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A33395 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 men's private sense / published with allowance. 1688 (1688) Wing C4620; ESTC R35645 8,105 14

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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 Published with Allowance LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel And are to be sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch-side in Black-Fryers 1688. 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 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 Addresser holds if he be a Catholic That Scripture rightly understood is a Rule of Faith That the Gospel revealed by Christ preached by the Apostles and preserved by the Catholic Church is so much our whole Rule of Faith that we own with Tertullian De Presc we need not be curiously searching since Christ nor further inquisitive since the Gospel was preach'd No new Revelations no new Articles being receiv'd as of Catholic Faith but those Truths only retained which the Church proposes as delivered to her by the Apostles her whole Authority being ever employ'd as Pope Celestine delivers it to the Council of Ephesus Ep. 7. 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 Catholic Church ever handing it to us and declaring it to be so Scripture thus interpreted is a Catholic Rule of Faith The Addresser therefore meant nothing less than to diminish its Divine Authority his design was to preserve it and that each man's 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 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 De Doctr. Ch. l. 2. c. 9. 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 But the case in this first Question as it appears stated by the Addresser is Whether all things necessary to Salvation are immediatly 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 John 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 is Christ 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 The second Text of Scripture is 2 Tim. 3.15 16. where the Apostle having thus warned Timothy immediatly 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 1 Tim. 6.20 2 Tim. 1.13 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 inf●ncy 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 Therefore 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