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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	infant_n	sin_n	4,766	5	6.2598	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96982	Fides divina: the ground of true faith asserted. Or, A useful and brief discourse, shewing the insufficiency of humane, and the necessity of divine evidence for divine or saving faith and Christian religion to be built upon. Being a transcript out of several authors extant.		1657 (1657)	Wing W3723; Thomason E1598_3; ESTC R208870	56,696	110

that it will swallow it up and cause it to vanish as the light of a candle will do at the presence of the Sun and so far bury it in oblivion that it shall never more be remembred for ever Jer. 23 from 3 to 9. This whole life is the time for the Saints and righteous to suffer in for and in hope of reward and rest in that Kingdome with Christ at his coming 2 Thess 1 4 to 9 but these men would fain be reaping before harvest and before the time of sowing is ended and be reigning in that Kingdome before the blessed Patriarchs and Apostles who yet sleep in the dust and who are to be the prime heirs and inheritours with Christ of that Kingdome Matth 8 11 Luke 22 30 yea and without and before Christ there raigns himself and before that Kingdome or the time of setting it up be come which may not be But the authority assumed and now attempted by these men seems at least to me to be much like to that which is exercised by his Holinesse the Pope as Christs Vice-gerent upon earth over all both persons and causes for which he pretends divine authority and that from Scripture also for from Ps 91.13 which sayes thus Thou shalt tread upon the Lion and Adder the young Lion and Dragon thou shalt trample under feet By pretence of divine authority from this Scripture he most presumptuously tramples under foot all civil Magistracy and sets his feet upon the necks of Emperours Like as I my self once heard Psa 45.16 expounded from a Pulpit in Pauls the Text runs thus Instead of thy Fathers shall thy children be whom thou shalt make Princes thorow all the earth By Fathers said he are meant the Patriarchs and Apostles and by Children are meant the Lords Bishops who are their successors Hence this learned Preacher in further prosecution of this his Text with great confidence asserted the principality of Bishops and their superiority over other Ministers to be of Divine Right And there 's no doubt but these called fifth Monarchy-men may prove their dominion over all others to be of Divine right as well as this Nay who can doubt but that Presbyters Independents Separatists Anabaptists yea and Mahometan Priests also can prove their several authorities to be of divine right as well as either of the former and that from Scripture too and if they can not they are very unworthy such offices of dignity and such places of profit as to be Masters and Heads of Colledges c. and if the Revenues of the best Bishopricks were also added thereto there 's no doubt but that these would easily swallow it up without making any bones thereat the name being onely changed Nay have we not had some who lately riding on hors-back into Bristol received such honour acclamations and attributes as were given to Christ when he rode into Jerusalem and no doubt but all this was done by some divine authority drawn from the Scripture Mat. 21. where the manner of Christs so riding into Jerusalem is recited And why might not the horse have run and bruised the riders foot against a wall by divine authority likewise from that Scripture which recites how that Balaams Asse dealt so by that false prophet Numb 22 25. But I shall at present forbear to trace this divine Goddess and great Idol any further but shall now leave her to the view of all men as she is set forth in Rev. 17. like a Queen sitting upon her Throne most sumptuously arraied in purple and scarlet and gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls having a cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication upon whom the more I look the more I wonder even with greatest admiration when I consider how such a counterfeit painted strumpet as this hath so much so long and so universally beguiled in effect the whole world and intoxicated many such men as are otherwise most exquisite wise and exact in far smaller matters I shall now conclude removing onely a scruple which from this Discourse may arise in some honest hearts to this effect Object Since there is no name given under heaven whereby men can be saved but by the name of Iesus Christ and none can be saved by that name but such as truly believe therein and none can have a sufficient ground for true and Christian faith but by a true Ministry evidencing the truth and divine authority of their doctrine by demonstration of the Spirit and power of God And if the case be so as by this Discourse it seems to be In what condition are all such who never enjoyed such a Ministry is not their case necessarily damnable Answ I say no for although it be granted That none are saved but by Christ yet many millions of thousands may be and are saved and that by Christ who never enjoyed any such Ministry never believed in Christ nor heard of him for what else think we should become of all infants since Adam who died in their infancy whose salvation at least their freedome from condemnation cannot upon any good ground be doubted of for they have suffered death the natural effect of Adams transgression from which at the resurrection they shall be redeemed and discharged by Christ for what or for whose sin can they then be condemned at the day of Judgement since they have committed none themselves and shall have already suffered death for Adams sin and from which they shall then be acquitted by Christ And their salvation as I conceive is as little to be doubted of because that condition or sort of mankinde which Christ himself did put as a president and example for his Disciples to conform themselves to for to become inheritours of the Kingdome of heaven must needs be inheritours of the Kingdome of heaven but such are little children and Christ affirmed that of such is the Kingdom of heaven and who then hath need or reason to doubt thereof The same may be deemed the case of all born Ideots living and dying so And what may be thought of all the Heathen nations people in the world since Adam that have lived to years of discretion can any man reasonably think that God hath left all these quite destitute of all means of salvation and of acceptance with him did God afford them or any of them such an ample excuse at the day of judgement as they might then have upon that account No surely for then all mens mouths will be stopped and no such reasonable and just excuse shall be found in the mouth of any What meaneth Saint Paul when he saith in Act. 17.25 26 27. That God had made of one blood all Nations to dwell on the face of the earth giving to all life breath and all things as rain from heaven and fruitful seasons filling their hearts with food and gladness chap 14 17 and to what end did God all this but that they might seek him and

