Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	catholic_a	church_n	creed_n	4,857	5	10.9440	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41013	Longitudinis inventæ explicatio non longa, or, Fixing the volatilised, and taking time on tiptoe, briefly explain'd by which rules are given to find the longitude at sea by, as truly and exactly as the latitude is found by the star in the tayle of Ursa Minor, call'd the Pole-star / by S.F. ...	Fyler, Samuel.	1699 (1699)	Wing F59; ESTC R221238	12,055	16

the East thou 'lt see When but half way them 'bout the middle then 'Twixt First Meridian and'ts Horizon ken Proportions ta'en aright bate but an Ace Thy Distances thou'lt find in ev'ry place Thy Latitude as from Arcturus Clear Discern thou dost and right thy Vessel Steer So wilt thou too thy Longitude perceive And learn the sail'd-from Continent to leave Seaman go Plow then with thy Keel the Maine Vast as it seems 't is but a Sal'sb'ry-Plain Where as the Steeple Trav'llers leads in doubt Known Stars will guide thee in thy Course when out My Counsel take tho' take 't I say agen Lonely the way beware of Highway-men More safe from Aberration thou wilt go Than Skulking Pyrates if thine Art they know Heav'ns Linkboys else throughout will lead thy Feet Just as do Flambeaus through a Lon'ons Street But if with Clouds and Mists the Stars look dim God be'ng thy Pilot put thy Trust in Him And since Length Breadth Height Depth surmounts his Love Beneath in Fears thine Anchor cast Above Now my dear Country-men you that Travel the Seas since Divinity is my Study and Profession you will I hope accept of a little Advice from me being such as is of more Importance than the Knowledge of your Longitude or Latitude either And my Advice t' ye is First Having the Infinite Longitude of Eternity in your Thoughts to steer your Lives according to Religion's Compass remembring that when you came into the Church like Noah entring into the Ark you were Baptiz'd with Water and the Holy Ghost and began upon the Waters for the Salvation of your immortal Souls which are more precious a thousand times more that the richest Cargo's you bring from either of the Indi's You know that you are acquainted at Sea with nothing but Motion the Heavens over your Heads are in Motion the Waters under your Feet are in Motion and wou'd you like Noah's Dove have a bough or sprig for your Souls to fix on in your restless Hoverings There is none forasmuch as to know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent is Eternal Life but what a true Faith and a good Life willhelp you to these assuring you of it by a Covenant which is stable and unchangeable admitting Repentance in the room of that sinless Innocency which you lost in Adam that being your Duty tho' you cannot perform it still Here is the security of your Souls which can have rest no way else and you know who hath said What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole World and lose his own Soul Be not too confident of present Prosperity on which God when he pleases can put an Embargo Prosperity is a most deceitful thing witness the Table-mount at the Cape which when 't is spread with Dishes of Cheer and Sweet-meats is not of good Hope for all that for you know what follows or if you don 't you may learn from Varenius Amen Amen dico vobis indeed indeed your highest Interest is Religion And my Advice t' ye is 2dly To carry the Gospel with you to all the Longitudes and Latitudes at Land where'er your Ships shall arrive that you may be Co-Apostles and Co-Evangelists with the Twelve and Seventy Two of Christ's choosing to carry the Glad-tidings thereof to the World 's extremest Creeks and Angles that so his Name may be known from the River of St. Lawrence to the Streights of Megellan by Nadovessians and Mexicans them of Peru and Chili as also Eastwardly by those of Guan Japan Cochin-China and his saving Health to your Heteroscii Antiscii and Antipodes that so Songs of Sion may be heard sung to his Praise in all Places where any of the Sons of Adam live betwixt the Antick and Antarctick-Poles Next to the saving your own selves there is nothing you can do better possibly this being the most acceptable service you or any Man can perform to the Great lover of Souls who shed his most Precious Blood on the Cross not only for You and Me but for all Men. And my Advice t' ye is 3dly Wheras the Old Proverb viz. He that knows not how to Pray let him go to Sea is good that leaving off the desperate Vice of Cursing and Swearing rife among Seamen at the brink of Death ye● learn to Pray and to the end ye may pray the Prayer of Faith that ye make use of the Liturgy of the Church of England which is throughout exactly and with great advisement Compos'd by the Reformers and Martyrs thereof according to the Proportion or Analogy of Faith its Perfection and Excellency consisting therein For you cannot Pray in Faith which is indeed Praying by the Spirit unless you Believe aright first Believe I say a Trinity of distinct Persons in the Godhead and the Incarnation of the Second Person as you are taught in the Creeds of the Catholic Church so that without such Belief you will in vain expect to be heard because no Prayer is ever heard by God the Father but what goes to Heaven in the Name of Him who is the only Propitiation for Sins that is God's only Son whose Person being Begotten of the Father before all Worlds so far being in Unity with his Substance God of God became Incarnate in time was truly made Man and Dy'd on the Cross for the same whereas to unriddle one Mistery more perhaps to some a secret that the Prayer of Faith should not be heard no wilful Sin unrepented of putting a Bar in the way so drowning the Voice of Christ's Blood is a thing altogether impossible because God's Veracity He having made an unchangeable Covenant and withal stable Promises to hear them that call on him faithfully is to him an Inviolable Law and binds even Almightiness it self withal because out Blessed Saviour by his Intercession to which his Love binds him also takes care to mingle such Prayers of Faith with the Odours of his own Merits and the Incense of the Burning Altar in Heaven above It was for this that God said once to Moses standing in the Gap and interceeding for the People who had sinn'd so greatly that the provok'd God to destroy them Let me alone shewing thereby that 't was the Prayer of Moses that withheld his Hands from striking You are to observe by the way that Praying in Faith is not a Coming to God on Confidence that we are Holier than others or some of God's Personal Elected Ones whom he has a particular Loving-kindness for but on Confidence that he will hear us tho' Sinners if repenting of our Sins for the sake of his Son at his Right Hand the Voice of whose Blood cannot but be heard and the Demands of whose Merits will never be deny'd by God his Father I have heard some in my time call the Litany Conjuring because we pray in it particularly to the Son By his Agony ●nd Bloody Sweat by his Cross and Passion c This derision-wise and scoffingly but when we pray to the Son