The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God
- Title
- The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God
- Author
- Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by T.N. for Tho. Underhil,
- 1655.
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- Subject terms
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc.
- Revelation.
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"The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26869.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- Scripture
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THE Arrogancy of REASON against
Divine Relations, Repressed.-
Object. But we must not believe all things; and therefore we must enquire, and try the spirits, whe∣ther they be of God, or not, even the Spirit of Christ himself? -
Object. But would you not have men satisfyed of the reasonableness of what they believe? shall men believe that which is unreasonable? this were to make us mad, and not Christians. -
Object. But it is certain that God never spokcontradictions. Therefore if I finde contradictions in the Scriptures, may I not rationally argue that they are not the Word of God? -
Object. 1. You tell us out of Scripture, that therare Devils, most wicked malicious spirits addict to do evil: Who made these Devils, or, how can they to be so bad: Certainly, God is good, and there∣fore made nothing but what was good; and ever thing must have a first cause: If they made them∣selves evil, then they were the first cause of thei own evil: And then you deifie the will of th Devil in making it to be absolutely a first cause. you say as some, That sin is but a privation, and therefore hath no efficient cause, but a deficient then either that deficiency must be first from Go (and then he should be the first cause of all sin) or from the will of the Devil; and then either he wa before bound non-deficere, or not. If not, it was no sin; if he were, thenfirst, he couldprimo de∣ficere, though God did all that belonged to him to prevent it;secondly, and he could have stood with∣out any more help then he had when he fell, and soquoad determinationem propriae voluntatis, should have been the first determining cause of his own perseverance, ornon -deficiency: For if he could not stand, it was no sin to fall, being before in∣nocent. Moreover, their sin was not a meer priva∣tion, but materially an act (whethervelle ornolle ) and formally a relation of disconformity to the Law. -
Object. 2. he Scripture saith, That God made all things of nothing; when of nothing, no∣thing can be made. How then can these things be? -
Object. 3. Moses saith, That God made the light, and day, and darkness, and night, before the Sun: When the light is the effect, and the Sun the cause; and the darkness is but a privation of the light of the Sun. How then can these things be? -
Object 4. M saiths Gen. 1 16. That God made two great Lights, the Sun and Moon; where∣as it is certain▪ thmany Plan s are greater then the Mo , therefore he speaketh ignoran ly. -
Object. 5. M makes the Garden ofs s Eden to have a Rivarising i it, which ivideth it self into four parts. But there is no such place now known in the world, where four such Rivers as he describeth are so near. -
Object. 6. Is it a likely thing that a Serpent should speak toEve? Or the subtilty of the Serpent be a reason of the Temptation? Or, thatEve that was then perfect, should not know that Serpents can∣not speak of themselves; and if she knew that it was the Devil that spakby the Serpent, it would have affrighted and astonished her, rather then have been such a temptation to her? -
Obj.—. How coulda fn ye into the Land of Nod, or build a City,G when there was no more m. 4. 6, 17. n th▪ -
O Is it. 8. likely thing that the Red-Sea should for the Israelites to pass through? Or that should stand still in Joshuahs time: and notbe over tu ned by it? Or that Jonas should live without ayre in the belly of a Whale? Or ot be digested in his belly as other food is? How an these things be? -
Obj. 9. Is it a likly thing that a Virgin should conceive and have a child? How can this be? -
Obj. 10. Is it a likely thing that God should be∣come a man, or that God and man should be one per∣son, which is more Condescenion then for a Prince to become a flye to save flyes om being killed? -
Obj 11. Is it not a contradiction to say that there are three perons, and but one God? -
Object. 12. There are many contradictions in tScripture; and therefore it is incredible. For e ∣ample; Mark. 14. 30. [Before the Cock Cro andtwice] Mat. Luke say[Before the Cock Crow And many the like.
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