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A89619	Divinity-knots vnloosed or a cleare discovery of truth; by resolving many doubts, according to scripture, orthodox divines, and sound reason, so as weake capacities may receive satisfaction therein. To which purpose, a number of points are explained by familiar simile's. A treatise intended specially for the instruction of young Christians in Rothstorne parish in Cheshire: but published for a further extent of the benefit thereof, to the Israel of God. By Adam Martindale, one of the meanest labourers in the Lords harvest.	Martindale, Adam, 1623-1686.	1649 (1649)	Wing M856; Thomason E1352_2; ESTC R209407	38,259	96

Divinity-knots Vnloosed OR A CLEARE DISCOVERY of truth by resolving many doubts according to Scripture Orthodox Divines and sound Reason so as weake capacities may receive satisfaction therein TO WHICH PURPOSE A Number of Points are explained by familiar Simile's A TREATISE INTENDED specially for the instruction of young Christians in ROTHSTORNE parish in CHESHIRE But published for a further extent of the benefit thereof to the Israel of GOD. By Adam Martindale one of the meanest Labourers in the LORDS Harvest 2 Tim. 2.7 Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things 1 Pet. 5.10 The GOD of all grace make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you London Printed for John Hancock in Popes head Alley neere the Royall Exchange 1649. Divinity-knots Vnloosed OR A CLEARE DISCOVERY of truth according to Scripture Orthodox Divines and sound Reason so as weake capacities may receive much satisfaction and benefit Herein seventy five Doubts are resolved drawne from these severall heads most in Controversie Viz. Touching the Scriptures and God his Decree and Creation Of Providence Of the fall of man Of the Law of God and the two Covenants Of Christ the Mediator Of Free-will Of Calling Justification Adoption Sanctification Faith Repentance and good Workes Of Perseverance and Assurance Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience Of the Civill Magistrate and Church-Censures Of Religious Worship and of the Sabbath day Of Oathes Of the Church Of Communion of Saints Of the Sacraments By Adam Martindale one of the meanest Labourers in the LORDS Harvest London Printed for John Hancock in Popes head Alley neere the Royall Exchange 1649. To my Deare and precious Father CAPTAINE JAMES JOLLIE AND To my present and quondam Hearers at Rothstorne in Cheshire and Gorton in Lancashire Dearely Beloved THough the Title-page informs you for whose sake I was especially induced to write this small Treatise it was neuer intended by me that any party of you should wholly monopolize my thoughts of love and Christian respect but howsoever my duty presseth me more in reference to the charge I daily undergoe then to thrust my Sickle into anothers Harvest Yet since this comes on the publique Theatre you may all challenge as well a share in it as the Author whom all of you may justly claime though in different relations peradventure to be your owne Concerning the Booke it selfe it behoves me not to say much To dispraise it beyond my owne judgment were sinfull modesty to praise it above desert unsufferable arrogancy Medio tutissimus c. The best course is to leave it to your Christian perusall and charitable survay and so I doe telling you onely that nothing save the weaknesse is mine owne For the main substance though the most of it came immediately out of my memory in this forme you see it without any considerable consulting of Authors was of that store which in reading the Scripture and other Divinity Bookes and hearing Sermons conferences c. I had before treasured up Some things indeed there be which you shall hardly meet with in any VVorke yet extant but those I also disclaime as none of mine For so farre as the truth of GOD appeareth in them the spirit of God the guide to and in all saving truth in whose hand I am at the best but an Instrument may justly appropriate it to himselfe as his right and due Though sometimes I am forced to clash with unsound opinions I haue concealed the Authors Names as having a desire to vindicate the truth not to provoke any to vindicate himself for which cause I have not onely declined all bitternesse of expression which I think below a Christian at all times but also the recitall of their owne words formally contenting my selfe with the matter least it should too plainely appeare who owneth the Tenets I oppose If notwithstanding all this any be disposed to wrangle with me I shall hardly trouble the VVorld or my selfe so far as to rejoyne to such replyes But if I be reasoned with in the spirit of meeknesse whether it be in this publique way or any other I dare with a safe conscience and shall be ready as my occasions will permit to give an account in a brotherly way to any that shall desire satisfaction concerning any thing herein asserted Thus I commet both you and this small piece to the blessing of GOD remaining Yours in the affaires of the Gospell A Martindale Strethill Aprill the 9. 