Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	authority_n	church_n	council_n	1,729	5	6.6396	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33089	Rome's additions to Christianity shewn to be inconsistent with the true design of so spiritual a religion in a sermon preached at Edinburgh, in the east-church of St. Giles. Feb. 14. 1686 : to which is prefixt a letter, vindicating it from the misrepresentations of some of the Romish-Church / by James Canaries ...	Canaries, James.	1686 (1686)	Wing C421; ESTC R11810	26,945	42

that Exhortation wherewith the Apostle addresses the Galatians in the beginning of this Chapter upon the like occasion Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage For in Jesus Christ c. Ye have heard what is the peculiar Design of our most holy Faith and how much that is perverted and imposed upon by that Religion which the Church of Rome has endeavoured to shuffle in in its stead And therefore if ye have any regard to your Souls ye'll never abandon so holy so rational so generous a Religion and embrace so gross and carnal a Superstition in place of it I presume I need not use any more Arguments from the competition of these two after what has been already discoursed having all along so manifestly shewn how destructive and ruinous any such Religion as the Roman is to the main and special Design of true Religion in the general and far more of that which availeth in Jesus Christ So that having so fully discovered the precipice it were to suppose an equal want of sense both in the Speaker and Hearers to press you with any Reasons not to leap over it when none but such as really are uncapable of any can ever be guilty of the Folly Yet I hope it will not be impertinent to offer some more general Motives to your consideration that those who either could not follow the thread of the Discourse closely enough or who having done this yet perhaps are not so nearly touched with it as they ought to be may meet with what may happen to be both more plain and convincing unto them if indeed any thing can be more so Now our Saviour does aggravate the Infidelity of the Jews with this that if he had not come and spoken to them they had not had sin but now they have no cloak for their sin If he had not done the works among them that no other Man did they had not had sin John 15 22. 24. So say I to you If ye had not been educated and trained up in the true knowledge of the Son of God if ye were not furnished with all the means necessary for being fully convinced of the Excellency of our Religion infinitely beyond all the false pretending ones that ever inveigled the World then perhaps ye would have no sin that is not so great a degree of it though ye should have been of the Communion of Rome But now if ye shall fall away and turn your back upon that Church wherein ye have been bred and which comes as near to the primitive truth and simplicity of the Christian Religion as that of Rome does to the Jewish and Pagan and that is as near as may be if I say now ye shall make Shipwreck of your Faith then you will have no Cloak for your sin 'T is sad Language in the 6th of the Hebrews and fourth Verse It is impossible for those who were once enlightned and tasted of the heavenly Gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and tasted of the good word of God and of the powers of the world to come if they once fall away to be renewed again unto repentance seeing they have crucified the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame An Expression which quadrates even in the literal sense but too well to the Church of Rome her Mass equally performing both these And indeed if we be mistaken in our Religion as it stands in opposition to Popery we may justly use S. Victor's Argument and tax God himself with it saying That it is He that hath deceived and deluded us For since we have got all our Faculties from him both those of our Reason and of our Senses it is evident that whatever these do necessitate us unto and do unavoidably force us to admit must be refounded upon him from whom that necessity was at first derived But sure it is impossible for any abstractly speaking to advert unto the native Dictates and Principles of his Reason or ever consult the certainty which his senses afford him and yet be Popish too And of this the greatest Champions for Rome have been so conscious as not finding any imaginable way how to reconcile their Religion with the Faculties of Man to cut the troublesome knot they could not loose and cry down all Reason as the greatest Heretick in the World And had but that ever been at Rome or in Spain in such a concrete manner as that Fire or Rack could have got hold of it we should long e'er now have heard of the sad tortures it had endured in the Inquisition And that I may not be thought to say this gratis I do appeal to Gonterius Perronius Arnoldus and that Jesuite Verronius who triumphed mightily in his bold Method to confound all the Protestants which was by denying and renouncing all the Principles of Reason with an open Mouth and brazen Brow and never to deign an Answer to any Argument drawn from it against any of their Tenents but directly and downright to deny it So that he maintained that these Maxims of Reason Impossibile est idem simul esse non esse Quidquid est quamdiu est necessario est Non entis nulla sunt accidentia neque attributa and such like ought utterly to be refused And let no Papists say that these were but private Authours and they are not concerned in them For this Book of Verronius had all the approbation that their Church could give it unless a general Council had been called for that end For the Pope himself hugg'd it very kindly the King of Spain back'd it with his Authority Cardinals and Archbishops and Bishops and the whole Clergy of France recommended it Nay the very Sorbon put its Seal to it also Sure the Bishop of Condom's Book that makes such a noise was never better vouched But we need not run to this For I defie them to shew me any of their Writers upon Transubstantiation who has not some whining kind of Language or other against our Reason and Senses And the Authour of that late pretended Answer to the Funeral of the Mass addresses himself to his Reader thus pag. 4. Here I humbly intreat the Protestant Reader says he to reflect that in the Mysteries of Religion we must captivate our Vnderstanding that is to say suspend it from asserting what it might judge had it nothing to relie upon but the sole relation of our senses to obey Christ God will have as an Homage due to him and his Veracity this proud faculty of Man which is earnest to judge of all submit to his word Thus he and surely very like the Wolf to the Sheep in the tender of peace between them For the first Article he proposed to them was that they would lay aside all the Mastives by which they were guarded from him For well he knew that if once they were rendred so defenceless they