Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	add_v	holy_a	scripture_n	1,651	5	5.5616	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

simple have a design to bring you to worship stocks and stones with the same honour that is due to God blessed for ever And lest your hearts should rise against graven Images lest you should not bow down to them nor worship them against the Letter of the second Commandment they leave out those words of that second Commandment as a needless illustration in their Chatechisms and Prayer-books to the people The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals and fashioneth it with hammers and worketh it with the strength of his arms yea he is hungry and his strength faileth he drinketh no water and is faint The carpenter stretcheth out his rule he marketh it out with a line he fitteth it with planes and he marketh it out with the compass and maketh it after the figure of a man according to the beauty of a man that it may remain in the house Thus he maketh a god even his graven image he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith Deliver me for thou art my God They have not known nor understood for he hath shut their eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot understand And none considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say I have burnt part of it in the fire yea also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof I have rosted flesh and eaten it and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a tree He feedeth of ashes a deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lie in my right hand Isai. 44. 12 13. 16. to 20. In a voluntary humility do these men worship Angels who said expresly to St. John Worship thou God Now you seek God in his Ordinances and desire to see him in his holy Temple If you be seduced by them you must go onely to poor creatures like your selves 6. We or do we onely doth not our God likewise teach you that if any man adde to his holy Word he shall adde to him the plagues that are written in this book Yet if ever they prevail you must believe more Scripture then ever God inspired or his ancient Church received and you must do it upon no less penalty then if God himself should speak from heaven Sad You must believe what an Angel from heaven is accursed if he teach you They have a designe Beloved to set up a man in stead of God who may create new Articles of Faith at his pleasure and impose them upon necessity of salvation In vain it seems came Christ from the bosome of the Father to reveal his will in vain doth the Spirit lead us to all truth in vain have we thought that our Priests lips should preserve knowledge and that the people should seek it at their mouth in vain have we gone to the Law and to the Testimonies concluding that if men spoke not according to them it was because there was no light in them If we must lay aside all and wait upon the Popes Oracles how shall we be sure that he is infallible Not because he saith so for if he bears witness of himself his witness is not true Not because the Scripture saith so for that they say is no further true then he confirms it Not because he is St. Peters successour for we are not sure St. Peter was at Rome if he was there we are not sure that he was Bishop there being an Apostle of the Circumcision i. e. of the Jews and not of the Romans If he was there Bishop we are not sure he was infallible who denyed his Master thrice and dissembled once If he was infallible we are not sure he left any heirs of his grace and spirit or if any we are not sure he left one in a perpetual and visible succession at Rome That he so be queathed his infallibility to his Chair as that whosoever sits in it cannot but speak true that all which sit where he sate must by some instinct say as he taught That if Peter was infallible by vertue of Christs promise yet that what Christ said to him absolutely ere ever Rome was thought of must be referred yea tyed to it that the Pope whose life whose pen whose judgement whose keys may erre yet in his pontifical Chair cannot erre That the line of this Apostolical succession in the confusion of so many long and desperate schisms when there was one Pope in one place another in another shamefully corrupt Usurpations and Intrusions confessed Heresies open Profaness and celebrated Infidelity neither was nor can be broken If you are not sure of these and many more things whereof some are impossible most are improbable you are sure of nothing in Popery Oh the lamentable hazard of so many millions of poor souls that stand upon these slippery termes O miserable grounds of Popish faith whereof the best can have but this security that perhaps it may be true 7. We and our Church have taught you a serious Religion which Angels desire to look into which men reverence which carrieth a divine authority a heavenly awe a spiritual power along with it that prevails upon all that hear it Ten men are ready to lay hold on him who is a Jew i. e. a professor of the true Religion and say VVe will go with you for God is with you But alas they of Rome have set up a Religion that made sport to our plain fore-fathers with the remembrance of her gravest devotion How oft have we seen them laugh at themselves whilst they have told of their creeping Crouch their kissing the Pax offering their Candles signing with Ashes partial shifts merry Pilgrimages ridiculous Miracles and a thousand such Maygames which we are ashamed to name While you are taught that decent worship that solemn devotion those comely approaches to the Throne of Grace that make all Christians rejoyce to behold your order grave solemn and heavenly We cannot but pity that Religion whose vanities very boyes do shout and laugh at if for no more but this that it teacheth men to put confidence in Beads Medals Roses hallowed Swords spells of the Gospel Agnus Dei c. Ascribing unto them divine virtue yea so much as is due to the Son of God and his precious blood You are taught to draw neer to God to hear his Word in a Language you understand and to make your requests known unto God in a wholesome form of sound words you can assent to and there come in some it may be when you are gathered together in one place that believe not or one unlearned he is convinced of all he is judged of all and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest and so falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth When they of the Church of Rome are together in one