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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29189	A review and conclusion of The antidote agianst [sic] Mr. Baxter's palliated cure of church-divisions wherein Mr. Baxter's late repentance is examined, all his immodest calumnies confuted, and the grounds of separation further cleared / by Edward Bagshaw.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing B421; ESTC R37056	15,565	24

rest and satisfie our selves This is called the Obedience of Faith Rom. 16.26 Yea this is the first and chief Obedience that God requireth of us The first work of his Grace in us is to subdue our Reason 2 Cor. 10.5 Till we have attained to this simplicity we shall never be wise unto Salvation nor come to any comfortable Certaintie in the matters of Religion The same worthy Author goeth on this serves saith he to reprove the Disputer of this World of whom the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 1.20 Where is the Disputer of this VVorld such as will receive no more in Religion then they can see Reason for Scripture will not serve their turn they must have Reason But saith he it is a dangererous thing not to rest in the Authority of the Scriptures not to count it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For there be many truths of God revealed in the Word which are such Misteries as it is not possible for Man by Reason and by Light of Nature to conceive Nay indeed the whole Doctrine of the Gospel is so 1 Cor. 2.7 1 Tim. 3.16 Yea the more a man excelleth in Natural Reason and Understanding the more unable shall he be to conceive them Rom. 8.7 The VVisdom of the Flesh is enmity to God It is God alone that by the supernatural Light of his Spirit revealeth those things Mat. 16.17 And God will reveal it to none but to those ●hat are Meek and Humble to none that have such ●igh conceit of themselves and attribute so much to their own Reason Psalm 25.9 The Meek will he teach his way I have at large repeated this passage of that truly judicious and excellent Writer because he speaketh suitably both to Scripture and to what every Person truly enlightened can witness to But to shew how much you differ both from him and others of our soundest Divines in this point and to make a full discovery of your spirit and temper I shall compare it with a quite contrary pass●ge which some years ago I read and much wondered at in your self 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 I know there is a sort of over-wise and overdoing Divines who will tell their followers in private where there is none to contradict them that the Method of this Treatise is perverse as appealing too much to Natural Light and over-valuing Humane Reason and that I should have done no more but briefly tell men that all that which God speaks in his word is true and that Propria Luce it is evident that the Scripture is the Word of God and that to all Gods Elect he will give his Spirit to cause them to discern it and that thus much alone had been better than all these Disputes and Reasonings But these Over-wise men who need no Reason for their Religion and judge accordingly of others and think that those men who rest not in the Authority of Jesus Christ should rest in theirs are many of them so well acquainted with me as not to expect that I should trouble them in their way or Reason against them as much as I am addicted to scribling I can quietly dismiss this sort of men without the Labour of opening their ignorance Thus you who are if compared to them but a Rash and Insolent Seribler because you have nothing to do but are at leisure to be a Voluminous Trifler dare with your breath blow upon and seek to blast the Credit of all these worthy weighty Writers whom you call Over-wise and Over-doing Divines such as Calvin Preston Hildersham Perkins c. whom I quoated before as if they were all but Bubbles for you to play with and blow up and down at your pleasure but their Name and Doctrine shall live and flourish when yours shall wither as not being able to endure the Fiery Tryal So far therefore as I can by Entreaties or Example prevail with any I do earnestly warn all persons truly fearing God that they be not deceived by Names nor take any thing upon trust from a commonly Received and Mistaken Repu●ation For if I understand any thing of the true nature of Religion your writings do contain that secret Leaven which will sowre and infect the Mind of an unwary Reader with such Erronious Apprehensions and Mis-conceits of the Truth that nothing but a new and thorough Conversion will be able to recover them For laying your Foundation in the Corrupt Will of Man and building your Superstructure in the Carnal Vnderstanding you leave no room for true Holiness and Mortification but the Root of sin which lieth within remaineth untouched and Carnal Presumption or at the best Doubting if not Despair will be the utmost that such Principles can possibly end in or lead unto I shall therefore here leave off and for the present if not for ever end any farther Controversie with you as being one of whom I cannot say what you do of me after all your virulence that I am upright in the Main page 26. For I hold you are altogether Rotten and Vnsound in the Main and so much the more incurable in that you have greatly sinned and turned Scorner since your Admonition These being my most serious thoughts of all your Works I do willingly pass by lesser Matters which yet afford me sufficient ground of Exception such are First Your Absurd and Insigniflcant way of speaking although I have already reproved you for it as when you talk of a Rash and Carolefly uttered Vntruth page 29. which is Privatively voluntary that is where the VVill omits its office Where I am much to seek what can be meant by Privatively voluntary or how any action can be done where the VVill omits its office Adde to this your discourse of a receiving Obediential Power in a Carnal VVill which receiving Power you call a Passive Power page 139. where the Comment and Explication is much harder than the Text. Lastly To urge no more your saying that by Corruption and ●mposition barely seemeth to be meant such Formaliter quoad Actum without including the degree of the Matter page 134. Sir These and the like expressions though you and the Schools call them Distincteons yet indeed are nothing else but Learned Non sence Which although they may not other wise have much hurt in them yet they are those Big swelling words of Vanity which are the usual Language of False Teachers and one of the Marks which is fore-told by which they may be known 2 Pet. 2. Secondly I might except against your scornful trifling with things that are most sacred and serious as when you say page 57. I am verily perswaded if Christ came personally and visibly to demand it the King himself would yeild up his Crown to him and I am as verily perswaded the Turk or Pope would do so too which yet at present I do not look upon as any great commendation to either of them And besides had ever the Terror of that Day of the Lord fell upon you