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A35959	Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing D1412; ESTC R3405	145,943	378

maintain that good works flow only from God as a Moral Cause Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because Christ says ye can do nothing without me Iohn 15. 5. 2 Because of our selves we are not able to think a good thought 2 Cor. 3. 5. 3 Because it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure Phil. 2. 13. Quest. IV. ARE they who are Regenerated to grow negligent as if they were not bound to perform any duty unless by a special motion of the spirit No. Ought they to stir up diligently the Grace of GOD which is in them Yes Phil. 2. 12. Heb. 6 11 12. 2 Peter 1. 3 5 10. Isa. 64. 7. 2 Tim. 1. 6. Acts 26. 6 7. Iude verse 20. 21 22. Well then do not the Quakers Familists and other Giddy-headed Persons err who maintain that Believers ought not to perform any duties in Religion unless the Spirit within move and excite them to those duties and that we ought to forbear when this is wanting Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the Holy Ghost forbiddeth us to be slow in performing such duties nay commands us to stir up the gift which is in us and use all diligence to perform duties commanded by himself Phil. 2. 12. Iude verse 20. 2 Because the Prophet confesseth that as the great sin of the Lords people that there is none that calleth upon his name that stirreth up himself to take hold of him Isaiah 64. 7. 3 Because to neglect the worshipping of GOD is an evident sign and token of an Atheist Ps 14. 4. Ps. 53. 4. 4 Because the Lord hath threatned to pour out his fury upon the Heathen that know him not and upon the Families that call not on his Name Ierem. 10. 25. 5 Because the twelve Tribes which hoped to come to the promise made to the Fathers instantly served GOD day and night Acts 26. 6 7. And the Apostles gave themselves continually to Prayer and to the Ministry of the Word Acts 6. 4. 6 Because Christ himself who had always the Spirit was very frequent in all those Exercises and Duties as all the Histories of the four Evangelists do testifie Those Fanatick Recusants either have the Spirit of God in them or they want it This last they will not grant If then they have it why do they refuse to perform duties of Religion more then our blessed Saviour did when opportunitie and occasion did call him They have the Spirit but want the Impulse But contrarywise this impulse is never wanting when there is a call But the Spirits call is never wanting when opportunity is offered 7 Because Christ will have the Gospel preached to every creature Mark 16. 15. And hath commanded the administration of the Lords Supper even to his second coming 1 Cor. 11. 26. And will have the work of the ministry to continue in his Church for the perfecting of the Saints for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the Faith c. Eph. 4. 11 12 13. 8 Because we are commanded to pray without ceasing 1 Thes. 5. 17 That is upon all opportunities and in all our necessities 9 Because we are commanded to trust in him at all times Psalm 62. 8. 10 if we shall forbear outward duties as prayer and such like then ought we to forbear inward exercises as Acts of Faith Love and Fear till we be moved thereunto which is most absurd for we are commanded as was cited to trust in him alwayes 11 What assurance can men have the next hour or to morrow more than in the present time of the Spirits motion on their souls or that they shall be thus at a greater advantage by putting off the duty till they have some inward motion and impulse thereunto than by waiting on the ordinary call of the Word or of Providence Quest. V. ARE they who in their obedience attain to the greatest hight which is possible in this life so far from being able to supererogate and to do more than God requires that they fall short of much which in duty they are bound to do Yes Luke 17. 10. Neh. 13. 22. Gal. 15. 17. Iob 9. 2 3. Well then do not the Papists err who maintain That a man regenerated can not only fulfil the Law of God perfectly but may do also more good than the Law of God requires of him This is their mad fancy of the works of Supererogation Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because no man living is able to fulfil the Law of God Psalm 143. 2. Isaiah 64. 6. 1 Iohn 1. 8. Far less is any man able to do more than the Law requires 2 Because we are obliged to seek remission of sins every day Matth. 6. 12. But to seek pardon for sin every day and to perform works of Supererogation are inconsistent together 3 Because Christ says when you shall have done all things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do Luke 17. 10. 4 Because according to this Doctrine of works of Supererogation we must accuse the Scripture and Law of God of imperfection as if they were not a perfect Rule of life and manners which is contrary to the Psalmist 19. 