Scripture which contains it And that it will be his Eternal Happiness if it be now his principal Care Study and Endeavour to obey c. Whereto may be joyned what one of his said English Divines affirmeth Pag. 24. viz. That Gods Mercies are offered to us in such a manner that nothing is required of us but that we would Accept them without any thoughts of our own so much unworthiness to hinder and keep us from it that as his Promises are of Grace and Mercy so likewise are they Rich and Great That in truth they are made to those that believe but also that Faith is a Gift of God and he gives it as liberally as he grants the pardon of sins And who is there that will not now be ready to say if all this be so to what purpose is all this heat and fury in so bold uncharitable condemning the major part of mankind to Hell-fire Do not these words of his English Divines some of whom as Owen Baxter were as Oracles unto him speak aloud to the World that the Doctor might well have saved himself the labour of writing his Reflections upon the Number of Gods Elect For they do plainly prove his Thousands Hundred Thousands Millions Millions of Millions that shall be damned to be Insignificant Cyphers as to Gods secret Purpose and Decree and likewise as to his Will revealed in Holy Scripture One thing I consess there is which he writeth of these Divines but hath been here omitted which I for my part cannot but except against that is that they have mingled with all these Lenitives such a Corrosion as may in some sin sick Patients prove for ever destructive to their precious Souls viz. that the greatness of Repentance ought to be commensurate to the Greatness and Enormity of the sins that have been committed What warrant those men or any else can have for this Assertion is beyond my reach I confess somewhat may be said for it from Reason if we consider what passeth between us poor Creatures when we are offended each with other it is but sit that the Quality of the Repair or Acknowledgment should be apportioned according to the Quality of the Offence but doth God require the same of us for our Violation of his Law as if satisfaction should be given to his Justice by our Repentance True it is very good it would be in us all if we did walk humbly with our God all the days of our Lives according to the Hainousness of our Iniquities as Manasseh did when he had sinned greatly against God he humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers and when Peter had sinned so wickedly in denying his Master he went forth and wept bitterly But is this the constant method as this Doctor hath said which God hath prescribed in the Conversion of greatest sinners What would then become of those that repent only in Articulo mortis when they are at the point of death Yea what alas will become of us all if this were required of us It is not hanging down our heads like Bul-Rushes nor beating our Breasts nor shedding our Tears though in abundance that will come near to a satisfaction for our Transgressions not but that where true Repentance is in the Heart that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the right word is and natural strength is waiting upon it these external Humiliations will be yea and in some measure ought to be But to make such account of them or to trust unto them as if we had obliged God by them so as to have mercy upon us and that he could not in Justice deny us now the pardon of our sins which is the old Pelagian Error and new Popery down-right this will really prove an Aggravation of our sins and make them exceeding sinful To this purpose hear what Mr. Bilney a faithful Martyr of Christ in the Reign of Hen. 8th once said of such kind of Doctrine as this is if saith he I had heard such Preaching of Repentance in times past I should utterly have fallen into Desperation And in his writing to Dr. Tonstall Bishop of London he hath these words viz. To speak of one of your famous Men After he had sharply inveighed against Vice wherein he did well for it cannot be too much abhorred he thus concluded behold said he thou hast lien rotten in thine own Lusts it may be by the space of threescore years even as a Beast in his own Dung and wilt thou presume in one year to go forward toward Heaven and that in thine Age as much as thou wentest backward from Heaven toward Hell in threescore years Is not this think you saith that good Martyr a goodly Argument is this the Preaching of Repentance in the Name of Jesus Or rather is it not to tread down Christ with Anti-Christ 's Doctrine For what other thing did he speak in effect than that Christ died in vain for poor sinners He will not it seems by this Preaching be our Jesus or Saviour but we must make satisfaction for our selves by our Repentance else we shall perish eternally Then doth St. John lye quoth he in saying Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the World And in another place His Blood cleanseth us from all our sins and again He is the Propitiation for the sins of the whole World c. Thus he like one that well understood the Mystery of the Gospel and good it were if we did so all of us that pretend to be Preachers of truth in this Generation These things considered let not so high an esteem be set upon that Doctor as to Account him infallible for it is certain he was deceived and he himself did find it so before he died as appeareth by his own confession on his Death-bed I am