Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	catholic_n	church_n	member_n	4,192	5	8.7794	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67262	Periamma ʼepidemion, or, Vulgar errours in practice censured also The art of oratory, composed for the benefit of young students.	Walker, Obadiah, 1616-1699.; Battell, Ralph, 1649-1713.; Jension, Thomas, 1635 or 6-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing W408; ESTC R16501	51,264	130

were in more request then Mitres since ruder Drumms and Trumpets outvoyc'd the melody of more sacred Organs the old Serpent hath cast his skin and renewed the vigour of his youth and hath vented this Venome with too plentifull an effusion and with too great successe We may utter the ●ame now which c Saint Hierome did of old Ariana rabies fremit The rage of the Arian Heresie grows headstrong and tumultuous it is even become a popular frenzy Since the Spirituall Courts were thrown down this Concilium vanitatis for d so the doctrine of Arius is called by Saint Cyprian is reared up It is a sign the Gardiners Knife is in its sheath when such venomous Weeds do riot in their growth This Socinian Heresie hath of late without much regret found entertainment in the breasts of many being usher'd in by the plausible insinuation of a blamelesse life Its Professours pretend to be men of a pious conversation and to be zealous for the Lord of Hosts but it is evident that their zeal hath eaten him up for they deny him who is the same with him whom they affirm they worship But certainly opinions are not to be taken up meerly upon the seeming yea or reall Holinesse of those that hold them The a orphans of Arminius according to their duty and his deservings afforded large Eulogies of the devout life of their deceased Father Whereupon b one of our Learned Supralapsarians takes occasion to write thus Quid superest agendum quàm ut cujusvis Theologi quantacunque eruditione fulti quantacunque sanctitate celebra●i dogmata a ad Legem testimonium tanquam ad Lydium Lapidem explorentur i. e. The most learned and most religious men's opinions are to be put upon their tryall before the Scripture the judge of Controversies But I suppose that without a transgression of the limits of Charity I may affirm that the Socinians for the most part are good onely in shew and bad in deed that like Harpies they have the Face of an Angell but the Talons of an Eagle For the consistence of the true Catholick Church with one fundamentall Errour in all of its members is as impossible to conceive as to frame an Idea of God and Belial in a combination and it is not ordinary but barely possible to be a good Christian and yet erre in one fundamentall Point of the Christian Doctrine I adde possible for the b Disciples of Christ after much converse and numerous instructions thought the gold of the New Ierusalem not re●ined from corporeall drosse they imagined that the Kingdome of Christ was even like the Paradise of Mahomet sensuall not spirituall And a the holy Dove was not so much as arrived at the ears of the C●ristians of Ephesus They had not so much as heard whether there were an Holy Ghost And the good Synes●us whom b Ecclesiasticall Story records as richly embellished with Christian graces and whose life as well as learning advanced him to the dignity of a Bishop of the Catholick Church ●id not fully embrace the doctrine of the Resurrection although at length Heaven crown'd his Soul with the belief of that necessary Article And how much soever the modern Socinians have pretended to the maintenance of Piety 't is certain as c one of the Worthies of our Israel observes they have taken out one principall Stone from the Foundation of it the d {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} God made manifest in or by the flesh This I am fully perswaded is a great truth that their Heresie is a quencher of the spirit of true Piety For if it were not the Son of God by eternall generation that was incarnate the Love of God towards Mankind in Christ Iesus would wax cold men might without an unholy boldness ask what needs an a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} so God loved the world that he sent Christ a sic without a sicut What needs that expression beyond hyperbole b {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the excee●ing riches of his grace in his kindnesse towards us through Christ Iesus and c parallell expressions running through the whole vein of Sacred Writ Upon this account Men would apprehend God to be as d Arius was by the just judgement of the Lord without bowels and so serve him as Slaves out of fear not as Sons out of love Again The issue of the belef of Christ to be mere Man is the Presumption of some and the Despair of others Many will presume building heaven upon the Quick-sands of their own imaginary Righteousness and considering that they are men and Christ no more will not give audience to the offer of an imputed merit Many will despair for they making a more exact enquiry then the former will experimentally find that a in many things they offend and that these affronts against an Infinite Majesty cannot be expiated by a finite Man whereupon they split presently against the Rock of Ages considered as Man who might support them considered as God Thus by this Heresie men make shipwrack of Faith in the very haven of Salvation and stumble at him who should guide their feet in t●e way of peace The weapons which Hereticks use in their encounters against the Deity of Christ are most of them taken out of the armory of carnall Reason They cannot apprehend the consistence of a Trinity of Persons with an identity of Essence If w● 〈◊〉 insanire say they we do insanire cum ratione for our Reason tells us that it is a strange Paradox that Christ ●hould be eternall and yet begotten that the Essence of the Father and the Son should not admit a numericall difference with a volume of the like corrupt reasonings whilest in the mean time they attend not to the dictates of sober and well-regulated Reason whose language is That a the things of God are above reason That an Elephant may swim in the waters of the Sanctuary That b Fides non habet meritum ubi humana ratio quaerit experimentum That an Entitie by participation hath not so comprehensive a capacity as to have a distinct clear and full notion of a Being by essence The incomparable c Gassendus to pluck the plumes and curb the Curiosity of some Philosophers who would not content themselves with lesse then the indagation of whole nature thus reasons against their irrationality Qualis artifex esset Deus si posset homuncio metiri comprehendereque ingeniolo suo opus Creationis What a mean workman would God be if so narrow an Intellect as that of Man could comprehend the whole frame of the work of his hands And if this be so high a disparagement to his workmanship what is the other to his Being a If Reason will be encroaching upon the bounds of Faith she is presently taken captive by Infidelity We are not fit to