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A76232	Ēh probolē tēs alētheias or The bul-warke of truth, being a treatise of God, of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Trinity in unity, against atheists and hereticks. / By Robert Bayfeild.	Bayfield, Robert, b. 1629.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.	1657 (1657)	Wing B1468; Thomason E1636_3; ESTC R209045	111,248	263

mid-day there should be darkness for three houres over all the World Which thing to have beene fulfilled at the death of Jesus not only Saint Matthew doth assure us in his Gospell Matth. 27. but also Eusebius affirmeth that hee had read the same word for word recorded in diverse Heathen Writers Phlegonius a Greek Historian Phlegonius a Grecian borne in Asia recorded by Suidas of whom Suidas maketh mention reporteth for a wonderfull thing That in the fourth year of the two hundred and tenth Olimpiad which by just account was in the eighteenth year of the Raign of Tiberius and at which time our Saviour suffered there was an Ecclipse of the Sunne the very greatest that ever had beene seen or ever found to be written of and that it continued from the sixth houre untill the ninth houre And that during this Ecclipse the trembling of the Earth was so great in Asia and in Bythinia that infinite strong built houses fell to the ground It appearteh moreover that besides this Phlegonius Plin. in lib. 2. Pliny also felt and wrote of the selfe same matter for he saith In the time of the Emperour Tiberius the quaking of the earth was much greater then ever before had been Twelve Cities ruined by the Earth-quake at Christs passion By means whereof saith another twelve Cities were ruined and overthrown in Asia with infinite other goodly buildings and houses so that the Historiographers amongst the Gentiles albeit they knew not the cause did not forbear to write of the miracles of Christ Orig. cont Cels lib. 6. Furthermore Aesculus an old Astronomer doth prove by the scituation and constitution of the Sun and Moon at his Passion that no Ecclipse could then be naturally and therefore it was very miraculous contrary to the Order of Nature Dionysius was 25 years old at the death of our Saviour and lived a long time after with the Apostles as himself records in the 11. Epistle Apollophanes and only done by the omnipotency of God who deprived the sun of his light for all that space of time Dionysius Areopagita being on that day in Athens and beholding the Sun to be so strangely obscured knowing also as a man learned and skillfull in Arstology and the Celestiall courses that this Ecclipse was contrary unto the rule of Nature he cryed with a loud voice saying Aut Deus Naturae patitur aut mundi Machina dissolvetur either the God of Nature doth now suffer or the Frame of the whole world shall be dissolved And to another hee spake of that Ecclipse in these words Ignotus in carne patitur Deus Michael Syngellus in Encomio S. Dionysij cujus gratia rerum universitas densa hac caligine obscurata est atque concussa God unknown in the flesh did suffer for whose sake the universe was struck and covered with thick darknesse S. Dionys in Epis ad Polyc. And this Dionysius in an Epistle written to Polycarpus being asked what this great Ecclipse might portend said That it shewed a change and a great alteration and that hee did seriously observe the day and houre The other Miracle Joseph in l. 2. de antiq of the Vayle of the Temple which rent in sunder Josephus also giveth faithfull testimony thereof Finally I will conclude this discourse with the authority of learned Philo who doth plainly confesse the Deity of Jesus Christ and the necessity of his suffering This man that was the learnedst among the Jewes made a speciall booke of the banishment of his country-men where hee hath this discourse ensuing Philo lib. de exulibus What time may be appointed saith he for return home of us banished Jewes it is hard to determine For by tradition we have that we must expect the death of an high Preist But I am of opinion that this high Priest shall be the very word of God which shall be void of all sinne both voluntary and involuntary Whose Father shall be God and this word shal be the Fathers wisdome by which all things in this world were created His head shall be anointed with Oyl and his Kingdome shall flourish and shine for ever This wrote Philo Judaeus at that time when hee little imagined the same high Priest whom he so much expected and the same word of God whose Kingdome he describeth was now already come into the world Fourthly As Jesus Christ did declare himselfe truly to be the Son of man by yeilding unto Death so hee did declare himselfe mightily to be the Son of God by his Resurrection from the dead And this Resurrection of him was exactly foretold not only to the Jewes but also to the Gentiles for these are the words of Sibylla Hee shall end the necessity of death by three dayes sleep Lactan. lib. 4. inst Div. c. 19. and then returning from death to light again he shall be the first that shall shew the beginning of Resurrection to his chosen for that by conquering death he shall bring us life What thing can be more plainely described then this but now to prove the truth and certainty of his Resurrection Our first and most evident testimony shall be derived from our greatest enemies among