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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

where Satan had his Throne and Antichrist kept the Chair They wrote nine several Creeds not all confirming or explaining the former Creed but some of them containing Contradictions of which themselves were ashamed d Socrat. lib. 2. cap. 25. for a Liar should have a good Memory yea in the last of these Councils they ratifie their Council at Seleucia and its Creed and cursed the Creed at Ariminum because it was not Heterodox enough e Socrat. lib. 4. cap. 4. As we have seen the Activity Perfidity and Falshood of the Arian in spreading their Heresie so in the fourth place we shall take a view of their Hellish Cruelty practised against the Orthodox and true Church of God For they poysoned with their Arianism the Emperour Constantius who began his Reign Anno Dom. 336. and Valence who began his Reign Anno Dom. 366. th●se two Emperours they instigate to raise cruel and bloody Persecution against the Orthodox during the time of their Empire of which we shall only mention a few notable Instances First The Arians at Constantinople raised a great Tumult of Sedition that many Christians were troden under Foot to Death a Socrat. lib. 2. cap. 9. Secondly The Arian Emperour Constantius having banished the Orthodox Bishop of Constantinople the Arians strangled him in his Exile and the Orthodox Bishop of Adrianople died in Prison with Torments b Socrat. lib. 2. cap. 21. Thirdly Great Persecution was raised by the Arians in the Cities of the East against the Orthodox Christians by Banishment spoiling of their Goods and sundry kinds of Torments c Socrat. lib. 2. cap. 22. Fourthly The Arians at Alexandria upon the Lords Day invaded with Arms the Orthodox and having kindled a great Fire apprehended Orthodox Virgins who as they thought would soonest yield to them these they threatned with Burning unless they turned Arian but percelving these holy Virgins invincible Courage resolute to die Martyrs for the Glory of the Sacred Trinity they violently in the open Streets pulled off all their Clothes to put them to shame and mocked them in their nakedness but these Virgins being of undaunted Courage to suffer for the Name of Christ them the Arians so wounded on the Face that their nearest Relations did hardly know them and fourty Men they scourged with Rods that some of them died yet they refused to give their dead bodies to their Friends to bury and these who outlived their Scourging part of them they Banished of others not banished the Chirurgians had great difficulty to pull out the Thorn Pricks out of their Flesh At that same time the Arians killed moe then thirty Orthodox Bishops in Egypt and Lybia and banished sixteen moe whereof some died in their cruel usage by the way others died in the place of their Banishment of which Martyrs the World was not worthy d Socrat lib. 2. cap. 23. Fifthly In Constantinople and the Country about many Orthodox Bishops were banished by the Arians and other of the Orthodox that refused to communicate with the Arians they cruelly tormented their Bodies and then scobbing their Mouths violently thrust in the sacramental Elements of the Lords Supper and that not only of Men and Women but also of Children and these who were most reluctant they detained in Prison and Torments that so the Arian intended by this his work to get the honour that the Orthodox did communicate with them but prophane forcing proved the Arian Communion to be the Table of Devils yea they thrust the Papes of some holy Women into a Chest and closing its lid cut off their Papes with a Saw and others they burnt off their Papes with a red hot Iron a Socrat. lib. 2. cap. 30. Theodoret. lib. 2. cap. 14. Sixthly The Arians in Alexandria conspired with the Jews and Pagans and all three raised great Persecution against the true Christians there they apprehended the holy Virgins stripped them naked as they were born and led them through the Streets obscenely mocking them and if any Beholder in Christian compassion did speak but one word in their favours they were driven away with Wounds thereafter many of the Virgins they ravished some they killed and refused to give their Bodies to their Parents to be buried yea in this Tumult the Arian and Pagan committed so great abomination that I am ashamed to render them in English b Theodoret. lib. 4. cap. 20. a most profane Pagan being a chief Acter of these Abominations acted both in the Pulpit and on the Altar of the chief Church of Alexandria it was too like a Stage-Play of Satans divising against God's Word and Worship the most profane the Devil could devise and all this acted in the presence of the Arian Bishop whom the Pagan Spokesman thus saluted O Bishop who denies the Son of God thy coming is welcome to us c Theodoret. lib. 5. cap. 22. our god Serapis embraceth thee and brought thee hither observe how well the Devil and the Arian does aggree like Heart and Joy This Pagan god Serapis had a Church in Alexandria where he was worshipped and in it a monstruous great Image at that time much worshipped by the Pagans there What true Christian can read the Perjury Falshood and hellish Cruelty of the Arian and their atheistical profaning of the Lord's Supper and not look upon them as incarnate devils against these antichristian and profane bloody Arians who blasphemed both the Son and Holy Ghost The Orthodox Church were most zealous to defend the Truth and for that cause to sing the Doxology in their publick Worship exactly according to the words of the Holy Scriptures For then the Arian also keeped the singing of their own Doxology but it was different from the Orthodox and Holy Scriptures Now considering the true Churches hard condition when the Arians persecute them and yet these holy Christians were most willing to suffer Martyrdom for the Name of Jesus and also to sing the Doxology therein professing their Faith in one God in three Persons Father Son and Holy Ghost equal in Power and Glory Now I would ask the Christian now a days If the Lord in His Providence did put them now in such a condition to be persecuted to the death by the prevailing Arian whether or not they would be content to suffer Martyrdom in defence of the honour of Christ and also with the Orthodox Christian to sing the Doxology would they both sing and suffer as these did who are now singing triumphant Songs to Father Son and Holy Ghost having trode Satan and Arians under-foot I willingly judge in Charity to these weak Lambs they would then with the Orthodox Christians both joyn in singing the Doxology and also in suffering with them for the Name of Jesus Then I ask them again if they would have sung the Doxology if they had been going to the Stake to die in desence of the honour of Christ against the cursed Arian then have they not as good