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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57857	The good old way defended against the attempts of A.M. D.D. in his book called, An enquiry into the new opinions, (chiefly) propogated by the Presbyterians of Scotland : wherein the divine right of the government of the church by Presbyters acting in parity, is asserted, and the pretended divine right of the hierarchie is disproved, the antiquity of parity and novelty of Episcopacy as now pleaded for, are made manifest from scriptural arguments, and the testimony of the antient writers of the Christian-church, and the groundless and unreasonable confidence of some prelatick writers exposed : also, the debates about holy-days, schism, the church-government used among the first Scots Christians, and what else the enquirer chargeth us with, are clearly stated, and the truth in all these maintained against him : likewise, some animadversions on a book called The fundamental charter of Presbytery, in so far as it misrepresenteth the principles and way of our first reformers from popery, where the controversie about superintendents is fully handled, and the necessity which led our ancestors into that course for that time is discoursed / by Gilbert Rule ...	Rule, Gilbert, 1629?-1701.	1697 (1697)	Wing R2221; ESTC R22637	293,951	328

Evividence of what is agreeable to true Reason I deny both these Propositions 1. How will he prove that all Nations were agreed about the Necessity and Usefulness of Holy Days Or I distinguish this Proposition all Nations are agreed in general that there should be some Religious Holy Days if I should put him to the Proof of this it might puzzle him but for our part we think it of great Use and necessary also necessitate praecepti whatever may be said of the necessitas medii we think it a Wise and Excellent Constitution of the Divine Will that we have recurrent Days I mean the Christian Sabbath and Occasional Times of Solemn Worshipping God but that all Nations are agreed about the Necessity of Holy Religious Anniversary Days of Mans Appointing this is yet unproved the Jewish Holy Days till that Church fell into manifold Apostacy were appointed by God the Heathenish Religious Rites and their Holy Days among the rest were appointed as they pretended by these whom they owned for gods which I could prove if it were not to digress with that Pretension Numa and others gained the People to submit to their Religious Rites For his second Proposition it is utterly false that the Agreement of Nations is the best Evidence of what is according to right Reason this might hold if Men were generally Perfect in Knowledge and Holiness if their Mind Will and Affections had no way been hurt by the Fall but in the present State of Fallen Corrupt and Sinful Men it is a False Dangerous yea Pernicious Position if understood as here it must be of Matters of revealed Religion such as instituted Worship is His Proof of this Assertion is most absurd which is two Maxims of the Civil Law wofully misunderstood and misapplyed viz. Quod major pars Curiae efficit pro eo habetur ac si omnes egerint and Refertur ad universos quod publice fit per majorem partem This is to be understood of Humane Courts in any Nation or Society not of the Consent of all Nations otherwise one Nation could not make Laws for it self but must peruse the Volumns of all Nations that they may know what Laws obtain in most Nations Again which is yet more to our purpose these Maxims hold in Civil not Religious Matters to make the Consent of Nations to be the Rule of Religion as this Author manifestly doth hath so many Absurdities wrapt up in it that it is a wonder that such a Fancy could fall into the Head of one who owneth revealed Religion and is not far from Hobbism or Deisin with which he is not sparing to charge the Presbyterians on far less Cause given I am far from charging him with these horrid Opinions but I advise him to beware of Zeal for Humane Holy Doly Days on such Principles as would lead Men into that Snare If we must be determined by a Pole among Mankind as his Assertion doth plainly import in the Matters of our Religion Heathenism will clearly carry it against Christianity Yea Turkism will bid fair for it and Popery will clearly Outvote Protestantism This is a thousand times worse than what he or his Friend is so angry with a Presbyterian Parliament for having regard to the Inclinations of the People in settling Presbyterial Government we must now receive the Holy Days because the Inclinations of the Apostate World Heathens Jews Papists c. incline that Way His distinguishing of such Constitutions by considering their general or abstracted Nature and considering them with their Ends and Objects will not help him for corrupt Men will always be generally for what is worst consider it as ye will neither can it be said that this Rule of Judging of Religion holdeth not in the Essentials and great Points but in the inferior Matters and Rituals for the instituted part of Religion lieth more remote from Mans Reason as a Contriver of it than other things in Religion do because these depend merely on Institution and the Will of the Instituter as ye can less give a Reason why Bread and Wine should signifie the Body and Bloud of Christ except from the Wi●l of him who appointed this than ye can do why we should Pray to God obey him c. § 25. He taketh it very ill and calleth it strong Natural Nonsense that the Holy Days and other Religious Ceremonies of Mans Devising are called new Means of Grace which are not to be appointed by Mens Reason but by Gods Authority He saith they are only appointed to increase our Devotion for the old Means of Grace they are but Circumstances of time determinable by the Church All that is sufficiently refuted already but he repeateth and forceth me to do so First That which is appointed to increase our Devotion toward Prayer the Word and Sacraments which are the old Means of Grace is a Mean of Grace it self for increase of Devotion is Grace therefore the Means toward that End must be Means of Grace and if these be appointed by the Lord as the Sabbath is for increase of our Devotion in Prayer c. this is one of these he calleth the old Means of Grace viz. Means of Gods appointing if appointed by Men for the same end they must be new Means of Grace appointed by Men and superadded to these of Gods Appointment But the Holy Days are such ex tuo ore being appointed to increase our Devotion this cannot be said of mere determining a Circumstance of Worship as appointing a Week Day Sermon 2. That which is necessary to the Beeing and Beauty of Religion to keep us in mind of the Mysteries of our Religion is the Peoples Catechism c. must be a Mean of Grace but all this and more he hath ascribed to the Holy Days not only to the Work to be done on them but to it as done on such a Day they must then be new Means of Grace beside what God hath instituted 3. That they are but Determinations of the Time of Worship is above refuted and himself refuteth it by affirming that they are appointed for increasing our Devotion I should allow him not only to Smile but to burst out into Laughter if it had been said as he pretendeth that Christmass was kept in Honour of Julius Caesar before Christ was born he need never want Matter of Laughter if he be allowed thus to Devise what may make him Merry All that was said is that Holy Day was so kept and thence called Yule in Scotland The Import of which is no more but this that the same Day being kept by the Heathens on one Account some Christians changed it into another Use and Celebrated it as the Day of Christs Nativity as I could shew they did with many other both Times and Places His Criticising on the Word Yule making it Noel and then turning it to a nouvelle and Expounding it a Day of Tidings I might rather Smile at I think it not worthy a Laborious Examination I