which number is Josephus that learned Jew Joseph in lib. 2 de Antiq. whose words are these Although hee was accused by the principall men of our faith and crucified yet he was not abandoned of them which had formerly followed him but three days after his death he appeared alive again unto them according as the Prophets inspired of God had foretold and prophesied of him Which express plain resolute words we may in reason take not as the confession only of Josephus but as the common judgment opinion sentence of all the discreet and sober men of that time laid down and recorded by this Historiographer In whose dayes there were yet many Christians alive that had seene and spoken with Jesus after his Resurrection and infinite Jewes that had heard the same protested by their Fathers Bretheren Kinsfolks and freinds who had been themselves eye witnesses thereof Ignatius was twelve years old when our Saviour suffered and for certainty that he did see Christ after his Resurrection take his owne words Ego verò In Ep. ad Smyr ad Polycarp post Resurrectionem in carne eum vidi credo quia sit And truly I did see him after his Resurrection in the flesh and I do beleeve that it is he yea he sets down the time and persons when and before whom it was Et quando venit ad Petrum ad eos qui cum Petro erant And when he came to Peter to those that then were with him he sayd Touch and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have and they touched him and beleived so that his own words are sufficient proofs but yet it is the consent of all the Church-Historians as Eusebius Saint Jerom

the writings of the Heathens and to transport them as Salomon did the wood of Lebanon for the building of Gods house and the gold of Ophir to make the Temple of Jerusalem the more glorious from the pr●●h●ne use of the first Authors unto the divine edifying of Gods Church Besides It is the cleerest evidence in the world that can be produced to convince any man when hee is made a party in the proofe a witnesse in his own case and a Judge against himselfe For what can any Gentile object for himselfe against us that hee doth not beleeve in Jesus Christ when he perceiveth our truth confirmed and himselfe convicted out of the learning of the Gentiles what can the Philosopher say when hee seeth himselfe confuted by Philosophy Job 15.5.6 or what testimony can a Jew require better then a proof produced out of his owne Cabballs and Talmud and therefore as Eliphaz saith of vain boasters that their own words condemne them so humane arts being divine gifts wee may lawfully use them to cut off Goliahs head with his owne sword or to beat down Hercules with his own club that is to confute the Gentiles out of the learning of the Gentiles and so we finde that not only in former times the Prophets Apostles and Fathers of the primitive Church have practised the same course but also in later times Aquinas Mornaeu● Doctor Fotherby late Bishop of Salisbury and diverse others have out of Trismegistus Homer Plato Aristotle Cicero and the rest of the Gentile Doctors confuted the superstitions of the Heathens and confirmed the truth of Christian Religion Secondly Against the wicked and cursed hereticks I have used the sacred scripture whose excellency above all humane learning I shal breifly set forth and conclude Such is the excellency of scripture-learning which containeth in it florem delibatum the flower and very Quintessence of soule-saving wisdome that wee may say of it as the Philosopher sometimes spake concerning the knowledge of the soule of man Aristotle de a● l. 1. praf antiq lect praestatpauculo ex meliore scientia degustasse quam de ignobiliore multa A small and dim knowledge of it is to be valued far above a greater measure of cleerer insight in any other science For the inspired scriptures is the infallible rule of Faith the unmoveable ground of Hope the perfect guide of Life the soules store-house of Provision the spirituall Magazeen of Munition the sacred fewell of Devotion the divine subject of Contemplation and the everlasting spring of celestiall consolation It is as saint Gregory saith like the deepest Ocean wherein the greatest Elephant may finde sea room enough to swim and yet never sound the depth thereof and like the shallowest foord wherein the silliest Lamb may easily wade without any danger of drowning And as Fulgentius saith Fulgent Ser. de confess Habet quod robustu● comedat quod parvulus sugat Basil in Psalmum primum it hath strong meat for the best stomacks and sweet Milke for the tenderest babes It is a pavoury of wholesome food against feigned Traditions a Phisitians shop against poysoned heresies a pandect of profitable Lawes against rebellious spirits a treasury of most costly Jewells agaist beggerly rudiments and it is wisdome without folly to direct us riches without poverty to honour us and strength without weaknesse to maintain us For that it will instruct us in life comfort us in death and glorifie us in heaven The canonicall bookes of the Old and New Testament are exact Maps of the heavenly Canaan drawne by the Pencill of Holy Ghost the authenticall records of the Church the deeds of Almighty God and Evidences of mans salvation Yea The arguments to prove the divinity of scriptures are the venerable antiquity matchless majesty lively efficacy beautifull harmony incomparable