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A63876 Animadversions upon a late pamphlet entituled The naked truth, or, The true state of the primitive church Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700. 1676 (1676) Wing T3275; ESTC R15960 53,553 71

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that are guilty of Schism for the Ceremonies which he must acknowledge to be no way Unlawful But his next Figure is a rare one Surely a very uncharitable mind that would not leave ninety and nine unnecessary Ceremonies to bring one sinful stray'd Sheep into the Congregation An admirable Metamorphosis Ninety Sheep in the Text turn'd into Ceremonies by this Commentator And would the Author of Naked Truth have all these poor Innocent Lambs otherwise call'd Ceremonies to be left naked and shivering in the Wilderness But as one reply'd upon the like Exposition of another Text Nonne sunt decem Mundi English'd by one Are there not ten Worlds Sed ubi sunt Novem Where are the Nine much less Ninety nine Ceremonies Sure he must take in all the Ceremonies at Court and the Inns of Court the Serjeants Coifes and their Mens party-colour'd Coats and all our University Ceremonies for we shall see anon he is no great admirer of Universities all these put together will hardly make up Ninety nine Ceremonies though we take in the Batchelor's Hoods and Lambskins and why must these be exposed to be devoured by Wolves And yet we will go as far as he to bring one sinful stray'd Sheep into the Congregation and convert him from the error of his Non-conforming waies and therefore he does ill to reflect upon us thus Yet these men will most passionately and pardon me if I say most uncharitably and irreligiously cry Away with these Idiot-Sectaries and Phanaticks let them wander and perish in their own wild Imagination We will not leave one Ceremony nor any one line of our Common prayer-book to gain Thousands of them No if you alter that we will rather leave the Church and go the Papists Mass Whose words are these but his own Which of us ever said so therefore to retort him part of his own Censure this is said Passionately I will not say as he speaks Uncharitably and Irreligiously After he has Complemented both Parties calling us too zealous Ceremonists Them blind and wilful Separatists He takes his leave assuring us that after our charitable Condescention their Populous I suppose he means Popular pretences will be so confuted their mouths so stopt or open'd to ask the more but that 's all one as for mere Shame if not for Reason or Religion they must come into the Church and their Pastors coming in the Sheep will follow Alas it is rather the custom of these Shepherds to follow the Sheep whatever Toy they take So the Shop-prating Weavers will soon be deserted seeing their own Naked Folly somewhat akin to this Author 's NAKED TRUTH Animadversions upon his Chapters concerning Preaching Confirmation and Church-Government I Knew a Scholar a man of Wit but no very hard Student that quickly after the Church was restor'd would needs become an Author upon this Subject How necessary all the parts of University Learning are for a Divine One of his Books he presented to an Eminent Person who told him pleasantly that he was extreme happy in the choice of his Subject for he could not fail to demonstrate effectually whether he writ upon it Learnedly or Unlearnedly what need a Divine had of University Learning Our Author in his Chapter upon Preaching has very sufficiently prov'd the same thing even where he makes it his business to prove the contrary Little did we think at this time of day to hear of a Second part of Mr. Dell against Universities The two Authors have many Expressions in them so exactly parallel if it were worth our while to set them in two Columns over-right one another one would suspect the Junior of the two for a Plagiary Yet have I no quarrel to him for his blaming that way of Preaching upon this or that nice Speculation or that way of keeping alwaies in Universals and never coming to Particulars the Duty between Man and Wife Parents and Children c. or that way of Dividing and Subdividing into Generals and Particulars the Quid the Quale the Quantum though he will find if he looks abroad that this is at a very low ebb and the Tide runs now another and a better way We care as little as he for a witty Rhetorical Harangue or a cunning Syllogistical discourse in the Pulpit and 't is almost as ill a Character as can be given of a Sermon or a Catechizing to be ridiculously Learned yet to talk as this Author does as if University-Learning were unnecessary to a Preacher is to be ridiculously Ignorant of the use or rather the necessity of it as matters stand He beseeches us to tell him Did not Christ and his Apostles preach the best way and are not we to follow their example And I beseech him to tell me Do not many good Divines preach the same way as far as it ought to be followed by those that only sit at the Apostles feet that is Do they not with all plainness prove from Scripture all that they deliver as God's Word This is our Unapostolick way of Preaching as he calls it the vain unedisying practice we now are in Indeed we have no Miracles at command to prove what we say as the Apostles had and therefore must do it by Reason which serves us to prove the Apostles did such Miracles and that again rationally demonstrates the Scriptures to be God's Word and then by the Testimony of the Church in several Ages besides the understanding we must have of all the Internal Arguments for it we must be able to shew that these are the Books of Scripture and after all this the same Reason must be employed to establish the true sense and meaning of them In order to these great Ends Reason must be improved by the studying of Arts Sciences and Languages unless we had all these infus'd as we needed them we must acquire them Therefore his Argument is so far from holding good God thought the gift of Tongues needless after the Gospel was once spread over the World I pray let us be no wiser than God and his Christ that is Let us think the study of the Languages needless for that he means or nothing Yea ra●her the study of Tongues is therefore necessary because the Gift is ceast and they cannot be had without study For the certainty of the Christian Religion and the verity of the Original Scriptures cannot be defended without a go●d measure of skill in the Languages Arts and Sciences which every one that is not unworthy to wear the Name of a Divine should be competently able to do Thus much the Apostle St. Peter 1 Pet. 3. 15. requires even of the Laity in their degree that they be ready alwaies to give an Answer to every man that asketh them a reason of the Hope that is in them Now to sum up the Argument where is it almost possible for these Acquisitions to be made except in Universities Therefore we are still in that vulgar Error which he taxes as the General Opinion p.