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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64359	A friendly debate between a Roman Catholick and a Protestant concerning the doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the said doctrine is utterly confuted, and Antichrist is clearly and fully described, and his inevitable destruction predicted : with a challenge to all the Romish doctors that preach and teach the said doctrine, to answer it.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing T698; ESTC R38802	90,615	48

of man hath power on earth to forgive sins which clearly implies that none else had that Power b● himself and he had it as he was God 1 John 2 1● I write unto you little Children because your sins 〈◊〉 forgiven you for his Names sake that is he judge and pronounced them pardoned because he sees the Work of Grace that God had wrought upon the 〈◊〉 hearts Thus you do see in the Gospel of Christ how Confession of Sins is to be made so as a Pardon in the Blood of Christ may be obtained But Antichrist's Gospel teacheth Men and W● men to confess their Sins and Pay Whip or some other Penance and at the old trade of sinning again 11. Eleventhly The Gospel of Christ teacheth Men to live peaceably as much as in them lie● with all Men Rom. 12.18 But Antichrist's Gospel teacheth them to liv● peaceably with none but them of their own Religion and to do what possibly in them lies to destroy and root all others out of the World. 12. Twelfthly The Gospel of Christ teacheth al● Men to speak the Truth one to another and lye no● to any Man. But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth Men to use Mental Reservations and Deceitful Equivocations which is to speak one thing with the Tongue and mean another thing in their Heart which is to lye upon all occasions to serve their Ecclesiastical Interest which is the highest degree of Hyporisy in the World. 13. Thirteenthly The Gospel of Christ teacheth us to know Good from Evil and Evil from Good and Light from Darkness and Darkness from Light and it teacheth us to chuse the Good and refuse the Evil. But this another Gospel 2 Cor. 11.4 Gal. 1. 〈◊〉 9. Namely the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth Men to call Evil Good and Good Evil and p●● Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness Isa 5.20 They call the Gospel of Christ Heresy and Protestant-Professors of it Hereticks Now the Gospel is the greatest Light that ever was in the World it is the Light 〈◊〉 Heaven And Heresy is the greatest Darkness in 〈◊〉 World it is the Darkness of Hell and they pla●● their own Antichristian Gospel which is Here●● and thick Darkness in the room of the Gospel Light. 14. Fourteenthly The Gospel of Christ teacheth us to believe in him alone and to rely upon 〈◊〉 Righteousness and Merits for Spiritual Life he 〈◊〉 and for Eternal Life and Salvation with him 〈…〉 But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth Men to rely upon their own Righteousness and Works of Merit Ay tho Works of Mischief and Darkness some of them and to expect to be saved by that in Conjunction with the Righteousness and Merits of Christ 15. Fifteenthly and Lastly To name no more the Gospel of God teacheth us to do Justice and to love Mercy and to walk Humbly with the Lord our God Mic. 6.8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth men to do Injustice and to love and delight in Cruelty and Persecution and to walk loftily and to carry it proudly towards God and Mun. Thus I have shewed you in part what a vast difference there is between the Gospel of Christ which is that which we Protestants do own and believe to be the revealed Will and Word of God and ought to be the only Rule for all People to Live and Walk by and especially to Worship God by and the Gospel of Antichrist there is as much difference as there is between Light and Darkness for indeed it is even so for the Gospel of Christ is the great Light in the World it is the Light of Heaven above all other Light in the World the Light of the Sun Moon and Stars is but Darkness compared with this Light of the Gospel of God for it is the Light which comes from Heaven And the Gospel of Antichrist is the greatest Darkness in the World it springs from the utter Darkness of Hell all other Darkness is Light compared to that Now I shall finish this Discourse with three Arguments But it may be that some Persons will say They do own the Scriptures tho they do not own some Doctrines which we that are Protestants do own whom they count Hereticks and perhaps they may say That I have acknowledged it in the first Part of my Book that they do own the Scriptures why yes that is true they do own it after a sort they do by the Holy Scriptures as Clippers and Coyners do do by the Kings lawful Standard Money they take the largest fairest Money and Clip and File it away and cover over Copper and Counterfeit the Kings Stamp and shuffle it away for currant Coyn among them that cannot discern it to be so Why even so they do by the King of Kings Coyn the Holy and Sacred Scriptures they add and diminish as their seeming Interest lieth But here is what will be their Portion unless they ●●pent quickly for the Judg is at the Door Rev. 〈…〉 the words of the Prophecy of this book If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy City and from the things which are written in this book Deut. 4.2 Prov. 30.6 1. Now my first finshing Argument is this If any Persons deny the Satisfaction made to the Law and Justice of God by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ to be wholly and intirely sufficient of it self to justifie and acquit a Sinner of all his guilt of Sin before God then these Persons tho they pretend to own part of the Scriptures yet they do deny the whole Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament because it is the Fundamental Doctrine of Mans Salvation in both Testaments Jam. 2.10 For whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all As partial Obedience is no Obedience so partial owning the Scripture is a denying the Scripture in Fundamentals which is to deny the whole Scripture But there are a sort of Persons that profess themselves to be Christians that do deny the Satisfaction made to the Law and Justice of God by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ to be wholly and intirely sufficient of it self to justifie and acquit a Sinner of all his guilt of Sin before God. Therefore these Persons tho they pretend to be Christians and own some part of the Scriptures yet these very Persons destroy the Essential Being of true Christianity and deny the whole Scriptures both of Old and New Testament because there is this Fundamental Doctrine of Mans Salvation in both Testaments and a partial owning of Fundamental Doctrines of