Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	build_v	church_n	rock_n	7,063	5	9.4065	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64668	VVits fancies, or, Choice observations and essayes collected out of divine, political, philosophical, military and historical authors / by John Ufflet ...	Ufflet, John, b. 1603.	1659 (1659)	Wing U20; ESTC R8998	43,009	138

hand that created the substance of both The good creatures of God that have been prophaned to Idolatry may in a change of their use be imployed the the holy service of their maker Where there is a setled course of good government howsoever blemished with some weakness it is not safe to be over forward to a change though to a better The change of a Prince never hapneth in any Realm but it trayneth with it great troubles and sorrows because at an alteration men are forced to change alter their manners form of living suddenly for that that pleaseth one Prince disliketh another It never yet hapned to anyman since the beginning of the World nor ever will to have all things according to his desire or to whom fortune was never opposite or did change Great charges can hardly be governed without some indiscreet policies In those actions whereby an offence may be occasioned though not given charity binds us both to cleer our own name and the conscience of others As faith draws home generalities so charity diffuseth generalities from it self to others If we may refresh the soul of the poor with the very offalls of our estate and not hurt our selves wo be to us if we do it not Where there is a misconceit of God no marvel if there be a defect of charity The nature of charity is to unite and bind men together in all mutuall christian offices and it doth not only unite and bind men but keeps them so when they are together Charitas est quasi chare unitas There is no matter of such consequence in it self but may be much graced with ceremonies complements which like Officers add much respect and majesty to the action which otherwise being but boldly presented appeareth far meaner and of less regard The vulgar use to censure him that punished the fault not him that makes it Wise men must care not only to deserve well to wipe off not only the crimes but censures also It is not safe to censure all mens actions by our own conceit but rather to think there may be a further drift and warrant of their act then we can attain to see It is no censuring of the truth of our present sorrow by the event of the following misarriages We ought not to censure mens worths by singularity but to take them carnall with all their qualities together Carnall men think that impossible to others which themselves cannot do from hence arise their censures hence their exclamations There must be discretion there must be partiality in our censures of the greatest There be five limitations of injoyned ceremonies first they that be not against Gods word secondly that justification or remission of sins be not attributed unto them thirdly that the Church be not troubled with their multitude fourthly that they be not decreed as necessary and not to be altered fifthly that men be not so tied to them but that by occasion they may be omitted so it be without offence and contempt Externall ceremonies of piety and complements of devotion may be well found with falshood in religion they are a good shadow of truth where it is but where it is not they are the very body of Hypocrisie In the 21. yeaar of Richard the second Cheshire was made a principality In children there are often presages of vertues and vices Armies and Navies are not so strong defences and rampiers of a Princes estate as the multitude of children-Friends with time and fortune sometime by unadvised desires or oversights decrease and fal away from us and fade whereas a mans own blood cleaveth fast and cannot be dis-joyned especially in Princes whose prosperity as well may others enjoy but their adversity toucheth none so neer but their neerest in blood And how should brethren agree if they have not an example from their father Children are the living goods of their parents and therefore must waite upon the bestowing of their owners Such children as dispose of themselves without their parents they do wilfully unchild themselvs and change natural affection for violent As it becomes not children to be forward in their choyce so parents may not be too peremtory in their denial it is not safe for children to over-run parents in setling their actions nor for parents where the inpediments be not very materiall to come short of their children when the affections are once setled the one is disobedience the other may be tyranny Children do easily learn to contemn the poverty of their own parents Reverence and loving respects of children to parents never yet went away unrecompenced God will surely raise up friends amongst strangers to those that have been officions at home The propagation of children belongs to the glory of marriage and not to the punishment of sin The fountain and root of all goodness and honesty is the good education and training up of our children in their tender age Children are bound to obey their parents if they be good if bad to forbeare them however to reverence them As it is good for a man to have an enemy so it shall be our wisdom to make use of his most cholerick objections the worst of an enemy may prove most soveraine to our selves Choller is hot and dry bitter begotten of the hotter part of the Chilus and gathered to the gall it helps the naturall heat and sences and serves to the expelling of excrements It was necessary for Christ the Mediator between God and man to have a temporal mortality and an eternal beatitude to have correspondency with mortals by the first and to transfer them by eternity by the second The dignity of Christs person being infinite gave such worth to his satisfaction that what he suffered in short time was proportionable to what we should have suffered beyond all time Christ his man-hood is the churches head his God-head is the life and soul of it It were impossible the Nations should desire Christ to come in his glorious power to judge the world as we see they do unless they had been first united in their true beleife upon him when he came in humility to suffer Christs sufferings and his life hath not only left us the vertue of the Sacraments but his example whereby to direct our selves in all our courses God the father in his personall presence will judge no man but hath given all judgement unto his sonn who shall shew himself as man to judge the world even as he shewed himself man to be judged of the World When our Saviour asked his Disciples Whom say men that I am Peter answered thou art the Christ c. to whom Christ replied thou art Petes and upon this rock will I build my Church c. meaning not so much upon the person of Peter as upon Peters confession Lucius King of England and Donald King of Scotland cotemporary Kings in this Island received the christian faith Anno Christi 203. Christianity is of power to discover