purity invincible perennity and continuance of them mauger the injury and iniquity of times and Tyrants who have sought to suppresse them Besides the confirmation by miracles confession of Martyrs destruction of oppugners fulfilling of prophesies consent of Churches yea assent of adversaries As first of hereticks who in oppugning of scriptures do yet alledge scripture to their owne utter destruction 2 Pet. 3.16 Secondly of Jewes Gods Library Keepers as Saint Augustine calls them who studiously read and curiously kept the Bookes of the old Testament by a singular providence of God for our benefit and behoof Thirdly many heathens being convinced in their consciences have sealed to the truth of the scripture by their testimonies and confessed them to be divine for Porphyry testifieth that Moses hath written the history of the Law truly and Numenius the Pythagorist recites Moses's history almost word forword testifying that he was a great Divine But we have better testimonies even the holy scriptures themselves which do not only establish our faith 1 Pet. 3.15 Isa 1.18 Eze. 18.25.29 but also instruct our Reason furnishing us with arguments rationally to prove their truth to be sacred and their authority divine Yea further The scripture is proved to be the word of God by the Majesty of it which besides the stately plainesse of the stile far surpasseth the creatures capacity the fathom of flesh and reach of reason There is no jot or tittle of of it that savours of earthlinesse Every word of Gods mouth is pure precious and profitable not a syllable superfluous The very majesty of the sentence is such as cannot be conceived and yet it s alwaies more powerfull in matter then in words Humane writings may shew some faults to be avoided but give no power to amend them What words of Philosophers could ever make of a Leopard a Lambe of a Viper a Child of a Lecher a chast man of a Nabal a Nadib or of a covetous carle a liberall person Philosophy may civilize not sanctifie hide some sins not heal them cover not cure them But the efficacy and virtue of the scripture is such that it produceth the love of God and our enemies it purifieth the heart pacifieth the conscience rectifieth the whole both constitution and conversation of man yea it taketh him off from the delights of the world and the flesh maketh him glory in afflictions sing in the flames and triumph over death All these and more do necessarily conclude the divine verity and authority of the sacred scriptures Moreover if we will open our eyes to see and bring our Judgement to discern we may soon perceive that besides the truth of scripture which will admit no comparison with any writings there is more learning in Moses then in all the learned men of the Gentiles more Rhetorick in Esayas Prophesies then in all Tullies Orations more Logick in Saint Paules Epistles then in all Aristotles Analiticks there is sweeter musick in King David then in all the Lyrick Poets of the heathen there is better Philosophy in Job then in all the Philosophers of Greece there is truer Morality in Salomon then can be

Ruffin cap. 6. and Ruffinus testifie Moreover Dionysius the Areopagite Saint Bernard and others report a famous saying of Saint Ignatius which he uttered with sighes and is extant in his Epistle to the Romans and it is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amor meus crucifixus est that is My Love is crucified Indeed this holy and pious Bishop Mirandula de motre Christi l. 1. c. 10. did so continually meditate upon those great things which Christ had done and suffered for him that he was thereby brought so intirely to love him as when he was demanded why hee would not forsake and forget Christ rather then suffer himself to be torne and devoured of wilde and savage Beasts He answered The story of Ignatius at his Death that hee could not forget him because the sufferings of Christ were not only words transient in his mouth or removeable objects before his eyes but they were indeleble characters so engraven in his heart that all the Torments of the Earth could never rase them out And therefore being commanded by that bloudy Tyrant Trajane to be ript and unbowelled they found Jesus Christ written upon his Heart in Characters of Gold He is stiled Divinus Ignatius Biblioth Patrum Tom. 1. pag. 76. Inclytissimus ferventissimus Martyr Divine Ignatius a most famous and fervent Martyr Nay Nicephorus goes beyond that title and calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that saw God and one that was carried of God for when hee was a child Niceph. Hist li. 2. cap. 35. Nicephorus reports that our Saviour would take him up in his arms and shew him to his Disciples And it may be that this was one of those little children that were brought to Christ to touch them or that little child whom Jesus took and set in the midst of them to learn them humility Aug. de vera religione Indeed as Saint Augustine saith Tota vita Christi in terris per hominem quem gessit disciplina morum fuit The whole life of Christ which he spent here on earth was and is a pattern for all Christians Christ despised all worldly vanities Nam omnia bona mundi contempsit for he despised all the pompe and vanity of this world to teach us In his mundanis faelicitatem uon reponere that we should not greedily seek nor childishly place our delight in these