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A67886	The perfection, authority, and credibility of the Holy Scriptures. Discoursed in a sermon before the University of Cambridge, at the commencement, July 4. 1658. / By Nathanael Ingelo D.D. and Fellow of Eton Coll.	Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.	1658 (1658)	Wing I185; ESTC R202593	49,263	216

scatter'd he gathered them together again as God shewed his regard to the Decalogue by writing it the second time after Moses had rashly broken the first Tables After God had spoken by severall parcels and after divers manners by the Prophets at last he sent his Son to perfect the book write it full and seal it up and this is so well done that whosoever shall adde any thing instead of mending the work and doing the world a curtesie he shall but bring a curse upon himselfe for Christ hath made it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i.e. a perfect Canon Now that appears thus God hath declared Christ to be our Prophet commanded us to hear him told him all his mind concerning us laid up in him all the treasures of divine wisdom He told his Disciples all that he heard of his Father bad them go and preach it and promised salvation to all that should believe it Paul professed that he had declared the whole Councell of God in his preaching and pronounced a curse upon any Angel that should bring another Gospel The Evangelist Luke wrote all that Christ taught till his Ascension and Saint Iohn added as much concerning the miracles of Christ as was enough for motive to faith From all which we argue Christ was in the bosome of the Father and knew all he came from thence and told all his Scholars at his command preached and for the benefit of future times wrote all We acknowledge they did received their books and are satisfied only the Papists and some other Hereticks that they might have the honour and profit to make the supply say they did not but who will believe them when Christ sayes Go and preach what I have taught you and promiseth salvation to those which believe that and no more They will make pretty work that after this appoint other necessaries to be believed i e. such necessaries to salvation as one may be saved and not believe them Now whereas 't is objected That Christ no doubt taught his Disciples all things necessary and it may be they wrote them but they are lost however they were trusted with the Church and that is to supply the defects of Scripture with unwritten Traditions Those which say this would deserve lesse blame for their boldnesse if either they truly honoured the Church as they pretend or we read not the Scriptures or if reading the Scriptures they told us their own imperfection and gave notice of a Church intrusted with a power to supply their defect But they honour the Church just as Haman did Mordecai he would never have said so much should have been done to him whom the King would honour but that he thought himself to be the man And if we did not read the Scriptures their lie might be more easily swallowed For they declare a perfection as to all necessaries and so these men peradventure speak worse then they thought at first for they make the Scriptures not only imperfect but Lyars But as it should have been difficult to say such things for men ought to speak the truth so it is harder to prove them for the holy Scriptures and the all-wise Providence are not so easily slander'd Not the Providence of God for as he was careful to give us sufficient means of salvation and hath preserved many things which are not necessary but because they were written would he not preserve what was necessary to be written and preserved And if he had meant to send us to the Church upon this Errand he would certainly have told us where she dwelt It were as bad as no direction to say there is a certain advice for you lockt up in a chest kept in terra incognita i. e. no body knowes where Abraham had given if not misadvice yet but imperfect direction when he said Hear Moses and the Prophets if this were the businesse The Scripture sayes enough to vindicate it selfe and to give satisfaction to all considering men That very place which they would suborn to speak against it self resolves against them There are many more miracles which Iesus did but these are written that you might believe If one question what they were which are not written that doubt must remain as to the particulars for it sayes nothing of them But it can never be proved that these which Rome would obtrude upon us are they much lesse that they are necessary for the place asserts those which are recorded to be enough The spirit of Truth doth often leave men to their wilfull mistakes the Text speakes of miracles and they quote it for Doctrines But that the Scripture hath no defect in this point a man may soon see for let any body compare the Provisions which are in the Scripture with his own necessities and if he be not supplyed there we may safely say he hath some want that is beyond the case of men that need nothing but salvation As to salvation we need instruction only in three points and there we have it 1. As to God and for that the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} hath suffiently declared to us his Nature and his Will what he is and what he would have us do and what we may expect How he will be worshipped How we may partake of his love continue in it and be happy in him 2. As we relate to others he hath taught us how to behave our selves to them in his most perfect Rules Love thy neighbour as thy self Do what thou wouldst have done to thee and what thou wouldst not have done to thee do not to another These he hath explained in speciall precepts so filled with all necessary instances of Duty Justice and Charity that well may a wronged man complain of his Brothers injury but not of Christ because he did not forbid him to do it The murmuring poore may complain of their hard-hearted neighbour but not of Christ for neglecting to command Charity He hath bid us imitate the Father with Charity as large as the Sun-beams to forgive love and help our enemies and overcome all evill with good 3. As to the Government of our selves how discreet and prudent would that be if we followed Christs directions He if any taught the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the right estimations of soul and body that we are what we are most upon the account of soul whole nature and duration he hath declared and taught to provide for immortality He hath also chalked out the proportions of worldly cares the measures of our passions Both the roots of Passion are secure if we keep his rules for Desire and Anger One may say to all other Physitians not onely How imperfect are your cures in comparison of Christs but how short your prescriptions what sobernesse of mind What Temperance Meekness and Peace are the products of his precepts He which reads Christs words duly is perfectly instructed to

