there
           is
           so
           :
           or
           else
           if
           it
           be
           to
           be
           proved
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           by
           the
           same
           way
           that
           other
           things
           are
           proved
           in
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           by
           producing
           the
           Reasons
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           according
           to
           the
           Judgment
           made
           upon
           it
           thereby
           ,
           it
           's
           ultimately
           to
           be
           decided
           .
           And
           then
           farewel
           to
           the
           
             deciding
             Church-Authority
          
           ,
           when
           in
           a
           matter
           of
           so
           great
           Consequence
           ,
           and
           the
           first
           Point
           to
           be
           resolved
           in
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           submitted
           to
           
             each
             mans
             private
             Sense
          
           .
        
         
           
           The
           Addresser
           holds
           ,
           (
           if
           he
           be
           a
           Catholick
           )
           That
           Scripture
           ,
           rightly
           understood
           ,
           is
           a
           
             Rule
             of
             Faith
          
           ;
           That
           the
           Gospel
           revealed
           by
           Christ
           ,
           preached
           by
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           and
           preserved
           by
           the
           Catholick
           Church
           ,
           is
           so
           much
           our
           
             whole
             Rule
             of
             Faith
          
           ,
           that
           we
           own
           with
           
             Tertullian
             ,
             we
             need
             not
             be
          
           
           
             curiously
             searching
             since
             Christ
             ,
             nor
             further
             inquisitive
             since
             the
             Gospel
             was
             preached
             .
          
           No
           new
           Revelations
           ,
           no
           new
           Articles
           ,
           being
           received
           as
           of
           Catholick
           Faith
           ;
           but
           those
           Truths
           only
           retained
           ,
           which
           the
           Church
           proposes
           as
           delivered
           to
           her
           by
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           her
           whole
           authority
           being
           ever
           employed
           ,
           as
           Pope
           Celestine
           delivers
           it
           to
           the
           Council
           of
           Ephesus
           ,
           in
           providing
           
           
             that
             what
             was
             delivered
             ,
             and
             preserved
             in
             a
             continual
             Succession
             from
             the
             Apostles
             ,
             be
             retained
          
           ;
           so
           that
           
             nothing
             is
             of
             Faith
             ,
             but
             what
             God
             revealed
             by
             the
             Prophets
             and
             the
             Apostles
             ,
             or
             what
             evidently
             follows
             from
             it
          
           ;
           the
           Catholick
           Church
           ever
           handing
           it
           to
           us
           ,
           and
           declaring
           it
           to
           be
           so
           .
        
         
           
           
             The
             Gospel
             revealed
             by
             Christ
             ,
             preached
             by
             the
             Apostles
             ,
             and
             preserved
             by
             the
             Catholick
             Church
             ,
             is
             their
             whole
             Rule
             of
             Faith.
             —
             No
             new
             Revelations
             ,
             no
             new
             Articles
             being
             received
             as
             of
             Catholick
             Faith.
          
           What
           seemingly
           more
           Orthodox
           ,
           and
           spoken
           more
           like
           a
           Protestant
           ?
           But
           our
           Author
           for
           fear
           of
           Correction
           ,
           tempers
           it
           immediately
           with
           some
           of
           their
           own
           Ingredients
           ,
           here
           and
           there
           cautiously
           
           applied
           .
           As
           for
           example
           ;
           if
           we
           ask
           ,
           Whether
           the
           Scripture
           be
           their
           
             whole
             Rule
             of
             Faith
          
           ?
           He
           answers
           ,
           Scripture
           
             rightly
             understood
          
           ,
           is
           a
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ;
           the
           Gospel
           revealed
           by
           Christ
           ,
           and
           preserved
           by
           the
           Catholick
           Church
           ,
           is
           their
           whole
           Rule
           of
           Faith.
           Is
           it
           asked
           again
           ,
           Whether
           there
           are
           
             no
             new
             Revelations
             ,
             no
             new
             Articles
             received
             as
             of
             Catholick
             Faith
             ?
          
           He
           answers
           ,
           
             These
             Truths
             are
             only
             received
             which
             the
             Church
             proposes
             as
             delivered
             to
             her
             by
             the
             Apostles
             .
          
           The
           meaning
           of
           which
           Phrases
           ,
           
             the
             Gospel
             rightly
             understood
          
           ,
           and
           
             preserved
             by
             the
             Church
          
           ,
           and
           
             the
             Truths
             which
             the
             Church
             proposes
             as
          
           
           delivered
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           which
           is
           thus
           
             preserved
             ,
             proposed
             ,
             delivered
          
           ,
           and
           interpreted
           by
           the
           Church
           ,
           is
           as
           much
           the
           Rule
           as
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           that
           without
           this
           Tradition
           and
           Exposition
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           is
           in
           
           Bellarmine's
           Phrase
           ,
           but
           a
           
             partial
             Rule
          
           .
        
         
           
           Scripture
           thus
           interpreted
           is
           a
           Catholick
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ;
           the
           Addresser
           therefore
           meant
           nothing
           less
           than
           to
           diminish
           its
           Divine
           Authority
           ;
           his
           design
           was
           to
           preserve
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           each
           mans
           private
           sense
           might
           not
           sacrilegiously
           pretend
           to
           be
           that
           
             Word
             of
             God
          
           ,
           which
           ,
           as
           St.
           Peter
           minds
           us
           ,
           
             is
             not
             of
             private
             Interpretation
          
           ;
           'T
           is
           not
           against
           the
           Authority
           or
           Use
           of
           Scripture
           he
           writ
           ,
           but
           against
           the
           Protestants
           unjust
           and
           insignificant
           method
           of
           using
           it
           .
           I
           will
           here
           make
           good
           the
           Charge
           ,
           (
           hoping
           ,
           that
           when
           he
           thinks
           fit
           ,
           he
           will
           much
           more
           fully
           perform
           it
           )
           by
           the
           very
           answers
           given
           to
           his
           Questions
           ,
           which
           I
           shall
           set
           down
           in
           that
           Order
           and
           Sense
           in
           which
           the
           Answerer
           construed
           them
           .
        
         
           
           Here
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             'T
             is
             not
             against
             the
             Authority
             or
             use
             of
             Scripture
             the
             Addresser
             writ
             .
          
           The
           Divine
           Authority
           of
           Scripture
           consists
           in
           its
           being
           of
           Divine
           Revelation
           ,
           and
           the
           reason
           for
           which
           it
           was
           revealed
           ,
           is
           for
           the
           use
           ,
           instruction
           ,
           and
           salvation
           of
           mankind
           .
           But
           if
           it
           be
           insufficient
           for
           attaining
           that
           end
           ,
           and
           either
           is
           wanting
           in
           what
           is
           neeessary
           ,
           or
           is
           writ
           in
           a
           way
           so
           obscure
           and
           dubious
           that
           it
           's
           not
           to
           be
           understood
           by
           those
           for
           whom
           it
           was
           written
           ,
           it
           's
           certainly
           a
           Revelation
           unworthy
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           a
           considerable
           argument
           against
           its
           Divine
           Authority
           .
           And
           therefore
           he
           that
           undertakes
           to
           prove
           this
           ,
           must
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           in
           earnest
           ,
           have
           a
           very
           mean
           opinion
           of
           that
           Divine
           Book
           ,
           and
           designs
           to
           bring
           others
           to
           the
           like
           opinion
           of
           it
           .
           But
           this
           is
           the
           apparent
           design
           of
           the
           Addresser
           ,
           who
           argues
           all
           along
           against
           the
           sufficiency
           and
           perspicuity
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           even
           in
           those
           points
           which
           our
           Author
           owns
           to
           be
           
             the
             two
             principal
             Articles
             of
             Christian
             Belief
             ,
          
           the
           Trinity
           and
           the
           Incarnation
           of
           Christ
           ;
           clearly
           giving
           away
           the
           Cause
           to
           the
           Arians
           and
           Nestorians
           ,
           and
           frankly
           acknowledging
           ,
           nay
           
           venturing
           in
           his
           way
           to
           prove
           ,
           that
           the
           Texts
           usually
           insisted
           on
           by
           the
           Orthodox
           in
           proof
           of
           those
           Articles
           ,
           are
           not
           sufficient
           for
           it
           .
           So
           that
           in
           conclusion
           ,
           if
           the
           Scripture
           be
           so
           perplex'd
           and
           obscure
           ,
           so
           doubtful
           and
           ambiguous
           ,
           so
           unintelligible
           and
           insufficient
           a
           Rule
           ,
           they
           may
           as
           well
           lay
           aside
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           that
           Father
           did
           the
           obscure
           Poet
           ,
           with
           an
           ,
           
             If
             thou
             art
             not
             to
             be
             understood
             ,
             thou
             art
             not
             fit
             to
             be
             read
             .
          
           And
           yet
           after
           all
           this
           charge
           insinuated
           all
           along
           in
           the
           Address
           against
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           
             'T
             is
             not
             yet
             against
             the
             Authority
             or
             Vse
             of
             it
             he
             writ
             .
          
           What
           then
           did
           he
           write
           against
           ?
           It
           was
           
             against
             the
             Protestants
             unjust
             and
             insignificant
             method
             of
             using
             it
             ;
             and
             that
             each
             mans
             private
             sense
             might
             not
             sacrilegiously
             pretend
             to
             be
             that
             word
             of
             God
             ,
             which
             ,
             as
             St.
          
           Peter
           
             minds
             us
             ,
             is
             not
             of
             private
             Interpretation
             .
          
           I
           must
           confess
           if
           each
           or
           any
           mans
           private
           sense
           be
           pretended
           to
           be
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           it
           's
           both
           Vnjust
           and
           Sacrilegious
           ,
           since
           nothing
           can
           be
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           what
           is
           by
           his
           immediate
           Inspiration
           .
           But
           where
           are
           they
           that
           thus
           pretend
           ?
           What
           reason
           is
           there
           for
           this
           charge
           ?
           These
           are
           things
           he
           takes
           for
           granted
           ,
           but
           insinuates
           that
           this
           is
           done
           by
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           who
           interpret
           Scripture
           by
           their
           own
           
             private
             sense
          
           .
           But
           why
           will
           this
           any
           more
           prove
           that
           because
           they
           interpret
           Scripture
           by
           their
           own
           sense
           ,
           they
           pretend
           their
           sense
           to
           be
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ;
           than
           it
           follows
           that
           those
           that
           resolve
           all
           into
           a
           
             deciding
             Church-Authority
          
           ,
           do
           therefore
           pretend
           that
           the
           sense
           given
           by
           that
           Authority
           is
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ?
           For
           I
           presume
           after
           all
           ,
           that
           they
           will
           not
           dare
           to
           say
           such
           their
           Interpretations
           are
           as
           much
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           the
           Word
           is
           ,
           which
           they
           are
           the
           Interpretations
           of
           .
           However
           ,
           he
           intimates
           ,
           it
           's
           Sacrilegious
           to
           interpret
           Scripture
           by
           each
           mans
           private
           sense
           ,
           when
           St.
           Peter
           minds
           us
           the
           
             Word
             of
             God
             is
             not
             of
             private
             Interpretation
             .
          
           But
           surely
           the
           Apostle
           doth
           not
           therein
           include
           the
           using
           and
           understanding
           of
           Scripture
           by
           private
           persons
           ,
           as
           if
           that
           was
           forbidden
           ,
           when
           he
           tells
           them
           they
           did
           
             well
             to
             give
             heed
             to
             it
             ,
          
           ver
           .
           19.
           
           Neither
           did
           he
           suppose
           they
           were
           uncapable
           of
           understanding
           it
           ,
           when
           he
           calls
           it
           a
           light
           ,
           and
           unto
           which
           they
           were
           to
           
             give
             heed
             till
             the
             day
             dawn
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Nor
           farther
           will
           the
           Apostles
           Argument
           admit
           of
           any
           such
           Exposition
           ,
           which
           is
           thus
           ,
           
             Ye
             ought
             to
             give
             heed
             to
             the
             Scripture
             ,
             for
             it
             's
             not
             of
             private
             Interpretation
             ;
             for
             holy
             men
             of
             God
             spake
             as
             they
             were
             moved
          
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           Scripture
           is
           the
           Interpretation
           of
           God's
           will
           ,
           the
           Inspiration
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ;
           and
           though
           wrote
           by
           men
           ,
           is
           not
           of
           humane
           invention
           ,
           nor
           was
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           of
           their
           
           own
           motion
           ,
           nor
           an
           explication
           of
           their
           own
           mind
           ,
           but
           of
           God's
           .
           Of
           this
           see
           a
           late
           Book
           called
           ,
           
             Texts
             of
             Scripture
             cited
             by
             Papists
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Pag.
           35.
           
        
         
           
             The
             Prover
          
           now
           falls
           on
           in
           earnest
           ,
           and
           with
           great
           resolution
           saith
           ,
           he
           will
           
             make
             good
             the
             charge
          
           of
           the
           Protestants
           unjust
           and
           insignificant
           Interpretation
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           
             by
             the
             very
             Answers
             given
             to
             the
             Addresser's
             Questions
             ,
          
           and
           that
           he
           
             will
             set
             them
             down
             in
             that
             order
             and
             sense
             in
             which
             the
             Answerer
             construed
             them
             .
          
           I
           wish
           he
           had
           added
           too
           ,
           
             in
             his
             own
             words
          
           (
           as
           the
           Answerer
           did
           by
           him
           .
           )
           For
           I
           find
           no
           great
           reason
           to
           trust
           him
           either
           as
           to
           order
           or
           sense
           .
        
         
           
           
             Qu.
             1.
          
           
           Whether
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           are
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ?
        
         
           Ans
           .
           Scripture
           must
           contain
           these
           Necessaries
           .
        
         
           
           
             All
             Catholics
             ever
             owned
             what
             St.
          
           Augustin
           
             teaches
             ,
             That
          
           all
           things
           which
           concern
           Faith
           and
           Manners
           of
           Life
           are
           found
           in
           those
           things
           which
           are
           plainly
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ;
           
             So
             that
             ,
             as
             St.
          
           Gregory
           
             expresses
             it
          
           ,
           God
           needs
           speak
           to
           us
           ▪
           no
           more
           
             by
             any
             new
             Revelation
             .
             For
             ,
             as
             the
             same
             St.
          
           Augustin
           
             observes
             in
             the
             Question
             betwixt
             Him
             and
             the
          
           Donatists
           ,
           
             about
             true
             Baptism
             ,
             which
             he
             held
          
           absolutely
           
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
          
           ,
           Tho
           we
           have
           no
           proof
           in
           this
           case
           from
           holy
           Scripture
           ,
           yet
           we
           follow
           the
           truth
           of
           holy
           Scripture
           even
           in
           this
           case
           ,
           when
           we
           do
           what
           the
           Vniversal
           present
           Church
           approves
           of
           ,
           which
           Church
           is
           commended
           by
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           very
           Scripture
           .
        
         
           
           All
           true
           Catholics
           without
           doubt
           ever
           owned
           what
           St.
           Austin
           teaches
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           so
           much
           because
           St.
           Austin
           teaches
           it
           ,
           as
           that
           what
           he
           herein
           taught
           ,
           is
           true
           .
           But
           (
           to
           use
           our
           Authors
           words
           ,
           pag.
           7.
           )
           
             I
             wonder
             how
             this
             man
             was
             so
             confident
             as
             to
             name
          
           St.
           Austin
           ,
           and
           quote
           this
           place
           ,
           after
           
             the
             Answerer
          
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           declare
           
             all
             Catholicks
             ever
             owned
             what
             he
             teaches
             .
          
           Since
           I
           have
           good
           reason
           to
           question
           ,
           whether
           our
           Author
           be
           of
           that
           number
           .
           And
           that
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           Because
           all
           true
           Catholicks
           ever
           held
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           and
           the
           Incarnation
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           to
           be
           
             things
             which
             concern
             Faith
          
           ,
           and
           as
           such
           ,
           to
           be
           
             plainly
             contained
             in
             Scripture
          
           .
           But
           our
           Author
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           saith
           these
           are
           not
           plainly
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ;
           and
           then
           either
           according
           to
           St.
           Austin
           ,
           they
           should
           not
           concern
           Faith
           ,
           or
           our
           Author
           is
           none
           of
           those
           Catholicks
           that
           
             own
             what
             St.
          
           Austin
           teaches
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           The
           Church
           of
           Rome
           (
           which
           whatever
           others
           think
           ,
           I
           question
           not
           but
           the
           Prover
           holds
           to
           be
           Catholick
           )
           owns
           not
           what
           St.
           Austin
           teaches
           ;
           for
           she
           affirms
           there
           is
           a
           Word
           Unwritten
           as
           well
           as
           Written
           ,
           and
           that
           this
           Unwritten
           Word
           is
           as
           necessary
           
           as
           the
           Written
           :
           Forasmuch
           as
           there
           are
           things
           
             relating
             to
             Faith
             and
             Manners
          
           in
           the
           Unwritten
           Word
           that
           are
           not
           contained
           in
           the
           Written
           .
           But
           here
           our
           Author
           has
           prevented
           me
           ,
           for
           he
           will
           prove
           this
           also
           to
           be
           the
           sense
           of
           St.
           Austin
           ,
           and
           both
           consistent
           ;
           as
           thus
           ,
           
             All
             Catholicks
             own
             what
             St.
          
           Augustin
           
             teaches
             ,
             that
             all
             things
             which
             concern
             Faith
             and
             Manners
             are
             plainly
             contained
             in
             Scripture
             .
             —
             For
             as
             the
             same
             St.
          
           Augustin
           
             observes
             about
             true
             Baptism
             ,
             which
             he
             held
             absolutely
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             that
             we
             have
             no
             proof
             in
             this
             case
             from
             Scripture
             ;
             Yet
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           That
           is
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           contains
           all
           things
           necessary
           relating
           to
           Faith
           and
           Manners
           ;
           for
           we
           have
           no
           proof
           from
           Scripture
           for
           a
           point
           absolutely
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           :
           which
           is
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           should
           say
           ,
           England
           is
           a
           Country
           that
           abounds
           in
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Life
           ;
           for
           it
           wants
           Bread
           which
           is
           absolutely
           necessary
           to
           it
           .
           This
           is
           in
           our
           Author's
           phrase
           ,
           Pag.
           5.
           
             a
             special
             piece
             of
             Logic.
          
           I
           will
           for
           the
           honour
           of
           St.
           Austin
           ,
           and
           in
           charity
           to
           our
           Author
           ,
           suppose
           he
           turned
           not
           to
           the
           place
           in
           that
           Father
           ,
           when
           besides
           this
           impertinence
           he
           charges
           upon
           that
           Learned
           Writer
           ,
           he
           reads
           ,
           
             we
             have
             no
             proof
          
           ,
           for
           
             we
             have
             no
             example
          
           ;
           and
           speaks
           so
           darkly
           of
           the
           case
           it self
           .
           I
           will
           direct
           him
           to
           it
           ,
           it
           's
           
             Contr.
             Crescon
             .
             l.
          
           1.
           c.
           32.
           let
           him
           read
           it
           at
           his
           leisure
           ,
           and
           compare
           it
           with
           Ch.
           33.
           
           And
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           I
           shall
           furnish
           him
           with
           another
           saying
           of
           the
           same
           Father
           ,
           Whether
           
           
             concerning
             Christ
             ,
             or
             his
             Church
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             thing
             which
             belongs
             to
             Faith
             and
             Life
             ,
             I
             will
             not
             say
             ,
             If
             we
             ,
             who
             are
             not
             to
             be
             compared
             with
             him
             that
             said
             ,
             Though
             We
             ;
             but
             if
             an
             Angel
             from
             heaven
             shall
             teach
             besides
             what
             ye
             have
             received
             in
             the
             Prophetical
             or
             Evangelical
             Writings
             ,
             let
             him
             be
             accursed
             .
          
        
         
           
           But
           the
           case
           in
           this
           first
           Question
           ,
           as
           it
           appears
           stated
           by
           the
           Addresser
           ,
           is
           ,
           Whether
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           are
           immediately
           and
           expresly
           contain`d
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           or
           drawn
           thence
           by
           an
           evident
           Consequence
           ?
           Our
           Answerer
           proves
           they
           are
           so
           ,
           by
           the
           three
           following
           Texts
           ;
           his
           Proofs
           I
           will
           set
           in
           a
           due
           form
           ,
           that
           their
           force
           may
           lie
           open
           to
           all
           .
        
         
           
             The
             first
             Text
             is
             taken
             out
             of
          
           Joh.
           
             20.
             31.
             where
             the
          
           Evangelist
           
             having
             premised
             ,
             (
             v.
             30.
             )
          
           Many
           other
           signs
           also
           did
           Jesus
           in
           the
           sight
           of
           his
           Disciples
           ,
           which
           are
           not
           written
           in
           this
           Book
           ;
           
             says
             ,
             v.
             31.
          
           
           These
           
             (
             which
             he
             had
             set
             down
             )
          
           are
           written
           that
           you
           may
           believe
           that
           Jesus
           Christ
           is
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           believing
           you
           may
           have
           Life
           in
           his
           Name
           .
           
             Now
             what
             Conclusion
             can
             be
             drawn
             from
             this
             Text
             to
             our
             present
             purpose
             ,
             but
             one
             ,
             in
             one
             of
             these
             two
             forms
             ?
             First
             thus
             :
          
           The
           signs
           set
           down
           by
           St.
           John
           ,
           
             Ch
             ▪
             20.
          
           are
           sufficient
           to
           make
           us
           believe
           that
           Jesus
           is
           Christ
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ;
           but
           precisely
           to
           believe
           that
           Jesus
           is
           Christ
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           is
           all
           that
           is
           necessary
           
           to
           have
           Life
           in
           his
           name
           ,
           or
           to
           Salvation
           ;
           therefore
           the
           
           20th
           .
           Chapter
           of
           St.
           John
           contains
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           .
           
             Or
             else
             thus
             ,
             in
             the
             Answerer's
             words
             :
          
           All
           that
           is
           as
           sufficient
           in
           its
           kind
           to
           beget
           Faith
           in
           us
           ,
           as
           Faith
           is
           to
           save
           us
           ,
           contains
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ;
           But
           the
           
           20th
           Chapter
           of
           St.
           John`s
           Gospel
           ,
           as
           it
           appears
           by
           
             ver
             .
             31.
          
           is
           as
           sufficient
           to
           beget
           Faith
           in
           us
           ;
           therefore
           that
           
           20th
           Chapter
           contains
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           .
           
