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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54036	Reason regulate[d], or, Brief reflections upon a l[ate] treatise of human-reason by T.P.	T. P.	1675 (1675)	Wing P117; ESTC R25516	24,178	78

or rather extraordinary saying of Democritus That Truth lyes in the Bottom of a Deep Well I must confess I doe not well understand and so for fear of drowning shall let it pass as too deep and dangerous a Mystery for my shallow Reason to dive or look into Thus some Criticks of this Speculative Age first turn their Brains and then all things Topsie-turvy For if this Doctrine of Democritus be true we must no longer say Look up but down to Heaven and Pump or draw up Salvation as they do water in Buckets He needed not To have Enumerated the Various Sentiments of the Antient Philosophers and no warre ensuing Thence to infer a possibility for Christians of different Belief to live as to the Exteriour Harmoniously and Peaceably For doubtless the Several Sects among us if all the force they use to reduce others to their way be as it ought to be only perswasive not compulsive may as in other dissenting Countries move in our English Sphere without clashing as the Planets do in their Regularly-Irregular Motions If this be all he drives at there 's no Difference at all between him and me Whether the Reformation which he endeavours to vindicate were the occasion of so much Bloud Confusion and almost Desolation in all those Countries which admitted or rather were forc'd to it I shall not here dispute but 't is out of Controversie they actually happen'd which Dismal Effects I must confess enforce me to believe that God Almighty's Benediction for all their specious Reasonings and Religious Pretences never did or will goe with it He runs on for several Pages very wittily and Rethorically to prove That every Mans Particular Reason if well follow'd and there 's a Parenthesis will Infallibly carry him at last though perhaps through many Tedious and Troublesome Wandrings to his Eternal Happiness Well I am contented with this and say so too but withall must ask him a Question Why does not that man well follow his Reason who in all Doubts and Difficulties for certainly such things there are thinks nothing under Heaven more Rational than to submit to and acquiesce in the Interpretation Definitions and Decrees of General Councils If he says These all together may Erre as likely as he then I say this to my Reason sounds as unreasonably as if he should say One Man may be as strong as ten thousand and thus if his own Argument be good whether the Victory be on his or on my side he is equally defeated I grant a Christian though without any Fraction or Division for certainly there 's no Plurality in the Radical Unity may believe Various Articles by the same Act of Faith for it's Root or Fountain although it germinat's and spreads into several Branches or runs in various Rivulets is indivisibly one and the same for doubtless a Man's Faith may encrease without Variation but to say as this Author That a Man may be to day fully a Papist seven years hence a Protestant and then What-he-fancyes-next and that although be believes things directly Opposite evidently Contrary Pro and Con or forward and backward Yet if he be all the while Actuated and moved by the same Soul of Faith which he says is Conscience it is still the same Numerical Faith This I say is such a Preposterous piece of Jumbling Divinity that although he may please himself with the Fancy for that 's the very best of it I shall never believe the God of Order and Unity can Fancy or be Pleased with such a Deformed shapeless and Confus'd Variety He might as well have told me and I should as soon have believ'd him that a Man if he be all the while vivify'd or actuated by the same instruments of Life viz. Heart and Vitals though he be set just upon his Head he stands directly upon his Feet Tricks of Activity are commendable enough but certainly 't is desperate for a Mans Faith to leape the Sommerset And thus Unity or Sameness of Beliefe so often inculcated in Holy Scripture is quite thrown out of doors and Divine Faith reduc'd to a strong or rather a Weak and Wavering Fancy Wherefore allowing His Philosophical Discourse about Corporal Substances to be true for I grant in Sublunary Bodies there is yet without any Alteration or Change in the Form or Species as he pretends may be in Faith a perpetual Flux and that they must necessarily Trans-spire to make room for new Nourishment Yet I deny for the Reasons aforesaid That only such a Fixt Motion or Variable Identity as he speaks of is requisite to a Man's Faith Nor truly can I perceive any better or more solid Result from all his surprizing Arguments than this That so Men doe but believe 't is no great matter for the What or the Why. He will still have his own sole and singular Reason to Counterballance if not outweigh all Ecclesiastical Rule and Superiority as much as to say The best way to secure a Ship at Sea is to take away her Anchor and Rudder For what is it says he you will trust your Soul with in this Important Business Is it the Authority of Men These verily may lead you into Errour and 't is not impossible into the worst and greatest of all which is the Desertion of Christ himself Such a Possibility I utterly deny and for my Confidence and Warrant produce the sacred Writ where the Church is call'd The Ground and Pillar of Truth with the Divine Promise annext Against which the Gates of Hell shall never prevail Now if this Gentleman can shew such a Character given or Promise made to his solitary Reason I 'le submit and beg his Pardon if he cannot then he must excuse me for doubting his Reason did not take such Directions as it ought and might have done before it set forth nor consequently can he ascertain me that 't is purify'd from all Passion Interest and Sensuality Pride made the Greatest Angel a Divel and a Man 's own Reason too far trusted turns to Madness The Arian Heresie which he hints at Clouded but never Totally Eclipsed or Corrupted the Church which will ever remain immaculate and pure For the Westerne Parts felt little or nothing of that Spiritual Pestilence which in less than four Years she happily Dispersed and dissipated as the Sun by Degrees does Mist's and Vapours As to the Condemnation of Athanasius and whatsoever sinister or Anti-Christian Proceedings he chargeth the then Pope with If he would vouchsafe to peruse some of our Antient or Modern Controvertists who treat at large of the Sanctions of General Councils I presume he would clearly and evidently discover his Mis-information and that which he is willing to take for a certain Truth for Quod volumus facile credimus would prove a meer Calumny and Imposture But still from the wicked Errours of some of that Council he infers a possibility that all might unanimously have err'd so For says he This possibility of Errour even in so high