The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1, Table of contents – Errata
THE CONTENTS.
PART I. Of Natural Religion or GODLINESS.
CHAP I. OF the neereſt Truths, and 1. Of Humane Nature, or the Knowledge of our ſelves: (Where note, that the Queſtion about the Souls Immaterial Subſtance, is reſerved to the Appendix or Concluſion), Page 1
CHAP. II. Of Man as Related to the things below him, 4
CHAP. III. Of Men as mutually Related to each other, 6
CHAP. IV. Of MAN and other things as produced by the FIRST CAƲSE, 9
CHAP. V. What this CAƲSE is in it ſelf: That it is GOD, 16
CHAP VI. Of GOD as RELATED to his Creatures, eſpecially to Man: and I. as his OWNER, 32
CHAP. VII. Of Mans Relation to God his OWNER, 36
CHAP. VIII. II. Of GOD's Relation to Man as his RƲLER, where it is proved, that God ruleth Man morally by Laws and Judgement, 38
CHAP. IX. Of Mans SƲBJECTION to God, or Relation to him as our RƲLER, 65
CHAP. X. Of GOD's particular LAWS as known in NATƲRE: What the Law of Nature is, 69
CHAP. XI. III. Of GOD's Relation to Man as his BENEFACTOR and his END: Or as his CHIEF GOOD: Proved that God is Mans END, 80
CHAP. XII. Of MAN's Relation to God as he is our FATHER, BENEFACTOR, and END or CHIEF GOOD: and the Duties of that Relation, 101
CHAP. XIII. Experiments of the Difficulty of all this Duty-before-proved from Nature: And what it muſt coſt him who will live ſuch a Holy Life, 114
CHAP. XIV. That there is a Life of Retribution after this, proved, 119
CHAP. XV. Of the Intrinſecal Evils of SIN: and of the PERPETƲ AL PƲNISHMENT due to the Sinner by the undoubted Law of Nature, 156
CHAP. XVI. Of the preſent ſinfull and miſerable ſtate of the World, 176
CHAP. XVII. What Naturall Light declareth of the Mercy of God to Sinners, and of the Hopes and Means of Mans Recovery, 182
PART II. Of CHRISTIANITY, and Supernatural Revelation.
CHAP. I. OF the need of a clearer Light, or fuller Revelation of the Will of God, than all that hath been opened before, p. 191
CHAP. II. Of the ſeveral RELIGIONS which are in the World, 198
CHAP. III. Of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION: and 1. What it is, 204
CHAP. IV. Of the Nature and PROPERTIES of the Chriſtian Religion, 229
CHAP. V. Of the CONGRƲITIES in the Chriſtian Religion, which make it the more eaſily credible, and are great Preparatives to Faith, 241
CHAP. VI. Of the WITNESS of JESƲS CHRIST, or the great demonſtrative Evidence of his Verity and Authority, viz. The SPIRIT: In 4. parts: 1. Antecedently, by PROPHECY. 2. Conſtitutively and Inherently, the Image of God, on his Perſon, Life and Doctrine. 3. Concomitantly; by the Miraculous Power and Works of Chriſt and his Diſciples. 4. Subſequently; in the actual Salvation of men by Renovation: Opened: Notes added, 258
CHAP. VII. Of the ſubſervient Proofs and Means by which the forementioned Evidences are brought to our certain knowledge, 302 How we know the antecedent Prophetical Teſtimony; and the Conſtitutive, Inherent Evidence: How we know the Concomitant Teſtimony of Miracles: 1. By Humane Teſtimony. 2. By Evidence of Natural Certainty. 3. By Divine atteſtation in the Teſtifyers Miracles. The Proofs of that Divine atteſtation with the Witneſſes: 1. In the holy Conſtitution of their Souls and Doctrine: 2. In their Miracles and Gifts: 3. In the ſucceſs of their Doctrine to mens ſanctification. How the Churches teſtimony of the Diſciples Miracles and Doctrine is proved. 1. By moſt credible Humane Teſtimony: 2. By ſuch as hath Natural Evidence of Certainty: 3. By ſome further Divine atteſtation. The way or Means of the Churches atteſtation and Tradition. The Scriptures proved the ſame which the Apoſtles delivered, and the Churches received. How we may know the 4th part of the Spirits Teſtimony, viz. The Succeſſes of Chriſtian Doctrine to mens ſanctification: What Sanctification is, and the acts or parts of it. Conſectaries, from p. 302. to 350
