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A37935	The doxology approven, or, The singing glory to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in the worship of God its lawfulness and expediency proven from the Holy Scriptures, councils and Fathers, and the scruples of the weak thereanent cleared / by Mr. Robert Edward ...	Edward, Robert, ca. 1616-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing E187; ESTC R31408	120,446	132

but that howsoever it is true And because of the mysteriousness of these Gospel Divine Truths there is a necessity for a Christian to deny himself before he can follow Christ Matt. 16. 24. deny his carnal Wit and corrupt Reason therefore in the Lord's work of Man's Conversion in which He applys His exceeding great and Mighty Power Eph. 1. 19. He casts down Imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the Knowledge of God and bringeth into captivity every thought unto the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10. 5. where albeit the Almighty Hand of God is first in order and chief in the work yet the Christian himself willingly consents to captivate all his carnal Imaginations and Thoughts and over the belly of them all gives the assent of Faith to the Mysteries of the Gospel because they are the Truth of God who is infinite in Truth and cannot Lie for he who piously and humbly captivates his Thoughts to Christ will stop the mouth of all Objections of corrupt Reason with Abraham against hope believing in hope Rom. 4. 18. which assent of Faith gives God far more Glory then the assent of Science which flows naturally from the force of that natural Light born in by the knowledge of the Cause but the assent of Faith is supernatural being a supernatural Grace and gift of God with all its degrees And because the Mystery of the Trinity and Christ's Incarnation were so high above Man's corrupt Reason therefore in the first 400. Years of the New Testament Satan wrought mightily in the Children of Disobedience and did find it an easie work to raise up many blasphemous Hereticks who in the pride of their undaunted Heart refused to captivate their corrupt Reason to believe the Mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation which were not contrary to Reason but above it CHAP. II. This Chapter hath three Parts First a Catalogue of the Chief Ring-leading Hereticks against the Doctrine of the Sacred Trinity the first 400. Years Secondly The many evils of Sin and Misery that followed upon these Heresies Thirdly How the Lord and His Church opposed and confounded them AS for the Roll of the Ring leading Hereticks after our Lord's Ascension intending brevity We passe by all the Errors or Heresies mentioned or foretold in the New Testament Matth. 24. v 9. and 24. Act. 20. v. 29 and 30. Acts 15. Rom. 16. v. 17 and 18. Gal. 1. 6 7. Col. 3. v. 1. Col. 9. v. 10. Col. 2. v. 8. 1 Tim. 1. 20. Col. 9. 1. 2 Tim. 2. v. 17 18. 2 Tim. 3. 8. 2 Thess 2. v. 8. Albeit therein be instanced diverse Doctrines of Devils and St. Peter foretells that some would deny the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. v. 4. and St. John 2 Epist 4. 3. mentions many Antichrists in the General and denyers of Christ but particularizeth none as such for Simon Magus Act. 8. 18. Was a baptised Christian and falling in the Sin of Simonie in a most gross manner was justly and bitterly rebuked by the Apostle Peter And Ecclesiastick Hystoriographers record that thereafter he returned with the Doge to his vomite and with the Sow to the wallowing in the myre went to Rome and turned to his old trade of witchcraft where he was admired for his Lying Satanical Wonders as before his Baptism he had been admired in Samaria Act. 8. v. 9 10. and blasphemously called himself Father Son and Holy Ghost b Euseb hist Eccles lib. 2 cap. 1. cap. 12. 13 14. Ignatius Epistola ad Tralesios Ireneus lib. 1. cap. 20. Justinus Martyr Apologia secunda fusius Cerinthus blasphemed Christ Jesus to be only a Man and not the Messia Anno Dom. 75. c Ireneus lib. 1. cap. 25. lib. 3. cap. 3. Euseb lib. 3. cap. 22. The third Ring-leader Heretick Ebion vented the like Blasphemies by occasion of which three Hereticks and their many followers the Apostle St. John who lived to this time wrot the Gospel in which his chief intent is to prove and maintain against these Blasphemous Hereticks that Christ is God and Man in one Person d Ireneus lib. 1. cap. 26. Eusebius lib. 3. cap. 21. Ignatious epist ad Trallianos Epiphanius heresie 51. Cerdon Blasphemed that the God of the Old Testament was not Christ's Father Anno Dom. 143. e Ireneus lib. 1 cap. 28. Euseb lib. 4. cap. 10. Valentinus of whom came the Genosticks rejected the Doctrine of the Sacred Trinity and made up a fiction as it were of three Gods Anno Dom. 145. f Euseb lib. 4. cap. 10. Ireneus lib. 1. cap. 1. alibi passim multis refutat a Euseb lib. 5. cap. ult Eumcum prioribus refutat Ignatius nominatim Epist ad Tralianos Theodotus That Christ was only Man he denyed Christ to be the Word Joh. 1. 