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A65735 D. D. An advertisement, anent the reading of the books of Antonia Borignion By George White minister at Mary-Culter near Aberdeen. White, George, d. 1724. 1700 (1700) Wing W1767; ESTC R222008 41,559 107

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of GOD as free Will doth and the Scriptures shew plainly that it consisted in Knowledge Righteousness Holiness and dominion over the Creatures Gen. 1.26 Let Us make Man after our own Image and let him have dominion c. Eph. 4.24 Put on the new man which after GOD is created in Righteousness and true Holiness Col 3.10 Renewed in Knowledge after the Image of HIM that created Him POINT III. Q. If Man sinned before he sinned AS the Prophet Elijah mocked the Prophets of Baal for their ridiculous Religion 1 Kings 18.27 So it is excusable that having read many ridiculous things in the Books of A. B. to state the Question in this point Ironically against her which according to her Doctrine must be answered positively that Man sinned before he sinned that is that he sinned before GOD gave out the Law which he transgressed since the adequate definition of sin is transgression of the Law of GOD Rom. 4.15 Where no Law is there is no transgression but behold what A. B. teacheth against this fundamental truth L. W. pt 3. p. 2. That Adam inclined to sin before the Law was given and before the woman was made which was not on the sixth day which absurd Doctrine the Ap. commends pt 1. p. 59. Saying that GOD did not give Man a Law till he saw him depart from the Love of GOD to the love of the Creatures and follow his own will All which false Sentiments the Discursor Academicus affirms to be most probable p. 5. But I am certain that it is not only improbable but also most untrue for every inclination in us to sin is sin as contrary to the rectitude and intire Holiness and Obedience which GOD requires of us Moreover their foresaid Tenet contradicts the historical account of the first sin and Mans fall from the estate of Innocencie given by GOD himself that it was by transgressing that Sacramental or trying Commandment conform to the Covenant of works Not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil upon pain of Death Gen. 2.17 POINT IV. Of Perfection THere is nothing more readily to be read in the Books of those that are swelled with Spiritual pride Uncharitablness Malice and Hypocrisie than the pretended Perfection of themselves and their Partie and among the rest A. B. and the Ap. pt 2. p. 131. to 137. and p. 4.32 Avouch that they can be perfect keeping all the Commandments of GOD because all his Commands are prestable or GOD hath given no Commands but what its possible for man to fulfill I shall not gainsay but A. B. might fancie her self to be perfect in her notion of perfectness by culling out some Commands of GOD and neglecting the rest L. W. pt 3. p. 205. contrary to Jam. 2.10 and imagined that they might be sound Believers who observed none of the Articles of Faith L. W. pt 3. p. 173. All which pretended perfectionists make an unanimous outcry against the Assemblies Catechism which we use for affirming that no meer Man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments of GOD. But their Clamour is groundless because the plain and sound sense of the foresaid answer in the Catechism is that GOD in the ordinary dispensation of his Graces hath never given such a meafure of Grace to any man nor promised to free him of sin altogether in this life so that he can perfectly and absolutly fulfill his Law but thorow Christ who fulfills it in and for us 1 John 1.7.8 9. The Law shews our duty which we should still endeavour to fulfill aiming at Perfection and what we cannot do to lippen to GODS free Mercy and Christs merits to perfect it for us as if we had attained to Perfection our selves For the Question is nor what GOD may do in this matter but what he is pleased to doe He might if He had pleased have kept Lazarus still alive on Earth who probably was perfect when Christ raised him from the Dead and so were the Saints who arose Mat. 27.52 But we cannot expect the like but pray by Faith for what the Law requireth as St. Bernard writteth in Gan. Serm. 50 POINT V. Of Perseverance ONE of A. Bs. Sentiments is that the most Perfect Saints may apostatise or fall from the estate of Grace and be eternally damned L. W. pt 3. p. 136.137 which her Ap. Homologateth pt 2. p. 136. And albeit this be one of their doctrines which depends