CHAP. VIII. Of ſome other ſubſervient and Collateral Arguments for the Chriſtian Verity, 350
CHAP. IX. Yet Faith hath many Difficulties to overcome: What they are, and what their Cauſes, 365
CHAP. X. The Intrinſecal Difficulties in the Chriſtian Faith reſolved: or 24 Objections againſt Chriſtianity anſwered, 371, to 424
CHAP. XI. The Extrinſecal Difficulties, or 16 more Objections reſolved, 424
CHAP. XII. The reaſonable Conditions required of them, who will overcome the Difficulties of Believing, and will not undoe themſelves by wilfull Infidelity, 444 The ſumm of all in an Addreſſe to God, 453, 457
CHAP. XIII. Conſectaries. I. What Party of Chriſtians ſhould we joyn with, or be of, ſeeing they are divided into ſo many Sects? 464
CHAP. XIV. II. Of the true Intereſt of Chriſt and his Church, and the Souls of Men, of the means to promote it, and its Enemies and Impediments in the World: (Which being only named in brief Propoſitions, ſhould be the more heedfully peruſed, by thoſe that dare pretend the Intereſt of Religion and the Church, for the proudeſt, or the moſt dividing practices; and thoſe which moſt directly hinder the ſucceſſefull preaching of the Goſpel, the pure Worſhipping of God, and the ſaving of Mens Souls.) 466.
The Concluſion, (or an Appendix) defending the Souls Immortality, againſt the Somatiſts, or Epicureans, and other Pſeudo-philoſophers.
OBJECTION I. MAtter and Motion only may do all that which you aſcribe to Souls, p. 495
OBJECT. II. By Senſe, Imagination, Cogitation, Reaſon, you cannot prove the Soul to be incorporeal, and immortal, becauſe the Bruits partake of all theſe, 523
OBJECT. III. Humane Souls are but Forms: and Forms are but the qualities or modes of Subſtances; and therefore periſh when ſeperated from Bodies, 535
OBJECT. IV. The Soul is material, and conſequently mortal, becauſe it dependeth upon matter in its Operations, and therefore in its Eſſence, 539
OBJECT V. No immaterial Subſtance moveth that which is material, as a principle of its Operations: but the Soul ſo moveth the Body: Ergo— 540
OBJECT. VI. The Soul in our ſleep acteth irrationally, according to the fortuitous motion of the ſpirits, — Ergo— 543
OBJECT. VII. Reaſon is no proof of the Souls Immateriality, becauſe Senſe (which the Bruits have) is the more perfect apprehenſion, 543
OBJECT. VIII. Senſation and Intellection are both but Reception: The Paſſivity therefore of the Soul doth ſhew its Materiality, 544
OBJECT. IX. There is nothing in the Intellect which was not firſt in the Senſe, &c. Ergo, the Soul that can reach but things corporeal, is ſuch it ſelf, 547
OBJECT. X. That which things Corporeal work on, is Corporeal: but, &c. 551
OBJECT. XI. That is not incorporeal which knoweth not it ſelf to be ſo, nor hath any notion but Negative and Metaphorical of Incorporeal Beings, 551
OBJECT. XII. The Soul is generated: Ergo, corruptible, 555
OBJECT. XIII. Omne quod oritur interit: That which is not eternal as to paſt duration, is not eternal as to future duration: But, &c. 567