lies or any thing Scribe nt libet securus quod velis dicas habiturus mendaciorum comites quos historicae eloquentiae miramur autores and to take off his scruples if he had any which he makes no shew that he had concerning Truth he told him that he should not be the first that wrote lies among true things many other Historians having done the same I have made no mention of Iulian called the Apostate because I suppose his dying confession witnessed to the Truth that he contradicted before if that be true which Theodoret relates i.e. that he flung his blood in the ayre not with a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Here Cyclops drink thy wine buth with the discontent of a conquered enemy making a murmuring acknowledgement of victory {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Galilaean thou hast overcome Poor Iulian {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Is thy tongue regenerated and dost thou thus joyn with the Churches of the Galilaeans which words he used by way of scorn in one of his Epistles to Iamblicus This I have said in part to answer what is objected by the Heathen Philosophers but if we look a little further we shall find others of their own more deserving faith that blurr'd all the fore-mentioned contradictions with sufficient reproach by reporting much more against their own Religion in which there is nothing of worthy mention but they witnessed against it i. e. their Gods their Worshippers their Worship and the Motives of it which were fained miracles Of their Gods what sayes the learned Satyrist deriding the AEgytians for worshiping Onions and Leeks O Sanctas Gentes quibus haec nascuntur in hortis Numina O heavenly people their Gods grow in their gardens And Poliaenus in Petronius having killed a Goofe which was consecrated to the obscene Idol of Lampsacum when the Priestesse or rather Witch scolded at him Peace saith he Ecce duos aureos pono unde possitis Deos Anseres emere here is money for thee to buy both Gods and Geese The forementioned Satyrist speaking of the Roman worshippers having described their vile manners by which they were loathsome to all good men addes En animam mentem cum queis dii nocte loquantur These are soules meet for divine communion which are indeed fitter to be transported into swine then to know divine Extasies As for their worship the obscure Poet who it may be wrote as plain as he durst sayes that their oblations wanting that which is the spirit and excellency of true worship Compositum jus fasque animi sanctosque recessus Mentis incoctum generoso pectus honesto i.e. Holinesse of soules deeply tinctur'd with vertue were to as slight purpose as could be Nempe hoc quod veneri donatae à virgine puppae i. e. as much as the Virgins received help towards their fruitfulnesse by offering their babies and puppets to Venus at their marriage But this is not all for the worship of their Gods and Goddesses were full of such villanies that modest persons were ashamed to be present at them and their consecrated places were filthy sinks of all fleshly lust as they confesse themselves Nota bōnae secreta Deae Nam quo non prostat faemina templo These things the Christians did not forget to object to them Arnobius in his fifth book told them home of them Quis est enim qui credat honestatis aliquid in ea re esse quam ineant viles galli c. i. e. their religious rites were so base that to name them was against modesty 〈◊〉 full of shame that they were only to be reproved with silence and shut eyes And for their Miracles Polybius libr. 16. in that Paragraph which is inscribed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} doth not onely confesse that they were invented {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. to uphold the superstition of the vulgar but he saith also that those who wrote such things for true History were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} such as wanted common sence and addes further {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} let them be rejected This Testimony is not more full then the Relator was faith-worthy for he was so great a lover of Truth that in writing a story he regarded not Country or friends and for that omongst other Excellencies was admired by Cicero Strabo and Plutarch as Causabon hath recorded to his praise in the Preface which he hath written to his noble History So that the Adversaries proofs being disturbed and discredited by themselves they have no better successe in their evidence against the doctrine of Christ then they had in the condemnation of his person whom the heathen judge condemned by compulsion and absolv'd according to his conscience for after they had packed and shuffled the matter when all was done the witnesses did not agree among themselves 2. As the way of proposal appears very credible by what hath been said so secondly the things so propounded are in themselves for the most part evidently true Great Truths have an innate proof by which they are apt to prevaile upon mens minds to vanquish unbelief and chase away errour The words of the forementioned Historian as they are recited by Causabon in his Epistle to the King of France are most full to this purpose Existimo equidem naturam humano generi veritatem constituisse Numen Maximum maximamque vim illi attribuisse Nam cum ab omnibus oppugnetur atque adeo omnes nonnunquam verisimiles conjecturae à mendacio stent ipsa per se nescio quo modo in animos hominum sese insinuat modo repente suam illam vim exerit modo è tenebris longo tempore obiecta ad extremum suapte vi ipsa vincit obtinetque de mendacio triumphat How fitly did the Historian praise the Truth which he loved The Truths of the Scripture like the Sun-beams are their own Discovery but one may contract them into these two glasses wherein we may have a clear view of them and perceive a warm influence from thence falling upon our minds and hearts 1. The first is this They are such things as are most worthy of the Goodnesse Truth and Wisdom of God What is more becoming the Maker of the world then its Reparation considering his Goodnesse which all the world doth acknowledge to be infinite What more pertinent means then Repentance and Remission of sins What more can be done but to forgive our Ill and make us Good again what way to take off our sins but his Grace since we could never make him amends And for the way in which he doth it i.e. Christ Iesus why should we make scruples when he hath revealed it Did the Heathen hope from the Nature of God a good ground and shall not we much more trust in that and his Declarations which are indeed the measure