upon another Errour of their denying all the Eternal Decrees of GOD formerly noticed po 1. yet it seemed neeessary to observe it here by it self because the absurdity thereof may be more easily discerned by the Unlearned than sundry others of the Arminian Chain which are more abstruse It is indeed lamentable that the best of Saints through negligence when tempted to Sin and the Infirmity of their nature may sometimes fall into sinful acts and remain so a space without effectual Repentance yet it is manifest by Divine Light from the Holy Scriptures that the truly Godly do not fall away totally and finally from the estate of Grace But the foundation of GOD standeth sure the LORD knoweth who are His 2 Tim. 2.19 His by Predestination or an Eternal Decree of Election in Christ Jesus who are given to Him in the unalterable Covenant of Redemption and are Cleansed from all sins by His Blood 1 John 1.7 Of whom it is written Rom 8.29.30 Whom He did fore know them He also Predestinated Called Justified and Glorified And of all these the LORD promiseth John 10.28 My Sheep shall never perish I will give unto them Eternal Life Perseverance is an unseperable effect of Sanctifying Grace the habit whereof being once planted by the gracious hand of GOD in a Mans Soul never dyeth although it may so appear by some sinful acts as Herbs and Trees which are bereaved both of fruit and flourishing in the Winter season this is called The Root of the matter which remained in the Gracious and Patient tho under sharp tryals sometimes repining Job ch 19.28 And to this purpose the Prophet Micah 7.8 Rejoice not against me O my Enemie when I fall I shall arise How inconsistent with this foundation of Religion are the writtings of A. B. and her Ap. POINT VI. Anent the Sacraments ANent the Sacraments A. B. is as Erronious as in the Points forementioned writting that to obtain Salvation we need not pray nor go to Church nor take the Sacraments but only be Passive L. W. pt 3. p. 102. Protestants go about the LORDS Supper without Devotion L. W. Pref. to pt 3. p. 4. To baptise Children is from the Devil L. W. pt 2. p. 31. Did ever the practise of any person contradict his profession more plainly than the Ap. and his Virgin Patroness do who solemnly protest that they shall own the Scriptures for the Test of their Doctrine which yet is against them almost in every point as for this in hand concerning the
Image of GOD Knowledge and Holiness and be cemented one with another in love but from this no Scripture language nor any Christian Commentator neither any wise man did ever infer that men should be called GOD Unless he would vouch the Manichees for his Authors who were vile Hereticks and held that there were two Gods one good and another evil they indeed taught That the Soul of man was of the substance of GOD As did other blasphemous Hereticks to wit Cerdonians Marcionites and Priscillianists which we have faithfully accounted by a most trustie and diligent antiquary Forbes of Corse in his Instr hist Theol. Li. 4. C. 5. N. 12. Citing also the Orthodox who refuted them Namely St. Ambrose Aug. Theodoret c. And how can the unlearned Readers of A. Bs. writtings distinguish her Opinion from theirs in this prime and essential part of Religion Likewise A. B. denyes GOD'S Attribute of Omniscience tho to deny any of his Attributes be to deny GOD himself when she taught that GOD doth not foresee all future Actions of a free agent which is defended by the Ap. pt 2. p. 127. 128. 129. This is contrary to the Scriptures John 21.17 LORD thou knowest all things Psalm 139.2 Thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising thou understandest my thought a far off Are not these the Actions of a free Agent Moreover A. B. denyes the Justice of GOD which she learned from the pestiferous Socinus L. de Serv. p. 1. C. 1. c. Where he Sophistically argues because GOD is Love 1. John 4 8 Therefore there is no vindicative Justice in him which is defended by the Ap. pt 1. p. 22 where he affirms that the Scriptures which speak of GOD'S Justice and displeasure in threatning and punishing of sin are to be understood as these which attribute humane parts and passions to him All this contradicts the Scriptures which teach that hatred of sin and vindicative Justice are of the nature of GOD as he is Simple Pure Holy and Righteous even as Love and Mercy are of his Nature and Essence as He is good Habb 1.13 HE is of purer Eyes than to behold Evil and cannot look upon Iniquity GOD hath no