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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69506	A vindication of the truth of Christian religion against the objections of all modern opposers written in French by James Abbadie ... ; render'd into English by H.L.; Traité de la verité de la religion chrétienne. English	Abbadie, Jacques, 1654-1727.; H. L. (Henry Lussan)	1694 (1694)	Wing A58; Wing A59; ESTC R798	273,126	448

against their so very simple and natural Expressions It is our chiefest Concern to regard the Substance and Essential part of their preaching and that is God's Design to save Mankind by the Death of his Son To this every thing relates and it is supported by Three other very great and important Objects the Resurrection of Christ attested by the Apostles themselves the Completion of all the Prophecies contained in the Old Testament and the miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost all which things the Apostles saw and clearly and distinctly taught Men and at last digested in Writing directed by the Wisdom of God when the whole Earth seemed full of Astonishment at the sight of the Extraordinary Gifts God poured down upon Men at the accomplishment of so many Prophecies in the Person of Christ and at the sufferings and Trials of the Witnesses of God And this is the main Substance of the Writings of the Apostles as well as of their Preaching And Divine Providence was pleased that all those things should be digested in Writing in a time when they could not possibly be forged or altered that they should be received and approved of in all Christian Societies of the World that they should be first dispersed every where by an infinite number of Copies and Translations of them then afterwards quoted by almost an infinite number of Doctors carefully preserved almost every where and carried generally into those places whence Persecution had banished and removed the Christians Nay God has pleased that those Writers should all conspire to teach us the same things tho each expressed himself after his own particular way that the manner of their Compositions should be the same with that of their Speaking that they should exactly follow in all their Quotations the Greek Translation which was known of the People and not puzzle the Faith of the simple and ignorant by any critical Remarks which were things beneath those Men who had both seen and handled the Word of Life had declared the wonderful Works of God and received the Gift of Tongues that they might be clearly understood by all Men. It was also necessary that those wonderful Writers should insist rather upon the things themselves that they delivered than the ordering of their Words that so they might keep up the great Character of their Office and we might learn from thence to regard rather the Sense of what they have written than the accuracy of their Expressions They have sufficiently expounded all the fundamental Truths of Religion which tho not very many are yet repeated almost in every Page of their Writings They left to their Disciples the Care of collecting their Writings and setting together those Canonical Books which contain all things necessary for Salvation Not that that Collection has all the Writings of the Apostles but it contains certain Truths often and often repeated by them sufficient to promote the Sanctification of Mankind As for the various Readings they are so few and so inconsiderable in themselves that they alter not in the least the Sense of these Books so far are they from changing the unalterable Substance of Religion in as much as there is no part of the Apostles Writings to which it is not inseparably united and almost every where repeated And as for the Objections about the Hebrew Grammar and Authority of the Books of the Old Testament were all true as is objected which yet is dubious it ought not to disturb us since Christ and the rest of his Apostles have so fully confirmed those Books Those little and inconsiderable Difficulties are far from being prejudicial to our Faith since 't is enough to know that the Scripture is the Word of God as we perceive by the Marks and Characters of it 'T is enough to be certain that it is impossible that either through the Faults of the Transcribers or Negligence of Men or the want of Exactness found in the Translations or lastly through the Multitude of equivocal Terms it should ever want those important Precepts and evident Truths which are necessary for our Salvation and Sanctification and of which 't is as it were a constant Repetition For otherwise God must either have deceived us or his Wisdom have been deceived in being wanting in the preservation of such Means as it purely design'd to maintain and keep up the Faith of Mankind However it be 't is not our present Design to blame in the least either the Care which some take to instruct themselves in the Criticisms of the Holy Scripture or the Respect they have for its Expressions which are indeed worthy to be preferred before all others God forbid we should ever entertain any such impious and foolish Thoughts We therefore here intend only to assert Two things 1 st that all those small Difficulties the Criticks raise against them ought not to be looked upon as any way sufficient to shake the Foundations of our Faith the Wisdom of God having wonderfully provided that our Faith should be established without Respect had to those Difficulties The second is that those very Difficulties are not only of excellent use to humble our Minds but also necessary to keep us from the Superstition of insisting only upon a literal Signification and from that Folly which we may call the Adoration of Words We must therefore grant that all things our Senses Education the Curiosity of the Mind Superstition Philosophy Policy Humane Eloquence and Grammar are as so many Instruments which our Passions employ to make void that Submission which our Faith owes to God that through the ill use we put them to they are converted into so many different ways of shaking off that Divine Obedience and that the Speculations which spring from all these Principles aim at nothing else but the weakning our Faith just as the loose and remiss Maxims of some Casuists tend to the Destruction of Morality it being as difficult for the Vnderstanding to believe as for our Heart to mortifie it self Nevertheless it may reasonably be affirmed 1 st That this Submission of our selves to God is absolutely necessary and that unless we pay it him by readily receiving the Principles of his Religion we must inevitably yield it up to Matter and so give up our selves to the most wretched and impious Ignorance and horrid Darkness of Understanding it being most certain that we shall no better comprehend what Eternity Infinity Extension the manner and necessity of the Existence of Matter is than we already know what passes within God 2 ly That our Heart is disposed to such a submission of Mind in those things which relate to our civil and natural Concern And if it be certain that we do not defer to receive Nourishment till we are fully instructed after what manner Nutrition is made within us and if we are easily induced to beleive the Attraction of the Magnetick Stone tho we are ignorant of the manner of that Operation why should we not in like manner as