Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	faith_n	justify_v	sanctification_n	2,387	5	10.2932	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44609	Scotland pulling down the gates of Rome, or, Christ against Antichrist, the Lambs friends against the Dragons followers containing first, Christs herauld proclaiming his second coming, in allarum to most kingdoms of Europe, from the late presaging comet which appeared, December 1680 and January 1681, and now in August 82 ... : secondly, the popish confessions and catechisms, lately dispersed, and their damnable principles examined ...	Houschone, William.	1683 (1683)	Wing H2944; ESTC R4446	18,854	31

teaches us to set asunder Worships of divers natures as mingled seed as not only dangerous but damnable and however some have beaten their brains to hammer out peace yet could not yea in Conscience but make the breach more wider such Labyrinths having no end such sinks of Errour having no foundation No pen can reach nor brain expiate throughout those Cells of wickedness from which Arminianism Free-willers Socinians and what not have had their birth Yea there have been cridled into which they return as into the vast Ocean However our League-makers are dipping their pens in the gall of bitterness yet shall it avail nothing but verifie that Distichion and accomplish the pouring out of the last Vial upon all the Limbs of the Beast Aut mens vulcanum aut forceps indoila fefellit Eir ennen voluit cudere cudit erin Proposition A foundation of Religion is over-turned two ways either flat terms or by consequence Popery and Arminianism comes in the last way proclaims believes all the Articles of Faith yet denies the meaning of each Article razing not only the Integral and accidentals but the true meaning of the word as the Basis As 1. The various senses of the word says our Pamphleteer doth not unhinge material Articles nor on them do we build any Fundamental Truth why then do the Papists as the Scripture could or would impower them bend their wit to draw the Popes Temporal Sword out of Peters Scabbard and to fish for his Vicaredge with Peters nets taking the help of the Limbeck of the Jesuites making the right of Church and State lye under the Popes girdle unhinging the very Fundamental Article of Justification scorning to cloath themselves with a coat of Christs Righteousness yea scarce Aristotles Morality but kill murder and destroy such truculent practices are mercenary duties no Truce no League no Covenant keep either to God or Man In reference to Protestants witness their own Patriots Vasquez Alvarez but read farther Sphanhemins Contract of Chamier Lombard Senten If we shall view the Monuments of Cruelty the Heads Hands and Bloody Spirits wherever they get power doth call alowd Proposition We allow thee will no strength to any Spiritual good till revived by preventing Grace the League-makers mitigates thus The Papists and Protestants both compare a Man after the fall to a Prisoner the Papist says he 's only bound the Protestants say he is not onely bound but dead also both attribute the power of coming out to God what danger in either Opinion Answer If the Physitian give me a Plaister and leaves me to apply it to my wound if I will I impute the cause of my deliverance to my self and yet there is much betwixt a dead man and a sick man her errours are wrought like Serpents eggs for if she taught not Concupiscence the inmost garment of the Soul the first it puts on the last it puts off were no sin she could not affirm any man could perform the Law and if she laid not with another hand the sandy foundation of Free-will she could not deceive us they filthy rags of thy unrighteousness 3. She plunges her self again in the pit seeing a cure not following the star of the Scripture the Papists say Inherent Righteousness the Protestant Imputed Righteousness the Papists mean Grace Charity c. at most Evangelical works or duties habitual Righteousnes or good works actual Righteousness not so formally but our deservings the L. M. reconciles thus both grant its the Blood of Christ that delivers what are we concerned whether another pay the debt as the Protestant or we our selves as the Papists say But the debt of Justice is not payed till it come out of the hand of Christ the Cautioner the principal must not compare yea we differ upon the matter for it s nothing but their bits of duties at the most which they would soader with Christs Righteousness which avail nothing out of their own place I know they make a tergiversation and tells us Opera tinct a sanguine Christi What is this to half the Righteousness of Christ as Bradwardane says Half to man the other half to God or flatly deny Imputed Righteousness as some black-mouthed fellows lately do even among