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A74906	The rules of dispute, practised by Christ and his apostles, for deciding the controversies of that age, and our rule for the determining of our own. Or, The right use of spiritual weapons, against spiritual wickedness, and the darkness of this world in the Christians warfare against hereticks, schismaticks, Eph. 6.12 with false prophets and deceivers. Herin are also briefly explained, I. The terms set down in scripture, or the grounds of Christian dispute. II. That the form thereof may appear more cleer, you have herein several cases in scripture debated under the same form, and the places whence the arguments are drawn. / By an unworthy witness of the name and Gospel of Christ, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E715_12	16,735	28

do a work of charity on the Sabbath day or not Scripture vers 22. Moses gave to you Circumcision Opening of Scripture For this cause viz. though the institution was first given Abraham yet Moses enjoyed it not as given to him but as he gave the Jews the Law of the Sabbath so did he that of Circumcision that there should not arise any doubt to the Jews about the lawfulness of circumcising a childe on the Sabbath day Argument vers 23. If a man receive circumcision on the Sabbath that the law of Moses be not broken are ye angry at me because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day Signifying If the law of the Sabbath give way to the law of Circumcision a ceremony signifies onely the spiritual healing how then shall it give way to the healing of a man every whit Conversion of speech vers 24. Judge not therefore according to outward appearance but judge righteous judgement Rules in Dispute hence to be observed 1 The Scripture produced must be opened and the differences be debated before the Question can be fit for judgement 2 Until that be done Errour is seeming Truth and Truth seeming Errour which is unrighteous judgement 3 Men neglecting a diligent search of the minde of God in the Word they easily come by rash judgement to condemn Christ and his Truth and justifie Errour When men apprehend and justifie Truth they are her children Matth. 11.18 19. Quest 10. From Rom. 4.1 Whether salvation be obtainable by faith or works Scripture vers 3. Abraham believed and it was accounted to him for righteousness Argument vers 4. Now to him that worketh the reward is not reckoned of grace but of debt by commutative justice Argument vers 5. But to him that worketh not but believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness non jure legali Scripture added vers 6 7. from Psal 32.1 2. in which he describes the mans blessedness to whom God imputeth-righteousness without works 1. Rules in Dispute That in the natural opening of Scripture Arguments of themselves arise to prove the intent of God therein and prove the same if well observed 2. That to satisfie Objections many Questions may arise out of one Scripture and belong to one case Quest 11. Whether Justification be on the Circumcision onely or the Circumcision also Rom. 4. vers 9. is the ground of the dispute We say Abrahams faith was reckoned for Justification to him who was a Jew Scripture Gen. 15.5 6. Paul proves it to pertain to the Uncircumcision Argument vers 10. Abraham received the promise in uncircumcision and not in circumcision Quando Argument vers 11. He received it in uncircumcision that he might be the father of them that believe though uncircumcised A fine In which is the end of his so receiving it in the state or time of uncircumcision held out Argument vers 12. That he might be the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision onely but also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised and so believing Gentiles had Abrahams first and best circumcision of the heart though not that of the flesh Argument vers 13. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed by the law but through the righteousness of faith Signifying that the promise was not tyed to the Law and Circumcision but faith in Christ Argument vers 14. If they of the Law are heirs faith is made void c. That is the Gospel is no way necessary ex appositis Conclusion vers 16. Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace that the promise may be sure to all the seed not to that onely which is of the Law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all 1. The wisdom of the Apostles was admirable in that they answered all objections from the Law and Prophets we having their writings also to resolve our doubts have greater help and freedom 2. Most of our Differences now arise from the New as their from the Old Testament 3. The form of Gospel-dispute at large is drawn out by the Apostle in his proving the resurrection of the dead 1 Cor. 15. which I have omitted to spare cost and to put you on practice 4. With these Disputes the Gospel abounds with Cases of Conscience which are of less concernment and are handled after another way 5. Or in the Gospel are contained several rules how men in their several relations may keep a good Conscience void of offence to God and men whether parents and children master and servant husband and wife c. 1. The natural mans light is darkness in him Matth. 6 2● and his acquired habits are but falsly called knowledge 1 T●m 6.20 and is that false balance God abhors Prov. 11.1 Hos 12.7 Mic. 6.11 God spake this not for weights and balances onely or for money but the word and consciences of men Dan. 5.27 Thou thy works thy judgement in doctrine or practice is to be weighed in the balance of the Sanctuary 2. Christ prayed for the Word that it might satisfie and sanctifie men and overcome the world and in that prayed against the wisdom of the world that it hath no vertue to satisfie men nor will God suffer the world long to be seduced by it 1 Cor. 1.20 In time it will be said on the overthrow and removal thereof Where is the disputer of this world 3. The end of Disputes being to stop the mouths of gainsayers to undeceive the seduced and unbelieving and to stablish the weak proves that it is to be done by the Word faith coming by hearing and hearing by the Word of God which is a work never to be done by the wit and principles of rotten and corrupted Nature 4. The plea made for Arts and Sciences is that they are handmaids to Divinity which are no less to be cast out of the house of the faithful then Hagar out of Abraham's Nature and her wit is in bondage to sin and Satan and so is not fit to sit and judge the priviledges of Saints Truth in the hand of Humane knowledge and learning is as the Lord Jesus in the hands of the Jews when the crucified him 1. The one is no less envied by the one then the other by the other The wisdom of the world is enmity with God 2. Humane learning seduces the people as the Priests did when they made the Jews cry Crucifie him so men now destroy Truth and are brought to chuse Errour as the Jews Barablas before Christ 3. The men that advance natural learning cry down the Truth and say That such as own it are no friends to Cesar States their rule and government 4. They wrest the Truth and rack it as Christ was rackt on the Cross 2 Pet. 3.16 making it speak

THE Rules of Dispute practised by CHRIST and his APOSTLES For deciding the controversies of that Age and our Rule for the determining of our own Or The right use of spiritual weapons against spiritual wickedness and the darkness of this world in the Christians warfare against Hereticks Schismaticks Eph. 6.12 with false Prophets and deceivers Herein are also briefly contained and explained I. The Terms set down in Scripture or the grounds of Christian Dispute II. That the form thereof may appear more cleer you have herein several cases in Scripture debated under the same form and the places whence the Arguments are drawn By an unworthy witness of the Name and Gospel of Christ JOHN BRAYNE Tertul. advers Haeres Quid ergo Athenis Hierosolymis quid Academiae Ecclesiae quid Haereticis Christianis est Donatus in Hist Affricae p. 208. Dialecticas disputationes non convenire Christianae religioni Augustinum nil aliud esse quam contentiosum dis●utatorem qui ●ugiendus aut cavendus magis quam refellendus revincendusque esset Lev. 18.3 Ye shall not walk according to the customs of them I have brought you from Lactantius de Justitia lib. 5. cap. 3. Quis possit indoctus inter se apta cohaerentia fingere quum Philosophorum Plate Aristo●eles Epicurus Zenon ipsi sibi repu●nantia contraria dixerint haec enim est mendaciorum natura ut Cohaerere non ●ossint illo um viz. Apostolorum traditio quia vera est quadra● undique ac sibi tot● consentit 1 Cor 15.32 Paul speaks of dispute at Ephesus London Printed for Richard Moon at the seven Stars neer the great north door of Pauls 1653. The Rules for Disputes practised by Christ and his Apostles THe exerience I have had of the admiration the wise and unwise have been taken up with humane and natural learning and the indignity and contempt God and his wisdom have and do daily suffer amongst us thereby invited me to undertake the writing on this subject 1 Say the learned The advance of learning