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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63826	A good day vvell improved, or Five sermons upon Acts 9. 31 Two of which were preached at Pauls, and ordered to be printed. To which is annexed a sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, June 30. 1650. By Anthony Tuckney D.D. and Master of St Johns College in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing T3216A; ESTC R222406	116,693	318

what Hierom saith that Scripture truth is in medulla non in superficie non in terminorum foliis sed in radice rationis and say with Synesius that the holy Ghost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though every Title and Iota in it is sacred yet it is the kernel of the doctrine and not so much the shell of the words that we so much stand upon And therefore if any shall conceitedly affect and insist upon any formes of words of their own making as are either meerly leaves or that cover some poysonous toad of error and impiety under them we will very readily call them as Nazianzen Orat. 6. de Spir. S. did his Adversary A. B. C. sophysters and wording Sycophants Such empty shells of Formalities we leave to more empty vain hearts like children to play with and those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those formed feigned words which the Apostle speaks of 2 Pet. 2. 3. to those deceitfull Huksters to make merchandise with which some of them who now a dayes decry formes most are most notoriously guilty of and in this kind of all others the most affected Formalists who with their new lights have got a set of new-minted words and phrases a strain of high flown canting in their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 right out those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 2. 18. even swelling words of vanity which Peter observed and noted in the Seducers of his time and Calvin in the Libertines and Instructio adversus libert cap. 7 Quintinists of his and the Shiboleth of many in ours by which although we cannot understand their language yet we may easily come to know them whilest their form of speech bewraieth them 2. Nor to be onely bare Declarations of what we believe An ecce fidem meam or Apologies and Purgations of our selves from the Aspersions and slanders of others who either misconceive or willfully misreport us For this Prefat ad Confess Atque etiam sit Res propria Remonstrantibus qua ab omnibus aliis in tota Christianit●te p●aecisis s●ctis disernuntur Synod Remonstra cap. 3. use the Remonstrants themselvs wil allow of them and no wonder because when they are deservedly taxed they have need to Apologize But this is all that they will allow them because they do so dearly hugg that Helena of theirs their libertas prophetandi as their main interest and on which they have set their property as being their p●c●lium onely and so become impatient of any such restraint though I cannot but wonder that they should say that the Primitive Churches and Christians intended no more by their Creeds Canons and Confessions Prefat ad confess in libro de fide ad Petrum then by them onely to testifie Non quid credendum esset sed quid ipsi crediderint when they read so often in Austin Firmissimè crede nullatenus dubites and when in their Synods and Councils they did so frequently and I fear too too liberally thunder out their Anathemaes Remonstra in exam praefat Censu●ae against those that taught contrary to their determinations and when the Remonstrants themselves do so cry out of Athanasius for pride and in his Quicunque vult salvari c. which he prefixeth before the Articles of his Creed 3. I add therefore in the 3d place that these Formes of sound Words are useful and in some cases are necessary and so have been used as Declarations not onely of what we our selves believe but also of what we judge that all should believe unlesse we could think that others might rightly believe that as true which we in our conscience judge to be false a goodly peece of our ingenuous loving-hearted Arminians charity and also desire and require that all should professe or at least not openly contradict with whom we joyn in nearest Church Communion So it was with the Apostles in their Canons Acts 15. And so it is with particular Churches in their Articles and Confessions to this day and so may it be alwayes Ringantur licet rumpantur Socino-Remonstrantes Notwithstanding all the rage and invectives of Socinians Arminians Libertines and other Sectaries Haec sacra aliter non constant Praefat ad Apologiam who will rather disturb yea and ruine both Churches and States and snap asunder the sacred bond of Peace then be thus hampred 4. They are therefore in the 4th place Communionis Tessarae Judices not onely badges of our Christian Church Communion but also great helps and furtherers of it whereby uncomfortable divisions may be prevented and the peace of the Church the better preserved whilest we all profess the same Truth and speak the same thing being perfectly joyned together in the same minde and the same judgement 1 Cor. 1. 10. The Remonstrants indeed tell us that there are Non pauci pii probi many honest godly men Praefat ad Confess they mean their own sweet selves and their dear party for who so honest and godly as they who dislike such Formes and Confessions as derogatory to the Authority Sufficiency and perspicuity of the Scriptures 2. As a wrong to liberty of conscience and of Prophesying 3. As a great cause of Schismes and Factions in the Church For the first They fear where no fear is No fear of taking from the Authority and Perspicuity of the Scriptures by these confessions which are wholly built upon them and for matter wholly and for Words and Phrases in a great part taken out of them not so much as by a single private Ministers confirming and explaining of them in the course of his Ministry which I hope they are not against unlesse they who are so chary and tender of the liberty of Prophesying will quite take away both the office and gift of Prophesying which when Christ instituted in his Church he sure never intended it should be any blemish or prejudice to the Scriptures Authority or Perspicuity For the 2d let the Papists answer Solum pontificium atque Hispanum regnum videte jumenta ibi sunt non homines quicquid imponitur id portat vulgus ut ascenus Isidi Sacra to God and man for their Tyranny over Gods Peoples Consciences and true liberty The Spanish Inquisition when God makes inquisition for blood there shed in this kinde will be sadly accountable We that have been this way pinched our selves I hope should never have imposed upon others the like yoke of slavery Some indeed that their tongues might be as licentious as their practises lavish it at large speak loud as though they had hired a Tertullus to help them with invectives or some mercinary Lawyer to draw up a bill in chancery with a most horrid charge that hath never a word of truth in it General outcries against an intended acted Tyranny but they should instance in particulars and make them good mean while as long as the skin is whole though they pour vinegar on us it