| Word What The Words Spoken By God And Concerning God, Both Are Called Gods Word Secondly, For The Effect Of His Word Thirdly, For The Words Of Reason And Equity Divers Acceptions Of The Word Prophet Praediction Of Future Contingents, Not Alwaies Prophecy The Manner How God Hath Spoken To The Prophets To The Extraordinary Prophets Of The Old Testament He Spake God Sometimes Also Spake By Lots Every Man Ought To Examine The Probability Of A Pretended Prophets All Prophecy But Of The Soveraign Prophet Is To Be Examined CHAPTER XXXVII. OF MIRACLES, AND THEIR USE A Miracle Is A Work That Causeth Admiration And Must Therefore Be Rare, Whereof There Is No Naturall Cause Known That Which Seemeth A Miracle To One Man, May Seem Otherwise To Another The End Of Miracles The Definition Of A Miracle That Men Are Apt To Be Deceived By False Miracles Cautions Against The Imposture Of Miracles CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF ETERNALL LIFE, Place Of Adams Eternity If He Had Not Sinned, The Terrestrial Paradise Texts Concerning The Place Of Life Eternall For Beleevers Ascension Into Heaven The Place After Judgment, Of Those Who Were Never In The Kingdome The Congregation Of Giants Lake Of Fire Utter Darknesse Gehenna, And Tophet Of The Literall Sense Of The Scripture Concerning Hell Satan, Devill, Not Proper Names, But Appellatives Torments Of Hell The Joyes Of Life Eternall, And Salvation The Same Thing, The Place Of Eternall Salvation Redemption CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE WORD CHURCH Church The Lords House Ecclesia Properly What In What Sense The Church Is One Person Church Defined A Christian Common-wealth, And A Church All One CHAPTER XL The Soveraign Rights Of Abraham Abraham Had The Sole Power Of Ordering The Religion Of His Own People No Pretence Of Private Spirit Against The Religion Of Abraham Abraham Sole Judge, And Interpreter Of What God Spake The Authority Of Moses Whereon Grounded Moses Was (Under God) Soveraign Of The Jews, All His Own Time, All Spirits Were Subordinate To The Spirit Of Moses After Moses The Soveraignty Was In The High Priest Of The Soveraign Power Between The Time Of Joshua And Of Saul Of The Rights Of The Kings Of Israel The Practice Of Supremacy In Religion, Was Not In The Time Of The Kings, After The Captivity The Jews Had No Setled Common-wealth CHAPTER XLI. OF THE OFFICE OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR Three Parts Of The Office Of Christ His Office As A Redeemer Christs Kingdome Not Of This World The End Of Christs Comming Was To Renew The Covenant Of The Kingdome Part Of His Office The Preaching Of Christ Not Contrary To The Then Law Of The Jews, The Third Part Of His Office Was To Be King (Under His Father) Christs Authority In The Kingdome Of God Subordinate To His Father One And The Same God Is The Person Represented By Moses, And By Christ CHAPTER XLII. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICALL Of The Holy Spirit That Fel On The Apostles Of The Trinity The Power Ecclesiasticall Is But The Power To Teach An Argument Thereof, The Power Of Christ Himself From The Name Of Regeneration From The Comparison Of It, With Fishing, Leaven, Seed From The Nature Of Faith: From The Authority Christ Hath Left To Civill Princes What Christians May Do To Avoid Persecution Of Martyrs Argument From The Points Of Their Commission To Preach And Teach To Baptize; And To Forgive, And Retain Sinnes Of Excommunication The Use Of Excommunication Without Civill Power. Of No Effect Upon An Apostate But Upon The Faithfull Only For What Fault Lyeth Excommunication Of Persons Liable To Excommunication Of The Interpreter Of The Scriptures Before Civill Soveraigns Of The Power To Make Scripture Law Of The Ten Commandements Of The Judicial, And Leviticall Law The Second Law The Old Testament, When Made Canonicall Of The Power Of Councells To Make The Scripture Law Of The Right Of Constituting Ecclesiasticall Officers In The Time Matthias Made Apostle By The Congregation. Paul And Barnabas Made Apostles By The Church Of Antioch What Offices In The Church Are Magisteriall Ordination Of Teachers Ministers Of The Church What And How Chosen What Of Ecclesiasticall Revenue, Under The Law Of Moses In Our Saviours Time, And After The Civill Soveraign Being A Christian Hath The Right Of Appointing The Pastorall Authority Of Soveraigns Only Is De Jure Divino, Christian Kings Have Power To Execute All Manner Of Pastoral Function The Civill Soveraigne If A Christian, Is Head Of The Church Cardinal Bellarmines Books De Summo Pontifice Considered The First Book The Second Book The Third Book The Fourth Book Texts For The Infallibility Of The Popes Judgement In Points Of Faith Texts For The Same In Point Of Manners Of The Popes Temporall Power CHAPTER