Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	rule_n	scripture_n	tradition_n	12,255	5	9.8749	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

We have preached and do preach to you a Religion plain and close which requires not so much shrewd and subtle heads as good and honest hearts Luk. 8. 5. The Testimony of the Lord that is sure making wise the simple We made your way plain before you They of Rome will perplex you with those infinite rules of Faith which the Learned among them cannot comprehend When you have endeavoured to know the minde of God in the Scripture that you might believe and in believing might have lise you have d●… nothing there are endless traditions which no one man ever saw which you shall never know but yet must believe them many Volumes of Councils which you never saw you must receive all the Popes Decrees whereof some are not yet published you must assent to before you can be saved To day you may believe all the Traditions Councils Decrees and Impositions of the Church of Rome and be saved and to morrow the Pope may set out a new Decree or a new Article of Faith which if you do not believe you are damned While you are here secure you know not but that there is a new article of Faith defined by the Pope which you do not know and not knowing cannot believe and not believing may perish for ever Ah! happy you who need not say Who shall go into Heaven or Hell or the uttermost parts of the Earth to fetch down a rule of Faith from thence The word is nigh even in your hearts and in your mouths 3. We have perswaded and do still perswade you that without knowledge the minde is not good we have intreated you to grow in all knowledge and in all goodness and we cease not to pray that you may abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgement You have a sure word of prophecie to which we say you would do well to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place a light to your feet and a lanthorn to your paths We say when an holy wisedom entereth into your hearts and knowledge it 's pleasant unto your souls discretion shall preserve you and understanding shall keep you to deliver you c. There are those abroad a part of whose Religion it is to make you perish for want of knowledge to keep you under the power of darkness that you may walk after the vanity of your minde having your understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in you because of the blindness of your hearts That Scripture which we have translated for you which is your meat your drink your delight sweeter then honey or the honey-comb of more value than the world must be taken from you and if they prevail as we know they will not it will be no less than death to read that word which is dearer to you than your lives your faithful Ministers to whom you would have given your right eyes must be removed into corners yea and must seal that Doctrine with their blood which they now deliver you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is to behold the Sun If the light that is in us be darkness how great how sad is that darkness A God we must own but shall not know him a Saviour we must have but we must that come to him though this is life eternal to know him and the Father who hath sent him Duties we must do that we may live but we shall not understand them Scriptures there are written to our comfort but we must not read them We erre not knowing the Scripture saith out Saviour we erre by knowing the Scripture say the Roman Catholicks Hear read saith God and your souls shall live Read saith the Papist and you shall surely dye O wretched mankind a great part whereof Mahomet hath taught not to hear reason that they may judge in themselves what is right a great part whereof the Pope hath traught not to hear the Scripture which is no vain thing which is our life A sad Religion if I may call it Religion that sets up the kingdom of darkness by which the Devil may rule in the children of disobedience A Religion that hoodwinks poor people in forced ignorance when alas we are all too willingly ignorant lest we should know Gods will or any way to Heaven but theirs so as millions of souls live no less without Scripture than if there were none that forbids spiritual food as poyson and fetcheth God's Book into the Inquisition 4. Although the Church and our selves by her appointment first discovered to you the eternal truth yet have we not suffered you to rest upon us who may deceive and be deceived but have led to the Rock that is higher than us and resolved your Faith into a foundation that cannot fail the truth and authority discovered in his Word by his Spirit They they of Rome who are now so busie will take you off from the foundation of God which standeth sure they will perswade you that the Word of God which you know is pure is corrupt that the Law of God which you know is perfect is defective that the Scriptures which you know in things necessary evident are dark and all this to what purpose but to settle you upon men who you know are a lie to make you rest on Councils who saith Bellarm. himself l. 2. c. 11. p. 153. May erre Particular Councils confirmed by the Pope may erre in Faith and Manners Some Catholicks affirm saith Bell. de Concil Ecclesiasticis l. 2. c. 5. p. 110. or upon Popes whereof some have been Infidels and privately conferring with their Cardinals said Oh how much gain this Fable of Christ hath brought us Others have been Witches others Murtherers others Whoremongers ravishing women in the Apostolick doors others as their own Records testifie by Bribes by Devils by VVitches have climbed up to the infallible Chair Oh can you trust your souls with those men which have confessed to have given their souls to the Devil that they might be Popes yea which is worst of all the poor Catholicks when they have relied upon this man as infallible today must tomorrow relie upon another Pope as infallible who may declare this man an Heretick if they believe not he is infallible they are damned and if they believe not he is an Heretick when declared by another Pope to be so they are damned too Ah poor men 5. We teach you to serve the true God and him onely to worship and we tell you he is a jealous God and he will not give his honour to another and that idolatry hath been the ruine of all Nations in this World and is the damnation of men without repentance in the World to come You know that Idolaters shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven for without are Idolaters Rev. 22. 15. Yet they they who now with fair words deceive the hearts of the