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B02147 Christendom; or, The nature of Christ's kingdom opened, and the chiefest difficulties in divinity cleared in order to ending the controversies among Christian philosophers, scool-men [sic], and divines of all parties. 1687 (1687) Wing C3933; ESTC R171319 44,677 48

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Omniscient which only God is Finally it is a Point of Faith and the very sum of the Bible that since the Fall of Man all Religious Approach to God is to be in and through Christ only They which do otherwise are guilty of flat Idolatry CHAP. XV. Of the Scripture 1. THough heavenly Truth was not put into Writing outwardly till the time of Moses yet was it from the beginning supernaturally written in the Heart of Adam in Innocency and being extinguished by his Fall it was renewed in him in saving measure by heavenly Regeneration after his Fall and by this way kept safe in the inward Records of the Heart and transmitted unto the time of Moses When he by divine Appointment and Inspiration did first put heavenly Truth into writing outwardly this did not alter the intrinsecal nature of it For heavenly Truth as written in the Heart and in the Bible is but one and the same Truth diversly written perfectly in the Bible truly but not perfectly in the Heart of Man since the Fall and the entrance of Sin into the World. 2. Whether all the Books of the Old and New Testament as we reckon them be Canonical Scripture and whether every Word and Sentence therein be exactly translated this is not matter of Divine Belief nor doth Salvation lie on it so as to damn all that err herein but it is matter of human Science and Testimony as subservient to Divine Belief Human Science and Testimony considered as repugnant to Divine Belief is not Science and Testimony but a Lie Considered as subservient vient to Divine Belief so it is in a large sense truly divine and as divine it is infallible And thus the Scripture is the supream Judg and adequate Standard in Controversies of Faith. The sum of the Scripture is Repentance and Remission of Sins through Faith in Christ according to the eternal Purpose of God the Father not incarnate the Son incarnate the Holy Ghost not incarnate This is al● saving Evidence in one not as exclusive of things subservient but as supposing and comprizing them 3. With respect to Life Temporal and Human Converse Words are not Things but signs of Mens inward Thoughts and the great Arbiter of Speech is Use quem penes arbitrium est jus norma loquendi With respect to Life eternal and heavenly Conversation by Faith Words are Things and therefore we are commanded to hold fast the form of sound Words and Christ saith By thy Words thou shalt be justified and by thy Words thou shalt be condemned God hath set us a Standard for all our Words unto which none may add from which none may diminish under pain of Damnation The great Mystery of Godliness is The Word was made Flesh Joh. 1.14 1 Tim. 3.16 Rev. 22.18 19. Mat. 12.37 2 Tim. 1.13 Indeed where there is an agreement in Substance diversity in Speech for Peace-sake is to be born with But there can be no agreement in Substance without the Scripture as the sole supream Judg and perfect Standard as to all things concerning the Glory of God and the eternal Salvation of the Soul. If we go from this we shall not know where to fix a Foundation is laid for infinite proceeding and so for Atheism and Confusion of all things 4. There are who write that all Words that Man can speak of God at least except Being and Substance are improper or metaphorical But certainly this is a great Error For tho God be above all our Words and Expressions yet he is not above and contrary to Himself he cannot be the Author of Sin he is not God improperly and metaphorically God is good and there are good Angels and Men both these are true and proper But in the sense that God is good essentially independently inderivatively the Author of all Good so none is good but God Every Creature as dependent on God is good and useful to his Glory and the Salvation of his Elect by Christ But the whole Creation as compared with God is as nothing it is less than nothing and Vanity Isa 40.17 18. All Words importing Excellency and Perfection and no way importing Imperfection and Impiety do agree to God simply incomparably transcendently eternally infinitely most truly really and properly and not at all to Angels and Men as compared with God. Dat propriae similem translata metaphora vocem Things heavenly and eternal may be set forth by worldly and temporal Similitudes But so that things heavenly and eternal are the Standard Judex sui obliqui Thus Christ's Flesh as eaten by Faith is Meat indeed and his Blood as drunk by Faith is Drink indeed not metaphorical rhetorical verbal improper and imaginary Food but most real heavenly solid substantial divine transcendent incomparably excellent and eternal Food for the Soul and all worldly and temporal Food for the Body as compared with and repugnant to it is not Food at all but Dung Loss and Damnation eternal but as subservient to it it is true and proper Food for the Body God's good Creature and worthy of Thanksgiving 5. The Fountain-cause of so much doleful Contention among Christians touching Religion is their leaving the Simplicity that is in Christ and guiding themselves by that Philosophy and School-Sophistry which the Scripture calls vain Deceit 2 Cor. 11.3 Col. 2.8 Philosophy considered as subservient to Life Eternal by Faith in Christ is not Philosophy but Christianity largely taken Philosophy considered as repugnant to Life Eternal by Faith in Christ is damnable Impiety the Mother of Herefy and Division that Wisdom which is from beneath which is earthly sensual and devilish Philosophers as such treat of God● of Man of Being of Truth of Good of Unity of Vertue of Nature of Relation of what not not as Christians but as Philosophers not by the Light of Faith in Christ but by the Light of Nature which in Points of Faith is very Darkness And so the whole Doctrine of Philosophers as such is false a meer Building without a Foundation Because Christ is the first and the last in all true Knowledg as being God the Son incarnate and God is All in All. This Philosophers as such be ignorant of and do not build Science upon Christ the sole Foundation of Science by Faith 1 Cor. 3.11 and so they err in the Foundation and all the Science of Philosophers as such is false Science repugnant to Faith in Christ CHAP. XVI Containing a Confutation of sundry Errors held by too many School-men Philosophers and Divines of all Parties by which Controversies are kept up and perpetuated Error 1. THE Man Christ is God in the Concrete but not the Manhood of Christ in the Abstract Before the Incarnation Christ was simple uncompounded impartial and but one Nature After Incarnation he is not simple but compounded and consisteth of two distinct Natures as two essential Parts Confutation The Man Christ is indeed God yet not as he is Man And the Manhood of Christ