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War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness,…
War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness, in a dialogue discovering the corruption and vanity of youth, the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man, also, a description of the power and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion. : To which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor, worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort. / By B.K. author of Zion in distress, or The groans of the Protestant church.War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness, in a dialogue discovering the corruption and vanity of youth, the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man, also, a description of the power and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion. : To which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor, worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort. / By B.K. author of Sion in distress, or The groans of the Protestant church.
New York: printed by William Bradford, 1707
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Professor Though Supernatural Knowledge you despise, And count Gods holy Word to be but lies; I briefly shall stand up in its Defence, And show your Pride and cursed Insolence. That all may love Gods Word, prize it, and see Its worth and weight, and its Authority To be Divine, and by Jehovah given To lead poor Souls in the right way to Heaven: One thing of you in the' first place, I demand, Pray let me know, and •ully understand ⟨p. 170⟩•hen this supposed Cheat did first commence, •nd in what part of the' world, bring evidence. ••ypt stands mute, saith it commenced not here, •or did the Jews invent it, that's as clear. •sk all the Heathens too in every age, • their Philosophers brought, on the Stage. • you can find it out, pray bring't to light, Or else confess your darkness worse than night. •Tis strange that such a universal Cheat •hould thus be put upon the World, and yet No one can show who did the same devise, Nor how, nor whe• the same at first did rise. Since all the world stands silent, and is mute, This might a• period put to the Dispute. But, secondly, I argue once again, There's none of them who do so much disdain The Holy Scriptures, who just Proof can bring To show, in the' least, they were a forged thing; If none can them disprove, O then, say I, What ground have you the Scripture to deny? The Scriptures also, I observe, have been Strangely preserved by a power unseen; In every Age, kept, both in word and sense, From secret Fraud and open Violence, Against the numerous Armies of all those That were both secret, yea, and open Foes; No wicked or malicious men could ever Subvert the Scripture, though they did endeavour: The beastly Clergy of the Church of Rome, Through whose hands to us the Scriptures come; Though guilty of most vile Abomination, As ever was committed in a Nation, ⟨p. 171⟩