Protestants scorning at acquaintance with God 5. We come to the instrument applying the wound The Papists grant to Faith a share but include works in the same Category The League-makers speak very plausibly both agree its by the blood of Christ we are saved the odds is only in the branches whereby we hold the Protestants lays hold of a sure one Faith in Christ the Papist of both Faith and Works now this cuts the sinews of Faith altogether looking upon it as a meritorious work or at the best an Evangelical Duty altogether mercenary but we have a eye to it as a condition or hand touching the Alms not binding God to our Merits it s nothing but free love far surpassing the Fathers love to a Child Gods Free grace so abounding that the Justice of God cannot be known so Salvian a famous Presbiter in Messalania Justificat fides sola sed non solitaria Our Antagonist takes advantage most bitterly to determine most sad conclusions generally upon all Protestants by reason of their promiscuous conceptions of the applicatory nature of Faith If there be any offence taken there is none given we call it our selves say they Instrumental cause which always has one Physical influx upon the effect for to tearm it a passive instrument there is no such thing can have being in nature and if you will grant the name of a condition formally so taken making Faith and Repentance concomitaneous and coaetaneous those radical Graces being all sown at once though some of them peep above the ground before another All Orthodox Writers agree whom God justifies them he sanctifies so runs the Golden Chain of Election Rom. 8.13 So that Spiritual Sanctification as the Antinomiah dream only believer live loose if thou wilt only be in Christ sin if thou canst are the fiery balls of Antichrist what if we shall grant all demanded this doth not infer any co-efficiency in or with works If in the least we shall put them in the ballance of the Sanctuary and give them that fair but false name works of Supererrogation what relation there may be betwixt our works and our Salvation what influence they have thereunto be determined shall after and through grace be determined Some grant the same relation to illustrate it betwixt the mean and the end the Scripture points forth as ye sow ye shall reap because one of these Doctors doth in express words so much confess though maintaining Faith directly and formally resolves it self in the Church That the works of a Regenerate man upon which the main state of the controversie depends are of themselves worthy and God will retalliate and pay all such but postpones such a common action of Eternal Life to the Divine promise and therefore

professors now would have two Summers in one year Heaven here and Heaven hereafter Yet Christ who had a right to Heaven by both Blood and Birth could not have it without Blood and Blows it s not got without stroke of Sword saith one speaking of affliction yet in all this the way of Free-grace is nothing ragged Christ himself straws to glory as with pleasant flowers it is but a bed of Roses to the Believer Inference the fifth and that for direction as a general rule all the Scripture is not delivered in Aphorisms or Canons which occasion stumbling of many ignorant Souls when Satan with some shadow of the word of God drives home a tentation takes hold of them presently as instance that of Extream Unction Pennance Purgatory all the Fopperies of Rome for our safeguard here take this one argument for all why would we not sacrifice our first-born with Abraham but no farther this being sufficient Now in one word to exhaust all the reason of a Souls declining from the way of God deficiency in holiness truth and holiness being inseparable and reciprocally which produces so many Sects the want of this persons without the habit of Faith are Christless persons duties without the exercise of Faith are duties out of Christ what wonder then Souls can never steam Heaven wards but blind reason deluded fancy enthusiastical injection is their Pilot. Reader travail one hour to the Sanctuary and to the ballance thereof 1. Thy Principle whether from Heaven or from Earth 2. Thy Practice 3. Thy Profession 4. Thy Graces Faith and Patience of the Saints 5. Thy Conversion in the work of Conviction and Compunction 6. Thy decay in Grace My soul melteth away with heaviness Psal 119. 