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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79466	Hell, with the everlasting torments thereof asserted. Shewing 1. Quod sit, that there is such a place. 2. Quid sit, what this place is. 3. Ubi sit, where it is. Being diametrically opposite to a late pamphlet, intituled, The foundation and pillars of Hell discovered, searched, shaken, and removed. For the glory of God, both in his mercy and justice, the comfort of all poor believing souls, and the terrour of all wicked and ungodly wretches. Semper meditare Gehennam. / By Nich. Chevvney, M.A.	Chewney, Nicholas, 1609 or 10-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C3805; Thomason E1802_2; ESTC R209913	50,666	128

the house of Israel to do it for them Thus we see the Scriptures themselves are point blanck for the performance of holy duties But his intents and his purpose his aim and his end is to undervalue the Scriptures by telling us we have not the very Books that were written by the Prophets and Apostles Nor is it enough saith he that we have Books in Hebrew and Greek unless we could certainly know that these Copies as they are called do agree word for word with those that were written by those Holy Pen-men To which I answer If his ignorance be such that he knows not whether they accord or no let him sit by and submit to the judgment of the Godly Learned let him not raise a dust to blind the eyes of others because he himself cannot discern truth from falshood But yet forsooth under a probable and plausible shew of some learning which God knows is very smal which is to strongly presumed is none at all under the pretence of zeal and devotion holiness and humility labours to obtrude his paralogisms unto the people as sugred baits of serpentine deceit which he perswades himself cannot be done but by endeavouring to overthrow Religion and the very basis and foundation thereof the holy Scriptures But that he may not out-face us with a Card of ten we affirm that the original Text the authentique Hebrew of the Old Testament with the Greek of the New is entire and incorrupt and for proof hereof do commend these ensuing Arguments to the Consideration of the judicious and Christian Reader The first whereof is drawn from the want of proof on their side who endeavour to lay so foul an imputation upon the Scriptures which they are bound to make good by some evident demonstration but hic labor They are a Tree so firmly rooted that all the cold storms of humane reluctancy and opposition could never shake They then deserve and that justly too to be branded with a vain and prophane suspicion of that for which they never yet nor ever will be able to give a reason Secondly From the testimony of Christ himself Mat. 5.18 Where he saith that one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or tittle of the Law shall not pass away yea Heaven and Earth shall pass way before the word of God shall suffer the least diminution Whence it is manifest that God will not permit his word conteined in the Scriptures to suffer any the least depravation Thirdly From the incredible devotion even to superstition which the Jews bore to the holy Scriptures whence it was enacted by them that if any one should presume to change or alter any thing therein they were judged guilty of an unpardonable offence Besides if they would have done it they could not for it must have been done either before the coming of the Messias or after If before any such wickedness had been committed by them they could not have have evaded the just reprehension of Christ and his Apostles If after the Copies thereof being dispersed among the Christians would have rendred such attempts vain and fruitless And that they did it not may appear by those places concerning the coming of Christ in the flesh which above all and before all others would have been corrupted by them Fourthly From the care and vigilancy of the Fathers who have ever had recourse to and made use of these spiritual weapons against Heathens Hereticks and prophane persons insomuch that no manifest depravation of the Text could possibly creep in without publick notice taken of it and as publick clamor and scandal against it Fifthly From the consideration that almost every age hath afforded notable and famous Criticks such as Origen and Jerome of old Erasmus Beza and an infinite number of others in latter times who with an Heroick industry and diligence have weighed every tittle in the ballance of the Sanctuary and sound it entire so that there cannot be any visible corruption found in it or apparent depravation of it Lastly From the providence of God If God could and would preserve the Original and Authentique Scriptures inviolate and propagate them to posterity there is no doubt to be made but that they were preserved But that God could none can none dare deny That he would his providence to the Church doth testifie to whom he so delivered his holy Word that without any suspition of error it might receive instruction and information from it Mat. 28. ult Lo I am with you by my word and spirit unto the end of the world Now for Translations I confess they cannot have that propriety and delicacy and harmony and melody of language which the Holy Ghost delighted in and made frequent use of in the penning of the Scriptures We know that when the Grecians and the Romanes and S. August himself undervalued and despised the Scriptures because of the poor and beggerly phrase that they seemed to be written in the Christians could say little against it but turned still upon the other and safer way we consider the matter and not the phrase because for the most part they had read the Scriptures onely in Translations which could not maintain the Majesty nor preserve the Elegancies of the Original But howsoever the Christians were at first fain to sink a little under that imputation that their Scriptures had no Majesty because those imbellishments could not appear in Translations with which the Originall did abound yet now that a perfect knowledge of those languages hath brought us to see the beauty and to behold the glory of those Books and to come up so near unto the same in our Translations Let a man that is endued with the spirit of discerning read the Books in our Translation he shall apprehend the Author to be God the matter to be divine and absolute that is therein contained the manner and form to be no barbarous or trivial or market or homely language but as full of Majesty as possibly could be rendred in the simplicity of words And the end whereat they aim to be the glory of God alone may thence conclude these are the Scriptures and the very word of God By the Scriptures themselves then in the Original and by Translation as near and agreeable to the Original as the best and ablest Expositors could possibly render them have we proved that there is a place prepared wherein all wicked and ungodly wretches shall be tormented with the Devil and his Angels and that for ever I but God delights not in the death of a sinner Ezek. 18. much less in the eternal damnation of any of his Creatures Answ Yet as mercy hath had her place and day so Justice must have hers whom mercy saves she saves for ever though their works were short and nothing unto God yea the very effects of his own grace Therefore whom Justice condemns she condemns for ever not so much respecting the persons that have sinned as the person against whom they have sinned Almighty God