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A29189	A review and conclusion of The antidote agianst [sic] Mr. Baxter's palliated cure of church-divisions wherein Mr. Baxter's late repentance is examined, all his immodest calumnies confuted, and the grounds of separation further cleared / by Edward Bagshaw.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing B421; ESTC R37056	15,565	24

which you lay d●●n is ●●●ect●y contrary to the Doctrine of all our Ancient Protestant Divines and particularly to that of the First Reformers and besides is the very Foundation of the Roman that is of the Antichristian Church For you say plainly as Andradius Stapleton Bellarmine and others pag. 188 the worst Defenders of the Trent Council do that the S●lf evidencidg Light of Scripture is not sufficient without humane Help and Testimony to make us know every Canonicall Book from the Apocryphal 〈◊〉 And you instance Particularly in Solomon's Proverbs Gab. p. 61. unto which our Saviour himself and his Apostles have witnessed as to a Divine Writing And besides in defence of this you urge an Argument of a more impious sense and sound than ever I read in any but your self And I think that Bellarmine was modest and but a Trifler to you ●ab p. 63. c. Mahomet say you and his followers more numerous than the Christians pretend that Mahomets name was in Gospel of John as the Paraclete or Comforter promised by Christ and that the Christians have blotted it out and altered the Writings of the Gospel and how shall we disprove them but by Historical evidence To which I shall only reply in short that if matters between them and us must be brought to this issue Actum est We have nothing substantial to plead and it is not God's but Man's Word that must be taken we having no certain nor infallible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 left us to discern and know the voice of Scripture by I might urge what Whitaker Chamier and others have replyed but I shall content my self with what I find briefly yet fully stated by that Judicious and Weightie Writer Mr. Hildersham whose name in other cases particularly that of Conformity where you think he maketh for you you pretend great Reverence to Indeed the Testimony of the Church saith he doth first encline us to think that the Scripture is the Word of God and maketh us willing to hear and read it but after we by hearing and reading it attain to further certainty and assurance John 4. Lect. 76. For God himself speaketh to us in the Scripture Luke 1.79 Hebrews 1.1 and that so clearly and evidently that the Faithful are undoubtedly assured that it is he that speaketh that it is indeed his Word and they can say as Cant. 2.8 It is the voice of my beloved This is promised to the Faithful Isa 52.6 They shall know in that day that I am he that speaketh behold it is I and John 7.17 If any man will do his Will he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self And indeed if we could not now be undoubtedly certain that is indeed Gods Word the Case of the Church were worse now than it was when God spake to his people in Visions and Dreams For they were without any external Testimony from Men fully assured then that it was the Lord himself indeed that spake unto them Nay it is Certain that we may be more sure that God speaks to us in his Word then they could be of his speaking unto them in Visions 2 Peter 1.19 We have also a more sure Word of Prophesie Thus far that worthy Writer who asserteth no more in substance than what is the unanimous judgement of Calvin Luther and all our Ancient Protestant Divines and I wonder while you tax another of Falshood you should venture thus to reproach their Memory as if they held with you when not one of them but some few bold Innovators of late like your self did ever assert that Opinion which overthroweth and razeth to ground the whole Protestant cause as tending wholly to enthrone Tradition and to advance the Authority of Men in the Things of God I know you bear your self very high upon what you have already writ in defence as you call it of Scripure page 16. And you do insolently tell us I know of no man living in this age that hath written so much I say not so well for the things in Question Scripture and Christianity as I have done To which Boast I reply First some have written large Books and pretended great earnestness for many things on purpose that they might attaque and set upon them afterwards with greater advantage Thus Caesar Vanins wrote a very learned Book against Atheism though it was his own professed and avoiwed Impiety in defence of which afterwards he desperatly died Secondly give me leeve to ask you To what purpose is all this VVaste or who hath required this at your Hands And why do you undertake a Needless as well as an Impossible Task That is to reconcile Religion to Natural Reason to bring down the Things of God unto the understanding of Man which is in effect to say you do not believe them to be Tremendous Mysteries Thirdly Me thinks you should be frighted by the dreadful falls of those pretendedly Rational men that went this way before you from following after their bold and daring Example Socinus a man of no little Reason proceeded so far as to deny the Divinity of Christ And Grotius who wrote as learnedly on the Truth of Christian Religion as any yet himself died of none or if as you say he died a Papist Pres to five Disp it was worse than none So that I may say of the●e Rational Arguing● what the Apostle hath concerning meats They have not profited those that walked in them Lastly Heb. 13.9 This I must testifie from my own Experience and leave it as a warning to all in whom the Itch of curious Enquiry is not yet healed that had not I learn'd the Truth of Christian Religion from better A●guments and a more Certain way of Reasoning than any your Bo●ks afford I had still been plunged in the depths of Atheism and I look upon your whole Discourse about the Nature Being and Decrees of God the Immortality of the Soul and The reward of the Life to come which you pretend to found upon Natural Reason to be so far from the Cogency of Demonstration and the Evidence of Rational Light that such kind of Discourses serve much rather to Teach then to preserve from Unbelief while they give Corrupt Reason leave to argue and justifie it self against that which is accounted the weakness and simplicity of believing I look upon it as sound Doctrine and so I held it long before I read it in Mr. Hildersham That this glory is due to Christ and to him alone to believe him upon his Word John 4. lect 32. even without the Testimony or Authority of any man yea though we see no Reason for it yea though it seem never so contrary to our own Reason we must in this case be-like Pythagoras his Schollars and so rest in that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when once we hear Thus saith the Lord this must suffice us instead of all Reasons here we must