Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	believe_v	faith_n	reveal_v	2,834	5	9.4772	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20820	Abjuration of poperie, by Thomas Abernethie: sometime Iesuite, but now penitent sinner, and an unworthie member of the true reformed Church of God in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Gray-frier church, the 24. of August, 1638	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 72; ESTC S100404	27,560	50

worke well according to their owne wayes but they must have a good fat Subject to worke upon and this for the Jesuits policie The second shall bee answered after the third To the third then I have likewise answered before and now answere againe First because I finde the reformed Church of GOD in Scotland to bee furthest from Popish idolatrie and neerest to Apostolicall puritie Secondlie because that I was never am not neither ever God-willing shall bee a lukewarme Laodicean especially seeing that my Saviour Jesus Christ promiseth To him that overcommeth will I grant to sit with mee in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in His Throne What madnesse I pray you were it in a Mariner for to come out of a sunken ship to enter into another which is sinking and may have a tight one In a prisoner relieved out of a low pit to cast himselfe into free ward having his libertie in his option In a sensible man fled from a pestiferous towne to reteere himselfe to another where the same sicknesse hath taken encrease when hee may have with great ease a palace of pleasure voide of all kinde of suspicion of any infection whatsoever None truely I thinke would bee so madde and destitute of judgement but he who going out of this valley of miserie to the heavenly mansions would stay and take in purgatorie for his winter quarters Yet they say that it were well done to conforme to a middle religion between Protestants and Papists because extremeties are to be avoided and mediocritie embraced To these I answere that if they had studied their Logick as well as their Politicks they had known that of the four logicall oppositions there is one called Contradictoria which will admit no middes Inter propositiones contradictoria● non datur medium such is the state of the matter between us and Rome they say that we are hereticks we deny it they can not prove it seeing we believe the Scriptures which are given by divine iuspiration and are able to make the man of God perfect unto all good workes We say that the Pope is Antichrist they deny it but we can prove it out of the prophet Daniel the Apostles Paul and John and so foorth in all the rest of controversies betwixt them and us so that there can be no composition no more than betwixt light and darknesse God and Beliall For Christ saith plainlie He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Therefore there is no mediocritie heere And the reason of this is because as the Apostle averreth there is but One Faith in respect of its formall object Gods written word the authoritie whereof is from the Author God himself and so is divine and what is contradictorie to it is not divine nor to be believed to salvation And therefore no meeting nor trysting with Rome If it be said that the Papists believe many points common with us as the Trinitie Incarnation c. and therefore that they must have faith and so faith will not be indivisible I answere that they have a materiall faith as Turks and Jewes likewise have but not a formall faith which depending upon the authoritie of God revealed unto us in his word only and no other faith can be profitable for salvation The second branch of this politick objection is their doubt of my out coming from Rome to wit that it was to stir up diffension betwixt Reformists and CONE-formists for the Papists and Jesuits profite To these I answere first that their Critick spirits proceed more out of Philosophicall and Mathematicall than out of Christian or Thologicall grounds in this their censure of my sincere proceedings Philosophie teacheth them that Quic quid reciptur ad modum recipientis recipitur whatsoever is receaved it is receaved according to the measure of the receaver And Mathematicians in their Opticks teach that the visible speces passing from the object to the organe which receaveth them take upon them the colour of the mids where through they passe which daylie experience confirmeth and therefore according to their dispositions and affections they judge of me as their passions transport them but not as Christian charitie exhorteth them for the Scripture teacheth that it is Christ that justifieth who is he that condemneth Secondlie I answere that as God is my witnesse they wrong me pitifully for as the Lord knoweth I desire one Lord one Faith one Baptisme not only in Britaine but likewise thorow the whole world and that we think alwayes the same till we all come in the unitie of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ That we hencefoorth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every winde of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they ly in wait to deceave Now to let you see that my conversion is not to make dissension betwixt you I will brieflie let you understand how the Papists ly in wait to deceave you And that it may be seene that I am not partiall I speake to all the three Kingdomes of Scotland England and Ireland minding to show you all three that Papists ly in wait to deceave you by two meanes seminaries and pensions yet it is first to be remarked that the ground of both is that Councell in Rome called Congregatio de propaganda or rather extirpanda fide a congregation of propagating or rather extirpating of Faith This Congregation hath a most sumptuous Palace in Rome and extreme rich the members of it are the Pope as head of the Church his nephew Cardinall Francis Barbarine as his Lieutennant diverse others Cardinals the Generals of severall Orders the great Master of the inquisition and some Doctors all as judges they conveene every fryday or ofter as they please the end of their meetings is to finde out meanes to bring all people and Nations under the popes dominion for thus end they have sundry meanes such as their Seminaries of diverse nations and their pensions The Semenaries are furnished with youths out of their severall Countries by Jesuits who have the care of them These youths are of two sorts the one called Convictores because they pay for their entertainment and these are Noble Barons and Gentlemen Sons sent thither by their popish parents to be brought up for diverse ends The other are called Seminarists and these have their food raiment studies books c. all the time of their studies out of these colleges with condition that after they have stayed three moneths in one of these Colleges they must make a vow to take priesthood upon them and to returne to their severall Countries when they shall be found fit by the Jesuits their Masters to the end they may seduce others as they were seduced themselves And therefore after