vain and worldly toyes hee suffered all the sorrowes of this world Christ suffered all miseries hunger thirst cold nakedness lyings slanders spittings mockings whippings death it selfe to teach us ut nec in illis quaereretur faelicitas ita nec in istis infaelicitas timeretur that as we should place no felitity in the vanities of this life so we should not fear all the miseries of this world Judg. 6.12.14 but to say with Deborah March valiantly O my Soul with the Angell unto Gideon Go on thou mighty man of War and passe through all the ranks of miseries To be breife if we do but seriously look into the life of Jesus Christ we shall easily find that as St. Bernard saith True Wisdome is found in his doctrin Bernard Ser. 2. super Cantic Prud●ntia vera in ejus doctrina justitia in ejus misericordia temperantiae in vita fortitudo in ejusdem passione reperiuntur Righteousness in his mercy Mercy in his Justice temperance in his life truth in his words fortitude in his sufferings all vertues in all his actions all the Ethicks of Aristotle all the morality of Seneca and all the wisdome of Greece can no ways describe vertue so perfectly as we see it expresly pourtraied in the lively example of our Saviours life yea such was the piety of Jesus Christ that even his greatest enemies were forced to acknowledge confess it Suidas upon the word Iesus for the talk of one Theodosius a Jew with a christian merchant man named Philip in the time of the Emperour Justinian is here worthy to be noted In the Temple of Hierusalem sayd the Jew there were two and twenty ordinary Preists and as soone as any of them dyed the residue chose another in his place Christs Piety is acknowledged and confessed by a Jew Now it hapned that Jesus for his singular Piety and Doctrine was chosen by them And to the intent they might know the name of his Father and Mother and inregister it according to their custome they sent for them and Mary came thither alone Joseph dyed before the Virgin Mary because Joseph was then dead She being asked the name of the Father of Jesus answered upon her Oath that she had conceived him by the holy Ghost and reported to them the words of the Angell Moreover shee told them the names of the women that came to her labour unlooked for upon due inquisition whereof when all things were found to fall out true they registred his Name in the Register of the Preists in these words Jesus the Son of the living God and of the Virgin Mary A proof of Christs Divinity And this Register sayd Theodosius was saved at the sacking of Hierusalem and afterward kept in the City of Tyberias where it is preserved in secret and I have seen it as one of the cheif among the Jews and as one from whom in respect of my degree nothing was restrained And I beleeve thereby that it is not ignorance that holdeth me in the Jewish Religion Why Theodosius the Jew would not imbrace Chr●st but the honour which I have among my countrymen the like whereof I could not have elsewhere Thus we see that the Jews themselves were forced to acknowledge and declare the Piety and Deity of Jesus Christ And as for the family from whence he descended it remaineth registred in the Jews Thalmud that Jesus of Nazereth Crucified Thal. Tact. San. ca. Nigmar had was of the Blood Royall from Zorobabell of the house of David Thus much by way of digression But now to return to the foregoing Subject of our discourse namely the Resurrection of Jesus Christ although the Testimony of Josephus and Saint Ignatius might suffice to prove the truth and certainty hereof against all the Atheists of the World yet hereunto I will add some other testimonies and circumstantiall proofes that do infallibly prove the Resurrection of Christ and so consequently that Jesus is the Son of God the true and promised Messias 1. atth 28.1 The Angells testifie the resurrection of Christ Luke 24.4 First the Angell said unto the women why seeke yee the living among the dead hee is not here but he is risen Et si non credideritis Oraculo credite oculo and if you will not beleive us beleeve your own eyes for you may see the place where he lay 2. That Christ appeared twelve severall times after his resurrection 2. Truth it self confirms this truth unto us by those manyfold apparitions that he made after his resurrection

the time of his Resurrection He alledgeth also the appearing of two Angells among all the people for testimony whereof Likelyhoods of truth Hee nameth the day and place when and where it happened He recounteth the very words that Jesus spake at his Ascention He telleth the manner how hee ascended and how a Cloud came down and received him out of their sight He declareth what the Multitude did whither they went and in what place they remained after their departure thence And finally hee setteth downe so many particulars as if it had beene the easiest matter in the world for his enemies to have refuted his narration if all had not been true Wherefore to conclude this Discourse of the Birth Life Death Resurrection and Ascention of Jesus seeing nothing hath happened in the same which was not foretold both to Jew Gentile nor any thing fore-shewed concerning the Messias which was not fulfilled most exactly in the person of Christ as have been proved by the foregoing testimonies we may most certainly assure our selves and confidently affirm against all the unbeleiving Jewes and wretched Atheists of the world that Jesus is the son of God the true and promised Messiah Moreover Touching the excellency of this Person I shall yet further prove first That for time he is God co-eternall with his Father and this both apparent scriptures That Christ is a true God is proved and unanswerable reasons drawne from thence do make plain For First First from the Scriptures The scriptures call him the true Jehovah as wee may see by the collation and comparing of these places viz. Exodus 3.2.13.4.14.24 20.2 And Acts 7.30.32 1 Cor. 10.4.9 c. And so the scriptures call him God as Gen. 32.28 Psal 45.7 Isa 7.14 Matth. 