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A55307 The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings. Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694? 1682 (1682) Wing P2756; ESTC R3092 63,931 131

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fills it full of quarrels strife and contentions Those that will promote the Peace of it must require Assent and Profession only to some few necessary things and in vain do men hope or expect that the whole Church of God should be of the same mind in many or all things In confessione scribendâ ut nihil quod omnino sit cognitu necessarium praetermittendum est ita quicquid addatur non necessarium etiamsi alicqui verum bonum sit id ad Ecclesiae divisionem in Sectas pertinet atque ad discordias rixas qui pacem concordiam in Ecclesia vult esse oportet eum rerum necessariarum confessione contentum esse frustra enim speraverit aliquis fore unquam ut cum Dei Ecclesia tam bene agatur ut de rebus omnibus omnes idem sentiant quare una illa reliqua est concordiae ratio si qui necessaria amplectuntur ferant se mutuo suas controversias inter se amanter humaniterque uti fratres tractent Acont ubi supra pag. 367. 5. Let this Confession Creed Symbol or Test of Communion be expressed as near as possible in the words of Scripture Nihil complectatur nisi expressum eisdem etiam verbis loquendi formulis quoad sciri potest quibus ipse Dei Spiritus usus est For there may be many men that will own and subscribe a Creed or Confession expressed in the words of the Holy Ghost which peradventure may scruple that which is expressed in our own All Protestants do grant that all things necessary to be believed and practised are plainly and clearly revealed and expressed in the holy and sacred Volumes What hinders then but that our Symbol Creed or Confession may be drawn up in the words of Scripture Do we imagine that our own words will be more apt and proper and fitter to obviate Hereticks than those of the Holy Ghost Shall we pretend to be more wise and cautious than the Divine Spirit Or do we know what is more or less liable to Cavils and Exceptions better than God himself What arrogance madness and presumption is this Are we wiser than God Or are we more prudent and advised than he whose understanding is infinite 6. Let nothing be condemned or rejected in this Creed or Symbol but what is inconsistent with the Faith of things absolutely necessary to Salvation Let no Errours be condemned in it but such as exclude from the Kingdom of Heaven If Errours of inferiour nature be condemned in it 't will become an Engine of Division and not an Instrument of Peace 't will exclude many from the Communion of the Church which ought to be received unto it and so be an occasion of Separation and Schism And I know nothing almost that hath occasioned more mischief and brought more fatal Calamities upon the Churches of Christ than the enlarging of Creeds and Confessions under pretence of obviating Errours and Heresies This one Engine hath caused more Schisms and Separations and shed more blood and caused more desolations than all the Heathen Persecutions and yet notwithstanding the Lamentable Experience of so many Ages 't is still kept in use And I believe the Devil is very loth to part with it he hath found such success and advantage by it that he will never forsake or abandon the use of it if possibly he can And there are many men and some that do pretend to be no Friends to him or his Interests that seem to be almost as loth to part with this blessed Invention as the Devil himself Optandum foret ut qui publica templa munera occupant in sua confessione doctrina ceremoniis aliisque se intra primorum Christianorum Apostolorum simplicitatem generalitatem continerent aut duodecim illis Catholicae Fidei Articulis Symbolo Apostol contentis hoc est paucis admodum paucis ceremoniis contenti essent in aliorum conscientias Dominium non usurparent adeo ut omnes absque animi offensione publicos illos coetus frequentare ibi inter se Eucharistiam celebrare possent Curcellaeus in his Preface to Episcopius 7. Let us know that the things absolutely necessary to Salvation and utterly inconsistent with it are but few The Learned and peaceable Author last but one mentioned reckons nothing directly necessary but Faith in the Son of God and nothing inconsistent with it but Unbelief of the same proportion By consequence he grants it necessary that we understand the depravation guilt of our own lives and natures and the purpose and resolution of God to judge the Living and the Dead Vid. Jac. Acont Strat. Satanae lib. 3. à pag. 123. ad pag. 131. And according to these apprehensions of things absolutely necessary both directly and by consequence he forms a Symbol which I will propose to the Reader 's view and consideration in his own words 1. Quod unus sit verus Deus is quem ille misit Jesus Christus Spiritus Sanctus quod non recte negatur alius esse Pater alius esse Filius quia Jesus Christus vere sit Dei Filius 2. Quod homo irae judicioque Dei sit obnoxius quod reviviscent mortui justi quidem ad sempiternam beatitudinem impii verò ad sempiternos cruciatus 3. Quod Deus Jesum Christum Filium suum in orbem miserit qui homo factus propter peccata nostra mortuus sit propter nostram justitiam à mortuis excitatus 4. Quod si crediderimus Dei Filio per ejus nomen vitam consequuturi simus 5. Quod non sit in ullo alio salus non in beata Virgine aut Petro aut Paulo aut ullo alio Sancto vel quovis alio nomine quod non sit justitia in Lege neque in hominum mandatis aut inventis 6. Quod unus sit baptismus in nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Vid. pag. 373. lib. 7. Edit Oxon. In English thus 1. There is one True God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent with the holy Spirit and 't is falsly denyed that the Father is not another and the Son another because Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God 2. Man is liable to the Wrath and Judgment of God and the Dead shall rise the Just to everlasting happiness and the Wicked to everlasting torments 3. God sent his Son Jesus Christ into the world who was made Man and died for our sins and rose again for our Justification 4. If we believe in the Son of God we shall obtain Life by his Name 5. There is Salvation in no other not in the blessed Virgin not in Peter Paul or any other Saint or Name There is no Righteousness in or by the Law or by the Commandments and Inventions of men 6. There is one Baptism in the Name of Father Son and Holy Ghost I have not set down the Creed of this Judicious Author as if I thought it the best