8. And contrary to 2 Tim. 3. 15 17. Deut. 4. 2. 5 Because whatsoever things are true honest just pure lovely of good report these are commanded as things necessary to all men therefore either the Works which the Papists call works of Supererogation are true honest just and pure and if they be such they are commanded by God in Scripture and not works of Supererogation or they are unhonest impure unjust and if such then no man is so mad as to call them Good-works much less Works of Supererogation Phil. 4. 8. Quest. VI. CAN our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at the hands of God No. Rom. 3. 20. Rom. 4. 2 4 6. Eph. 2 8 9. Titus 3. 5 6 7. Rom. 8. 18. Psalm 16. 2. Iob 22. 2 3. Well then do not the Papists and some of the Quakers err who maintain that the Good works of Regenerate men do truely and properly Merit and deserve eternal life Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because there is no proportion between our imperfect works and life eternal between the work and the Reward 2 Cor. 4. 17. For our light afflictions worketh for us that is brings forth not of any Merit but of meer Grace for Christs sake see Rom. 8. 18. Rom 3. 28. 2 If by our good Works we deserved the pardon of sin we might have whereof to boast for if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God Rom. 4. 2 But the Scripture saith he that glorieth let him glorie in the Lord 1 Cor. 1. 31. 3 Because no creature performing the most excellent Works can deserve any favour from God

and spiritual and therefore nothing can represent him as the Prophet well infers Isaiah 40. 18 25. 3 Because every representation of God by graven images or pictures is a most disgraceful changing of the glory of the incorruptible God Rom. 1. 23. 4 Because images and pictures of this kind are lies and vanities which the Lord abhores and mocks at with an holy scorn Isaiah 44. from verse 9. to 18. 5 Because the Lord expresly forbiddeth the Israelites to represent him under any form or shape for saith the Text ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire Deut. 4. 15. to verse 20. 6 Because though the Israelites worshipped the true God by an image for Aaron built an Alter and made proclamation and said to morrow is a feast to the Lord yet are they accused of the sin of idolatry and for that cause severely punished Exod. 32. 21 27 35 7 Because Ieroboam and the ten Tribes who worshipped the true God by the Golden-Calves set up at Dan and Bethel for the worship of false gods by images was afterwards brought in by Achab who is therefore said to have provoked the Lord more than all the Kings of Israel before him 1 Kin 16 31 32. are accused for the sin of Idolatry and are severely threatned 1 King 12. 29 30. and 1 Kings 13. 2. which threatning was put in execution by Iosiah 2 Kings 23. 15 16 20. 8 Because the Apostle says we ought not to think that the God-head is like unto Gold or Silver or Stone graven by art and mans device Acts 17. 29. Quest. III. IS Religious worship to be given to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost and to him alone Yes Is Religious worship to be given to Angels Saints or any other Creature No. Matth 4. 10. Iohn 8. 49. 2. Cor. 13. 14. Iohn 5. 23. Col. 2. 18. Rev. 19. 10. Rom. 1. 25. Well then do not the Papists err who maintain that not only God but good Angels and Saints departed being Canonized by the Pope ought to be worshipped and called upon even after a religious manner but cheifly the Virgin Mary and that there is a Divine Power in the Relicks of Saints which therefore ought to be worshipped Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the Lord our God and he only is to be worshipped Matth. 4. 10. Deut 6. 13. 2 Because the Object of invocation and religious Adoration is he only who is Omnipotent Omniscient and searcher of the heart For there is none that knows our necessities and wants but he that is Omniscient and none can succour and help us but he that is Omnipotent But Angels are not Omniscient Eph. 3. 10. 1 Peter 1. 12. Neither are the Saints departed Omniscient as is clear from Isa. 63. 16. Abraham is ignorant of us 3 Because they that are dead know nothing of our condition Eccl. 9. 5. 4 Because no man ought to call upon him in whom he doth not believe Rom. 10. 14. But no man ought to believe in Saints or Angels but in God alone Isaiah 26. 4. Ier. 17. 5. 5 Because neither Saints alive nor Angels would suffer adoration and worship to be given to themselves Acts 10. 25. Rev. 22. 8 9. 6 Because the worshipping of Angels doth derogate from the honour of Christ in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him Eph. 3. 12. 