XLIII. OF WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR A MANS RECEPTION INTO THE The Difficulty Of Obeying God And Man Both At Once Is None To Them That Distinguish Between What Is, And What Is Not All That Is Necessary To Salvation Is Contained In Faith And Obedience What Obedience Is Necessary; And To What Laws In The Faith Of A Christian, Who Is The Person Beleeved The Causes Of Christian Faith Faith Comes By Hearing Proved From The Scope Of The Evangelists From The Sermons Of The Apostles: From The Easinesse Of The Doctrine: From Formall And Cleer Texts From That It Is The Foundation Of All Other Articles In What Sense Other Articles May Be Called Necessary That Faith, And Obedience Are Both Of Them Necessary To Salvation What Each Of Them Contributes Thereunto Obedience To God And To The Civill Soveraign Not Inconsistent Or Infidel CHAPTER XLIV. OF SPIRITUALL DARKNESSE FROM MISINTERPRETATION OF The Kingdome Of Darknesse What The Church Not Yet Fully Freed Of Darknesse Four Causes Of Spirituall Darknesse Errors From Misinterpreting The Scriptures, Concerning The Kingdome As That The Kingdome Of God Is The Present Church And That The Pope Is His Vicar Generall And That The Pastors Are The Clergy Error From Mistaking Consecration For Conjuration Incantation In The Ceremonies Of Baptisme In Marriage, In Visitation Of The Sick, And In Consecration Of Places Errors From Mistaking Eternall Life, And Everlasting Death As The Doctrine Of Purgatory, And Exorcismes, And Invocation Of Saints The Texts Alledged For The Doctrines Aforementioned Have Been Answered Answer To The Text On Which Beza Infereth Explication Of The Place In Mark 9.1 Abuse Of Some Other Texts In Defence Of The Power Of The Pope The Manner Of Consecrations In The Scripture, Was Without Exorcisms The Immortality Of Mans Soule, Not Proved By Scripture To Be Of Nature, Eternall Torments What Answer Of The Texts Alledged For Purgatory Places Of The New Testament For Purgatory Answered Baptisme For The Dead, How Understood CHAPTER XLV. OF DAEMONOLOGY, AND OTHER RELIQUES OF THE RELIGION OF THE The Originall Of Daemonology What Were The Daemons Of The Ancients How That Doctrine Was Spread Why Our Saviour Controlled It Not The Scriptures Doe Not Teach That Spirits Are Incorporeall The Power Of Casting Out Devills, Not The Same It Was In The Primitive Another Relique Of Gentilisme, Worshipping Images, Left In The Church Answer To Certain Seeming Texts For Images What Is Worship Distinction Between Divine And Civill Worship An Image What Phantasmes Fictions; Materiall Images Idolatry What Scandalous Worship Of Images Answer To The Argument From The Cherubins, And Brazen Serpent Painting Of Fancies No Idolatry: Abusing Them To Religious Worship Is How Idolatry Was Left In The Church Canonizing Of Saints The Name Of Pontifex Procession Of Images Wax Candles, And Torches Lighted CHAPTER XLVI. OF DARKNESSE FROM VAIN PHILOSOPHY, AND FABULOUS TRADITIONS What Philosophy Is Prudence No Part Of Philosophy No False Doctrine Is Part Of Philosophy Nor Learning Taken Upon Credit Of Authors Of The Beginnings And Progresse Of Philosophy Of The Schools Of Philosophy Amongst The Athenians Of The Schools Of The Jews The Schoole Of Graecians Unprofitable The Schools Of The Jews Unprofitable University What It Is Errors Brought Into Religion From Aristotles Metaphysiques Errors Concerning Abstract Essences Nunc-stans One Body In Many Places, And Many Bodies In One Place At Once Absurdities In Naturall Philosophy, As Gravity The Cause Of Heavinesse Quantity Put Into Body Already Made Powring In Of Soules Ubiquity Of Apparition Will, The Cause Of Willing Ignorance An Occult Cause One Makes The Things Incongruent, Another The Incongruity Private Appetite The Rule Of Publique Good: And That Lawfull Marriage Is Unchastity And That All Government But Popular, Is Tyranny That Not Men, But Law Governs Laws Over The Conscience Private Interpretation Of Law Language Of Schoole-Divines Errors From Tradition Suppression Of Reason CHAPTER XLVII. OF THE BENEFIT THAT PROCEEDETH FROM SUCH DARKNESSE, He That Receiveth Benefit By A Fact, Is Presumed To Be The Author That The Church Militant Is The Kingdome Of God, Was First Taught By And Maintained Also By The Presbytery Infallibility Subjection Of Bishops Exemptions Of The Clergy The Names Of Sacerdotes, And Sacrifices The Sacramentation Of Marriage The Single Life Of Priests Auricular Confession Canonization Of Saints, And Declaring Of Martyrs Transubstantiation, Penance, Absolution Purgatory, Indulgences, Externall Works Daemonology And Exorcism School-Divinity The Authors Of Spirituall Darknesse, Who They Be Comparison Of The Papacy With The Kingdome Of Fayries A REVIEW, AND CONCLUSION |
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