             A
             special
             piece
             of
             Logic
             !
             However
             his
             Conclusion
             eases
             the
             Members
             of
             his
             Congregation
             from
             the
             Obligation
             of
             reading
             any
             part
             of
             Scripture
             besides
             the
          
           20th
           
             Chapter
             of
             St.
          
           John
           
             's
             Gospel
          
           .
        
         
           
           Our
           Author
           from
           his
           love
           to
           Logic
           ,
           and
           his
           Skill
           in
           it
           ,
           undertakes
           to
           
             set
             the
             Answerer's
             Proofs
             in
             a
             due
             form
             .
          
           But
           by
           his
           leave
           ,
           I
           shall
           put
           in
           a
           small
           Charge
           or
           two
           against
           it
           .
           As
        
         
           The
           first
           Charge
           I
           have
           against
           what
           he
           calls
           a
           setting
           the
           Proofs
           
             in
             a
             due
             form
          
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           his
           Conclusion
           is
           false
           in
           its
           form
           ,
           as
           his
           Syllogism
           has
           four
           Terms
           in
           it
           :
           For
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             The
             signs
             set
             down
             by
             St.
          
           John
           20.
           
             are
             sufficient
             to
             make
             us
             believe
             Jesus
             Christ
             is
             the
             Son
             of
             God
             ;
             but
             Precisely
             ,
             to
             believe
             that
             Jesus
             is
             Christ
             the
             Son
             of
             God
             ,
             is
             all
             that
             is
             necessary
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           For
           precisely
           to
           believe
           that
           Jesus
           Christ
           is
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           is
           to
           believe
           that
           and
           no
           more
           .
           Whereas
           ,
           by
           that
           Phrase
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           implies
           the
           believing
           the
           whole
           Gospel
           .
           So
           Joh.
           11.
           27.
           
           
             I
             believe
             that
             thou
             art
             the
             Christ
             ,
             the
             Son
             of
             God.
          
           Acts
           8.
           37.
           
           
             I
             believe
             that
             Jesus
             Christ
             is
             the
             Son
             of
             God.
          
           1
           John
           5.
           5.
           
           
             Who
             is
             he
             that
             overcometh
             the
             World
             ,
             but
             he
             that
             believeth
             that
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Son
             of
             God
             ?
          
        
         
           2.
           
           He
           puts
           his
           Query
           too
           extravagantly
           .
           
             Now
             what
             Conclusion
             can
             be
             drawn
             from
             this
             Text
             to
             our
             present
             purpose
             ,
             but
             one
             —
             therefore
             the
          
           20
           
             th
             Chapter
             of
             St.
          
           John
           
             contains
             all
             things
             necessary
          
           .
           This
           is
           a
           Conclusion
           of
           his
           own
           forming
           ,
           and
           before
           he
           can
           infer
           it
           ,
           must
           ask
           two
           or
           three
           things
           ,
           which
           he
           may
           be
           sure
           will
           never
           be
           granted
           him
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           He
           takes
           it
           for
           granted
           ,
           that
           by
           these
           in
           St.
           John
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           understood
           only
           the
           Signs
           set
           down
           in
           that
           Chapter
           .
        
         
           Whereas
           (
           1.
           )
           St.
           John
           in
           the
           former
           Verse
           ,
           speaking
           of
           the
           Signs
           done
           by
           Jesus
           ,
           saith
           they
           
             are
             not
             written
             in
             this
             Book
             ,
          
           but
           
             these
             are
             written
          
           .
           Where
           ?
           Not
           in
           that
           Chapter
           ,
           (
           for
           to
           say
           the
           truth
           on
           't
           ,
           whatever
           our
           Author
           thinks
           ,
           St.
           John
           did
           not
           divide
           
           his
           Gospel
           into
           Chapters
           )
           but
           in
           that
           Book
           .
           And
           thus
           inded
           Bellarmin
           understands
           it
           .
        
         
         
           But
           (
           2.
           )
           The
           Apostle
           further
           enlarges
           this
           Phrase
           ,
           Chap.
           21.
           24
           ,
           25.
           
           
             This
             is
             the
             Disciple
             which
             testifieth
             of
             these
             things
             ,
             and
             wrote
             these
             things
             —
             And
             there
             are
             also
             many
             other
             things
             which
             Jesus
             did
             .
          
           And
           so
           what
           is
           true
           of
           the
           Signs
           ,
           is
           also
           true
           of
           the
           other
           things
           wrote
           by
           that
           Evangelist
           .
        
         
           (
           3.
           )
           Tho
           St.
           John
           spoke
           this
           more
           especially
           of
           the
           things
           writ
           by
           himself
           ,
           yet
           the
           same
           is
           applicable
           to
           what
           was
           wrote
           by
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Divine
           Writers
           :
           And
           it
           might
           be
           said
           of
           what
           was
           written
           by
           them
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           what
           was
           written
           by
           him
           ,
           
             These
             are
             written
             that
             ye
             might
             believe
             .
          
           And
           this
           was
           the
           use
           made
           of
           this
           place
           of
           St.
           John
           in
           the
           
             Answer
             ,
             viz.
          
           to
           shew
           what
           was
           the
           end
           the
           Scripture
           was
           written
           for
           ,
           and
           the
           sufficiency
           of
           Scripture
           in
           order
           to
           that
           end
           ;
           and
           this
           that
           Quotation
           proves
           ;
           for
           if
           any
           part
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           the
           whole
           of
           Scripture
           
             was
             written
             that
             they
             might
             believe
          
           ;
           Surely
           then
           they
           might
           believe
           by
           reading
           what
           was
           written
           .
           Thus
           it
           was
           argued
           in
           the
           Answer
           ,
           p.
           3.
           
           
             The
             Scripture
             must
             fail
             of
             its
             end
             ,
             and
             we
             of
             the
             Salvation
             therein
             revealed
             ,
             if
             that
             be
             not
             as
             sufficient
             in
             its
             kind
             to
             beget
             Faith
             in
             us
             ,
             as
             Faith
             is
             to
             save
             us
             .
          
           For
           saith
           St.
           
             John
             ,
             These
             things
             are
             written
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           So
           that
           instead
           of
           our
           Author's
           Conclusion
           ,
           I
           shall
           give
           him
           two
           other
           ,
           which
           contain
           the
           force
           of
           what
           was
           there
           said
           ;
           they
           are
           these
           .
           The
           end
           for
           which
           the
           things
           are
           written
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           is
           that
           we
           might
           believe
           ;
           but
           the
           things
           written
           would
           fail
           of
           the
           end
           for
           which
           they
           were
           written
           ,
           if
           they
           are
           not
           sufficient
           to
           beget
           that
           Faith
           in
           us
           ,
           which
           they
           were
           intended
           to
           be
           the
           means
           of
           .
           Again
           ,
           If
           by
           the
           belief
           of
           what
           is
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           we
           come
           to
           be
           saved
           (
           as
           St.
           John
           saith
           )
           then
           the
           Scripture
           must
           contain
           all
           those
           things
           which
           are
           necessary
           to
           be
           believed
           .
           But
           saith
           the
           Prover
           ,
           St.
           John
           saith
           all
           this
           of
           the
           Signs
           written
           in
           that
           Chapter
           :
           But
           that
           I
           have
           already
           prevented
           ;
           or
           ,
           if
           I
           should
           say
           so
           ,
           it
           's
           as
           tolerable
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           for
           Bellarmin
           to
           affirm
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           useful
           ends
           for
           which
           Scripture
           was
           wrote
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           2
           d
           Epistle
           of
           St.
           John
           ,
           the
           shortest
           Book
           
           of
           Scripture
           .
           But
           however
           ,
           here
           is
           a
           dreadful
           Charge
           at
           the
           heels
           of
           it
           .
           For
           ,
           saith
           the
           
             Prover
             ,
             The
             Conclusion
             eases
             the
             Members
             of
             his
             Congregation
             from
             the
             Obligation
             of
             reading
             any
             part
             of
             Scripture
             ,
             besides
             the
          
           20
           
             th
             Chapter
             of
             St.
          
           John
           
             's
             Gospel
          
           .
           We
           may
           guess
           to
           what
           Church
           our
           Author
           belongs
           ,
           when
           he
           will
           have
           it
           an
           ease
           to
           the
           People
           ,
           to
           be
           discharged
           from
           reading
           the
           Scripture
           .
           
           Tho
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           I
           wonder
           how
           he
           came
           to
           stumble
           upon
           the
           word
           Obligation
           :
           For
           how
           is
           this
           to
           be
           reconciled
           to
           the
           Practice
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           which
           eases
           the
           People
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           and
           permits
           them
           not
           to
           read
           the
           20
           th
           Chapter
           of
           St.
           John
           ,
           nor
           any
           other
           part
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           tho
           they
           are
           under
           a
           Divine
           Obligation
           so
           to
           do
           ?
        
         
           But
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           Logic
           and
           the
           University
           our
           Author
           was
           of
           ,
           how
           comes
           this
           Conclusion
           on
           ,
           That
           if
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           are
           contained
           in
           the
           20
           th
           Chapter
           of
           St.
           John
           ,
           That
           
             therefore
             the
             People
             are
             eased
             from
             the
             Obligation
             of
             reading
             more
             ?
          
           
           I
           remember
           Bellarmin
           at
           this
           place
           argues
           much
           at
           this
           rate
           ,
           If
           St.
           John
           
             's
             Gospel
             contains
             all
             things
             necessary
             ,
             then
             the
             rest
             of
             Scripture
          
           
           
             is
             Superfluous
          
           .
           But
           the
           same
           Bellarmin
           ,
           when
           press'd
           another
           way
           ,
           asserts
           ,
           
             There
             are
             many
             things
             in
             Scripture
             ,
             which
             of
             themselves
             do
             not
             pertain
             to
             Faith
             ,
             that
             is
             ,
             which
             are
             not
             therefore
             written
             ,
             because
          
           
           
             they
             are
             necessary
             to
             be
             believed
             .
          
           And
           again
           ,
           
             There
             may
             be
             things
             sufficient
             for
             Baptism
             ,
             but
             which
             suffice
             not
             absolutely
             for
             the
             Church
             .
          
           So
           that
           it
           seems
           there
           are
           things
           necessary
           and
           sufficient
           in
           one
           respect
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           another
           ;
           some
           necessary
           for
           Salvation
           absolutely
           ,
           some
           for
           Edification
           .
           And
           therefore
           it
           follows
           not
           ,
           that
           because
           all
           things
           absolutely
           necessary
           ,
           are
           contained
           in
           some
           part
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           therefore
           the
           others
           are
           Superfluous
           ,
           and
           
             there
             is
             no
             Obligation
             to
             read
             them
             .
          
           For
           then
           it
           would
           also
           follow
           ,
           that
           because
           all
           things
           necessary
           are
           contained
           in
           the
           
             New
             Testament
          
           ,
           therefore
           the
           Church
           in
           our
           Author's
           Phrase
           ,
           
             is
             eased
             from
             the
             Obligation
             of
             reading
             the
             old
             .
          
           And
           because
           three
           thousand
           were
           converted
           by
           one
           Sermon
           ,
           Acts
           2.
           therefore
           all
           besides
           what
           was
           contained
           in
           that
           Sermon
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           Superfluous
           .
        
         
           
           The
           second
           Text
           of
           Scripture
           is
           ,
           2
           Tim.
           3.
           15
           ,
           16
           where
           the
           Apostle
           having
           thus
           warned
           Timothy
           immediately
           before
           ,
           v.
           14.
           
           
             Continue
             in
             those
             things
             which
             thou
             hast
             learnt
             ,
             and
             are
             committed
             to
             thee
             ,
             knowing
             of
             whom
             thou
             hast
             learnt
          
           ;
           by
           which
           words
           he
           renews
           the
           commands
           he
           had
           given
           him
           ,
           O
           Timothy
           !
           
             keep
             the
             depositum
             ;
             have
             a
             form
             of
             sound
             words
             ,
          
           
           
             which
             thou
             hast
             heard
             of
             me
             ,
             in
             Faith
          
           ;
           The
           said
           Apostle
           minds
           him
           that
           in
           his
           Infancy
           he
           had
           read
           the
           Old
           Testament
           ,
           which
           bears
           sufficiently
           witness
           that
           Christ
           was
           the
           Messias
           ,
           v.
           15
           ,
           16.
           
           
             Because
             from
             thine
             infancy
             thou
             hast
             known
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
             ,
             which
             can
             instruct
             thee
          
           (
           the
           Protestant
           Version
           hath
           ,
           
             make
             thee
             wise
             )
             to
             Salvation
             by
             the
             Faith
             that
             is
             in
             Christ
             Jesus
             .
             All
             Scripture
             inspired
             of
             God
             is
          
           profitable
           
             to
             teach
             ,
             to
             argue
             ,
             to
             correct
             ,
             to
             instruct
             in
             Justice
             ,
             that
             the
             man
             of
             God
             may
             be
             perfect
             ,
             instructed
             
             to
             every
             good
             work
             ,
          
           Hence
           the
           Minister
           argues
           thus
           ;
           
             The
             same
             Apostle
             that
             says
             all
             Scripture
             ,
             (
             i.
             e.
          
           each
           part
           of
           Scripture
           )
           
             is
             given
             by
             Inspiration
             of
             God
             ,
             says
             that
             the
             Scriptures
             are
             able
             to
             make
             us
             wise
             to
             Salvation
             ;
             But
             men
             cannot
             be
             wise
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             without
             knowing
             what
             is
             necessary
             to
             salvation
             .
          
           Here
           he
           leaves
           us
           ,
           but
           I
           will
           make
           up
           the
           Syllogism
           ;
           
             Therefere
             the
             Old
             Testament
             alone
             ,
             nay
             every
             part
             of
             Scripture
             ,
             contains
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             salvation
             .
          
           Thus
           you
           see
           the
           Minister
           rests
           satisfied
           with
           the
           first
           Chapter
           of
           Genesis
           for
           his
           
             whole
             Rule
             of
             Faith.
          
           The
           truth
           is
           ,
           that
           St.
           Paul
           only
           teaches
           there
           ,
           that
           the
           Testament
           ,
           or
           any
           part
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           is
           of
           good
           use
           ,
           is
           profitable
           to
           instruct
           any
           one
           in
           the
           concerns
           of
           his
           Salvation
           .
           What
           's
           this
           to
           the
           containing
           of
           all
           necessaries
           to
           Salvation
           ?
           Bread
           is
           of
           very
           good
           use
           to
           preserve
           Life
           ,
           and
           enables
           a
           man
           to
           perform
           all
           the
           duties
           of
           it
           ;
           is
           therefore
           nothing
           else
           necessary
           ?
           What
           pitiful
           shifts
           are
           these
           ?
        
         
           
           Here
           I
           must
           take
           leave
           to
           charge
           our
           Author
           with
           notorious
           Sophistry
           ,
           not
           only
           from
           the
           false
           Construction
           of
           his
           Syllogism
           (
           whether
           out
           of
           Ignorance
           or
           Design
           I
           know
           not
           )
           but
           also
           for
           the
           falseness
           of
           the
           matter
           contained
           in
           it
           .
           The
           Answerer
           indeed
           undertook
           to
           prove
           the
           Scripture
           contains
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ;
           and
           that
           
             we
             are
             as
             sure
             of
             its
             sufficiency
             in
             that
             kind
             ,
             as
             we
             are
             of
             its
             Divine
             Authority
             :
             forasmuch
             as
             the
             same
             Apostle
             that
             said
             all
             Scripture
             is
             of
             Divine
             Inspiration
             ,
             doth
             also
             immediately
             before
             as
             positively
             affirm
             that
             the
             Scriptures
             are
             able
             to
             make
             us
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
             ,
          
           2
           Tim.
           3.
           15
           ,
           16.
           
           This
           is
           the
           whole
           of
           what
           the
           Answerer
           said
           upon
           this
           place
           ;
           and
           now
           with
           what
           Conscience
           could
           our
           Author
           charge
           this
           following
           Consequence
           upon
           him
           ?
           
             Hence
             the
             Minister
             argues
             thus
             ,
             The
             same
             Apostle
             that
             says
             all
             Scripture
          
           (
           i.
           e.
           
             each
             part
             of
             Scripture
             )
             is
             given
             by
             Inspiration
             of
             God
             ,
             says
             that
             the
             Scriptures
             are
             able
             to
             make
             us
             wise
             to
             Salvation
             ;
             but
             men
             cannot
             be
             wise
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             without
             knowing
             what
             is
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             .
          
           Is
           this
           He
           that
           said
           he
           would
           
             set
             down
             the
             Answerers
             Proofs
             in
             due
             Form
             ?
          
           Then
           God
           deliver
           us
           from
           such
           Undertakers
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           it
           's
           very
           evident
           that
           the
           Argument
           in
           the
           Answer
           ,
           reduced
           into
           
             due
             Form
          
           ,
           is
           this
           ;
           
             If
             the
             same
             Apostle
             saith
             the
             Scriptures
             are
             able
             to
             make
             us
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
             ,
             that
             saith
             they
             are
             of
             Divine
             Inspiration
             ,
             then
             we
             are
             as
             certain
             of
             their
             Sufficiency
             as
             we
             are
             of
             their
             Authority
             ;
             but
             the
             same
             Apostle
             saith
             the
             Scriptures
             are
             able
             to
             make
             us
             wise
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             that
             saith
             they
             are
             of
             Divine
             Inspiration
             :
             Therefore
             we
             are
             as
             certain
             of
             their
             Sufficiency
             as
             we
             are
             of
             their
             Authority
             .
          
           This
           is
           the
           Argument
           ,
           and
           this
           I
           will
           abide
           by
           ;
           and
           if
           our
           Author
           had
           been
           a
           fair
           Disputant
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           shewed
           how
           either
           the
           Premises
           were
           false
           ,
           or
           the
           Conclusion
           not
           justly
           inferred
           from
           them
           ;
           and
           
           since
           the
           place
           in
           which
           his
           Cause
           was
           most
           concerned
           ,
           is
           ver
           .
           15.
           that
           
             the
             Scriptures
             are
             able
             to
             make
             us
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
          
           ;
           he
           should
           have
           directed
           his
           Answer
           to
           it
           ;
           but
           he
           found
           it
           too
           hard
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           so
           shuffles
           it
           off
           to
           the
           next
           verse
           ,
           
             All
             Scripture
             is
             given
             by
             inspiration
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             is
             profitable
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Whereas
           supposing
           that
           
             all
             Scripture
          
           there
           ,
           was
           after
           his
           wild
           way
           (
           which
           I
           am
           not
           at
           present
           concerned
           to
           refute
           )
           to
           be
           applied
           
             to
             each
             part
             of
             Scripture
          
           ;
           yet
           what
           is
           that
           to
           ver
           .
           15.
           where
           it's
           said
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
          
           ,
           the
           same
           which
           Timothy
           had
           
             known
             from
             a
             child
          
           ,
           are
           
             able
             to
             make
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
             ?
          
           But
           though
           for
           fear
           of
           being
           engaged
           further
           ,
           he
           durst
           not
           undertake
           it
           ;
           yet
           he
           insinuates
           in
           an
           inference
           of
           his
           own
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           the
           old
           Testament
           only
           that
           Timothy
           had
           read
           .
        
         
           But
           1.
           
           How
           doth
           it
           appear
           that
           he
           read
           not
           also
           the
           Books
           of
           the
           New
           that
           were
           then
           extant
           ,
           of
           which
           there
           were
           many
           ?
           
           For
           Bellarmin
           in
           his
           Answer
           to
           this
           ,
           only
           says
           ,
           
             When
             this
             Epistle
             was
             writ
             ,
             the
             Apocalypse
             was
             not
             then
             extant
             ,
             nor
             the
             Gospel
             of
          
           John
           ,
           
             and
             perhaps
             some
             other
             Book
             was
             wanting
             ,
             of
             the
             Body
             of
             the
             Scripture
             .
          
           Thereby
           yielding
           ,
           the
           rest
           were
           then
           Written
           and
           Published
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           If
           the
           Old
           Testament
           was
           able
           to
           make
           them
           that
           then
           read
           it
           
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
          
           ;
           then
           surely
           both
           Old
           and
           New
           is
           as
           sufficient
           now
           ,
           as
           the
           Old
           alone
           was
           then
           .
           Our
           Author
           may
           remember
           where
           this
           was
           urged
           upon
           him
           ,
           but
           he
           prudently
           pass'd
           over
           that
           Paragraph
           in
           silence
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           still
           therefore
           conclude
           ,
           that
           the
           Scripture
           is
           not
           only
           profitable
           ,
           but
           necessary
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           necessary
           ,
           but
           sufficient
           to
           answer
           that
           end
           for
           which
           it
           was
           revealed
           and
           written
           ;
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           that
           
             we
             might
             believe
          
           ,
           and
           
             be
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
          
           .
        
         
           
           His
           third
           Proof
           is
           this
           ,
           Christ
           sent
           the
           young
           man
           who
           put
           that
           Question
           to
           him
           ,
           
             Master
             ,
             what
             shall
             I
             do
             to
             inherit
             eternal
             Life
             ?
          
           to
           the
           Commandments
           ,
           
           
             thou
             knowest
             the
             Commandments
          
           ;
           and
           again
           declared
           that
           Moses
           and
           the
           Prophets
           were
           sufficient
           to
           dispose
           a
           sinner
           to
           repent
           .
           Behold
           another
           Logical
           Inference
           of
           great
           credit
           to
           the
           University
           this
           Answerer
           was
           brought
           up
           in
           !
           
             By
             reading
          
           Moses
           
             and
             the
             Prophets
             I
             am
             moved
             to
             repent
             from
             my
             sins
             ;
             and
             if
             I
             will
             know
             what
             I
             must
             do
             to
             inherit
             eternal
             Life
             ,
             I
             must
             know
             the
             Commandments
             ;
             therefore
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             salvation
             are
             contained
             in
             Scripture
             .
          
           I
           may
           with
           Justice
           return
           to
           this
           man
           more
           than
           what
           he
           ungroundedly
           says
           to
           the
           Addresser
           ,
           p.
           1.
           
             that
             he
             takes
             up
             with
             such
             a
             sort
             of
             Arguments
             ,
             which
             ,
             tho
             not
             useful
             to
             make
             any
             ef
             his
             Religion
             ,
             may
             very
             well
             make
             others
             of
             none
             .
          
