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A65735 D. D. An advertisement, anent the reading of the books of Antonia Borignion By George White minister at Mary-Culter near Aberdeen. White, George, d. 1724. 1700 (1700) Wing W1767; ESTC R222008 41,559 107

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of GOD as free Will doth and the Scriptures shew plainly that it consisted in Knowledge Righteousness Holiness and dominion over the Creatures Gen. 1.26 Let Us make Man after our own Image and let him have dominion c. Eph. 4.24 Put on the new man which after GOD is created in Righteousness and true Holiness Col 3.10 Renewed in Knowledge after the Image of HIM that created Him POINT III. Q. If Man sinned before he sinned AS the Prophet Elijah mocked the Prophets of Baal for their ridiculous Religion 1 Kings 18.27 So it is excusable that having read many ridiculous things in the Books of A. B. to state the Question in this point Ironically against her which according to her Doctrine must be answered positively that Man sinned before he sinned that is that he sinned before GOD gave out the Law which he transgressed since the adequate definition of sin is transgression of the Law of GOD Rom. 4.15 Where no Law is there is no transgression but behold what A. B. teacheth against this fundamental truth L. W. pt 3. p. 2. That Adam inclined to sin before the Law was given and before the woman was made which was not on the sixth day which absurd Doctrine the Ap. commends pt 1. p. 59. Saying that GOD did not give Man a Law till he saw him depart from the Love of GOD to the love of the Creatures and follow his own will All which false Sentiments the Discursor Academicus affirms to be most probable p. 5. But I am certain that it is not only improbable but also most untrue for every inclination in us to sin is sin as contrary to the rectitude and intire Holiness and Obedience which GOD requires of us Moreover their foresaid Tenet contradicts the historical account of the first sin and Mans fall from the estate of Innocencie given by GOD himself that it was by transgressing that Sacramental or trying Commandment conform to the Covenant of works Not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil upon pain of Death Gen. 2.17 POINT IV. Of Perfection THere is nothing more readily to be read in the Books of those that are swelled with Spiritual pride Uncharitablness Malice and Hypocrisie than the pretended Perfection of themselves and their Partie and among the rest A. B. and the Ap. pt 2. p. 131. to 137. and p. 4.32 Avouch that they can be perfect keeping all the Commandments of GOD because all his Commands are prestable or GOD hath given no Commands but what its possible for man to fulfill I shall not gainsay but A. B. might fancie her self to be perfect in her notion of perfectness by culling out some Commands of GOD and neglecting the rest L. W. pt 3. p. 205. contrary to Jam. 2.10 and imagined that they might be sound Believers who observed none of the Articles of Faith L. W. pt 3. p. 173. All which pretended perfectionists make an unanimous outcry against the Assemblies Catechism which we use for affirming that no meer Man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments of GOD. But their Clamour is groundless because the plain and sound sense of the foresaid answer in the Catechism is that GOD in the ordinary dispensation of his Graces hath never given such a meafure of Grace to any man nor promised to free him of sin altogether in this life so that he can perfectly and absolutly fulfill his Law but thorow Christ who fulfills it in and for us 1 John 1.7.8 9. The Law shews our duty which we should still endeavour to fulfill aiming at Perfection and what we cannot do to lippen to GODS free Mercy and Christs merits to perfect it for us as if we had attained to Perfection our selves For the Question is nor what GOD may do in this matter but what he is pleased to doe He might if He had pleased have kept Lazarus still alive on Earth who probably was perfect when Christ raised him from the Dead and so were the Saints who arose Mat. 27.52 But we cannot expect the like but pray by Faith for what the Law requireth as St. Bernard writteth in Gan. Serm. 50 POINT V. Of Perseverance ONE of A. Bs. Sentiments is that the most Perfect Saints may apostatise or fall from the estate of Grace and be eternally damned L. W. pt 3. p. 136.137 which her Ap. Homologateth pt 2. p. 136. And albeit this be one of their doctrines which depends upon