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A65735 D. D. An advertisement, anent the reading of the books of Antonia Borignion By George White minister at Mary-Culter near Aberdeen. White, George, d. 1724. 1700 (1700) Wing W1767; ESTC R222008 41,559 107

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Sacraments have we not as luculent Precepts for the constant use of them as of any other duties Mat. 28.19 Go teach all Nations baptising them c. 1 Cor. 11.23 I have received of the LORD that which also I delivered unto you and V. 26. As often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup c. A. B did snatch the Objection against the baptising of Infants from the Socinians and Anabaptists which is most frivolous that it is not commanded in express terms in the Scriptures Origen who lived in the second Centurie writting on Mat. 6.5.6.7 Assureth us that the Church had it always and that by tradition from the Apostles Yet are we more sure that it is a clear consequence from the Scriptures which being natural from the Text and undistorted doth ever import a Scriptural truth As we read Mat. 22.29 Our Saviour charged the Saducees anent the great Article of the Resurrection That they did err not knowing the Scriptures albeit not the express words of the Text Exod. 3.6 which he cited were directly against them but the consequence thereof so upon this sound foundation Infant Baptism is firmly grounded for the Sacraments are not only Signs but likewise Seals of the New Covenant and they to whom the gracious promises and conditions of the Heavenly Charter belong have a right also to the Seals appended thereunto Gen. 17.7.10 The Promise is to Thee and thy Children said GOD to Abraham Baptism comes in the place of Circumcision which was administred to Children when eight days old The right Preaching of the Word and Administration of the Sacraments are the ordinary means of our Salvation and undoubted marks of the true Church The Ap. pt 2 p. 154. to 159. Alleadgeth what he can to justifie A. B. in this which doth not satisfie 1 That she was above Ordinances Which is a vain boasting and contrary to GODS direction Gant 1.8 2 That she durst not go to the Popish Churches for fear of her life She could not be in alike hazard every where and how doth that excuse her for teaching that no Bodie needs go to Church or partake of the Sacraments 3 That she wrote a Book in defence of the Sacraments against the Quakers The Quaker who offended her was rebuked therefore by his Partie and they were reconciled with A. B. And at the best she contradicteth her self in this Point POINT VII Of Pastors and Church Government THe supposed Gentle-woman and pretended Illuminated A. B. and her Defender or Ap. transforming themselves into Angels of Light S. V. pt 1. p. 112 in all their writtings about Religion have indulged the swing of their absolut and independent free will in nothing more than in their ranting and railing at the Pastors of CHRISTS Flock and the Church Government For thus they write that it is unlawful for any to make it a trade or office to teach others S. V. pt 1. p. 115. L. W. pt 3 p. 90. The office of a Priest is an enemie to the resignation of Souls to GOD and Ap. pt 1. p. 53. All the evils of Christendom comes from the Pastors and all the Peoples degeneracie from their Guides I could adduce many more passages to the purpose but it is needless when the Ap. pt 2. p. 158. declares that the L. W. which is the chief of A. Bs. Books the Key and Rule of all the rest was written on purpose against the Pastors because of the degeneracie of the Roman Church Hereupon it may be reflected without debaiting if she was not injurious to write so against all the Pastors of the Church of Rome without exception of any how can it be thought true that she wrote against the Pastors of that Church only since she declares the Pastoral-Office it self to be unlawful and declaims as much against Protestants as Papists and besides them all Pastors in Christendom not excepting any either in the Greek or Abassine Churches or any where else in the World But on the matter it self how contrary is their Doctrine to the Holy Scriptures Whereby we are well instructed that the Alwise GOD who made Man a social Creature naturally inclined to society and thereby needing both Laws and Government did always prescribe Laws to Mankind and for the benefite thereof positively appointed the Government both Civil and Ecclesiastick and by a special designation Pastors and Church-Officers for his own immediat service and the Salvation of Peoples Souls Eph. 4.11.12.13 He gave Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the Body of CHRIST till we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the SON of GOD unto a perfect Man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of CHRIST Heb 5.4 No man taketh this honour upon himself but he that i● called of GOD as was Aaron Where the true Pastor is there the true Church is and when the Shepherd is smitten the Sheep are scattered abroad Mat. 26.31 So it is one of the main Policies of Satan for destroying the Church altogether to endeavour to bring all the Pastors under contempt as a fit mean for subverting the office it self and consequently to ruin the Church of CHRIST Such railing against all Pastors and the Sacred Function it self is as A flood of water cast out of the mouth of the Old Serpent the accuser of the Brethren for To drown if he could the Woman who is cloathed with the Sun that is the Church of GOD. Rev. 12.9.10.15 The accute Ap. when he readeth this part of the Advertisement may possibly say that the language savours of too much passion and the inference is too hard for may not A. Bs. words bear a more favourable interpretation such as that of the Disc Academ p. 16. 23. That Pastors and Church Government Sacraments and the publick Worship of GOD have no certain connexion with Mans Salvation nor are they certain necessary and infallible means of recovering the love of GOD and A. B. one where or another of her writtings mentioneth the Office of Pastors as a thing that may be reformed and to say that Sacred Offices or means ordained by GOD for his own Glory and Mans Salvation may be reformed is a more moderat Sentiment to hold their phrase than that they are simply unlawful and should be quite abolished Hereto it is answered that I designed in this Censure to evite all hard words as much as possible could be without prejudice of truth which is herein defended yet it is allowed as a maxime among moralists either in speaking writting or other actions to sharpen reason not by our own passions or affections but by these which the cause requireth I called her writting on this point against the Pastoral Office Ranting because her language to that purpose is the same with that of the wild Sect of the Ranters and railing which is calumniating or a wrongous caracterising and ascribing undue epithites to
