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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45517	The key of sacred scripture, and, leading to it first, an answer to some objections given to the author, by a person of great learning and piety : wherein many mistakes, by which most professors wound themselves, and strengthen the hands of the churche's adversaries, are clearly discovered, and the more invincible weapons of truth inviolable (tending effectually to refel errors, and reform manners) are tendred to them / by Tho. Harby.	Harby, Thomas.	1679 (1679)	Wing H683; ESTC R20417	31,658	56

The KEY OF Sacred Scripture And Leading to it FIRST An Answer to some Objections given to the Author by a Person of great Learning and Piety Wherein Many Mistakes by which most Professors wound themselves and strengthen the Hands of the Churche's Adversaries are clearly discovered And the more invincible Weapons of Truth inviolable tending effectually to refel Errors and reform Manners are tendred to them By THO. HARBY De dubio exploratum verum est maximè verum LONDON Printed for the Author 1679. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the King 's most Excellent Majesty And the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament HAppy were this Age were its Principles of supposed Truth sound and Practice according But both if considered by a seeing Eye may seem more irreparable than heretofore they have been No City-consuming Fires no sweeping-Plague lays waste our Dwellings no Civil War hath vext of late the Land These Mercies much exceed our Merits but the Causes of all these Calamities and far greater Gross Errors and Mistakes in Opinions and Practice with wicked Contrivances of dreadful peril to Princes and to the Church still remain in a fuller Conflux than in former Times Good Hezekiah had recourse to God and spread before him the Letter that exprest the Churche's seeming unexpressible Sorrows and Snares of Death So I shall spread a List of no less perilous Evils before your Sacred Majesty and this Honourable Senate God's Substitutes that so this Nation may timely foresee and shun them And to that end I count it my indispensible Duty to God to his Majesty and You to tender this Treatise to you because it may much concern your Safeties especially in this juncture of Time My humble Design therein is by God's help and your assistance to remove those many and most dangerous Opinions that hinder the Agreement of all Church-Societies Sects and Nations So God may come not to smite the Earth with a Curse as he lately seemed to be about to do but with healing in his Wings So the subtil Contrivances of secret Enemies may be turned into Amity and Death be disarmed For mistaken wild Gourds were called Death because their Effects were like those of the Waters into which the Star fell whereby they became bitter and deadly but Mistakes in Opinions and Manners are much more in Men and to the Church the poisoned Arrows of Death which cannot be drawn forth nor possibly removed but by the Dictamnum of Truth made manifest All other means without this may seem invalid nor will the most vigilant care avail much till this Work be first done or well begun Difficult it must be and not without danger for the most powerful Efficient to work with much success where the Subject the People almost generally remains uncapable through many mistakes Howbeit as the Ark had no stay till the Waters abated and it rested on Ararat So the Church and the Nations of this World can never find footing of any firm stability till these floods of false Opinions that dash upon the Church and States with Storms and Tempest decrease or be dried up As oft therefore as the best Founders build upon no better Foundations in Men so oft must their Fabrick fall and they as oft renew their labour without effectual success For Effects their Causes continuing must continue That this most needful Work of highest concern to You and to all Men may succeed in your Majesties hand and in the hands of this Honourable House that you and they may be the Master-Builders of lasting Peace and Prosperity to this and all Nations is the incessant Prayer of This Honourable Senate's most observant and humble Servant THO. HARBY The Contents of this Treatise which shew the Design of it are First A Progress Secondly A Digress Thirdly A Regress THe Progress is a brief Proceeding in Answer to some Objections so far that they may all appear to the Reader to be fully refelled The Digress is to shew and that 's the principal Design of this Treatise where the Matter of sundry Texts and Chapters with useful Animadversions upon them begins where it ends and what they hold forth The Regress is a further proceeding to answer the foresaid Objections till they be more perfectly and fully refelled READER I Received a Paper by the hand of a Person of great Worth but not composed as he faith by him but by some other whose Name which seems a note of no fair dealing is not subscribed The ground of the writing of it was this I maintain in my Treatise Intituled What is Truth That the Texts in the 17th and 18th Chapters of the Apocalyps hold forth Rome literal not only as Pagan or Heterodox but likewise as Christian and Orthodox but faln from her first Obedience And not Rome Papal properly nor otherwise than as Primitive Literal Rome faln as aforesaid shadowed forth the Papal grand Apostacy which is the Opinion of some of the best Protestant Writers And by their Authority Reason and chiefly from Scripture I have I suppose sufficiently proved the Truth of this Assertion Howbeit many Doctors and Divines of Note take no notice of their own perilous Deceptions in mistaking a thing almost incredible two whole Chapters together and have not spared to charge me because I therein dissent from them with dangerous Error to my very great dammage and no less danger to the Protestant Religion Nor have I them to deal with but the Learned Dr. Fulk Jewel Whitgift Pareus Mede and many thousands more are consentient in the same Opinion with my Opponent I must humbly confess I am inferior to many of them therefore my task and the difficulty to do it must be the greater But I must as a Duty indispensible endeavour to refel these Magnatum Errores Errors of great Writers most dangerous to the Church by turning in very many places of it even the Scripture it self into a contrary sence Nor need I wish I had the Consubscriptions of all Writers that defend what my Opponent maintains for I suppose I have that already or what is equivalent to it in these Objections which contain so far as I find more and some of them more seeming substantial Arguments than I ever found in all Writers that defend my Opponents Opinions therefore all their Arguments in the refutation of his must be refelled But my Opponent comes as in the Garments of the Gibeonites disguised with many gross Absurdities as if he were some Man of mean Abilities which makes me think that some able Divines joining with that Person of great Learning that gave me this Paper might give him his strongest Arguments and leave the ordering of some of them to him That he should conceal his Name thereby to falsify the Scriptures and affirm anything without controul is unjust in my account And the Reader might count it a Crime in me to conceal that Person of eminence and worth Mr. Joseph Caryl that gave me this Paper