OBJECT. XIV. You have none but Moral Arguments for the Souls Immortality, 568
OBJECT. XV. You ſeem to confeſs, that it is not the endleſs duration of the Soul, but only a future ſtate of Retribution, which you can prove from Nature alone, 568
OBJECT. XVI. Both Soul and Body are like a Candle in fluxu continuo: Ergo, being not long the ſame, are uncapable of a Life of Retribution, 569
OBJECT. XVII. The Soul returneth to the Anima Mundi or Element of Souls, and ſo loſeth its Individuation, and is uncapable of Retribution, 571
OBJECT. XVIII. The Fictions of the Platoniſts about their ſeveral Vehicles, and ſuch like, do make their Doctrine the more to be ſuſpected, 574
OBJECT. XIX. The Souls actings will not be ſuch as they are now by Corporeal Spirits, and Idea's: Ergo, it will be uncapable of Retribution, 578
OBJECT. XX. The belief of the Souls Immortality doth fill men with fears, and draw them to ſuperſtition, and trouble the Peace of Kingdoms, &c. 579
In Objection about the Worlds Eternity: What Chriſtianity ſaith about it, 582
The Teſtimony of Socrates and Zenocrates of the Souls Immortality, 589
…icero's Doctrine, and his redargution of the Somatiſts at large, 590
The Stoicks neerneſs to the Doctrine of Chriſtianity, with their particular Moral Tenets, and their Praiſes, by the Learned and Pious Mr. T. Gataker, 595
The Stoicks, Platoniſts, and other Philoſophers opinion of the ſufficiency of Virtue to be Mans Felicity, againſt the Epicurean Doctrine of Pleaſure, Vindicated. It importeth a great Theological Verity, that God is Mans ultimate End; and to be loved above our own Pleaſure; opened, 598, &c.
Why I anſwer no more particular Objections, as about Scripture-Texts, &c. 601
An Inſtance in ſome Strictures on a late Writing, called, Inquiſitio in Fidem Chriſtianorum hujus Seculi, 604
Readers, I intreat you, whatever you do by all the reſt following, to correct with your pen theſe few greater Errata, becauſe they quite pervert the ſenſe, and ſome of them turn it directly contrary to ſome of the greateſt Truths which I am defending.
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PAge 12. l. 36. for or r. are, p. 49. marg. l. 32. for at r. ut, p. 80. l. 10. r. ſo full, p. 157. marg. l. antep. r. animi morbi, p. 178. l. 32. for ſometimes r. … minds, p. 199. marg. l. 1. r. Eunapius, p. 201. l. 22. r. Texeira, p. 236. marg. l. 1. r. ſimulata, and l. 26. r. his Diſciples, p. 240. l. 23. dele Teleſius, l. 30. r. Behmeniſts, p. 246. l. 19. for Ariſtippus r. Ariſtotle, p. 281. l. 22. for hath r. have, p. 297. marg. l. 40. for ſpeculum r. ſpecimen, p. 346. l. 11. r. in the, p. 349. l. 5. r. the godly, p. 350. l. 36. r. Aſellius, p. 367. l. 32. r. Theſe are the, p. 417. l. 30. for ſince r. ſure, p. 418. l. 2. for wean r. turn, p. 437. l. 4. for moſt r. more, p. 498. marg. l. 11. r. nolint, and l. penult. for Carteſ. r. Corteſ. p. 503. l. 19. for one r. a…, p. 509. l. 9. for as r. an, p. 514. l. 27. r. contemperatio, p. 527. l. 24. r. Gradually, p. 551. marg. l. 1. r Corteſ. p. 553. l. 14. for Lud r. Lod, p. 554. l. 1. for the r. that; p. 557. l. 32. dele who, p. 560. l. 34. r. Adiant…m, p. 571. l. 17. r. nor no ſubſtance, p. 576. l. 22. for Arphad. r. Aphrod. p. 578. l. 21. dele may, p. 582. marg. r. Corteſ. p. 587. l 7. for one reaſon, r. our Reaſon, p. 588. l. 8. for what r. which.
Take notice alſo, that many of the marginal Citations, are not put juſt over againſt the words which they referr to.