Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	divine_a	faith_n	formal_a	1,432	5	11.4042	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43720	Speculem Sherlockianum, or, A looking-glass in which the admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the man, as to his accuracy, judgement, orthodoxy by an obedient son of the Church of England.	Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1916; ESTC R10759	37,301	72

his Testimony who can neither deceive nor be deceived Mr. Sh. defines or describes it to be such a firm and stedfast perswasion of the truth of those things which are not evident to sense as makes us confidently expect them It is not evident to sense that the next Month there shall be a great Eclipse of the Moon yet I have a firm and steadfast perswasion of it and do confidently expect it is this Faith or doth it make me a Believer I humbly conceive it doth not and should count my self much engaged to any one who would prove to me that any one of those Worthies mentioned in Heb. 11. did obta●… Salvation upon any Faith but a Faith that was built on some Divine Promise or Revelation concerning Christ to come Pag. 260. Mr. Sh. tells us He will examine those Texts of Scripture which are abused by these men to set up the Personal Righteousness of Christ as the only formal cause of our Justification Who he means by these men I cannot tell Do or did those men whom he scoffingly calls the great Acquaintances of Christ ever bring the Scriptures after by him quoted to prove Christs Rigteousness to be the only formal cause of our Justification if they do not or did not then may we conceive that Mr. Sh. was some night scared with a Dream and writes this part of his Book to be revenged of that Proposition which affrighted him if they do or did I wish they had or would cleanse their Sermons or Discourses from such Ambiguous terms as can minister only to vain jangling I profess I do never in this controversie hear these terms of material and formal cause without some regret I must sometimes use them but it is full sore against my will and commonly I take as much care to qualifie them as the Physician doth to correct poyson Bishop Prideaux asks Quis unquam è nostris nos per justitiam Christi imputatam formaliter justificari asseruit Yet Bishop Davenant saith Haec communis est nostrorum omnium sententia Christi Obedientiam Justitiam nobis imputatam esse formalem causam Justificationis De Just Habit. p. 312. I suppose the great repute and authority of this learned Prelate hath trepanned some of our Preachers to say as he said Why doth Mr. Sh. stand pelting at poor Conventicles Why doth he not take up his Latine Pen and confute Davenant or if he be more ready and fluent in English there 's Bishop Downham the great Commentator on Ramus and therefore the more like to undestand Logical terms who makes not the Righteousness imputed but the imputation of it the formal cause of Justification let him try a fall with him and if he do fairly lay him on his back the day is his own But still the generality of Non-conformists are in statu quo out of danger having never either said or dreamed that Christs Righteousness is the formal-cause of our justification In putting Mr. Sh. upon dealing with the two great Bishops you must not think that I put him to use a weapon at which he hath no skill for he is a great School-man well acquainted not only with their sayings but with their very thoughts for p. 303. he tells Dr. Owen He gives such an explication of the term Quâ as the subtilest Schoolman of them all never yet thought of Belike he hath some secret and familiar converses with the seperate Souls of the subtilest Schoolmen and correspondence by Letters with those who are still alive and they acquaint him what have been and are their thoughts about the particle Quâ and they unanimously tell him that it never came into their minds to explicate this Proposition An Embassadour eats and drinks as an Embassadour thus He who is an Embassadour eateth and drinketh If indeed he hath any such way to know what have been the thoughts of the Schoolmen concerning Quâ I 'le not contradict him nor do I envy him his correspondencies We begin every day less and less to stand in need of the Schoolmen but I am sure if the Schoolmen that are most subtile have acquainted him that they never thought of any such explication of Quá as is before mentioned they have played the Hypocrites most egregiously for divers and sundry of them explaining the vulgar distinction of Quâ Specificativum and Reduplicativum do give us just such a sence of the specificative As as is here by Mr. Sh. rejected and derided Thus they say Plato as he is white is a Philosopher is true specificatively as is this also Christ as Man is to be worshipped with the Worship called Latria But yet both these Propositions are false Quâ being taken Reduplicatively It is like Mr. Sh. will say That the Schoolmen who do expound Quâ to such a sence speak very loosely and improperly and so say I too but I am apt to suppose that they did speak as they thought and though I should either reject this distinction or give a better explication of the members of it yet if I find any one expressing his mind as many have done before him I will not throw him my Glove ot send him a challenge or post him up for an Ignoramus Pag. 326. Now as the Death of Christ upon the Cross and his Ascension into Heaven and presenting his Blood to God in that true Holy Place did answer to the first sprinkling of the Blood under the Law which confirmed the Mosaical Covenant as the Apostle discourseth Heb. 4. so his continual intercession for us in the vertue of his Blood once shed and once offered to God answers to those frequent Expiations by Sacrifice under the Law especially to that grand Sacrifice on the great Day of Expiation when the High Priest entred into the Holy of Holies with the Blood of Beasts So exact a man as Mr. Sh. should not have expressed these things so much at random He should have told us how and when Christ presented his blood to God in the true Holy place and told us what he means by the first sprinkling of blood under the Law how Christs continual Intercessions for us answer to the frequent Expiations by Sacrifice under the Law especially to the general Sacrifice on the great day of Expiation and if he can give us a true and plain Explication of the whole Ninth to the Hebrews and not entangle himself nor pull down some of the things he had built up I will say he is a most wonderfull man excelling all the Systematists I know of Pag. 389. A sincere Obedience to the Gospel makes a real Union between Christ and us I should think that a Purpose of sincere Obedience makes the Union and actual sincere Obedience is an Evidence or Effect of our Union but let that pass He addes There is no more need of any Revelation of any private Testimony of the Spirit to assure us that we are united or that we obey sincerely than there is to assure us of