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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66213	The missionarie's arts discovered, or, An account of their ways of insinuation, their artifices and several methods of which they serve themselves in making converts with a letter to Mr. Pulton, challenging him to make good his charge of disloyalty against Protestants, and an historical preface, containing an account of their introducing the heathen gods in their processions, and other particulars relating to the several chapters of this treatise.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing W246A; ESTC R4106	113,409	130

as if we allow'd them in their full latitude they can be to us Thus the Considerer upon the Spirit of LUTHER spends much time and pains to prove that Luther's Doctrine was not of God because he relates several Arguments which the Devil us'd against the Mass thereby attempting to drive him to despair because he had for many years been a Romish Priest upon which Mr. Pulton puts this question Now I ask whether the Doctrine delivered by the Spirit of untruth can be from the Holy Ghost Now tho' we tell these Gentlemen that Luther spoke this by way of parable yet seeing that they are deaf on that ear let it be for once allowed that it was a Real Conference and all they can draw from it is either that knotty question of Mr Pulton Whether the Doctrine delivered by the spirit of untruth can be from the Holy Ghost or that Luther could not be an Holy Man because the Devil was so often with him which is the great Argument of the Oxford Considerer and Mr. Pulton himself in the tenth page of his Remarks As for the Question I find in the Gospel the Devils themselves bearing testimony to our SAVIOUR that he was Christ the Son of the living God acknowledging him to be the Holy One of God and an whole Legion of these unclean spirits crying out what have we to do with thee Jesus thou Son of God And when to St. Paul the spirit of Divination bore the same witness That he was the servant of the most high God and shewed the way of Salvation nay I find also that God made use of the evil spirit's Testimony for the Conversion of many when the Sons of a Jew undertook to call upon a man who was possess'd the name of the Lord Jesus saying we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth the evil spirit answered Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are ye And the man in whom the evil spirit was leap't on them and overcame them And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus and fear fell on them all and THE NAME OF THE LORD JESVS WAS MAGNIFIED of which the following verses give particular Instances Now the same Answer which Mr. Pulton will make to an Heathen putting the same Question in this case will give full satisfaction to that which he puts to us for if it be a good evidence to prove the Doctrine of LVTHER false because the Devil owned the truth of it the conclusion will hold as firm against the Deity of Christ and Truth of the Gospel which the Devil was forced to confess And if the second inference concludes against Luther what shall we think of their admired St. Anthony to whom the Devil frequently appear'd and using an articulate voice spake to him acknowledging that he had often attempted to corrupt him but was not able nay that he was seldom without the company of the Devil either beating him or discoursing with him the Author of that Life informs us in a multitude of Instances and yet for all this the Papists will maintain his Saintship so that the Devil's molestation is no Argument against Luther or his doctrine and there is hardly any of their noted Saints whom the Writers of their lives do not affect to represent to us as persons from whom the Devil was seldom or never absent Nor is it any wonder these Gentlemen should be so busie in scandalizing our Divines though the reflexion falls as severely upon their own Canoniz'd Saints when they have so little consideration as to charge us with those things which others of their own writing at the same time and on the same Subject do acquit us of an instance of which we have in their frequent cries that the Exclusion Bill was managed in the House of Commons by the Sons of the Church of England and that the Rebellion was to be laid to their Charge that if we look to the excluding Party they were five to one Church of England men so that our Church must take the shame of all those things to her self these loud Clamours have made more noise in the world than all their new Tests and Instances of the Church of England's Loyalty which I shall examine in another place But to the comfort of our Church her Adversaries agree not together so that she needs no vindication but what she is able to bring from her greatest enemies therefore one of them tells the Dissenters that they were the Actors not onely in 48. but in the business of the Rye and the West too and one who pleads the very same cause assures us that the Dissenters appear'd so rigorous in choosing their Representatives that they carried it for three Parliaments successfully against the Church of England and it was in those three Parliaments that the Exclusion Bill was promoted and stickled for which is a clear demonstration that the Exclusioners were not five to one of the Church of England But as these Gentlemen contradict themselves in this point so by the same assertion they overthrow their great work of perswading the Dissenters that the Church of England never was nor never will be willing to ease their Consciences by a Comprehension when by affirming the Exclusion Parliaments to have been compos'd of Church of England men they give themselves the lye seeing all the world knows it was in those Parliaments that the Bill of Comprehension was promoted As they will coin immoral Actions for us so likewise with the same sincerity they make a great complaint of our FALSIFICATIONS when he that examines into the matter will find no such thing thus the Vindicator of Monsieur de Meaux fills part of a page with a list of his ADVERSARIES Falsifications and Calumnies c. of which you may judge by this instance That ingenious Gentleman tells us that Mr. de Meaux had affirmed that the denying of Salvation to Infants dying unbaptiz'd was a truth which never any one before Calvin durst openly call in question this the Vindicator calls a corrupting the Bishops words which are these the Lutherans believe with the Catholick Church the absolute necessity of Baptism and are astonish'd with her that such a Truth should be denied which never any one before Calvin durst openly call in question now I APPEAL to all the world whether it be not the same thing to affirm that Baptism is absolutely necessary to Salvation and that those who dye unbaptiz'd are not sav'd for if it be absolutely necessary then without it there can be no Salvation and whoever asserts that denies Salvation to those who have it not let our Vindicator then defend himself from the imputation of Calumny which I lay to his charge in this particular the calling that a Falsification and Corruption which is the true meaning of the Bishops words I shall end this head with two Instances of their