7 Because the worshipping of Saints and Angels is like a Polytheismus the having of many Gods For the Papists attribute to each one of their Saints and Angels a proper divine power as the Heathens did of old to their Idols and false gods Quest. IV. IS any Religious worship given to God since the fall without a Mediator No. Nor in the mediation of any other but of Christ alone No. Iohn 14. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Eph. 2. 18. Col. 3. 17. Well then doth not the Popish Church err who maintain that Saints departed but chiefly the Virgin Mary are Mediators and Intercessors between God and Man Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the Scripture affirms expresly that there is but one Mediator between God and Man namely the Man Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 2. 5. 2 Because no man cometh to the Father but by Christ Iohn 14. 6. And by him we have access to the Father Eph 2. 18. 3 Because the Scripture promiseth that they shall be heard that in the name of Christ seek such things as are according to the will of God but there is no promise in all the Word that they shall be heard that pray to Saints or Angels Iohn 14. 13 14. 1 Iohn 5. 14. 4 Because the Apostle says whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus not in the name of Saints Col. 3. 17. 5 Because Christ who is called the propitiation for our sins is also called our Advocate with the Father 1 Iohn 2. 1 2. 6 Because Mediation is a part of the Priestly office of Christ which is only proper to himself and which cannot be divided between him and the Saints 7 Because the Saints are not to be called upon as was proven in the foregoing Question Quest. V. IS prayer with thanksgiving one special part of Gods worship required by God of all men Yes Phil. 4. 6. Psal. 65. 2. Well then do not the Adamites and others long since err who denyed that God was to be called upon For say they God is Omniscient and bestowes all things upon us freely without our prayers Yes Do not likewise some late Hereticks err who maintain that unregenerate men ought not to call upon God Yes Do not also the Quakers err who will not move in the commanded duties of prayer and thanksgiving unless there be some inward call and motion on their Spirit Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because there are extant many universal precepts in the Word by which the duty of prayer is commanded Phil. 4. 6. 1 Thes. 5. 17. Iohn 16. 24. Matth. 7. 7. 2 Because God is the hearer of prayer and to him shall all flesh come Psal. 65. 2. 3 We have the example of David Psalm 55. 17. Of Daniel chapter 6. 10. The example of those many who were gathered together praying in the behalf of the Apostle Peter Acts 12. 12. The example of Christ himself Iohn 17. chapter 4 Because the Apostle Paul bids Simon Magus who was in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity to repent and call upon God Acts 8. 22. As to the Quakers what assurance can they have the next hour or the next day more than now of the Spirits moving on their souls And are we not commanded to pray without ceasing 1 Thes. 5. 17. That is upon all opportunities and in all our necessities Quest. VI. IF Prayer be Vocal ought it to be in a known tongue Yes 1 Cor. 14. 14. Well then

in the world is Catholick and Universal Acts 15. 23. Acts 24. 14. Gal. 5. 14. 10 Because the initial Visible seal admittance and enrowlment are things Catholick and Oecumenical For he that takes up his freedom in a whole Corporation or Kingdom is free of the whole and in every part thereof and hath right to all the general priviledges and immunities thereof There is a Patent for Baptism Go and baptize all Nations And by vertue of the Priviledges thereof they that are baptized in any one Church are accounted visible subjects of Christs Kingdom in all places of the Christian world Matth. 28. 19. 11 Because all Churches are one Body Rom. 12. 5. 12 Because Peter writting to the strangers scattered abroad throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia calleth them all one Flock 1 Peter 5. 2. 13 Because all the Churches of the World are one sheepfold Iohn 10. 16. 14 Because the Visible Church is one great house 2 Tim. 2. 20. Quest. III. DOTH the Visible Church consist of all those thorowout the world that profess the Christian Religion together with their Children Yes 1 Cor. 1. 2. Psalm 2. 8. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Well then do not the Donatists Anabaptists and Puritans of old so truely named err who affirm the visible Church to consist of those only that are pious and holy Yes Do not likewise the Independents err who think none ought to be members of the Visible Church save those who in the judgement of men very spiritual and discerning are esteemed true believers and saints who have given sufficient proof of their knowledge in the fundamentals of Religion who have reported in order and given a good account of the experimental work of their conversion and effectual calling who have shewed their conversation in the world to have been without the omission of any known duty or commission of any known fault and that for a considerable length of time Yes Do not lastly the Quakers err who think the only visible Church of GOD on earth to be themselves and all others not of their profession and practise to be unregenerate and wanting the Spirit Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the visible Church is compared to a Garner in which there is not only Wheat but Chaff mixed with it To a Field in which Tares and Darnel are mixed among the good Corn. To a Net in which both good Fishes and bad are taken Matth. 