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A91027	The principles of faith, presented by Mr. Tho. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, Mr. Sydrach Simson, and other ministers, to the committee of Parliament for religion, by way of explanation to the proposals for propagating of the gospel.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3496; Thomason E234_5	20,440	40

The Principles of Faith presented by Mr. Tho. Goodwin Mr. Nye Mr. Sydrach Simson and other Ministers to the Committee of Parliament for Religion by way of explanation to the Proposals for propagating of the Gospel FIrst That the holy Scripture is that rule of knowing God and living unto him which who so doth not beleeve but betakes himself to any other way of discovering truth and the minde of God instead thereof cannot be saved 2 Thess 2. 10 11 12. Because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeve a Lye that they all might be damned who beleeve not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness vers 13. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you Brethren beloved of the Lord because God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth vers 14. whereunto he called you by our Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ 15. Therefore Brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which yee have been taught whether by word or our Epistle 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3. Moreover Brethren I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you which also you have received and wherein yee stand By which also yee are saved if yee keep in memory what I Preached unto you unless yee have beleeved in vain For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures 2 Cor. 1. 13. For we write none other things unto you then what you read or acknowledge and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end compared with Acts 26. 22 c. Having therefore obtained help of God I continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great saying none other things then those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come Joh. 5. 39. Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eternall life compared with Psal 147. 19. 20. verses He shewed his Word unto Jacob his Statutes and judgements unto Israel hee hath not dealt so with any Nation and as for his Judgements they have not known them And with Iohn 4. 22. Ye worship yee know not what wee know what wee worship for Salvation is of the Jews 2 Pet. 2. 1. But there were false Prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction compared with 2 Pet. 3. 1 2. This second Epistle beloved I now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance That yee may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy Prophets and of the Commandements of us the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour II. That there is a God who is the Creator Governour and Judge of the World which is to be received by faith and every other way of the knowledge of him is insufficient Heb. 11. 3. Through faith we understand that the Worlds were framed by the Word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear Ver. 6. But without faith it is impossible to please God for he that cometh to God must beleeve that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him Rom. 1. ver 19. Because that which may be known of God is manifested in them for God hath shewed it to them Vers 20. For the Invisible things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse Vers 21. Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened Vers 22. Professing themselves to be wise they became fools compared with 1 Cor. 1. 21. For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to save them that beleeve 2 Thes 1. 8. To render vengeance on them that knew not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ III. That this God who is the Creator is eternally distinct from all the Creatures in his being and blessedness Rom. 1. v. 18. For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness Vers 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the creature more then the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen 1 Cor. 8 v. 5. For though there be that are called Gods whether in heaven or in earth as there be gods many and lords many Vers 6. But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him IV. That this God is one in three Persons or subsistences 1 Joh. 5. 5. Who is this that overcometh the world but he that beleeveth that Jesus is the Son of God Vers 6. This is he that came by Water and Bloud even Jesus Christ not by water only but by water and bloud and it is the Spirit than beareth witness because the Spirit is truth Vers 7. For there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Vers 8. And there are three that bear witness in earth the Spirit the Water and the Bloud and the 〈…〉 Ver. 9. If we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son Compared with Joh. 8. 17. It is also written in your Law that the testimony of two men is true Vers 18. I am one that bear witness of my self and the father that sent me beareth witness of me Vers 19. Then said they unto him Where is thy Father Jesus answered Yee neither know me nor my Father if yee had known me yee should have known my Father also Ver. 21. Then said Jesus unto them Yee shall dye in your sins Mat. 28. 19. Go yee therefore and teach all Nations baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Compared with Ephesians 4. 4. There is one body and one spirit even as yee are called in one hope of your calling Ver. 5. One Lord one Faith one Baptism Ver. 6. One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all 1 Joh. 2. 22. Who is a lyer but he that denieth that Iesus is the Christ he is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son Vers 23. Whosoever denieth