parts at all nor passions and when they are ascribed to Him in the Scriptures such as Love Anger Hatred c. It is spoken by Us not for the infirmity of affections but for some likeness of His works and ours as St. Aug. wordeth it De Civ D. L. 9. C. 5. And the effect hath produced the word Revenge which truth of the vindicative Justice of GOD is clearly vindicated from all the Objections of Socinus by John Owen Diatr de Just Div. where he proveth that the application or exercise of GOD's essential Justice is to be understood when he punisheth sin as our soveraign LORD and Judge and likewise he removeth the mistakes of Rutherford and Twisse thereanent and the satisfaction of CHRIST wherein yet they were not of the mind of A. B. and the Socinians Then for the Blessed Trinity in the GOD-Head Head her Doctrine is plainly Heretical writting that it is a Romish Errour to say there are three Persons in the GOD-HEAD that there are in Him only three Powers Attributes or Properties of Truth Righteousness and Goodness and that her self had these three Properties L. W. pt 2 p. 109 and pt 3. p. 166 Lavie continue p. 553 554 L. W. pt 3 p. 80 Ap. pt 2 p. 84 85. These Sentiments so called by the Ap. are contrary to the Essentials of Religion to the Creed and to the constant Doctrine of the Catholick Church See some of many Scriptures 1 John 5.7 There are three that bear record in Heaven the FATHER the WORD and the HOLY GHOST and these three are One. Heb. 1 3. CHRIST is the express Image of His FATHERS Person see also how the Trinity was manifested at Christs Baptism Mat 3 16 17. The Father speaking from Heaven the Son present in Person and the Holy Ghost by a Dove So Preaching and Baptising are enjoined in the express naming of the Trinity or three Persons Mat 28 19. And thus the blessing is still pronounced 2 Cor 13 14. The Primitive Church still condemned all Antitrinitarians for Hereticks and particularly Sabellius and Samosatenus were accursed by the great Council of Nice Anno 325 Theodoret Eccl. hist L. 5. c. 9. Epiph. haer 6. For the very Doctrine now revived by A. B. That there were not three Persons but three Names and three Powers in the GOD-HEAD Whereas to exclude all Hereticks and to mantain the Unity of Faith in the Catholick Church it was expressed in all the approven Creeds which are Exegetick or Explicatory of the Apostles Creed To wit the Creeds of the Councills of Antioch Nice and Constantinople and of St. Athanasius That there are in the GOD-HEAD three Persons or Subsistencies having Incommunicable Personal Properties the Father begetting the Son the Son begotten and the Holy Ghost proceeding from them both three in One and One in three undivided in Essence or Substance with much more which is to be seen in them to this purpose So that it is evident A. Bs. Doctrine is inconsistent with the Scriptures and many Articles of the Creed NUMBER II. Of CHRIST and His Satisfaction for Us. IT is worthy the noticeing in the first place anent this foundation of Religion that A. B. in all her Books never once giveth CHRIST his due Tittles as it is in the Creed His only SON Our LORD or the LORD 1 Cor. 11 23. The Ap is guilty of the same omission till p 406. Some approver of A. B. in a Letter to the Ap. doth it And no marvel that they shift to speak of Christs Divinity since they write that He had a sinful Nature corrupt and rebellious to the Superiour part of His Soul produceing inclinations and temptations to sin though He consented not thereto S. V. pt 1 p 198. Ap pt 2 from p 198 to 143. This contradicteth the Holy Scriptures which shew clearly that he took to Himself our Nature but without sin which could not have been if any sin had been in His Nature for the very first motions or inclinations in Us to sin which School-Men call Primo-primi they are sins because of our sinful Nature even before we deliberatly consent thereto Jam 1 15. Lust when it is conceived bringeth forth sin Gen 6.5 Every Imagination of the thoughts of Mans Heart is only evil continually Whereas it was impossible that the Lord Jesus Christ could have had a sinful Nature otherwise the Divinity which is Holiness and Purity it self could not have been Hypostatically united to his Humane Nature neither could the Holy One Immanuel GOD with us have any inclination or temptation to sin in his Nature or proceeding from any thing in Himself as the Scriptures teach us 2 Cor. 5.21 He was made sin for us who knew no sin Heb. 4.15 He was in all Points tempted like as we are yet