Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	abraham_n	believe_v	impute_v	7,639	5	9.9008	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09847	A gagge for the Pope, and the Iesuits: or The arraignement, and execution of Antichrist Shevving plainely, that Antichrist shall be discouered, and punished in this vvorld: to the amasement of all obstinate papists.		1624 (1624)	STC 20111; ESTC S120961	58,414	88

Bechine of the Romish Church the face of reuelation like your face in a glasse will reflect vpon you O that I neede bring you no further then that pulling hooke to shake the walls of Papistrie to rubbish but because varietie hath a passage of pleasure among Nouelists I am contented to search further and thus expose vnto you what I finde in other treasuries Nicholas the second in a certaine Sinod at Rome decreed year 1059 that Christs body was present in the Eucharist to bee handled with hand and torne a peeces with teeth In the Conuenticle of Florence the doctrine of Purgatory and the Popes supremacie was ratefied by the year 1439 authoritie of that Sinode and the doctrine of the seuen Sacraments propounded to the Arminians was confirmed and so established that the Councell of Trent agreed to the same withall the other errors and superstitions of year 1564 Popery Irenaeus saith that the Apostles did first Preach the Gospell and afterward deliuered the same in Scriptures Lib. 3. cap. 1. that they might be a foundation and pillar of our faith Lib. 4. de verb. cap. 4. but Bellarmine sayth they are neither necessary nor sufficient without traditions The Scotists and most Papists maintaine that the Virgin Mary was neither conceiued in sinne nor euer committed any and yet the Apostle sayth that by one man Rom. 5. Galath 3. sinne entred into the world and death by sinne went ouer all yea he sheweth that the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne It is well knowne and publikely printed both in the Iesuits doctrine of Collen the workes of Thomas Aquinas Bellarmine and others that the Papists maintaine iustifying by the Law Merit by Workes no necessity of confession of faith when yet the Scripture saith Christ is made vnto vs iustice wisedome Sanctification and 1 Cor. 1. Redemption and that Abraham beleeuing it was imputed to him for righteousnes yea Isaiah hath it thus Isayah 53. in plaine tearmes wee are healed by his stripes the Apostle speaketh in this manner It is manifest that no Gal. 3. Rom. 4. man is iustified by the Law before God and that Abraham was not iustified by the workes of the Law Nauarrus teacheth that lay men may not dispute of E●ch cap. 11. The Ch. ignorantia de ●u●●a trinit matters of faith vnder penaltie of the Popes excommunication and Linwood holdeth it sufficient for lay men to beleeue the Articles of the Creed implicitely without publike confession or other Christianlike yeelding a reason of their Saluation and good life Whereas our Sauiour saith Math. 11. My yoke is easie Math. 11. and my burthen light Thomas Aquinas sets it downe thus that the Precepts of the law or the Gospell are more Math. 11. greeuous and combersome then the law of Moses and the censures of Collein with Bellarmine himselfe say plainlie 2 quest 107. that wee cannot bee saued vnlesse in our owne persons wee fulfill the Law Mathew Paris in his collection from the yeere 1256. year 1256 aduertiseth vs that the Friers determining to ouerthrow the Gospell of Iesus Christ published another new one by the name of Euangelium aeternum as if the word of God should continue but for a time to which they added certaine fooleries out of the writings of Abbot Ioachim and continued in such blasphemie as if their deuises should out-last the Gospell of Saluation The Master of the Sentences determineth that the father and the holy Ghost might haue beene made man Lib. 3. dist 1. and yet may the maine Heresie of the Patripassians who held that the father suffered death for vs and the scoolemen mainetaine that the Sonne of God might haue assumed the nature of a woman which derogateth from the Misterie of Christs incarnation Besides they affirme that Christ was neuer troubled in soule with any perturbation or affliction contrary to the plaine Iohn 12. Math. 26. text of Scripture Nam anima mea perturbata est and Ambrose sayth hee hath taken our will and our sadnes vpon him The Master of the Sentences publisheth that all that Lib. 4. distin 1. died vnder the Law and not Circumcised were damned and the Sinod of Trent pronounceth them Anathema or accursed that say there are more or fewer Sacraments then seuen that is to say 1. Baptisme 2. Confirmation 3. the Eucharist 4. Penance 5. Extream Vnction 6. Order and 7. Matrimony and yet the misterie of the great Apoc 17. Whore is called Sacramentum mulieris and Saint Austine neuer knew any more then two Baptisme and the Lords Supper that is out of Christs sides slowed water and blood to which agrees Tertullian Dionisius Are●pagita Chrisostom Cyrill Gregory Cyprian Rabanus Pas●hasius besides it is absurde to thinke that Marriage Pri●sthood and Penance were of one nature vnder the Law and another vnder the Gospell Nauarrus in his Enchiridion and Bellarmine in his Discourses Lib. 1. de Sacr● 14. of the Sacraments maintaine that the Sacraments of the new Law both containe grace and conferre grace Ex opere operato which also may appeare by the Canons of the seauenth Session of Trent But Lord what absurdities must now follow First to attribute as much to Matrimony Confirmation and extreame Vnction as to Baptisme and the Lordes Supper Secondly What contrarietie is this for Priestes to forsweare marriage seeing it containeth grace and worketh it Thirdly If grace be nothing else but Charitie or a habit not distinct from it how may Charitie be contayned in Oyle or the rites of Matrimony or externall signes Fourthly Who can shew or dare maintaine that such as receiue their Popish Confirmation orders extreame Vnction or are married are more iust then they were before Fiftly Last of all God hath promised to worke by his Sacraments but wee doe not reade that euer he promised Iustification or grace to married folke or to such as are greased by extreame Vnction or to any such who with Bell●rmine and Canisius say that Sacraments are onely externall signes whereby it must needes follow that Christs body and blood in the Eucharist are no Sacrament because they appeare not to the eyes nor are apprehended by other sences By the effects of holy water sprinkling and washing the Papists hope to be clensed from sinnes but the Homerobaptists among the Iewes were therefore reputed Heretiques as Epiphanius affirmeth and the Prophets tell vs that neither Cal●mus nor thousands of riuers of Oyle neither riuers nor the whole Ocean can purge or purifie vs from our transgressions In those dayes the Dositheans were reputed Heretiques for affectation of Virginitie and punishing their bodies yet now the Papists are transported with another Doctrine yea many others For the Councell of Constance condemned Iohn the 23. for denying the immortalitie of the soule yet such is the corruption of nature and impietie of Popes Epicurean Phylosophers Rome that Alexander the 6. Leo the 10. Clement the 7. and diuers other Popes