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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64788	A letter to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., defending the divine authority of the Holy Scripture and that it alone is the rule of faith in answer to Father Simon's Critical history of the Old Testament / written by C.M. Du Veil.	Veil, Charles-Marie de, 1630-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing V176; ESTC R6969	10,928	20

passages of the Old Testament which contain in clear terms the same things which Jesus Christ ordered his Disciples to do for the surpassing the justice of the Scribes and Pharisees that they might enter into the Kingdom of Heaven The Pre-judgments of Tradition made the Disciples of Jesus Christ still doubt after his Resurrection if it was he who should redeem Israel but Jesus Christ to free them out of that pernicious doubt reproaches them with their hardness of heart and slowness to believe all that the Prophets have said And to disengage them entirely from that false Tradition which ran amongst the People as Theophylact does remark in his Commentary upon the 24 Chap. of St. Luke beginning with Moses and continuing through all the Prophets he explains to them all that had been said of him in all the Scriptures as St. Luke does relate it in the last Chapter of his Gospel Christ does never refer People to Traditions for their Instruction in truths necessary to Salvation but alwayes to the Scripture If you believed Moses said he to the Jews in St. John Chap. 6. You would believe me also because it is of me he has written but if you believe not what he has written how should you believe what I tell you St. Paul says expresly in his 2 Tim. Chap. 3. That the Holy Scriptures are able to make us wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Jesus Christ. And to explain this thought more amply he adds All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in Righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works This is what the Fathers of the Council of Francfort express in these terms in the Capitulary of Charles the Great lib. 2. cap. 30. Est plane Divina Scriptura Verax est fixa est casta est Caelestis Magisterii Instrumentum Aeterna praedicatio purissimo nitens eloquio est Lux mortalium dicente Propheta Lucerna pedibus meis verbum tuum Domine et Lumen Semitis meis Est Vivax et mori nesciens dicente Apostolo Vivus est Sermo Dei efficax penetrabilior omni gladio ancipiti pertingens usque ad divisionem animae ac Spiritus Est tenebrarum discussio Salomone testante qui ait Lucerna est mandatum legis lux vitae increpatio Disciplina de quo per Esaiam dicitur De nocte spiritus meus vigilat ad te Deus quia lux praecepta tua sunt super terram The Holy Scripture is plainly true is stable is chaste the Instrument of Celestial Power and an eternal Preaching shining throughout with a most pure eloquence is the Light of Mortals according to the saying of the Prophet Thy Word O Lord is a Lamp to my feet and a Light unto my pathes Is quick and immortal as the Apostle says The Word of God is quick and Powerful sharper then a two-edged Sword and piercing even to the dividing asunder of Soul Spirit Is the dissipating dispelling of thick darkness witness Solomon who says The Commandment is a Lamp and the Law is light and reproofs of instruction are the way of life Es. 26. v. 9. in Edit lxx Of whom it is said by Esaiah Every night my Spirit waiteth upon thee O God because thy Precepts are a light upon the earth And as the Holy Writ possesses these advantages not by reason of the words but by reason of the truths which it contains according to the saying of St. Jerome in Cap. 1 ad Gal. Nec putemus in verbis Scripturarum esse Evangelium sed in sensu non in superficie sed in medulla non in sermonum foliis sed in radice rationis Jesus Christ and his Apostles had reason in their Citations to apply themselves more to the real sence then to the meer words of the Holy VVrit Moreover to instruct us That all that has passed under the Law of Nature and of Moses was the figure and shadow of what was to pass under the Gospel Jesus Christ and his Apostles give us very often the allegorical sence of the passages which they Cite out of the Old Testament The second reason of Father Simon which he calls a very evident proof to show that the Scripture is not sufficient to decide Controversies in matter of Religion is taken from that the Socinions do agree with the Protestants that the only and true Principle of Religion is the Holy Writ and that nevertheless they draw from thence very different Conclusions If Father Simon said the Socinians and Protestants differ in the Conclusions which they draw from the Scriptures therefore one or other of 'em is in the errour because they do not understand the Scriptures aright the argumentation would be pure But I do not see by what Logick he draws this inference that the Scripture is not sufficient to decide Controversies Since it is manifest that the Socinians govern themselves by prejudgments in the explication of the Scripture as Father Simon speaks in his Critical History of the Old Testament Book 3 chap. 16. Therefore if the Socinians draw quite contrary Conclusions to what the Protestants do from the same Scriptures it is not the obscurity of the Scripture that is the cause thereof but the prejudgments of the Socinians which make 'em abuse the Scripture to favour the Systeme of Religion which they have invented independantly of Scripture The Devil abuses the Scripture to Tempt Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ resists him by using the Scripture aright Falsas de Scripturis Diaboli sagitas veris Scripturarum frangit Clypeis says St. Jerome And this the Protestants do every day in their Controversy with the Socintans and this is what ought generally to be done in all Controversies upon matters of Religion and if the Fathers of the first Ages be Cited in these Disputes it ought only to make people sensible that those persons who studyed the Scriptures to learn therein what it is God would have us believe and do to be saved did draw the same Doctrine from thence which we do who are also Orthodox when they had no vail nor blind before their eyes which hindred them from seeing the day and the light of the Word of God in the Scriptures that is to say when they had no Systeme of Religion independant of Scriptures The Pharisees falsely concluded from that the Scripture says That a man may leave his Wife by giving her a Writing by which he declares that he puts her away that a man was allowed to put away his Wife for any cause soever but Jesus Christ convinces them of an errour not by tradition but by the Scripture as we read in the 19. chap. of St. Mathew The Saducees who rejected all traditions pretended to conclude from the Scripture that there would be no Resurrection of the Dead and Jesus Christ did not tell them that they fell