Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	covenant_n	sacrament_n	seal_n	4,627	5	9.5821	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66816	Eremicus theologus, or, A sequestred divine his aphorisms, or, breviats of speculations, in two centuries / by Theophilus Wodenote ...	Wodenote, Theophilus, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing W3241; ESTC R39130	60,438	192

look back upon Peter with his Spirit as well as with his ey thereby to work upon his conscience He was not moved He was not touched with compunction He had no heart at all to go out nor will to mourn and weep bitterly for his sins 83. SEest thou thy neighbour drawn into a dangerous sin draw not out thy stilletto of final condemnation upon him look not upon him without hope deprave not his former graciousness as though it had never been real nor conclude his future reprobation as though he could never be righteous what knowest thou but that he that is fallen may rise again as a member that is out of joint may be set in again And what knowest thou but that the same which is to day his sin may be to morrow thy wickedness reprove him and admonish him thou mayest and must according to thy office and opportunity So thou begin and proceed with a charitable construction and Christian compassion but to aggravate and amplify slips or falls as worldlings use to do and to sentence offendours to the pit of hell that is a power for the potter not for the clay (o) Non est judicium luti sed figuli Aug. de correp grat cap. 5. Thou hast no part nor fellowship in that authority 84. BEholdest thou any slain together in the field or drowned together in the Sea or any way els come to the same destruction together yet conclude them not equally vertuous or vicious or their rewards after death alike happy or miserable For their lives may be contrary though their deaths be the same or though they agree a long time in their race yet may they differ before their races end The two malefactours that suffered with our Saviour on the Cross had the like external punishment but not the like eternal condemnation in their death they were not divided they both dyed a violent death but in their souls they were plainly parted the one went to heaven the other to hell 85. JUdge not any man by his distemperature in his sickness but by his disposition in his health or by the strangenes of his death but by the strictness of his life whereof the constant course is the best rule whereby to conjecture his future estate unless thou wilt be judged thy self to be full of malice and empty of charity They are usual mischiefs and not extravagant misdemeanours No not raving and blaspheming in case of violent disease disturbing the head and brain that can make any probable argument or likely signe of a son of perdition 86. ABhor that pe remptory censure that this man is a Saint and that man is a sinner he the servant of God and he the child of the Devill For who is able without special revelation to say determinately and assuredly touching another that he is the child of the Devill or that he is the Child of God cannot grace easily cut off the oldest and strongest entail of wickedness Are there not many Wolves within the very Church whose hypocrisy the Lord will in time discover and are there not many sheep without the sheepfold of Christ which God in his time will call (p) August hom 45. upon John What man is there of so weak a faith or so wicked a life but that one day Christ out of his infinite goodness may call him and heal him How far was Paul out of the way and in what wrong and violent course in his former years He breathed out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord (q) Acts 9.1 he was a blasphemour and an oppressour (r) 1 Tim. 1.13 But was he so alwayes Did not God reduce him and reform him in his later years whilst he was striking was he not stricken into his conversion and of a ravenous and most cruell wolfe was he not made first a mild sheep and then a most diligent and excellent shepheard And where is he that dare take upon him so to judge of another mans future estate as to say certainly that he is damned or he is saved Is it not more than he hath any warrant for Who art thou that so judgest anothers servant Is it not to his own master only who perfectly knows him to whom he stands or falls and not to thee who art not able to know his heart Is not his own master only that one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy (s) James 4.12 Who art thou that takest such authority and severity upon thee that dealest so unmercifully with thy brother He is a sinner and so art thou a sinner so either thou art or hast been or mayest be Judge thy self try and examin thy own works search and sift them Judge thy self and judge not him lest thou be condemned of the Lord for not judging and judging 87. BEfore thou receive the holy Sacrament whose price is unvaluable and the vertue no less than the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ (t) 1 Cor. 10.16 To the partaking whereof no man should rashly and rudely thrust himself or come without religious fear and trembling lest instead of a seal of Gods mercy he receive a pledge of his wrath if thou be not fit for such a favour of so high and holy a nature endeavour to make thy self fit and the way to make thy self fit is examination of thy self in what case thou standest Examin thy repentance whether it be sincere thy purpose whether it be stedfast thy faith whether it be lively thy thankfulness whether it be real and thy charity whether it be generall 88. BE frequent and forward in coming to the holy Sacrament a visible pledge of Gods grace and holy covenant with thee a Seal to assure thee of the performance of the gracious promises made to thee in the Word a part of the most delicate and delightful souls food that ever was tasted or that can be in the world Deprive not thy self of so excellent a help both to provoke obedience and to strengthen faith and to increase the comfort of the inward man Make preparation but make not excuse Thou wouldst think thy self wrong'd if having furnished thy table and provided liberally for thy guests any one of them frowardly should reject thy kindness what a wrong is it then to refuse the table and feast of Almighty God It is no less danger to abstaine from the Lords Supper wilfully than it is to receive it unworthily 89. WHat though Gods gifts be sure without sealing as he himself is sure without changing what though the Sacraments of themselves cannot confer grace ex opere operato by the work wrought that is by force and vertue of the work and Word done and said in the Sacrament as the Papists affirm (u) Conc. Trident. Sess 6. cap. 8. Rhem. Acts 22. Sec. 1. Ro. 6. Sect. 5. blasphemously giving that power to the creature which belongeth only to the Creatour yet are they instruments of Gods merc es