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A56280 A full and clear exposition of the Protestant rule of faith with an excellent dialogue laying forth the large extent of true Protestant charity against the uncharitable papists. Pulton, A. (Andrew), 1654-1710. 1688 (1688) Wing P4205; ESTC R7815 18,771 21

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who proceed sincerly and that all which contradict you are misled and blinded by Passion or the like Phil. I don't say all who contradict me are so misled Eu. They may then contradict you and not be misled Phil. Herein our Charity is greater than yours for as we arrogate not to our selves Infallibility so consequently we condemn not all that are of a contrary perswasion to our selves but allow Salvation to any who reading the Holy Scripture shall believe so much so far and in that sense they humbly conceive it ought to have Eu. So that if to day I understood the Bible in one sense to morrow in another using always equal Diligence and Sincerity I shall always be in the right Phil. I say not that you will always be in the right but that you will not be accountable to GOD for any Errour as long as you judge according to Conscience Eu. But what if I govern my Conscience by a false Principle what if Almighty GOD has laid upon all Christians an obligation of submitting their private Judgment to the Universal determination of the Church Phil. What if the Sky should fall There is nothing so evident as that every Man of a sincere will and sound judgment using due endeavour will clearly see in Scripture whatsoever is necessary for him to believe or do that he may obtain eternal life Eu. Notwithstanding this your Evidence of Scripture many for ought we can discern of equal Probity Learning and Diligence have delivered contradictory Doctrines from the same Text of Holy Writ Phil. Not in material Points or in the Fundamentals or Essentials of Faith. Eu. Sir I can make it appear that there is no one Point of Faith which has not been deny'd by such as have constantly pretended to follow the Guidance of Holy Scripture Apollinaris taught That our Saviour had no Soul distinct from his Divinity Manichaeus That there were from all Eternity two Principles or Deities The Anti-trinitarians Oppugned the Mystery of the Blessed Trinity the Origenists and Millenaries deny'd Everlasting Life and Death Eutyches affirm'd There were not two Natures in CHRIST Nestorius That the Divine and Humane Nature were not truly united but only in a moral or eminential manner the Arians made the second Person inferiour to the first and a Creature All these I hope are material Points of Faith yet were they all opugned by Men who for any thing can be made out to the contrary Read and Study'd the Holy Scriptures with as much Sincerity Diligence Learning and Piety as any of the late Reformers I desire therefore to know whether these Men were part of the true Chatholick Church Phil. If it could be credibly made out that they proceeded with Sincerity and Piety I should be unwilling to exclude them the Church Eu. The contrary can't be prov'd against them without begging the Question If you say they wanted Sincerity Learning Piety Diligence c. they will disown the Charge and return it upon your self Give me therefore one convincing Reason why I may not believe them as well as you Phil. So you believe according to conscience I shall not judge nor condemn you Eu. At least what you just now asserted is false viz. that one who acts Sincerly cannot err in things necessary to Salvation by reason of the Clearness and Evidence they have from Holy Scripture Phil. I won't be possitive concerning those that liv'd in former Ages of whom we have but a dubious and slender knowledge at least 't is manifest by the experience of the present Times that the Scripture is clear in all things necessary to Salvation and of this all Protestants are agreed Eu. There are then among Protestants no Hereticks and Unbelievers Phil. Not amongst true ones Eu. Amongst those who carefully diligently and sincerely read the Scripture Phill. No. Eu. How comes it then to pass that Luther calls the a Hereticos seriò censemus alienos ab Ecclesiâ Dei. 1. con Sacr. Zwinglians and Sacramentarians who deny'd the Real Presence Hereticks poyson'd by the Devil seperate from the Church of CHRIST b Aurif vit de Heret possest repossest through possest and over and again possest with the Devil Diabolatos perdiabolatos transdiabolatos superdiabolatos and that he says I protest before GOD and the World that I Epist ad Harmogin To 7. Wit. fol. 380. agree not with them the Sacramentarians which is our Religion of England nor ever will while the World standeth but will have my hands clear from the blood of those Sheep which these Hereticks drive from CHRIST deceive and kill Munster and Carolostadius two great Pillars of the Reformation he calls furious Devils Calvin on the contrary speaking of the Lutherans says d Ult. adm Jo Cav ad Joac Westp c. That they neither care for the Judgement of GOD nor Angels that they are men indu'd with a Devillish Pride a Doggish wickedness and blind Drunkenness that they are nothing but Mad Barkers Giants Cyclops c. e In libell edit in exil Heshusius pronounces of Melancthon and the Wittembergians that they are entirely out of the Church f In Epist ad Nob. Pol. Beza proclaims of the Anabaptists that they are Blasphemers of Almighty GOD and held three GODS The Basilienses declare of Carolostadius that he was the Plague of the Church and was kill'd by the Devil g In Collat. Doct. Aris Melanc Stancharus of Melancton that he was an Arian and the Anti-christ of the North and Distuber of all Christianism h Vid. Cyechorit passim in suis libris Castalio speaking of the Calvinist calls them Proud Furious Haughty Hereticks saying that Geneva is Babylon the Ministers Sorcerers Conjurers Sons of Sodom and Gomorha Here Sir I desire to ask one Question viz. whether or no you receive into the number of common Christianity and Catholick Union those who in the Judgment of the prime Lights of the Gospel and the first chosen by GOD to Reform the North are Hereticks possest and repossest by the Devil Devils in humane shape without the fear of GOD Blasphemers Arians Antichrists Corrupters of common Christianity Furious Haughty Giants Conjurers Sorcerers Soddomites and Gomorrhaeans It seems to me you must because all these Men were true Protestants and true Protestants you say make the true Church They were true Protestants because they all adhear'd to the Holy Scripture in such sense as they themselves understood it refusing all other Judges and protesting against all other Power on Earth which should pretend to oblige a Christian to submit his own Judgment of Scripture to a contrary Interpretation of the Church if the Church should seem to him not to teach conformably to that sense of Scripture which he should verily believe to be true Phil. I have already told you that I 'll Judge no Man if they us'd the Diligence Sincerity Piety and Learning we require 't is certain they could not err damnably Eu. They