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A96120 The way to make all discerning lovers of truth of one mind: for the stronger opposition of those who would ruine them with errours and discords flowing from them. / By A lover of truth and peace ; published with authority. Lover of truth and peace. 1687 (1687) Wing W1169A; ESTC R186320 8,063 40

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The Way to make all Discerning Lovers OF TRUTH Of One Mind FOR THE Stronger Opposition of Those who would Ruine Them with ERROURS and DISCORDS flowing from them By a Lover of Truth and Peace Published with Authority LONDON Printed by N. T. at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross MDCLXXXVII The way to make all discerning Lovers of Truth of one Mind for the stronger Opposition of those who would ruine them with Errors and Discords flowing from them THE first step to this is Charity For Men should rather love their Neighbours for the good they agree in than hate upon meer difference of Opinions The next is to dispute no more than we perfectly understand without violently imposing our own conjectural Opinions on others The Third is that right Reason and necessity obligeth us to prefer Council and an Umpirage of all our Differences before Blows with Murther and Rapine This hath been the Cause of all Governments and Laws that the Force of the Strongest may not oppress the Innocence of the weaker Multitude And our English Judges and Juries are nothing but so many sworn Umpires to determine right in our differences But whether there be the same necessity for the finding and following the Truth of Divine Worship shall be the Subject of the following Discourse It is generally known to Mankind that the most ingenious and Potent Nations of the Greeks and Romans with all the rest of the World except the Jews were for many Ages Idolaters but hey agreed not in their Idols For some adored the departed Souls of great Heroes amongst them in their several Statues Others set up the Figures of their own imaginary Deities But the most rational did either worship great Men supposed to be turned into Stars or the real moving Planets of Saturn Jupiter Venus Mars Apollo c. but even to the Sun it self that gives Life to so many Insects and according to Aristotle to the generation of Man is but a circumscribed Body or a point in respect of the Infinite space of the Universe And appears to be but a great fiery Globe by our contracting its Beams in a burning-glass to generate Fire here on Earth and therefore the Jews who were more ancient Philosophers and Historians than the Nations above-named were satisfyed by their light of Reason that the Grandeur Beauty Order and several motions of the infinity of great luminous Bodies with the admirable Architecture of Man and the several Species of all living Creatures could never be the work of Chance to unite the contradictory Elements nor of a Common-wealth of Gods imprisoned in the indifferent Spheres but of a Monarch infinite in Extent Power Wisdom Goodness and this immense goodness revealed this undoubted Truth to his Servant Moses whose miraculous March through the Red Sea with the drowning of the following Aegyptians and the opening of the Earth to swallow Corah with thousands of his rebellious Companions were too great and publick Miracles to be suspected of Eorgery since they were both acted and written in Moses his own time when they must have been contradicted by thousands of then living Spectators if not truly recited and we know what Credit these and many other Miracles have given to Moses his Divine Books over the World even unto this day But the infinite lover of Mankind did continually supply the Jews his then chosen People with a supply of Prophets and a Source of Miracles not only to confirm them in their Belief and Obedience to his Commands and his then written Law but promis'd them by his Prophets of several Ages concurring in point of time when a Messiah should come to redeem and instruct all Nations in the Methods of his future Worship and promised to be with them for ever as in Isaiah Chap. 21. Verse 29. As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord my Spirit which is upon thee and my Words which I have put in thy Mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy Seed nor out of the mouth of thy Seed's Seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever And again in Daniel Chap. 7. verse 10 14. I saw in the Night Visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the Clouds of Heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him next before him And there was given Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages should serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away and his Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed And there is all the assurance that can be in humane Affairs that the Jews could have no lies imposed upon them for their Twelve Tribes had their Notaries and Scribes to each of them who recorded all remarkable occurrences and they often conferred Notes together to prevent Forgeries and Mistakes so that never any Miracles were better warranted in confirmation of the rational Truth of their Law that there is one Omnipotent Creator who made Man to love worship and serve him and no other Gods in Confutation of Idolaters and all other sorts of Infidels And now since this learned and chosen People turned Apostate after the coming of Christ whom they Crucified as an Usurper and an Impostor we ought to be very particular in the Confutation of such a People and of all our present Infidels who because they would be cozened in nothing will scarce believe there was a Julius Caesar an Alexander or a Harry the 8th because they never saw them Of the coming of Christ THe Redeemer of Mankind came into the World at the very time prefixed by a Succession of Jewish Prophets and a concurrence of the Roman Cibils and other dis-interessed Persons and there was not other Pretender to be the Messiah near that time so that the blind Jews must either confess him to be their Messiah or their written Law and Prophets to be false But they pretended that he came not into the World like a King. But his low Birth was a clear demonstration that God would have nothing of Kindred or Power to mix in the miraculous Work of converting all the most considerable Nations of the World. And therefore his Disciples were chosen Men of as humble Birth as free from Wealth Power or Parts to get them as any great Undertakers could be His Doctrine was not easie to believe as the Trinity and Resurrection and it was so free from all Temptations to bait Mankind with that it forbid plurality of Women taught the suffering of all Injuries and instead of covering Power or Money which gets and keeps it he taught the selling all and giving the Money to the Poor and taking up his Cross and following him And now I would ask the greatest of his Enemies what could make this Doctrine grow and prosper but his Stupendious Miracles and the omnipotent Hand of God. And that he did recover the Lame and Blind raise