           If
           such
           use
           only
           could
           be
           made
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           of
           no
           use
           at
           all
           to
           our
           Salvation
           ;
           
           no
           senseless
           Heresie
           hath
           appeared
           this
           1600
           years
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           backt
           by
           more
           seeming
           Proofs
           from
           Scripture
           than
           these
           .
        
         
           
           Here
           our
           Author
           again
           prevaricates
           .
           The
           words
           in
           the
           Answer
           are
           these
           ,
           
             From
             which
             Consideration
          
           (
           that
           all
           things
           necessary
           are
           in
           Scripture
           )
           
             it
             was
             ,
             that
             all
             doubts
             relating
             to
             Salvation
             were
             hereby
             to
             be
             resolved
             ,
             which
             could
             not
             be
             ,
             were
             not
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             contained
             in
             it
             .
          
           In
           which
           there
           are
           these
           Two
           plain
           Propositions
           ,
           1.
           
           That
           all
           doubts
           relating
           to
           Salvation
           might
           and
           were
           to
           be
           resolved
           by
           Scripture
           .
           2.
           
           That
           they
           could
           not
           be
           resolved
           by
           Scripture
           ,
           unless
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           were
           contained
           in
           it
           .
           The
           first
           of
           these
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           chief
           thing
           to
           be
           proved
           ,
           the
           Answerer
           shewed
           from
           Luke
           10.
           25
           ,
           26.
           and
           Mark
           10.
           17
           ,
           19.
           
           Luke
           16.
           29.
           
           In
           the
           first
           of
           these
           places
           ,
           our
           Saviour
           upon
           the
           Question
           put
           to
           him
           ,
           
             Master
             ,
             What
             shall
             I
             do
             to
             inherit
             eternal
             life
             ?
          
           Replies
           ,
           
             What
             is
             written
             in
             the
             Law
             ?
             how
             readest
             thou
             ?
          
           And
           he
           answcring
           ,
           said
           ,
           
             Thou
             shalt
             love
             the
             Lord
             thy
             God
             with
             all
             thy
             heart
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           To
           which
           our
           Saviour
           replies
           ,
           v.
           28.
           
           
             Thou
             hast
             answered
             right
             ,
             this
             do
             ,
             and
             thou
             shalt
             live
             .
          
        
         
           What
           saith
           the
           Prover
           to
           this
           ?
           His
           Answer
           from
           Bays
           ,
           p.
           7.
           might
           well
           be
           returned
           ,
           were
           it
           seemly
           in
           so
           serious
           an
           Argument
           as
           we
           are
           upon
           .
           He
           is
           indeed
           silent
           ,
           and
           (
           in
           his
           words
           elsewhere
           )
           
             one
             may
             guess
             at
             the
             reason
             without
             casting
             a
             Figure
             .
          
           The
           same
           Question
           is
           again
           put
           to
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           Mark
           10.
           17.
           and
           our
           Saviour
           answers
           ,
           v.
           19.
           
           
             Thou
             knowest
             the
             commandments
          
           ,
           &c.
           implying
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           Law
           ,
           of
           which
           the
           Decalogue
           was
           a
           part
           ,
           there
           was
           the
           way
           prescribed
           ,
           by
           which
           Eternal
           Life
           was
           to
           be
           obtained
           .
        
         
           The
           Third
           place
           in
           the
           Answer
           is
           ,
           Luke
           16.
           29.
           where
           the
           Rich
           man
           in
           Hell
           intreating
           that
           Lazarus
           might
           be
           sent
           to
           his
           Five
           brethren
           ,
           
             lest
             they
             come
             into
             that
             place
             of
             torment
          
           ;
           he
           was
           answered
           ,
           
             They
             have
             Moses
             and
             the
             Prophets
             ,
             let
             them
             hear
             them
             .
          
           And
           when
           he
           supposed
           that
           was
           not
           sufficient
           ,
           but
           
             if
             one
             went
             from
             the
             dead
             ,
             they
             would
             repent
             ;
             Abraham
          
           answers
           again
           ,
           
             If
             they
             hear
             not
             Moses
             and
             the
             Prophets
             ,
             neither
             will
             they
             be
             perswaded
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           In
           which
           there
           are
           these
           things
           :
           First
           it
           's
           supposed
           ,
           That
           if
           they
           did
           repent
           ,
           they
           would
           not
           come
           into
           that
           place
           of
           Torment
           .
           2.
           
           That
           if
           they
           hearkned
           to
           Moses
           and
           the
           Prophers
           ,
           they
           would
           repent
           .
           3.
           
           That
           whatever
           was
           necessary
           to
           their
           Repentance
           ,
           they
           might
           find
           ,
           and
           was
           contained
           in
           Moses
           and
           the
           Prophets
           .
           What
           saith
           
           the
           Prover
           to
           this
           ?
           Why
           ,
           instead
           of
           an
           Answer
           ,
           he
           will
           be
           at
           his
           Logic
           ,
           and
           putting
           
             the
             Answerer's
             Proof
             in
             a
             due
             Form
          
           ;
           which
           he
           ushers
           in
           with
           great
           Triumph
           ,
           
             Behold
             another
             Logical
             Inference
             ,
             of
             great
             Credit
             to
             the
             Vuniversity
             this
             Answerer
             was
             brought
             up
             in
             !
          
           Well
           ,
           what
           is
           this
           
             Logical
             Inference
          
           ?
           It
           's
           this
           ,
           
             By
             reading
             Moses
             and
             the
             Prophets
             ,
             I
             am
             moved
             to
             repent
             of
             my
             sins
             ;
             and
             if
             I
             will
             know
             what
             I
             must
             do
             to
             inherit
             Eternal
             Life
             ,
             I
             must
             know
             the
             Commandments
             ;
             therefore
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             are
             contained
             in
             Scripture
             .
          
           If
           our
           
           Prover's
           Sincerity
           be
           no
           better
           than
           his
           Logic
           ,
           he
           is
           no
           more
           a
           Credit
           to
           his
           Religion
           ,
           than
           he
           is
           to
           his
           University
           ,
           if
           ever
           he
           was
           of
           one
           .
           Here
           's
           a
           defect
           in
           both
           ,
           but
           which
           prevails
           is
           not
           easie
           to
           determine
           .
           I
           can
           relieve
           him
           by
           no
           other
           way
           ,
           but
           by
           supposing
           the
           Argument
           in
           the
           Answer
           gave
           him
           a
           Shock
           ,
           and
           his
           Brain
           was
           out
           of
           order
           before
           his
           Inference
           .
           But
           without
           exposing
           his
           weakness
           further
           ,
           I
           will
           set
           him
           right
           ,
           and
           leave
           him
           to
           his
           Cell
           for
           the
           rest
           .
           The
           
           Answerer's
           Argument
           is
           this
           ,
           when
           set
           in
           
             due
             form
             ,
             If
             all
             questions
             and
             doubts
             relating
             to
             Salvation
             are
             to
             be
             resolved
             by
             Scripture
             ,
             then
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             are
             contained
             in
             Scripture
             ;
             but
             all
             questions
             and
             doubts
             relating
             to
             Salvation
             are
             to
             be
             resolved
             by
             Scripture
             (
             as
             appears
             from
             the
             Texts
             quoted
             above
             )
             therefore
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           I
           shall
           here
           return
           him
           my
           words
           again
           ,
           because
           in
           repeating
           he
           has
           perverted
           them
           ,
           
             He
             takes
             up
             with
             such
             a
             sort
             of
             Arguments
             ,
             which
             how
             useful
             soever
             they
             may
             prove
          
           [
           I
           will
           recall
           it
           ,
           and
           say
           with
           him
           
             tho
             not
             useful
             ]
             to
             make
             some
             men
             of
             their
             Religion
             ,
             have
             a
             plainer
             tendency
             to
          
           (
           not
           as
           he
           corrupts
           them
           ,
           
             may
             very
             well
             )
             make
             others
             of
             none
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             Q.
             2.
          
           
           Whether
           all
           things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           are
           clearly
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ?
        
         
           Ans
           .
           
             From
             Scripture
          
           ,
           not
           a
           word
           .
        
         
           However
           he
           condescends
           to
           deliver
           His
           sense
           ,
           and
           that
           of
           his
           Church
           ,
           on
           this
           Qnestion
           ;
           It
           is
           ,
           That
           all
           persons
           cannot
           immediately
           learn
           all
           the
           necessaries
           to
           Salvation
           by
           
             meer
             reading
          
           of
           Scripture
           ;
           that
           many
           other
           helps
           are
           necessary
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           
             attention
             ,
             consideration
          
           ,
           to
           be
           cleared
           from
           prejudices
           and
           prepossessions
           ,
           from
           
             pride
             ,
             love
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             interest
             ,
             obstinacy
             ▪
             partiality
             ,
             sloth
          
           ;
           and
           besides
           all
           this
           ,
           the
           assistance
           of
           
             teaching
             Guides
          
           ,
           and
           a
           dependency
           from
           God
           for
           the
           Wisdom
           he
           hath
           promised
           ,
           (
           such
           promises
           I
           find
           made
           to
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           not
           any
           to
           particulars
           that
           shall
           refuse
           to
           be
           absolutely
           guided
           by
           the
           Church
           ;
           )
           
             So
             that
             Scripture
             is
             plain
             in
             this
             sense
             only
             ,
             that
             by
             these
             means
             it
             may
             be
             apprehended
             .
          
           Now
           by
           Guides
           he
           means
           
           not
           false
           ones
           ,
           such
           as
           Christ
           bid
           us
           beware
           of
           ,
           and
           consequently
           till
           a
           Protestant
           hath
           a
           reasonable
           conviction
           that
           his
           Church-Teachers
           ,
           tho'
           divided
           from
           the
           Catholic
           Church
           ,
           and
           condemned
           by
           General
           Councils
           ,
           tho'
           Abettors
           of
           a
           Religion
           of
           not
           150
           years
           settlement
           ,
           tho
           not
           in
           Communion
           
           with
           one
           Bishop
           in
           the
           whole
           World
           out
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Dominions
           ,
           yet
           still
           are
           
             true
             Guides
          
           ;
           and
           till
           he
           be
           morally
           sure
           that
           he
           wants
           not
           himself
           any
           one
           of
           the
           ten
           other
           dispositions
           requir`d
           ,
           is
           to
           persuade
           himself
           that
           he
           may
           very
           well
           be
           one
           of
           those
           who
           wrest
           the
           Scripture
           
             to
             their
             perdition
          
           ,
           and
           consequently
           hath
           no
           good
           ground
           for
           any
           one
           Act
           of
           Faith.
           This
           will
           create
           but
           small
           comfort
           to
           any
           Protestant
           .
           Less
           yet
           will
           he
           find
           in
           St.
           
           Cyril's
           Sentence
           ,
           
             The
             things
             that
             are
             easie
             ,
             are
             yet
             to
             Heretics
             hard
             to
          
           
           understand
           ;
           especially
           if
           all
           those
           be
           Heretics
           ,
           according
           to
           St.
           
             Augustin
             ,
             who
             when
             the
             Doctrine
             of
             Catholic
             Faith
             is
             declared
             to
             them
             ,
             chuse
             to
             oppose
             it
             ,
             and
             rather
             embrace
             what
             is
             their
             own
             sense
          
           ;
           if
           the
           Catholic
           Faith
           
           be
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           same
           
             Dr
             ▪
             a
             Communion
             with
             the
             whole
             world
             ,
          
           so
           that
           ,
           according
           as
           his
           Scholar
           St.
           Prosper
           defines
           it
           ,
           
             a
             Christian
             when
             in
             Communion
             with
             this
             General
             Church
             ,
             is
             a
             Catholic
             ;
             when
             separated
             from
             her
             ,
             an
             Heretick
             ,
          
           I
           wonder
           how
           this
           man
           was
           so
           confident
           as
           to
           name
           that
           word
           Heretic
           ;
           which
           his
           Brethren
           are
           usually
           as
           much
           afraid
           to
           mention
           ,
           as
           a
           murtherer
           to
           come
           up
           to
           the
           murder'd
           Corps
           ,
           lest
           by
           its
           bleeding
           he
           be
           betray'd
           .
        
         
           
           He
           saith
           that
           as
           to
           this
           second
           Question
           ,
           there
           is
           
             from
             Scripture
             not
             a
             word
          
           in
           the
           Answer
           .
           And
           what
           needed
           it
           ,
           when
           the
           same
           Texts
           that
           were
           brought
           to
           prove
           the
           Scripture
           contains
           all
           things
           necessary
           ,
           do
           prove
           that
           it
           plainly
           contains
           them
           ?
           As
           for
           instance
           ,
           Joh.
           20.
           31.
           
           
             These
             are
             written
             that
             ye
             might
             believe
             ,
             and
             that
             believing
             ye
             might
             have
             life
             .
          
           Where
           the
           end
           for
           which
           they
           were
           written
           ,
           which
           was
           
             that
             they
             might
             believe
          
           ;
           and
           the
           persons
           for
           whom
           they
           were
           written
           ,
           for
           all
           Christians
           ;
           sufficiently
           prove
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           for
           the
           manner
           so
           exprest
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           from
           the
           matter
           so
           evident
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           believe
           .
        
         
           So
           again
           ,
           2
           Tim.
           3.
           15.
           
           
             The
             Scriptures
             are
             able
             to
             make
             thee
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
             .
          
           If
           they
           were
           the
           Scriptures
           that
           
             Timothy
             knew
             from
             a
             child
          
           ,
           and
           were
           able
           to
           make
           him
           
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
          
           ,
           surely
           they
           were
           plain
           in
           those
           things
           .
        
         
           So
           again
           ,
           Luk.
           10
           25.
           
           
             What
             is
             written
             in
             the
             Law
             ?
             How
             readest
             thou
             ?
          
           must
           needs
           imply
           the
           Law
           was
           plain
           to
           be
           read
           and
           understood
           .
           So
           Luk.
           16.
           29.
           
           
             They
             have
             Moses
             and
             the
             Prophets
             .
          
           But
           to
           what
           purpose
           ,
           if
           Moses
           and
           the
           Prophets
           were
           not
           to
           be
           understood
           by
           them
           ?
        
         
           But
           ,
           2.
           
           What
           proof
           would
           he
           have
           of
           this
           ?
           Can
           he
           have
           any
           plainer
           proof
           ,
           than
           from
           the
           things
           contained
           therein
           ?
           
             Tolle
             lege
          
           ,
           will
           shew
           there
           is
           a
           God
           ,
           and
           God
           alone
           is
           to
           be
           worshipped
           .
           That
           the
           Soul
           is
           immortal
           .
           That
           there
           is
           a
           future
           state
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           state
           of
           rewards
           and
           punishments
           .
           That
           man
           is
           fallen
           .
           That
           Christ
           redeemed
           him
           .
           That
           Christ
           is
           the
           Son
           of
           God.
           That
           he
           
           became
           man.
           That
           he
           was
           Crucified
           ,
           and
           died
           a
           Sacrifice
           for
           us
           .
           That
           he
           rose
           from
           the
           dead
           ,
           ascended
           into
           Heaven
           ,
           is
           there
           our
           Mediator
           ,
           &c.
           of
           which
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           we
           may
           say
           as
           
             Justin
             Martyr
          
           did
           to
           Trypho
           the
           
             Jew
             ,
             Attend
             to
             what
             I
             shall
             rehearse
             out
             of
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
             ,
             proofs
             which
             need
             not
             to
             be
             explained
             ,
             but
             only
             to
             be
             heard
             .
          
        
         
           But
           he
           goes
           on
           ,
           
             However
             the
             Answerer
             delivers
             his
             sense
             on
             this
             Question
             :
             It
             is
             ,
             That
             all
             persons
             cannot
             immediately
             learn
             all
             necessaries
             by
             meer
             reading
             of
             Scripture
             ;
             that
             many
             other
             helps
             are
             necessary
             ,
             to
             wit
             ,
             attention
             ,
             consideration
             .
          
           And
           can
           he
           say
           any
           thing
           to
           the
           contrary
           ?
           Some
           things
           are
           so
           plain
           ,
           as
           that
           
             with
             the
             meer
             reading
             of
             them
             ,
          
           they
           are
           immediately
           understood
           ;
           Others
           require
           attention
           and
           consideration
           ,
           and
           yet
           be
           plain
           ,
           though
           not
           equally
           as
           plain
           as
           the
           former
           .
           The
           Answerer
           further
           proceeded
           to
           shew
           the
           mind
           ought
           to
           
             be
             clear'd
             from
             prejudices
          
           .
           And
           doth
           this
           detract
           any
           thing
           from
           the
           perspicuity
           of
           Scriptures
           ?
           For
           the
           Propositions
           may
           be
           plain
           ,
           but
           yet
           be
           obscure
           to
           him
           that
           is
           under
           prepossessions
           ,
           as
           was
           shewed
           at
           large
           in
           the
           Answer
           .
           All
           which
           were
           there
           sum'd
           up
           thus
           ,
           
             If
             men
             come
             with
             an
             honest
             heart
             ,
             and
             use
             a
             competent
             diligence
             ,
             with
             a
             dependence
             upon
             God's
             assistance
             for
             the
             wisdom
             he
             hath
             promised
             ,
             I
             know
             nothing
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             but
             what
             is
             plainly
             taught
             in
             Scripture
             ,
             and
             may
             be
             learn'd
             from
             it
             .
          
           What
           hath
           the
           Prover
           to
           say
           to
           this
           ?
           
             Such
             promises
          
           [
           of
           obtaining
           wisdom
           from
           God
           ]
           
             I
             find
             made
             to
             the
             Church
             ,
             but
             not
             to
             any
             particular
             that
             shall
             refuse
             to
             be
             absolutely
             guided
             by
             the
             Church
             .
          
           But
           is
           not
           this
           promise
           made
           to
           particulars
           without
           any
           mention
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           to
           learn
           it
           from
           ?
           What
           thinks
           he
           of
           the
           place
           
             the
             Answerer
          
           had
           his
           eye
           upon
           ?
           Jam.
           1.
           5.
           
           
             If
             any
             of
             you
             lack
             wisdom
             ,
             let
             him
             ask
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             it
             shall
             be
             given
             him
             .
          
           What
           of
           Joh.
           7.
           17.
           
           
             If
             any
             man
             will
             do
             his
             will
             ,
             he
             shall
             know
             of
             the
             Doctrine
             ,
             whether
             it
             be
             of
             God
             ?
          
           Now
           it
           should
           have
           been
           ,
           according
           to
           our
           Author's
           projection
           ,
           If
           any
           man
           lack
           wisdom
           ,
           or
           would
           know
           whether
           the
           Doctrine
           be
           of
           God
           ,
           let
           him
           go
           to
           the
           infallible
           Church
           ,
           to
           the
           Vicar
           of
           Christ
           ,
           or
           a
           Council
           called
           by
           him
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Guides
           of
           that
           Church
           .
           
             For
             unless
             the
             Scripture
             be
             explain'd
             by
             some
             one
             that
             cannot
             err
             ,
             it
             cannot
             be
             understood
          
           ;
           and
           ye
           will
           dangerously
           err
           by
           reading
           
           it
           ,
           as
           Bellarmin
           argues
           .
           And
           yet
           whether
           there
           be
           such
           a
           Church
           ,
           or
           whether
           the
           Church
           pretending
           to
           it
           ,
           be
           not
           a
           fallible
           ,
           and
           what
           is
           worse
           ,
           a
           deceiving
           Church
           ;
           or
           whether
           the
           Guides
           be
           not
           
             false
             ones
          
           ;
           a
           man
           cannot
           be
           so
           much
           as
           
             morally
             sure
          
           ,
           without
           
           he
           consult
           and
           understand
           the
           Scripture
           ;
           and
           when
           all
           is
           done
           (
           according
           to
           this
           Author's
           way
           of
           arguing
           )
           
             he
             may
             very
             well
             be
             one
             of
             those
             who
             wrest
             the
             Scripture
             to
             his
             own
             perdition
             ,
             and
             consequently
             hath
             no
             good
             ground
             for
             any
             one
             act
             of
             Faith
          
           ;
           or
           can
           be
           certain
           that
           there
           is
           a
           Church
           ,
           or
           this
           or
           that
           is
           the
           true
           Church
           ,
           &c.
           
           This
           Paragraph
           of
           his
           is
           a
           kind
           of
           Jargon
           .
           But
           it
           affords
           occasion
           to
           put
           it
           to
           him
           ,
           Who
           are
           the
           false
           Teachers
           ,
           those
           that
           with
           the
           Pharisees
           set
           up
           Tradition
           to
           an
           equal
           Authority
           with
           Scripture
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           maintain
           Scripture
           alone
           to
           be
           of
           Divine
           Authority
           ?
           Those
           that
           make
           Scripture
           to
           depend
           upon
           the
           Church
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           make
           the
           Church
           to
           depend
           upon
           Scripture
           ?
           Those
           that
           teach
           we
           are
           absolutely
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           Church
           and
           the
           Guides
           of
           it
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           with
           the
           Apostle
           direct
           us
           to
           follow
           them
           only
           as
           they
           follow
           Christ
           ,
           1
           Cor.
           11.
           1
           ?
           Those
           that
           say
           men
           err
           by
           reading
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           so
           take
           away
           from
           them
           that
           Key
           of
           Knowledg
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           with
           our
           Saviour
           teach
           them
           they
           err
           for
           not
           knowing
           them
           ,
           Mat.
           22.
           29
           ?
           Those
           that
           discourage
           men
           from
           reading
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           because
           of
           their
           pretended
           obscurity
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           with
           our
           Saviour
           require
           that
           they
           search
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           because
           they
           are
           (
           as
           the
           Psalmist
           saith
           )
           a
           light
           to
           their
           paths
           ?
           Those
           that
           ,
           with
           the
           Fathers
           ,
           hold
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           the
           Trinity
           and
           Incarnation
           ,
           may
           be
           clearly
           proved
           from
           Scripture
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           make
           them
           to
           depend
           upon
           Church
           Authority
           ?
           Those
           that
           derive
           theirs
           down
           for
           a
           thousand
           years
           after
           Christ
           ,
           without
           any
           proof
           from
           Scripture
           and
           precedent
           Antiquity
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           Reformed
           their
           Church
           1500
           years
           after
           Christ
           ,
           but
           can
           deduce
           the
           Genealogy
           of
           their
           Doctrines
           from
           Scripture
           and
           Genuine
           Antiquity
           for
           4
           ,
           5
           ,
           and
           600
           years
           after
           ?
        
