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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37249	De jure uniformitatis ecclesiasticæ, or, Three books of the rights belonging to an uniformity in churches in which the chief things, of the lawes of nature, and nations, and of the divine law, concerning the consistency of the ecclesiastical estate with the civil are unfolded / by Hugh Davis ...	Davis, Hugh.	1669 (1669)	Wing D417; ESTC R5997	338,525	358

also as to Tradition The Original Copy of the Mahometan Law is said to be kept in the Chief Mufti 's Custody It is accounted prophane so much as to touch it with common hands And Tradition is the thing rely'd upon for the delivery of it at first by God to Mahomet as is alleadged and for it's continued uncorruptedness in the precepts of it to this very day XVII In the fourth and last place So also in the Law of Christ And the Christian Religion asserted from it And that also with a special respect to an Ecclesiastical Uniformity let us come last of all to the consent of the Christian Religion to these things as was mentioned concerning Moses his Law and to the assertion of the truth of it also from them and that 1. For Prophesie viz. as attesting to it and that in a peculiar manner and in it it excell'd all other Religions and had greater evidence of Divine Testimony from it then they had The Law of Moses had chiefly Predictions or Prophesies in the Original and first delivery of them attesting to it And which Vid. Sect. 12. as such as I have mentioned were but a secondary Divine Testimony and not credible any further then as attested to by Miracles But the Christian Religion had all the Prophesies concerning the Incarnation of Christ and other * De Judaeis Christum rejicientibus vid. Mark 21.33 sit in sequent Et cap. 22. in princip Et Luk. 15.11 c. De extraneis eun Amplectentibus vid Mat. 8.2 Matth. 12.21 Matth 21 43 c. De obsidione ruina Jerusalem Templi vid. Matth. 23.38 Luc. 13.34 Et alibi sic caeteris Principal things fulfilled actually and in the event testifying to it So it excelled all the pretended Prophesies of the Heathens which were either dark and dubious and interpretable either way according as the event fell out such as their Responses of Oracles for the most part were or else they were concerning things near hand and which might be foretold either by Logical conclusions made by cunning men concerning the consequences of them or else by Prae-sentiments in Nature such as the Platonists and others who write of Prophetick Euthusiasme mention and from the influence of Natural Causes on it or else those Prophesies might be much more from the sapience and vast experience of evil Angels in humane affairs And so also it excell'd Mahomet's religion if he alleadg himself to be prophesied of either by Moses or Christ the Books neither of the Old nor New Testament that were any where extant at his appearing in the World did testifie any such thing If he say they had been corrupted neither was there any thing of it in the writings of either Jewes or Christians neither was there any fame of any such thing ever heard of amongst them Especially the Christian Religion having been of no elder date then about six hundred years before him and for the most part of that time also its professors having been under the dint of Persecution and so there being little likelihood that they either should have had opportunity of corrupting in so great a measure the Law of Christ concerning his coming in so little time or else should have been at leisure or in a disposition of mind to do it under such persecution And last of all what end can it possibly be supposed they should have had in the doing of it The like also is to be said of his own personal Prophesies of the day of Judgment and his second Coming c. after a thousand years and how much the Prophesies of the Christian Religion excelled them Mr. Herbert in his Travels into Persia pag. 159. Which Prophesies of his how well they have been fulfill'd the event shewes For lately the time being expired his second Coming was very seriously look'd for and the people seeing themselves gull'd began to stagger till the Mufti assured them that the figures were mistaken and that it was two thousand in the Original And the Grand Sophi of Persia till then kept his eldest Daughter a Virgin and a horse ready in his Stable for him which after that he dismissed So that thus have been either the pretended or real prophesies attesting to other Prescripts of Religion but not so those attesting to the Christian It hath been attested to by Prophetick Heathens as is evident from the writings of the Sybills De civitate Dei Lib. 18. c. 23. and others And as was shewed to St. Augustine by Flactianus from the writings of Sybilla Erythraea or as others Cumana in which was found that verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ the Son of God the Saviour And so it hath been attested to also by the Prophets of Israel And all their Prophesies also have been fulfilled in the person of Christ in the event and that purely providentially and by such wayes as could not be suspected of Imposture So some were fulfilled in others in relation to his person Matth. 3.3 Joh. 13.18 Matth. 26.31.56 c. Acts 2.24 25 26 27. Mark 12.36 Eph. 4.8 Matth. 2.5 6. Matth. 2.15 Matth. 21.16 Matth. 27.9 10. Joh. 19.36 as the coming of John the Baptist Judas his betraying him his Disciples forsaking him in the night of his arraignment c. So some also were fulfilled in himself which 't was impossible for any man or Angel to bring to effect as his Resurrection and Ascension So some by others before he was of any Age or capable of dissembling them as his being born at Bethlehem of Judea his coming out of Egypt c. Nay some by persons who were not capable of being suborned by any man as the little children saluting him with Hosanna Nay some by the Jewes themselves the utter enemies of his being the Messias and that at unawares as their giving thirty peeces of Silver for him their not breaking his Legs on the Cross their dividing his Garments amongst them Joh. 19.24 So that this Prophesie in the event attested eminently to the Christian Religion And the Jewes themselves also expected their Messias about this time of Christs coming into the World notwithstanding their rejecting him 2. In the like manner also did the Christian Religion excel in Miracles Moses derived his power of working them from God but Christ wrought them as God and in his own name Moses dyed the common death of all men but Christ rose again and ascended into Heaven So in the Star created on purpose sayes Tycho and others to lead to his Birth So also in his being born of a Virgin and other the like things So also he excell'd the Heathen and all their pretended Miracles and that remarkably in his silencing their Oracles the great pillars and supports of the Gentile Religion and in other things So also he exce●led Mahomet who did not so much as pretend the working of many Miracles Supra Sect. 16. as is said but that he