1649 Divinity-knots unloosed CHAP. I Of the Scriptures and by the way of the light of Nature 1. Doubt IF the Scripture be a perfect rule a 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Psa 19.7 Deu. 12.32 Pro. 30.6 Isa 8.20 Revel 22.18 19. how can the light of nature be of any use in spirituall matters Resol A rule may be sayd to be perfect in three cases 1. When there is a perfect enumeration of and provision for all particulars that possibly can fall under it 2. When it runs in generall tearmes and is comprehensive enough to include whatsoever is to be taken within it 3. When it particularizeth the principall and expresseth the rest more generally As for example * This homly Simile though it may seeme ridiculous to critick wits is of great use if well considered for the clearing of this questioned truth to the capacity of weak Christians for whose sake this worke was undertaken In a Lease we account the rules perfect which a Tenant is to walke by in occupying the ground which is letten him if 1. it give him particular leave to pasture mow and sow or secondly say in generall tearmes he is to have it to all tenantly uses or give way that the Tenant shall have it for tillage and all other tenantly uses Now the Scriptures are perfect in the last sense they deliver particular rules for all the maine poynts of Faith and practice but matters of circumstance and inferi●ur alley are comprehended perfectly though more generally And therefore as he that holdeth his Living to all Tenantly uses had need of so much judgement as to drawe this generall into particulars So when the Scripture entreth not upon the particulars but in the generall commandeth order decencie and edification b 1 Cor. 14.26.40 we had need of the light of nature assisted by the spirit of God to judge according to the generall dictates of Scripture what in such a time and such a case may make for order decencie or edifying 2. Doubt How can Ministers tell us what the Word imports in the Originall of any text they quote seeing themselves as some with probability affirme never saw the Originall Resolution By the Originall we doe not meane the first Copies that were written but faithfull transcripts of them in the same language and these none can deny us to have seene except they will deny withall that our Bibles in English which are translations thereof are the word of God which the Objecter seemeth not to doe And yet although we

remembrancer Resol Prayer is a duty incumbent to all men especially Christians and the way wherein God is pleased to make out such promises a Mat. 7.7 and therefore you must not thinke that Gods absolute promises tye him to give such and such things whether they will aske or no b Jam. 4.2 but that he will enable his people to pray that they may receive the promised mercies c Isa 51.9 He having resolved he will be sought unto for the accomplishment of his promises d Ezek. 36.37 52. Doubt Some scruple the singing of Davids Psalmes saying they were onely penned for the present occasion and conceive that the Psalmes mentioned in the New Testament were not Davids but such as men assisted by the spirit of God composed for the particular occasion e 1 Cor. 14.26 But what thinke you of it Resol Though Davids Psalmes were penned for the particular occasion yet the use of them still remained and some of them were sung many Ages after f 2 Chron. 20.21 29.30 nor can it be proved that they ever ceased to be Gods Ordinance As for the New Testament we often read the word Psalmes therein and for the most part in such a sense that Davids Psalmes must needs be thereby meant g Luke 20.42 Acts 1.20 13.33 Eph. 5.19 Col. 3.16 and elsewhere but never to my remembrance in the sense you speake of for such occasionall composures are rather called Hymnes or Spirituall songs and distinguished from Psalms h Eph. 5.19 Col. 3.16 To that place you cite Viz. 1 Cor. 14.26 I answer First The Apostle there speakes of abuses and d sorders and therefore it is hard thence to prove a duty It is rough Logick to say the Apostle reproves them that they had each of them a Psalm therefore Christians must or may have each of them a Psalme Secondly Admit that Paul reproves them not for any faultinesse in the