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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39277	Clavis fidei, or, The key of faith written in Latine by John Ellis ... and propounded by him in publick lectures upon the Apostles Creed, to the students of Harts Hall in the University of Oxford ; faithfully translated into English by W.R. for the good and benefit of the ingenuous reader, as an help to build him up in his most holy faith.	Ellis, John, 1599?-1665.	1668 (1668)	Wing E585; ESTC R40476	36,379	109

the life and in all the other Articles of the belief being briefly handled thou wilt finde many excellent observations much comprized in few words And to conclude I wish that these precious truths were imprinted in our minds as well as in this book the which God grant Courteous Reader Farewell in the Lord Jesus W. F. The Key of Faith EVen as the river that watered Paradise was divided into four heads so in like manner is the doctrine of the Church to wit The Apostles Creed the Decalogue or ten Commandments the Lords Prayer and the Sacraments First we are to live in the Church by faith Secondly to come unto the rule of life by precepts Thirdly lest we faint we are to take heed by prayer and when notwithstanding all these we are yet weak we are to have recourse to the seals of grace which are the Sacraments First faith is necessary Without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 For the sum of faith is contained in the Apostles Creed or Symbol It is called a Symbol because it is a token or mark by which Christian Souldiers are discerned from others or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from contributing as if it were compiled and composed by the Apostles However it is said to be the Apostles because it comprehends the sum of the faith which the Apostles preach'd We are to search the Scriptures and to beleeve those things which are contained in them but above all the special and fundamental places which are simply necessary Lib. 6. confess cap. 6. S. Austin writes they are to be blamed not to be listened to if perhaps there be any such that should say How knowest thou that those books which are ministred to us by men are the minde of the onely true and unerring God for that for it self it is chiefly to be beleeved Notwithstanding there are enough 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 evidences which evince and clear it that the Scripture is inspired from God whereof these are the most choice The authority of the writers who were in an extraordinary manner called and sent forth The majesty of the doctrine The amplitude and clearness of the miracles The truth of the prophesies The sanctity of the Bible nothing is here to be found dissonant to piety and truth nothing of contradiction And to add to this the sublimity of the mean style and the sublime humility To conclude the harmonious truth of either Testament that which lieth hid in the Old is manifest in the New But the Symbol or Creed it self which is taken out of the Scriptures containeth in it twelve Articles and is as it were the a A circle in heaven wherein the twelve Signs are zodiack of a Christian But these may be reduced to four parts The first concerning God the Father who hath made all things The second concerning God the Son who hath redeemed mankinde The third concerning the H. Ghost who hath sanctified the faithful The fourth concerning the Church and its priviledges which the Lord hath communicated to it But some one may say Object The works of the Trinity which have a reference to the creatures are undivided common to all the three Persons how cometh it then to pass that creation is attributed to the Father redemption to the Son sanctification to the H. Ghost This cometh to pass Answ not to exclude but to distinguish between the Persons and the order of their acting Omitting these let us come to the Articles themselves The first is I beleeve in God the Father Almighty Creator of heaven and earth It is said I beleeve not we beleeve because every one ought to have a special faith of his own explicit not implicit or taken upon trust We cannot see well with other mens eyes neither is it sufficient to have an opinion in divine matters The disputation of Gregory de Valentia is of no force Lib. 6. Analys fidei cap. 13. in which he thus asserts concerning a man that is not Theologically learned That if he prefer the Romish Church for its outward authority before the Reformed then God shall have nothing to object against this illiterate man in that most dreadful Tribunal for God doth not require of him this that he should come to the knowledge of the truth by searching into the doctrine since that he understands not Theological controversies These things saith he But let him say what he will every one certainly ought to hold the substance and saving sense of the Articles although not all the most difficult circumstances of questions from thence arising But now to beleeve is not onely to know and give assent to those things which are propounded in the Gospel but also to acquiesce and rest satisfied in them It is not all one to beleeve a God and to beleeve God and to beleeve in God In the two first senses sinners and devils do agree the third sense none attain to unless they be such who have faith formed in them in this manner to beleeve is to go into God by good works 3 Sent. Dist 23. saith the Master of the Sentences To beleeve a God is to know there is such a God To beleeve God is to confess that he is true but to beleeve in God requires application that he is my God There is a faith found that is not right There is a faith that is feigned and it is of the hypocrites the Apostle saith that the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1.5 There is a kinde of dead faith and it is that of sinners or of those that are still in their sins Faith without works is dead Jam. 2.26 There is a kinde of weak faith and it is of the luke-warm Receive you him that is weak in the faith Rom. 14.1 There is likewise a little faith and it is of the fearful therefore Christ said O thou of little faith why doubtest thou Matth. 14.31 Hitherto we have treated concerning faith it self now concerning the objects of faith of which God is the principal whom not to know is death and whom to know is life And first it is to be demonstrated that God is This may be proved out of the book of Nature inasmuch as he is the Creator and out of the book of Scripture in that he is Creator Conserver and Redeemer Sum part 1 quaest 12. Art 7 God may be known although not comprehended as Aquinas saith These arguments that are drawn from nature do prove that there is a God which notwithstanding are common to Scripture also to wit the most beautiful order of the creatures as the heavens declare the glory of God Psal 19.1 the understanding of man the knowledges of principles and the knowledge of this principle That God is Rom. 1.19 the tremblings of consciences in sinners the rewards of good men the punishments of the wicked the political order the heroick vertues the invention of arts the prediction of