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A35959 Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God. Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Sinclair, George, d. 1696. 1684 (1684) Wing D1412; ESTC R3405 145,943 378

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Word Quest. VI. ARE the Books commonly called Apocrypha of Divine Inspiration No. Luke 24. 27 44. Rom. 3. 2. and 2 Pet. 1. 21. Well then do not the Papists err who affirm That the books called Apocrypha are of divine Inspiration and of equal authority with the undoubted Word Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because they were never written in the Hebrew tongue nor by any of the Prophets 2. Because they are never cited in the New Testament by Christ or by any of the Apostles as the books of the Canonical Scriptures are 3. Because they contain many fabulous and impious Doctrines and Histories First in Tobit 5. 12. The Angel says he was Azariah the son of Ananias This was a manifest lie which cannot be attributed to a good Angel and therefore the Spirit of GOD hath not dictated this History 2. It is reported Tobit 6. 6 7 16 17. that the heart and liver of a Fish was good to make a perfume to drive away the Devil if any man was troubled with him or with any evil Spirit And it is said Tobit 12. 15. by the Angel I am Raphael one of the seven holy Angels that presents the prayers of the Saints This is only proper to Christ. 3. Because the fact of Simeon and Levi condemned by Iacob acted by the Spirit of GOD Gen. 34. 25. in killing the Shechemites is commended by Iudeth 9. 2 3. 4. Because you will read of an offering for the dead Prayers and Reconciliation for the dead that they might be delivered from sin 2 Maccab. 12. 43 44 45. See what contradictions are in comparing together 1 Maccab. 6. 8. 2 Maccab. 15. 16. 2 Maccab 9. 5. Quest. VII DOTH the Authority of the holy Scripture for which it ought to be believed and obeyed depend upon the testimony of any man or Church No. 2 Pet. 1. 19. 21. 2 Tim. 3. 16. 1 Thes. 2. 13. Well then do not the Popish Writters err who maintain the Authority of the Scriptures to depend upon the testimony of the Church as to us Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because the Word is to be received by us not as the word of man but as the Word of GOD 1 Thes. 2. 13. 2. Because the Doctrine of Christ to be received by Belivers dependeth not upon mans testimony Ioh. 5. 34. 3. Because GOD only is true and infallible and all men are liars Rom. 3. 4. Heb. 6. 18. He is of incomprehensible wisdom Ps. 147. 5. Of great goodness Exod. 18. 9. Rom. 11. 12. Ps. 34. 8. Of absolute power and dominion Gen. 17. 1. Ps. 50. 1 2. Of infallible truth who can neither deceive nor can be deceived Ro. 3. 4. Tit. 1. 2. Heb. 6. 18. Therefore ought he to be credited in all his Narrations Promises Threatnings and Prophesies and obeyed in all his Commandements allanerly because he himself hath said so Quest. VIII IS the whole counsel of GOD concerning all things necessary for his own Glory Mans Salvation Faith and Life either expresly set down in Scripture or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from it Yes 2 Tim. 3. 15. Gal. 1. 8 9. 2 Thes. 2. 2. Well then doth not the Popish Church err who maintain The Scripture to be an imperfect Rule and therefore to stand in need of a supply of unwritten Traditions Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because all Scripture is given that the Man of GOD may be perfect thorowly furnished to all good works 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. 2. Because the Psalmist sayes expresly the Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul Psal. 19. 7 8. 3. Because nothing is to be added to the Word of GOD Deut. 4. 2. Prov. 30. 6. Therefore the Scriptures must be a compleat and perfect Rule of Faith and not an imperfect Rule or but partly a Rule as they teach Quest. IX IS it warrantable to argue in Articles or Matters of Faith by Consequences natively deduced from Scripture Yes Well then do not the Socinians Quakers Anabaptists and Arminians err who maintain That all matters of Faith are set down expresly and in so many words in Scripture and that no matters of Faith at least necessary to Salvation can be built upon Consequences drawn from the Scripture Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because Christ himself proves that necessary point of Faith The Resurrection of the dead from the Scripture by a Consequence Matth. 