         
           I
           ask
           him
           again
           ,
           Who
           are
           the
           Hereticks
           (
           in
           the
           sense
           he
           gives
           us
           )
           those
           that
           with
           the
           Donatists
           in
           St.
           
           Austin's
           time
           confine
           the
           Church
           to
           their
           own
           party
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           with
           the
           Apostle
           ,
           comprehend
           in
           it
           
             all
             that
             in
             every
             place
             call
             upon
             the
             name
             of
             Jesus
             Christ
             our
             Lord
             both
             theirs
             and
             ours
             ,
          
           1
           Cor.
           1.
           2
           ?
           Those
           that
           exclude
           the
           whole
           world
           if
           not
           of
           their
           corrupt
           Communion
           ;
           or
           those
           that
           ,
           according
           to
           his
           Quotation
           from
           St.
           Austin
           ,
           maintain
           
             a
             communion
             with
             the
             whole
             world
             ?
          
           Methinks
           ,
           after
           all
           he
           might
           ,
           to
           return
           his
           own
           words
           ,
           
             be
             as
             much
             afraid
             to
             mention
             that
             word
             Heretic
             ,
             as
             a
             Murtherer
             to
             come
             up
             to
             the
             murther'd
             Corps
             ,
          
           considering
           what
           havoc
           and
           devastation
           they
           have
           made
           amongst
           those
           
           they
           have
           call'd
           by
           that
           name
           .
           I
           shall
           give
           him
           Quotation
           for
           
           Quotation
           from
           St.
           Austin
           ,
           and
           so
           conclude
           this
           Question
           :
           
             It
             suffices
             us
             ,
             that
             we
             hold
             that
             Church
             which
             is
             demonstrated
             by
             most
             manifest
             Testimonies
             of
             the
             holy
             and
             Canonical
             Scripture
             .
          
           And
           again
           ,
           
           
             Shew
             that
             there
             is
             some
             clear
             and
             manifest
             testimony
             given
             from
             Holy
             Canonical
             Scriptures
             to
             this
             thy
             Communion
             ,
             and
             I
             do
             confess
             we
             are
             to
             go
             over
             to
             thee
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             Q.
             3.
          
           
           What
           are
           the
           necessaries
           to
           Salvation
           ?
        
         
           Here
           plain
           and
           full
           Scripture
           will
           be
           of
           great
           use
           ;
           we
           may
           expect
           shoals
           of
           Texts
           :
           What
           answer
           from
           Scripture
           is
           given
           to
           this
           Question
           ,
           think
           you
           ?
           E'en
           the
           same
           as
           honest
           Bays
           returns
           to
           a
           hard
           one
           in
           the
           
             Rehearsal
             ,
             YGad
             I
             won't
             tell
             you
             .
          
           No
           ,
           he
           gives
           not
           one
           word
           of
           answer
           to
           it
           ,
           tho
           it
           be
           so
           material
           .
           Any
           one
           may
           guess
           at
           the
           reason
           ,
           without
           casting
           a
           figure
           .
        
         
           
           With
           what
           Confidence
           can
           the
           Prover
           thus
           impose
           upon
           the
           Reader
           ?
           Was
           there
           
             not
             one
             word
             of
             Answer
          
           returned
           to
           this
           Question
           ?
           Of
           that
           let
           the
           Answer
           speak
           ;
           Where
           it
           's
           thus
           put
           ,
           Q.
           3.
           
           
             What
             are
             these
             Necessaries
             to
             Salvation
             ?
          
           The
           Answer
           begins
           thus
           .
           
             Our
             Author
             offers
             three
             Instances
             of
             such
             Necessaries
             as
             are
             not
             clearly
             revealed
             in
             Scripture
             ,
          
           viz.
           
             the
             Trinity
             ,
             the
             Incarnation
             of
             our
             Saviour
             ,
             and
             the
             Observation
             of
             the
             Lords
             Day
             .
          
           And
           of
           these
           ,
           the
           Answerer
           Discourses
           for
           near
           eight
           Pages
           together
           ,
           to
           shew
           that
           the
           Addresser
           had
           to
           little
           purpose
           objected
           against
           them
           .
           So
           that
           if
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           and
           Incarnation
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord's
           day
           ,
           are
           necessaries
           ,
           and
           for
           that
           reason
           were
           singled
           out
           as
           Instances
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           insufficiency
           and
           obscurity
           by
           the
           Addresser
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           contrary
           were
           defended
           by
           the
           Answerer
           ;
           then
           surely
           ,
           the
           3
           d
           Question
           no
           more
           wants
           an
           Answer
           ,
           than
           the
           Prover
           wants
           Confidence
           that
           denies
           it
           .
           He
           writes
           indeed
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Question
           was
           barely
           proposed
           in
           the
           Answer
           ,
           and
           he
           has
           used
           some
           art
           to
           confirm
           it
           ,
           when
           he
           has
           made
           as
           many
           Questions
           as
           there
           are
           Instances
           ,
           viz.
           of
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           Incarnation
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord's
           day
           :
           So
           that
           Question
           the
           4
           th
           ,
           in
           the
           Answer
           ,
           is
           Question
           the
           7
           th
           in
           the
           Proof
           .
           And
           this
           he
           does
           ,
           that
           the
           Reader
           ,
           if
           he
           has
           not
           the
           Answer
           before
           him
           ,
           may
           not
           be
           aware
           of
           his
           Falsification
           ,
           nor
           suspect
           that
           a
           man
           that
           first
           of
           all
           writes
           for
           the
           Publick
           ,
           and
           then
           engaged
           to
           
             set
             down
             the
             Questions
             in
             the
             order
             of
             the
          
           Answerer
           ,
           could
           be
           so
           false
           to
           both
           ,
           as
           to
           affirm
           ,
           
             there
             is
             not
             one
             word
             of
             Answer
             .
          
        
         
         
           
           
             Q
             4
             'T
             is
             in
             its
             whole
             extent
             this
          
           ;
           By
           what
           Text
           of
           Scripture
           are
           we
           plainly
           taught
           that
           God
           is
           One
           in
           Substance
           ,
           Three
           in
           Person
           ?
           For
           as
           
             Joh.
             10
             50.
          
           
           Christ
           says
           ,
           
             I
             and
             my
             Father
             are
             One
          
           ;
           so
           
             17.
             21.
          
           he
           prays
           ,
           
             That
             all
             Believers
             may
             be
             One
             ,
             as
             he
             and
             his
             Father
             are
             one
          
           ;
           This
           second
           place
           may
           seem
           to
           expound
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           then
           Christ
           and
           his
           Father
           will
           be
           One
           only
           morally
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           Believers
           be
           One.
           Or
           else
           ,
           what
           Texts
           declares
           the
           Three
           Persons
           to
           be
           One
           by
           identity
           of
           substance
           ?
        
         
           Ans
           .
           Not
           one
           Text
           of
           Scripture
           to
           give
           us
           the
           dubious
           Sense
           of
           the
           two
           in
           Question
           !
           And
           yet
           these
           men
           pretend
           to
           clear
           Scripture
           for
           each
           Fundamental
           Point
           !
           The
           Answerer
           supplies
           this
           want
           of
           Scripture
           with
           two
           Reasons
           .
           The
           first
           is
           this
           ,
           
             Of
             the
             Three
             that
             bear
             record
             in
             Heaven
             ,
             `t
             is
             said
             they
          
           are
           
             One
             ;
             but
             of
             the
             Three
             that
             bear
             witness
             on
             Earth
             ,
             they
          
           agree
           
             in
             one
          
           .
           (
           I
           will
           admit
           this
           English
           Translation
           ,
           tho
           Apocryphal
           .
           )
           But
           what
           then
           ?
           
             But
             if
             in
             both
             were
             meant
             only
             a
             moral
             Vnion
             ,
             it
             would
             have
             been
             as
             well
             said
             of
             the
             Three
             that
             bear
             record
             in
             Heaven
             ,
             they
          
           agree
           
             in
             One
             ;
             therefore
             they
             have
             more
             than
             a
             moral
             Vnion
             .
          
           Is
           not
           this
           special
           Logic
           ?
           Would
           not
           this
           way
           of
           arguing
           prove
           equally
           that
           the
           Believers
           are
           one
           with
           more
           than
           a
           moral
           Union
           ,
           because
           otherwise
           it
           might
           as
           w●ll
           have
           been
           said
           ,
           Joh.
           17.
           
           
             May
             they
             agree
             in
             one
          
           .
           The
           Question
           is
           ,
           Whether
           this
           second
           clear
           Text
           concerning
           the
           Three
           that
           bear
           Witness
           on
           Earth
           ,
           and
           which
           we
           know
           to
           be
           only
           
             morally
             One
          
           ,
           doth
           not
           expound
           what
           that
           Unity
           is
           ,
           that
           is
           found
           in
           the
           Three
           which
           bear
           record
           in
           Heaven
           ?
           We
           ask
           a
           proof
           out
           of
           Scripture
           to
           decide
           this
           doubt
           ;
           but
           our
           Answerer
           hath
           none
           to
           give
           us
           ,
           or
           is
           grown
           Churlish
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           allow
           us
           any
           .
           Hath
           he
           any
           to
           expound
           the
           other
           Text
           ?
           No
           ,
           not
           any
           ;
           but
           he
           offers
           at
           some
           Insinuation
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           `t
           is
           this
           :
           
             When
             Christ
             said
          
           ,
           I
           and
           my
           Father
           are
           One
           ,
           the
           Jews
           
             took
             up
             stones
             to
             stone
             him
             for
             blasphemy
             ,
             because
             that
             thou
             being
             a
             Man
             (
             said
             they
             )
             makest
             thy self
             God
             :
             The
          
           Jews
           
             then
             understood
             him
             to
             have
             spoken
             of
             a
             Natural
             Vnion
             ,
             therefore
             he
             did
             so
             .
          
           Well
           ,
           I
           will
           let
           my
           good
           nature
           work
           upon
           me
           once
           ,
           and
           for
           quiets
           sake
           I
           will
           let
           this
           Discourse
           pass
           as
           allowable
           ;
           But
           in
           return
           of
           Curtesy
           I
           hope
           each
           sober
           Protestant
           will
           own
           this
           following
           Argument
           to
           be
           of
           at
           least
           as
           good
           Alloy
           ;
           
             When
             Christ
             said
          
           ,
           Joh.
           6.
           
           Unless
           you
           eat
           the
           Flesh
           of
           the
           Son
           of
           Man
           ,
           you
           have
           no
           Life
           in
           you
           ;
           The
           Jews
           ,
           
             who
             said
             ,
             how
             can
             this
             man
             give
             us
             his
             Flesh
             to
             eat
             ?
             and
             his
             Disciples
             ,
             who
             walked
             no
             more
             with
             him
             ,
             understood
             that
             he
             spake
             of
             his
             natural
             Body
             which
             they
             should
             corporally
             eat
             ;
             therefore
             Christ
             did
             really
             mean
             they
             should
             corporally
             feed
             on
             his
             natural
             Flesh
             .
          
           This
           Popish
           Conclusion
           is
           in
           the
           same
           Form.
           
        
         
           
           This
           is
           the
           first
           Instance
           of
           Scripture's
           obscurity
           in
           matters
           necessary
           ,
           offered
           by
           the
           Addresser
           :
           And
           here
           the
           Answerer
           shewed
           in
           general
           ,
           how
           frivolous
           and
           absurd
           the
           way
           of
           arguing
           used
           on
           this
           matter
           ,
           by
           that
           Author
           ,
           was
           ;
           (
           to
           which
           we
           have
           not
           a
           word
           of
           Reply
           )
           and
           then
           particularly
           ,
           that
           the
           two
           Scriptures
           ,
           viz.
           1
           John
           5.
           7.
           and
           John
           10.
           30.
           usually
           insisted
           on
           amongst
           others
           in
           proof
           of
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           remain
           in
           their
           
           full
           force
           ,
           notwithstanding
           what
           the
           Addresser
           had
           objected
           against
           them
           .
           But
           to
           this
           the
           Prover
           now
           Replies
           ,
           
             There
             is
             not
             one
             Text
             of
             Scripture
             to
             give
             us
             the
             dubious
             Sense
             of
             the
             two
             in
             Question
             .
          
           What
           means
           he
           ?
           Would
           he
           have
           Texts
           to
           prove
           the
           Father
           ,
           the
           Word
           and
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           to
           be
           three
           Divine
           Persons
           ?
           That
           was
           not
           the
           
           Answerer's
           part
           to
           prove
           ;
           or
           if
           it
           was
           ,
           he
           
           might
           send
           him
           to
           his
           Friend
           Bellarmin
           ,
           who
           in
           Proof
           of
           the
           Deity
           of
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           has
           collected
           about
           100
           Texts
           of
           the
           Old
           and
           New
           Testament
           .
           Would
           he
           have
           some
           Chapter
           and
           Verse
           ,
           where
           are
           these
           or
           the
           like
           Words
           ,
           
             The
             word
          
           One
           ,
           
             in
             the
             first
             Epistle
             of
             St.
          
           John
           ;
           
             Item
             ,
             in
             St.
          
           John
           
             's
             Gospel
             ,
             signifies
             a
             strict
             Identity
          
           ;
           yes
           by
           all
           means
           ,
           for
           saith
           the
           
             Addresser
             ,
             This
             ought
             to
             be
             ,
             if
             all
             necessaries
             to
             Salvation
             are
             contained
             in
             Scripture
             .
          
        
         
           I
           thought
           our
           Author
           might
           by
           this
           time
           have
           been
           sensible
           of
           this
           weakness
           ;
           certainly
           this
           Gentleman's
           Condition
           calls
           for
           some
           Commiseration
           ;
           and
           he
           would
           do
           well
           to
           advise
           upon
           it
           ,
           whether
           the
           Scripture
           was
           originally
           divided
           into
           Chapter
           and
           Verse
           ;
           and
           whether
           
             Hugo
             Cardinalis
          
           ,
           and
           
             Robert
             Stephens
          
           ,
           were
           not
           very
           Ignorant
           ,
           or
           unadvised
           to
           Labour
           in
           this
           Work
           anew
           ,
           if
           so
           it
           had
           been
           .
        
         
           But
           is
           there
           no
           other
           way
           to
           give
           the
           Sense
           of
           these
           Texts
           ?
           Suppose
           we
           consider
           the
           Words
           and
           Phrases
           ,
           the
           Context
           and
           Scope
           of
           the
           Places
           in
           question
           ,
           and
           compare
           them
           with
           others
           ,
           and
           from
           all
           draw
           some
           good
           and
           substantial
           Reasons
           ;
           will
           not
           that
           be
           as
           proper
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           to
           the
           purpose
           ,
           as
           if
           we
           had
           Chapter
           and
           Verse
           in
           his
           way
           ?
           And
           this
           was
           the
           way
           taken
           by
           the
           Answerer
           .
           As
           for
           Example
           ,
           in
           1
           John
           5.
           7.
           
        
         
           1.
           
           It
           was
           there
           observed
           ,
           that
           it
           's
           as
           plainly
           said
           the
           Father
           ,
           the
           Word
           ,
           and
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           are
           One
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           are
           Three
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           That
           the
           Union
           betwixt
           these
           Three
           ,
           was
           not
           a
           mere
           moral
           Union
           ,
           or
           a
           Union
           only
           of
           Will
           and
           Consent
           ;
           for
           the
           Apostle
           
             makes
             a
             plain
             difference
             betwixt
             the
             Three
             that
             bear
             Record
             in
             Heaven
             ,
          
           and
           the
           Three
           that
           bear
           Witness
           in
           Earth
           :
           For
           of
           the
           Three
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           it
           's
           said
           ,
           they
           are
           One
           ;
           but
           of
           the
           Three
           in
           Earth
           ,
           they
           
             agree
             in
             one
          
           .
           Of
           this
           the
           Prover
           saith
           ,
           
             I
             will
             admit
             this
             English
             Translation
          
           [
           agree
           in
           one
           ]
           
             tho
             Apocryphal
          
           .
           Why
           an
           
             English
             Translation
          
           ?
           or
           why
           Apocryphal
           ?
           Unless
           it
           be
           that
           it
           's
           nor
           Verbatim
           ,
           according
           to
           what
           they
           call
           the
           Authentick
           Vulgar
           Translation
           .
           For
           otherwise
           their
           own
           Clarius
           and
           Bellarmin
           ,
           &c.
           do
           thus
           translate
           it
           ,
           
             Conveniunt
             in
             unum
             ,
             &
             conspirant
             in
             unum
             .
          
           But
           
             admit
             
             this
          
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             What
             then
          
           ?
           Then
           the
           Answerer
           thus
           proceeded
           in
           his
           Argument
           ,
           
             Now
             if
             it
             had
             been
             a
             mere
             moral
             Vnion
             that
             was
             betwixt
             the
             Father
             ,
             the
             Word
             ,
             and
             the
             Holy
             Ghost
             (
             who
             are
             the
             Three
             in
             Heaven
             )
             it
             would
             have
             been
             as
             well
             said
             of
             them
             as
             of
             the
             Spirit
             ,
             the
             Water
             and
             the
             Blood
             (
             which
             are
             the
             Three
             in
             Earth
             )
             that
             they
             agree
             in
             one
             .
          
           Here
           the
           Prover
           exults
           .
           
             Is
             not
             this
             special
             Logic
             ?
             Would
             not
             this
             way
             of
             arguing
             prove
             equally
             ,
             that
             the
             Believers
             are
             one
             ,
             with
             more
             than
             a
             moral
             Vnion
             ;
             because
             ,
             otherwise
             it
             might
             as
             well
             have
             been
             said
          
           Joh.
           17.
           
           
             May
             they
             agree
             in
             one
          
           ?
        
         
           As
           for
           the
           Logic
           ,
           it
           is
           
           Bellarmin's
           as
           well
           as
           the
           
           Answerer's
           ,
           who
           from
           the
           different
           Phrases
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           and
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           thus
           argues
           ,
           Whence
           
           
             you
             may
             plainly
             see
             ,
             that
             the
             Spirit
             ,
             Water
             ,
             and
             Blood
             ,
             are
             not
             One
             ,
          
           (
           as
           the
           Father
           ,
           the
           Word
           ,
           and
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           )
           
             but
             only
             do
             agree
             in
             one
             Testimony
             .
          
           And
           as
           for
           the
           Inference
           the
           Prover
           makes
           ,
           
             Would
             not
             this
             way
             of
             Arguing
             prove
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           I
           answer
           ,
           the
           Case
           is
           not
           alike
           .
           For
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           Force
           of
           the
           Argument
           doth
           not
           lie
           merely
           upon
           the
           difference
           of
           Phrase
           (
           for
           both
           Bellarmin
           and
           the
           Answerer
           knew
           how
           One
           is
           sometimes
           applied
           to
           a
           Moral
           Union
           ,
           as
           John
           17.
           )
           but
           upon
           its
           being
           used
           in
           this
           place
           by
           way
           of
           distinction
           betwixt
           things
           of
           a
           different
           nature
           ;
           for
           proof
           of
           which
           it
           's
           to
           be
           observed
           ,
           that
           the
           Apostle
           designing
           to
           shew
           the
           validity
           of
           the
           Testimony
           given
           to
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           v.
           5.
           which
           was
           twofold
           ;
           he
           further
           amplifies
           this
           ,
           and
           distinctly
           speaks
           to
           each
           of
           them
           ,
           ver
           .
           7.
           and
           tho
           both
           do
           give
           Testimony
           to
           the
           same
           Truth
           ,
           yet
           one
           in
           an
           higher
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           in
           a
           lower
           degree
           .
           As
           ,
        
         
           (
           1.
           )
           There
           are
           Three
           that
           bear
           Record
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           and
           Three
           in
           Earth
           .
        
         
           (
           2.
           )
           The
           Three
           in
           Heaven
           are
           One
           ,
           and
           the
           Three
           in
           Earth
           agree
           in
           One.
           By
           which
           way
           of
           arguing
           ,
           and
           the
           distinction
           observed
           betwixt
           them
           ,
           the
           ▪
           Apostle
           shows
           ,
           That
           the
           Three
           that
           bear
           Record
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           are
           not
           more
           different
           in
           their
           Nature
           and
           Place
           from
           the
           Three
           in
           Earth
           ,
           than
           in
           their
           Union
           :
           That
           they
           are
           both
           alike
           Three
           ,
           and
           both
           alike
           in
           their
           Testimony
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           one
           are
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           the
           other
           in
           Earth
           :
           The
           Three
           in
           Heaven
           are
           One
           ,
           but
           the
           Three
           in
           Earth
           agree
           in
           One
           :
           So
           that
           the
           Three
           in
           Earth
           are
           no
           more
           One
           ,
           as
           the
           Three
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           than
           the
           Three
           that
           bear
           Record
           in
           Earth
           ,
           are
           the
           Three
           that
           bear
           Record
           in
           Heaven
           .
        
         
         
           2.
           
           In
           confirmation
           of
           this
           ,
           it
           's
           observable
           ,
           that
           one
           of
           these
           Phrases
           is
           more
           fit
           to
           express
           a
           Natural
           than
           a
           Moral
           Union
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           
             they
             are
             One
          
           ,
           doth
           more
           aptly
           express
           it
           ,
           than
           
             they
             agree
             in
             One
          
           :
           And
           therefore
           whereas
           
             they
             are
             One
          
           ,
           may
           sometimes
           signifie
           a
           Moral
           Union
           ,
           and
           may
           then
           be
           interpreted
           by
           ,
           they
           
             agree
             in
             One
          
           ;
           yet
           
             agree
             in
             One
          
           cannot
           be
           interpreted
           by
           ,
           
             they
             are
             One.
          
           
        
         
           
             3.
             
             From
             hence
             we
             have
             an
             answer
             to
             that
             Question
             of
             his
             ,
          
           Whether
           this
           second
           clear
           Text
           concerning
           the
           Three
           that
           bear
           witness
           on
           Earth
           ,
           and
           which
           we
           know
           to
           be
           only
           Morally
           One
           ,
           doth
           not
           expound
           what
           that
           Vnity
           is
           that
           is
           found
           in
           the
           Three
           which
           bear
           Record
           in
           Heaven
           :
        
         
           I
           answer
           ,
           No
           ;
           for
           tho
           One
           sometimes
           signifies
           a
           Moral
           Union
           ,
           yet
           here
           ,
           if
           so
           understood
           ,
           it
           would
           quite
           destroy
           that
           distinction
           betwixt
           the
           one
           Three
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           ,
           and
           the
           Preference
           that
           the
           one
           Three
           had
           above
           the
           other
           Three
           in
           their
           Union
           .
        
