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A02267	True religion explained and defended against ye archenemies thereof in these times In six bookes. Published by authority for the co[m]mon good.; De veritate religionis Christianae. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Franciscus a Sancta Clara, 1598-1680.	1632 (1632)	STC 12400; ESTC S122528	94,326	374

commit adultery wee ought not to revenge injuries A man may bee the husband of one wife onely And the league or bond of Matrimony ought to bee constant and perpetuall man is bound to doe good unto all specially to them that are in want we must refraine from Swearing as much as may bee And as for our food and apparell wee ought to content our selves with so much as will suffice nature and the like Or if happily there bee some points in Christianity not altogether so credible yet the like also is found amongst the wisest of the heathen themselves as before wee have shewne concerning the immortality of soules and of the resurrection of bodies Thus Plate as hee learned from the Chaldeans distinguished the divine nature into the Father and the minde of the Father which hee cals both the Councell and branch of God who is the maker of the world as also the Soule or Spirit which preserveth all things I●lian so great an enemy of Christians thought that the assumption of humane nature was possible for God as hee gave instance in Aesculapius whom hee imagined to have descended from heaven to the end hee might teach men the art of Physicke The Crosse of Christ offendeth many yet is there not worse related by the heathen writers concerning their God● who tell us that some of them were attendants unto Kings and Princes others slaine with lightening others cut in sunder And the wisest of them say that any honest thing is the more joyous and delightsome by how much it cost them the dearer To conclude Plato in the second book of his common wealth as if hee had beene a Prophet saith for a man to become truly just and upright it is requisite that his vertue bee bereaved of all outward ornaments and that hee be by others accounted a wicked wretch and scoffed at and last of all hanged And indeed that Christ might be the patterne of greatest patience it could no otherwise come to passe The fifth Booke OF THE TRVNESSE OF Christian Religion SECT I. A refutation of the Iewes beginning with a speech unto them or prayer for them AS those that come out of a darke dungeon by little little perceive some brightnesse and glimmering betweene light and darkenesse So having done with the thinke mist of Paganisme and entring upō Iudaisme we behold some beames and light of truth wherfore I request the Iews that they would heare us patiently Wee are not ignorant how that they are the of spring of holy men whom God was wont to visit both by his holy Prophets and blessed Angels Of this nation sprang our Messias and the first Doctors of Christianity they are the tree wherinto we are ingraffed they are the keepers of Gods Oracles which we doe reverēce asmuch as they even making sighs unto God for them praying that the day may quickly come when the vaile being taken away which hangs over their faces they with us shall see the fulfilling of the law And when as it is in their Prophecies every one of us shal lay hold on the Cloake of the Hebrew man desiring that we may together with a holy consent worship the onely true God who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob SECT II. The Iewes ought to account the miracles of Christ sufficiently proved FIrst of all then wee must intre at them not to think that to bee unjust in another mans ●ase which they judge to be just and equitable in their owne If any Pagan demand of them why they belceve that miracles were wrought by Moses they can give no other answer save that there was alwayes so constant a report thereof among their nation that it could not but proceed from the testimony of such as had seene the same Thus that the widowes oyle was increased by Elisaus that Naam●d the Syrian was suddenly cured of the leprosie that the hostesses daughter was restored to life and other such like are beleeved by the Iewes for no other reason than because witnesses of good credit have recorded to posterity that such things were done And they beleeve Elias hi● taking up into heaven onely for the testimony of Elizaeus a man beyond all exception But wee can produce twelve witnesses o●… honest report to testifie that Christ ascended up into heaven after hee had beene seene upon earth after his death by many more persons Which things i●… they bee true then necessarily Christs doctrine is true also and indeed nothing at all can bee alleaged by the Iewes for themselves which by equall right or more just title belongs not unto us But to omit further testimonies it is the confession of the authors of the Talmud and other Iewes themselves that strange unders were wrought by Christ which may suffice for this particular Neither could God any way more effectually gaine authority unto his doctrine which was published by man than by the working of miracles SECT III. And not beleeve that they were done by the helpe of Devils THese miracles of Christ some say were done by the helpe of Devils But this calumny hath beene confuted before when we shewed that wheresoever the doctrine of Christ was taught and knowne there all power of the Devils vanished away Others reply that Iesus learned Magicke arts in Egypt but this slander hath no more nay not so much colour of truth then the like accusation by the Pagans framed against Moses whereof wee reade in Pliny and Apuleius For that ever Iesus was in Egypt cannot be proved save only out of the writings of his Disciples who adde further that he was an Infant when he returned thence But it is certain by other proofes that Moses lived the most part of his youth in Aegypt Howbeit the law aswell of Moses as of Christ frees them both from this crime plainly forbidding such arts as being abominable in the sight of God And without all question if in the time of Christ and his Disciples there had beene either in Egypt or any where else any such Magicall art whereby men might have beene enabled to doe the like marvels as are related of Christ to wit the curing of the speechlesse the healing of the lame the giving sight to the blind then would Tyberius Nero and other Emperors have had notice therof who spared no costs and charges in the inquiry after such like things Nay if it were true which the Iewes relate how that the Se●… of the great Councell were child in Magicke arts that they might convince them that were guilty of that iniquity then surely they being so mightily incensed against Iesus as they were and envying the honour and respect which hee obtained by his miracles would either themselves have done the like workes by the same art or by sufficient reasons would have made it appeare that the workes of Christ proceeded from no other cause SECT IIII. Or by the power of words and sillables MOreover that is but a meere fable or impuden●lye which certaine

