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Quaking principles dashed in pieces by the standing and unshaken truth. Being an examination of the tenents held forth by certain northern people, viz. 1. Slighting of the written word. 2. A speaking to that within man. 3. Denying the use of reason in the matters of God. 4. A denying of the ascension and being of the body of Christ. 5. A denying of all the ordinances of Christ. 6. A denying honour to men. 7. Affording absolute perfection at one instant. / By Henoch Howet.
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Howet, Enoch.
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one some things by another some things by a third c. and all this is by the virtue of Gods working c. How easie a thing it is for the wicked sinning wretch to his conviction or terror to believe from reason God is able both to remember and take account of all his sins and to set them before him at the day of judgment 3. Considering that God hath created the whole world in six days how easie a thing is it conclude that he is able to send down the new Jerusalem from above according to the Word Rev. 21. And let those be silent that ask where shall there be room at the Resurrection for all to stand for as they are not able to comprehend what was spoken of before till it was brought to pass so neither are they able to comprehend how there shall be room more than they are able to create room for those that shall appear to judgment But we allow not that Reason that will not let the Word run and be glorified but reproach it and speak against it as those that believe not Election but stand questioning the justice of God as if God could be no further just than they could see him just These do in effect denie his Name Wonderfull for they would have him so little and narrow a God that they are able to defend him or else they would think it their part to stand still and wonder when they cannot see through his justice and not ask how they should defend his justice when any thing exceeds the compass of their reason Paul thought these persons not worthy of an answer Rom. 9.19 20. and therefore he takes them off short saying Nay but who art thou O man that repliest against God c. Neither do we allow of that reasoning which will take a Text of Scripture and raise an argument from it and thereupon conclude their own salvation and so get a conclusion instead of Christ for their assurance when as the Scripture telleth us it must be wrought out saying Work out your salvation with fear and trembling for Christ is to be noted for to be manifested to his John 14 21. revealed in Gal. 1.16 And therefore let us know that there is a day to dawn and a day star to rise in our hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 all which we are in prayers to be violent for and wait patiently for This is the good use of reason to resist the gain sayers of truth in disputes to be readie always to give answer to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in us 1 Pet. 3.15 and to taste of the goodness of God till we have lost our selves in it and to crie out with Paul O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out Rom. 11.33 And now I come to the fourth of their mistakes viz. Their denying of the Ascersion or the Being of the Bodie of Christ under the pretence of this Scripture Flesh and Bloud cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven It is true that flesh and bloud without the Spirit and Life of God cannot but he that is joyned to God is one spirit so if we should say This bulk or lump or form of man or mans flesh could not continue upon the earth it were true meaning without life for it would rot putrefie and stink c. But we shall prove first the burial of that Bodie of Christ John 19. at the later end of the Chapter his Resurrection chap. 20. his shewing his hands and his side to his Disciples and after to Thomas but to prove this fully that it was the bodie that walked upon earth he saith himself Luke 24 39. Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have And that it is the same Jesus it is proved in Acts 1.1 2. The former Treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach untill the day in which he was taken up which proves that the doing and teaching Jesus was taken up and I affirm it was the bodie for when he was upon earth he did no actions but with his bodie nor spake words but with his tongue that is a member of that bodie and that the same Jesus was taken into Heaven is plain in Acts 1.11 Ye men of Galilee Why stand ye gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven This same Jesus must be he who is spoken of in v. 1. who is not without the bodie being the things that he spake and did were spoken and done with his bodie And now it follows that I prove he is in Heaven in Heb. 4. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest that is passed into the Heavens Jesus the Son of God And it is proved that this High Priest is not without the bodie because he is called a man and I hope all men will say the bodie and soul is the man And that this man continues for ever is proved in Heb. 7.24 But this man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood And in Heb. 8.3 It is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer And v. 4. For if he were on earth c. which proves that the manhood is in Heaven And in Heb. 9.24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us And if any doubt whither it is the man there spoken of look in Heb. 10.12 for the speech is continued and there it is said But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down at the right hand of God And if any man doubt whither the man be now in Heaven let him look into Acts 3.20 21. And he shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the Heaven must receive untill the times of restitution of all things Now Christ was preached a crucified Christ so that the bodie must needs be in Heaven 1 Cor. 1.23 We preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness It was the greatest stumbling block that could be to the Jews in the world to think that he that should come to deliver Israel should first be crucified These things thus proved let no man hereafter say that that bodie of our Lord which was crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem is not in Heaven And thus you see how these men denie the Lord that bought them if they denie that bodie that was crucified for them for he bought Lordship over all things by his death and so by that bodie that bled and suffered on the Cross and by that death became their Lord Philip. 2.7 8 9