         
           
             4.
             
             By
             this
             we
             are
             prepared
             also
             to
             answer
             to
             his
             other
             Argument
             ,
             when
             he
             saith
             ,
             that
             when
          
           our
           Saviour
           prays
           ,
           
             John
             17.
             21.
          
           that
           all
           believers
           may
           be
           one
           ,
           as
           he
           and
           his
           Father
           are
           one
           ,
           may
           seem
           to
           expound
           ,
           
             John
             10.
             58.
          
           
           I
           and
           my
           Father
           are
           one
           :
           and
           then
           Christ
           and
           his
           Father
           will
           be
           one
           only
           Morally
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           Believers
           are
           one
           .
           
             In
             answer
             to
             which
          
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           It
           's
           granted
           that
           the
           Father
           and
           the
           Son
           may
           be
           said
           to
           be
           one
           in
           a
           Moral
           Sense
           ,
           as
           one
           in
           consent
           .
           But
           ,
        
         
           2.
           
           It
           doth
           not
           follow
           ,
           that
           because
           the
           Father
           and
           Son
           are
           thus
           One
           ,
           that
           therefore
           they
           are
           no
           otherwise
           One
           ;
           and
           that
           all
           Believers
           are
           as
           much
           One
           ,
           as
           the
           Father
           and
           Son
           are
           One.
           
        
         
           3.
           
           It
           's
           evident
           from
           what
           is
           spoke
           by
           way
           of
           Explication
           in
           that
           place
           ,
           that
           it
           's
           otherwise
           ;
           for
           when
           ver
           .
           22.
           
           Christ
           prays
           ,
           
             that
             they
             may
             be
             one
             as
             we
             are
             one
             ,
          
           it
           's
           added
           ver
           .
           23.
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           (
           the
           same
           Phrase
           as
           1
           John
           5.
           8.
           
           )
           
             that
             they
             may
             be
             made
             perfect
             in
             one
          
           ;
           implying
           that
           the
           Unity
           betwixt
           Believers
           ,
           is
           of
           another
           nature
           than
           the
           Unity
           betwixt
           the
           Father
           and
           the
           Son.
           
        
         
           4.
           
           The
           Union
           of
           Believers
           in
           John
           17.
           cannot
           be
           applied
           to
           the
           Union
           betwixt
           the
           Father
           and
           the
           Son
           ,
           in
           John
           10.
           50.
           because
           this
           latter
           is
           a
           Union
           of
           Essence
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Will
           :
           And
           for
           confirmation
           of
           this
           ,
           the
           Answerer
           offered
           an
           Argument
           from
           the
           Text
           it self
           ;
           to
           take
           off
           the
           force
           of
           which
           ,
           the
           Prover
           in
           repeating
           it
           ,
           leaves
           out
           a
           main
           branch
           of
           it
           ;
           for
           thus
           he
           frames
           it
           
           for
           the
           Answerer
           ;
           
             When
             Christ
             said
             ,
             I
             and
             my
             Father
             are
             one
             ,
             the
             Jews
             took
             up
             stones
             to
             stone
             him
             for
             blasphemy
             ,
             because
             that
             thou
             being
             a
             man
             (
             said
             they
             )
             makest
             thy self
             God
             ;
             The
             Jews
             then
             understood
             him
             to
             have
             spoken
             of
             a
             Natural
             Vnion
             ,
             therefore
             he
             did
             so
             .
          
           But
           the
           Inference
           in
           the
           Answer
           was
           this
           ,
           
             It
             follows
             that
             neither
             did
             our
             Saviour
             speak
             ,
             nor
             the
          
           Jews
           
             understand
             him
             to
             have
             spoken
             of
             a
             Moral
             ,
             but
             a
             Natural
             Vnion
             .
          
           The
           first
           and
           the
           main
           Branch
           was
           ,
           That
           our
           Saviour
           himself
           spoke
           of
           a
           Natural
           Union
           ;
           the
           next
           was
           ,
           That
           the
           Jews
           understood
           him
           also
           to
           have
           spoken
           of
           it
           :
           And
           for
           the
           first
           ,
           I
           referred
           him
           to
           the
           Book
           ,
           called
           ,
           
             The
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             Trinity
             and
             Transubstantiation
             compared
          
           ;
           but
           it
           wants
           an
           Answer
           ,
           and
           so
           he
           cautiously
           takes
           no
           notice
           of
           it
           .
           But
           because
           he
           is
           herein
           so
           reserved
           ,
           let
           me
           recommend
           him
           to
           his
           Friend
           Bellarmin
           ,
           who
           concludes
           this
           Argument
           with
           ,
           Constat
           eos
           rectè
           intellexisse
           ,
           
             It
             's
             evident
          
           ,
           
           the
           Jews
           
             rightly
             understood
             our
             Saviour
          
           .
           But
           it
           seems
           this
           Advice
           comes
           too
           late
           ;
           for
           faith
           he
           ,
           
             I
             will
             let
             my
             good
             nature
          
           (
           I
           wish
           he
           could
           say
           sincerity
           )
           
             work
             upon
             me
             for
             once
             ;
             and
             for
             quiets
             sake
             ,
             I
             will
             let
             this
             discourse
             pass
             as
             allowable
             .
          
           Whence
           is
           it
           that
           all
           o'
           th'
           sudden
           he
           is
           in
           so
           good
           a
           humour
           ,
           and
           so
           forward
           in
           his
           allowances
           ?
           The
           good
           man
           could
           not
           contain
           himself
           longer
           ;
           for
           from
           a
           small
           advantage
           he
           espied
           (
           and
           which
           is
           somewhat
           rare
           with
           them
           now-a-days
           ,
           and
           therefore
           not
           to
           be
           let
           slip
           )
           he
           will
           yield
           ,
           tho
           the
           thing
           he
           yields
           be
           never
           so
           impertinent
           and
           absurd
           .
           
             Let
             this
             pass
          
           ;
           What
           then
           ?
           
             In
             return
             of
             Courtesie
          
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             I
             hope
             each
             sober
             Protestant
             will
             own
             this
             following
             Argument
             to
             be
             at
             least
             of
             as
             good
             alloy
             :
             When
             Christ
             said
             ,
          
           John
           6.
           
           
             Vnless
             you
             eat
             the
             Flesh
             ,
             &c.
             the
             Jews
             ,
             &c.
             understood
             that
             he
             spake
             of
             his
             Natural
             Body
             ,
             therefore
             Christ
             did
             really
             mean
             they
             should
             corporally
             feed
             on
             his
             Natural
             Flesh
             .
          
           But
           surely
           sober
           Protestants
           are
           for
           Reason
           ,
           Pertinence
           ,
           and
           Sincerity
           ;
           but
           however
           ,
           his
           Argument
           shall
           be
           allowable
           ,
           if
           he
           can
           make
           it
           as
           evident
           the
           Jews
           did
           not
           mistake
           when
           they
           understood
           Christ
           spake
           of
           
             his
             Natural
             Flesh
             ,
             and
             a
             corporal
             feeding
             on
             it
             :
          
           as
           it
           may
           be
           made
           appear
           ,
           they
           did
           not
           mistake
           him
           ,
           when
           they
           thought
           by
           his
           calling
           himself
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           that
           he
           meant
           he
           was
           essentially
           of
           the
           same
           Nature
           ,
           and
           one
           with
           God.
           
        
         
           
           Q
           ▪
           5.
           
           
             Is
             the
             mystery
             of
             the
             Incarnation
             of
             Christ
             clearly
             exprest
             in
             Scripture
             ?
          
           Or
           can
           it
           be
           clearly
           made
           out
           by
           Scripture
           ,
           that
           those
           words
           ,
           John
           1.
           
           
             The
             Word
             was
             made
             Flesh
          
           ,
           own'd
           by
           all
           Christians
           to
           be
           true
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           understood
           in
           such
           sense
           ,
           that
           Both
           Natures
           were
           in
           one
           Person
           ,
           so
           that
           what
           is
           said
           of
           the
           Man
           Christ
           Jesus
           ,
           be
           truly
           said
           of
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ;
           for
           
           example
           ,
           that
           the
           B.
           Virgin
           was
           
             mother
             of
             God
          
           ;
           and
           not
           as
           the
           Nestorians
           understood
           them
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           that
           Christ
           was
           indeed
           a
           
             true
             man
             ,
             made
             of
             the
             Seed
             of
             David
          
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Eternal
           Word
           ,
           true
           God
           ,
           was
           indeed
           in
           him
           ,
           but
           not
           by
           a
           strict
           Personal
           Union
           ?
        
         
           Ans
           .
           Not
           one
           word
           from
           Scripture
           .
           What
           indeed
           all
           the
           Nestorians
           supposed
           ,
           he
           proves
           ;
           but
           as
           to
           the
           Unity
           of
           One
           Person
           uniting
           these
           two
           Natures
           ,
           not
           
             one
             word
          
           .
           This
           man
           (
           any
           one
           may
           see
           )
           is
           of
           those
           who
           take
           the
           Nestorians
           to
           be
           a
           part
           of
           the
           Catholick
           Church
           ;
           and
           no
           one
           will
           grudge
           their
           Congregation
           the
           Title
           of
           
             such
             a
             part
          
           of
           the
           Catholick
           Church
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           a
           Member
           severed
           from
           the
           One
           Body
           of
           Christ
           .
        
         
           
           The
           Prover
           saith
           ,
           
             What
             all
             the
          
           Nestorians
           
             supposcd
             he
             proves
             ,
             but
             as
             to
             the
             Vnity
             of
             one
             Person
             ,
             &c.
             not
             one
             word
             .
          
           Put
           case
           the
           Answerer
           had
           proved
           no
           more
           than
           what
           our
           Author
           now
           saith
           
             Nestorius
             supposed
          
           ,
           if
           he
           proved
           what
           was
           sufficient
           to
           confute
           what
           the
           Addresser
           supposed
           for
           Nestorius
           ;
           and
           then
           the
           Answerer
           could
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           the
           Addresser
           then
           knew
           ,
           be
           no
           Nestorian
           .
           Let
           us
           then
           see
           how
           the
           Addresser
           represented
           this
           Heresie
           .
           Nestorius
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             and
             others
             denied
             that
             word
          
           (
           is
           made
           Flesh
           )
           
             to
             signifie
             a
             strict
             Incarnation
          
           .
           But
           what
           then
           did
           he
           and
           others
           hold
           ?
           
             but
             either
             a
             Moral
             Vnion
             ,
             or
             a
             meer
             External
             appearance
             of
             a
             man.
          
           He
           tells
           us
           not
           whether
           both
           of
           these
           ,
           or
           which
           of
           these
           was
           the
           opinion
           of
           Nestorius
           ;
           but
           I
           shall
           not
           take
           this
           advantage
           ,
           but
           suppose
           he
           meant
           the
           first
           ,
           a
           
             Moral
             Vnion
          
           :
           And
           what
           is
           that
           ?
           He
           tells
           us
           
             (
             p.
          
           3.
           and
           as
           quoted
           in
           the
           
             Answer
             ,
             p.
          
           20.
           )
           
             that
             is
             ,
             he
             was
             a
             Man
             who
             had
             the
             Authority
             of
             God
             as
             his
             Plenipotentiary
             .
          
           Where
           first
           ,
           his
           account
           of
           a
           
             Moral
             Vnion
          
           is
           very
           extravagant
           ;
           as
           if
           the
           being
           employed
           by
           another
           ,
           would
           make
           him
           ,
           for
           that
           reason
           ,
           to
           be
           Morally
           one
           with
           him
           that
           employs
           him
           ;
           but
           that
           Author
           is
           to
           be
           pardoned
           ,
           who
           understands
           not
           the
           difference
           betwixt
           a
           Moral
           and
           Political
           Union
           .
           And
           again
           ,
           he
           shewed
           himself
           not
           acquainted
           with
           the
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           when
           he
           saith
           the
           Heresie
           of
           Nestorius
           consisted
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           he
           denied
           Christ
           to
           be
           united
           to
           the
           Word
           ,
           otherwise
           
           than
           Morally
           ;
           whereas
           St.
           Cyril
           saith
           ,
           he
           granted
           that
           Emanuel
           ,
           or
           Christ
           ,
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           
             was
             constituted
             and
             compounded
             of
             the
             Word
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             an
             Intelligent
             Soul
             and
             a
             Body
             .
          
           But
           then
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           he
           divided
           one
           Christ
           into
           Two
           ;
           so
           that
           he
           that
           is
           born
           of
           the
           Virgin
           ,
           is
           perfect
           man
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ;
           the
           one
           mere
           man
           ,
           the
           other
           true
           God
           :
           The
           Word
           ,
           the
           true
           and
           Eternal
           Son
           of
           God
           ;
           but
           that
           which
           is
           born
           of
           the
           Virgin
           is
           equivocally
           the
           Son
           of
           God.
           Thus
           that
           Father
           .
        
         
           But
           he
           will
           say
           I
           am
           now
           better
           informed
           :
           Thanks
           to
           the
           Answerer
           ,
           
           who
           gently
           intimated
           to
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           out
           of
           the
           way
           ;
           and
           to
           his
           Friend
           that
           has
           since
           set
           him
           in
           the
           right
           .
        
         
           But
           after
           all
           ,
           was
           there
           
             not
             one
             word
          
           in
           the
           Answer
           
             as
             to
             the
             Vnity
             of
             one
             Person
             ,
             uniting
             these
             two
             Natures
             ?
          
           Let
           him
           but
           cast
           his
           eye
           upon
           it
           again
           ,
           and
           he
           will
           see
           this
           to
           be
           the
           Conclusion
           of
           the
           Argument
           ,
           
             Then
             there
             must
             be
             in
             him
          
           (
           Christ
           )
           
             two
             Natures
             united
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             Incarnation
             .
          
           If
           the
           Incarnation
           be
           the
           Union
           of
           two
           Natures
           in
           Christ
           ,
           the
           Word
           ,
           and
           this
           was
           rightly
           inferred
           from
           what
           went
           before
           ;
           then
           what
           shall
           I
           say
           ?
           Our
           Author
           has
           not
           dealt
           fairly
           with
           his
           Adversary
           :
           And
           if
           this
           be
           to
           be
           a
           Nestorian
           ,
           then
           so
           was
           St.
           Cyril
           ,
           so
           was
           the
           Couneil
           that
           condemncd
           him
           ;
           for
           so
           St.
           Cyril
           describes
           the
           Incarnation
           ,
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ;
           
           
             when
             the
             Word
             was
             united
             to
             a
             Body
             informed
             by
             a
             Rational
             Soul.
             
          
        
         
           
           Q.
           6.
           
           The
           first
           branch
           of
           this
           Question
           is
           ,
           What
           Scripture
           hath
           absolved
           us
           from
           obeying
           one
           of
           the
           Commandments
           ,
           which
           imposes
           the
           keeping
           of
           Saturday
           holy
           ?
           The
           second
           ,
           What
           Text
           of
           Scripture
           exacts
           of
           us
           the
           keeping
           holy
           (
           as
           the
           Lords
           day
           )
           the
           Sunday
           ?
        
         
           Ans
           .
           To
           the
           first
           part
           ,
           not
           one
           word
           of
           Scripture
           ;
           and
           for
           excuse
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           That
           
             there
             was
             no
             need
             of
             an
             express
             abrogation
             ,
          
           because
           
             Sunday
             being
             set
             apart
             for
             the
             publick
             and
             solemn
             Worship
             of
             God
             ,
             the
             Sabboth-day
             as
             well
             as
             the
             Holy-days
             and
             New-moons
             of
             the
          
           Jews
           ,
           
             being
             a
             shadow
             ,
             must
             surrender
             to
             the
             Sunday
             .
          
           Here
           is
           as
           little
           Reason
           as
           Scripture
           ;
           for
           the
           Sabboth
           did
           appertain
           to
           the
           Law
           of
           Nature
           ,
           and
           was
           not
           a
           shadow
           only
           of
           a
           thing
           to
           come
           ,
           but
           a
           memory
           of
           the
           past
           ,
           and
           never-to-be-forgotten
           benefit
           of
           the
           Creation
           ,
           from
           the
           work
           whereof
           God
           rested
           on
           that
           day
           ,
           and
           
             blessed
             the
             seventh
             day
          
           .
           Here
           't
           is
           pity
           at
           what
           a
           loss
           the
           Answerer
           is
           
           to
           find
           the
           Chapter
           and
           Verse
           wherein
           the
           abrogation
           of
           Circumcision
           is
           clearly
           exprest
           ;
           'T
           is
           a
           charitable
           condescendency
           to
           instruct
           him
           ;
           let
           him
           look
           then
           in
           Gal.
           5.
           2.
           where
           behold
           Paul
           
             tells
             you
          
           ,
           that
           
             if
             you
             be
             circumcised
             ,
             Christ
             shall
             profit
             you
             nothing
             .
          
        
         
           For
           the
           second
           part
           ,
           he
           produces
           a
           Text
           ,
           Rev.
           1.
           10.
           
           
             I
             was
             in
             spirit
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
          
           ;
           then
           he
           flourishes
           to
           teach
           us
           ignorant
           people
           ,
           that
           
             't
             is
             usual
             in
             Scripture
             ,
             after
             that
             Times
             ,
             Places
             ,
             Things
             and
             Persons
             were
             set
             apart
             for
             the
             service
             of
             God
             by
             Divine
             Institution
             ,
             to
             have
             his
             Name
             as
             a
             mark
             of
             propriety
             given
             to
             them
             .
          
           But
           in
           the
           name
           of
           sense
           and
           reason
           ,
           what
           means
           all
           this
           ?
           There
           is
           a
           Lords
           day
           ,
           no
           doubt
           ;
           St.
           John
           was
           in
           spirit
           that
           day
           ,
           't
           is
           certain
           ;
           but
           the
           question
           is
           ,
           
             What
             day
             of
             the
             week
          
           was
           it
           ?
           or
           was
           it
           only
           some
           peculiar
           day
           of
           the
           year
           ,
           as
           Easter-day
           ,
           or
           Good-friday
           ?
           Hath
           he
           Scripture
           for
           this
           ?
           Not
           one
           word
           .
           I
           find
           forty
           Texts
           that
           call
           the
           day
           of
           general
           Judgment
           ,
           or
           that
           of
           each
           man's
           death
           ,
           the
           
             Lord's
             day
          
           ;
           but
           not
           one
           that
           mentions
           Sunday
           under
           that
           name
           .
           I
           find
           ,
           Act.
           2.
           46.
           
             how
             they
             that
             believed
             were
          
           daily
           
             continuing
             with
             one
             accord
             in
             the
             Temple
             ,
             or
             breaking
             Bread
             from
             house
             to
             house
             ,
          
           but
           not
           a
           word
           of
           a
           day
           appointed
           for
           stated
           Assemblies
           .
        
         
         
           Scripture
           failing
           our
           Adversary
           ,
           he
           seeks
           supplies
           from
           Reason
           ;
           but
           the
           misfortune
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           first
           and
           chiefest
           he
           offers
           at
           ,
           stands
           against
           him
           ;
           
             The
             Moral
             Sabboth
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           in
           the
           Patriarchal
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Ceremonial
           in
           the
           Jewish
           Church
           ,
           were
           on
           the
           days
           following
           the
           Creation
           and
           Deliverance
           from
           the
           Slavery
           of
           Aegypt
           .
           True
           ,
           but
           what
           follows
           ?
           Therefore
           't
           is
           not
           to
           be
           kept
           by
           Christians
           on
           the
           day
           in
           which
           Christ
           rested
           after
           he
           had
           accomplish`d
           our
           Redemption
           on
           the
           Cross
           by
           a
           solemn
           
             Consummatum
             est
          
           ,
           and
           his
           precious
           Death
           ?
           Not
           on
           Saturday
           ?
           Raillery
           aside
           ,
           what
           can
           be
           (
           I
           will
           not
           say
           more
           dull
           ,
           but
           )
           spoken
           more
           directly
           in
           spight
           of
           sense
           and
           reason
           ?
        
         
           
           Our
           Author
           for
           convenience
           to
           himself
           ,
           has
           transposed
           the
           Questions
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           first
           in
           the
           Address
           ,
           is
           now
           the
           last
           .
           Let
           him
           quietly
           enjoy
           the
           benefit
           of
           it
           ;
           I
           shall
           begin
           as
           he
           now
           begins
           .
        
         
           
             Q.
             1.
          
           
           What
           Scripture
           hath
           absolved
           us
           from
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           To
           this
           I
           gave
           ,
           in
           short
           ,
           a
           Threefold
           answer
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           He
           requiring
           Chapter
           and
           Verse
           ,
           I
           told
           him
           ,
           
             When
             he
             could
             find
             out
             Chapter
             and
             Verse
             for
             an
             express
             and
             clear
             abrogation
             of
             Circumcision
             ,
             I
             would
             shew
             him
             Chapter
             and
             Verse
             for
             that
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             .
          
           Here
           out
           of
           his
           abundant
           
             charitable
             condescendency
          
           he
           vouchsafes
           
             to
             instruct
          
           me
           ,
           and
           hands
           me
           to
           Gal.
           5.
           2.
           
           
             Where
             behold
             Paul
             tells
             you
             ,
             that
             if
             you
             be
             circumcised
             ,
             Christ
             shall
             profit
             you
             nothing
             .
          
           And
           yet
           I
           do
           not
           find
           there
           is
           a
           
             clear
             and
             express
             abrogation
          
           of
           it
           .
           An
           Abrogation
           is
           a
           total
           abolition
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           if
           it
           was
           abrogated
           so
           as
           that
           whoever
           was
           thereafter
           Circumcised
           ,
           could
           have
           no
           profit
           by
           Christ
           ;
           then
           all
           so
           Circumcised
           were
           in
           a
           state
           of
           Damnation
           .
           And
           here
           it
           would
           be
           fit
           to
           know
           when
           this
           abrogation
           did
           commence
           ?
           For
           Act.
           16.
           3.
           we
           find
           Paul
           to
           Circumcise
           Timothy
           ;
           and
           not
           long
           before
           St.
           
