Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	separation_n	4,198	5	9.8832	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47321	A rational, compendious way to convince, without any dispute, all persons whatsoever, dissenting from the true religion. By J.K.	Keynes, John, 1625?-1697.	1674 (1674)	Wing K393; ESTC R200380	33,446	158

of the Roman Church there is no Salvation and that no Church which is not a Member of the Roman Church is a Member of the True Church For all these Points are delivered as Articles of Faith by the Roman Church as both we and our Adversaries do confess That it is not only a True Religion but also a sound Religion For what more can be required for the soundness thereof than that it should not teach any corruption whatsoever as we have proved it does not That it is entirely a true Religion containing all Things necessary to be believed and all Things necessary to be done in order to Salvation either necessitate medii or necessitate praecepti For this also it delivers as an Article of Faith Yea half a Religion is not a true Religion as half a man viz. the Body alone of a man is not a true man That it is not only True whatsoever the Roman Church delivers as an Article of Faith and as revealed by God but also 't is true That it is an Article of Faith and revealed by God as for example not only the Mystery of the Trinity is true but also 't is true that it is revealed For it is an Article of Faith that those Books wherein the Mystery of the Trinity is contained and declared to be so are the True Word and Revelation of God So that one would be an Heretick not only if he should deny the Mystery of the Trinity but also if he should deny it to be revealed and as one cannot be a true and loyal Subject who counterfeits the Kings Hand and Seal so that Religion cannot be true which Counterfeits Gods Word delivering in order to authorize any Thing whatsoever Things as revealed by him which he never revealed Finally that whatsoever the Roman Catholick Religion or Church teaches as an Article of Faith is not only true but infallibly true For among other Points that it delivers as Articles of Faith and consequently are true one is its own Infallibility in matters of Faith as all do grant It is therefore true that the Roman Religion is Infallible in such matters and if so then it must necessarily follow that whatsoever it declares as a matter of Faith is infallibly true For it is impossible that the Sentence of an Infallible Judge should be false Besides since we have shewn that the Roman Catholick Church is free from all Fundamental errors it is inferred 1. That it does not err against any Fundamental Point whatsoever either mediately or immediately For an error does not cease to be Fundamental because it is only mediately and by consequence opposite to a Fundamental Point For to be mediately opposite to a point is to be opposite to that point and another point also whereon the Truth of the former depends A Disease or Wound does not cease to be mortal because it infers only mediately the death of a man destroying immediately only the Dispositions necessary for the conservation of his life which being once destroyed there follows the separation between the Body and the Soul wherein the Death of man formally consists 2. That it cannot be said That the Roman Catholick Religion does not err against any Fundamental point precisely because it holds all the Fundamental points of the True Religion For a Religion may contradict it self and err against that very point which it holds Certainly a Religion which should deny Christ to be God would err Fundamentally and consequently would be no true Religion though it should contradicting it self hold at the same time that Christ is God and all other positive points of the True Religion To the truth therefore of a Religion it is requisite not only that it holds all Fundamental points of the true Religion but also that it does not deny any of them neither mediately nor immediately observing what is related of St. John Baptist Joan. 1.30 Confessus est non negavit He confest and did not deny 3. That it cannot be affirmed That a Religion is true and consequently that it does not err against any Fundamental point because some who profess it are excused by Invincible Ignorance For invincible ignorance though it excuses him who has it from erring maliciously yet it does not excuse him from erring nor the Religion which should contain such an error from being erroneous and heretical too if the point against which it errs be an Article of Faith Sure a man that should say That Christ is not God would err Fundamentally whether he said it out of ignorance or malice and a Religion that should teach such an error would be an Heretical Religion and err against a Fundamental point viz. the Divinity of Christ 4. That a Religion which teaches God to be the Author of any Thing that is really an error must needs err against a Fundamental point though it teaches such a Thing as a Truth For to err is to teach a Thing as a Truth which really is an error The Arrians doubtless erred against a Fundamental point by teaching that Christ was not God which was really an error though they thought it to be a Truth Wherefore the Roman Catholick Religion cannot be free from all Fundamental errors unless whatsoever it teaches as an Article of Faith be really true and not only judged by the Church to be so According to the same Method we convince at once the Truth of all our Articles of Faith For we have shewed that whatsoever the Roman Church teaches as an Article of Faith is true otherwise it would not be a true Church and that there is no Article of Faith which is not delivered as such by the Roman Church otherwise it would not be entirely true Whence we avoid the tedious way of Treating Controversies for which the whole life of man is scarce sufficient viz. of proving each point of Controversie by it self and out of its own proper reasons though I do not hinder but that we may prove some particular points this way also yet we have insinuated above in the sixth Point how we may apply this general way to decide any particular question concerning matters of Faith wherein the party with whom we deal desires satisfaction Again the same Method will teach us how we may with ease discover all Heresies whatsoever For it is easie to know what Doctrines are delivered by the Roman Catholick Church which we have proved to be not only a true but the true Church as Articles of Faith either out of the Canons of General Councils admitted by that Church or out of the Authentick Catechisms or Professions of Faith used among Catholicks or finally out of the unanimous consent of Catholick Doctors and if there be a Debate among Catholick Writers whether such a Doctrine be delivered by the Roman Catholick Church as an Article of Faith we oblige no Body to look upon it as an Article of Faith of that Church nay the contest between Catholicks and no Catholicks is not whether