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A85088	Two treatises The first, concerning reproaching & censure: the second, an answer to Mr Serjeant's Sure-footing. To which are annexed three sermons preached upon several occasions, and very useful for these times. By the late learned and reverend William Falkner, D.D.	Falkner, William, d. 1682.; Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.; Sturt, John, 1658-1730, engraver.	1684 (1684)	Wing F335B; ESTC R230997	434,176	626

denounced against by the laws of civil Societies and inflicted upon such offenders in many civil Societies this carrying so great an opposition to the laws of nature and the publick quiet and good of the World Lipsius (p) Lipsius in Orat. de Calumnia tells us that the Athenians imposed a pecuniary penalty upon such offenders and that the ancient Romans set a mark upon the forehead of him who was guilty of this crime with the letter K. If this was so I do not doubt but this letter K was to signifie Kalumnia or Kalumniator Calumnia being one of the three words which are noted by (q) Scalig. Animadv in Euseb Chronol p. 114. Scaliger to have been only written with K. and not with C. in the most ancient use of the Latin tongue And this was a publick declaration that the Reproacher or Calumniator deserved to be openly marked out and branded for an infamous person 21. But since a great part of mankind have had as great an esteem for their good name as for their lives in the ancient famous Laws of the (r) Duodec Tabul Fragment Tit. 25 n. 3. twelve tables it is declared that though very few crimes were by those laws punished with death yet the reproaching and defaming others was thereby made a capital offence And in the ancient laws of the Empire this is related to have been sometimes punished with stripes and sometimes by making the person Intestabilis or one who by the law was not permitted to make any Testament to dispose of his goods at his death But by the Constitution of (s) Cod. l. 9. Tit. 36. leg unic Valentinian and Valens both he who is the author of a Calumny and he also who casually findeth a libel and divulgeth it seem guilty of death to wit where the calumny is some great matter of defamation And I above noted that this offence was sometimes capital amongst the (t) n. 14. Jews To this I shall add the consideration of S. Chrysostome concerning the dangers of reproaching Superiors with respect to what God established and effected under the Mosaical Dispensation He considers (u) Hom. 2. in illud Salutate Priscillam Aquilam that if he who reviled his Father or Mother must die the death Exod. 21.17 Lev. 20.9 how severe a punishment must he deserve who doth this to his Spiritual Father And when he had mentioned the dismal misery which befel Corah and his Company for speaking against Moses and Aaron he then considers the case of Miriam Miriam with Aaron had reproached Moses because of the Aethiopian Woman by Gods judgment in this world which he had Married Num. 12.1 with other expressions of contempt And for this cause Gods wrath was kindled against her and by the hand of God she was smitten with leprosie and must be put out of the Camp of Israel and bear her shame And as S. Chrysostome observes this punishment for this offence could not be avoided though Moses prayed and fell down before God on her behalf yea though she was Moses his own Sister and the person as he goes on who preserved the life of Moses calling his Mother to nurse him and led the women in their praises Exod. 15. as Moses did the men 22. But the inflicting the eternal judgment of God and his severe wrath in another world is far more dreadful than any temporal penalty and in the world to come And since the most High God is infinitely righteous in all his laws threatnings and judgments whatsoever he sets himself against and wheresoever he executes his fierce anger it gives manifest evidence that that which provokes him so to do must be greatly evil as well as dangerous And it is necessary to abhor and avoid those things which expose to the divine vengeance which is utterly intolerable Now that the punishment of those who yield themselves to this sin of evil speaking will be very sad may appear by two Considerations 23. First By taking a review of it The several sins contained in it are all destructive and observing the danger of every one of the several sins above mentioned which are contained under this of reproaching and therefore what the sad consequence must be of all these meeting together Doth it oppose the great and necessary duty of love He that loveth not his Brother abideth in death 1 Joh. 3.14 Doth it include a breach of the fifth Commandment and an opposition against our Governours when it hath respect to them they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13.2 Is the violation of the sixth Commandment included in it When S. John had said He that hateth his Brother is a murderer he immediately adds and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 Joh. 3.15 Doth the reproacher speaking against charity usually exceed the bounds of truth all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Rev. 21.8 And among the eight sorts of lies reckoned up and of all them condemned by (w) de Mendac ad Cons c. 14 21. S. Austin this which is altogether pernicious or hurtful to another is the highest except that one of lying concerning the Faith and Doctrine of Religion Is this sin a practice of unrighteousness the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 Is it a yielding to passion and an opposing peace and meekness they that do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5.21 24. Now if the summ of all these particulars be cast up and put together it will amount to thus much even the treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath And it will be hence manifest that they who indulge themselves in this sin do put several bars to shut out themselves from the Kingdom of Heaven When our Saviour had said to the young man Mat. 19.17 If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commandments and was again asked which Commandments he must keep among six which our Lord expressed as necessary for him to observe that he might have eternal life these are four Thou shalt do no murder Thou shalt not bear false witness Honour thy Father and thy Mother and Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self And I have above shewed that in this sin of evil speaking especially when it is directed against Superiors there is a transgressing all these four precepts 25. Secondly By considering the severe punishment particularly denounced against or inflicted upon the practisers of this sin I have above noted divers instances of Gods heavy Judgments expressed in the Scripture as the sad calamity which came upon our first Parents and all their Posterity for their hearkening to and entertaining the reproach and evil suggestion of the Serpent the dismal punishment of Corah and his complices for their speaking against Moses and Aaron and other such like And the Author under (x) ad fratres in

