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Show 1ND CONCLVSION. A REVIEW ! [mg the thefe words, Fremtt'mt timefmvard, viz/mt Mofe: 67.71761 Tabernacle of 1/7: Congregation tafpcflh' with} 00513;}? €547"! 4 Wife the which fpakcuma bimfram over 1/2: Merry-Seat; , m/neu IS over Arkc oftbe thfimom', from betivecn the Cl/erirtvrm'ljc [flake mm 111m. But it is not declared in what conhfied the preeemtnenceot the mannerofGods {pcaking to Moles, abovethat ot hisllpeaking-to other judgment, grOunded on many reafons. For firft, all Truth of Doe.- trine dependeth either upon chfrm, or upon Scripture, bOth which ive credit to many, but never receive it from any Writer. Secondly, the matters in queflion are not offafi, but of RIglIt,\Vllcl'Cinthere is no place for W/tmflei. There is fearce any of thole old Writers, that contradicteth not fometimes both himlelf,and others; prophets, as to Samuel, and to Abraham, to wuom he allo fpake which makes their Tefiimonies infuf‘hcient. bya Voice, (that is, by Vifion) Unlelle the dil'rerence confill in ons as are taken onely upon Credit ofAntiquity, are not intrinlecal . ly the Judgment of thole that citethem, but Words that palTe (like gaping) from mouth to mouth. Fiftly, it is many times with a frau- the Cleerncile ofthe Vifion. For Fare to Face, and Mow/2 to Mom/2, cannot be )jtcrallyunderfiood of the Infinitencfle , and Incompre- ‘ . henfibility ofthe Divine Nature. And as to the whole Doétrinefl lee not yet,butthe Princrples ofit Fourthly, {uch Opini. dulent Defigne that men {tick their corrupt Doctrine with the are true and proper; and the Ratiocination lblidTotI ground the Civill Right of Soveraigns,and both the Duty andLiberty ofSubjetfts, Cloves of other mens Wit. Sixtly, Ifind not that the Ancients they cite, took it for an Ornament, to doe the like with thole that wrote before them. Seventhly, iris an argument of Indigelhon, upon the known naturall Inclina;ions or Mankind, and upon the when Greek and Latine Sentences unchewed come up again, asthey Articles of the Law of Nature; of which no man, that pretends but uIe to doe, unchanged. Lafily, though Iteverence thole men of Ancient time, that either have written Truth peripicuoull y, or let us in a better way to find it out our l‘elves, yet torhe Antiquity it felt I think nothing clue: Forifwe wzllrevetence the Age , the Pre- {cm is the Oldel't. If the Antiquity of the Writer,I am not litre, that generally they to whom l'uch honor is given,we re more Ancient whenthey wrote, than. I am that am Writing : But if It bee well confidered, the praile ofAncient Authors, proceeds not from the reafon enough to govern his private family, ought to be ignorant. And for the Power Ecclefiafiicall of the fame Soveraigns,1 ground it on {uch Texts, as are both evident inthemlelves , and conl‘onant to the Scope ol‘the whole Scripture. And therefore am perfwaded, that he that (hall read it with apurpofe onely to be informed, lhall be informed by it. But for tliole that by Writing, or Publiquc Dileourfe, or by their eminent actions, have already engaged them{elvestothe maintaining ol‘contrary opinions, they will not bee lo reverence of the Dead, but from the competition, and mutuall envy ealily Iatisfied. For iiifuclicales, it is naturall formen, atone and In that part which treateth ofa Chriflian Common-wealth , there are lbmenew Doctrines, which, it may be , in a State where the contrary were already fullydetermined, were a fault for a Subieet ofthe Living. To conclude,thetc is nothing in this whole Dileotrrfe, not in that I writ before ofthe lame Subjeétin Latine, as far as I can pCI‘Ceva, contrary either to the Word of God, or to good Manners; or to the dillurbancc ofthc Publique Tranquillity. Therelore I thmk it may be profitably printed, and more profitably taught in the ,Llnlvei‘ll- ties, in cafe they all‘o think [0, towhom the judgment or the lane belongeth. For Ieeing the Univerfities are the Fountains or (null, and Morall Doctrine, from whenCe the l'reachcrs, and the Gentry, drawing fueh water as they find, ule to {prinkle the Lime (both lrom without leave to div ulgems being an ulurpation orthe place ol‘ .1 Te a- the Pulpit, and in their Converlation )upon the l'coplt‘,thCl‘c "Ll-3hr Qher. But in thistime, that men call not oncly for Peace , bu: alto e certainly to be great care taken, to have it pure , both from the \ for Truth, toot'rtrlirch Doctrinesas 1 think True, andrhat mani- nime of Heathen Politicians, and from the Incantation-or UCLCIVHI‘; l'ellly tend 10 Peace and Loyalty, tothe eonlidtration of thole that Spirits. And by that means the molt mendtnowrng their Duilcs',‘,\'lll are yet in deliberation, is no more, but to olIer New Vv'ine, to bee be the leis lAubieft to ferve the Ambition ol a tewdilcotcnted perlons, putinto New Cask, that both may be prel‘erved together. And I lul'l‘Ole‘hflUllt‘n, when Novelty can breed notroubleniordiiorder ma State, men are not generally lo muchinclined tothe rertrcncc intheir purpoles againfithe Statemnd be the lelle‘ grieved With the the lame tim,e,bothto proceedin reading, and to lole their attention, in the {carchofobjeétions tothat they had read before : 0f which,ina time wherein the interells of men are changed ( rat-rm much ofthat Doé‘trine, which ferveth to the eltablilhing of a new Government, mull needs be contrary tothat which condueed to the dillblution ofthe old, ) there cannnot choofe but be very many. Contributions necellnary for their Peace, and Delentcs and [WIN (our vernours thcmfclves have the led: caule, to maintain .it the make good the H1011 Charge any greater Army, thanis necefl'ary to or forhncroachmcnts and Liberty,againlttheInvafions otAntiquity, as to prelerre Ancient Errors, before New and well proved Truth. There is nothing I diflrufi more than my lilocution, which lILVU" . titl~ Ln raign Enemies. .. . . ant 1 And thus I have brought to an end my Dilcoutle of (,_ivrll I thelefle I am confident (excepting the Mil-chances of the l‘i‘tll‘c) 15 Hutoblcure. That I have negiecied ihe Ornament or i1lli)Illl:1 .mClcnll'cxts, Orators, and l'hilolophers, contrary to the cnl‘tom; of lJICFImC. (whether 1 have done well or ill 1!] in, proceedetli How. my Publique the EccleiialhcallGovernment, occalioned by the-dilordersotthe wrthout application , and wrmout w Tent time, without partiality, _ . i . ' _ tic ther defignc, than to let betore mens eyes the mutuarl RelationI‘d: CC" 395 |