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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52612	An historical account, and defence [sic], of the canon of the New Testament In answer to Amyntor.	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.	1700 (1700)	Wing N1507A; ESTC R216541	48,595	124

now proved by divers Examples for he refers to the several Examples he had just before given of Doctrines and Facts which as he supposed and supposed he had proved it were added to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke only he speaks of himself as Authors are commonly wont in the Plural number saying à Nobis for à me But from all this Amyntor infers and immediately subjoins since therefore the Manichaeans rejected the whole New Testament c. You are a great deal too hasty Son your Friends the Manichees received the whole Genuine Canon of the New Testament they rejected only the corrupt part of the Testament of the Son even the Gospels and other pieces of your Catalogue and some Passages which they pretended had been unduly inserted into the Epistles and Gospels of the Canon nor will you ever make more of your Citations from Faustus by whatsoever stretching and straining them By this it appears how much our Author is pleas'd with Hyperbolies he says A very considerable Sect of Christians themselves I mean the Manichees shewed other Scriptures and denied the Genuinness of the whole New Testament He should have said a small Party less Christians by much than the Mahometans denied the genuinness of those parts of the Gospels and Epistles where the Books of the Old Testament are cited as also where mention is made of the Genealogy Birth Temptation Baptism or Death of Christ because they supposed Christ was God only and Man not at all and that it was unworthy of God to be born tempted baptized or put to death The Objection however hath still some force 't is thus far true that some there were who said the Books of the Canon are not now altogether sincere they are corrupted by divers Additions Yes the Manichees said so and if our Author had pleased he could have told us by what Arguments they were convinced of their Impertinence and Folly it would very well have become him to have taken that little farther pains Of the pretended Interpolations and Additions in the Books of the Canon THE Manichees said The 〈◊〉 the Spirit of Truth promised to the Faithful by Christ even the blessed Manichaeus was sent by God to inform his Elect and all other his People concerning his farther Will and good-pleasure as also to instruct them what of the New Testament is genuine and to be received by all and what to be rejected as either mistaken by the Apostles yet unperfect or since added by others to the Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists Being asked What these Mistakes and Additions were They answered whatsoever is said of the Genealogy Birth Baptism Temptation and real Death of Christ all quotations out of and all honourable mention any where made concerning the Patriarchs Prophets and Writers of the Old Testament When demanded farther on what grounds they presumed to reject either the Old Testament or such large portions of the New They replyed Moses has blasphemed Christ in those words of his He that is hanged is accursed of God Deut. 21.23 The God of the Old Testament said the Manichees appears to have been a wicked and impotent Spirit chiefly by his commanding the slaughter of innocent Beasts for 〈◊〉 of guilty Men and by dealing so harshly with his Slaves the Jews Therefore his Prophets also are to be rejected as for the same reason we would and do reject the Priests and Prophets of the other evil Gods of the Nations It is not to be thought so they went on that Jesus Christ commended or his Apostles cited the writings of the Prophets and Servants of such an impure God no all such Citations and Commendations have been undoubtedly added by certain People that were half Jews and half Christians to the Gospels and Epistles of the New Testament So also was whatsoever is found in those Books concerning the Genealogy Birth Circumcision Temptation Baptism or Death of Christ Who being God underwent all these things only in appearance and by that Phantom which the Vulgar took to be real Christ that represented him even as Angels seem to have Bodies to be clothed to eat and drink when in truth they neither drink nor eat nor are clothed nor have real Bodies This was the Manichaean Doctrine with respect to the Christian Religion and Books of the New Testament to which they added the eight Articles before mentioned taught 'em by Manichaeus and his Second Adimantus and maintained by Faustus Says St. Austin One may easily make short work with this wild People For whereas all depends on the Authority of Manichaeus I desire to know how they prove he was that Paraclet that Spirit of Truth that was to lead us into all truth promised by our Saviour They answer indeed out of St. John's Gospel I will send the Comforter or Paraclet the Spirit of Truth who shall lead you into all Truth but they say withal the Gospels and other Books of the New Testament are so corrupted that there is no absolute trusting to ' em We demand a Witness on behalf of their Paraclet they alledg one out of our own New Testament which they say is a false and corrupted Witness Any Book or other Witness convict of Falshood and Corruption in bearing its Testimony especially of many Corruptions and Falsities is uncapable of standing again as a Witness merely on its own Credit in whatsoever Case Briefly by accusing the New Testament as a Book in so many places corrupted they deprive themselves of whatsoever benefit that might arise to them from its Testimony But to forgive to Fools an oversight that destroys their whole Cause St. John shall be a sincere Evangelist in speaking of the Spirit or Paraclet tho the other Books and Writers and he himself in other matters hath been mistaken or is corrupted by others But as this is the Evangelist who has foretold the sending of the Paraclet● so he hath also foretold the time when he should come for he saith John 7.39 The Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified The reason it seems that the Spirit was not then given was because Jesus not being yet glorified that is not departed from his Disciples into Heaven 't was not necessary he should be yet given but when Jesus was dead raised and ascended into Heaven then was the time to send forthwith the Paraclet Accordingly we find in the Acts of the Apostles in the second Chapter of those Acts fifty days after our Savior's Resurrection and but ten days after his Ascension into Glory the Spirit the promised Paraclet descended on the Apostles What room now is here for Montanus or for Manichaeus The Spirit of Truth was to come so soon as Christ was gone from his Apostles and entred into the Glory designed for him but Montanus came not till 170 years after Christ was glorified and Manichaeus as if our Savior had utterly forgot his promise not till the year 275. The Father goes on I will take no Advantage