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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67886	The perfection, authority, and credibility of the Holy Scriptures. Discoursed in a sermon before the University of Cambridge, at the commencement, July 4. 1658. / By Nathanael Ingelo D.D. and Fellow of Eton Coll.	Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.	1658 (1658)	Wing I185; ESTC R202593	49,263	216

death as the Authour to the Hebrevves calls him though our Translation perverts the sence of the place who died about this time They had great reason to howle for by death he destroyed him that had {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Kingdom or Dominion of death i. e. the Devill for so {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He killed death tormented Hell and slew the murderer For as Christ had before told us that he would so now he did bind the strong man the Devill and spoyled his goods those Tripodes Images and the rest of the Idolatrous Luggage were his chief houshold-stuff which he took up went his way as Plutarch witnesseth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 3. The Heathen Philosophers bore witnesse to him many of which being convinced with the demonstration of his truth became Christians Dionysius the Areopagite Polycarp Iustin Irenaeus Athenagoras c. They were acknowledged Philosophers and whether they were true converts or no they shewed for divers of them became Martyrs I may adde to those named before Origen who when the deluge of Idolatry had overspread the learned world was that holy Ark in which Philosophy was preserved for the service of Christian Religion a sufficient proof of this he gave in the confutation of that railer Celsus for he took off the danger of his blafphemies and chastised the bold wit of his lying pen and spoyled the heathenish hopes by undoing that foolish objection to wit that none but the rude multitude became disciples of Christ they saw it was not want of learning that made them Christians for Origen had so much that the most learned Plotinus seeing him amongst his Auditors blusht and after a few words abruptly brake off his Lecture But why should I go about to reckon those starres which gave light to this truth and whereas 't is said that there were many others which darkned all those that misled Converts could say we may easily make answer to this Amongst these Celsus must have the disgrace to be named first for he was the first that wrote against Christian Religion He denied not the miracles of Christ but would needs perswade the world that they were Magical But as he might learn this of the Iewes for he read the New Testament though to a most hellish end so there he might have learned an answer When Christ cast out Devills they said it was by Beelzebub a Prince among them but Christ does convince them of folly for thinking that a Prince would assist to destroy his own kingdom and condemns them by their owne Disciples whom they acknowledged to do it by divine power by which meanes they were convinced of saying nothing to the purpose or else more then they wist against themselves Celsus his design was not onely overthrown in words by Origen as appears in his most excellent books but whilest he disputed against motion Origen walked up and down i.e. whilst one cavil'd at Christs miracles the other and his contemporaries did them by his Name and Prayers So the Disciples of Christ long before by speciall Miracles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} coverted the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} those which used Magical Arts and they burnt their Conjuring books It 's most unreasonable to think that the Devils had a finger in this work for the Gospel which these miracles confirmed was their extirpapation where-ever it came So Origen having in word and deed made a just vindication of our Saviours honour to cut off all further objections at one blow in the second of his books against Celsus sets him this impossible task {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i.e. Let him shew us not many but a few nay but one such as Christ was who with the divine glory of his Miracles and powerful wisdom of his holy doctrine did so much good unto mankind mended the world which lay in wickednesse and of the worst of men made so many thousands good Arnobius seeing them gravel'd with this made them a great abatement and put the challenge with this variation Potestis aliquem nobis monstrare ex omnibus illis magis qui unquam fuere per secula consimile aliquid Christo millesima ex parte qui fecerit qui sine ulla vi carminum c. i.e. Can you shew us any of the Magicians in any age which performed but the thousand part of what Christ did who without any inchantments juices of herbs observations of sacrifices or times did such things by the power of his great Name Nothing hurtfull nothing destructive but things worthy of God full of goodnesse and help to men c. Unto these demands Porphyry could give no satisfaction though he took up the Cudgells vvhich vvere beaten out of the hands of Celsus moved probably vvith indignation to see the blood of one of his ovvn party run dovvn so fresh vvhose head vvas justly not long before broken by Origen But he resolved to expresse his hatred of the Christian Religion though he had nothing to stuffe his books withall but such railing as Celsus had before him used as Hierom witnesseth in his preface to his Commentaries upon the Epistle to the Galatians A little after Hierocles thinking the matter but imperfectly done tried once more to mend it he went so far in the way of the former that as Eusebius reports he wrote again the very selfe-same things which they had wrote before him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He stole impudently out of their writings not only the sence but the very words and syllables only he attempted to answer the question of Origen by naming Apollonius Tyanaeus whom he would needs put as a great Antichrist in comparison of our Saviour as equalled and excelled by his works But the answer to him is not hard for as the things which he opposes are no way comparable so the evidence of of them is very insufficient viz. the book of one single Fabler The things were slight for though he tells strange stories they go far short of his purpose being some grossly wicked sundry of them Magicall devices many pitifully insignificant and ridiculous all of them of contemptible quotation to frame a comparison against Christ Some are grossely wicked as his offering sacrifice to appease the Ghost of Palamedes and his making prayers to him to lay aside his anger against the Greeks which it seems remained still with him in the other world that he would give leave that many of them might grow wise and good and yet he himself durst not teach Antisthenes who desired to learn of him because the Ghost of Achilles forbad him Antisthenes being forsooth one that used to speak well of his enemy Hector Also at the command of this envious soul he went an Ambassodor to the Thessalians to perswade them to renew their sacrifices at the grave of Achilles