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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29845	A letter in answer to a book entitled, Christianity not mysterious as also, to all those who set up for reason and evidence in opposition to revelation & mysteries / by Peter Browne ...	Browne, Peter, ca. 1666-1735.	1697 (1697)	Wing B5134; ESTC R19095	82,171	238

said to be the Son of another Because it is reveal'd to us that there are endless Joys in Heaven it doth not follow that we know as much of them as we do of sensual pleasures Because it is clearly reveal'd to us that we shall be rais'd at the last day in the glorious likeness of Christ it doth not follow that we know as well what this Glory will be as we know what it is to be of a Fair and Beautiful Complection and so in all the rest And this is the reason of those seemingly opposite expressions of St. Paul the one in 2 Cor. 3. 18. where speaking of the Clearness of the Gospel in opposition to the Obscurity of the Law he says We all with open face beholding as in a Glass the glory of the Lord. And yet in 1. Cor. 13 12. speaking of this same present state of the Gospel in opposition to our future state in Heaven he says That now we see through a Glass darkly but then Face to Face By the first he denotes the clearness of the Revelation as to the Existence and Design of those things now under the Gospel by the latter he denotes the present obscurity of them as to their Manner and Properties But it may be objected here that thus they are but Types still and therefore the things contain'd in the Jewish Rites and Ceremonies are as little reveal'd now as they were before But whosoever makes this Objection can't but know these two things to be true which I contend for however we are able to reconcile them viz. 1. That those things signified by Jewish Rites and Ceremonies since the coming of Christ are more clearly reveal'd to us than they were before And 2. That now they are more clearly reveal'd to us yet we have no Idea's of the real Nature or Properties of them which I have sufficiently prov'd Whosoever allows these two things must be of my opinion whether I were able to answer this objection or no. But it is easy for any one to apprehend that when I say the Idea's we have of the things of another World are no other than a sort of Types or Figures I don't take them in the strictest sence of the Words as they are applied to Jewish Rites and Ceremonies which were all of them actions conversant about external Objects and design'd to represent some divine transaction which was to have it's completion in this life and even then was to have a farther reference to something intended by it in another World But my meaning is that the best notion we can frame of a Divine Object represents nothing of the real nature of the thing to us as it is in it self if any one finds fault with the word let them call them by what other name they please since it is plain they must allow the thing And now he sees if he was really blind before in what Sence this Vail is remov'd and in what sence we affirm it to remain and if he thinks himself able to do it instead of proving operosely what no man denies that the Vail is taken away in Christ let him prove the truth of it in that sence which we deny viz. That it is taken away not only as to the Reality and Existence and Intent of the things reveal'd which we allow but as to the Manner and Properties of them so that now we have as perfect a notion and compre hensive a knowledg of them as we have of the Manner and Properties of any thing in nature or in his own can't that we have as clear and distinct Idea's of them as of any sensible Objects As for instance Jonas's being in the Whales belly was a Type of our Saviours Burial and Resurrection and therefore now this is reveal'd he must make it out that there is nothing more mysterious in our Saviours Death and Resurrection than in a mans being carried into a Vault and walking out again upon his leggs The feast of the Passover was a Type of Christ and represented the Lords Supper and this now is but a Type of the joys of Heaven as our Saviour himself makes it by those words Hence forth I shall not drink of this fruit of the Vine till I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom But this man must shew us the real nature of those pleasures which are here signified by the Fruit of the Vine And now that it appears what he was to have prov'd to save me the labour of transcribing do but look over every Text he hath quoted by way of Proof and try to make his inference from it and then you will be satisfied that Quaker or any other Enthusiast never apply'd Scripture so impertinently Do but apply this distinction of a thing 's being reveal'd as to it's Existence and Design and the Relation it hath to us only or as to the manner and property of the thing it self and then the little fallacy will appear which runs through his application of them all I shall only instance in the two or three first 1. Cor 2 7 8. We speak the Wisdom of God hid in a Mystery which God ordain'd before the World for our glory which none of the Princes of this World knew from whence he makes this inference viz. That this divine Wisdom was then a Mystery for want of revealing Information Who denies it and to confirm this he adds the following words Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither have enter'd into the heart of Man the things which God hath prepar'd for them that love him but God hath reveal'd them to us by his Spirit which proves no more than what every body owns That it was impossible by strength of Reason to have attain'd to the knowledg of those means which God had appointed for our Salvation and now they are reveal'd it is only as to the truth and reality of their existence as to their Intent and the Relation they have to us and not as to the Manner and Properties of them The things here spoke of which cou'd not have enter'd into the heart of Man were the Incarnation of the Son and the Descent of the Holy Ghost which were the contrivances of infinite Wisdom for the restoration of fallen Man and this was what the wisest heads among us cou'd never have thought of These things were obscur'd in Jewish Types and Ceremonies and at length God reveal'd it clearly to us that those were the means he had appointed for our Salvation Now the inference this man must make if he wou'd speak to the purpose is That therefore we now know as perfectly the manner of that conception wrought by the power of the Holy Ghost in a pure Virgin as of the ordinary way of Generation and because it is reveal'd to us that the Holy Ghost works in us therefore we must know the manner of it as perfectly as we do that of the nourishment of our Bodies by meat and drink The next