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truth_n	apostle_n	believe_v	doctrine_n	1,986	5	6.1175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39367	Reflections upon several passages in a book entitled, The reasonableness of a personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion with a letter to Mr. John Galpine, concerning his printed encomium of J.F.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.; Galpine, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing E688; ESTC R41123	6,865	24

Evident as it is that Our SAVIOUR had said Without Me ●●fe Can Do Nothing Agreeable to that ●aying of Our Blessed LORD and the whole Tenor of the Gospel are these words in the CATECHISM of the ●hurch of England after the Explica●●on of Our Duty towards God and ●ur Duty towards our Neighbour My good Child know this that ●hou art Not able to do these things of Thy self nor to walk in the Commandments of thy God and to serve him without his special Grace which ●hou must learn at All times to call for ●●y diligent Prayer Let me hear ●herefore if thou canst say the Lords ●rayer What desirest thou of God in this Prayer Answ. I desire my Lord God our Heavenly Father who is the Giver of All Goodness to send his Grace unto me and to all People that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to do I do not find in all his Book one word Against those Hereticks who in so many Books lately Publisht and to heighten the Abomination upon Pretence of Pure Religion Blaspheme the Godhead of our Blessed SAVIOUR and of the HOLY GHOST And yet most certainly These Men as much as any other sort of Sinners if not much more Provoke the Wrath of GOD Against this Sinful Nation Since I.F. and his Companions make such Boasts of HOLINESS as if they were the only Persons that Contend for the Promoting of it in the World this I Affirm and Challenge any Non-Conformist to say any thing against it if h● will not Submit to my Assertion Tha● the Holiness or Sanctity of Man in th●● Life is no Other thing but that Ki●● of Belief of THE ARTICLES O● THE CHRISTIAN FAITH B● which the HOLY GHOST worketh in his Heart those Holy Desires which are Exprest in the LORDS PRAYER Now let any man of Common Sense Judge whether these Persons are the chief Promoters of Holiness who call the Ecclesiastical Injunctions for the Use of the CREED and the LORDS PRAYER in Religious Assemblies Toys and Trifles Against All the False Censures and Contumelious Speeches and Backbitings of this sort of Men I constantly APPEAL to Our Blessed LORD Saying from the bottome of my Heart COME LORD JESUS TO Mr. JOHN GALPINE Concerning His Printed Encomium Of J. F. YOUR undertaking to Adorn the Memory of such a PESTILENT Schismatick puts me in mind of what I wrote about Ten Years since concerning a Person that had a Fancy to shew the like Kindness to the Memory of T. HOBBS My words were these To Adorn the Memory of T. H. what is it but to Provide that the Corps of one that Dyed of the Plague may lye in State that People coming to Behold it may contract the Infection You say that I. F. was well acquainted with the Mysteries of the Gospel and in special with that admirable Mystery of Man's Redemption by Jesus Christ. How well he was acquainted with the Mystery of the Gospel we shall take Liberty to Judge who have Observ'd the Satanical Falsehood of a great part of the Doctrine he has deliver'd in his Writings particularly in the Book which he Impudently Entitles The Fountain of Life Open'd In the 182 pag. of that Book he has these very words There are not a whole World no not half but the far less part of the World Redeem'd with the Blood of Christ. If he that Believed this was well acquainted with the Mystery of the Gospel of that admirable Mystery of Man's Redemption by Jesus Christ then certainly the Blessed Apostle was very Erroneous who Says Expresly HE is the Propitiation for our Sins and not for ours only but also for the Sins of the WHOLE WORLD Since it is the Practice of so many of those that Deny the Truth of the Gospel as I. F. did to Accuse us as if we did derogate from the Doctrine of the Necessity of the Divine Assistance to Do any thing in order to our Salvation who Acknowledge that we have Learnt to Believe in God the Son who hath Redeemed us and ALL MANKIND I shall shew you that J. F. shew'd himself to be Guilty of this Pernicious Error in his Answer to the 20 th Question in the Sea-man's Catechism But I have no Strength of my own to come to Christ by and is it not absurd to urge me upon impossibilities in order to my Salvation This is indeed a Question of the Greatest Importance to the Souls of Men. The Answer that is given to it by all True Christians is this That though of Our selves or in Our own Natural Strength we are not Able to Do any thing Acceptable to God we May Do All things Through CHRIST Enabling us And CHRIST Offers the Assistance of His Holy Spirit to All those who upon the Hearing of the Gospel are Sensible of Their own Impotency to Come to CHRIST or to Walk in the Ways of God The Answer which I. F. gives to this Question is Contrary to the Sense of All True Christians for He w d Perswade a man to Act in order to his Salvation in His own Natural Strength You are more absurd says He in pleading and pretending your Impotency against your Duty To which I Reply that No man shall ever be Able to Perform any Duty that he owes unto God 'till he shall be Convinc'd that Of Himself or in His own Natural Strength he can Do Nothing but SIN For you think says He you have a Power to come to Christ else how do you quiet your Consciences with promises and resolves of Conversion hereafter Answ. They Follow the Father of Lies who Quiet their Consciences with any thing but a Sincere Resolution by the Help of CHRIST to Abstain from All Known Sin and to Perform All Known Duty both towards God and towards Man Nothing can be more Absurd than for one who Professes himself to be a Preacher of the Gospel to Disswade men from Believing that of themselves or Without the Divine Assistance they are altogether Unable to Perform any Duty to Do any thing Acceptable unto God You say He did what lay in him to live Peacebly with all Men. Let them Judge whether you speak the Truth who Consider the Malicious Reproaches he casts on the Church of England in the last Book he Publisht and in his Book Entitled Husbandry Spiritualiz'd and in the Sermon you have Publisht Entitled The Character of an Evangelical Pastor Husb. Spirit p. 94. This Book was Printed in the Year of Our Lord 1669 in which thus He Rails at the Church of England Tho there be Preaching Prayer and other Ordinances left at least the names and shadows of them yet the presence of God is not with them There is no marrow in the bone no milk in the breast and so as to Soul-subsistence 't is all one as if there were no such things In the Sermon you have Publisht your Evangelical Pastor that had FOUR WIVES Harps upon the same string 'T is manifest that the Minister