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A67237 The pretensions of the triple crown examined in thrice three familiar letters ... / written some years ago by Sir Christopher Wyvill ... Wyvill, Christopher, Sir, 1614-1672? 1672 (1672) Wing W3787; ESTC R34104 91,353 203

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any clearer certain Enumeration of them in holy Writ though the last little Chapter of Malachi pointing so directly to the Sun of Righteousness who was the Expectation of all Nations and to his Fore-runner the Baptist may seem to have been designed for the period of those that were to be before his coming Our Saviour himself divides all Scripture into the Law and the Prophets Luke 16. 29. but none of the Apocryphal Books were writ by either We retein the same Canon of Scripture which the Christian Church received from the Jews unto whom were committed the Oracles of God being therein as St. Augustin terms them our Library-keepers They never had deposited to them those Books which are called Aprocryphal whereof Epiphanius saith They are profitable but yet not reckoned amongst those that are by the Church held Canonical and were not laid up with Aaron's Rod nor in the Ark of the New Testament Isidore flies as high as I would desire any man to do where he tells us Although there is some Truth to be found in them yet propter multa falsa for many things that are not so they are not of Divine Authority Melito Bishop of Sardis having drawn at the instance of Onesimus a Catalogue of the Books of the Old Testament makes no mention of Judith Tobit Ecclesiasticus or the Maccabees though he professeth to have made a very diligent search as witnesseth Eusebius who affirms too that Origen as he received the Canon of the Jews viz. 22 Books so he rejected those that we admit not of So St. Hierom who was a great Linguist and was not without the best helps to further his Quest after he had laboured much nominates all those Books which we make use of and afterwards denies that any but they are impowered to prove or confirm a point of Doctrine That Council of Carthage where Augustin was present commanding that none should be read in the Church as Canonical but such as were indeed so leaves out the Maccabees and as for Wisdom Ecclesiasticus Judith c. that Father gives us to understand they were reputed no part of the Jews Canon which he determines to be most Authentick Peruse I pray and believe if you cannot confute what Doctor Cosin has lately held forth unto us that the Council of Trent first drest up a new additional Canon whereon to build their Religion equalling the Apocryphal Writings and Traditions of Men to the sovereign Dictates of God and allowing them the same power in Fideal Contests With how much reason we deny to the Bishop of Rome the sole Superintendency and in what sort we decline all humane Writings and Councils whilst yet we willingly subscribe to this that they are of singular use for the absolute decision of such like Controversies you may best learn out of the right Reverend Davenant his Tractate De Judice Norma Fidei And I forbear to quote any thing from thence here because I would put you upon the perusal of the whole which you may do at a small and wise Expence both of money and time I will take lieve at present of you when I have told you in the words of that Golden mouth'd Father That whatever is necessary is in the holy Scriptures manifest and they are the most exact Ballance Rule and Square of Divine Verity In them the Lamb may with no less safety wade than the Elephant swim Though it may seem to stand like an Independent to this place I shall here lie before the Reader a Collect which came to my Eye in a Missal or at least an authorized Prayer-Book so gross as I could not have imagined Thus it runs Per Thomae sanguinem quem pro te impendit Fac nos ascendere quò Thomas ascendit And all this of our Becket who surely does not merit either to be concluded a fit Saviour or a good Subject however odious their part was who slew him with that aggravating circumstance in his own Church LETTER VI. MY Task in this is not so much to make good our Doctrine which so soon as understood aright stands clear upon its own Basis as to wipe off the Calumnies which our Adversaries do very disingenuously endeavour to load us withal whilest they frame themselves and would obtrude upon us such Positions as have indeed no being at all but in the apprehensions and mouths of those bitter Antagonists and if one of their great Accusations could be justly fastened upon us it would certainly stop our mouths for ever and spread our faces all over with Confusion But if there be any in these worst and giddy Times that dare flatly say God is the Author of Sin 't is a poyson they have like enough suck'd even out of the Popish Volumes for they were the first though only with design to make Protestants odious that brought the World acquainted and that in Print with such Conceits Their own hands have both put on and scrued up even to a Note beyond Ela those strings which are of harsh Sound and make a jarring Discord in our Ears If you turn over our publish'd Authors weighing their greatest Latitude of Expression in an equal ballance you may I believe observe the Word of God himself running parallel with them For which of them has gone about to interess our ever holy Creator in the sinfulness of any Action otherwise than as they cannot be perswaded that the most remote Event doth escape the all-discerning Eye of his Prescience or outreach the Arm of his Almighty Power Compare 2 Sam. 24. 1. with 1 Chron. 21. 1. You may then discover how God is said to move and Satan to provoke David unto that Act of numbring the People in a forbidden and therefore sinful way The first did it only permissively forasmuch as he did foreknow it and if it had stood with his Will could have prevented it the other so as he really had an hand in its pravity and a partnership in the Guilt It 's here I confess that we ought to put on abundance of fear and trembling that we must cloath all our words and our very thoughts in a profound and cautious reverence But since the Protestant Doctrine of Predestination rightly understood makes very much for the consolation and establishment of a Christian Let us not refuse to make such modest enquiries thereinto as may repel those invenomed Arrows even bitter words wherewith some who will needs pervert our Order in handling this point do incessantly molest us and strive to fasten a sad Reproach upon an innocent Cause We are far even as far as any Papist or Arminian can be from thinking that the Motions of Sin invade the Soul by the Impulse of our holy merciful and good God yet we do so much adore his Wisdom and Power Attributes no less Essential in him than the other as we know all Events are within the Verge of his Cognisance and do not fall out