           Paul's
           being
           a
           Prisoner
           ,
           and
           being
           carried
           to
           Rome
           ,
           the
           solemn
           Assembly
           declared
           that
           there
           
             were
             many
             thousands
          
           of
           the
           Jewish
           Christians
           which
           
             were
             zealous
             of
             the
             Law
          
           ;
           and
           that
           St.
           Paul
           was
           reputed
           to
           be
           too
           forward
           in
           teaching
           
             the
             Gentiles
             ought
             not
             to
             circumcise
             their
             children
             ,
          
           Act.
           21.
           20
           ,
           21.
           
           So
           that
           the
           Apostle's
           censure
           of
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           universally
           understood
           ;
           but
           is
           only
           a
           preventing
           of
           their
           imposing
           it
           upon
           the
           Gentiles
           ,
           and
           requiring
           it
           as
           necessary
           to
           Justification
           and
           Salvation
           .
           And
           of
           these
           that
           held
           it
           thus
           necessary
           ,
           he
           saith
           ,
           
             If
             ye
             be
             circumcised
          
           ,
           upon
           these
           terms
           ,
           
             Christ
             shall
             profit
             you
             nothing
             ;
             if
             ye
             are
             justified
             ,
          
           and
           expect
           justification
           
             by
             the
             Law
             ,
             ye
             are
             fallen
             from
             grace
             ,
          
           ver
           .
           4.
           
        
         
         
           2.
           
           I
           shewed
           there
           was
           no
           more
           a
           need
           of
           an
           express
           abrogation
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           ,
           than
           there
           was
           of
           the
           abrogation
           of
           Circumcision
           ;
           because
           if
           the
           Lord's
           day
           was
           instituted
           ,
           and
           which
           in
           the
           order
           of
           
             the
             Answer
          
           was
           first
           prov'd
           ,
           the
           Sabbath
           must
           in
           reason
           surrender
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           I
           shewed
           it
           from
           Col.
           2.
           16.
           where
           the
           Sabbath
           is
           said
           to
           be
           a
           shadow
           of
           things
           to
           come
           ,
           and
           so
           was
           to
           cease
           by
           the
           coming
           of
           Christ
           ,
           as
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           same
           kind
           .
           He
           saith
           of
           this
           ,
           
             there
             is
             as
             little
             reason
             as
             Scripture
          
           ;
           but
           if
           there
           be
           as
           much
           reason
           as
           Scripture
           ,
           he
           had
           no
           cause
           to
           complain
           :
           But
           he
           first
           takes
           care
           to
           leave
           out
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           exclaim
           ,
           
             not
             one
             Word
             of
             Scripture
          
           .
           Well!
           what
           has
           he
           to
           say
           to
           
             that
             little
             Reason
          
           that
           there
           is
           ?
           He
           saith
           ,
           
             The
             Sabboth
             did
             appertain
             to
             the
             Law
             of
             Nature
             ,
             and
             was
             not
             a
             Shadow
             only
             of
             a
             thing
             to
             come
             ,
             but
             a
             Memory
          
           [
           he
           would
           say
           ,
           a
           Memorial
           ]
           
             of
             the
             Creation
          
           .
           But
           did
           it
           otherwise
           appertain
           to
           the
           Law
           of
           Nature
           ,
           than
           as
           it
           was
           of
           Divine
           Institution
           ?
           Or
           ,
           was
           it
           then
           so
           a
           Memorial
           of
           what
           was
           past
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           be
           a
           Shadow
           of
           somewhat
           to
           come
           ?
           Let
           him
           see
           how
           the
           Apostle
           applies
           it
           ,
           Heb.
           4.
           9
           ,
           10.
           
           But
           ,
           suppose
           that
           it
           was
           a
           Memorial
           of
           the
           Creation
           (
           as
           it
           was
           )
           and
           a
           Shadow
           to
           the
           Jews
           (
           as
           he
           owns
           )
           then
           being
           both
           were
           but
           one
           and
           the
           same
           day
           ,
           how
           could
           the
           Observation
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           be
           abrogated
           as
           a
           Shadow
           ,
           and
           not
           also
           as
           a
           Memorial
           ,
           since
           the
           same
           Day
           that
           was
           for
           the
           one
           ,
           was
           also
           for
           the
           other
           ?
           Thus
           we
           find
           there
           was
           a
           Patriarchal
           Circumcision
           ,
           and
           a
           Mosaical
           ,
           as
           our
           Saviour
           shews
           ,
           
             John
             ▪
          
           7.
           22.
           
           And
           the
           question
           then
           is
           ,
           Whether
           the
           Abrogation
           of
           the
           Mosaical
           ,
           was
           not
           also
           the
           Abrogation
           of
           the
           Patriarchal
           Circumcision
           ?
           And
           ,
           whether
           what
           holds
           in
           the
           one
           ,
           doth
           not
           hold
           in
           the
           other
           .
        
         
           2
           d
           Branch
           ,
           
             What
             Text
             of
             Scripture
             exacts
             of
             us
             the
             keeping
             the
             Sunday
             holy
             ?
          
           Or
           what
           Scripture
           have
           we
           for
           the
           Divine
           Institution
           of
           it
           ?
        
         
           As
           to
           this
           by
           way
           of
           Preparation
           ,
           I.
           
        
         
           1.
           
           Gave
           a
           general
           Reason
           ,
           which
           our
           Author
           for
           a
           little
           Advantage
           ,
           has
           set
           last
           ,
           and
           very
           unworthily
           abused
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           set
           them
           one
           against
           the
           other
           ,
           before
           the
           Reader
           .
        
         
           
           
             
               
                 
                   Answer
                   .
                
                 
                   There
                   is
                   as
                   much
                   in
                   the
                   reason
                   of
                   the
                   thing
                   for
                   this
                   peculiar
                   day
                   to
                   be
                   observed
                   in
                   the
                   Christian
                   Church
                   ,
                   as
                   there
                   was
                   for
                   the
                   Sabbath
                   in
                   the
                   Patriarchal
                   and
                   Jewish
                   Church
                   ;
                   for
                   what
                   the
                   Moral
                   Sabbath
                   was
                   to
                   Man
                   upon
                   his
                   Creation
                   ;
                   and
                   the
                   Ceremonial
                   Sabbath
                   was
                   to
                   the
                   Jews
                   upon
                   their
                   deliverance
                   out
                   of
                   Egypt
                   ;
                   that
                   is
                   the
                   first
                   day
                   of
                   the
                   Week
                   ,
                   or
                   the
                   Lord's
                   day
                   to
                   Christians
                   upon
                   our
                   Redemption
                   by
                   Christ
                   ,
                   which
                   was
                   accomplished
                   and
                   testified
                   in
                   his
                   Resurrection
                   on
                   that
                   day
                   .
                
              
            
          
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   Clear
                   Proof
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   Moral
                   Sabbath
                   in
                   the
                   Patriarchal
                   Church
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Ceremonial
                   in
                   the
                   Jewish
                   Church
                   ,
                   were
                   on
                   the
                   days
                   following
                   the
                   Creation
                   and
                   Deliverance
                   from
                   Egypt
                   .
                   Therefore
                   't
                   is
                   not
                   to
                   be
                   kept
                   by
                   Christians
                   on
                   the
                   day
                   in
                   which
                   Christ
                   rested
                   after
                   he
                   had
                   accomplished
                   our
                   Redemption
                   on
                   the
                   Cross
                   ,
                   by
                   a
                   Solemn
                   
                     Consummatum
                     est
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   his
                   precious
                   Death
                   ?
                   Not
                   on
                   Saturday
                   ?
                
              
            
          
        
         
           And
           then
           he
           Triumphs
           ,
           
             What
             can
             be
             (
             I
             will
             not
             say
             more
             dull
             ,
             but
             )
             spoken
             more
             directly
             in
             spight
             of
             Sense
             and
             Reason
             ?
          
           And
           I
           will
           add
           ,
           what
           can
           be
           more
           false
           ,
           than
           what
           he
           here
           puts
           upon
           the
           Answerer
           (
           and
           that
           is
           somewhat
           a
           worse
           Charge
           than
           Dulness
           )
           when
           in
           spight
           of
           honesty
           ,
           he
           shall
           thus
           manifestly
           pervert
           that
           which
           lay
           clear
           before
           him
           ,
           into
           ridiculous
           Nonsense
           ?
        
         
           It
           's
           manifest
           ,
           he
           has
           here
           nothing
           to
           say
           ,
           unless
           he
           will
           say
           ,
           there
           is
           not
           as
           much
           reason
           in
           the
           nature
           of
           the
           thing
           ,
           for
           the
           Observation
           of
           one
           day
           in
           seven
           ,
           in
           memory
           of
           our
           Redemption
           ,
           as
           there
           was
           for
           it
           in
           the
           Creation
           ,
           or
           the
           Deliverance
           out
           of
           Egypt
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           I
           particularly
           proved
           it
           from
           the
           Mark
           of
           Divine
           Institution
           set
           upon
           it
           ,
           in
           the
           Name
           ,
           the
           
             Lord's
             day
             ,
             Rev.
          
           1.
           10.
           it
           being
           usual
           in
           Scripture
           to
           have
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Lord
           applied
           to
           Times
           ,
           Places
           ,
           Persons
           and
           Things
           ,
           when
           set
           apart
           by
           Divine
           Institution
           .
        
         
           To
           this
           he
           Replies
           .
        
         
           
             The
             Question
             is
          
           ,
           What
           day
           of
           the
           Week
           that
           was
           in
           the
           Revelation
           ?
           Or
           ,
           was
           it
           only
           some
           peculiar
           day
           of
           the
           year
           ,
           as
           Easter-day
           ,
           or
           Good-Friday
           ?
        
         
           To
           which
           I
           Answer
           .
        
         
         
           1.
           
           If
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Lord
           be
           not
           without
           a
           reason
           applied
           to
           a
           Day
           ,
           then
           it
           's
           evident
           that
           no
           day
           of
           the
           Week
           has
           any
           Colour
           or
           Pretence
           to
           it
           ,
           but
           the
           First
           day
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           It
           cannot
           be
           reasonably
           supposed
           to
           be
           
             some
             peculiar
             day
             of
             the
             year
             ,
          
           as
           Easter-day
           ,
           or
           Good-Friday
           .
        
         
           (
           1.
           )
           Because
           we
           are
           certain
           ,
           that
           the
           first
           day
           of
           the
           Week
           was
           observed
           in
           Apostolical
           times
           (
           as
           I
           shewed
           from
           Scripture
           )
           but
           we
           are
           not
           certain
           of
           these
           ;
           there
           being
           not
           one
           word
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           that
           looks
           that
           way
           .
           And
           when
           St.
           Austin
           saith
           of
           
           the
           Anniversary
           Observation
           of
           the
           days
           of
           Christ's
           Passion
           ,
           Resurrection
           ,
           Ascension
           ,
           and
           the
           Descent
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           that
           they
           
             were
             observed
             in
             the
             whole
             World
          
           ;
           he
           adds
           ,
           
             it
             's
             to
             be
             belived
             such
             things
             so
             observed
             ,
             were
             commanded
             and
             appointed
             by
             the
             Apostles
             ,
             or
             General
             Councils
             .
          
           He
           saith
           ,
           it
           's
           to
           
             be
             believed
          
           they
           were
           appointed
           by
           one
           or
           the
           other
           ;
           not
           being
           able
           to
           determine
           which
           ;
           but
           we
           know
           that
           there
           was
           no
           General
           Council
           till
           above
           300
           years
           after
           Christ
           .
        
         
           (
           2.
           )
           Easter-day
           (
           which
           has
           the
           nearest
           pretence
           both
           in
           Reason
           and
           Antiquity
           )
           cannot
           be
           the
           Lord's
           day
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           distinguished
           .
           So
           St.
           
             Austin
             ,
             We
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             solemnly
             celebrate
             the
          
           
           
             Lord's
             day
             ,
             and
          
           Easter
           .
           And
           the
           Eastern
           Churches
           ,
           particularly
           ,
           that
           of
           Ephesus
           (
           where
           St.
           John
           more
           especally
           was
           ,
           did
           observe
           Easter
           according
           to
           the
           Moon
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           day
           of
           the
           Week
           ;
           and
           that
           so
           early
           ,
           as
           An.
           197.
           when
           Polycrates
           Bishop
           of
           Ephesus
           ,
           and
           a
           Council
           of
           Bishops
           concurring
           with
           him
           ,
           wrote
           to
           
           Victor
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ,
           who
           threatned
           to
           Excommunicate
           them
           for
           it
           ;
           that
           they
           feared
           him
           not
           ,
           
             for
             it
             was
             better
             to
             obey
             God
             than
             Man.
          
           As
           for
           
           Good-Friday's
           being
           the
           Lord's
           day
           ,
           that
           I
           believe
           is
           a
           Nostrum
           of
           our
           Author's
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Question
           put
           by
           him
           ,
           is
           ,
           
             What
             day
             of
             the
             Week
             the
             Lords
             day
             is
             on
             ?
          
        
         
           2.
           
           He
           answers
           ,
           
             I
             find
             forty
             Texts
             that
             call
             the
             day
             of
             general
             Judgment
             ,
             or
             that
             of
             each
             man's
             death
             ,
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             but
             not
             one
             that
             mentions
             Sunday
             under
             that
             name
             .
          
           What
           follows
           ?
           Therefore
           the
           Lord's
           day
           St.
           John
           was
           in
           the
           Spirit
           upon
           ,
           was
           the
           day
           of
           Judgment
           or
           death
           ,
           and
           not
           Sunday
           .
           But
           he
           will
           say
           this
           is
           a
           little
           too
           much
           ;
           for
           the
           use
           he
           makes
           of
           this
           Observation
           ,
           is
           to
           shew
           ,
           that
           that
           day
           ,
           whatever
           it
           was
           ,
           might
           be
           called
           the
           
             Lord's
             day
          
           ,
           and
           yet
           not
           be
           of
           Divine
           Institution
           .
           Very
           well
           :
           but
           yet
           I
           find
           the
           day
           of
           Judgment
           ,
           (
           for
           indeed
           the
           day
           of
           death
           is
           not
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           I
           remember
           ,
           call'd
           the
           
             Lord's
             day
          
           in
           Scripture
           )
           to
           be
           of
           Divine
           
           Ordination
           :
           So
           Matth.
           24.
           36.
           and
           Acts
           17.
           31.
           
           
             He
             hath
             appointed
             a
             day
          
           ;
           and
           is
           therefore
           a
           confirmation
           of
           what
           he
           would
           confute
           by
           it
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           I
           offer'd
           further
           in
           proof
           of
           a
           Divine
           Institution
           ,
           That
           that
           day
           was
           consecrated
           by
           the
           Descent
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           upon
           it
           .
           But
           to
           this
           he
           found
           nothing
           to
           reply
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           I
           proved
           it
           from
           the
           observation
           of
           that
           day
           ,
           and
           the
           Service
           celebrated
           upon
           it
           ,
           Act.
           20.
           7.
           1
           
           Cor.
           16.
           2.
           
           What
           has
           he
           here
           to
           say
           ?
           
             I
             find
          
           ,
           Acts
           2.
           46.
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             how
             they
             that
             believed
             were
             daily
             continuing
             in
             the
             Temple
             ;
             but
             not
             a
             word
             of
             a
             day
             appointed
             for
             solemn
             Assemblies
             .
          
           What
           use
           can
           be
           made
           of
           this
           accurate
           Observation
           ,
           and
           the
           stress
           he
           lays
           upon
           daily
           ;
           What
           but
           this
           ?
           The
           believers
           daily
           resorted
           to
           the
           Temple
           ,
           therefore
           they
           had
           no
           peculiar
           day
           ;
           and
           so
           it
           follows
           most
           admirably
           ,
           the
           
             Jews
             daily
          
           repaired
           to
           the
           Temple
           ,
           therefore
           they
           had
           no
           peculiar
           day
           ,
           no
           Sabbath
           .
           But
           he
           finds
           
             not
             a
             word
             of
             a
             day
             appointed
             for
             stated
             Assemblies
             ,
          
           no
           not
           so
           much
           as
           Acts
           20.
           7.
           
           &c.
           quoted
           and
           insisted
           on
           in
           the
           Answer
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           dismiss'd
           the
           third
           question
           of
           the
           Answer
           ,
           with
           all
           the
           supernumerary
           Questions
           collected
           out
           of
           it
           by
           
             the
             Prover
          
           ;
           I
           went
           to
           look
           for
           Question
           the
           fourth
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           in
           
             the
             Answer
          
           ,
           and
           put
           by
           the
           Addresser
           ;
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           
             Whether
             it
             be
             necessary
             to
             salvation
             for
             him
             to
             believe
             the
             Trinity
             and
             Incarnation
             ,
             that
             cannot
             find
             them
             clearly
             express'd
             in
             Scripture
             ,
             though
             he
             reads
             it
             sincerely
             ,
             and
             with
             humility
             .
          
           But
           of
           this
           ,
           not
           a
           word
           .
           We
           
             may
             guess
             at
             the
             reason
             without
             casting
             a
             figure
             .
          
           However
           ,
           it
           's
           a
           little
           more
           honest
           to
           omit
           a
           Paragraph
           ,
           than
           it
           is
           to
           pervert
           it
           .
           The
           former
           is
           an
           implicit
           acknowledgment
           of
           Truth
           ,
           the
           latter
           is
           a
           renouncing
           it
           .
        
         
           
           
             Q.
             7.
          
           
           Am
           I
           bound
           to
           believe
           
             (
             the
             sense
             given
             to
             a
             doubtful
             Text
             )
          
           because
           my
           Guides
           tell
           me
           I
           must
           do
           so
           ?
        
         
           Ans
           .
           No
           ,
           plainly
           No
           :
           And
           he
           hath
           two
           Texts
           for
           it
           ;
           the
           first
           ,
           2
           Cor.
           1.
           24.
           
           
             Not
             for
             that
             we
             have
             dominion
             over
             your
             Faith
             ,
             but
             are
             helpers
             ,
          
           says
           St.
           Paul
           ;
           and
           Mat.
           23.
           8.
           
           
             Call
             no
             man
             Master
             on
             earth
             ,
             for
             one
             is
             your
             Master
             .
          
           Here
           not
           only
           the
           Walls
           of
           the
           City
           of
           God
           are
           broken
           down
           ,
           but
           the
           very
           Foundations
           (
           of
           Prophets
           and
           Apostles
           )
           are
           digg'd
           up
           ;
           is
           it
           all
           St.
           Paul
           could
           do
           ,
           all
           you
           allow
           him
           ,
           to
           give
           
             some
             light
             ,
             some
             helps
          
           ,
           when
           his
           Proselytes
           had
           any
           doubt
           about
           the
           sense
           of
           Scripture
           ?
           Were
           they
           not
           oblig'd
           to
           believe
           the
           Sense
           and
           Interpretation
           He
           gave
           to
           the
           Text
           ?
           Then
           that
           Faith
           is
           vain
           which
           was
           founded
           on
           the
           Apostles
           Preaching
           ,
           and
           all
           Christianity
           stands
           on
           a
           wrong
           bottom
           .
        
         
         
           
           Here
           our
           Author
           is
           guilty
           of
           another
           omission
           ;
           For
           the
           Answerer
           exhibited
           a
           five-fold
           Charge
           against
           him
           of
           Fallacy
           and
           Collusion
           ,
           which
           he
           has
           taken
           no
           manner
           of
           care
           to
           clear
           himself
           of
           ;
           but
           suffers
           it
           to
           remain
           in
           its
           full
           force
           against
           himself
           .
        
         
           He
           has
           indeed
           proceeded
           otherwise
           in
           this
           last
           Question
           ;
           For
           whereas
           before
           in
           the
           Address
           he
           set
           up
           a
           Guide
           that
           is
           a
           Judge
           ,
           whom
           it's
           necessary
           so
           to
           believe
           ,
           and
           to
           submit
           to
           ,
           as
           to
           receive
           from
           him
           such
           Necessaries
           to
           Salvation
           as
           are
           not
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           the
           sense
           of
           such
           Necessaries
           as
           are
           not
           clearly
           contained
           in
           it
           ;
           he
           now
           in
           the
           proof
           softens
           ,
           and
           extenuates
           ,
           and
           expounds
           ,
           and
           the
           Question
           now
           is
           reduced
           to
           this
           ,
           
             Am
             I
             bound
             to
             believe
             the
             Sense
             given
             to
             doubtful
             Texts
             ,
             because
             my
             Guide
             tells
             me
             I
             must
             do
             so
             ?
          
           This
           indeed
           may
           better
           serve
           his
           purpose
           ,
           but
           after
           all
           is
           neither
           true
           in
           it self
           ,
           nor
           can
           be
           accommodated
           to
           his
           former
           notion
           of
           a
           Guide
           ,
           and
           the
           authority
           given
           to
           him
           .
           For
           what
           has
           doubtful
           Texts
           to
           do
           with
           the
           Case
           ,
           where
           there
           are
           no
           Texts
           concerned
           ?
           What
           has
           a
           Sense
           given
           to
           Scripture
           ,
           to
           do
           with
           a
           Case
           which
           is
           to
           be
           determined
           without
           Scripture
           ;
           As
           it
           is
           in
           Necessaries
           not
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           which
           we
           are
           to
           learn
           from
           our
           Guide
           that
           we
           are
           
             bound
             to
             follow
          
           ?
        
