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A short and plain answer to two questions
A short and plain answer to two questions: I. Where was your religion before Luther? II. How know you the Scriptures to be the word of God? By a Protestant.A short and plain answer to two questions: I. Where was your religion before Luther? II. How know you the Scriuptures to be the word of God? By a Protestant.
London: printed by T.N. for Jonathan Hutchinson bookseller, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Lastly, The Divine Mysteries therein revealed, as the Doctrine of the Trinity, the Incarnation of the Blessed Jesus, &c. though they are above our Capacity, to explain the Nature of them, yet are they so suitable to Gods Goodness, and do make such a Harmony of Divine Attributes, that Reason it self, will rather from thence infer the truth of their being, than that they cannot be, because we understand not the manner how they are. How could God be Just, if Justice were not satisfied? And could be Merciful, if all Men were to be damned; How could lost Man Redeem himself? Or, how could he be saved, if he should suffer for himself? But now in the Person of our Blessed Redeemer, the Law is satisfied, Justice is done, and even thereby, Mercy doth the more eminently appear; God is glorified, and Man is not left to perish in his iniquity. If a Man will be so morose as to urge, that Three in one, Eternal Generations, a Virgins Conception, and the like, sound so harsh to Humane understanding, that they cannot be true: He may after the same rate conclude, that there is no such thing as Humane Generation, since the Nature and process thereof, is very obscurely, if at all understood. That there are no Souls, because it is not yet agreed, whether they are immediately Created of God, or they are Ex traduce, or Pre-existent. ⟨p. 15⟩No such thing as Milk in a Woman's Breast, since Anatomists are confounded with difficulties to find what Matter it is made of, or by what secret Channels conveyed thither: In so much that one very Learned Writer in that Faculty, flies to the force of Imagination to produce it. No such thing as Quantity, because no Man ever yet could demonstrate unexceptionably, whether it be infinitely divisible, or ultimately resolvable into indivisibles. No Bodies in the World, since no Man knows what kind of Original Particles they are made of. These and many things more, as to the manner how they are, have difficulties attending them, which are insuperable and incomprehensible. And methinks it is somewhat hard, that we should do things our selves, and see many things before our Eyes, of which we can give no tolerable account, and should yet think, that God cannot do somewhat more than we can apprehend; and should be so inclinable to reject even God himself, his Word, and all his Works of Wonder, if they will not accommodate themselves to our little understandings.
Lastly, The Divine Mysteries therein revealed, as the Doctrine of the Trinity, the Incarnation of the Blessed Jesus, &c. though they are above our Capacity, to explain the Nature of them, yet are they so suitable to Gods Goodness, and do make such a Harmony of Divine Attributes, that Reason it self, will rather from thence infer the truth of their being, than that they cannot be, because we understand not the manner how they are. How could God be Just, if Justice were not satisfied? And could be Merciful, if all Men were to be damned; How could lost Man Redeem himself? Or, how could he be saved, if he should suffer for himself? But now in the Person of our Blessed Redeemer, the Law is satisfied, Justice is done, and even thereby, Mercy doth the more eminently appear; God is glorified, and Man is not left to perish in his iniquity. If a Man will be so morose as to urge, that Three in one, Eternal Generations, a Virgins Conception, and the like, sound so harsh to Humane understanding, that they cannot be true: He may after the same rate conclude, that there is no such thing as Humane Generation, since the Nature and process thereof, is very obscurely, if at all understood. That there are no Souls, because it is not yet agreed, whether they are immediately Created of God, or they are Ex traduce, or Pre-existent.