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death_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	14,602	5	5.1897	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34207	A guide to the true religion, or, A discourse directing to make a wise choice of that religion men venture their salvation upon seasonable for these times wherein there are such diversities of opinions and wayes of religion : to inform the ignorant, to resolve the wavering, and to confirm the weak / by I.C., M.A. of T.C.C.	I. C., M.A. of T.C.C.	1669 (1669)	Wing C57; ESTC R5667	45,610	112

afflictions and persecution and follow him in a way of holinesse purity in the straight way And then he will give him a Crown of life he shal have an hundred fold in this life with persecution that is the comfort of an hundred fold if he misse of such increase in the same kinde and eternall glory in the World to come Now we must sit down consider what we do as Luke 14.28.31 Christ teaches by the parable of him that builds a Tower and of the King that goes to warfare Now thus to chuse our Religion to espouse the Christian Faith for better for worse to take the sweat with the bitter the Cross with the Crown This is another Act wherein this choice stands 3. Act is a setled purpose and full resolution to live and dye therein to adhere and cleave thereto even to the end to be faithful to the Death to cleave to the Lord with full purpose of heart as we read Joshua his resolution I and my house will serve the Lord we are resolved who ever depart from Jehovah we will cleave unto him And as the Disciples John 6. when many forsook Christ and the Christian Religion their Lord saith unto them and will ye also go away Peter answers in the name of the rest whether shal we go for thou hast the words of Eternal life Alack if we draw back from the Lord his soul shall have no pleasure in us we draw back unto perdition but if we continue in the faith we shal then have the Crown of life Life and Death are before us herein as Moses told the Israelites if we serve the Lord and fear him and cleave unto him then life but if we turn from him and his truth and wayes then Death all a mans righteousnesse shal be forgotten he shal dye in his sins Thus in these three Acts stands the right chusing of a mans religion CHAP. III. Considerations evidencing it a principal point of wisdom for a man to make a right choice of that Religion he professes in the World and ventures his Eternal Salvation upon HAving shewed wherein this wise chusing ones Religion stands and what Acts must concur thereto We come next to demonstrate it to be such a principal point of wisedom for a man to make a right choice of his Religion he professes in the world and ventures his Salvation upon This may be evinced from the ensuing Considerations 1. The Necessity for a man to be of some Religion and if so wisedom should direct to make choyce of the best Now it 's necessary to be of some Religion We cannot live without God Acts 17.28 In him we live move and have our being And is it not fit then we should acknowledge God and worship him in the very framing of the nature of man there are such principles of Religion ingraven in him that cannot be razed out that have taught the very Heathens to worship a Deity so that we should be worse then Heathens yea become very beasts and below men if wee should not be of some Religion Besides it is the expresse command of God by his written Laws given to the Sonnes of Men that they adore worship and serve him he expects it as an homage from them and will not loose his glory Such Atheists are accursed by him as cast off all Religion live without God in the World And though some such Atheists have been found who in their prosperity forget God whilst they can better shift without him yet in their miseries and dangers they have been forced to acknowledge God and call upon him as the Mariners in the Ship with Jonah c. Now if it be so Is it not fit to chuse the true God and the true Religion 2. There are many false Religions in the World and we may soon be imposed on and deluded if we make not a wise choice of our Religion There be many Lords and many gods so called saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 8.5 though to us there is but one living and true God ther 's many wayes of Religion Heathenism Mahometanism Judaism and Christianity and amongst Christians how many different wayes this day scarce to be numbred and therefore we had need to make a good choice The greatest part of the World were deceived in former times of old the whole World almost followed false gods except Israel At this day some observe if the World be divided into thirty parts nineteen of them are Heathen Idolaters six be Mahometans some though inconsiderable Jews and only the other five parts of the thirty be Christians and how many different wayes be amongst them Protestants Papists Muscovites Greeks in Europe besides multitudes in other parts of the World And these admitting many subdivisions amongst themselves Therefore we had need to make a wise choice 3. It 's that whereupon our greatest interest depends on the right chusing ones Religion or our mistakes about it eternall happiness or misery life or death depend Deut. 32.46 47. in things of great importance men use much deliberation and make the wisest choice they can how necessary is it here That opinion or dream that every man may be saved by his own Religion if he be true to it is more becoming Turks then Christians They say there are three Banners whereby men are conducted to Heaven Moses's Christs and Mahomets but we Christians know no other way to Salvation but one viz. by faith in Jesus Christ for there 's no other name under Heaven to be saved by but by the name of Jesus Christ Acts 4.12 Indeed many lesser differences may be amongst them that hold that one Faith They may hold the head Christ and yet differ in smal things with safety to their Souls if they build on the foundation and corner-stone Jesus Christ heartily believing the principles of the Christian Faith and living according to them though they add thereto the Hay Stubble and wood of smaller errors they may be saved notwithstanding these 1 Cor. 3.15 Salvation may be had amongst several forts of Christians that all agree in the great Articles of the Christian Faith and live piously and charitably whether Lutherans Calvinists Arminians Anabaptists Episcopal Presbyterian Independent c. These are not different Religions but different forms of the same Religion wherein the children of the same Father are dressed up in different habits But where any differ in fundamentals and even turn to another Religion to another Gospel or Christ as the Apostle speaks to the Galatians as too many Sects amongst us are found to do viz Papists Socinians Quakers c. Those I mean who are throughly such not all that ignorantly adhere to them it would be foolish charity to flatter them with hopes of Salvation in such wayes if living and dying according to those corrupt principles because they are in the number of those Damnable Heresies the Scripture speaks of Now this being clear that Salvation dependeth upon espousing the right Religion What