Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	grace_n	justification_n	sanctification_n	4,426	5	9.9323	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47147	A further discovery of the spirit of falshood & persecution in Sam. Jennings, and his party that joyned with him in Pensilvania, and some abettors that cloak and defend him here in England in answer to his scandalous book, called, The state of the case.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1694 (1694)	Wing K170; ESTC R784	61,330	54

for us now in Heaven for that is no small part of our salvation to be saved from Wrath and from the guilt of sin and from that fearful sentence of Condemnation and the Curse of the Law due to us for sin and no Internal Revelation can save us from that Curse Condemnation and Wrath but it was necessary that Christ should suffer for us in the true Nature of Man that cursins might be forgiven and we might be saved from the Wrath of God and the Curse and Condemnation of the Law of God and Christ's suffering Death and sheading his precious Blood for us was not only necessary to our Justification but to our Sanctification because by his Obedience unto Death and precious Blood he hath procured and pur●●●sed for us that inward principle of God's Grace whereby we are sanctified and we are sanctified through a living Faith in Christ as he died for us and that Faith is necessary to mens Regeneration and Sanctification as well as to Remission of sins and therefore is necessary to all But that he saith a great part of Mankind will be included who have not had the means opportunity or capacity to know or receive it which carries with it a very harsh and uncharitable Judgment upon all that part of mankind Answ But where is then the sufficiency of the Light he and many others seem so warmly to plead for if it be not sufficient not only to make them capable but also to give them the Knowledge of it viz. the Death of Christ But why should this sound more harsh and uncharitable to say a great part of mankind die as much without the Knowledge of Christ within as of Christ without for as Christ came in the flesh is called a great m●stery in Scripture so is Christ within also called a great mystery yea the mystery that had been hid from Ages and Generations and he cannot give me an Instance of any that ever knew the mystery of Christ within but also knew in some measure the mystery of Christ without for that which is able to reveal the one is able to reveal the other But that any are saved without the knowledge of Christ within I suppose he will not say seeing the Scripture saith Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you unless ye be Reprobates Or rather disapproved or want a Proof But the Scripture also saith That it is one God who shall justifie the circumcision i.e. the Jews by Faith and the circumcision i. e. the Gentiles through Faith And the true Faith is one whereby both Jews and Gentiles are justified which is a Faith in Christ as he died for us as well as that he doth inwardly enlighten us But to suppose a Faith in Christ that doth not respect his outward coming in the Flesh and Death and sufferings but only and alone that inward common illumination that is in all mankind is to set up an unscriptural and Antichristian Faith opposite to the true Christian Faith which I charge on Sam. Jennings and on all that join with him in this his absurd Doctrine to be a pernicious Error tending to make v●id the true Faith of Christ and the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures and to teach men to rely upon their Obedience to the Law or Light within for Salvation and Life Eternal without the Faith of Christ crucified that s●p●ain contrary to the Holy Scripture that saith Both Jews and Gentiles were all under sin and whatsoever the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world become guilty before God Now this Law that steppeth every mouth and maketh the whole world guilty before God is the Law or Light in these Gentiles who have not the Scriptures or written Law without and whatever feigned pretence of Charity S. J. or any others that hold this gross Error That men may be eternally saved without all knowledge and faith of Christ crucified may have towards that part of mankind who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them yet it is a real undervaluing and seeking to undermine the Christian Disp●nsation and make it as a mee● Indifferent thing yea unprofitable to be under it for if men commonly obtain Eternal Life and Salvation without all knowledge and faith of Christ crucified and raised again and can be perfectly sanctified without it then there is no need to have that Faith at all But for such who say it is needful because it is preached they use a deceitful but silly evasion for if it 's only needful because it is preached then the way is not to preach it that it may not be needful and if so why did the Apostles and many other faithful men preach it and seal to it with their blood Surely this is the way to lead people generally both to neglect preaching Christ crucified and to hear it preached yea and if they destroy or bury the Bible in oblivion from their posterity by this wicked doing they shall excuse them from being under a Necessity to believe the Death of Christ in order to salvation But whereas some say it is profitable tho not absolutely necessary to salvation to have the Faith of Christ's Death but seeing they say men are commonly saved eternally without it as well as with it they cannot shew wherein it is profitable unless it be necessary Indeed they may as well say with Pelagians and Socinians that inward Grace or the Spirit 's inward operation is only profitable but not absolutely necessary to mens salvation But we find the Terms of salvation universally without exception set down Rom. 10. 9 10. that plainly holds it forth that to believe that Christ rose from the dead and that with the heart as well as to confess it with the mouth is necessary to all that shall be saved And tho this Faith is wrought in men in God's ordinary way by an outward Ministry yet the Word or Light within is suffitient to work it without an outward Ministry and doth so work it when God pleaseth as he wrought it in Abraham Job and many others But that S.J. saith page 12. he hath heard T. Lloid affirm he did believe it to be our duty who had the advantage of having the Holy Scriptures and hearing the Faith preached to receive and believe it This I suppose is possible but when was it that he did so profess to believe viz. after that the Publick Letter signed by G.W. and others from London came to them and us holding forth that Faith as necessary but before that Letter came it is well known to many as well as to me that he had oft denied it but before that the Breach was made And since it was made tho we for our part used great Endeavors to be reconciled to them in the Truth yet we could never effect it in Truth 's way XXXIII page● 3. He proceeds in the next place to shew which most deceitfully and