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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84947	Theios divine beames of glorious light. Shining from the sacred scriptures, which expell the fogges of error, that engender darknesse, in doubting soules, by mistaken thoughts, touching the diety, faith, and Christain ordinances. With a cordial to heal the corasives which the ill potion prepared by Mr. John Fry, a late member of Parliament, hath ingendred. / Written by one, who desires more that God may be glorified, then to affix his name to gain the vaine applause of man. Licensed and entered in the Stationeers Hall book.	Fry, John, 1609-1657, Attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing F2256; Thomason E625_10; ESTC R206458	8,705	15

ΘΕΙΟΣ DIVINE BEAMES OF GLORIOUS LIGHT Shining from the sacred Scriptures which expell the Fogges of Error that Engender darknesse in doubting soules by mistaken thoughts TOUCHING The Diety Faith And Christian Ordinances WITH A Cordial to heal the Corasives which the ill potion prepared by Mr. John Fry a late Member of Parliament hath ingendred Written by one who desires more that God may be glorified then to affix his name to gain the vaine applause of Man Licensed and Entered in the Stationers Hall Book London Printed by Robert Ibbitson 1651. Divine Beames of glorious Light shining from the sacred Scriptures which expel the fogs of error that ingender darknes in doubting soules by mistaken thoughts touching the Diety Faith and Christian Ordinances with a Cordial to heale the Corasive which the ill potion prepared by Mr. John Fry a late Member of Parliament hath ingendred THe Philosophers though generally they conformed their judgements to Reason yet the most sollid of them acknowledged there was a God though not to be attained unto by that study which they called the unknown God Act. 17.23 Divine love in regeneration teacheth us that there is a God whom though now with corrupted dark reason we cannot see yet by faith we can beleeve by the rules of Scripture serve and through hope waite for calling upon his name But som who have professed Religion presume to be above Ordinances whilst the Atheists doe deride and scorne them both which contract an equall share in guilt as fighters against the Government of Jesus Christ in his Church here on earth And in this Satanicall designe against the Lord Jesus some are great strivers to defame those that dispence the word and Sacraments that so Religion may the more easily be overturned and every man do any wickednesse that seems good in his own eyes which ought not so to be Deut. 12.8 I desire all solid Christians to search their own hearts and there deale plainly with their own consciences whether there be not usually a nearer communion with God in the Ordinances then in any other dispensation Whosoever thou art that hast ever tasted of the sweetnesse of God and his love tell me when waft thou so much filled with comfort from Gods presence as at such a time when thou hast heard such or such an heart breaking Sermon or in prayer with such or such holy people or in thy closet or at some publique or private devotion Nay more who is there that hath sweet communion with God that sometimes after a dull and dead affection heaven-ward having prayed and implored the Throne of grace before they have done wrastling with God as Jacob did with the Angel have not many a time at last found so great a blessing that their hearts have been even swallowed up with divine ravishments of God I have been much troubled to see what hath been published by some pretenders to promote Religion and yet levelled to overthrow the doctrine of the diety the preaching of the gospell and the administration of the Ordinances Amongst the rest there are some things that have been declared by Mr. John Fry a late Member of but Voted against by the Parliament concerning which I shall briefly give you my thoughts Hee himselfe saith hee desires to stand and fall according to judgement and reason He hath asserted and here I shall assert too and then let Scripture judge and I assure you I look not on his person in my exceptions The interest I aime at herein is onely to advance Christ and his truth against gain-sayers Neither doe I make any apology for the factious Presbyterians or Prelates nor any others of the troublers of Israel who disquiet the comforts of those poor souls who through experience without litterall learning have sweet out-flowings in society with each other through the internall power of the divine workings And in this let reason judge whether he appeales himselfe If studies with serious considerations taking the assistance of the learned works of predecessors as hand-maides to the meditations of preachers of the Gospell will not adde to and illustrate their abilities to preach to others And whether premeditated Sermons be not most beneficiall to the auditors If not to helpe their own judgements yet their expressions My thoughts are to have an high esteeme of all such as are precious in Gods account who is good to the Saints under variety of dispensations yet even Saints experiences though good to themselves may when mis-spoken through mistakes prove of evil effect to others who take them upon other grounds then the Saints apprehended them And whose judgement is so infallible that they may not possibly in some things take opinion for truth when they speak their own imaginations and thinke it to be a truth setled on their hearts by God Master Fry confesseth he cannot meet with any that goes with him in his way and you know there is a woe denounced against him that is alone And for the Assembly of Divines those that now sit For the disserters I have nothing to plead for them I could Catalogue them one by one and tell you where and how often they preach every weeke in their respective places even as the Oracles of God and to the great comfort of their Auditors amongst whom are many precious soules In that he pretends to take example by the noble Bereans to search the Scriptures he doth well if he doth so but I would desire him to reflect upon his owne actions and see wherein he hath not followed them and let him tell me if ever he found them or any other holy people to publish what they concurred not with as Crimes against the devout Clergy that taught them but rather put up hearty prayers to God in Christ to make them able Ministers of the Gospel 2 Cor. 1.11 Phil. 1.4.10 Rom. 15.30 Phil. 4.22 And though he hath followed Hagar with Ishmael to the Well then so neare her to preserve them when they were ready to faint for want of water yet if with Iobs Wife in his mistakes he traduce men to blaspheame God I hope I may tell him as Job told his Wife that he speaketh as one of the foolish women Job 2.9 10. and so give a check to his error and present a Cordiall to the people to heale the Corasive his ill prepared potion hath ingendred As for the verball errours and contradictions by some delivered in Pulpits it is no wonder Humanum est errare in many things we offend all yea those great Ministers sent out by such a glorious visible Call in some externall things differed and had great disputes Gal. 2.11 And it cannot be expected that we can attaine to perfection here on earth whilst we remaine in this corruptible naturall body where at the best whilst we are in the flesh we know in part and we prophesie in part 1 Cor. 13.9 10 11. Therefore the Lord hath so glorously provided a Discipline for the Church by which it