matter of their worship but the manner of performance which I confesse is likely to be his meaning our opinion may well stand with it for he might well meane Davids Psalmes and so the sense will be this Every one chooseth what Psalme himselfe pleaseth c. Thirdly Suppose he meant any other kind of Psalmes then Davids yet he excludes not them neither in this place nor elsewhere Fourthly If those which had the extraordinary gifts of the spirit to compose such spirituall Songs as abovesayd made lesse use of Davids Psalmes by reason of their owne extraordinary abilities it were no warrant to us which pretend to no such gifts to neglect such excellent helpes as Davids Psalmes are 53. Doubt How doe you know that this day which we celebrate is the first day of the weeke which the Apostles kept and is called the Lords day Resol As well as the Jewes in Christs time that they kept the seventh or you that you are baptized We must not think our Ancestors were so silly that they could not count seven 54. Doubt I but that is not all let them account as well as they can the time will vary much in the revolution of one thousand six hundred forty eight yeares and therefore how can this be sayd to be the same considering with all that in Countreys farre distant it may he night in one when it is day in another Resol I confesse I am neither Astronomer nor Geographer nor doe I thinke we stand in need of such Calculations Let yeares revolve whither they can the dayes of the week will still follow one another in the same order they doe The Jewes Sabbath was above twice as old as ours is when Christ was on the Earth and the course of the Sunne twice interrupted in the meane time i Jos 10.13 2 King 20.11 Yet Christ never reproved them for observing a wrong day but he and his observed it till it was changed k Luke 23.56 which they would not have done had there been any errour in the Jewes account The distance of place I confesse may alter the time much yet I verily beleeve that hee which in all his travells or wheresoever GOD placeth him shall observe a day weekly beginning with the first and so holding on keepes it seasonably And if this be not allowed I see not how the Patriarcks in their Pilgrimages or Proselytes which dwelt in all parts of the World l Acts 2.9 8.27 to say nothing of the distance which some conceive was between Canaan it selfe and Paradise where the Sabbath was instituted could observe the seventh day Sabbath in its season 55. Doubt Might we not as Master Calvin wished appoint a part of each day or as others think any other day so it be one in seven in stead of the first day of the weeke seeing that day is not positively set downe to be kept Resol Though I reverence Master Calvin as highly as any man that was alive this hundred yeares yet I cannot comply with him nor any men else in judging another time so fit for Gods service as that which by the Apostles themselves was set apart m Act. 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 whose example they being inspired by the holy Ghost may as well in this as many other things supply the want of a precept n Phil. 3.17 56. Doubt How should I know when to begin and conclude the Lords day Resol It it a great question among Divines For mine owne part with submission I thinke it begins at the dawning of the day when Christ arose o Mat. 28.1 I know it is sayd Gen. 1. The evening and the morning and not The morning and the evening nor dare I say it is an Histero proteron for the often inculcating of it seemes to point at some Mystery But this I say that though it be granted that the naturall day and particularly the Sabbath containing foure and twenty houres had its revolution from evening to evening yet nothing hinders why the Christian Sabbath may not be from morning to morning for seeing the Lords day is kept in memory of Christs resurrection why should it not as well begin at the houre and minuite as be celebrated on the day that he rose from the dead CHAP. XIII Of Oathes 57. Doubt HOw can swearing by the Name of GOD be a sinne seeing it is not onely allowed but commanded a Deu. 6.13 10.20 Resol Swearing by the Name of GOD so it be with reverence and upon just ground is not a sin but a worship of God tending to his honour by making him the Judge of secrets but swearing customarily rashly and vainely is a breach of the third Commandement and the like may be sayd of other worships But the meaning of the places you cite is this When thou shalt be lawfully called to sweare thou shalt sweare by none other but God alone for to him that worship appertaineth 58. Doubt But how can these passages stand with flat prohibitions on the other