A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Now tis to be observed, there are many cautions necessary, and that there is much to be said against many of these things which now go under the name of new Lights among those who plead for Liberty of conscience.

Now tis to be observed, there are many cautions necessary, and that there is much to be said against many of these things which now goe under the name of new Lights among those who plead for Liberty of conscience.

New Light is now become a beguiling Word, as once among the Graecians, [Greek or Hebrew], a new swallow. A beguiling word, I may well call it, for most of those things which are now cried up as new lights, are neither lights nor new. Not lights, because not according to the word from whence all true light must be derived. Not new, because the very same things have been before moved and maintained, Antinomianism, Anabaptism, universal atonement by the death of Christ, universal salvation, a temporal and earthly kingdom of Christ, and the Saints liberty of conscience &c. have been maintained and confuted also before this age. Independency it self, if it be a light, yet it is no new one lately struck out, for it was long since a known tenet of the Arminians, that Synods or Counsels ought only to debate, deliberate, consult, and advise, but not to exercise any Jurisdiction, to inflict any censure, or to enjoin any thing under pain of censure. See the propositions offered by the Arminians in the 25th Session of the Synod of Dort. See also Episcopii disp: Theol: part: 2 disp: 54. Thes: 9, 10. & part 3, disp: 32, thes: 4. 5, 11. But I come to the particular cautions concerning new Lights.

New Light is now become a beguiling Word, as once among the Graecians, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a new swallow. A beguiling word, I may wel cal it, for most of those things which are now cried up as new lights, are neither lights nor new. Not lights, because not according to the word from whence all true light must be derived. Not new, because the very same things have been before moved and maintained, Antinomianisme, Anabaptisme, universall atonement by the death of Christ, universall salvation, a temporall and earthly kingdome of Christ, and the Saints liberty of conscience &c. have been maintained and confuted also before this age. Independency it self, if it be a light, yet it is no new one lately struck out, for it was long since a known tenent of the Arminians, that Synods or Counsels ought only to debate, deliberat, consult, and advise, but not to exercise any Jurisdiction, to inflict any censure, or to injoyn any thing under pain of censure. See the propositions offered by the Arminians in the 25th Session of the Synod of Dort. See also Episcopii disp: Theol: part: 2 disp: 54. Thes: 9, 10. & part 3, disp: 32, thes: 4. 5, 11. But I come to the particular cautions concerning new Lights.