1. An. Dom. 194. b Hos refutat Tertul. Praxeas denyed the Trinity his Followers were called Patripossiani Anno Dom. 210. c Hos refutat Tertul. Melchizedeciani blasphemed that Melchizedeck was greater then Christ d Eus lib. 7. cap. 5. refutatur ad Athanasio Sabellius denyed the blessed Trinity e Damnatus in Concilio Antiocheno Anno Dom. 272. Samosatenus denyed Christ to be God Anno Dom. 269. f Eus lib. 7. cap. 25. Socrat 1. lib. 1. cap. 17. Exortus est Anno Dom. 276. eum Augustinius multus eruditus refutavit Manes and his Followers denyed Christ and the Holy Ghost to be God g Damnatus a 318. Episcopis Socret lib. 1. cap. 3 4 5. Theodoret lib. cap. 1. 7. Sozomen lib. 1. cap. 16. Anno Dom. 325. Arius denyed the second Person of the blessed Trinity to be one in substance co-equall and co-eternall with God the Father he was confuted in the Council of Nice his Blasphemy condemned and he Excommunicated An. Dom. 325. h Socrat. lib. 2. cap. 24. a Basilio magno in disputatione devictus Photinius fell unto the heresie of Sabellius and Sam. Satanius he was condemned in the Council of Serinium i Socrates lib. 2. cap. 35. ab Athanasio Basillo refutatus Macedonius denyed the Holy Ghost to be God Anno Dom. 360. He was condemned in the General Council of Constantinople Anno Dom. 381. k Socrat. lib. 7. cap. 33. in hoc concilio contra Nestorium Cyrillus magnam sustinuit partem Nestorius denyed the Personal Union of Christ's Divine and Humane Natures Therefore was condemned by a General Council at Ephesus by 200. Bishops Anno Dom. 431. And being obstinat was banished by the Emp. Theodosius Albeit these forementioned Heriticks all Blasphemed the Sacred Trinity yet none of them but were poysoned with moe Errors besides for mans corrupt heart is a too fertill soil to receive Satans Inventions l Di onisius Episcopus Alexandrinus Eus lib. 7. cap. 6. Anno Dom. 260. One of the Antients by reading the Blasphemies of Hereticks did not only condemne them but also

mouth glorifie God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And according to this Prayer from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same throughout the whole World where ever Christianity is truly professed the Doxologie is Sung with one Heart and with one Mouth unto this day except by a few of late in Brittain whom I intreat seriously to consider these Questions from that Text Rom. 15. 6. Is it not God Father Son and Holy Ghost who indyts that Prayer 2dly The hearing and granting of that Prayer throughout the Christian World is it not the blessing of God Father Son and Holy Ghost in fulfilling the Christians Prayer indyted by God Himself then dare any Christian deny that it is lawfull to sing Glory to God Father Son and Holy Ghost with one heart and mouth seeing God Father Son and Holy Ghost commands and allowes Christians to glorifie Him with one heart and mouth Upon consideration of the Blooding Wounds and Torn Bowels of my Mother Church in Christian compassion I am pressed in Spirit to speak a word in Her behalf which I intend chiefly for two sort of Christians First To these Babs in Christ and of lesser knowledge who are obedient to their Mother Church and do not forsake this Her Law Prov. 6. 20. of Christianity but sing the Doxologie Be ye stedfast and immoveable be not drawn away from that Duty by the evil Example or Counsel of any who would intise or mislead you to increase their Soure Leaven and Prosylits I declare to you as an Ambassadour of Christ that you shal not have cause to repent you of singing Glory to Father Son and Holy Ghost in the Day of your Account to Father Son and Holy Ghost when the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the Love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost shall be with you and your Grace consummat in Glory and your Prayers turned into Hallelujabs As for these who refuse to Sing the Doxologie and think it a Sin to Sing it or at least have their doubts anent it for want of better Information these are of three Sorts 1. The weak Lambs who yet are seeking the way to Zion and to please God in all good Conscience to these I am willing to tender the sincere Milk of the Word because of the Command of the Great Shepherd of our Souls John 21. 