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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15075	Truth and error discouered in two sermons in St Maries in Oxford. By Antony White Master of Arts of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.	White, Anthony, 1588 or 9-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 25376; ESTC S119899	33,437	64

of one God cannot possibly cast forth the beames of two truths Well then may Austen call that opinion of Rhetorius Aug. de haeres cap. 72. haeresin nimium mirabilis vanitatis an heresy of a prodigious vanity who held that all heretiques though of neuer so different fancies did yet speake the truth as if any thing could swarue from it selfe and remaine it selfe no no truth is more vniforme and constant insomuch that if we suruey all the parcels of this rich beautifull commodity we shall finde each seuerall to agree with the rest in admirable consent whereas if wee take into our hands the infinite peeces of falshood wee shall not onely perceiue them opposite to truth but incoherent one to another nay in the same cause or question it will not be hard to descry the premisses and the more removed cōsequences mutually to wound one another and be both false but truth cuts not her owne throat but rather each part of her if of so partlesse a thing I may so speake lends stron succour to the other The second natiue note of diuine truth is that it still reflects it selfe vpon the glory of its Author and therefore she as wisdome in the booke of Proverbs gets her to the top of the high places Prov. 8.2.3 Psal 29.1.2 shee stands at euery entrance and sings that Psalme with a chearefull voice Giue vnto the Lord O yee mighty giue vnto the Lord Glory and strength giue vnto the Lord the glory due vnto his name all her cry is that flesh and blood may be humbled and the Father of spirits glorified she bids miserable man at last know and acknowledge his misery and begin to confesse himselfe altogether vnworthy of the least of his provoked makers mercy she preaceth to him not to stand vpon the prerogatiues of naturall goodnesse shee counselleth him to cast away the insolent conceit of his owne merits and satisfactions and rely onely vpon the free and vndeserued grace of God for his saluation shee commandes him to submit all his owne wisdome greatnesse power to the power greatnesse wisdome of God she inioines him not to take in any partners into his redeemers honour but to let him haue all the glory of his owne workes without a sharer this voice thus aduancing our creator and restorer is high true but when I heare a skreaking that I am not so poore but that doeing what I may doe by my depraued nature I deserue at leastwise in congruity that God should looke favourably vpon mee when his fauour is receiued I then can doe those works which by their owne proper dignity may merit heauen and bring God vnder a debt when I heare a noise that I must get mee some of the ouerflowings of other mens goodnesse or pay some of mine owne satisfactions to helpe out the merits of my saviour as if there were some want in him of whose fulnsse wee may all receiue grace for grace when I am sollicited in performance of religion Iohn 1.16 to doe besides and sometimes against the command of God as if I might be a thought wiser then my maker these sounds must needs bee vntuneable to truth since they set not forth the grace and glory of God in that highest strain which heauenly doctrines should reach vnto Thirdly if amongst a heape of fruitlesse comfortlesse doctrines that vsually lye vpon the stall we would finde out and buy the truth let vs enquire after that which containes the most certaine and safe method of our reconciliation with God for since religion as that noble Frenchman hath it is the art of sauing man Mornaeus de verit rel Christianae cap. 20. which cannot bee but in coniunction with God and since it is confessed on all hands that sinne hath made a great gulfe betwixt God and man that must needs bee the only truth which will tell vs how a friendship may bee made vp againe betwixt the creator and his creature hence some say religion takes his name because it doth * Vide Lactant. lib. 4. cap. 28. Aug. de civ dei l. 10. c. 4. relige or binde together againe what was vnhappily disvnited But be that as Grammarians can agree it will be agreed by diuines that all mankind should be vtterly lost if being by sin brought vnto the very margent of that bottomles hellish pit there should be no bridge appointed to conveigh vs ouer in safety to the mercies of heauen but herein the grace of God which the scripture hath the honour to publish helps by bringing vs certaine newes of an Emmanuella God-man a mediatour who by his infinitely meritorious sufferings for what cannot the blood of the son of God obtaine payd off all the scores of his Fathers iustice extinquished all the fiery fiercenesse of his wrath and reconciled vs to his euerlasting loue wherein is euerlasting life and health when we were enimies saith the Apostle Rom. 5.10 wee were reconciled to God by the death of his sonne and being reconciled we shall bee saued by his life This is a true saying and worthy by all meanes to bee receiued because it can onely giue assurance of peace to our troubled consciences whereas all other waies in the case of mans reconciliation with God are but as thinne rotten short threads applyed to the bowing of a mighty Cedar to a poore shrubbe of wonderfull great distance from it euen tyes and bandes weaker and vainer then vanity itselfe Fourthly it may passe for an indiuiduall marke of true religion that it is a leader to true sanctity The wisdome that is from aboue Iac. 3.17.1.27 is first pure saith St Iames and in the last verse of his first chapter hee giues this character thereof charity towards others and cleanesse in our selues Not that all professors of the truth are presently possessed with sanctity not that the sanctity which is in the best is in this life perfectly squared to the exact rule of truth but our meaning is that what is diuinely true doth in its owne nature necessarily tend to the purging of our soules from corruption and the introducing of holy innocency charity and euery other vertue It must needs bee so since truth is the daughter of God the Holy of holies when therefore we heare a doctrine that fauours our sensuality that giues dispensation to carnall liberty that lendes patronage to the fopperies of our time vt honeste peccare videamur that we may seeme honestly vaine The voice thereof bewraies the falshood of it nay it is a very vnlucky truth if any truth can haue that misfortune which when entertained moues no man the more to the loue of God or practise of any goodnesse In a word since it was wisely said Summa religionis est imitari quem colis Aug. it is the abrigement of all religion to imitate him whom a man worships it is but froth that is not able to imprint in our accompts the liuely