another Errour of their denying all the Eternal Decrees of GOD formerly noticed po 1. yet it seemed neeessary to observe it here by it self because the absurdity thereof may be more easily discerned by the Unlearned than sundry others of the Arminian Chain which are more abstruse It is indeed lamentable that the best of Saints through negligence when tempted to Sin and the Infirmity of their nature may sometimes fall into sinful acts and remain so a space without effectual Repentance yet it is manifest by Divine Light from the Holy Scriptures that the truly Godly do not fall away totally and finally from the estate of Grace But the foundation of GOD standeth sure the LORD knoweth who are His 2 Tim. 2.19 His by Predestination or an Eternal Decree of Election in Christ Jesus who are given to Him in the unalterable Covenant of Redemption and are Cleansed from all sins by His Blood 1 John 1.7 Of whom it is written Rom 8.29.30 Whom He did fore know them He also Predestinated Called Justified and Glorified And of all these the LORD promiseth John 10.28 My Sheep shall never perish I will give unto them Eternal Life Perseverance is an unseperable effect of Sanctifying Grace the habit whereof being once planted by the gracious hand of GOD in a Mans Soul never dyeth although it may so appear by some sinful acts as Herbs and Trees which are bereaved both of fruit and flourishing in the Winter season this is called The Root of the matter which remained in the Gracious and Patient tho under sharp tryals sometimes repining Job ch 19.28 And to this purpose the Prophet Micah 7.8 Rejoice not against me O my Enemie when I fall I shall arise How inconsistent with this foundation of Religion are the writtings of A. B. and her Ap. POINT VI. Anent the Sacraments ANent the Sacraments A. B. is as Erronious as in the Points forementioned writting that to obtain Salvation we need not pray nor go to Church nor take the Sacraments but only be Passive L. W. pt 3. p. 102. Protestants go about the LORDS Supper without Devotion L. W. Pref. to pt 3. p. 4. To baptise Children is from the Devil L. W. pt 2. p. 31. Did ever the practise of any person contradict his profession more plainly than the Ap. and his Virgin Patroness do who solemnly protest that they shall own the Scriptures for the Test of their Doctrine which yet is against them almost in every point as for this in hand concerning the
Scriptures doe the Creation of Angels or Spiritual beings assure us that Mans Body was material Formed of the Dust of the Ground Gen. 2.7 His food was material and the forbidden fruit was also such Good for food and pleasant in the Eyes Gen. 3.6 Which could not have been if Man had been altogether Spiritual and in the future State of Glory Man will need no material food whether we call it the essence or quintescence of things materiall but he will be as the Angels of GOD. 2. That all Men may forsake the Truth L. W. pt 1. p. 33. This is a false Doctrine for if all Men should forsake the Truth the Church might fail which is impossible It being built upon the Rock of Ages against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail Mat. 16.18 And wherewith our LORD JESUS CHRIST will be present to the end of the World Mat. 28.20 3. That Infants dying before they come to the exercise of Reason are either good or bad and consequently must be saved or damned according to the will of their Parents L. W. pt 2. p. 6.7.8.9 and pt 3. p. 155. This is against the Principles of Religion of GODS Election and the tenor of the Covenant of Grace 4. Antichrist is the Devil L. W. pt 1. p. 32. and the Devil is nothing S. V. pt 1. p. 94. These Tenets are overthrown by the Scriptures which teach us plainly that Antichrist is a man or a set of men sitting in the Temple of GOD. 2 Thes 2.4 5. That persons resigned to GOD return to such an estate of perfect innocencie as Adam was in before the fall L. W. pt 3. p. 138. Which is an unsound Doctrine since Adam at first was altogether free of Sin which can be said of no Saint in this Life Jam. 3.2 It is manifest by what is already written on this subject how easie it were to expose the absurdity of all A. Bs. Accessories but they are so many that to go through them all particularly even according to the present method adding a short refutation to every one of them would require as much writting as was designed for this whole Tractate Therefore having excerpted from the Books of A. B. and the Ap. some scores of Accessories like these forementioned equally hurtfull