is to be built up according to the rule of the Scriptures which we are to search and follow all our dayes And whatever Papists say it is not with us as with them for they beleeve the Scripture no otherwise then as the Church beleeves but we preach that the Church is to be beleeved in what it concurres with the Word and as Paul saith so ought every Minister of the Gospel to teach saying So follow me even as I follow Christ which is the rule of Gods Word 2 Thess 3.7 8 9. Heb. 13.7 1 Pet. 2.21 And we have great cause to blesse God for the flourishing of the Gospel and liberty which he hath given the Saints to serve him in so much peace as is at this day in this Nation Indeed for one of Mr. Fryes assertions I doe not see but we may very well close with it I doe not know any Orthodox Minister in England that will deny it viz. That men cannot justly be taxed with immodesty or turbulency of spirit for not closing with all their Teachers would obtrude upon them if after a carefull and conscionable search they finde no footing for such things in the Scriptures But yet Christians must take heed they doe not under that pretence like Alexander the Copper-smith designe great evils against the sincere Preachers of the Gospel for the Lord will reward such according to their workes and of such the Apostle bids the Saints beware as with-standers of the Gospel of salvation preached to the people 2 Tim. 4.14 15. As for that great Controversie he makes about Free-will wherein he saith there is a great contradiction in what is taught I cannot insist upon every thing what every man saith yet because those seeming contradictions that he alledgeth may become a stumbling block to simple people if not cleared give me leave meekly to vindicate those Scriptures and cleare the truths First he alledgeth 1 Cor. 3.5 Phil. 2.13 Ephes 3.8 James 1.17 as crossing Isa 1.16 Isa 5.4 Phil. 2.12 but if you mark the scope of 2 Cor. 3.5 2 Cor. 9.8 you wil finde these places of Scripture wil be easily reconciled our sufficiency is of God but it is ours when God hath given it us when God inables us we can wash and be cleane when he gives us power we can put away the evil we before acted As a sick man whom God gives an appetite to can then eate Consider but this That the same God saith that in him we live and move and have our being Acts 17.28 yet we know that God gives us meanes to live and that is by food Is it not in mans will to eate and live for a time in this life or fast and dye I doe not say man hath this power at all times when he will there is a time at which and at no time else it may be said Now is the appointed time Jer. 8.7 Dan. 11.35 There is a glorious harmony in the Scriptures if they be not mis-understood as those who are led by carnall reason cannot but doe but the right knowledge of the Word is Spirituall by beleeving Rom. 8. John 1. c. Another parcell of Scriptures he hath gathered and saith that if we tye our selves to the bare letter we shal finde but little harmony between them viz. Isa 1.16 17. Phil. 2.12 Mat. 11.28 with Joh. 6.4 and 2 Cor. 3.5 with Jam. 1.17 The former rule wil help us to reconcile these places of Scripture also It is true no man can come unto Christ except the Father draw him but when God by his Spirit hath broken their hearts and made them weary with the load of their sins and drives them to thoughts of a necessity of seeking Christ and to behold mercy tendred by Christ then they are by his Spirit enabled if they wil to goe to Christ even when he by his Spirit knocks at the doores of their hearts without Christ we can doe nothing Iohn 15.5 but in Christ we can doe all things through him that strengthens us Phil. 4.13 And so againe it is true we cannot of our selves thinke a good thought but when God gives us a sufficient measure of grace we can then through Christ work out our salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 and by faith in the power of Christ lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim 6.12 not in our own strength but in that sufficiency which we have from God 2 Cor. 3.5 And againe every good and perfect guift is from God but when God tenders the meanes of grace we may wash and be cleane though not of our selves yet in his strength his grace is sufficient for us 2 Cor. 12 9. There is a time wherein if we seek God he will be found which if let slip perhaps we shal never injoy such an opportunity again Mat. 23.37 Now I pray you tell me whosoever will seriously lay it to heart whether this method hath not more of Gospell truth in it and gives not more satisfaction and comfort to a dejected soul then M. Fryes decisions and those needlesse discords which he raiseth to disturbe the harmony of the sacred Scriptures and obstruct the way of pressing the people to an hearty seeking God in his Ordinances which he seems to discourage Though afterwards he would seem to minse it But to passe by these and some other particulars that I might insist upon I shall cheifly fasten on the most materiall exceptions in both his bookes declared against by the Parliament viz. 1. Exception Mr. Fry saith in his booke entituled The Accuser shamed c Thus viz. That chaffy and absurd opinion of three persons or subsistences in the Godhead That grosse and carnal opinion of three distinct persons or subsistences in the Godhead persons and subsistences are substances or accidents As for the word person I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man It is out of doubt with me that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a person they wil either tel you 't is a man or else they are not able to give you any answer at all And for the word accident I suppose none wil attribute that to God For according to my poor skil that word imports no more but the sigure or colour c. of a thing and certainly no man ever saw the likenesse of God as the Scriptures abundantly testifie And therefore neither of the words persons or subsistences can hold forth such a meaning as Accidents in God Athanasius in his Creed saith There is one person of the Father another of the Son and another of the Holy Ghost others say That there is three distinct subsistences in God Wel these three persons or subsistences cannot be accidents neither do I think it is the meaning of any Then certainly they must bee substances if so then they must be created or uncreated limited or unlimited if created and limited then the person of the Father is a creature the person of