then which cannot be any sufficient ground nor prove better in this case to men then the house mentioned by Christ did to the foolish builder who built the same upon the earth without foundation which suddenly fell the fall whereof was very great Lu. 6.49 When the Premises are duly weighed it will be the less marvel that the Doctriens and Opinions of the most able learned and best men in the world have been and are so various full of cantradictions and opposite one against another as may appear to any that shall but look into the great controversies that in all or most ages that we hear of have been holden and maintained both in Churches and Councils and amongst the most studious Fathers and wisest Pen-men and Preachers in all these points viz. Some have and do hold the Deity to be ubiquitary Some circumscribed of the later Opinion was our late King JAMES renowned for learning and depth of Judgement Some have and do judge the Deity to consist of a threefold personality Others have and do hold Christ and the Holy Chost to be creatures and Gods only by deputation Concerning the Decrees of God some have and do hold the greatest part of mankind and devils to be designed to everlasting damnation Some have and do hold and believe the contrary Some conceive that all mankind may be saved if they will Others have and do believe that not only they but the Devils at the last day shall be saved yet so as by fire Concerning the ordering and governing of the world some will have it performed by God whom they say is present in all places and doth all things as himself will not allowing any thing to be contingent but that all things whatsoever even the most inferiour yea and the most wicked to be wrought by him affirming That wicked men do commit their Wickedness by the just impulse of God That the Devil and wicked men cannot conceive nor contrive nor execute any mischief nor so much as endeavour its execution any further then God himself doth command them and they are compelled to perform obedience to such commands That Adultery or Murther in as much as it is the Work of God the author mover and compellor it is not a crime but in as much as it is of man it is a wickedness and so making God the predeterminer of all events whether holy or unholy clean or unclean good or evil Some ascribe only good actions to God and to his good Angels Others assign all to men because they shall be judged according to their Works which they conceive cannot be reputed theirs if they were not free and voluntary agents in the doing of them Some wil have all evil actions to be done by the Devil Some judge him to have sole command of this world because he is called the God of this world and Prince of the Air. Concerning the person of Christ some have judged it to be constituted of two natures some only of one which some have holden to be Divine only others humane Concerning the death of Christ some have and do restrain it only to the Elect others have and do extend it to all mankind and some to all creatures or the whole Creation Concerning the nature of his death some thought all mens sins to be discharged thereby some the sins of the Elect only and that Faith serves only to reveal this to them and to give them comfort in it Some conceive no mans sins to be pardoned by his death but that it served only to confirm the truth of his Doctrine namely Remission of sins salvation through an endeavour'd conformity to his life and preaching And according to this diversity of Opinions of God and Christ are the diversity of definitions of Faith and the end and use of it which some conceive to be Justification others only Sanctification and some both No less various are they in their Doctrine concerning Faith how it is obtained which some hold to be by infusion others that it is acquired so concerning perseverance in Faith Concerning our Estate by birth whether damnable or not Concerning the Sacraments and wherefore they serve Concerning the persons that are to administer them The persons whom they are to be administred to and when and upon what conditions Concerning the Sabbath-day whether moral divine or humane when it beginneth when it endeth and what works may or may not be done upon it In all these and sundry others even concerning Marriage we find them no less divided then in those before mentioned Moreover there are many of great learning who affirm Remission of sin to be a fruit or consequence only and no part of our Justification Many there are on the other side who make Remission of sin antecedent to Justification and Justification to be its immediate consequent Many take Remission of sin to be the whole of our Justification yea What large disputes and Treatises are written very much to prove this and many famous men for learning there are that maintain it Many there be that take Justification to consist partly in Remission of sin and partly in the imputation of Christs own Righteousness and these with the former say That accepting us as Righteous is a consequent of Justification Sin must first be remitted say the former and Christs Righteousness imputed ours say the later before God can accept any man as righteous Likewise are they at variance both how and when Justification is obtained 1. How whether it be by the active or passive obedience of Christ or both some say one way some another some say it is by Faith as it is an act others as it is an habet and some say it is by Works 2. When it is obtained Some say it was from eternity by an eminent act of God and that all the sins of the Elect were actually pardoned the Debt-book crossed the Hand-writing cancelled c. and that this grand Transaction between God and the Mediator Jesus Christ was concluded on and dispatcht long before men had any being in Nature or Grace Some say it was only from the death of Christ and some others say it is not until we actually believe Infinite are the differences even between men of greatest eminency and of most exquisite learning and parts as well about the definition of Faith Repentance and almost all other graces as about the most substantial and highest points in Divinity and of the Gospel as may be further seen in Mr. Blakes Exceptions Mr. G. Kendals Answer to Mr. Joh. Goodwin Mr. Ayre 's Justification of Infidels Mr. Joh. Craudons Anatomy and Mr. R. Baxters Answers and Replyes to all these And from whence can it be imagined that all these variety and contrariant Faiths and Opinions do come but from the variety uncertainty and insufficiency of the Scripture clearly to resolve these Points and vindicate them from all such Exceptions as lie against them on each hand but the Scripture is so far