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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30771	The several ways of resolving faith in the Roman and Reformed Churches with the authors impartial thoughts upon each of them, and his own opinion at length shewn, wherein the rule of faith doth consist ...	Banckes, Matthew.	1677 (1677)	Wing B632; ESTC R20075	29,922	220

it perpetually incline him to pursue his Chief Good I hope the enjoyment of God will not be made such a necessary effect thereby as that he 'l enjoy God whether himselfe will or no. The certainty therefore of a thing wrought by Moral Causes is no evidence that Man is not endued with Free-will but only shews that the Motives act so vigorously and powerfully considering the present disposition of the Mind and the Circumstances a man is in that the Wills native indifferency to will or not to will is cast by them on that side which makes for producing the Effect but yet so that it 's the Wills own choice to do it which determins itself by reason of the present agreeableness and gratefullness of the Motives thereunto For unless we 'll deny the constant Experience of all Ages we must needs confess that there is a certainty of divers Effects in the course of several things in the world such as were mentioned Section 7. besides many more not spoken of which flow from Moral Motives so that it would be more tolerable if there were no way to reconcile Free-will and that certainty to make doubt of the former rather then of the latter but we see by what has been said That a certainty of effects proceeding from Moral Causes and the native Liberty o● Mans Will may well enough consist together The other two Arguments brought to prove That Tradition is defectible are Founded on two Instances the former of which is this The Tradition of the one true God was in a short time so defac'd and corrupted that the world did laps into Polytheism and Idolatry although it was setled in the heart of Noah and firmly believ'd by him to be the way to Happiness and the contradicting and deserting this to be the way to Misery and this Doctrin according to the Traditionists must be suppos'd to have been so taught to his children and by them also to their Posterity To this I answer first that there is not the like reason why a Doctrin committed only to three Families should be so permanent as that which is entrusted to millions of people allbeit the Motives for the preservation of it were the same But I secondly answer that the Motives for propagating Christianity are far more excellent then the Motives whith Noah and his Sons had for the continuing the belief of the one true God For the express motives in ancient time both before and under the Law were only temporall rewards and punishments which because they were seen to befal the bad and good promiscuously in that some of both sorts abounded with Riches and Honour and others had their afflictions 't is obvious to conceive considering the frequent tentations to Ambition Luxury and Avarice that men would be farr less intent to regard Truth and exercise acts of Piety and Vertue when everlasting Bliss and Misery were only gather'd by Consequence to be the final Portion of good and evill men then when in express words they were constantly press'd and inculcated as Motives the one to incline men to embrace Truth and Goodness the other to deterr them from Error and Vice as since the Preaching of Christs Gospel they have ever been Neither which I thirdly and lastly Answer will it be granted That the Tradition of the one true God ever faild or was totally lost till it appear that Abraham and Lot had not knowledge of Him from Sem or some of his Progeny Could Abraham saith Dr. Stillingfleet Origin Sacr. Book 2. Chap. 2. Sect. 9. when he was contemporary with Sem be ignorant of the Truth of the Flood when Sem from whom he deriv'd himself was one of the Persons who escap'd it in the Ark Could Sem be ignorant of the actions before the Flood when Adam the first Man lived some part of his time with Noah And could Noah then be ignorant of the Creation and Fall of Man The same Learned Author in the same Sect. a little before writeth thus Adam conversed sometime with Noah Sem his Son was probably living in some part of Jacobs time or Isaacs at least And how easily and uninterruptedly might the general Tradition of the ancient History be continued thence to the time of Moses when the number of Families agreeing in this Tradition was increas'd and withall incorporated by a common ligament of Religion I demand then saith the Doctor where can we suppose any ignorance or cutting off this general Tradition in so continued a Succession as here was The latter Instance offerr'd to disprove the Indefectibility of Tradition by is about the Procession of the Holy Ghost which the Latin Church saith the Objection affirms is from the Father and the Son and a nenessary Article of Faith the Greek Church holding That He proceeds only from the Father and not from the Son disowning any such Doctrin to have been deliver'd to them by the precedent Age or to any other Age of their Church as the Doctrin of Christ and yet no question can be made but that if the Procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son be an Article of Faith it was taught in the Greek as well as in the Latin Church and therefore the Non-belief of it in the Greek Church is an evident Argument of the actual failure of Tradition in this Point and of the possibility of it's failings in others also To this I return That seeing the Doctrin of the Blessed Trinity and more especially of the Holy Ghost was purposely handled in the Second General Council held at Constantinople which was principally call'd for confuting and condemning Macedonius who deni'd the Divinity of the Holy Ghost and that nevertheless no mention is made in the Creed there set forth of his procession save from the Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and also the same Creed was not only receiv'd but continued likewise a long time after in the Latin Church without the addition of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it seems strongly probable at least that the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Son was not thought by the Constantinopolitan Fathers to be an Article of Catholick Faith seeing it was so obvious so easie and one would think so opportune also after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to have added 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if they had indeed believ'd it to be an Article of Faith The excuse that some make why they did it not which is that there was none as yet who denied the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Son seems trivial since it was the very Divinity of the Holy Spirit that Macedonius oppos'd which alone therefore if the excuse were good should haue been asserted by the Council and the contrary opinion thereto only condemned But whatever was the cause or the occasion why 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was omitted which I wave this is certain that the Doctrin of the Holy Ghosts procession from the Son is either an Article of Catholic Faith or it