loth to say what hath been written to me of him by a Neighbour-Minister who for his Learning and Piety is wortly of a due Regard as that he the said Dr. Moulin had some private ends and hints and that he had been prompted to this ill Office upon those Accounts But this I will affirm constantly if after all this friendly warning that hath been given to those that tenaciously stick to his Opinions now since his Decease and will publickly Advance after him a word that he commonly used in his Errors so making them worse at the last than they were at the beginning I say no more but Oculus ad finem the coming of the Lord draweth near when every mans work shall be made manifest whether it be Wood Hay Stubble or that which is precious and will endure the searching fire of Gods Spirit which will one day try every mans work of what sort it is And seeing that sundry Errors as well of the Church of Rome as of other false Brethren have crept in among us I have here produced several Arguments against that unreasonable Doctrine of Transubstantiation and tho' I kno ' many learned Authors have
written already in the Vindication of the Doctrine of our Church against that of Rome Insomuch that it may be thought what is here done is but actum agere to repeat only the Arguments that have been formerly used Yet this I will be bold to assirm that that old saying nihil erit dictum quod non dictum fuit prius cannot here be objected against me True it is impossible but we must sometimes take up the same Weapons to encounter our Enemies which others have before used yet may they be sharp'ned and furbish'd afresh that an insipid Crambe shall not in the using them be here laid to my charge nor dull the edge of them Yea and a new Weapon shall be here taken out of the Armory of holy Scripture that never was so far as I can find managed before by any which may prove as convincing absit arrogantia as any other The design of which little Tract is according to the Title that is set before it to lay open the Falshood and Absurdity of that grand Error of Transubstantiation and because the Church of Rome hath been a long time so infatuated as to wrest the words of our Saviour which he spake of the Bread at his last Supper viz. This is my Body to make them speak that which be never intended but very little or not at all medling with his other words concerning the Cup as well knowing the very reciting of them would be a sufficient Conviction of their Error I shall therefore here deal with them at their own weapon and to that purpose will at the very entrance call upon my Reader to remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ which he spake at his last Supper viz. This is my Body DU MOULIN'S Reflections REVERBERATED THE Design of this Treatise is to put a stop to the Carieer of one Mounsieur Moulin I say not that Reverend Dr. Peter Moulin Who is As he well deserveth an Eminent Dignitary among us but his unworthy Brother Lewis who like Jehu marcheth furiously here in our Nation out of his Road venting his Paradoxes not only against the Order and Discipline established in the Church of England But against the very Doctrine of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ which should be dearer to us than our Lives It is Reported by some that he is a Schollar and possibly they may have taken his Dimensions in that kind from his Office that he held by the Title of Usurpation in the University of Oxford during the late Schism But doubtless his Pamphlet Entituled Moral Reflections upon the number of the Elect was not Penued at Athens Sure I am It did not spring from the sweet Fountain of Israel for whatsoever his Learning may otherwise be he hath not yet learned Christ sufficiently to know the Truth as it is in Jesus A Character hath been given me of him in scriptis from London by a very good hand which is as it here followeth This Lewis Du-Moulin is by Profession a Civilian by perswasion an Independant a man of a Morose and insolent Conversation he was a History-Professor at Oxford in the times of the late Troubles and Distractions But being thrown out of his Desk at the happy Return of our Peace he is led away by a misguided Zeal turns Malecontent Peevish and Froward quarrelling with all good Order and Discipline thinking himself not enough out of Babylon unless he be out of himself A man that ought to be severely corrected for his Insolence and Folly it being to be wished the Magistrate would take such Men under their Discipline which will work a more effectual Cure upon them than the most Satyrical Pen though dipt in Gall as wise Generals punish mutinous Persons more than Thieves and Robbers The Reason saith my Friend that makes me more severe with him is because he hath since I writ to you last set forth another Discourse under this Title viz. The Conformity of Discipline and Government among those who are commonly called Independants to that of the Antient Primitive Christians You may guess of the Book by the Title It is not worth your Animadversion nor my time to give you any Rehearsal of it This is the Man with whom we have here to deal about his Moral Reflections upon the number of the Elect so he calls them and as the man is so is his Work wherein he advanceth as his braving Transition is on and on without any Order or Method insomuch that whosoever he be that shall undertake him shall have but as 't were a Rope of Sand to hold by in following