Selected quad for the lemma: doctrine_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	believe_v	faith_n	justification_n	2,510	5	8.9827	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77072	The spirit of prelacie, yet working. Or, Truth from under a cloud, in a relation, of that great, and publike contestation had in Glocester, July, 1644. Written then, and now published, as it were of necessity. Together, with a postscript, containing some generall and perticular observations, upon Master Edwards his Gangræna. / By Robert Bacon, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1646 (1646)	Wing B370; Thomason E334_5; ESTC R9476	30,348	42

a man in foro Coeli as they speake in the high Court of heaven that is done in time within in foro conscientiae in the lower Court of our own consciences by the spirit of Christ which is given unto us now where the spirit of Christ is there are the fruits of the spirit and the fruit of the spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse and truth yea and much assurance 1 Thes 1.5 2 But to affirme when I doe some good actions I must believe my justification and when I faile in some actions as who faileth not I must suspect my justification and so to measure my justification by my acts of sanctification and works which I have done I doe utterly deny as tending to overthrow the most glorious doctrine of justification for in time of temptation I see nothing but sin and death at such a time against hope I believe in hope that I am justified and that is the heighth and glory of faith as Luther admirably speaks 3 Yet this I professe The more a man is assured of his justification the more he doth abound in all the wayes and works of justsication and holinesse 5 Whether Faith be a condition of the new Covenant Neg. For 1 This is one difference betwixt the Covenant of works and the Covenant of Grace the one promiseth life upon condition the other gives it of free promise the first commands much and gives nothing but blows upon default the other commands no more then it gives 2 We are not required to the ratification of the Covenant to bring faith to God It goes indeed for currant among many that faith is the condition of the New Covenant but how many inconveniences comes in thereby experience shews Some learned men therefore judge it to my knowledge more meet to call it a branch of the New Covenant Faith in the New Covenant is the work of God Iohn 6. it being indeed a work meet for God but infinitely too hard for man therefore the gift of God Ephes 2.8 but the Covenant is to give us faith to bring us to God so that faith is a branch of the new Covenant for if God should stay to make good his Covenant till we bring faith to the Covenant the Covenant would be of none effect therefore the Covenant doth not depend upon our beleeving but upon Gods promise and faithfulnesse If we believe not yet he abideth faithfull and cannot deny himselfe 2 Tim. 2.13 3 In the new Covenant God ties himselfe and not the creature we are in his keeping and not our own or else our condition were now as it was before in Adam which no Christian will affirme onely faith is urged in the ministry of the Gospel and in urging of it it is given to them that shall be saved because no man is justified in his conscience before God till be doth believe 6 Whether godly sorrow for sin be required in such a one as is in the New Covenant Affir For 1 It is by all meanes to be required in case of sin of one in the Covenant of grace such a one in such a case is by all kindes of arguments to be exhorted thereunto 2 Sorrow of its selfe is not to be urged upon him therefore the Apostle says I rejoyced not that yee were made sorry but that sorrow which the Apostle calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or godly sorrow sorrow according to godlinesse is by all means in the case above said to be pressed and therefore the Apostle doth in effect affirme that he did rejoyce that they sorrowed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to repentance which he opens in the next words Yee sorrowed sayth he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to God or after a godly manner Now in what the Apostle rejoyced we also may rejoyce in in the behalfe of others 3 Yet I utterly deny it in this sense as if it were so required that the Covenant of grace did depend upon it we doe it not to that end but because the Covenant is immutable and cannot but be fulfilled therefore we doe it for it is a part of the Covenant to leade us out unto it therefore that may be the understanding of that phrase of godly sorrow because it is the work of God in us 7 Whether confession of sin i.e. of our originall corruption and of our sinfull actions reckoning them up before the Lord be required in a Christian Affir For 1 This I have taught publikely and therefore need not speake more the words in effect were these Pharisees and Plypocrites may confesse their sinfull actions but they are not wont to confesse their sinfulnesse but the Saints confesse not onely their sinfull actions but also their sinfulnesse they doe not onely see their actions unclean but their very natures and doe bewayle their natures more then their actions because their evill natures are those corrupt Fountains whence flow these soule streams 2 The confession of the Saints is grounded upon the knowledge of Gods love in Christ but the confession of Hypocrites is upon some other information and grounds 8 (a) (a) How difficult it is to decermine what the Church of England is we may learn frō Smectymnius Whether you hold communion with the Church of England i.e. in our parochiall Assemblies to be lawfull Neg. 1 It is a matter that concerns discipline and that (b) (b) This was given in answer Iuly 1644 question is not yet resolved upon in the Kingdom That every Parish Affembly should beare the name of the Church of England seems strange to me for many Parishes know not what the Church of England means 2 Though there may bee Churches in many Parishes in England yet they are not Churches as Parishes or Parishes and therefore Churches Parishes as is confest are but of late and hamane invention but by the Church of England I suppose is understood either all the people in England as they are by law enjoyned to confesse the same Doctrine and practice the same Discipline and in this sence the Church of England especially in respect of discipline is ceasing or ceased to be what it was therefore by the Church of England I hold it safest to understand all of all conditions that have indeed faith towards our Lord Iesus and so are the Church of God in the eye of God and are of a sutable conversation towards men in practice and God in profession of this Church I rejoyce that I am a member and with it delight to have communion the work of reformation is not finished and scarce at all begun in some places and Parishes 2 For ought I know the people have not repented them of their false worships and that abominable prostituting themselves to the will and ways of the Prelates for which the Land polluted with so much Idolatry Atheisme and prophanesse is now even made drunke with bloud 3 Yet I shall have communion with any people in any Assembly so far as