Reader for since he apparently designs his Book for English men and all our English Translations now in ordinary use had their original since our departing from Popery and our generally received Translation is not above Fifty Three Years older than his Book yet he would have the vulgar to imagine that there might be many faults in transcribing these Translations in innumerable Copies before Printing when Printing was long before these Translations were first made But to pass this by ordinary Protestants may be thus satisfied concerning the Printed Copies of the Scripture by considering that there is as great care taken about Printing Bibles as about copying Records and more than about Printing any other Books and yet this Author who would perswade other to doubt so much of the Printers keeping to the truth of the Copy before him as to the sense of it I suppose would not have sent his Book to the Press if he had thought indeed the sense of it was not like to be expressed in Print He may further consider that our English Bibles are daily read publickly or privately by learned men and compared with the Originals and found to agree with them except in some particular errors of Print which as they are not in many expressions may be discerned by common observation And the ordinary Christian hath the more cause to be confident of our ordinary Impressions of the Bible because even the Papists who are enemies to them and do peruse them yet dare not charge them to vary from the first translated Copies more than is above expressed Ad § 8. To the sixth and last Objection concerning the sense of Scripture I answer The faith of the vulgar no nor of the learned neither doth not require a certain knowledge of the sense of all Scripture The discovery of God what he is and of Christ and what he did and suffered for us and of the Gospel Promises and Commands and such like are so plain that he who can understand any thing of common speech may understand so much of them as is necessary for him to know yea they are in Scripture oft delivered in the very words and phrases which Christ himself and the Apostles and Prophets made use of to their hearers to instruct them in the faith and holy life and therefore he who will censure the Scripture as not sufficiently plain to teach the great truths of God must condemn the Apostles likewise and Christ himself as not teaching so as to be understood and then must impiously tell the World that either none were by them brought to the faith or that they who were did not understand it Indeed he thinks strangely of man who imagineth that he must go to an Oracle to understand such things as these That Christ came into the World to save sinners That he dyed for our sins and rose again and shall judge the World If these and such like plain words which are abundantly in the holy Scriptures cannot be understood by common capacities I dare affirm that they can never know these truths by any words and phrases and so can never be helped by such men as this Discourser who can shew no other ordinary way to teach the matters of meer belief but by words unless they will embrace Enthusiasm Indeed many things in Scripture are hard to be understood concerning which this ordinary Christian may satisfie himself that since God gave him this Book to lead him to God it is evident from Gods end in writing it that he hath expressed so much as is necessary for him to know that it is not beyond his capacity to discern it if he diligently attend to it and what he is not capable of understanding he may be ignorant of without fear of losing salvation by such ignorance provided he be careful to use such means as God affords him and be willing to receive further instruction as he shall be capable of further knowledge And then this ordinary Christian may by this means be of a sound mind and of a more knowing head in matters of Faith than most Papists are who know as little or less of the things which are obscure in Scripture than Protestants do and by this means he may own Christs Divinity as may appear n. 23. Having now shewed that in all his Arguments hitherto produced against the Scriptures being the Rule of Faith there is nothing rational I shall now briefly shew that the promoting such Cavils as these or being perswaded by them would be a way very much to hinder Piety and even wholly to disown Christianity which I shall do in applying most or all his Arguments to some particular Cases We read that Josiah when the Book of the Law was found did by that in a Pious and Religious Zeal reform the corrupt wayes of Worship which is of the nature of Practical Tradition 2 Kings 23.2 3 4. and from thence received the determination of very considerable Points of Doctrine which no Oral Tradition had brought down to him to wit what great wrath God had denounced against Judah and Jerusalem for the neglect of keeping that Law 2 Kings 22.13 19. This pious work of his for which he was so highly commended by God himself 2 Kings 22.19 20. and Chap. 23.25 That there was no King like him before or after him should never have been performed by him had he hearkned to such a Tempter as this Discourser For 1. Josiah could not more certainly know the Book of the Law to be the Word of God than Protestants now do the Book of Scriptures 2. And Josiah had only the Books of Moses 2 Chron. 34.13 and could then no more know the whole Canon of Scripture than we do 3. And before this Book was found he knew not that these Scriptures were any where preserved and after it was found having only one Copy and that probably written by they knew not whom he had not so much evidence of its integrity as Protestants now have of the whole Scriptures by the consent of all Copies 4. And if he was not capable of knowing the sense truly he should neither have humbled himself nor have reformed Judah Thus we see it would have destroyed his Piety to have been guided by these irrational Objections Consider next the state of Christianity When Christ came into the World as he condemns the Traditions of the Scribes and Pharisees which made void Gods Commandments so in the great Point of Faith concerning the Messias who and what manner of person he should be c. Christ sends his hearers to the Scriptures to learn John 5.39 and S. Peter when he spake of the glory of the Transfiguration yet saith 2 Pet. 1.19 We have a more sure word of Prophecy to which you do well to take heed Yet the Jews then had no more certainty than we have that Scriptures are Gods Word how many Books there are that they were preserved entire that they were rightly translated and rightly copied