his Track Only it must be the Pages of his Book that are to be my Conduct and the Exercise of my Readers Patience if he will give himself the trouble to peruse them Which Book of his though I had it in my custody before I writ my Preface to the Antidote being then at the Press for I would not answer a matter until I hear it or know it That as a wiser man than either he or I are ever like to be hath said would be Folly and Shame unto me yet have I for born hitherto to answer it particularly because I hoped some other would have Reverberated this Reflector according to his Desert before this time And well might it have been expected seeing his hand hath been so busie against every Man not above one in a million escaping the Virulency of his Pen I supposed every Mans should be against him But since it is so that no man hath hitherto appeared in this Contract but my self albeit several Persons both Wise and Godly have approved of that which I have already done in it I shall now proceed further to make his Folly manifest to all men hoping that I may thereby do somewhat in the service of my Master Jesus Christ for the Glory of his great Name The good Lord give his Blessing unto it that the good People of God may be confirmed in the Truth of the Gospel and that this Unevangelical Doctor may have some sight of his Folly also who now sits Brooding upon his Error And against whom I confess I have a zealous Indignation fearing Lenity in this case may be imputed as a sin unto me First then to begin with the Title of his Book he calleth it Moral Reflections upon the number of the Elect. Moral Reflections Would any man that had Learning Fear of God in him Christian Love or good Manners towards the Church of God have Reflected so boldly upon the secret Counsels of the Almighty as this peremptory Mounsieur hath done by using this Term of Reflection in this case I know the word hath of late obtained a Pass and gone for current instead of Observations Considerations c. But it is so toto Coelo Excentrick as we say from God that it cannot be used in the Sense it is here put to without Blasphemy Not therefore to be passed by without a Reflection or a Repercussion rather
they have only the name of Christians and have denied the Power of Godliness and that they deserve for ever to be cast out of the presence of the Almighty may have hope for even in that miserable and much to be pitied Estate God Counsels the sinner to make use of the Remedy that he offers him and to touch the Scepter of Grace which is extended to him which will infallibly work the Salvation of the Soul for God's ways are not like to mans nor are his Thoughts like to those of sinful flesh his Ways and Thoughts are inconceivable the height and depth of them immeasurable towards sinners that Repent where by the ways of God you are to understand those of his Mercies and not those of his Knowledge and Wisdom This I must say sounds well and I wish that all the rest that is written in that Book of Reflections had agreed thereto but there is as much difference between this and them as there is between the Colours of White and Black I have been willing to add this in the close that if ever it should happen these Papers may come into the Hands of any Disconsolate Soul it may see that here both from the Reflector and my self which may bring some comfort unto it Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ which he spake at his last Supper viz. This is my Body IT is much to be Lamented that there have been so long a time perverse Disputings and uncharitable Dissentions about these words among those who are or should be partakers of the same Precious Faith when if they were understood aright it might well be presumed that instead of Animosities and fiery Persecutions which have too much abounded a sweet Peace and Brotherly Accordance had ere this time happily overspread the Christian World to the Adorning of the Doctrine of God our Saviour even among those that are without It is not too late yet for us to use our utmost endeavour towards the making up of this Peace I say not by affording any Connivence to Error but by rendring an Interpretation rational in the Judgment of all men of these words which may possibly be a great furtherance unto it And if my poor Judgment may be of any Value I think after fifty years Employment that I have had in the work of the Ministery that such a sense may be given of them which though it be not to be found in the common Road of Expositors yet may lead all sorts of People of what perswasion soever they be if they be not possessed with a Spirit of Contradiction to the nearest way of a right Understanding the meaning of our Saviour in them and consequently to a more peaceable and christian-like Living together in the World and loving one another than hath been among us in former times True it is Satan hath prevailed mightily in this his Master-piece of Mischief to sow Discord and Variance about that very thing which our Lord Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace hath ordained to be a means to unite his People together in Love Surely we cannot but be sensible of it O that we would all unanimously agree to counter-work this our grand Enemy by a holy endeavour after Unity in consenting to the truth of these words of our Blessed Saviour according to his own sense of them which sense I say this present Discourse shall aim at and in