13. chapter To a great House wherein are not only vessels of Gold and Silver but of Wood and of Earth 2 Tim. 2. 20. 2 Because Christ will answer some at the last day who will say to him Lord have not we Prophesied in thy name and in thy name casten out Devils and have we not eaten and drunken at thy table I know you not This evidently shews that many have been members of the Visible Church whom Christ will not own at the last day Matth. 7. 22 23. 3 From the Parable of the ten Virgins five whereof were foolish five wise Matth. 25. 1. 4 From the Parable of the Banquet where one was found at the Table without a Wedding Garment Matth. 22. 11. 5 Because many are of the Visible Church who are not of the invisible Church 1 Iohn 2. 19. 6 Because the Apostle calls the Church of Corinth the Church of Christ notwithstanding of their gross enormities 1 Cor. 1. 11. 1 Cor. 3. 3. 1 Cor. 5. 1. 1 Cor. 6. 7. 7 Because Moses did acknowledge even those then to be members of the Visible Church to whom yet he knew the Lord had not given ears to hear nor eyes to see nor a heart to understand the great and wonderful miracles which he wrought in their sight Deut. 29. 10 11 12 13. compared with the verses 2 3 4. 8 Because Iohn the Baptist did admit many thousands into the communion of the Visible Church without making a narrow search of their true grace and conversion Matth. 3. 9 Because the Apostles did instantly and without the delay of one day baptise all those that professed the Christian Religion Acts 2. 38 41. Acts 8. 12. Iohn 3. 26. 10 Because the preaching of the Gospel is appointed by God as an ordinary mean no less for the Conversion of men and women than for the advancement of those in grace that are converted Prov. 9 3 4. 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. 20 2 Tim. 2. 24 25 11 Because we are forbidden by the Apostle to judge the spiritual state and condition of our neighbour Rom. 14. 4. 12 Because Christ did acknowledge Iudas the Theif and Traitor as a member of his Visible Church whom yet he foresaw to be the son of perdition Matth. 26. 23. 13 Because Christ had a visible church on earth many hundered of years before ever there were such cattle as Quakers in the World Unless they will alledge that the primitive Christians and all the Saints since the Apostles dayes have been their Predecessors and claime kin to them as the Samaritans did to Iacob who were truely descended of the heathen who were brought thither out of Assyria as the Quakers are descended from the Enthusiasts in Germany about 160 years since as Nicolas Strokins Iohn Matthias and Iohn of Leyden notorious Hereticks blasphemers and bloody Murderers But how quite different the Quakers are to the primitive christians and holy men of God then and since will evidently appear hence that they did not contemn these two great ordinances of the Gospel instituted by Christ to wit Baptism and the Lords Supper They had Bishops and Deacons to govern and instruct them who were ordained to their functions by prayer and imposition of hands whom they did not revile with the ugly names of dumb dogs and hirelings These primitive christians had not in their assemblies Women-preachers as the Quakers have which is down right contrary to Pauls injunctions 1 Cor. 14. 35. Neither were silent meetings ever heard of among the primitive christians Nor did they ever out of contempt call churches places appointed for the publick worship of God Steeple-houses but resorted to them for performing their devotions and service to God as did our blessed Saviour and his Apostles Iohn 18. 20. Luke 4. 16. Acts 3. 1. Acts 13. 5. Do not likewise the Papists and Lutherians err who will have none members of the visible Church that are unbaptized Yes Do not lastly the Anabaptists err who will have no infants members of the visible church Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because that God commanded infants and little ones should stand before him should enter into covenant with him Deut. 29. 10 11. 2 Because infants are called the people of God no less than men and women come to age Deut. 29. 11 12 13. 3 Because the promise of Grace belongs to children as well as to the parents Acts 2. 39. 4 If children be not members of the visible church they must be members of the visible kingdom of the devil for