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A28599 A short discourse of the true knowledge of Christ Jesus to which are added some passages in the reasonableness of Christianity &c. and its vindication : with some animadversions on Mr. Edward's reflections on the reasonableness of Christianity and on his book entituled Socinianism unmask'd / by S. Bold. Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737. 1697 (1697) Wing B3493; ESTC R24663 19,917 58

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To such I would say if you really know and heartily believe all that Christ hath taught concerning this matter it is as much as I can desire and as much as you ought to believe concerning it But tho' other words are now ordinarily used in teaching of this Doctrine than are used about it in the Holy Scriptures yet the Doctrine is but the same which Christ taught The other Words and Terms which are now used do not add any thing to his Doctrine they were not originally intended to make the Doctrine more perfect than Christ delivered it The Doctrine continued as it was taught in the Holy Scriptures till some presumptuous not to say malicious Persons assumed to themselves to affix such a sinister Interpretation and Construction to the Words of Christ as did exceedingly alter His Doctrine very much depreciating Christ Himself and the Holy Spirit degrading Christ into a meer Man though He Himself taught that He was God and teaching that the Holy Spirit was but the Power or Virtue of God and not God When this Method was used to corrupt the Faith of Christ sincere Christians found it expedient to make use of other Words which have been successively retained But they used not these words with a design to teach more than Christ had taught only to deliver what He had taught with a denial of that corrupt Sense false Teachers had stampt upon His Words So that the Doctrine of the Trinity as it is ordinarily taught amongst us is no other than that the Father Son and Holy Ghost are God as Christ hath taught they are and that we do reject that Sense and Construction which Men of their own Heads and without any Authority have affixed to Christ's Doctrine It is but the Doctrine Christ hath taught with an opposition to and denial of that Addition of Words and Diminution of Sense which other People had introduced touching that which Christ had taught To say that this Doctrine is contrary to Reason is in effect to deny that Jesus is the Messias or Christ Can the Fountain of Light and Reason teach any thing that is contrary to Reason Does not the Messias He that was commissioned to teach Men the Mind of God know what is consonant to Reason better than we do It is not to be expected that People should in good earnest believe this Doctrine till they are fully persuaded that Jesus is the Christ and when they heartily believe that there can be no ground to deny their assent to this or any other Doctrine they know he hath taught We have this notice by Supernatural Revelation that the Father is God and that the Son is God and that the Holy Ghost is God which we could not know by the meer Light of Nature Now if those who say this Doctrine is against and contrary to Reason do mean no more than that they find Christ hath revealed it but they cannot understand any more concerning it than what He hath revealed they are in the right but they would do well to express their meaning by decent and proper Terms which may signifie the Sense they have of their own and Humane weakness and not throw Unworthy and Blasphemous Aspersions on a most certain Divine Truth and Doctrine He that heartily believes that Jesus is the Christ and takes Him unfeignedly for his Lord and Saviour will believe whatsoever he knows Christ hath taught and will be contented to wait to know more than He hath taught concerning any Article till He shall be pleased to make a further discovery of it Our knowing that the Holy Spirit who is promised is God affords us great encouragement to depend upon Him for and to expect from Him Aids and Assistances suitable to our occasions and such Influences as will render our dutiful labours and endeavours prosperous and successful 7thly By coming at the end of the World in unconceivable Glory at which time He will raise the dead judge the World and render to every one according to his Works Acts 10.42 Acts 17.32 2 Cor. 5.10 This if any thing should keep us in a continual holy Awe of Him and have a very powerful and good Influence upon our Conduct at all times if we have any care for or regard to our indisputably greatest Interests And therefore true Christians should concern themselves very much to understand as particularly as they can and make a good use of what Christ hath taught relating to what I shall hint unto you in the next place 5thly Those Propositions which acquaint us with the Evil Acts and Vicious Inclinations and Lusts He requires us to abstain from and mortifie and the moral Duties He commands us to perform as also in what manner it is His pleasure we should do them These are either general or particular Those that are general oblige us to renounce all corrupt affections and abstain from every Wickedness and Sin and to exercise our selves in all the Duties we owe to God our Neighbours and our selves without descending to mention particular instances but engaging us to employ our enquiries about them that we obtain as distinct a knowledge of them as we can such are Tit. 2.11 12. 2 Cor. 7.1 Those which are particular do name certain Vices Evil Acts and Lusts we must carefully shun and avoid and subdue certain Graces Virtues and good Acts we must employ ourselves in These may be reduced to three Heads viz. Those which concern all Christians in common Those which belong to them according to the several Relations they stand in unto others And those which pertain to them according to the various Estates and Conditions the Providence of God doth place them in We should endeavour to be as distinctly acquainted with these as we can that our Conduct may be Regular Orderly and Exact and may beautifie and adorn our Profession These make up the greatest part of that Revelation Jesus Christ hath made of the Will of God unto the World These are dispersed through the whole Body of those Sacred Records which contain the Discoveries He hath made of the Father's Mind so that we cannot attend to any page of the same but we shall be sure to meet with some of them Amongst all the things that Christ Jesus hath taught these are the least disputed but with profoundest Grief be it spoken none are more neglected and more contradicted in the Practices and Lives of the Many 6thly Those Propositions which relate what Privileges do pertain to them who do know Christ Jesus aright which acquaint us what Benefits Advantages and inestimable Blessings such Persons do partake of at present and may further expect with good assurance both in this Life and the next As that they partake of the Holy Spirit and are made his Temples 1 Cor. 6.19 Rom. 8.9 Have all their Sins Pardoned are Justified and admitted into the new Covenant are Sanctified and made partakers of the Divine Nature Eph. 1.7 1 Cor. 6.11 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Rom. 3.24