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truth_n	divine_a	faith_n	reveal_v	2,785	5	8.8750	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26001	Some generall observations upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book, and way of wrighting with a vindication of St. Ignatius Loyola, and his followers the Iesuits, from the foul aspersions he has lately cast upon them, in his discourse concerning the idolatry, &c. : in four letters, written to A.B.	Ashby, Richard, 1614-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing A3942; ESTC R7040	65,474	73

please to observe three things the first his severe dealing with Roman-Catholicks the second his Comical and jesting way of expressing himself the third his cunning artifices to deceive his Reader 2. His severity is the more remarkable because contrary to the modern stile of his own party and cross to his own sentiments delivered in his Rational Account p. 1. Ch. 2. p. 3. Ch. 4. p. 54. For there he is so complaisant as to confess with other Protestants that the Roman Church is a true Church yea the very same with theirs and a true way to salvation and that she holds the foundation that is all fundamental or essential points of faith and differs only in certain inferiour truths or pious opinions which no man is bound to believe But now since the Lady left his Congregation he is grown so fierce on a suddain there 's no dealing with him he will ●eeds Unchurch us and by laying Fanaticism and Idolatry at our doors obstruct our way to salvation leaving us no other gate to Heaven but that of ignorance or repentance which lyes open to Turks and Jews as well as Roman Catholicks 3. This makes me call to mind a pleasant passage between Bishop Ferne and a good honest Parson of whom I had it The Parson was ready to publish a moderate Treatise in Grotius his way but the Bishop would by no means suffer it to go to the Press but tould the Author that he was very much mistaken if he thought that was the way to win us he must know that a Papist was a kind of a beast that would not be tamed with stroaking much less with striking said the Parson But the Bishop for all that would not alter his opinion but the book must be suppressed Dr. Stillingfleet is directly of the Bishops mind he will stroake us no more he will not court us into the same Church or flatter us with the hope of salvation as he has done formerly he is now all for dry blows and down right striking and will not be content with any less charge to beat down Popery than that of Fanaticism Idolatry and unavoidable damnation how in consequently to his own maximes you have partly seen already and has been clearly evidenced in that short but smart piece Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet where he is made not only to wipe away the dirt which he had cast at the Roman Church but to throw a good part of it in his own face by manifestly proving himself an Idolater by the very same arguments which he brought to prove Catholicks guilty of that crime And the Author had he bin disposed could with as much ease have proved him a Fanatick as an Idolater from the same principle he made use of against Catholicks 4. For why I pray are we Fanaticks in his judgement because forsooth we countenance some private revelations and allow some of our Saints to have had an Enthusiastick way as he calls it in their devotions Now this argument is far short of proving us Fanaticks because we own nothing in this kind but what is approved of by the authority of the Church which is ever watchful and severe in punishing all impostures and will not suffer pretended revelations or any such extraordinary favours of Allmighty God to pass for currant but what have past the test of a rigorous examination For it is well known that all such pretenders are immediately clapt up by the Inquisition and do not easily recover their liberty till they have given a good account of themselves So that none amongst us are permitted to be their own judges in matters of faith or particular ways of devotion but all are obliged to submit to the judgement of the Church and be guided by their lawful Pastors and Superiours which submission effectually destroys the very notion of Fanaticism which is grounded in a private Spirit and independent way of proceeding contrary to authority 5. Yet as to the Doctor the argument comes home to prove him a Fanatick For I argue thus he is a Fanatick that pretends to rule himself in matters of faith by his private spirit revealing the truth unto him but D. Still pretends to rule himself in matters of faith by his private spirit revealing the truth unto him ergo Dr. Stillinfleet is a Fanatick That he that pretends to rule himself in matters of faith by his private spirit revealing the truth unto him is a Fanatick cannot be denyed it contains the very notion of Fanaticism The consequence is evident The only thing I am to prove is that the Doctor pretends to rule himself in matters of faith by his private spirit revealing the truth unto him This I evidence out of the Principles set down by him in the end of his Book Princ. 5. where he says that there can be no other means imagined whereby we are to judge of the truth of Divine Revelation but a faculty in us of discerning truth and flalshood in matters proposed to our belief Princ. 13. That the Scriptures can be understood by all persons who sincerely endeavour to know the meaning of them Princ. 14. And that they contain the whole will of God so plainly revealed that no sober enquirer can miss of what is necessary for Salvation For what I pray can tha● faculty of discerning truth from falshood in matters of faith avail him with all the sincere endeavours and sober enquiry he speaks of unless it be infallibly assisted by some private spirit which inspires and reveals the truth unto him For since it is clear by experience that the same words of Scripture are construed by others after all their endeavours and best enquiry to find out the truth in a quit different sense from that in which the Doctor understands them he must pretend some such private infallible assistance which others have not For example the Doctor understands his commandments so that God has there forbidden all worship of Images Catholicks understand them otherwise so as to hold such worship lawful The Doctor will have This is my body to be taken in a Metaphorical sense and so denies the real presence Catholicks understand it litteraly as it sounds and therefore adore Christ in the Sacrament Again an Arrian denies the Son of God to be equal to his Father and thinks he has clear Scripture for it John 14. 28. The Father is greater than I. An Anabaptist will not allow Infant-baptism because says he the Scripture requires that all be taught before they be baptized Matt. 18. 19. Teach all nations baptizing them and children are not capable to be taught The Doctor reads the same Texts and holds the quite contrary tenets to both The question then is how he comes to see more than his Neighbours if he hit right in all these points wherein he differs from Catholicks and other Sectaries since the same clear light of Scripture is exposed to all be they Catholicks Arrians Anabaptists as well as to the