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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30903	Theses theologicæ: or The theological propositions, which are defended by Robert Barclay, in his apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached, by the people called Quakers. First printed about the year, 1675. And since then, reprinted several times, to prevent mistakes concerning that people.	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.	1675 (1675)	Wing B737; ESTC R216281	7,084	18

Theses Theologicae OR THE Theological PROPOSITIONS Which are Defended By ROBERT BARCLAY In his Apology for the True Christian Divinity as the same is held forth and Preached by the People called QUAKERS First Printed about the Year 1675. And since then Reprinted several Times to prevent Mistakes concerning that People The First Proposition Concerning the True Foundation of Knowledge SEEING the heighth of all Happiness is placed in the True Knowledge of God This is Life Eternal to know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent the true and right Understanding of this Foundation and Ground of knowledge is that which is most necessary to be Known and Believed in the first place The Second Proposition Concerning Immediate Revelation Seeing no Man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son revealeth him and seeing the Revelation of the Son is in and by the Spirit therefore the Testimony of the Spirit is that alone by which the true Knowledge of God hath been is and can be only revealed who as by the Moving of his own Spirit converted the Chaos of this World into that wonderful Order wherein it was in the beginning and created Man a Living Soul to Rule and Govern it so by the Revelation of the same Spirit he hath manifested himself all along unto the Sons of Men both Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles which Revelations of God by the Spirit whether by outward Voices and Appearances Dreams or inward objective Manifestations in the Heart were of Old the formal Object of their Faith and remaineth yet so to be since the Object of the Saints Faith is the same in all Ages tho' set forth under divers Administrations Moreover these Divine Inward Revelations which we make absolutely necessary for the Building up of True Faith neither do nor can ever contradict the outward Testimony of the Scriptures or right and sound Reason Yet from hence it will not follow that these Divine Revelations are to be subjected to the Examination either of the outward Testimony of the Scriptures or of the Natural Reason of Man as to a more noble or certain Rule or Touchstone For this Divine Revelation and Inward Illumination is that which is evident and clear of it self forcing by its own evidence and clearness the Well-disposed Understanding to assent irresistably moving the same thereunto even as the common Principles of Natural Truths move and incline the Mind to a Natural assent Such as are these That the whole is greater than the part that two contradictory Sayings cannot be both true or false which is also manifest according to our Adversaries Principle who supposing the Possibility of Inward Divine Revelations will nevertheless confess with us that neither Scripture nor sound Reason will contradict it And yet it will not follow according to them that the Scripture or sound Reason should be subjected to the Examination of the Divine Revelations in the Heart The Third Proposition Concerning the Scriptures From these Revelations of the Spirit of God to the Saints have proceeded the Scriptures of Truth which contains 1. A faithful Historical Account of the Actings of God's People in divers Ages with many singular and Remarkable Providences attending them 2. A Prophetical Account of several things whereof some are already past and some yet to come 3. A full and ample Account of all the chief Principles of the Doctrine of Christ held forth in divers precious Declarations Exhortations and Sentences which by the Moving of God's Spirit were at several times and upon sundry occasions spoken and written unto some Churches and their Pastors Nevertheless because they are only a Declaration of the Fountain and not the Fountain it self therefore they are not to be esteemed the Principal Ground of all Truth and Knowledge nor yet the adequate primary Rule of Faith and Manners Nevertheless as that which giveth a true and faithful Testimony of the first Foundation they are and may be esteemed a secondary Rule subordinate to the Spirit from which they have all their excellency and certainty for as by the Inward Testimony of the Spirit we do alone truly know them so they testifie that the Spirit is that Guide by which the Saints are led into All Truth therefore according to the Scriptures the Spirit is the first and principal Leader And seeing we do therefore receive and believe the Scriptures because they proceeded from the Spirit therefore also the Spirit is more originally and principally the Rule according to that received Maxim in the Schools Propter quod unumquodque est tale illud ipsum est magis tale Englished thus That for which a thing is such that thing it self is more such The Fourth Proposition Concerning the Condition of Man in the Fall All Adam's Posterity or Mankind both Jews and Gentiles as to the first Adam or Earthly Man is Fallen Degenerated and Dead deprived the Sensation of or feeling of this Inward Testimony or Seed of God and is subject unto the Power Nature and Seed of the Serpent which he sows in Mens Hearts while they abide in this Natural and Corrupted State From whence it comes That not their Words and Deeds only but all their Imaginations are Evil perpetually in the sight of God as proceeding from this depraved and wicked Seed Man therefore as he is in this State can know nothing aright yea his Thoughts and Conceptions concerning God and things Spiritual until he be dis-joyned from this evil Seed and united to the Divine Light are unprofitable both to himself and others Hence are rejected the Socinian and Pelagian Errors in exalting a Natural Light as also the Papists and most of Protestants who affirm That Man without the true Grace of God may be a true Minister of the Gospel Nevertheless this Seed is not imputed to Infants until by Transgression they actually joyn themselves therewith for they are by Nature the Children of Wrath who walk according to the Power of the Prince of the Air. The Fifth and Sixth Propositions Concerning the Universal Redemption by Christ and also the Saving and Spiritual Light wherewith every Man is Enlightned The Fifth Proposition God out of his Infinite Love who delighteth not in the Death of a Sinner but that all should Live and be Saved hath so loved the World that he hath given his only Son a Light that whosoever believeth in him should be Saved who Enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World and maketh manifest all things that are Reprovable and teacheth all Temperance Righteousness and Godliness And this Light Enlightneth the Hearts of all in a Day in order to Salvation if not Resisted Nor is it less Universal than the Seed of Sin being the Purchase of his Death who tasted Death for every Man For as in Adam all die even so in Christ all shall be made alive The Sixth Proposition According to which Principle or Hypothesis all the Objections against the Universality of