by faith in Christ whereas it is manifest by the Scriptures alreadie cited and many more which could be shown that Christs suffering in our stead and thereby procuring to us remission of sin and freedom from the Punishment due to us therefore is a most true and Divine substitution and not false and Diabolical as A. B. saith 2 Cor. 5.19 GOD in Christ reconcileth the World to himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and not to impute to us our trespasses is to procure a discharge of the samen A wise man should not be ridicul'd for his wisdom but this is the wisest Course that a sinner can take to confess his own frailty and believe to be saved by the free Mercy of GOD for the sake of Christs Merits We do not deny a substitution of love as he calls it that of GOD'S free love in Christ Jesus whereby we are both Justified and Sanctified but neither Penitence nor any other Grace bestowed upon us can be called our Merit nor can there be any addition made to the Sacrifice of Christ which satisfied the Justice of GOD and is the only meritorious cause of our Justification The Ap. insists saying that we carp at the words Merit and Satisfaction while we grant the thing imported thereby that Christ by his Merits hath procured to us to do penitence and to imitat himself without which non can be saved by faith in Him This is the substance of all his suppositions or imperfect sort of Argument in the foresaid place which in the Schools is called a Sorites To which I answer briefly that the Orthodox have good reason to quarrel both at the words and the thing which he understands thereby for it is simply impossible that sinners can either satisfie the Justice of GOD or merit their own Salvation because there is no commutative Justice betwixt GOD and Man as there is in Contracts between man and man so that it were injustice not to remit sin upon all the penitence or good works that we can do He being infinitly Holy and we but frail Creatures who at the best are but Unprofitable Servants Luke 17.10 We ought indeed to evidence our Faith by a good life but to call our penitence or love to GOD or imitation of Christ our own merit is but a vain gloriation and derogatory from the satisfactory Merits of Christ for which I remit him to Bellarmin who is a great Orator for humane merits but confesseth that for the uncertainty of our own Righteousness and the danger of vain Glory it is most safe to place our whole confidence in GOD'S Mercy alone and his Goodness and a few lines after he sayes that without a Revelation no man can know assuredly himself to have true Merits or that he shall persevere in them to the end Likewise because nothing is more easie in this place of tentation than pride to arise from the consideration of good works R. Bell. Card. Jesu de Justi L. 5. c. 7. p. 1266 in 80. SECTION IV. SUBS. I. N. III. Of Mans future State IN the Seventh and two last Articles of the Apostles Creed sundry great Truths are included anent Mans future State which are clearly taught in the Scriptures and are of the essentials of Religion namely that after Death neither Soul nor Body perish but they shall be joined again by the power of GOD through Jesus Christ at the Generall Resurrection and set day of Judgment when He shall pronounce a righteous Sentence upon all Mankind giving unto those who have done well Eternal Life in Heaven and to the wicked E●nal Damnation But A. B. makes a ludicrous Scene of all this writting that the World shall not be consumed by fire there shall be no judgment after Death nor a set and appointed day of Judgment nor any other sort of judgment than what is begun thirty Years agoe that good People shall not goe to Heaven but Christ coming with men and not with Angels shall dwell with them visibly for ever on Earth where they shall propagate their kinde Eternally being retired into a safe Corner of the Earth or rather to the Centre of their Soul to live in all pleasure and the Wicked to another Corner of it to be afflicted by Serpents and all evil things And she believes all this better than all the other Mysteries of our Faith L. W. pt 1. from p. 143. to 148. and from 150. to 159. and from 168. to 170. and pt 2. p. 131. 132. and pt 3. p. 146. And all the foresaid Heretical rapsodie is approved be the Ap. pt 2. p. 180. to 184. the Mysteries of Faith which she doth not so well believe as these her own whimsies are the Unity and Trinity in GOD the Incarnation and Satisfaction of Christ the efficacie of Grace with the free will of Man the Resurrection of the Dead the Day of Judgement and Mens then being mandated to Heaven or Hell These Opinions of A. B. are worse than the Old Millenar●● who yet were still condemned by the Orthodox and Catholick Church which held that the Scriptures in no place promised Christs dwelling on Earth Bodily again but rather the contrary as Acts 3.21 Tit. 1.2 GOD that cannot lie hath in his Holy word assured us of the Truths which I have rehearsed on this head which also demonstrates the falsitie of A. Bs. Tenets lastly repeated John 5.28.29 The hour is comming in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear His Voice and shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of damnation Heb. 9.27 It is appointed unto men once to die but after this the Judgment Acts 17.31 He hath appointed a Day in which he will judge the World in Righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained 1 Cor. 15.15.16 For if the Dead rise not then is not Christ raised and if Christ be not raised your Faith is vain 2 Pet. 3.12 Hasting to the coming of the Day of God wherein the Heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat there are many parallel places of Scriptures as John 14.3 Mat. 25.46 1 Thes 4.16 The Sophistical shifts that are made be A. B. and her Ap. in the fore cited places for excusing their Errours shall be easily discussed Obj. 1. First Heaven is where GOD is therefore when Christ reigns with his Saints on Earth there needs no other Heaven A. It s answered neither GOD 'S essential Immensity nor His diffused Grace takes away the nature of things or confounds distinct places so Heaven is still His Thron and the place of the Blessed and the Earth his Foot Stool Obj. 2. If Christ doe not reign with His Saints Eternally on Earth then the Earth was made only for Wicked Men and Devils A. The Earth was made for GODS People who serve Him on it now in the Land of the living tho imperfectly but