         
           But
           supposing
           we
           take
           his
           Exposition
           ,
           that
           this
           is
           when
           the
           Texts
           be
           doubtful
           ;
           yet
           the
           Things
           those
           Texts
           are
           supposed
           to
           be
           concerned
           in
           ,
           are
           Things
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ;
           and
           so
           to
           believe
           a
           Guide
           absolutely
           ,
           as
           to
           
             the
             sense
             of
             a
             doubtful
             Text
             ,
          
           is
           equivalent
           to
           the
           believing
           him
           where
           there
           is
           no
           Text
           pretended
           .
           Since
           the
           Person
           in
           doubt
           is
           no
           more
           assur'd
           of
           the
           sense
           of
           these
           Texts
           in
           a
           Point
           necessary
           ,
           than
           he
           was
           without
           a
           Text.
           For
           when
           there
           is
           no
           Text
           for
           a
           thing
           necessary
           ,
           he
           absolutely
           relies
           upon
           his
           Guide
           ,
           who
           tells
           him
           ,
           it
           is
           necessary
           :
           And
           when
           there
           is
           a
           
             sense
             given
             to
             a
             doubtful
          
           Text
           ,
           he
           believes
           that
           sense
           ,
           because
           his
           Guide
           tells
           him
           that
           is
           the
           sense
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           so
           he
           still
           relies
           upon
           his
           Guide
           ;
           and
           his
           Faith
           is
           thus
           immediately
           resolved
           into
           the
           Guide
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           seems
           this
           the
           Answerer
           doth
           deny
           ,
           and
           that
           upon
           the
           Authority
           of
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           who
           disallows
           it
           ,
           Mat.
           23.
           8.
           and
           the
           Apostle
           who
           disclaims
           it
           ,
           2
           Cor.
           1.
           24.
           
           But
           here
           our
           Author
           is
           beside
           all
           patience
           ,
           and
           answers
           it
           with
           a
           dreadful
           Exclamation
           .
           
             Here
             ,
             not
             only
             the
             Walls
             of
             the
             City
             of
             God
             are
             broken
             down
             ,
             but
             the
             very
             Foundations
             of
             Prophets
             and
             Apostles
             are
             digg'd
             up
             .
          
           And
           why
           
           so
           ?
           because
           we
           will
           not
           admit
           a
           Guide
           of
           their
           own
           Imposition
           ,
           in
           defiance
           of
           our
           Saviour's
           and
           St.
           
           Paul's
           prohibition
           to
           the
           contrary
           .
           But
           O
           ,
           saith
           our
           Author
           ,
           
             Is
             it
             all
             St.
          
           Paul
           
             could
             do
             ,
             all
             you
             allow
             him
             ,
             to
             give
             some
             light
             ,
             some
             helps
             ,
             when
             his
             Proselytes
             had
             any
             doubt
             about
             the
             Sense
             of
             Scripture
             ?
             Were
             they
             not
             obliged
             to
             believe
             the
             Sense
             and
             Interpretation
             he
             gave
             to
             the
             Text
             ?
             Then
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           Here
           
             the
             Prover
          
           is
           either
           confounded
           in
           his
           own
           thoughts
           ,
           or
           intends
           to
           confound
           and
           amuse
           his
           Reader
           .
           The
           Opinion
           he
           maintains
           is
           ,
           That
           in
           matters
           of
           doubt
           ,
           a
           Person
           doubting
           is
           to
           be
           absolutely
           concluded
           by
           his
           Guide
           ;
           
             I
             am
             to
             believe
          
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             because
             my
             Guides
             tell
             me
             I
             must
             do
             so
             .
          
           Now
           he
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           that
           to
           deny
           this
           Authority
           to
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           is
           to
           allow
           them
           only
           to
           give
           
             some
             light
             ,
             some
             helps
          
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           (
           as
           I
           conceive
           he
           means
           )
           to
           make
           them
           no
           more
           than
           Common
           Teachers
           .
           But
           I
           shall
           endeavour
           ,
           if
           it
           may
           be
           ,
           to
           set
           our
           Author
           right
           in
           this
           matter
           .
           Toward
           which
           it
           's
           to
           be
           observed
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           there
           is
           an
           absolute
           and
           sovereign
           Authority
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           which
           all
           are
           bound
           to
           follow
           ,
           believe
           and
           obey
           ,
           without
           any
           dispute
           ,
           and
           that
           Authority
           is
           soly
           the
           prerogative
           of
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           and
           which
           no
           man
           ,
           or
           society
           of
           men
           can
           claim
           ,
           Mat.
           23.
           8
           ,
           9.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           There
           is
           a
           subordinate
           Authority
           ,
           which
           is
           immediately
           derived
           from
           him
           ;
           and
           this
           was
           peculiar
           to
           inspired
           Persons
           ,
           and
           is
           extraordinary
           .
           So
           the
           Apostle
           saith
           of
           himself
           ,
           Gal.
           1.
           11
           ,
           12.
           
           
             The
             Gospel
             which
             was
             preached
             of
             me
             ,
             is
             not
             after
             man
             ;
             For
             I
             neither
             received
             it
             of
             man
             ,
             neither
             was
             I
             taught
             it
             but
             by
             the
             Revelation
             of
             Jesus
             Christ
             .
          
           But
           as
           such
           Persons
           were
           sent
           ,
           so
           they
           were
           able
           to
           prove
           their
           Commission
           and
           their
           Doctrine
           to
           be
           received
           from
           Christ
           :
           And
           they
           did
           not
           require
           any
           to
           believe
           them
           ,
           because
           they
           told
           them
           they
           were
           their
           Guides
           ,
           and
           they
           must
           believe
           them
           ,
           
             because
             they
             tell
             them
             so
          
           ;
           (
           for
           that
           was
           to
           have
           dominion
           over
           their
           Faith
           )
           but
           they
           appealed
           to
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           to
           their
           Miraculous
           Gifts
           ;
           2
           Cor.
           12.
           12.
           and
           encouraged
           their
           Auditors
           to
           try
           and
           examine
           their
           Doctrines
           ;
           Acts
           17.
           11.
           
           Gal.
           1.
           8
           ,
           9.
           
           And
           this
           way
           of
           trying
           is
           so
           far
           from
           making
           Faith
           Vain
           (
           as
           our
           Author
           pretends
           )
           that
           it
           would
           be
           vain
           without
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             Were
             not
             the
             Proselytes
             of
             St.
          
           Paul
           
             obliged
             to
             believe
             the
             Sense
             and
             Interpretation
             he
             gave
             to
             the
             Text
             ?
          
           Without
           doubt
           ;
           but
           then
           he
           did
           not
           require
           them
           to
           receive
           and
           believe
           it
           ,
           because
           
           
             he
             told
             them
             so
          
           ,
           but
           because
           it
           was
           revealed
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           beforehand
           were
           satisfied
           in
           the
           Confirmation
           he
           brought
           of
           his
           Apostleship
           .
           For
           where
           there
           was
           a
           new
           Revelation
           of
           any
           Point
           to
           be
           believed
           ,
           or
           matter
           to
           be
           done
           ,
           being
           that
           could
           not
           be
           any
           farther
           examined
           by
           Scripture
           than
           as
           it
           was
           not
           contrary
           to
           it
           ,
           it
           wholly
           was
           to
           be
           resolved
           into
           his
           Mission
           ;
           and
           they
           had
           the
           same
           reason
           to
           believe
           his
           Doctrine
           ,
           as
           his
           Mission
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           There
           is
           another
           sort
           of
           subordinate
           Authority
           ,
           which
           receives
           both
           its
           Mission
           and
           Doctrine
           in
           an
           ordinary
           way
           :
           And
           therefore
           must
           needs
           be
           subject
           to
           the
           like
           ways
           of
           tryal
           and
           proof
           as
           the
           former
           .
           But
           with
           this
           difference
           ,
           that
           what
           inspired
           Persons
           taught
           as
           revealed
           from
           God
           ,
           that
           upon
           proof
           of
           their
           Mission
           by
           Miracles
           ,
           2
           Cor.
           12.
           12.
           was
           to
           be
           believed
           :
           but
           now
           when
           we
           have
           only
           ordinary
           means
           ,
           and
           the
           written
           Word
           for
           our
           Rule
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           other
           Doctrine
           to
           be
           received
           ,
           than
           what
           is
           contained
           in
           that
           Rule
           ,
           and
           so
           neither
           can
           they
           oblige
           us
           ,
           nor
           are
           we
           obliged
           to
           believe
           them
           ,
           because
           they
           tell
           us
           so
           ,
           but
           as
           it
           's
           consonant
           with
           ,
           or
           contained
           in
           ,
           or
           rightly
           inferred
           from
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           which
           we
           are
           to
           compare
           it
           with
           ,
           and
           to
           judge
           of
           it
           by
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           our
           Author
           makes
           their
           Guides
           not
           only
           equal
           ,
           but
           superior
           to
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           when
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           We
           
             are
             bound
             to
             believe
             them
             ,
             because
             they
             themselves
             tell
             us
             so
          
           ;
           and
           that
           without
           any
           examination
           .
           So
           that
           if
           a
           man
           mistakes
           his
           Guide
           ,
           or
           his
           Guide
           mistakes
           ,
           he
           must
           unavoidably
           mistake
           also
           ,
           being
           wholly
           to
           be
           determined
           by
           them
           .
           And
           then
           he
           must
           be
           an
           Arian
           with
           the
           Popes
           Felix
           and
           Liberius
           ,
           a
           Nestorian
           with
           Anastasius
           ,
           a
           Monothelite
           with
           Honorius
           ,
           and
           deny
           the
           immortality
           of
           the
           Soul
           with
           John
           XXIII
           .
           And
           now
           let
           any
           judg
           
             where
             the
             Foundations
             of
             the
             Prophets
             and
             Apostles
             are
             digg'd
             up
          
           ;
           whether
           in
           the
           Reformed
           Churches
           ,
           that
           teach
           us
           we
           are
           not
           bound
           to
           believe
           any
           Guide
           ,
           without
           tryal
           of
           their
           Doctrine
           ;
           or
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           which
           ,
           with
           our
           Author
           ,
           affirms
           
             we
             are
             bound
             to
             believe
             our
             Guides
             ,
             because
             they
             tell
             us
             we
             must
             do
             so
             .
          
        
         
           
           Now
           our
           Answerer
           takes
           his
           turn
           to
           ask
           Questions
           .
           He
           tells
           us
           that
           for
           the
           first
           he
           has
           a
           
             pinching
             one
          
           :
           `
           T
           is
           this
           ;
           
             If
             I
             must
             know
             the
             Church
             by
             some
             marks
             or
             notes
             ,
             then
             I
             must
             find
             these
             marks
             first
             ;
             and
             where
             must
             I
             seek
             them
             ?
          
           This
           is
           pinching
           indeed
           !
           Suppose
           in
           a
           Gazette
           I
           should
           find
           some
           marks
           of
           a
           Man
           that
           is
           sought
           for
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           a
           severe
           Objection
           
           against
           the
           Man
           who
           gave
           them
           ,
           and
           a
           pinching
           Question
           ,
           
             I
             must
             find
             these
             Marks
             before
             I
             find
             the
             man
             ;
             and
             where
             shall
             I
             find
             them
             ?
          
           I
           conceive
           such
           pinching
           would
           force
           a
           smile
           ,
           and
           this
           Answer
           ,
           
             Why
             Friend
             ,
             the
             marks
             and
             the
             man
             are
             found
             at
             once
             ,
             for
             they
             are
             to
             be
             seen
             in
             his
             Face
             .
          
           At
           the
           same
           time
           as
           one
           takes
           a
           view
           of
           the
           Catholic
           Church
           ,
           he
           sees
           therein
           a
           continual
           Succession
           of
           Bishops
           and
           Teachers
           from
           the
           Apostles
           ;
           he
           discovers
           her
           in
           all
           parts
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           finds
           her
           thus
           Catholic
           ;
           he
           sees
           in
           her
           an
           undivided
           Faith
           ,
           Union
           under
           one
           Pastor
           in
           the
           use
           of
           the
           same
           Sacraments
           ,
           and
           finds
           her
           One
           ;
           he
           observes
           her
           Rule
           is
           ,
           
             Let
             nothing
             be
             alter'd
          
           of
           what
           was
           receiv'd
           from
           the
           Apostles
           by
           a
           constant
           Universal
           Tradition
           in
           the
           Churches
           which
           they
           founded
           ,
           and
           is
           convinced
           she
           is
           Apostolical
           ;
           he
           finds
           God
           favours
           her
           with
           the
           Gift
           of
           Miracles
           ,
           promised
           Mat.
           10.
           and
           Joh.
           14.
           that
           she
           hath
           fulfilled
           the
           Prophesies
           concerning
           the
           
             Conversion
             of
             Nations
          
           ,
           converted
           to
           Christianity
           by
           her
           Children
           only
           ;
           and
           he
           concludes
           this
           is
           she
           .
        
         
           
           The
           Prover
           saith
           that
           ,
           
             Now
             the
             Answerer
             takes
             his
             turn
             to
             ask
             Questions
             .
          
           And
           good
           reason
           ,
           after
           the
           Addresser
           had
           put
           so
           many
           before
           .
           He
           tells
           us
           further
           ,
           That
           
             for
             the
             first
             he
             has
             a
             pinching
             one
             .
             'T
             is
             this
             ,
             If
             I
             must
             know
             the
             Church
             by
             some
             Marks
             ,
             then
             I
             must
             find
             out
             those
             Marks
             first
             ;
             and
             where
             must
             I
             seek
             them
             ?
          
           But
           ,
           why
           is
           this
           called
           the
           first
           Question
           when
           there
           are
           several
           before
           it
           ?
           He
           might
           better
           have
           called
           it
           the
           only
           Question
           ,
           since
           it's
           what
           he
           has
           singled
           out
           of
           many
           to
           try
           the
           power
           of
           his
           Logic
           upon
           .
           And
           now
           let
           us
           see
           how
           he
           quits
           himself
           ,
           when
           he
           comes
           to
           be
           Respondent
           .
           His
           Answer
           to
           the
           Question
           ,
           is
           ,
           
             Suppose
             in
             a
             Gazette
             ,
             &c.
             and
             the
             Marks
             ,
             and
             the
             Man
             are
             found
             at
             once
             ,
             for
             they
             are
             to
             be
             seen
             in
             his
             Face
             .
          
           Where
           his
           whole
           business
           is
           to
           go
           off
           from
           the
           Question
           that
           is
           ask'd
           ,
           to
           a
           Question
           that
           is
           not
           ask'd
           .
           The
           main
           Question
           in
           the
           Answer
           was
           ,
           
             How
             shall
             I
             find
             out
             the
             true
             Church
             ?
          
           Is
           it
           because
           She
           her self
           so
           declares
           ?
           Or
           that
           She
           is
           knowable
           by
           a
           self-evident
           Light
           ?
           Or
           is
           She
           to
           be
           found
           out
           by
           Marks
           ?
           If
           by
           Marks
           ,
           then
           we
           must
           find
           out
           the
           Marks
           before
           we
           find
           out
           the
           Church
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           be
           known
           by
           those
           Marks
           ;
           and
           then
           the
           pinching
           Question
           comes
           on
           ;
           
             Where
             must
             I
             seek
             them
             ?
             That
             ,
             it
             's
             to
             be
             fear'd
             ,
             will
             lead
             us
             to
             the
             Scriptures
             .
          
           Now
           what
           is
           the
           Sense
           of
           the
           Question
           ,
           
             Where
             must
             I
             seek
             them
          
           ?
           Certainly
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           in
           dispute
           ,
           whether
           the
           Marks
           are
           not
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           thing
           sought
           for
           ,
           by
           those
           Marks
           (
           as
           he
           impertinently
           lays
           it
           )
           For
           if
           they
           are
           the
           proper
           Marks
           of
           the
           thing
           ;
           then
           ,
           surely
           ,
           they
           are
           to
           be
           found
           with
           the
           thing
           that
           
           they
           are
           the
           Marks
           of
           ;
           or
           else
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           find
           out
           the
           thing
           by
           these
           Marks
           .
           But
           the
           meaning
           of
           the
           Question
           is
           the
           same
           as
           it
           was
           in
           the
           Address
           ,
           (
           and
           from
           whence
           the
           Answerer
           borrowed
           the
           Terms
           )
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           Where
           are
           the
           Notes
           ?
           Where
           are
           they
           described
           ?
           Or
           ,
           How
           shall
           I
           come
           to
           know
           them
           ?
           And
           thus
           it
           follows
           in
           the
           
             Answer
             ,
             It
             is
             to
             be
             feared
             ,
             this
             will
             lead
             us
             to
             the
             Scripture
             .
          
           But
           because
           some
           men
           are
           hard
           of
           Understanding
           ,
           whether
           for
           a
           weak
           or
           a
           bad
           reason
           ,
           I
           determine
           not
           ,
           I
           shall
           begin
           the
           matter
           again
           .
           It
           is
           agreed
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           a
           Church
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           are
           certain
           Marks
           by
           which
           the
           Church
           may
           be
           found
           :
           Now
           the
           Question
           is
           ,
           What
           are
           those
           Marks
           ?
           Whether
           
             Continual
             Succession
             ,
             Vniversal
             Extent
             ,
             Vnion
             under
             one
             Visible
             Pastor
             ,
          
           &
           c.
           ?
           Or
           ,
           
             The
             Profession
             of
             the
             true
             Faith
             ,
             right
             Administration
             of
             the
             Sacraments
             ?
          
        
         
           Now
           how
           shall
           we
           know
           ,
           or
           where
           shall
           we
           find
           ,
           which
           of
           these
           are
           the
           Marks
           belonging
           to
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           by
           which
           it
           is
           to
           be
           known
           ?
        
         
           I
           shall
           make
           it
           plain
           by
           his
           own
           instance
           ;
           Supposing
           that
           there
           is
           somewhat
           of
           great
           Importance
           depends
           upon
           finding
           out
           a
           particular
           person
           ;
           and
           that
           he
           that
           would
           find
           him
           out
           ,
           knows
           not
           the
           man
           ,
           but
           for
           his
           better
           direction
           applies
           himself
           to
           one
           that
           knows
           somewhat
           of
           this
           matter
           ,
           and
           asks
           him
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           How
           shall
           I
           find
           out
           such
           a
           Man
           ,
           or
           where
           may
           I
           seek
           the
           Marks
           by
           which
           he
           may
           be
           discover'd
           ?
           Would
           it
           not
           
             force
             a
             Smile
          
           to
           have
           this
           Answer
           ?
           Do
           you
           ask
           that
           ?
           
             Why
             Friend
             ,
             the
             Marks
             and
             the
             Man
             are
             found
             at
             once
             ,
             for
             they
             are
             to
             be
             seen
             in
             his
             Face
             .
          
           Would
           he
           not
           be
           made
           much
           the
           Wiser
           ,
           by
           this
           grave
           Reply
           ;
           and
           forthwith
           be
           able
           to
           find
           out
           the
           Man
           he
           seeks
           for
           ,
           by
           this
           goodly
           Direction
           ?
           Or
           would
           he
           not
           say
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           I
           came
           not
           to
           be
           informed
           of
           that
           which
           every
           one
           that
           is
           not
           a
           stark
           Fool
           understands
           as
           well
           as
           your
           Worship
           ;
           but
           I
           would
           know
           ,
           what
           are
           those
           Marks
           which
           
             are
             to
             be
             seen
             in
             his
             Face
             ,
          
           and
           by
           which
           I
           may
           know
           him
           from
           your self
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           ,
           and
           where
           are
           they
           describ'd
           ?
           And
           will
           not
           the
           other
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           able
           and
           willing
           to
           inform
           him
           ,
           then
           tell
           him
           ,
           the
           Marks
           are
           in
           the
           Gazette
           ,
           and
           there
           you
           may
           find
           them
           .
           Now
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           be
           found
           out
           first
           ,
           the
           Marks
           or
           the
           Man
           ?
           And
           what
           are
           those
           Marks
           ,
           and
           
             where
             must
             I
             seek
             them
          
           ?
           Surely
           it
           needs
           no
           Application
           .
           As
           for
           his
           Triumphant
           Marks
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           he
           may
           find
           
           them
           answered
           to
           purpose
           in
           the
           Book
           not
           long
           since
           published
           upon
           that
           Argument
           .
        
         
           
           
             'T
             is
             also
             observable
             at
             what
             a
             distance
             these
             men
             are
             from
             the
             true
             Church
             ,
             who
             conceive
             it
             so
             hard
             to
             find
             her
             out
             .
             All
             holy
             Fathers
             ever
             judged
             it
             a
             most
             easy
             thing
             to
             each
             Person
             ,
             insomuch
             that
             the
             Holy
             Doctor
          
           
           St.
           Augustin
           
             thus
             delivers
             his
             Sense
             of
             it
             :
          
           I
           tell
           you
           with
           truth
           ,
           Brethren
           ,
           the
           Prophets
           have
           spoken
           
             more
             obscurely
          
           of
           Christ
           ,
           than
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           I
           believe
           ,
           because
           they
           saw
           in
           Spirit
           ,
           that
           men
           would
           make
           Sects
           against
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           would
           not
           be
           so
           much
           divided
           about
           Christ
           .
           
             But
             't
             is
             natural
             for
             a
             Crimnal
             to
             question
             the
             Power
             of
             his
             Judge
             ;
             and
             these
             men
             know
             it
             hath
             ever
             been
             the
             Sense
             of
             all
             Christians
             ,
             which
             St.
          
           Augustin
           
           
             exprest
             in
             the
             following
             Words
          
           ;
           There
           is
           no
           Salvation
           out
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           who
           doubts
           of
           it
           ?
           Therefore
           whatever
           you
           have
           from
           the
           Church
           (
           Seripture
           ,
           Creed
           ,
           Sacraments
           ,
           &c
           )
           help
           you
           not
           to
           Salvation
           out
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           whether
           you
           believe
           contrary
           to
           the
           Truth
           ,
           or
           being
           divided
           from
           
           the
           Vnity
           ,
           gather
           not
           with
           Christ
           ;
           whence
           St.
           Paul
           says
           to
           Heretics
           ,
           Those
           who
           do
           such
           things
           ,
           shall
           not
           possess
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           Heaven
           .
        
         
           
           He
           saith
           ,
           
             'T
             is
             observable
             at
             what
             a
             distance
             Men
             are
             from
             the
             true
             Church
             ,
             who
             conceive
             it
             so
             hard
             to
             find
             it
             out
             .
          
           But
           our
           distance
           from
           the
           true
           Church
           ,
           is
           not
           the
           more
           ,
           because
           we
           
             conceive
             it
             so
             hard
             to
             find
          
           her
           out
           in
           their
           way
           ,
           and
           by
           such
           Marks
           (
           which
           if
           there
           are
           no
           other
           )
           it
           's
           impossible
           to
           find
           her
           out
           by
           .
           But
           now
           ,
           if
           we
           go
           in
           St.
           Austins
           way
           ,
           then
           it
           's
           not
           difficult
           ,
           for
           thus
           he
           determines
           
           it
           .
           
