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A42139 Pax vobis, or Ghospell and libertie against ancient and modern papists. By E.G. preacher of the word. Dedicated to the right honble the Lord Halyfax Griffith, Evan, A.M., Minister of Alderly. 1679 (1679) Wing G1990; ESTC R215168 69,211 191

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assured means for to know what sense of it he would have vs believe Ismael And what Religion shall J profess if J lay Scripture asyde Isaac The same which now you have by Scripture that 's to say whatever you judge to be the true Worship of God be sure to profess a reverence for Scripture and seem to believe its the Word of God least you may scandalize weake Brethren pretend allwaies that your sentiments are grounded vpon the Text but betwixt you and God believe whatever you think to be true worship God as you-judge he is to be worshipt and that 's the way to liue in peace do you think but that those Noble Spirits which they call the Wits of England have a good Religion in publick they speake reverently of the Bible but we know what they have and do declare in their privat discourses that it s but a Romance or meer fiction Do you think but that there was a Religion in England before it saw Gregori's Emissaries Austin and his Monks what need therefore of a Bible for to have Religion Were not the Swinfeldians a religious Congregation and of the Reformation to yet they cared not for Scripture but grounded their belief vpon Gods inspiration and inward speech to the heart Ismael If I were not well acquainted with you and had not very convincing proofes and signal testimonies of your pietie solid Religiosity and Christianity I would judge you by this last peece of your discourse to be an impious Atheist or Pagan and J wonder that so good a Christian as I know you to be should speake so irrevently of the Bible and so much in commendation of Paganism as you do There was indeed a Religion in England before they knew what Scripture was but that Religion was Paganism which Austin and his Companions happily banisht from our Land Isaac Happily do you call an exchange of Paganism for Popery introduced by Austin a Happiness is it not generally believed in our Reformation and most strongly proved of late by that incomparable Wit and Pen-man Doctor Stillingfleet that Popery has as much of Idolatry as Paganism our land therefore had in Paganism as good a Religion as it received by Austin in Popery does not this our noble Champion and most of the Scribes of the Church of England teach that Popery is a saving Religion that we may be saued in the Church of Rome if Popery not withstanding it be Idolatrie as they say be a saving Religion how can they deny but that Paganism is also a saving Religion what need had our Forefathers therefore to abandon Paganism why was it not left in the land Ismael Whatever may be said of Popery it cannot be denied but that Christianity is better than Paganism the expulsion therefore of Paganism by Austin was a Happiness because by it Christianity was introduced and establisht in our Kingdom Isaac Alas Ismael if England had bin as well informed of the merit of Paganism when first Christianity was preached it had never exchanged the one for the other Ismael What not Paganism which adored a Multitude of Gods for Christianity which adores but one Not Paganism which adored Iupiter Saturn Venus c. who were Deuils and Evil Spirits or wicked Men who caused themselves to be adored for Christianity which adores the onely true immortal and eternal Deytie Isaac You speake with the vulgar sort and believe as you have bin instructed by your Ancestors I confess the Apostles and Ancient Doctors of Christianity do teach that the Gods of the Gentils were Deuils or Euil Spirits I confess also all the Christian World since the first preaching of the Ghospell was so perswaded grounded vpon Scripture which in several places saies the Gods of the Gentils were Deuds grounded vpon the Doctrin of the Apostles and their Successors the Fathers of the Church and the World being perswaded by the Apostles by the Doctors Fathers and Preachers of Christianity that the Gods which the Pagans adored were but Deuils which by sorceries and marvelous works deceiued mankind and made themselves to be adored as Gods all men were ashamed to adore but Deuils forsooke Paganism and embraced Christianity And all was but a meer Policy of Popery to cast so much dirt and calumnie vpon Paganism and make its Gods but Deuils for to introduce and establish Christianity Dr. Stillingfleet in his Charge of Idolatry against the Chu●ch of Rome Pag. 40. and 41. saies plainly that the Pagans are charged with more than they were guilty of page 7. saies that Iupiter adored by the Pagans was so farr from being an Arch-Devil in the opinion of S. Paul that he was the tru God blessed for ever more that the Pagans adored but one suprem and Omnipotent God which they called Jupiter and which they did believe to be neither a Devil nor a Man but a true and the first and chiefest of the Gods and that the rest of the Gods which they adored they looked vpon them as vpon Inferior Deyties and gave them no other adoration but such as the Papists give to their Saints If therefore the Pagans adored the tru God under the name of Jupiter and the other Gods but as inferior Deyties as the Papists do their Saints was it not injustly don by the Ancient Fathers and Teachers of Christianity to have imposed vpon the World and made vs believe the Pagans adored but Devils and Evil Spirits have not the Pagans Ryght and justice on their syde for to pleade before our wyse and religious Parliament that Paganism may be restored or at least tolerated and Iupiter with the rest of the Gods may be adored as formerly they were first because Paganism is no more Jdolatry than Popery as Dr Stillinfleet Mr Burnet and other Reformed Writers prove convincingly secondly because that Paganism having bin banisht out of our Land vpon the fals information of our first Teachers that it was an Adoration of Devils or Evil Spirits and wicked debaucht Men who by counterfeited wonders and cheate gained the Peoples adoration since that Dr Stillingfleet Mr. Burnet and other Reformed Writers will make it out that the Pagans adored no Devils but One tru Omnipotent suprem God blessed evermore which they called Iupiter and the rest of the Gods as inferior Deities as Papists do their Saints and will prove that the Pagans were charged by the first DDrs of Christianity and by all our Ancestors with more than they were guilty of why should not Paganism be restored again to the Land and heard to speake for itsselfe and Dr Stillingfleet and his zealous companions be lycenc't to pleade for them and for holy Iupiter so fouly misrepresented by Antiquity as to be believed an Arch-Devil whom Dr. Stillingfleet will prove to have bin a tru God blessed for ever more Ismael The more J discourse with you the more J am perplexed in mind J bid you a Dieu and do confess J carry with me from your discourse a dislike of what