23. 29 31 32. To be any one 's GOD is to give one eternal life Psal. 33. 12. Psal. 144. 15. Whence followeth that those Patriarchs lived still with God in respect of their Souls which these Sadducees also denyed Acts 23. 8. and should also rise in respect of their Bodies and live eternally seing he is called a God not of one part of them only but of their whole persons And in that same chapter verse 43 45. Christ proves his Deity by a consequence from Scripture against the Pharisees 2. So doth Apollos Acts 18. 28. and Paul Acts 19. 22. prove from the Old Testament Jesus to be the Christ but it is not expresly said in the Old Testament that he is Christ. Is not that which necessarly followes from Scripture contained in it implicitly and implicitly revealed by God and is infallibly true Quest. X. IS the inward Illumination of the Spirit of GOD necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word Yes Iohn 6. 45. 1 Cor. 2. 9 10 11 12. Well then do not the Socinians and Armi●ians err who maintain That men without the revelation of the Spirit are able to understand the Scriptures for their Salvation Yes By what Reasons are they confuted 1. Because the Disciples of Christ were not able to understand the Scripture before he opened their eyes Luke 24. 45. 2. Because the Iews to this day cannot understand the Scriptures of the Old Testament until the Vail by the spirit of GOD be taken away 2 Cor. 3. 14 15 16 18. 3. Because the Psalmist David seeketh from God the opening of his eyes that he may behold wondrous things out of his Law Psal. 119. 18. Quest. XI ARE all these things which are necessary to be known believed and observed for salvation so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other that not only the Learned but the Unlearned in a due use of the ordinary means may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them for their salvation Yes Psal. 119. 105 130. Well then do not the Papists err who maintain That things necessary to salvation are obscurely and darkly set down in the Scripture and that without the help of unwritten Traditions and the infallible expounding of the Church the Scriptures cannot be understood Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1. Because the Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our paths Psal. 119 105. 2. Because the Scripture is a light which shineth in a dark place 2
do not the Erastians err who maintain that the Civil Magistrate hath in himself all Church power and so may administer the Sacraments and preach the Word and may exercise the power of the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because Christ hath given no such power to Magistrates as evidently appears from all those places of Scripture where mention is made of the keyes There is not in them one syllabe of the Civil Magistrate Matth. 18. 17. Matth 16. 19. 2 If the power of the keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven agree to the Magistrate as a Magistrate then ought it to agree to every Magistrate though the Magistrate were an Infidel or a Woman which is absurd 3 A Magistrate as a Magistrate is not a Minister of the Church as is evident from all the Catalogues of the Ministers of the Church For in them you will not find any mention of the Magistrate Eph. 4. 11. Rom. 12. 7. 8. 1 Car. 12. 8 9 10. 4 Because before ever there was a Christian Magistrate in the World the Church exercised all Acts of Church Jurisdiction and Government The Church ordained Ministers and Pastors 1 Tim. 4. 14. And inflicted the Censure of Excommunication 1 Cor. 5. 5. And Relaxed the Penitent from this Censure Called a Synod and stigmatized Hereticks Acts 15. 5 Because GOD hath put a difference between the Church Government and the Civil and hath appointed distinct Governours to them 2 Chron. 19. 8 9 10 11. 6 Because God did severely punish Saul and Uzzia for presuming to offer sacrifice which was proper to the Priests only 1 Sam. 13. 9 10 13. 2 Chron. 26. 16 19. Quest. VI. HATH the Civil Magistrate power to call Synods to be present at them and to provide that whatsoever is transacted in them be according to the mind of GOD Yes 2 Chron. 19. 8 9 10 11. and 2 Chron. 29 30. chapters Matth. 2. 4 5. Well then do not the Papists err who maintain that the judgement and care of Religion doth not belong to the civil Magistrate Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the custody and keeping of the divine law is committed by GOD to the Civil Magistrate Deut. 17. 