is manifest enough the same proceed from some kinde of reason as is plaine in Pismires and Bees and likewise in other creatures which before they have experience doe naturally eschew such things that are hurtfull and seeke after such things as are profitable for them Now that this instinct or inclination of seeking and judging things is not in them by their owne power it is cleare for that they doe alwayes operate after the same manner neither have they any vertue or efficacie to doe any thing which is contrary or aboue their ordinary course of operation wherefore they must needs receive their power from some reasonable externall Agent which directs them or imprints in them such efficacie as they have and this reasonable and intelligent Agent is no other than God himselfe In the next place consider we the Starres of heaven and amongst the rest as most eminent the Sunne and the Moone both which for the fruitfulnesse of the earth and for the preservation of living creatures doe so seasonably performe their course of motion as that a man cannot devise any thing better For though their motion thorow the Aequator were much much more simple yet wee see that they have another motion by an oblique Circle to the end the benefit of their favourable aspects might bee communicated to more parts of the earth Now as the earth is ordained for the use and benefit of living creatures so are all terrestriall things appointed for the service of man who by his wit and reason can subdue the most rackle and impetuous creature among them whence the very Stoicks did collect that the world was made for mans sake Howbeit since it exceeds the sphere of humane power to bring the heavenly bodies in subiection to him neither is it to bee imagined that they will ever submit themselves to man of their owne accord it followes therefore that there is some superior minde or spirit by whose sole appointment those faire and glorious bodies doe service unto man though he be placed farre below them which same minde is no other than the framer of the starres even the Maker of the whole world Also the motions of these starres which are said to be Excentricall and Epicycticall doe plainly shew that their establishment and being is from a free agent not by the power of the matter in them Moreover the most perfect forme and figure of this world to wit its roundnesse as also the parts thereof shut up as it were in the bosome of the heavens and disposed with a marvellous order doe all expresly declare that they were not tumbled together or conjoyned as they are by chance but wisely ordained by such an understanding as is endued with super-eminent excellencie For what Ninny is there so sottish what man so foolish as to imagine that so compleat and exact a worke as this came to passe by hap-hazard he might aswel think that the stones and trees of any building were united into the forme of some house by chance or scattered syllables and words became a Poem by meere fortune A thing so unlikely that even a few Geometricall figures espied on the Sea-shore gave the beholder just ground to argue that some man had beene there it being evident enough that such things could not proceed from meere chance Furthermore that mankinds was not from all eternity but at a certaine time had a common beginning may be manifested by the course of Arts and Sciences yea by the very ground whereupon we tread which was anciently rude and untill'd but afterward became possessed with Iuhabitants which also the language spoken in some Islands derived from adjacent Countries doth witnesse The same is apparent by certaine ordinances so generally received amongst men that the institution thereof may not be thought to have proceeded from the instinct of nature or evidence of reason but from the perpetuall and constant tradition of the Ancients which was scarce ever interrupted in any place either by the malice or misery of man such was that ordinance for the killing of beasts in sacrifice used in former times and such also are now the modesty and shamefastnesse about venereall things the celebration of marriages and the banishment of incestuous persons SECT VII Answer to that objection concerning the cause of evill NEither need we unsay that which hath beene spoken because we see many evill things come to passe the source and cause whereof being not from God who as before hath beene showne is good after the most perfect and absolute degree of Goodnes For when we said that God was the author and cause of all things we added withal that hee was the cause of such things as really doe subsist And no absurdity that I see will follow if wee assirme that those things which haue true and reall existence may bee the causes of some certaine accidents as namely of actions or the like The Almighty we know created both man and those more honourable spirits the Angels endued with liberty of action which liberty in it selfe is not sinfull yet by power thereof some sinnes may be committed Now to make God the author of these sinnes which are morally euill is no better than blasphemy how bee it there are other kinde of evils so called because they afflict some person with griefe or losse and these we may affirme to bee inflicted by God for the reformation and amendment of some sinner or for the punishment of transgression which to say is no impiety since that such evils haue nothing in them contrary to goodnesse but rather they proceed from goodnesse it selfe like a bitter portion from a good Physitian SECT VIII Against the occasion of two Principles or causes of things HEre by the way it may be noted that the opinion of those men is to bee abandoned and avoided which make two efficient causes the one good and the other evill for from two contraries there may follow the ruine and destruction but in no wise a well ordered composition of things Neither is this to passe for truth to wit that as there is something good of it selfe so likewise there must needs bee something absolutely evill in it selfe seeing that evill is a certaine defect which cannot be but in a thing that hath existence which very hauing of existence or being is good SECT IX That God doth gouerne the whole world MOreover that this whole universe is governed by the prouidence of God it is evident for that not onely men which haue right reason and vnderstanding but also the fowles and beasts both wilde and tame haue in them some thing correspondent to reason and doe beare a kinde of prouidence or respectfull care over the issue which they bring forth Which perfection since it is a part of goodnesse must needs bee attributed to God and so much the rather because he is both omniscient and omnipotent so that hee can no way bee ignorant of such things as are done or to be done but can