Excerpt from The Bulwark Stormed: In Answer to Thomas De Laune's Plea for the Non-Conformists; Wherein Is Shewed the Fallaciousness and Unconclusiveness of Every Argument in That Pretended Unanswerable Book I'thinlt you have fufhciently'confuted De Lenno's Arguments, and fhewed that they cannot (land, whether ihefe things are true or falfe. But that I may 'vindicate the Primitive Che/rely, and our own, 'from thofe Calumnies he fo uniufily loads them with, and fhew that this Fellow, who pre tended to be a: Scholar, was either egregioufly ignorant, and knew not: whether what he ali'ert ed was true or falfe, or elfe abominably impudent in endeavourin'gto impofe upon the World what heknew to be' falfe. I {hall begin with what he fays concerning the p imitivetimes, that is, thofe' times if the Church wmeh were within four hundred Years after the Birth ofchrz Degreesfll Now'thefe were certainly the p'uref't times of the Chrzfiz'nn Church. The firth hundred Years was under'the Prefidency of Chrifl' himfelfhereon Earth, or fome of his Apofiles; for St.7ahn, the beloved Difciple did not die till about an hundred Years after the Nativity of our. Saviour: The next fiftyyears, at leaf't, was under the Pre fidency of fuch bllhops as had been inflrue'ted by the Apollle's orapoflolical Men; for the Apoiiles had many Aflillants and F ellow Labourers, whofe Names we meet with in the New Tellament, as Timothy, Titns, Sylnnnns, Epnphroelitns, Clemens, and others, who were as careful to preferve the Purity of the Chrzfiz'nn Faith and Worlhip, as the Apoftles themfelves. And we have reafon to believe that their immediate -succeffors who were educated and ordained by them, would not immediately corrupt the Faith and Worlhip of God, and deviate from the apofiolical Doetrine and Praetice {jefpecially when we confider that' the Apoftles, andapofiolical 'men'their Contem poraries, 'had the Gift'ofdifcerning Spirits, and: A 3 thereforevi. Dr. Brett's Letter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.