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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44196	The judgment of the late Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale, of the nature of true religion, the causes of its corruption, and the churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure : in three discourses / written by himself at several times ... ; humbly dedicated to the honourable judges and learned lawyers ... by the faithful publisher, Richard Baxter ; to which is annexed the judgment of Sir Francis Bacon ... and somewhat of Dr. Isaack Barrows on the same subject.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing H247; ESTC R11139	41,043	77

ill Effects 1. It maketh differences unreconcileable 2. It disadventages their Cause and Persons that use them with sober men 3. It exposeth Religion it self to the derisiof Atheists and increaseth such More of this evil with a Concluding Counsel to use more Temperance Prudence and Moderation in Contests about the Circumstantials of Religion p 20. 21. The Contents of the Additional Testimonies 1 THe Lord Bacons words in his Advertisement of the Controversies of the Church of England 2. His words in his Considerations for better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England Lest the Reader accuse me of omitting any part I had rather he would read all those two Treatises himself than those Scraps 3 Animadversions of the Transcriber 4. Some passages of Doctor Isaack Barrow PART I. OF RELIGION The Ends and Uses of it and the Errors of Men touching it TRUE Religion is the greatest Improvement Advantage and Priviledge of Humane Nature and that which gives it the noblest and highest Pre-eminence above other visible Creatures We may observe in many Bruit Beasts and Birds admirable Instincts Dexterities and Sagacities and in some of them some dark resemblances of Reason or Ratiocination But Religion is so appropriate to the Humane Nature that there are scarce any sort of Men but have some Religion Nor do the most subtle or sagacious Bruits afford any signs thereof as communicated to their Natures It is one of the chiefest Mercies and Blessings that Almighty God hath afforded to the Children of Men and that which signally manifests his Providential Care towards and over them that in all Ages and among all Nations he hath given to them some Means and Helps to discover unto them though in different Degrees some principal Sentiments of true Religion 1. By the secret Characters and Impressions and Structures thereof in their Minds and Consciences 2. By his Glorious and admirable Works commonly called the Works of Nature 3. By signal Providences and Providential Regiment of the World 4. By raising up Men in all Ages of great Wisdom Observation and Learning which did instruct the more ignorant in this great Concernment the Rudiments of Natural Religion 5. By Traditionary Transmission of many important Truths and Directions of Life from Ancestors to their Posterity and others Though in process of time evil Customs and evil Men did in a great measure impair and corrupt the Sentiments and Practices of Men notwithstanding these helps Therefore the same Mercy and Goodness of God for the preservation and propagation of the true Religion was pleased to substitute a more fixed and permanent means namely the Holy Scriptures or Divine Revelations committed to Writing in the Books of the Old and New Testament Though the Religion delivered in both Testaments be in substance the same yet the true Religion was more fully and plainly and distinctly delivered by Christ and his Apostles in the New Testament together also with some additional Instructions for the better preservation and propagation thereof to Mankind and divers additional Evidences to prove and manifest the truth of this Religion to procure its belief and acceptation As the Birth Miracles Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ Jesus the great Reformer of the Jewish and great Institutor of the Christian Religion so called from Christ that taught and asserted it The Christian Religion is the most perfect Rule of our Duty to God our selves and others and was designed principally for these Great Ends. 1. To restore to the Glorious God the Honour Duty and Obedience of his Creature Man teaching him to Know to Glorifie and Serve his Creator to be Thankful to him to submit to his Will to obey his Law and Command to be thankful for his Mercies to acknowledge him in all his ways to call upon him to Worship him to depend upon him to walk sincerely in his sight to admire and adore his Greatness and Goodness in all his works especially in the great work of the Redemption of Mankind by his Son Christ Jesus 2. To inable Man to attain everlasting Happiness the perpetual Vision of the Glorious God and to fit and prepare him to be a partaker of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light and Glory 3. To compose and settle Mankind in such a decent and becomingrectitude order and deportment in this World as may be suitable to the Existence of a Reasonable Nature and the Good of Mankind Which consistsprincipally in a double relation 1. To a Mans self Sobriety 2. To others which consists in those two great Habits or Disposition beneficent to Mankind viz. Righteousness or Justice and Charity or Love and Beneficence These three Great Ends are succinctly delivered Tit. 2. 11 12. For the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World Here we have these three Ends of Christian Religion 1. Godliness or our Duty to God 2. Salvation or our own everlasting Happiness 3. Sobriety Righteousness which also includeth Charity a part of Evangelical Righteousness And because Christian Religion was intended and instituted for the good of Man-kind whether Poor or Rich Learned or Unlearned Simple or Prudent Wise or Weak it was fitted with such plain easie and evident Directions both for things to be known and things to be done in order to the attainment of the End for which it was designed that might be understood by any Capacity that had the ordinary and common use of Reason or Humane Understanding and by the common assistance of the Divine Grace might be practised by them The Credenda or things to be known or believed as simply necessary to those Ends are but few and intelligible briefly delivered in that Summary of Christian Religion usually called the Apostles Creed The Agenda or things to be done or forborn are those few and excellent Precepts delivered by Christ and his Apostles in that little Book of the New Testament and yet even the tenth part of that little Book will contain all the Precepts of Christian Duty and Obedience contained in that Book And in brief the Baptismal Covenant as it is contained in the Liturgy and Explanation thereof in the Church Catechism used among us together with the Precepts of the Decalogue contain in effect a Summary or brief Epitome of our Christian Duty And certainly it was necessary and becoming the Wisdom of the most Wise God that that Religion and Doctrine which equally concerned Men of all Kinds and Capacities should be accordingly accommodated as might be useful for all If the Doctrine or Precepts of Christian Religion should have been delivered in over sublime or seraphical expressions in high Rhetorical Raptures in intricate and subtile Phrases or Stile or if it should have been surcharged with multitude of particulars it would have been like a Sealed Book to the far greatest part of Mankind who yet were equally concerned in the Business and