7. Thy experiences and manifestations of Divine Love time year day month upon the Sabbath-morning to record every week all the passages of Gods Providence but much more the enjoyments of his own person all which God will try Amos 9.9 Behold I will command and I will sift the house of Israel like as corn is sifted in a seive yet shall not a grain fall to the ground Inference read that of 1 John 5.1 Beloved try the spirit whether they be of God or no put Preacher and Preaching to proof a Crape profession will not do their Leaders caused them to erre and those that were lead of them are fallen into destruction when Satan glides into Pulpits and sow his fair coloured seed of Free-will universal redemption universal grace objective and subjective he sets the Soul upon the very threshold of Heaven but never further how with specious pretences promising peace and nothing but war safety and nothing but ship-wrackt Salvation and nothing but Damnation which that very Learned man being the Chariot-driver of this League now intended could never effectuate read his own words George Cassander his Legacie being himself ordered by the Emperour to compose the Quarrels of the Church Consultation p. 57. YEt I cannot deny but in the beginning that many out of a godly zeal and care were driven into a sharp and severe reproof of certain manifest abuses and the principal cause of this calamity of the Church is to be laid upon these who being puft up with a vain insolent conceit of their Ecclesiastical power proudly and scornfully rejected them who modestly admonish them for their Reformation Wherefore my opinion is That the Church can never hope for any firm peace unless the beginning which have been the cause of the distraction that is unless those which are in place of Ecclesiastical Government to remit something of these too much rigour and yield somewhat to the peace of the Church but above all to hearken to the Prayers and Admonitions of godly men and to correct manifest abuses according to the rule of Divine Scriptures yea of the Antient Church from which our Cardinals Prelates in Doctrine and Discipline have swerved This we present to your Majesty begging without partiality that ye would sift the Clergy-men those Asses who ride with Golden Bridles when Princes walk on foot from which we infer what peace when they have razed the Fundamentals can we expect for says another Bishops to the end that they might get Proselites the Pagans permitted them to intermingle many of their Superstitions with Christianity Clowis 1 Christian King sent a Crown of Gold to B. Hormisda 513. content that they should change the name of those false Deities into the blessed Martyrs it s ever proper to Errour to retain what has affinity with it self and forasmuch as that pagan people had extream veneration for their Prelates the same way did it tickle Apostatizing Ministers Nay we may take a further reflection look Tertullian in his Chapt. 7. for Christians Tell me where is your Religion where is that reverence due by you to your Fathers into whom ye are become exceeding unlike in your Habit in your course of life in your Manners in your Opinions and finally in your Language Ye still applaud Antiquity and yet engross Novelty as much as ye can deviate from the laudable institutions of our Ancestors ye retain that which is of no value stopping the Channels of life and streams of Salvation stopping the Ministers of Christ in discharge of their Message the Devil has sitten down upon that mans lips who would shut his Brothers But let us view that pious and judicious practice of the Bishop of Lincolne Robert Groasthead containing the Reasons of his Non conformity to Pope Innocent maintaining That hindring of Preaching is the sin next Devilism Paganism Antichristianism Mat. Par. Ann. 12.53 p. 871. Let 's yet take a look of the rise progress and success of those Ceremonies scattered amongst Reformed Churches Ann. 2007. was very fruitful for besides they retained many things that proceeded from the Jews the Pagans also incorporating themselves into the Christian Church intermingled various Pagan Rites having infinite number of Superstitions in their very ordinary converse Christians were promiscously conversant with them not only in the same City but in the same House at the same Table notwithstanding they resolve to be acknowledged for Christians and for the evidence of their Faith they introduced the sign of the Cross and forasmuch as it was judged ignominious Origen Hom 3. in Psal 39. Cypr. 1. de Haeret. Baptiz they formed that badge in their Foreheads going into or coming out of their Baths lying down in their beds and rising from their Tables they thus marked themselves yea Satan gains ground even upon account of Martyr dome very honourable and those who were prisoners for the truth by a frequent intercourse of Letters did maintain a correspondencie with the Church erroneous persons to purchase more credit to their Errours and Delinquents to cloak their knavery sollicited the Martyrs approbation they having influence by Letters interceded with the Church that they would admit such penitents into their Communion but sadly did they abuse the facile nature of the