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Shadows without substance, or, Pretended new lightsShadowes without substance, or, Pretended new lights
Shadows without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoinder unto Mr John Saltmarsh his reply: entitled Shadows flying away. Wherein nothing less is showed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.Shadowes without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoynder unto Mr Iohn Saltmarsh his reply: entituled Shadowes flying away. Wherein nothing lesse is shewed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1646
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2. Did not our Saviour himself make use of Logic, when from Moses by way of Syllogism, nagainst the Sadducees he confirmed the doctrine of the Resurrection? wheno from the Story of the Creation, and Gods institution of Marriage, he discovered the unwarrantablenesse of groundless Divorces? when from the words of the Psalmist, phe asserted his own Deity; and from a passage of the Prophet Hoshea, qthe Lawfulness of that which his Disciples did on the Sabbath? Yea, do not the Apostles frequently by Logical Arguments prove points of Divinity, and confirm matters of faith; as Paulr justification, not by works, but by faith, sthe necessity of sanctification and newness of life, in persons by faith justified; tthe foulness of fornication; uthe heinousness of feasting with Idolaters in Idol-Temples, xthe resurrection from the dead and the like: or how think we, disputed he at Athens withy the Stoics, the menz of most repute for Logical skill in those times? doth not his Sermon it self show it? I might well, Sir, say to you, as Augustine to Cresconius, *If Paul at Athens disputed with those chief Logicians the Stoics, beware how you object the use of Logic as a fault to any; which that the Apostles, yea, and Christ himself used, can not be denied. But I shall spare to spend more word in pursuit of this point, until Mr. S. further herein explain himself, and let us know what he will own in it, and how far forth he will give those that deal with him leave to make use of their Logic. Sure, if reason be the eye of the soul, and Logic