3.3 Heb. 1.8 1 Tim. 3.16 Joh. 1.1 Acts 20.78 And therefore saint John saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the word was God Also Thomas saith unto Christ My Lord and my God 1 Joh. 3.16 1 Joh. 5.20 And so we finde the same truth expressed in many other places of the Scripture Secondly by unanswerable reasons drawn from scripture Secondly Wee may shew the same by infallible and unanswerable reasons drawn from scripture As First From those incommunicable properties of the Deity which are properly ascribed unto him as 1. To be omnipotent Joh. 3.31 Heb. 1.3 Phil. 3.21 Apo. 1.18 Mat. 16.11 Mat. 28.20 Joh. 16.15 2. To remit sins Matth 9.6 Mar. 2.5.7.9 Luke 5.20 Joh. 20.23 3. To be in many places at the same instant Matth. 18.20 4. To have the same equall power with the Father Joh. 5.17 5. To raise himself from the grave Rom. 1.4 Joh. 10.18 6. To send forth and to give the Holy Ghost Zach. 12.10 Joh. 16.7 2. From those Epithites which are ascribed unto him and are only agreeable to the divine nature as Joh. 13.18 Joh. 1.9 Mat 9 4.5 Joh. 14 14. To be the Author of our Election To illuminate us To know the secrets of our hearts To hear the prayers of them that call upon him To judge the quick and the dead To give unto his servants everlasting life To be truly rich and so able to do Joh 5.22.24 2 Cor 8.9 Psal 50.12 and to bestow these great rewards upon his servants Joh. 16.15 Thirdly From those relations that he hath with God as to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 J h. 1.18 Heb. 1.3 the only begotten son of God the brightness of his glory and as the Poet saith If God had once no son then once must he Without the brightness of his glory be Also to be the arme of God Isa 53 1. Joh. 14.7.8 9. Phil. 2.6 which the Fathers do expound of Christ to be the Image of the Father 2 Cor. 4.4 Col. 1.5 and to be the very form of God which is most simple and essentiall not compounded or accidentall for that in God there is no composition no accidents Et nihil est in Deo quod non sit ipse Deus nor any other thing which is not God because the Divine Essence Identificat sibi omnia que sunt in Divinis doth identifie Gabriel ●iel super 1. sentent dist 1. q. 5. or deifie all things that are in the Deity 4. From the universall effects Gen. 1.1 Pal 45.6 Psal 102.25 Joh. 1 2.3 Col 16 17. Heb. 1 2 3. Joh. 5.17 and proper works of God for he that created preserveth and governeth all the things that are created is the true and everlasting God but Christ created all things doth still sustaine and govern all things and therefore hee must needs be the true and eternall God To be breif He is the Son of the Father the Wisdome and the Power of God A Proof of the co-eternity of the Son with his father and therefore either the Father was without a Son and then he could be no Father and God was without his Wisdome and without his strength or else hee was never without his Son but to say that God was without his wisdome or without his strength is most absurd Ergo non ex tempore genitus est qui cuncta tempora condidit therefore hee was not begotten in time which created all times Aug. Ep. 6.6 saith Saint Augustine That Christ is co-essential with God is proved Secondly it followeth that I should prove and shew how for Nature he is co-essentiall with his Father touching which point Athanasius saith Non res quaepiam extrinsecus ad inventa est filij substantia neque ex nihilo inducta est sed ex Patris essentia nata est The substance of the son is no outward thing either found or created but begotten of the very Essence of his Eather even as you see the brightness springing from the Light or the Vapour from the Water Neque enim splendor neque vapor est ipsa aqua aut ipse sol neque res aliena For neither the light is the Sun it self nor the vapour the water it selfe and yet they are none other things of another kind then be the Substances from whence they spring even so the Son issueth from the substance of his Father Et tamen Patris substantia non perpessa est partitionem And yet the substance of the Father admits no partion for as the Son remaineth still the same and is no way lessened or diminished Athanas in Ep. Cont Eusebium in respect of those beams that flow from him so the Father suffereth no mutation by having and begetting Suam ipsius imaginem filium this his Son and eternall image but remaining still the same he begetteth his Son of the same Essence and wee find not only all the Orthodox Fathers but also the scriptures are plain enough to confirm the same truth for our saviour saith Joh. 10.30 I and my Father are one and so saint John having spoken of the Father the Word and the spirit saith That these three are one 1