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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85394	Hagiomastix, or The scourge of the saints displayed in his colours of ignorance & blood: or, a vindication of some printed queries published some moneths since by authority, in way of answer to certaine anti-papers of syllogismes, entituled a Vindication of a printed paper, &c. ... / By John Goodwin, pastor of a Church of Christ in Colemanstreet.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1169; Thomason E374_1; ESTC R201334; ESTC R201335	139,798	168

thing more strange to suppose this then it is to suppose that all men are not Kings nor all Princes nor all Nobles nor all wise nor all rich with the like Surely these men through the abundance of their zeale will shortly vote it wickednesse blasphemie impudence Atheisme Devillisme an impiety calling for an Anathema a delivering up unto Satan c. for a man to suppose or intimate that light is not darknesse or that darknesse is not light that sweet is not bitter or that bitter is not sweet that a mans feet are not his hands or that his head is not his feet The most cleere and pregnant truth is that the intimation wherewith they charge the Querie now in Sanctuarie and this undeservedly too and against which they rise up in the might of their indignation is of no more demerit no more worthy censure then one of these yea and that the most innocent of them if any be suspected Deare English soules take heed of putting a Scepter into the hands of these men For they can be angry and become Lyons and call eares hornes when they please By the way before wee leave this point I desire by occasion of the ground lately mentioned as the common if not the generall Tenet of our best and most Orthodoxe Writers that it be taken into serious consideration whether or how farre it is meet to punish or censute poore miserable men for not holding or not asserting the Truth of those things which they cannot come without much labour and contention of mind yea not without some good degree of reason and understanding too to judge so much as probable nor at al to come to believe or know them CERTAINLY but onely by an immediate and supernaturall work of the Spirit of God Are men to be punished because God hath not imparted unto them his Spirit of Grace and supernaturall illumination Seventhly and lastly Neither is it true as hath been prov'd at Sect. 26. large that all the opinions threatned with death in the Ordinance are either contrary to the manifest word of God or overthrowing the foundations of Christian Religion Therefore no such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or properties in them as these can be any reason to prove that the makers of the Ordinance must needs CERTAINLY know them to be damnable Sect. 27. heresies For non entis nulla est efficacia nulla operati● That which is not cannot be a reason or cause of that which i● A mans person cannot be protected by a Castle in the aire By the way I suppose that by the manifest word of God the Answerers meane Texts or passages first of such Scriptures which are manifestly i. unquestionably and without all dispute the word of God And secondly which are capable of no other exposition sense or meaning but what as plainly and directly as in the very termes themselves exhibit and give out the opinion whether one or more asserted by them If they intend or meane any thing lesse then this by their manifest word of God they speake snares and ambiguities therefore in this sense I understand them and counter-argue with them thus First that all the Opinions sentenced with death in the Ordinance are not contrary to the manifest word of God is evident by what hath been already argued concerning this which is one of them viz. that God is not one in three Persons a Sec Sect. 19 20 21. This how untrue or erroneous soever in a sense it may be is not contrary to any manifest word of God Nor have the Syllogismers proved so much as one jot or title of this and yet I believe they have proved as much of it as ever they will doe or can doe So againe That Christ is not God coequall with the Father which is another of these Opinions neither is this contrary to any manifest word of God in the sense declared though I judge it contrary to the Truth Probatio incumbit affirmanti Let the assertors of it to be so prove their assertion but to say much and prove little is one of the principall pillars in their Schoole So againe that Christs death is not meritorious in the behalfe of believers is another of these Opinions I marvell what manifest word of God they will finde unto which this is contrary That the Scriptures are not the word of God is another taking the word Scriptures for all the bookes of the Old and New Testament divifim and conjunctim as they are now received and acknowledged amongst us which is the onely sense the Ordinance can reasonably meane if they can find me any manifest word of God whereunto this is contrary I will in recompence of such a favour abate them three absurdities and foure in the sequell of my examination of their Vindication Againe Sect. 27. Secondly neither are all the said Opinions sentenced in the Ordinance with death overthrowing the very foundations of Christian Religion Sect. 27. Taking the word Scriptures in the sense even now declared viz. for all and every the bookes of the Old and New Testament this Opinion that the Scriptures are not the word of God doth not overthrow the foundations of Christian Religion The book of the Revelation is Scripture or a parcell of the Scriptures yet was this booke for a long time together denyed to be the word of God by far the greater part of Christians in the world who yet remain'd unshaken in the foundations of their Religion Luther denyed the Epistle of James to be the word of God and yet was built as strongly upon the foundations of Christian Religion as these severe Taxe-Masters themselves no disparagement to their Faith Musculus himselfe so farre professeth himselfe to reverence the judgement of some of the Canonicalnesse of the latter Epistle of Peter the two latter Epistles of John the Epistle of Jude the Epistle to the Herbrewes and the Apocalyps yea and of some later writers also for he speakes in the plurall number who discanon the Epistle of Jude that he judgeth himselfe lesse tyed or bound up in his judgement by these Scriptures then by other a Inter libros Novi Testamenti sunt nonnulli d● quibus etiam veterum sententiae variant utpote Epistola posterior Petri duae posteriores Johannis Epistola Judae Epistola ad Hebraeos Apocalypsis Iohannis quae in Concilio Laodiceno cap. 39. ultimo inter Canonicas Scripturas non recitatur quibus etiam eam quae Iacobo inscribitur quidam reccen●iores connumerant M●● modestiae non est ut de his pronunciem sintneeorum sub quorum nominibus extant vel secus ludicia tamen veterum hoc efficiunt ut minùs simillis quam coeteris Scripturis astrictus l●cèt haud facilè quaevis damnanda cens●am quae in illis leguntur Musculus Loc. De sacris Scripturis It were easie to adde more instances of like nature And though for my selfe I can and doe without sc●uple subscribe to the