Quaking Principles dashed in pieces by the standing and unshaken TRUTH Being an Examination of the Tenents held forth by certain Northern People viz. 1. Slighting of the written Word 2. A speaking to that within Man 3. Denying the use of Reason in the matters of God 4. A denying of the Ascension and Being of the Body of Christ 5. A denying of all the Ordinances of Christ 6. A denying Honor to Men. 7. Affording absolute perfection at one instant By Henoch Howet LONDON Printed by Henry Hills and are to be sold at his House near Py-corner at the Sign of Sir John Oldcastle 1655. Quaking Principles dashed in pieces by the standing and unshaken Truth THe God of the whole Earth now being about to declare his glorie to the Gentiles in such a manner as that the Isles that have not heard of his fame should be brought in to see his glorie and and the Kingdoms of this world being about to become the Lords and his Christs Satan at such a time is doubtless standing at the right hand of our Joshua to resist him At the right hand not at the left for he will take the better hand that he may be more eminent in shew and be preferred in the view of the world before the Joshua's of God they must come in a lower place on the left hand in a more carnal way in the eye of the world and in the report of those that speak by swelling words of spiritualness calling the God of this world that blindeth the eys a God of light and all this darkness spiritualness at this time I say appeareth those times that if it were possible should deceive the very elect whereby the stars are drawn from Heaven and cast unto the Earth Whereupon I have thought it my dutie to serve the Land of my Nativitie or rather men fearing God in this Nation in singling out certain specious Deceits of Satans and as Christ my Master did to Satan reproving them with this infallible authoritie It is written a speech that can hardly be endured with these pretended spiritual men for that Satan being overthrown by it by the Saviour of men is now fain to flie to unwritten notions consisting 1. A slighting of the written Word 2. A speaking to that within you It is their phrase 3. A denying of the use of Reason and consideration in matters of God calling it Serpent and Adam c. 4. Denying of the Ascension or Being of the Bodie of Christ 5. A denying of all Ordinances of Christ. 6. A denying honor to men 7. Absolute perfection at one instant For the first they oppose the Word Christ to the written Word and will a Word that is a Discoverie spiritual to be the Word But whatsoever it is that they call the Word it is perfectly false and not the truth although it be conceived in the soul of a Paul except the Scriptures will approve of it or it be so in Scriptures that is to say the same that is recorded in Scripture Acts 17.11 Paul counts it true Nobilitie to be daily conversant in Scripture for the proof of revealed truths and as they count is carnalness and lowness for a man at one of their meetings pulling a Bible out of his pocket one of them asked What doth that man with that Book there 2. Again it is not onely the being of the bodie of Christ but the actions and undertakings of Christ also that is profitable to us And of these the Scripture keepeth a record therefore gloriously to surmise any thing of Christ which Scripture recordeth not is to stand at the right hand of our Joshua to resist the work of God and to be more excellent and more glorious than plain Scripture Christ himself saith I come to fulfill whatsoever is written in the Law and the Prophets and the sayings concerning me Being the Apostle chargeth the plain simple sheep of Christ saying Let no man perswade you above what is written 3. Again if ignorance of the Scripture be the ground of error Mark 1â— 24 Matth. 22.29 how do these men drive the people in darkness that works upon the people to cause a disesteem of the Scriptures and yet forcibly perswade them to receive their Doctrine Consider do not the Papists denie us the Scriptures in our mother Tongue that their unwritten verities might take place And now the same spirit in another appearance perswades us to the uselesness of the Scriptures that his spiritual delusions might take place though in another form O subtle Devil Will nothing serve thy turn but to disarm us and take away that weapon that Christ fought and overthrew thee with But as he had the victorie so must all his members in their overcoming strength obtain it I mean with this authoritie It is written Then thou mightst sleep quietly in the hearts of thine in thy lusts in thy envie in thine idolatrie in thy pride in all luxurie and uncleanness if there were not an It is written to disquiet thee Men could not know lust but by It is written Rom. 7.7 If thou canst do this thy seven spirits shall dwell quietly and thou maist exalt thy self above God And thy Angels may appear more glorious than plain Preachers of the Gospel without controll Again 2 Tim. 3.17 The perfect furnishing the man of God to all good works is the end that the Scriptures were given for and the use of them is to reprove to correct to instruct in righteousness The Author of them is God by the inspiration of God that is to say in the hearts of the Prophets and Apostles For the Prophesies of old that are called Scripture are the movings of the Spirit of God in the holy men of God 2 Pet. 1.20 And our foundation is laid upon the Prophets and Apostles which is their Doctrine Christ being the head-corner-stone So that if Satan could take away or vilifie Scripture he would hinder man exceedingly from being throughly furnished c. Take away the profitable means of this Doctrine viz. reproof correction instruction O! how would he bring in a floud of destruction by filling mankinde with ignorance and lustfull pleasures in taking off the Bridle that checks Lust It brings in a Night of Darkness that men might take their pleasure in sin without any Light at all to shame them for it if he could make the Scriptures useless To shake us in our foundation I mean the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles would make the whole building of Religion and Godliness fall O subtle Serpent the Lord rebuke thee If wisdom to salvation through faith in Christ be contained in Scripture 2 Tim. 3.15 Then what a sweet conjunction and harmonie do we finde here betwixt the written Rule and the active life of a believer Who but Satan or his instruments dare slight the one and affirm he regards the other Again if the Scriptures are the means of comfort and hope Rom. 15.4 How exceedingly were we wronged if any mans of