jus non scriptum nunquam repugnans rationi naturali A custome ought not to be contrary to the Law of nature which by long continuance in the Kingdom hath got such a generall allowance it being so commonly and so frequently practised together with the considerations of the disquietnesse and dangerous effects it often produceth the discord and dishonor it brings to houses and families and likewise the miseries contempt and reproach to the younger brothers themselves I have adventured to put in view though in so ragged and uneven a manner these undigested lines onely as a remembrancer hinting at things hoping thereby to put in mind and to awaken the hearts and resolutions of some of that Fraternity of greater abilities and advantages to pursue it to some better reformation In which design let us not be discouraged nor discountenanced notwithstanding our elder brothers are advanced in power and authority above us but let us rather be animated that our cause is just and our determiners we hope not unjust we shall not be unreasonable let us not despair for greater things then this have been effected let younger brothers likewise consider the misery the disesteem this use this vast difference bringeth on them the Elder injoying large possessions the younger having not sufficient maintenance the Elder gentlemen the Younger beggers as if they were bastards and no sonnes servants and no children this is so usually practised that the very name of a younger brother is a word of contempt and an expression of want and slender meanes and amongst other Nations reckoned as one of the poor companies some commiserating their poor condition and maintenance that the Elder and Younger being bretheren by birth of so near relation of the same flesh and blood should be so severed so disjoyned and so far off in fortunes some again deriding at the ill policie of our Kingdome and carelessnesse of some Parents in bringing them up as their children but not maintaining them as their sons in giving them a generous breeding but leaving them a slender allowance for the continuance of it dealing with them as Pharaoh dealt with the children of Israel that would have them make brick but would give them no straw that would have them Gentlemen but will give them little or nothing for the support and maintenance of it This education taking such a deep impression in many as having first taken possession in them none are ignorant of the force of education the ceasing of which is most harsh to the soul it is better never to have been godly then after to turn apostate it is happier never to have been in plenty then after it to fall into want it is the speech of deposed Dionysius they are happy saith he that have been unblessed from their youth it was the wish of a noble Queen in misery that she had not been of the royall blood so younger brothers may often wish that they had been rather the sons of some yeomen then of Knights They being often left to the dispositions and dependance of their elder brothers and so consequently servants if not vassalls at least to their humours and many times upon the lest distaste and difference are casheer'd and left to the four windes It is written the Elder shall serve the younger but not that the younger shall be a slave to the Elder Some I confesse being more fairly dealt with as having somewhat more considerate Parents by leaving them more certainty pension or allowance not depending so much upon the will of the Elder but commonly it is of that quality and quantity that it will scarcely afford them a single competence neither is it any waies proportionoble to their Fathers estate it being likewise generally of that nature and their education such that they cannot imploy it for their best advantage so that they are as it were enforced to be idle And if naturall desires prevail they must be forced either to be one of Origens disciples or intercede for the publick tolleration of Stewes they having allowance in some Nations as a necessary evill or else petition for the reedifying of Cloysters there to live in solitarines from the view of the world there to be dieted with Agnu Castu and Sacru Saturni by the dissolutions of which our Ancestors took away that advantage from us with others establishing nothing in lieu thereof Now if viriles appetitus are predominant which God and Nature doth not forbid they must but Tantalize and as Prisoners look through the Grate so that they must either be torne in pieces by predominate affections burned with feavers or drowned in dropsies or if they have not the gift of abstinence they and their children are commonly precipitated into extream indigency and miseries being forced to lay aside all badges of their birth and education so that which way soever they turn lupum auribus tenent they must either burn or starve which things are most grievous to the soul and which the temper of many spirits cannot brook It is better never to have been a Helen then after to become a Hecuba the want alone of a foregone joy is troublesome how much more when it declines to miserable extremities Jobs aflictions were more piercing when hee remembred the daies of old David a man after Gods own heart complaineth that his present calamities more compleated his grief in regard of his former freedome Adversity is in his full strength coming upon him who formerly hath been prosperous for the common enduring of miserie dulleth the edge thereof and maketh it much lesse sensible to him whom custome hath made familiar with grief These exigencies having with some such an operation that when they cannot it may be they know not how to maintain themselves by honest and lawful waies are driven to take indirect courses and by consorting themselves with ill company acquainting themselves with shifts and practising how to deceive hence it is that many are driven to beg cheat steal and many times hanged for theft then what can be more ignominous more disgracefull to the Family the sonns descredit must needs be the fathers disgrace and what can be more offensive to the quietnesse of a nation It is this inequality which compelle th● many brave spirits desperately to run into the gulf of discontent to turn Pirates Turkes Fugitives Hectors Knights of the blade nay any thing it is like Polygamy amongst the Turkes that hath made almost all the Country robbers being forced thereunto for the maintenance of their wives 1. But our insociable Inheritors as one calls them may say to us that the Lawes being such there is no remedie but patience you must be content and frame your minds according to your lots otherwise you do but bite the chain in which you are tyed and so wrong your teeth Thus we see how Issachart like they would have us couch down between our burthen sed meliora spero and perswade us to a stupidity not patience It is no