Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	circumcision_n	covenant_n	seal_n	7,337	5	9.8059	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12709	The mystery of godlinesse a generall discourse of the reason that is in Christian religion. By William Sparke divinity reader at Magd: Coll: in Oxford, and parson of Blechly in B[uck]ingham-shire.	Sparke, William, 1587-1641.	1628 (1628)	STC 23026; ESTC S100099	133,807	175

the other Evangelicall At first it was only a promise by word of mouth The Word f Gen. 3.15 The seed of the Woman shall breake the Serpents head Which GOD afterwards drew in forme of Covenant with Abraham saying g c. 12.3 In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed h Rom. 4.11 And he receiued the signe of circumcision a seale of the righteousnesse of faith It pleased the Son of GOD in personall appearances to converse with men more familiarly to acquaint them with his Fathers will and purpose by liuely voyce whilest yet they walked with him in their vprightnes simplicity i Habet vocalis traditio nescio quid latentis onergiae Hier. Such kind of instruction by the Word himself in person did best befit the infancy of the Church that wee might betrayned vp by degrees to spell his grace when it should afterward be committed vnto vs in writing And it was needfull for the first beleeuers to haue a more immediate conference with God that they might beginne to vs in the faith with a full assurance Who also being long liued faithfull might more safely transfer the will of GOD committed to their trust by tradition to their posterity for many generations k Gen. 18.17.18 19. Shall I hide from Abraham sayth the Lord that thing which I will doe seeing that Abraham shall become a great mighty nation all the Nations of the earth shall be blessed in him For I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him and they shall keepe the way of the Lord. But when once the Church was growne by the blessing of GOD The Scripture as he had promised into a nation then confirming the covenant with them which he had made with their Father Abraham GOD gaue them the copy of his Will in writing l Exod. 31.18 the ten commandements written with his owne finger the whole Lavv written by Moses with the history of the Creation of his prouidence from the beginning of the world And after Moses was gone m c. 33.11 vvith vvhom God spake face to face he continually stirred vp other Prophets whom he instructed n Numb 12.6 by dreams visions secret inspirations rising vp early sending them day by day vnto his people Israel whom they acquainted in the name of the Lord with his will frō time to time according to the Lavv the testimony Whose prophesies or sermons were recorded by themselues other o Quihaec scripserit valdè supervacue quaeritur Ipse haec scripsit qui haec scribenda dictavit Quid aliud agimus nisi legentes literas magni eujusdam viri de calamo perscrutamur Graeg praef in Iob. c. 1. Haec prius per prophetas deinde per seipsum posteà per Apostolos quantum satis esse judicavit locutus etiam scripturam condidit quae canonica nominatur eminentissimae authoritatis Cui fidem habemus de his rebus quae ignorare non expedit nec per nosmetipsos scire idonei sumus August de civ Dei lib. 11. cap. 3. publike notaries to the same spirit of truth were receiued by the people of God p Hos 8.12 to vvhō he had vvritten the great things of his lavv whereby they might try examine the same q Rom. 3.2 to vvhō his Oracles vvere committed in trust their chiefest prerogatiue advantage aboue all nations vntill himself came and confirmed all saying r Iohn 5.39 Search the Scriptures for they testifie of mee ſ 2 Tim. 3.16 All Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God the prophesie came not in old time by the vvill of man but the holy men of GOD spake as they vvere moued by the Holy Ghost t Heb. 1.2 But in these last dayes God hath spoken vnto vs by his Sonne in the flesh For u c. 2.3 the great saluation began to be spoken by the Lord himselfe as it is reported in * Act. 1.1 the Gospell a treatise of all that Iesus began both to doe and teach and x Heb. 2.3.4 it was confirmed to vs by those that heard him God also bearing them witnes both with signes wonders diuers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his ovvn vvill y 2. Pet. 1.15 Apostolos idem Evangelium quod praeoncionaverant postea per Dei voluntatem in Scripturis no bis tradidisse fundamentum columnam fidei nostrae suturum dicit Irenaeus l. 3. c. 1. Who also provided that after their decease the Church might alwayes haue a memoriall of those things which they had preached And therefore after their acts it was not greiuous vnto them to write the same things which they had taught for vs it vvas a safe thing that by their severall epistles some of them to the Church in general which were accordingly dispersed in many places others to certaine particular Churches which they also z Coloss 4.16 were to communicate vnto others as it were so many copies in so many mens hands to be a Ipsi sanè pauci esse debuerunt ne multitudine vilesceret quod clarum religione esse oporteret nec tamen ita paucivt corum non sit micanda consensio Aug. de Civ D. produced all consenting in the same truth we might be asfured of God his will confirmed in the present truth And last of all S. Iohn who was as wee may say of Christ his bosome besides his Gospell and Epistles continued on by revelation vntill his comming againe foretelling all things cōcerning the Church of God in the mean time which experience makes good dayly in our eyes Now wee may bee sure that the Scripture is the Word of God That the Scripture is the Word of God Not only because it saith so but proues it by a threefold argument not to be eluded The intent of it The consent in it The event by it b Non ex sapiencia sapiena Deus sedex sapiente Deo sapientia procedit Orig. ad Rom. in calce Theologie is not the inventiö of humane study but as the name imports it is the Word of God which he spake and which speakes of him For God is both the author and the matter thereof all in Christ c Col. 2.3 in vvhom are hid all the treasures of vvisdome knovvledge Which mystery provided in the counsell of God from everlasting it was needfull for vs to know from the beginning that we might haue the benefit thereby and God the glory by vs. d Edocuit autem Dominus quoniam Deum scire neme possit nisi Deo docente hoe est sine Deo non cognosci Deum Irenaeus l 4 c. 14 And that could not be but by God his owne vvord who onely was priuie to his owne purpose Therefore the eternal vvord and vvisdome of the Father e Prov. 8 31. 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