to Religion and noted exactly in a paper apart the places where they are to be found I shall here for brevities sake produce Twenty of them as a swatch of the rest reasonably hoping that every Christian Reader who is acquainted with the Holy Scriptures and being thereby instructed that Hay and Stuble are not fit materials for the building of GOD. 1 Cor. 3.11.12.13 Will be able at the very recitation thereof to confute them himself without my help which GOD willing afterwards shall if it be needful not be wanting in the behalf of Truth or it will be done by abler Pens which the Church will never be destitute of And these Accessories are 1. That there are no true Christians now in the World 2. The ordinary sins of Papists are the sins against the Holy Ghost 3. Protestants disown the civil Magistrat 4. A Spiritual Man is never melancholly 5. A Spiritual Man will not take a walk for recreation 6. Mentall Prayer should be omitted 7 Sin is only a disorder of the five Senses 8. All the advantages that Men reap from others serves but for their damnation 9. The Devil at first moved men to posses their own Goods 10. It had been good there had never been Schools nor Learning in the World 11. GOD'S cursing the Earth made mans returning to GOD the more easie 12. GOD calls no man to any place of Honour or Power 13. CHRIST'S Kingdom comes not according to the second Petition in the LORD'S Prayer 14. GOD doth not permit sin 15. Good motions incite alwayes to suffering 16. Phisitians and Divines doe ordinarily more ill than good 17. The Devil inlightneth our Uunderstanding and maketh us conceive deep Divine Mysteries 18. We should not commend good things because the Devil can do so 19. We should not instruct others but when they desire it 20. A. B. was Divinely Inspired in all things to reform the World It is no less than a spectrous piece of goodly confidence which sheweth it self in all the writtings of A. B. and the Ap. to affright people into the belief of their visionary Doctrines in stead of giving solid reasons for them still to cry that she was Divinely Inspired Obj. 1. For how say they could it otherwise be that she who was unlearned did write of so many things and rare verities and in such a ravishing strain beyond the reach of the chiefest Divines So that to offer to correct her Doctrine is no less presumptuous than to dare to correct the Spirit of GOD and whoever opposeth her Sentiments are like Jannes and Jambres that withstood Moses like the Scribes and Pharisees who opposed CHRIST himself or like the Jewes Atheists and Hereticks that contradicted and persecuted the Apostles and primitive Christians A. 1. That is sufficiently already answered in the third Section where it is proved at large that she was not Divinely Inspired but since they ingeminat it so often some more shall be said to it here 2. To discover oppose and confute Errours in any persons Books is not to oppose the Spirit of GOD but rather to be led by the famen for GOD is Truth and whosoever defends the Truth is on his side 3. Good words and a zealous strain of writting are only good when Truths and no falsities are thereby expressed for the most pernicious writters that ever existed in the World seemed to affect a pious strain and mixed many Heavenly like words with their poysonous positions to cover from the unadvertent the Venom thereof such as Gelsus Porphyrie Julian Vaninus and in fine Heretickes Shismaticks Sectarians and Enthusiasts in all their writtings 4. For A. Bs. pretending to have been unlearned and her crying down all Schools and Learning she had many infamously famous impostors for Precedents who to impose their damnable Doctrines and delusions on the World declaimed loudly against all Learning as their most deadly enemy such as the Gnosticks Montanus Manes and Mahomet 5. CHRIST and his faithful Servants were opposed by many in all Ages slighted and persecuted for holding the Truth but it is an undue thing for A. B. to compare her self to them and her Opposers to their persecutors when she is confuted and contemned only for teaching Errours 1 Pet. 2.20 For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently 6. The Cabine of A. Bs. rarities can be disclosed without a miracle or flying so high as to Divine Inspiration for a key to open it For most of her extravagant flights anent Mans primitive Estate of Innocencie and the future state after the day of Judgement have been catcht with little variation from the Jewish Cabala It was formerly showen Sect.