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tradition_n	church_n	judgement_n	scripture_n	1,546	5	5.9918	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90683	The divine philanthropie defended against the declamatory attempts of certain late-printed papers intitl'd A correptory correction. In vindication of some notes concerning Gods decrees, especially of reprobation, by Thomas Pierce rector of Brington in Northamptonshire.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing P2178; Thomason E909_9; ESTC R207496	223,613	247

my Corrector and set before him the th●ngs that he hath done There are that grieve the spirit of God There are that quench him There are that alwayes resist the holy Ghost And sure the Paraclete is not grieved before he comes to comfort or to convince The spirit is not resisted before he strives The Fire is not quenched before 't is kindled Where lye the mischievous qualifications whereby Grace is resisted the Holy Ghost grieved the spirit quenched Sure not in the Grace of Gods spirit nor in the spirit of Grace but in the wills of the wicked who love darkness rather then light We finde that silver may become dross because it did And the faithful City may grow a Harlot Murder may and hath dwelt where Righteousness and Judgment were wont to lodge The Dross and the Harlot were none of Gods Creatures God made Jerusalem a faithful City and that by the guift of his special Gra●e but 't was her own wicked will that made her a Harlot which it could not have done if that special Grace had been irresistible Saul had once the spirit of God and with humility refused a Kingdome But after his preferment he grew covetous envious cruel prophane and in a desperate manner procur'd his own Death Yet God forbid that we should say that the Talent of Grace which he abused was a goodly Grace by an Ironie or that it had mischievous qualifications Whosoever hath sinned against me said God to Moses him will I blot out of my book Whosoever is blotted out is therein implyed to have been written and that implies a special Grace But the mischievous qualification is in him that sinneth How shall I hope to be spoken well of by Mr. B. who speaks so bluntly ill of the Grace of God if it is not such as he would have it but if we will take it upon his bare word He is sure in his following lines p. 42. that all the Orthodox in all Ages have maintained the contrary Indeed the contrary to what he holds The Scholar and Follower of S. Austin shall speak for all Who in vindication of his and Austin's Doctrine from the Calumnies of the French men said the very same words which I shall say in the same case That many men who were regenerate in Jesus Christ fors●king their Faith and godly manners do apostatizo from God and finish their wicked lives in that Aversion is proved by many examples the more is the pity but to ascribe their fall to God were immoderately wicked As if he were therefore the Impulsor or Au●hor of their ruin because he foresaw that they would fall away by their own meere wills and even for this reason did not sever them by predestin●…im from the sons of perdition c. If it be duly considered who spake those words and to whom and upon what occasion Mr. B. surely will call back his hasty words or else by all the Orthodox he must confes● he means none but such as are exactly of his opinion and then the upshot of his saying is only this that all agree with him in judgment who doe not differ § 27. His 27th That I frequently relinquish Scripture and Tradition for the courting of right reason Which some of my faction give out to be even since the Fall incorrupt and to be appealed unto against the J●dgment of the whole Antient and Modern Church p. 43. 44. Here again are as many falsities as in so many words can be expressed For 1. it is evidently the Method of my Notes to give Scripture the first place universal Tradition the second and right Reason the third Which is not to relinquish but to preferr the former Scripture before Reason and the publick reason of the whole Church before the private reason of my self or of other particular men 2. As he names no place wherein I doe what he affirmeth so am I not able to conjecture what pretence he can have for that suggestion unless it be this one that when I have done with Scripture and Antiquity I proceed to Reason and so he thinks it a witty thing to call the finishing of a Subject the relinquishing of it He may say in this sense That S. John the Evangelist ch 1. v. 19 doth relinquish the Divinity and Office of Christ for the courting the Testimony of John the Baptist because he leaveth the former having spoken of it sufficiently and falleth in hand with the later And so the Author to the Hebrews may be said by Mr. B. to relinquish the principles of the Doctrine of Christ 3. There are none of my Religion which he is every where so civil as to call my Faction nor yet of my Acquaintance who give out Reason since the Fall to be incorrupt I for my part did avow my being subject to errors p. 1. 〈◊〉 and my having once erred the same errors with those men who now oppose me for my conversion pag. 48. Mr. B. himself is much more liable to this accusation because in all his Articles of his new Creed he is as peremptory as a Pope Nor can I finde him confessing that he ever err'd or was mistaken in all his life 4. Nor do any of my Principles appeal to Reason against the Judgment of the whole antient and modern Church But on the contrary would have things decided by that Authority which Mr. B. and his Teachers have set at naught and thence are worsted so frequently in their Disputes not only by the learned but by the unlearned part of the Independents They having said such things against the Authority of Tradition and the universal Church when they contended with Bishop Hall and other Assertors of the Hierarchie that whilst those dictates stand unrevoked they are utterly unqualified to prove the baptism of Infants the Sunday-sabbath the very Canon of Scripture the Apostolicalness of the Creed or their pretensions to the Ministery more then any other men 5. Mr. B. unwarily confesseth p. 43. that with me tria sunt omnia these three things are all in all Scripture Tradition and Right Reason Now since nothing is substracted from the Authority of the Scripture by the addition of suffrages both from publick and private Reason Tradition being use●ul to convey the Canon of Scripture to us and reason as well useful to explain it where it is hard as to understand it where it is easie I know not how Mr. B. could have spoken more to his own disadvantage or my commendition And that he may not say that I am Popishly affected for the reverence I bear to universal Tradition and the Mother Church as sometimes he doth I will here put him in minde of Mr. Bal●'s own words The best way to finde out what the Scriptures have determined in Ecclesiastical affairs is to observe the practice of the Vniversal or Catholick Church of Christ in all successions and