some measure demonstrate plainly without any wresting or sinister Construction yet with Submission to the Churches determination of it Those who are and will be of the Roman Schism are indeed very free also in making their Complaints of these unhappy Differences I wish that it could not be a true Imputation put upon them viz. A main Cause of all this Quarrelling in this Point hath chiefly had its original from them Ferus Moguntinus Concionator as he is called one of the greatest Moderation among them cryeth out in this manner O dolor super dolorem quod Ecclesiam conjungere deberet per hoc ipsa vel maximè discerpitur scinditur quod ad Pacem Vnioneni servire deberet eo vel maximè utimur ad excitanda Bella Discordias Sectas i. e. O Grief of all Griess that which should knit the Church together in Love and Concord even by that very thing is it chiefly divided and rent in pieces that which ought to work Peace and Union we chiefly make use of to raise and foment Wars Discords and Schisms Thus he And why then will they and he among the rest be still so tenacious as they have a long time been in maintaining their corrupt and prodigious Doctrine of Transubstantiation A Doctrine but of yesterday not known in the Church till above a Thousand years after the Gospels first Appearance in the World Bishop Hall So young it was saith a Pious and Learned Prelate of our Church that it had not before learned to speak he and sundry other Authors of very good Account affirming that this word Transubstantiation whereby the Roman Church understands the turning of the Sacramental Bread into the Body of Christ was never mentioned or heard or thought of among the antient Fathers or in the Primitive Church Only about six hundred years now past Pope Nicholas the second some say it was Innocentius the third so N. D. a Popish Writer against our Martyrologist in the Lateran Council did set forth Propagate and confirm to the utmost of his Power that opinion of changing the substance of the Bread in the Sacrament as for the Cup their heat doth not reach so much against that which is the Reason that this Discourse is mostly of the Bread and would have made it an Article of Faith and did what he could to have it placed in the Creed whereupon there ensued Corput Christi Day Masses of Corpus Christi and the like Novelties never before known or brought into Use Practice or Observation in any part of the World Yea hereunto do they themselves the Papists give their Consent which they could not possibly avoid that this word Transubstantiation was not used before the time of the said Councel Yet to keep themselves from a total Defeat herein they do withal affirm that the Doctrine of it was held in Effect and Substance from the beginning by the Antient Fathers and maintained by them in other terms such as Mutation Transmutation Transelementation Conversion of the Bread and the like Nevertheless this Evasion will not serve their turn for though they yield us thus much in this Point confessing this word to be a Novelty as they apply it to the Sacrament of the Eucharist yet is it not let all mankind judge an absurd Vanity for any man to Imagine that the said Doctrine should be so generally own'd and so fiercely maintained yet not a fit word to be found out by any in that long Tract of time to shew to the World the full meaning of that Doctrine For as for those words which
own party lest they might suppose he had a hard opinion also of them for the major part of them or possible he donbted he should exasperate the whole World about him if he had in his title extended his uncharitable Censure to the full length and that thereupon his Book might primâ facie have been cast aside with a quis legit haec Nemo hercule nemo or have vanished like a Cacodaemon or Spectrum quite out of sight or into Grocers Shops for wast paper as it hath been said of another like unto it in Thuris piperisve cucullos In short never was there man that wrote at the rate as this man hath written How great a Scandal alas hath he brought upon the Christian Profession For should this be received without a publick Contradiction as a Doctrine of Truth among us viz. That not above one in a Million shall be saved our Religion would be the most uncomfortable Religion of any in the World and who among those that are Aliens from it will ever be perswaded to be Converts unto it Nay then may Satan well insult and with triumphant Boastings cry out with a shout O Christ where is thy Victory what is the Blood of God spent for the Salvation of the world become of so little value that so small inconsiderable number can be saved by it Thou O Christ art called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and I know not what but a poor Prince and a weak Captain hast thou proved thy self to be when I like a Stout and Valiant Champion indeed have brought the greatest number of those for whose sake thou didst enter the field against me under my Command not above one in a million but shall for ever be subject unto me and consequently never to be delivered from everlasting Destruction Horrendum dictu Never O dear Christians never let our Souls enter into the secrets of this man nor be Baptised with the Baptism that he is Baptised with Somewhat we may discern by him of the miserable Fruits which the late Schism and Rebellion brought forth amongst us that such as he should be preferred then to a place of Dignity in one