15. If you love me feed my Lambs these I intreat in the bowels of Jesus Christ to consider the danger of an Erronious Conscience For St. Paul was once yet more zealous then ye are in a wrong way of which he gave prudent and Christian warning to other Zealots Acts 26. 9. I verily thought with my self that I ought to do many things contraire to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth which thing I also did of which Erroneous Zealot Jews he bears record Rom 10. 2. That they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge So of you I judge in charity that your Zeal is sincere and abundant but the defect is in your knowledge and in such a case the more Zeall the more danger and therefore be not Children in understanding 1 Cor. 14. 20. Be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine Eph. 4. 14. Be aware to despise or reject the Light of sound Instruction and side no longer with Antitrinitarians and the like Blasphemous Hereticks all which the universall Church hath declared Excommunicat as such from the Communion of Saints and forgivenness of Sins side no more with these Monsters The God of Truth reveall His Truth unto you and give you understanding in all things for to you I owe great compassion and tendernesse of bowels As for the 2d Sort called Christians to wit the cunningly painted Hypocrite and the openly Prophane I have a word alloted for them reserved till near the close of the Treatise Here I have an Apologie to make to the Learned who may object what needed so much to be written to prove or defend that Practice which none in the universal Church for 1300. Years did call in question to whom in all humility I reply these are not written for Information or Reformation of the Learned in this Point who stand in need of neither being assured both of the Lawfulness and Experiency of this Duty but they also know that there is too many of late years in Scotland who refuse to sing the Doxologie to whom I am resolved to become all things to them all whether weak or more knowing that by all means I may gain some for whose cause I have multiplyed Arguments to prove the lawfulnesse of the Doxologie having to teach these weaned from the Milk and drawn from the Breasts to whom Precept must be upon Precept and Lyne upon Lyne Isa 28. 9 10 I hope none will say that the Holy Ghost useth either Tautologie or Battologie in the foresaid 10. verse when he doubles both the Precept and the Lyne So I have brought for Information of these little Ones and Lambs of Christ Reason upon Reason redoubled For as the strong should have their stronger Food So the Bab's their Milk And some be more moved with one Reason and some with another herein I intending that great Postorall Duty to do all things for Edyfying 1 Cor. 14. 26. 2 Cor. 12. 19. And in Citing modern Divines I have made most use of these who will be most acceptable and convincing to the Refusers of the Doxologie And if at any time for defence fo Truth I bring Proof from any bygone Practice of themselves and their way I here declare that it no wayes to irritat but to bear in the Truth with the more power my purpose being to do all in Love and what makes for Peace and Healing The Servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all Men apt to Teach patient in meekness Instructing those that oppose themselves 2 Tim. 2. 28. and 25. That which is not written in the Vulgar Tongue in this following little Treatise in a distinct Section towards the Right Hand is intended for the Learned Finally I ingenuously declare That my first and chief End is the Glory of God and I pray through the Lords blessing it may prove the End and Essect of the work In the next place I intend the furtherance of the Peace and Prosperity of my Mother-church in Clearing and Removing of mistakes among the Children at least to make the Rent and Breach less that the weak might be strengthened and confirmed in their Judgement in their Singing the Doxologie that the Scruplous may be informed the Averse convinced and Reclaimed Contentions and Swellings pacified and removed as far as Relates to the Doxologie that all with one Heart and Mouth may Sing Glory to God Father Son and Holy Ghost and as my God and Saviour was subject to his Blessed Virgin Mother and hath commanded me to be