and Universities in the Nations was that by which they came to be civilized and reduced into order and frame of good policy and government 2 Learning slighted Religion decayed it being revived by Erasmus Luther Melancthon and others Religion came to be restored 3 Say the vulgar Can men that have not Arts and Sciences men that never were at the University be as good preachers as those that studied seven yeers therein or as such as are Doctors Batchelors Masters c. 1 The learned know That Gods word taught a people civilizeth them by a more stronger conviction and cleerer light then Natures Law and power can do yea it doth not onely civilize but sanctifie a people 2 It was not University-learning in Luthers days undeceived the Nations but the knowledge of the Scriptures Lombard Aquinas Scotus and their Disciples hindered the truth then and now also 3 As Universities ci●ilize or benefit a Nation so they corrupted and hindred the Church and truth of God Athens the mother of them gave little entertainment to truth when preached to them Dam●● and a f●w others onely believed therein so that indeed and truth Academical learning or Philosophy falsly so called is no friend to Christ or his truth nor no help to a Nations happiness before God nor no fit instrument for Gods work Christ chose not men so qualified 4 As for Tongue since the gift thereof failed God hath sanctified the study of them so as they serve to reveale the truth of God which is not accounted among Academical learning 5 Hence God as by Jeremy may complain of us that we have left the fountain of living waters God and his truth and digged to our sel●es broken Cisterns of humane and heathenish wit which will hold no water 6 It was the written truth of God Christ prayed to sanctifie men by Joh 17.17 and no other wisdom nay the wisdom of the world that is of natural wise men is enmity with God So that that is fulfilled i● us is mentioned by Paul 1 Cor. 1.21 after that in the wisdom of God that is of the word the world by wisdom that is of their own knew not God so that indeed Academical learning befits a Saint no better then Sauls Armour did D●vi● 1 Sam. 17.39 40 51. which is that Goliah defied the Hoasts or Church of God was over come by the shepherds sling and stones out of the Brook or Arguments out of Scripture deduced in the plain way of Truth Conclusion of this is briefly thus That as there is a rule in the Word to walk by to talk by to love to teach by to rule to submit by so there is in the Word a rule to dispute by and convince gainsayers from which should men recede in the tryal of controversies they should no less sin against the Gospel then those that would not live by it and must deny 2 Tim. 3.16 17. and say The word is not sufficient to make perfect the man of God Tertul. speaking of Aristotle the Disputen of the world his Disciples and learning in his book against heresies says Qui illis instit●●t dialecticam Artificem struendi destruends versipellem in sententiis c●actam in conjecturis duram in argument is operariam contentione molestam etiam sibi ipsi omnia retract antem ne quid omnino tract ●verit Hui● illae fabulae geneologia indeterminabiles quaestiones infructuosae sermones serpentes velut cancer a quibus nos Apostolus refraenans nominatim philosophiam inanem seductienem contestatus caveri oportere scribens ad Colossenses cap. 2. ver 8. Ibid. Fuerat Athenis istam saptentiam humanam adfecta●ricem in●er●●lla●●icem veritatis c. And it is not to be pretermitted that with the fall of the Truth and true Church was erected the University of Boront about the yeer 430 by the Po●e Cardinals Bishops Emperour and Senate of Rome Of which see my book of Fallen Churches restored pag. 47. Now that Disputes ought to be managed according to the institution of the Lord and not the way and wisdom of men besides this that Christ prayed for the sanctification of it to its end viz. that error might be subverted by it the Apostle further confirms it 1 Cor. 1.25 saying that The foolishness of God is wiser then men and the weakness of God is stronger then men in which onely it will be given men to overcome error and in ●o way else To prepare the several differences among us for debate and procure unity 1 Let the general heads in matters of Faith wherein all agree be first declared 2 That the most material points in which we dissent he first debated and the rest in their order 3 That the question be rightly stated and agreed on of points as they are to be debated 4 That these Questions and the day and time in which they are to be debated with the place be