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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57956	A discourse of the use of reason in matters of religion shewing that Christianity contains nothing repugnant to right reason, against enthusiasts and deists / written in Latin by the Reverend Dr. Rust ; and translated into English, with annotations upon it by Hen. Hallywell.	Rust, George, d. 1670.; Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?	1683 (1683)	Wing R2361; ESTC R25530	47,282	92

Body without which the Happiness of Man cannot be Compleat And how ready God is to Pardon Sinners upon a true Faith and Repentance for this we are apt to doubt of when we consider the Malignity of Sin our own proneness to Revenge and how rare a thing it is to find forgiveness of a fault amongst men In like manner that he should establish the Belief of Rewards and Punishments after this life that by looking up to those we may be allured to Obedience and out of fear of these may be deterred from sin And that he should gain credit to all these things both by his Miracles and by his Death For Miracles are the greatest Testimony of Divine Presence And in that he yielded himself up to Death it is a Great sign of the Truth and Sincerity of his dealing with us Besides It is a clear Demonstration of the Divine Goodness towards us who spared not his own Son that he might do us good Nor can there be a stronger Argument to move us to Crucifie our Lusts and to lay down our lives for the Brethren But that our Lord by his Death became a Sacrifice for sins by which God declared his Placableness it was a design of Infinite Wisdom and Goodness to relieve and succour the Soul under the Arguments of Despondency and Distrust which it fetcht against it self from the Holiness and Justice of God the Death of Christ for that very End propitiating Divine Justice His Resurrection from the Dead is likewise very Consonant to Reason being an Ample Confirmation of his past Actions and also a Demonstration of the Possibility of our Resurrection and Return to Life after Death But that after his Resurrection he was exalted at the Right hand of God and that all Prayers and Praises should be offered to God by his Mediation and that he always makes Intercession for us this is likewise very agreeable to Reason For hence God not only makes known to us his kindness and Good-will but has placed our Brother at his Right hand a Person most dear to him and most tenderly affected towards us through whom we may with cheerfulness and full trust make our approach to God Christ in the mean while deprecating God in our behalf that we should acknowledge whatever Good befals us to proceed wholly and purely from the love of God And then in that all Power both in Heaven and Earth is committed into his hands and that he is Gods Vice-gerent and the Head of Saints and Angels it is a great Comfort to us because it is he that so dearly loves us who is possest of such mighty Power Moreover since there is without Dispute a certain Polity and Government among the Blessed Saints and Angels whom can we imagine to have better and greater Right to this Principality than Jesus Christ who is God clothed with Humane Nature And that both Devils and Men are sometime to be summon'd before the dreadful Tribunal of God is very Consentaneous for this very thought will strike Terror into the most daring Sinner and the Solemnity of the Judgment will vindicate God from all Suspicion of Malignity and Injustice because every Man's Conscience will testifie to him that his Misery proceeds from his own wretched Folly Nor can any thing be imagined more proper then that Christ should be appointed Judge for since God cannot execute this solemn Judgment but under a visible shape what fitter Instrument can there be for this Purpose then that very Nature in which long ago he has taken up his dwelling And lastly 't is no way discrepant from Reason that having subdued all his Enemies he should deliver up the Kingdom to his Father For his Mediatory Office being designed to this Purpose that lapsed Man may be recovered to the Life of God and invested with endless Happiness upon the perfecting this work the Determination of his Kingdom ought to follow Which yet is to be understood after this manner viz. That Jesus Christ God-Man shall from thence and for ever continue the Prince and Head of Saints and Angels Thus we have briefly run through the several Heads of Christian Religion and shall not further trespass upon your Patience What remains I shall dispatch in a Word From what hath been already said it appears clearly indecorous and unworthy of a Christian to draw in his Religion with his Mothers Milk and to attribute his receiving it not to the Ingenuous Disquisition of Reason but to the Laws of his Country his Education to the Dictates of some learned Man in whom he has an Implicit Faith and such like Prejudices as these And in Conclusion makes it his whole business pertinaciously to defend it not upon a due choice and difcernment between Truth and Falshood but upon some preconceived and prejudicate Opinion Whereas that is scarce worthy the Name of Faith nor grateful to God which owes its Original rather to some dull chance then either to the Evidence of the thing it self or the weight of the Arguments for it Nay certain it is that he who after an humble pious and attentive weighing of Things shall yet fall into Error is upon better grounds to be judged if not worthy of Praise yet at least of Pardon then he that shall blindly and fortuitously assent though to Truth it self To which the Holy Writings bear witness by commanding us to search the Scriptures to prove all things and to examine and try the Spirits And as our Apostle exhorts us to be ready always to give an answer to every Man that asks us a Reason of the ●…ope that is in us The End ANNOTATIONS Upon the forogoing DISCOURSE THe Pious and Excellently learned Author of this Discourse being himself so Great a Master of Reason made it his whole Business to imploy his Great Parts for the Honour and Advantage of Religion He was a well instructed Scribe for the Kingdom of Heaven and as a Faithful Steward of the Mysteries of God brought forth out of his Treasures things New and Old And finding Christianity attackt and assaulted by Deists and Enthusiasts he resolutely came in to her Aid and Assistance and by invincible Arguments hath made Good both the use of Reason in Matters of Religion and that Christianity contains nothing in it contrary to the Laws and Inscriptions of Right Reason Upon this Foundation the whole Discourse is setled and grounded on which I here offer such Annotations as may best serve to illustrate and confirm that high Sense and great Reason our Ingenious Author hath curiously and with most accurate Judgment drawn together Pag. 3 4. What ever is propounded to us as matter of Belief ought not so much as to be above Reason There are some who out of stupidity rather then a due Veneration of Religion make the choicest of its Articles so incomprehensible as to be elevated above Reason that is in their sense such as of which Humane Intellect can have no Conception Then which