of our Universities where he might be the more able cum privilegio to do mischeif by his whimsical Opinions However I am glad it is not any of our Nation that hath run into this worst kind of Antichristianism but one that hath been an Intruder amongst us While men slept in those days the Enemy we see hath been busie to sow his Tares yet may these Tares be now plucked up without any hurt to the good Corn yea very much would it be to the advantage of it if they were quite removed And therefore since this Intruder hath disobliged our Nation yea goeth on still to disoblige it more and more it were to be wished that he had his Pass given him to return again to his own Countrey with shame for there is no reason he should stay longer to eat of our Bread or abide in our Nation as he hath by his own Confession upwards of fifty years and yet be so unworthy of this Privilege by his dissenting from us both in the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church creating thereby Troubles to us while we are here in this World and sending us all for the most part packing to Holl when we depart out of it At least I could wish that his Works may have the same Law put in force upon them as the Works and Wares of Aliens are to have by the Statute of the 14th and 15. of Hen. 8th viz. that special Marks be set upon them to prevent the Fraud and other worse Inconveniences that may arise unto us by them I have done with his Title upon which I confess I have insisted too long but that what hath been here written of it may be joyned with that which hereafter followeth in the Refutation of this uncharitable mans absurd Opinion Before I come to his Book there are also some parts of his Epistle to be Reflected upon and to be Reverberated too for that Religious Persons sake to whom he Dedicates his Book and for the sake of all others who may have the hard hap as I have had to Read it First I find no fault with Dedicating his Book to an Honourable Lady one that excelleth in Piety knowledge of and Love to Sacred Things as his words are whom if he had called his Elect Lady it had been pertinent to his purpose for surely he could not but account her as one chosen out of his millions c. Let such Persons whom the King delighteth to honour have all that Honour given them which is their due and when by their exemplary Piety they bring a more than ordinary Lustre upon Religion God himself hath promised to honour them likewise Well then may we that are Ministers of the Gospel by all good ways and means endeavour without flattery to do the same This man I do not call him Minister of the Gospel for that it seems he is not but whatsoever he be he hath so done by his Dedication and I commend him for it It is pity he did not set her name unto it as well as her Title She is a stranger unto me one of whom I never before heard though I have made some inquiry of Persons about me But though I commend him in his design of Dedicating I cannot approve of all that he hath written in it He humbly begs to have leave to lay his Treatise at her Honours Feet for Protection this me-thinks sounds not well and signifies a fear in him as well there might that he failed in his undertaking Why else doth he thus fall a begging when if his Treatise be as it should be according to Truth he needs no such protection of it for no doubt God would protect him in it and the whole Church of God would stand by him against me and all others that should except against it But if otherwise it agree not with the Standard of Truth that is the holy word of God who will not say neither he nor it deserves any Protection at all what then is the matter trow that he so earnestly begs Protection Doth the man fear he shall be knockt on the head that he thus seeks for Protection or will his Treatise be safer at her Honours Feet than it would be upon a Stationers Stall The feet indeed is the sittest place for it that is to be trodden upon or spurned into the fire rather than to be protected being able to do much hurt to those that shall read it or hear it Had he Dedicated his Book to his good Brother or to some other that may be better able than himself to discern the dishonour which he doth to our Lord Jesus Christ and his Gospel by it he might not have possibly been in danger thereupon to have fallen into the number of those Millions whom he so much condemns
they say were then used what do they signifie but the same sense which we who are and must be their Adversaries in this and many other Points of our Christian Profession do and always have acknowledged viz. That there is a change in these outward Elements being turned from a common to a sacred Use after they are Consecrated and set apart according to the first Institution Which certainly was the meaning of the Antients in this Case and no otherwise as shall appear hereafter from very good Authority though 't is true their Zeal did oftimes lead them to many strains of Rhetorick in a just magnifying this great and holy Mystery But will any man that is wise conclude thereupon that to be their Judgment which is now and hath been since their times vainly precended and thrust upon them by the Church of Rome meerly upon the account of their florid Elocutions Hyper bolies and high Expressions used by them to quicken Communicants to their Duty when they come to the Lords Table For our parts we cannot so conclude for then we should condemn our selves who