18. 2 Because it was foretold that Kings should be nursing Fathers to the Church Isaiah 49. 23. 3 Because it is the duty of the Magistrate to take care that subjects may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty 1 Tim. 2. 2. 4 From the commendable examples of the good kings of Iuda 2 Chron. 29. 30. chapters Quest. VI. DOth infidelity or difference in Religion make void the Magistrates just and legal authority No. Doth it free the people from their due obedience to him No. 1 Peter 2. 13 Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4. Titus 3. 1. Well then do not the Papists Anabaptists and others err who maintain that subjects ought not to suffer a King that 's an infidel or obey that King in his just commands that differs from them in Religion Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because we are commanded to submit our selves to every ordinance of man 1 Peter 2. 13. Namely in all that they command us if it be not contrary to God and his command otherwise according to Acts 4. 19. it is better to obey GOD than man And it is said for the Lords sake that is because it is GODS will to govern us by them 2 Because the Christians which were at Rome were commanded by the Apostle to subject themselves to the higher powers and that without exception of Religion and Piety and even to that heathen the Roman Emperour Rom. 13. 1. 3 Because the same Apostle writing to Titus bids him exhort the Cretians his hearers to obey Magistrates what manner of ones soever they be not only believing ones but also those that are unbelieving as then they were yet most of them Titus 3. 1. 4 Because when the Apostle Paul was persued for his life and charged with matters criminal he appealled unto Cesar Acts 25. 10 11. 5 Because the Prophet Ieremiah did own the power of Zedekia who had turned aside to a false worship and had despised the oath which he had made to the King of Babylon Ezek 17. 16 17. Now hear I pray thee says the Prophet O my Lord the King let my Supplication I pray thee be accepted before thee Ierem. 27. 20. 6 Because Christ himself payed tribute to Cesar though he was free being both the Son of GOD by nature and the Son of David by birth Matth. 17. 26. And he commanded and allowed others to pay Matth. 22. 21. Rom. 13. 7. 7 Because Paul did own and acknowledge the power of King Agrippa Acts 26. 2. Quest. VII IS it the duty of people to pray for Magistrates and honour their persons Yes 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. and 1 Peter 2. 17. Well then do not some err who deny this Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because Samuel at the request of Saul whom he knew the Lord had rejected returned again after him and honoured him before the people 1 Sam. 15. 31. 2 Because the Lord having appointed Magistrates to administer justice and judgement in his name is so far pleased to honour them as to call them Gods and the Children of the high Psalm 82. 1 6. 3 Because the Apostle Peter says fear God and honour the King parallel to what Paul says render to all men their dues honour to whom honour is due 1 Peter 2 17. Rom. 13. 7. 4 Because even heathen Magistrates are called the Lords anointed Isaiah 45. 1. And the Lord calls Nebuchadnezzar his servant Ierem. 27. 6. If then such Magistrates ought to be honoured upon that account much more Christian Magistrates 5 Because if we be obliged not to speak evil of dignities 2 Peter 2. 11 nor revile the Gods Exod. 22. 8 we are obliged to honour dignities for where a sin is forbidden the contrary duty is commanded 6 Because God commanded his people the Jews to seek the peace of the City that is the welfare and prosperity of Babylon whither he had caused them to be carried away captives Ierem. 29. 7. 7 Because the Prophet the man of God besought the Lord in behalf of Ieroboam and prayed for him a man that had made Apostacy from the true worship of God and had made Israel to sin 1 Kings 13. 3. 8 Because our blessed Saviour says render to Cesar the things that are Cesars Matth. 22. 21. But prayers and supplications are as due to Cesar as custom and tribute 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 9 Because the Apostle commands us to pray for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life which is the cause wherefore we must pray for Magistrates For in the Apostles times and long after Magistrates were persecutors of the Church of GOD and hindred the members of Christ to live in peace and godliness 1 Tim.