             The
             weak
             seeks
             for
             the
             Church
             .
             The
             wandring
             seeks
             for
             the
             Church
             .
             I
             inquire
             after
             the
             Voice
             of
             the
             Pastor
             .
             Read
             this
             to
             me
             out
             of
             the
             Prophet
             ,
             and
             read
             it
             out
             of
             the
          
           Psalms
           ;
           
             recite
             it
             from
             the
             Law
             ,
             the
             Gospel
             ,
             the
             Apostle
             .
          
           Look
           for
           it
           in
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           there
           you
           will
           find
           it
           .
        
         
           Here
           the
           Prover
           cites
           a
           Passage
           out
           of
           St.
           Austin
           ,
           which
           I
           am
           confident
           he
           did
           not
           read
           there
           .
           For
           (
           1.
           )
           he
           quotes
           the
           4
           th
           Book
           of
           St.
           
             Austin
             ,
             de
             Vnitate
          
           ,
           whereas
           there
           is
           but
           one
           Book
           in
           all
           .
           (
           2.
           )
           There
           are
           several
           mistakes
           in
           the
           Quotation
           it self
           .
           As
           he
           saith
           ,
           
             There
             is
             no
             Salvation
             out
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             who
             doubts
             of
             it
             ?
          
           Whereas
           the
           Words
           of
           St.
           Austin
           are
           ,
           
             Qui
             autem
             super
             arenam
             aedificant
             [
             i.
             e.
          
           qui
           audiunt
           Verba
           &
           non
           faciunt
           ,
           
             as
             just
             before
             ]
             quis
             dubitaverit
             ,
             quod
             regnum
             Dei
             non
             possidebunt
             ?
          
           That
           is
           ,
           
             But
             those
             who
             build
             upon
             the
             sand
             ,
             who
             doubts
             that
             they
             shall
             not
             possess
             the
             Kingdom
             of
             Heaven
             ?
          
           Again
           the
           Prover
           reads
           it
           ,
           
             Whatever
             you
             have
             from
             the
             Church
             (
             Scripture
             ,
             Creed
             ,
             Sacraments
             ,
             &c.
             )
             help
             
             you
             not
             to
             Salvation
             out
             of
             the
             Church
             .
          
           Whereas
           there
           is
           nothing
           of
           this
           ,
           but
           it
           follows
           after
           what
           was
           said
           
             of
             the
             builders
             on
             the
             sand
             ,
          
           Nihil
           utique
           prodest
           Baptismi
           Sacramentum
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           
             So
             that
             the
             Sacrament
             of
             Baptism
             profits
             not
             such
             .
          
           And
           then
           he
           quotes
           that
           of
           St.
           
             Paul
             ,
             Those
             which
             do
             such
             things
             ,
          
           &c.
           without
           that
           other
           Insertion
           of
           his
           ,
           
             Whether
             you
             believe
             contrary
             to
             the
             Truth
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           The
           matters
           are
           not
           much
           material
           ;
           but
           by
           this
           the
           Reader
           may
           judg
           what
           a
           careless
           ,
           injudicious
           ,
           or
           confident
           (
           to
           say
           no
           worse
           )
           Adversary
           I
           have
           to
           deal
           with
           .
        
         
           
           His
           other
           Queries
           have
           no
           difficulty
           ,
           and
           withal
           so
           little
           of
           Sense
           ,
           that
           I
           shall
           not
           offer
           to
           force
           my
           Readers
           Attention
           on
           them
           .
        
         
           
           Whether
           the
           other
           Queries
           had
           any
           Sense
           ,
           I
           shall
           leave
           to
           others
           to
           judg
           ;
           but
           however
           ,
           because
           they
           may
           not
           be
           so
           easie
           to
           others
           ,
           as
           to
           himself
           ,
           it
           is
           to
           be
           wished
           he
           had
           shewed
           a
           little
           more
           of
           his
           
             good
             Nature
          
           ,
           and
           Condescendency
           ,
           to
           have
           resolved
           them
           .
           I
           shall
           try
           once
           again
           ,
           whether
           I
           can
           make
           sense
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           leave
           him
           to
           try
           whether
           he
           can
           answer
           them
           :
           If
           they
           are
           not
           Sense
           ,
           they
           are
           not
           to
           be
           understood
           ,
           and
           so
           there
           can
           be
           no
           hurt
           to
           Propose
           them
           :
           If
           they
           
             have
             no
             difficulty
          
           ,
           they
           are
           the
           easier
           and
           the
           sooner
           answered
           .
        
         
           The
           Queries
           Propounded
           in
           the
           Answer
           ,
           and
           yet
           remaining
           to
           be
           resolved
           ,
           are
           these
           .
        
         
           Q.
           1.
           
           What
           those
           Necessaries
           to
           Salvation
           are
           ,
           that
           are
           not
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           where
           each
           of
           them
           is
           to
           be
           found
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           2.
           
           Whether
           the
           Articles
           of
           Pope
           
           Pius's
           Creed
           joined
           to
           the
           Nicene
           Creed
           ,
           are
           as
           clearly
           to
           be
           proved
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           those
           of
           the
           Nicene
           Creed
           ;
           or
           that
           those
           of
           the
           Nicene
           Creed
           are
           no
           more
           to
           be
           proved
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           than
           those
           of
           Pope
           Pius
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           3.
           
           Whether
           it
           's
           as
           necessary
           to
           believe
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           is
           the
           Mother
           and
           Mistress
           of
           all
           Churches
           ,
           and
           the
           Pope
           to
           be
           the
           Vicar
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           other
           Articles
           of
           that
           Creed
           ,
           of
           Pope
           Pius
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           to
           believe
           that
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           was
           Incarnate
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Articles
           of
           the
           Nicene
           Creed
           ?
        
         
         
           Q.
           4.
           
           Which
           has
           the
           first
           and
           Supreme
           Authority
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           or
           the
           Church
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           5.
           
           Whether
           the
           Church
           can
           ordain
           new
           Articles
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           which
           when
           so
           ordained
           ,
           are
           as
           much
           to
           be
           received
           and
           believed
           ,
           as
           those
           which
           have
           their
           Authority
           immediately
           from
           Scripture
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           6.
           
           Which
           is
           to
           be
           sought
           for
           first
           ,
           the
           Notes
           ,
           or
           the
           Church
           that
           is
           to
           be
           found
           out
           by
           these
           Notes
           ?
           If
           the
           Church
           ,
           then
           how
           shall
           I
           know
           it
           ?
           If
           the
           Notes
           ,
           where
           must
           I
           seek
           them
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           7.
           
           If
           the
           Church
           be
           to
           be
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           ,
           when
           it
           's
           found
           out
           ;
           then
           what
           is
           the
           Guide
           that
           will
           infallibly
           lead
           to
           the
           Church
           ?
           And
           whether
           is
           that
           Guide
           to
           be
           sought
           for
           within
           the
           Church
           ,
           or
           without
           it
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           8.
           
           Whether
           we
           may
           be
           infallibly
           certain
           out
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           or
           how
           we
           can
           find
           out
           the
           Church
           infallibly
           ,
           if
           the
           Church
           alone
           be
           infallible
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           cannot
           be
           infallibly
           certain
           till
           we
           come
           into
           the
           Church
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           9.
           
           Where
           is
           the
           Seat
           of
           Infallibility
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           whether
           in
           every
           particular
           Person
           ,
           or
           the
           Supreme
           Pastor
           ,
           or
           a
           General
           Council
           ?
           And
           whether
           they
           all
           agree
           in
           this
           matter
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           10.
           
           Whether
           what
           they
           disagree
           in
           can
           be
           the
           Sentiment
           of
           the
           whole
           Church
           ;
           or
           that
           we
           are
           hound
           to
           believe
           what
           they
           cannot
           agree
           in
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           11.
           
           Whether
           we
           are
           any
           more
           bound
           to
           believe
           the
           Infallibility
           of
           their
           Church
           ,
           which
           they
           thus
           disagree
           in
           ,
           than
           the
           Address
           would
           perswade
           us
           we
           are
           not
           obliged
           to
           believe
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           because
           the
           
             Arians
             ,
             tho
             Christians
             ,
             deny
             it
             ?
          
        
         
           Q.
           12.
           
           How
           one
           at
           a
           vast
           distance
           of
           Time
           or
           Place
           ,
           can
           be
           infallibly
           assured
           of
           the
           Certainty
           of
           those
           Decrees
           which
           are
           said
           to
           proceed
           from
           an
           Infallible
           Power
           ;
           or
           that
           he
           can
           be
           
           any
           more
           certain
           of
           the
           Truth
           ,
           Certainty
           ,
           and
           Sense
           of
           these
           ,
           than
           he
           can
           be
           of
           the
           Truth
           ,
           Authority
           ,
           and
           Sense
           of
           Scripture
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           13.
           
           Whether
           our
           Saviour
           has
           not
           spoken
           as
           plainly
           and
           intelligibly
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           his
           pretended
           Vicar
           ,
           or
           their
           Councils
           have
           done
           in
           their
           Decrees
           and
           Canons
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           14.
           
           Whether
           ,
           when
           the
           Persons
           that
           publish
           or
           give
           the
           Sense
           of
           those
           Decrees
           and
           Canons
           are
           Fallible
           ,
           a
           Person
           can
           be
           infallibly
           certain
           that
           these
           are
           the
           very
           Decrees
           ,
           or
           that
           the
           true
           Sense
           of
           them
           ?
           Or
           whether
           a
           Person
           in
           these
           Circumstances
           can
           be
           any
           more
           certain
           ,
           tho
           a
           Member
           of
           an
           Infallible
           Church
           ,
           than
           another
           may
           be
           ,
           that
           is
           a
           Member
           of
           a
           Fallible
           Church
           ?
        
         
           Q.
           15.
           
           Whether
           ,
           for
           example
           ,
           we
           can
           be
           any
           more
           certain
           that
           there
           ever
           was
           such
           a
           Pope
           as
           Pope
           Pius
           ,
           or
           that
           ever
           there
           was
           such
           a
           Creed
           drawn
           up
           by
           him
           ,
           or
           that
           this
           or
           that
           is
           an
           Article
           ,
           or
           the
           Sense
           of
           it
           ,
           than
           we
           are
           that
           the
           Scriptures
           are
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           the
           Trinity
           and
           Incarnation
           are
           clearly
           contained
           in
           them
           ?
        
         
           These
           are
           the
           Questions
           in
           the
           Answer
           ,
           and
           which
           I
           have
           drawn
           out
           in
           order
           ;
           I
           hope
           they
           shew
           themselves
           to
           be
           Sense
           ;
           it
           remains
           to
           the
           Prover
           to
           shew
           they
           have
           
             no
             difficulty
          
           to
           be
           resolved
           .
        
         
           
           All
           well-meaning
           Protestants
           finding
           that
           Scripture
           interpreted
           the
           Protestant-way
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           an
           easie
           and
           clear
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           that
           a
           Protestant
           in
           the
           Answer
           to
           an
           Address
           made
           to
           the
           Ministets
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           approved
           by
           a
           Chaplain
           to
           the
           highest
           Ecclesiastical
           Authority
           under
           the
           King
           ,
           cannot
           as
           much
           as
           teach
           by
           it
           the
           first
           Principles
           of
           Christian
           Religion
           ;
           will
           seek
           a
           better
           method
           of
           using
           that
           
             Divine
             Rule
          
           ,
           and
           not
           be
           hereafter
           so
           easily
           imposed
           upon
           by
           those
           Guides
           who
           give
           them
           but
           their
           own
           
             private
             fancies
          
           ,
           under
           the
           Veil
           and
           Name
           of
           the
           
             Word
             of
             God.
          
           I
           was
           (
           I
           confess
           )
           surprized
           to
           find
           
             Guil.
             Needham
          
           ,
           &c.
           approving
           this
           Answer
           ;
           but
           God
           and
           Truth
           are
           of
           our
           side
           ;
           
             Et
             inimici
             nostri
             sunt
             Judices
          
           ;
           the
           weakness
           of
           our
           Opposers
           Arguments
           bear
           a
           proof
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           
             Ad
             Majorem
             Dei
             Gloriam
          
           .
        
         
         
           
           I
           may
           now
           leave
           the
           case
           to
           
             all
             well-meaning
             Protestants
          
           ;
           for
           who
           that
           is
           of
           that
           number
           ,
           or
           indeed
           is
           impartial
           ,
           but
           may
           soon
           discern
           ,
           who
           they
           are
           that
           make
           the
           Scripture
           a
           
             Rule
             of
             Faith
          
           ;
           Whether
           those
           that
           resolve
           all
           Necessaries
           to
           Salvation
           wholly
           into
           it
           ,
           or
           those
           that
           join
           Tradition
           with
           it
           in
           Esteem
           and
           Authority
           ?
           They
           may
           again
           as
           soon
           discern
           ,
           Whether
           the
           Scripture
           be
           Easie
           and
           Clear
           ,
           and
           best
           understood
           in
           the
           Protestant
           Method
           ,
           when
           it
           's
           Translated
           for
           Vulgar
           use
           in
           the
           Mother
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           the
           People
           are
           allowed
           and
           exhorted
           to
           read
           it
           ;
           or
           in
           the
           Popish
           Method
           ,
           when
           it
           's
           kept
           in
           an
           unknown
           Tongue
           ,
           or
           if
           Translated
           ,
           not
           permitted
           to
           be
           read
           by
           them
           ?
           Whether
           again
           They
           feed
           them
           with
           
             their
             own
             private
             Fancies
          
           ,
           that
           teach
           the
           people
           nothing
           but
           what
           both
           Teacher
           and
           Hearer
           learn
           from
           Scripture
           ;
           or
           they
           that
           make
           things
           necessary
           to
           be
           believed
           and
           done
           ,
           which
           are
           not
           contained
           in
           Scripture
           ?
        
         
           I
           find
           our
           
             Author
             surpriz'd
          
           to
           find
           
             Guil.
             Needham
             ,
             a
             Chaplain
             to
             the
             highest
             Eeclesiastical
             Authority
             under
             the
             King
          
           (
           we
           know
           who
           they
           are
           that
           set
           up
           an
           Ecclesiastical
           Authority
           above
           the
           King
           )
           
             to
             approve
             the
             Answer
          
           .
           But
           why
           so
           surprized
           ?
           When
           it
           's
           likely
           
             G.
             N.
          
           was
           as
           confident
           as
           
             the
             Prover
          
           could
           be
           on
           his
           own
           ,
           that
           
             God
             and
             Truth
          
           are
           on
           the
           Answerer's
           side
           ;
           and
           perhaps
           might
           have
           a
           good
           opinion
           of
           his
           Performance
           ,
           though
           I
           grant
           ,
           it
           's
           likely
           ,
           not
           as
           good
           as
           our
           Author
           hath
           of
           his
           own
           
             Clear
             Proof
          
           .
        
         
           Here
           I
           should
           have
           ended
           ,
           but
           it
           seems
           the
           poor
           Answer
           has
           met
           with
           another
           Adversary
           ,
           one
           (
           as
           he
           himself
           tells
           us
           )
           that
           
           
             at
             a
             full
             ,
             mixed
             Assembly
             in
             the
             City
             so
             laid
             it
             open
             ,
             that
             most
             of
             the
             Protestants
             there
             ashamed
             of
             it
             ,
             found
             no
             better
             Salvo
             than
             to
             disown
             the
             Answerer
             as
             an
             Ignorant
             Scribler
             ,
             who
             had
             betrayed
             his
             Cause
             .
          
           I
           wish
           this
           successful
           Undertaker
           had
           but
           given
           us
           a
           Breviate
           of
           the
           Case
           as
           he
           propounded
           it
           to
           that
           Assembly
           ;
           for
           if
           he
           managed
           it
           in
           the
           same
           way
           as
           his
           Friend
           
             the
             Prover
          
           has
           done
           ,
           or
           as
           he
           himself
           has
           answered
           the
           Preservative
           ,
           sometimes
           omitting
           ,
           sometimes
           mangling
           ,
           and
           at
           all
           times
           Misrepresenting
           his
           Adversaries
           Arguments
           ,
           I
           will
           for
           once
           excuse
           my
           Friends
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           if
           they
           then
           thought
           the
           Answerer
           worthy
           of
           no
           better
           a
           Character
           than
           is
           here
           related
           ;
           who
           I
           hope
           for
           the
           future
           they
           will
           have
           less
           reason
           to
           believe
           an
           Adversary
           ;
           and
           use
           that
           kind
           of
           liberty
           ,
           
           which
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           so
           much
           envies
           them
           ,
           and
           belongs
           to
           them
           as
           Men
           and
           as
           Christians
           ,
           and
           judg
           for
           themselves
           ,
           by
           seeing
           with
           their
           own
           eyes
           ,
           whether
           the
           Cause
           is
           maintained
           or
           betrayed
           .
           But
           after
           all
           ,
           I
           know
           not
           whether
           I
           may
           not
           have
           as
           little
           reason
           to
           believe
           him
           concerning
           these
           Protestants
           ,
           as
           they
           had
           to
           believe
           him
           concerning
           the
           Answer
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Books
           lately
           Printed
           for
           
             Richard
             Chiswell
          
           .
        
         
           THE
           Incurable
           Scepticism
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
           By
           the
           Author
           of
           the
           
             [
             Six
             Conferences
             concerning
             the
             Eucharist
             .
             ]
          
           4
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           Mr
           Pulton
           Considered
           in
           his
           Sincerity
           ,
           Reasonings
           ,
           Authorities
           :
           Or
           a
           Just
           Answer
           to
           what
           he
           hath
           hitherto
           published
           in
           his
           
             True
             Account
          
           ;
           his
           
             True
             and
             Full
             Account
             of
             a
             Conference
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           His
           Remarks
           ;
           and
           in
           them
           his
           pretended
           Confutation
           of
           what
           he
           calls
           Dr.
           T
           's
           
             Rule
             of
             Faith.
          
           By
           
             Th.
             Tenison
          
           ,
           D.
           D.
           
        
         
           A
           Full
           View
           of
           the
           Doctrines
           and
           Practices
           of
           the
           
             Ancient
             Church
          
           relating
           to
           the
           Eucharist
           ,
           wholly
           different
           from
           those
           of
           the
           
             Present
             Roman
             Church
          
           ,
           and
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           belief
           of
           Transubstantiation
           .
           Being
           a
           sufficient
           Confutation
           of
           
             Consensus
             Veterum
             ,
             Nubes
             Testium
          
           ,
           and
           other
           late
           Collections
           of
           the
           Fathers
           pretending
           to
           the
           Contrary
           .
           4
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           An
           Answer
           to
           the
           
           Representer's
           Reflections
           upon
           the
           State
           and
           View
           of
           the
           Controversy
           ;
           With
           a
           Reply
           to
           the
           Vindicator's
           Full
           Answer
           ,
           shewing
           that
           the
           Vindicator
           has
           utterly
           ruin'd
           the
           New
           Design
           of
           Expounding
           and
           Representing
           Popery
           .
           4
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           An
           Answer
           to
           the
           Popish
           Address
           presented
           to
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           4
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           An
           Abridgment
           of
           the
           Prerogatives
           of
           St.
           Ann
           ,
           Mother
           of
           the
           Mother
           of
           God
           ,
           with
           the
           Approbations
           of
           the
           Doctors
           of
           Paris
           ,
           thence
           done
           into
           English
           ,
           with
           a
           PREFACE
           concernining
           the
           Original
           of
           the
           Story
           .
        
         
           The
           Primitive
           Fathers
           no
           Papists
           ,
           in
           Answer
           to
           the
           
             Nubes
             Testium
          
           ;
           to
           which
           is
           added
           ,
           a
           Discourse
           concerning
           
             Invocation
             of
             Saints
          
           ,
           in
           Answer
           to
           the
           Challenge
           of
           
             F.
             Sabran
          
           the
           Jesuit
           ;
           wherein
           is
           shewn
           ,
           that
           Invocation
           of
           Saints
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           the
           Practice
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           expresly
           against
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Primitive
           Fathers
           .
           4
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           An
           Answer
           to
           a
           Discourse
           concerning
           the
           Celibacy
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           lately
           Printed
           at
           Oxford
           .
           4
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           The
           
             Virgin
             Mary
          
           Misrepresented
           by
           the
           Roman
           Church
           ,
           In
           the
           Traditions
           of
           that
           Church
           concerning
           her
           Life
           and
           Glory
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Devotions
           paid
           to
           her
           as
           the
           Mother
           of
           God.
           Both
           shewed
           out
           of
           the
           Offices
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           the
           Lessons
           on
           her
           Festivals
           ,
           and
           from
           their
           allowed
           Authors
           .
        
         
           Dr.
           Tenisons
           Sermon
           of
           Discretion
           in
           giving
           Alms.
           12
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           A
           Discourse
           concering
           the
           Merits
           of
           Good
           Works
           .
        
         
           The
           Enthusiasm
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           demonstrated
           in
           some
           Observations
           upon
           the
           Life
           of
           
             Ignatius
             Loyola
          
           ,
           (
           Founder
           of
           the
           Order
           of
           Jesus
           )
           .
        
         
           A
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Answer
           to
           the
           Popish
           Address
           presented
           to
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           4
           
             
             o.
          
        
         
           Reflections
           upon
           the
           Books
           of
           the
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           establish
           the
           Truth
           of
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           in
           3
           Parts
           .
           8
           
             vo
             .
             In
             the
             Press
          
           .
        
         
           The
           Texts
           which
           the
           Papists
           cite
           out
           of
           the
           Bible
           for
           Proof
           of
           the
           Points
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           Examin'd
           ,
           and
           shew'd
           to
           be
           alledged
           without
           Ground
           .
           In
           several
           distinct
           Discourses
           ,
           
             Five
             whereof
             are
             published
          
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           Popery
           not
           founded
           in
           Scripture
           .
           The
           Introduction
           .
        
         
           Texts
           concerning
           the
           Obscurity
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           .
        
         
           —
           Of
           the
           Insufficiency
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           Necessity
           of
           Tradition
           .
        
         
           —
           Of
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           St.
           Peter
           ,
           and
           the
           Pope
           ,
           over
           the
           whole
           Church
           .
           
             In
             Two
             Parts
          
           .
        
         
           —
           Of
           Infallibility
           .
        
         
           The
           Rest
           will
           follow
           Weekly
           ,
           in
           their
           Order
           .
        
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
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             .
          
           
             Ep.
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             .
          
           
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             supra
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             Sherlock's
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             .