often do the same thing to the same good end and purpose as they did yet abhor this unscriptural Doctrine of Transubstantiation A Doctrine it is that overthroweth the very nature of the Sacrament For unless there be an outward sign really continued in it such as Christ instituted to Represent and assure the Grace he principally intended to the Faith of those that come worthily unto it it is and must be utterly annihilated Neither can it be said that the Accidents of Bread and Wine do remain as a Sign when the Substance is vanished For there can be no Resemblance nor Analogy between those Accidents which have nothing in them of Nourishment and the Body and Blood of Christ whereby the Souls of True Believers are in and by that Sacrament really nourished and strengthned Nor can it be denied that in every Sacrament it is meet and requisite that there be an Analogy or convenient Agreement between the outward Sign and that spiritual good thing which is signified by it This being so may it not be proved to the Teeth of our Adversaries that they are in an Error in this Point and that they vainly pretend to make that to be an Article of Faith which a ma◠may Consute by his fingers ends A Doctrine which like the Eutichian Heresie of old disanuls the Verity of Christs Human Nature For it hath fancied such a Body unto Christ which in one and the same moment of time may be in many thousands of places viz. wherefoever the Massing-Priests shall please to Consecrate their Host which clearly contradicts not only Nature and Reason but the plain word of-Scripture which saith Heb. 4.15 Christ was in all Points temp'red like as we are yet without sin neither will it help them to say as they do weakly enough Christ's Body is now Glorisied For first Christ spake this word This is my Body at his last Supper when he was here upon Earth 2. It is the Crucified Body of Christ which is Represented in the Sacrament not the Glorified 3. Christ's Body is not by being Glorified so devested of its natural Properties as to cease from being a Body and if by being in Glory it be made ubiquitary a Property only belonging to the Divine Nature then shall our Bodies be so too in Heaven which I think no man will say For these Vile Bodies shall be made like unto Christ's Glorious Body Phil. 3.21 It would be too great weariness to my Reader if I should lead him into a consideration of the many gross Absurdities which arise from this upstart Doctrine that which hath been here in short alledged against it is enough to shew the Vanity of it And so long as the Abettors thoroof continue in it all who will be faithful to the Gospel of Christ and his Church must protest against them But we have say they the word of Christ himself for our Warrant for hath not he said This is my Body and may not we without offence say as he hath said viz That it is his Body Yea and one of them none of the meanest as I find it reported of him by a late Writer thus vannteth out his Considence that if God should ask him at the Day of Judgment why he held so he will boldly say Tu docuisti thou hast taught me But is it true that the Spirit of God hath taught him to say so and will he like a dull Schollar 〈◊〉 poring still upon the Letter of his Lesson never labouring to understand the right sense and meaning of it of which gross neglect what account he and his Fellow-Ignaro'es can be ablo to make at the time of publick Examination would be considered by them And is it not say they again possible with God to make good his own word by changing the Substance of the Bread into the Substance of Christs Body though we see it not Wherein they seem to be like the Stoick Philosophers that were of old who proposing things strange and uncouth in foretelling future Events pleaded for themselves saying nihil est quod Deus essicere non possit there is nothing which God cannot bring to pass But as Cicero answered them well in his second Book de divinatione Vtinam Sapientes Stoicos effecisset I wish he had made the Stoicks wise Men So may we wish that these of the Roman Church had more Wisdom in their knowledge of God and his Word than it appears yet they have For us we will not we dare not and God forbid we ever should deny this Attribute of Omnipotency to the great God Creator of Heaven and Earth he hath himself spoken it not once but twice i. e. not once but many times once in the Law and a second time in the Gospel without Retractation That Power belongeth unto him But to argue a posse ad esse will be acknowledged by all to be very Illogical and in this case it is inconsistent with found Divinity For we are taught by the Holy Scripture that Gods Will and Power are ever joyned together only his will makes way for the exerting his Power his actual Power I say which is of the same Latitude and Extent with his Will Our God is in Heaven saith the Psalmist P. 115.3 and doth whatsoever he will not whatsoever he can do So Job What his Soul desireth even that he doth Job 23.13 He can at an Instant overturn the whole course of Nature and Reduce all things to a Chaos by his absolute power or annihilate them but he doth not because he will not There is no doubt but what Christ said is true and what he said he is able to bring to pass for being God equal with the Father we confess with Holy Job he can do all things But the Question is not of the truth of these words nor of his Power in fulfilling them but of the Sense viz.