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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85394	Hagiomastix, or The scourge of the saints displayed in his colours of ignorance & blood: or, a vindication of some printed queries published some moneths since by authority, in way of answer to certaine anti-papers of syllogismes, entituled a Vindication of a printed paper, &c. ... / By John Goodwin, pastor of a Church of Christ in Colemanstreet.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1169; Thomason E374_1; ESTC R201334; ESTC R201335	139,798	168

the Ordinance doe nothing else therein that can be interpreted a desire to be called Rabbi then to charge men that they teach no other Doctrine then what the word of God holds forth and the Prophets and Apostles have taught a Pag. 7. Most unworthy men First there is not one jot or tittle of any such charge as this in the Ordinance 2. There is that in the Ordinance which was even now mentioned which in the strictest and most proper sence of the phrase is to compell men to call them Rabbi and this of no affinitie at all with the tenour or substance of such a charge And whereas it further addeth that if any Church-Censures be to be used for any matter of Doctrine this will be as much to force men to call them Rabbi as the Civill Magistrates making this Ordinance forces any to call them Rabbi I answer this assertion or comparison is true onely with this explication viz. when any Church-Censure shall be used for any matter of Doctrine without any sufficient account given by this Church of the erroneousnesse of this Doctrine unto the person or persons against whom the censure shall passe In this case Church-Censures for matters of Doctrine and the Ordinancecensures are much of one and the same consideration 3. As this Answer saith that for the proofe of the minor it is nothing else but a reiteration in other language of the former blasphemies against the Doctrine of God and Christ belched out in the former Querie and needs no other answer then that so say I of this assertion it is nothing else but a reiteration in fewer words of those truth-lesse reason-lesse sap-lesse sence-lesse imputations belched out against that Querie and needs no other Answer then what hath been already at large given to it But 4. And lastly This Answer is a most notorious Delinquent Sect. 33. against the truth in asserting that those that have any sence of Religion Sect. 40. know whether the Magistrate should recommend them or not those Doctrines viz. which are any wayes sentenced in the Ordinance for the Querie on which this Argument pretends to be built queries concerning all the Doctrines specified in the Ordinance to be the sacred Truths of God as being the KNOWNE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITIE and clearly to be proved out of the word of God Certainly there have bin and are thousand thousands in the world who have had as rich and deep a sence of Religion as our Anti-Querie-masters themselves who never esteemed either the Government of the Church by Presbyterie or the lawfulnesse of Baptizing Infants or the being of the Churches of England true Churches with many Doctrines more punishable by the Ordinance to be any of the known principles of Christianitie Nay did there any untill now even among those whose judgements stood for Church-Government by Presbyterie or that held the Churches of England to be true Churches ever assert these for the knowne Principles of Christianitie That N. B. ought to be Parson or Pastor of the Parish-Church of D or that M. N. ought to stand in the same relation to the Parish-Church of another D. are not these also the knowne Principles of Christianitie O Church or Churches of England be ye true or be ye false as you love the things of your peace look out better Oracles then such Teachers as these to consult with about the Principles of your Christianitie In their fourth Argument as likewise in their Answer to it they Sect. 34. take no notice at all of what the Querie honestly desired to remind them viz. of any dying themselves for the maintenance and defence of their Religion but onely of putting others to death for th●se ends I hope they do not intimate hereby that their lives are dearer to them then their Religion though other mens lives be not Well but how doe they prove that it is Christian to maintaine Religion by putting others to death though they know not it seemes what to say of maintaining it by dying themselves Their proof is that staple commoditie in the Classiq●e Trade viz. the Law of God in the old Testament which commanded false Prophets and Blasphemers and those that seduce to Idolatrie to be put to death But if I should goe about to prove that the man Moses is now alive by this argument viz. because he was alive under the old Testament should I not spread a table of mirth for these men Or if I should goe about to prove that such or such an habit is of the French fashion because it is of Sect. 34. the Spanish would they approve my Logique If they did I should scarce approve of their approbation And is there any better sinew in their reasoning wherein they prove a thing to be Christian because it is Jewish Yea but they were aware of this exception and way-layed it thus This Law of God given under the old Testament for putting false Prophets Blasphemers and seducers to Idolatrie to death is still in force even for the maintenance of Religion But how doe they prove this thus because the reason which God gives of such a Law is this that all the people may heare and feare and doe no more so wickedly Deut. 13. 11. The ground upon which this reason stands and must be made Orthodox if there be any such thing in it is this that whilst the reason of any Commandement or Law takes place or is in force the Law or Commandement it selfe grounded upon that reason must take place and be in force also But of how ill a compliance such a reason or assertion as this is with the Truth will sufficiently appeare by these parallels Abraham received the signe of Circumcision a seale of the righteousnesse of Faith a Rom. 4. 11. i. in the nature of a seale or that it might be a seale unto him and his posteritie of the righteousnesse of Faith But this end of Circumcision the sealing of the righteousnesse of Faith still takes place i. it is still necessary that the righteousnesse of Faith be sealed unto men Therefore Circumcision or the Law commanding Circumcision is still in force Take another God commanded the children of Israel under the old Testament to make them fringes in the border of their garments thoroughout their generations there is no such clause as this in the Law for putting blasphemers or Idolaters to death for the perpetuation of it and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue And that it should be unto them for a fringe that they might look upon it and remember all the Commandements of the Lord and doe them and that they seek not after their own heart and their own eyes b Num. 15. 38 39. But the end of these fringes and of the looking of them viz. the remembring of all the Commandements of the Lord and the doing of them and the not seeking after our own heart or eyes takes place and is still