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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45354	A defence of revealed religion in six sermons upon Rom. I, 16 : wherein it is clearly and plainly shown that no man can possibly have any real ground or reason to be ashamed of Christianity / by Henry Hallywell.	Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?	1694 (1694)	Wing H459; ESTC R26653	55,183	216

teaches all Men that is to speak Reverently of what God does and to have honourable Thoughts of his Works But for the further Confirmation of this point and for the building of us up more firmly in our most Holy Faith I shall consider what are the main causes of Shame and upon what grounds we may justly be ashamed of any Doctrine delivered to us and then shew that in none of these Respects we have any reason to be ashamed of the Christian Religion 1. A first cause of shame is If that which is delivered to us be not true If a Man should confidently entertain an Opinion that were false and which there were no Grounds of Credibility for and should expose his Life and Fortunes to hazard and danger for it he would have great reason to be ashamed of his Levity and Rashness and all Men besides himself would conclude him guilty of an unpardonable Folly 2. We may justly be ashamed if the thing propounded to us be not Rational that is agreeable to those common Notions of Reason and Understanding which God has planted in our Souls 3. We have sufficient cause of Shame and Confusion if the Doctrine offered to us for our Faith and Belief be not Intelligible i. e. easie to be understood by all those to whom it is propounded For if Christianity were made up of a company of intricate and dark Riddles only to amuse the World and to puzzle our Understandings I do not see but that a Wise and Sober Person might have grounds enough to be ashamed of it 4. If it be not useful to the World but contain only some poor and trivial things that are of no benefit to Men. If Religion had indeed been thus the Apostles themselves might have been ashamed to have made such a stir in the World And all Christians that followed them would have been extremely out of Countenance when they had seen so little good and benefit of all that which was yet delivered as GOD's Will and wherein he had shewed such a wonderful piece of Art and Wisdom But now when we look upon Religion and find that it is most truly and certainly the Will of God delivered to the World That it came from Heaven and was attested by all the Evidences and Arguments that such a thing is capable of That God had an immediate hand in it and that all its Authority was undoubtedly derived from him Again when we shall find that there is nothing in Christianity but what is highly rational and agreeable to our Intellectual Faculties and for which we may be able to make the most reasonable Apology and Defence And further when Christianity is so plain and easie to be understood in all those things which are indispensably necessary to every Man's Salvation so that the most ordinary Capacity may apprehend what is GOD's Will and meaning in it and what he would have him to do And lastly When we shall see that Religion is a thing of no mean and low Concernment but a matter of the greatest Benefit and Advantage that ever was communicated to Mankind When its great End and Design shall be discovered only to make Men everlastingly happy in another Life When these things put together shall appear with irresistable Evidence and Clearness surely that Man must be bereaved of his Wits and Understanding that can be ashamed of a Doctrine that has all these Qualifications In the first place then to make it manifest that the Christian Faith is a Doctrine worthy of all Acceptation and of which there may be made the best Defence in the World I shall shew by a few Arguments the Truth of it viz. That God sent his Son Jesus to communicate this as his Mind and Will and that he would have all the World to live in the Faith and Obedience of it They that would have more full and ample satisfaction upon this Subject may consult that excellent Treatise of Grotius of the Truth of Christian Religion translated into English by Dr. Patrick now the Reverend Bishop of Ely Now to this Purpose let us consider That as to the matter of Fact concerning the Life and Actions of our blessed Saviour his Death and Resurrection and his Ascension into Heaven which is the Ground and Foundation upon which Christian Religion is built it is not at all probable either 1. That the Apostles should be deceived Or 2. That they should deceive others 1. It is not likely the Apostles should be deceived because they received not the Relations which they delivered by here-say but were constant Attendants of our Lord and Saviour and saw him work his Miracles when he cured Diseases raised the Dead and cast out Devils And therefore when the Apostles chose another into the room of Judas there is this reason given for it Acts 1.21.22 Wherefore of these Men which have Companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out amongst us beginning from the Baptism of John unto that same day that he was taken up from us must one be Ordained to be a Witness with us of his Resurrection Here was one who together with the rest of the Apostles was to assert upon his own Knowledge the Actions of Jesus his Resurrection from the Dead and his Ascension into Heaven And therefore St. Luke Chap. 1.2 tells us That the things which he wrote were such as were delivered by them who were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eye-witnesses of them And doubtless there can be no better Testimony in the World concerning the Truth of a matter of Fact than from an Eye-witness of it according to that common saying Pluris est unus ocularis testis quam auriti decem one ocular Demonstration is worth ten Hear-says And this was the Answer that Peter and John gave to the great Council of the Jews Acts 4.20 We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard But that we may not run over the whole History of things in the Gospel I shall content my self with that one which is the Confirmation of all the rest of the Miracles of Jesus that is his Resurrection from the dead For as St. Paul speaks 1 Cor. 15.14 if Christ be not risen then our Preaching is vain and the Faith of Christians is likewise vain The Preaching of the Apostles would have been vain because they Exhorted Men to the Practice of the Commands and Precepts of the Gospel in hopes of a glorious Immortality and that their Labour and Pains should be rewarded by the Resurrection of their Bodies to eternal Life Whereas if Christ be not risen there is then no Reward for Believers and the great Noise and Talk of the Joys and Felicities of Pious Souls after this Life are nothing but the Dreams of Melancholick Persons to amuse the rest of Mankind And the Faith of Christians if Christ be yet in the Grave and under the Power of Death will be as empty and vain because it is built upon