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cause_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	1,558	5	9.6254	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04191	A treatise containing the originall of vnbeliefe, misbeliefe, or misperswasions concerning the veritie, vnitie, and attributes of the Deitie with directions for rectifying our beliefe or knowledge in the fore-mentioned points. By Thomas Iackson Dr. in Divinitie, vicar of Saint Nicholas Church in the famous towne of New-castle vpon Tine, and late fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 5	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 14316; ESTC S107490	279,406	488

to the spirit or to mens labours whom they presume to be throughly sanctified doe as lightly esteeme the opinion of greatest scholars auncient or moderne in divine mysteries as they highly magnifie their wit and judgement in artificiall learning or sacred generalities For matters of sanctification of election and salvation are as the onely trade or facultie which these men professe and of which they deeme their owne corporation onely free others not fit to be consulted or at least their voyces not to be taken vntill they haue served the like compleate apprenticeship to their supposed spirit or beene as long professors of the pure Word alone renouncing all commerce with naturall reason They are more offended with their followers for having recourse to it than ordinary tradesmen are with their servants or apprentices for haunting Alehouses Tavernes or worse places 7. Their first intention I am verily perswaded is to magnifie Gods grace more then others to their thinking doe Now it is a Maxime as plausible as true that Gods graces can never be magnified too much by any But it is a fault common almost to all to doe many things much amisse before we haue done them halfe enough The wisest oft miscarry in their proiects these men erre in their very first attempts their very intentions are mislevelled in that they thinke there is no direct way to grace but by declining helps of art or gifts of nature The first and immediate issue of this perswasion thus seeking to nurse a perpetuall irreconcileable faction betwixt Scripture and reason to magnifie grace by nullifying nature and art is that every action which is not warranted by some expresse rule of Scripture apprehended by grace is non ex fide not of faith whose onely compleate rule is scripture and being not of faith it must be a sinne so that these two propositions 1. all actions warranted by the expresse word of God must needs be lawfull 2. all lawfull actions must needs be warranted by the expresse word of God differ no more in their Logicke then this verse read forward doth from it selfe read backward for Grammaticall sense Odo tenet mulum madidam mappam tenet anna And after once out of a scrupulous feare to sinne in any action by following reason without expresse warrant of Scripture for the particular they haue for a while accustomed themselues to levell every action or saying and to square each thought by some expresse suteable rule of Scripture the Scripture and their thoughts or apprehensions become so intwined that in fine they are perswaded whatsoever they haue don thought or spoken in matters concerning God or Christians duties is warranted by some expresse rule or other of sacred Writ Whose testimonies for the most part they vse no otherwise then men in high place and authoritie often vse the placets or suffrages of their inferiors to countenance their peremptory designes by way of ceremony or formalitie which if they doe not voluntarily they shall doe at length against their wills Concerning the true meaning of that Maxime Whatsoever is not of faith is sinne we haue elswhere delivered our opinion The Scripture we grant to be the compleate and perfect rule of faith to be the onely rule likewise of planting the roote or habite whence all good actions or resolutions must grow It is not the onely rule for rectifying every particular branch in the growth These must be rectified by necessary or probable deductions which reason or rules of art sanctified by the habit of faith frame out of Scriptures of sacred Maximes CHAPTER XLVIII Of the more particular and immediate causes of all the forementioned errors or misperswasions 1. TO giue one prime Philosophicall cause of all or most morall misperswasions or transfigurations of sacred Oracles is perhaps onely possible to the cause of causes Two Maximes neverthelesse there be vndoubtedly experienced in matters naturall from which as from two principall heads the maine streame of errors doth most directly spring though much increased by confluence of such fallacies as haue beene deciphred The Maximes are one Intus apparens prohibet alienum common in Philosophicall Schooles the other Mota faciliùs moventur as well knowne and of as great vse amongst the Mathematickes or such as write Mathematically of Mechanicall instruments The efficacie of every agent resultes from the fit disposition of the patient whence it is that the internall distemper or indisposition of the organ will not admit the proper stampe or impression of any externall though its proper object Not that any distemper can so prevent the force or any indisposition so dead the agencie of the object as it shall not moue and agitate the organor that it is possible for the organ being moued or agitated by externall objects to be altogether barren For the very motion of it is a kinde of conception But the organ being prepossessed by abundance of heterogeneall matter mingled with it the impression or conception proues like the monstrous brood of males and females of diverse kindes And the more vehemently the organ is agitated the more sensible is the representation or apprehension of the inherent humors and in as much as the object is rightly apprehended as the cause of this actuall motion or representation it is likewised judged but amisse to be such it selfe as the motion or representation which it worketh Thus we somtimes mis-gather those things the Sunne for example to be hote themselues which produce heate in others those to be colde which cause sense of colde those moyst which leaue an impression of moysture where none was or was vnfelt before their operation Yet is the Moone neither colde nor moyst in its selfe although the true cause of coldnesse or moystning in subiects aptly disposed to either qualitie Braines stuffed with cold will easily suspect fragrant or vnknowne odoriferous perfumes of the lothsome smell which indeed they cause by provoking the putrified phlegme to imprint its selfe vpon the organ As the Sunne shining through a red glasse transports the rednesse vpon the eye and being the immediate cause of the actuall representation now made is judged to be of the same hue So externall colours presented to eyes subiect to suffusion or possessed with reall effluxions of other visibles cause a representation of those internall humors in the organ whence colours externall being the true cause of our present actuall sight we deeme them to be like vnto the internall humors which are seene Many like irritations of the flesh are vsually caused by the spirit seeking to imprint the right sence or Character of Gods word could the polluted heart or minde infected with preiudicate opinions admit the impression But carnall lusts or implanted phantasies being by this meanes set on working conceiue a depraved sense or a sense quite contrary to the spirits meaning and yet imagine it to be suggested by the word of God onely because it concurres to the actuall producing of such humors or phantasies 2.