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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	wonder_n	world_n	wrought_v	72	3	7.4595	4	false

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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

venture their souls on a sure bottom Consider as men and make a wise choice of that Religion you venture your Salvation upon It s not sufficient that it be delivered to you by Tradition from your Ancestors that you yave learned it by education from Godly Parents that it is commanded by the Laws of the Land wherein you live and commended by the practice of wise and pious persons whom you reverence but make a wise choice for your selves Labour to understand distinctly the several Doctrines and mysteries of Faith and duties of Godlinesse contained therein and to know the verity and excellency of it and so take it up upon deliberation weighing both the conveniences and inconveniences so it Comparing the sufferings losses reproaches persecutions you meet withall with the reward and Crown promised and so make a wise choice of your Religion resolving to live and dye therein to adhere to it to the end and be faithful even to Death This is a duty necessary and seasonable to be pressed some have not yet chosen their Religion It 's to be feared ther 's too many not only of the younger sort but of the more antient who according to the proverb have their Religion to chuse Some have made some kind of choice but need to be confirmed and established therein upon good grounds and to be stirred up to be true to the true Religion they professe even to be serious thorough and constant Christians Make this choice then speedily for this is the businesse you come into the World about to know and acknowledge to worship and glorifie God and your Salvation depends upon it Live not without God any longer but acknowledge him that made and redeemed you that feeds and preserves you and learn how to serve him acceptably Do it wisely lest you be deluded there being such diversities of Religions and so many false wayes in the World you had need to have your eyes about you erring herein will not stand with the safety of your souls your external hapinesse or misery depends upon it And then be True to that Religion you chuse play not fast and loose with it It 's a businesse of highest concernment to be serious in Religion what ever you trifle in be not false herein what ever you be faulty in Let the Doctrines and mysteries of Faith you receive influence your hearts and lives sanctify and change them rest not in the form of godlinesse without the power of it Men may as well miscary in the true Religion as in a false if they be false unto it Quest But here a question must be resolved in order to the practice of this duty which is this Some may say Seing there are such diversities of Religion in the World How shal we be able to make a right choice amongst so many of the true Religion especially such of us as be weak and ignorant when great and learned men differ so much about it amongst themselves Answer This is a question of very great importance and indeed deserves a serious Answer I shal speak to it in two particulars 1. It is a mistake to think because of the differences of opinions amongst men that there is such a multitude of Religions in the World for every different opinion is not a different Religion There are to speak properly but four Religions in the World although there be different Sects parties amongst each of these viz. Heathenism Mahometanism Judaism and Christianity Indeed these four disagree much amongst themselves In Heathenism some worship one God some another some multitudes joyntly as may beseen in Scripture and in all Histories In Mahometanism all follow that Impostor Mahomet but yet there are great differences amongst themselves so that they are at deadly Feud often one with another for their Religion sake as is storied of the Turkish and Persian Mahometans In Judaism all worship the true God the maker of Heaven and Earth and receive the Law from Moses serving God according to the Ordinances thereof yet have they different Sects amongst themselves as the Pharisees Sadducees Essens c. In Christianity all worship God in Christ although there be diversities of Sects and Heresies amongst them So that indeed there are but four Religions in the world 2. There 's a great difficulty to discern which of these four we should chuse for our Religion even the weakest understanding that indifferently weighs them may be convinced 1. For Heathenism It s evident to reason their Religion is not true to worship so many Gods and them also creatures as the Sun and Moon yea mortal men that are dead such as Jupiter Juno Saturn c. Yea the worst of Men Their own Poets have branded them with black notes of infamy for Adultery Theft Murther c. It was Gods just judgment as the Apostle observes Rom. 1. To give them up to such delusions to worship such gods because when they knew the true God they did not glorifie him as God Many of their own Religion were convinced they were not in the right and therefore Cicero in his Book De naturâ Deorum saith I would I could as well finde out the true Religion as convince others to be false 2. For Mahometanism though it hath spread far over the World yea further then Christianity is spread at this day yet it s most easie to prove that to be a false Religion Their Prophet was a deceiver and a very flagitious person and wrought no miracles their Alcaron is most barbarous and without sense their Doctrine impure as wel as their Lives their Religion promises a carnal Paradise in the world to come full of sensual pleasures not spiritual and suitable to rational immortal souls It was propagated in the World by the Sword and maintained by ignorance and suppressing all humane learning 3. For Judaism the third Religion in the World That was indeed of God confirmed in the Old Testament But it was to continue for a time till Christ came of whom Moses and the Prophets witnesse abundantly then at the time of Reformation it was to be abolished Heb 9.10 Their whole worship Ceremonies had respect to him on whom because they would not believe but rej●cted and crucified him the wrath of God is come upon them to the uttermost They and their Temple was destroyed and the worship of it abrogated and to this day so continues 4 It remains therefore that the Christian Religion is the true Religion or else there 's none in the World And it indeed is witnessed to both in Mahomets Alcoran and in the Jewish Old Testament which speaks fully of Jesus Christ his birth and parentage with the circumstances of time and place his death resurrection c. This was confirmed by many signes and wonders and real miracles wroght by the first planters of this Religion Heb. 2.4 By the means and wayes of propagation of it by weak and unlearned men by whose preaching it soon overspread the World and