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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67406	The resurrection asserted in a sermon preached to the University of Oxford on Easter-day, 1679 / by John Wallis ...	Wallis, John, 1616-1703.	1679 (1679)	Wing W602; ESTC R18038	24,852	41

preaching to Christian Auditories such as this it is not prudence to quit the Principles of Christianity and divert to those of Reason and Natural Light onely As if we were Preaching to Heathens not to Christians Much of our Religion depends on Revelation And though not Repugnant to Reason is yet much Above it and not discoverable by it without the Scriptures where those Revelations are recorded We do but too much gratify men of Atheistical and Unchristian Principles when to comply with their Cavills instead of Holding fast what is good we let go our Hold and dispute our Principles As if we were now Planting Christianity amongst Heathens and not Edifying a Christian Church 'T is true that in Building great care is to be taken that the Foundations be well lay'd otherwise the Building cannot be Firm. But there is a time wh●n Leaving the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ and laying again the Foundation we are to go on to Perfection and Build upon the Foundation so layd Not like Children Who when for the time we ought to be Teachers have now need to be Taught what are the First Principles of the Oracles of God as having need of Milk not of strong Meat And When will this time be if after more than sixteen Hundred years possession we do yet admit the Foundations of Christianity for matter of Doubtfull Disputation If out of a needless scrupulosity to satisfy the Cavils of those who do not desire to be informed we be alwaies Digging at the Foundation upon pretence of Searching it We do thereby weaken rather than strengthen it And like the foolish Builder having layd the Foundation shall never be able to Finish it Ever Learning and never able to come to the Knowledge of the Truth The Being and Providence of God The Authority of the Scriptures his written Word The Divinity and Incarnation of Christ his Satisfaction for the Sins of Men and our Salvation by Faith in Him The necessity of Holyness and a Godly life The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body and the Judgement to com● A Heaven for the Righteous and a Hell for the Wicked Are Fundamentals in the Doctrine of Christianity well setled long agoe And if any go abou● to shake these Foundations we are not therefore in compliance with their humours to admit for Disputa●le what ever they please to Cavill at But to hold Fast the Truth to hold Fast the Form of sound Words as well settled and long since agreed upon And If any man list to be Contentious sayth the Apostle we have no such Custome nor the Churches of God If they demand New Miracles and New Revelations of what hath been sufficiently Revealed and confirmed already Our Savior tells us in the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Glutton They have Moses and the Prophets let them Hear Them And we have moreover Christ and his Apostles If they hear not These neither would they be Perswaded though one should Rise from the Dead Now if the Miracles and Revelations in the time Moses and the Prophets were sufficient for those who lived in the days of Christ notwithstanding that they lived not in Moses days much more may those also of Christ and his Apostles suffice for those that live in Our days And if a sufficient Evidence such as would be enough for a Sober person that is Willing to be Taught prevail not with them neither would they be perswaded though they should be gratifyed in what they now demand Our Saviour did not think fit to gratify the Humours of the Scribes and Pharises whensoever they listed to Ask a new sign But refers them to that of the Prophet Jonas Nor are Wee to be always casting our Perls before Swine But after a competent instruction they are to be Neglected as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 self-condemned persons Who 's error lyes more in their Will than in their Understanding 'T was Because they did not Like to retain God in their Knowledge Rom. 1. that God gave them over to a Reprobate sense 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a mind void of judgement And it was not so much because they could not Beleeve the Truth as because they did not Love it 2. Thes. 2 because they received not the Love of the trueth that they might be saved that God sent them strong Delusions to bel●eve a Lye that they might be Damned Because they did not Love what they should Beleeve God left them to Beleeve what they Loved And because they did not Love those Trueths by which they be Saved he left them to Beleeve those Lyes by which they should be Damned In the last times we are told there shall come scoffers walking after their own Vngodly Lusts and therefore Mocking at the Promise of Christs coming Men of Corrupt minds and therefore Reprobate concerning the Faith Mockers and filthy Dreamers who therefore Beleeve not the Trueth because they take Pleasure in Vnrighteousness Who do not so much Doubt of it as Cavill at it to their own Destrction To those that are Contentious says the Apostle and Obey not the Truth to those who out of Contention or a spirit of Contradiction Cavill at the Truth sufficiently discovered Indignation and Wrath. And If our Gospell be Hid it is hid to those that are Lost. It may perhaps pass for a piece of Witt not of Wisdome amongst Debauched persons with whom Atheism and Ribaldry pass for Witt to be able to speak Plausibly against those things which the common sense of Man-kind admitts for True And 't is very Easy for any man that will allow himself to be Profane thus to be Witty But St. Paul gives it a truer Character Rom. 1. speaking of Wiser persons than these are Professing themselves to be Wise they became Fools 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 while they pretend to be Witty they play the Fool. And 1 Tim. 6. reduceth it to its true cause Pride and Ignorance If any man consent not to wholsome Words and the Doctrine which is according to Godliness Hee is Proud or Foolish and ●noweth nothing Doting upon Questions and strife of words or idle Cavils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence come Railing and Perverse Disputings of men of Corrupt minds and d●stitute of the Trueth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blaspemies and ●dle Discourses as of Crack-brain'd men and void of Sense from whom Turn away Have nothing to do ●i●h them While we are taking pains to Satisfy such who Resolve not to be satisfyed we may sooner raise new Scruples in the minds of well-meaning persons than satisfy those who are Willfully ignorant Be not deceived sai●h our Apostle here Evil Communications corrupt good Manners 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or as Dr. Hammond chooseth to render it good Dispositions Such corrupt Discourse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are apt to seduce or work upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