Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
head_n body_n church_n invisible_a 4,247 5 10.9779 5 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A34540 Rome in her fruits being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1662, near to the standard in Cheapside : in the which sermon the author sets up his standard in opposition to the fruits and practices of Rome, and likewise answers in brief a late pamphlet, entitled Reasons why Roman Catholicks should not be pe[r]s[e]cuted / by Richard Carpenter. Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? 1663 (1663) Wing C626; ESTC R5572 26,955 38

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

Faithful out of which no person is saved and you understand by the Church yea by the universal Church the Church of Rome and when you argue against them as followeth Shall we give away Salvation a most holy Thing to persons destitute of habitual Grace Or is habitual Grace given out of the true Church of God united in one Lord one Faith except in the vertue of the Church as in the baptizing of Infants or others amongst Hereticks or Infidels Then to be of the Church or not of the Church is of the same composure fabrick mineral and mettal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Uno Absurdo dato vel concesso If we grant or sign a passe to one Absurdity Schollars know the Catastrophy and what follows by necessary Concatenation This Answer evacuats also his fourth and fifth Reasons In his sixth Reason he runs wide of his matter and there is a palpable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Transition to a different kind of Things from the Thing in question That the Duke of Saxony with his Lutherans and the Emperour Head of the Papists in Germany better agree than either of them with Calvinists is not our Businesse because they are branched into several Governments whereas the Protestants and Papists are here incorporated under one Prince And his Instance in Hugonotes is also absurd and absonous the Hugonotes of France being Calvinists and the Agreement being there sinewed because the Kings of France have experienced the Hugonotes to be better Subjects than their own Popish-ones Marshal Turin General of the French King's Horse is a most Honourable Example When we break our limits that should bound our Discourse it signifies we have almost done all within our Bounds that Gen. 3. 1. we can do When the Text sayes Now the Serpent was more subtil Aquila descends to the Root and affords 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more pragmatical more over-acting and Plato's A 〈…〉 la Plato in Menexeno 2 Cor. 11. 3. word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used by the Apostle and signifies Craft that treads all ways and tryes all works to do mischief Note with me that here in the beginning of Genesis the first Book of holy Scripture the Serpent into which the Devil ent●ed hath his Name à Serpendo from creeping he was but a Creeper when he first began to plot against us rhis being the first mention of the Devil in Scripture Now the Serpent is in the length of Time grown into a Dragon and he grew apace after the Monks and Jesuits came into the World such we find him in the last Book of Scripture the Revelation Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon Rev●● 12. ● The Tayl of which Dragon is now in England in C●rculum retorta where it lyes in a circle round about us St. Epiphanius teaches That the Devil is called in Scripture by S. E●●ph 〈◊〉 in E 〈…〉 the Name of a Serpent because the Serpent is omnium Animantium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most winding and turning of all living creatures and that he winds himself into circles and knots and hath nothing of right and straight or of innocent candour He is called by Theodoret 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 altogether wicked Theodoret. lib. 1. Hist cap. 2. Your out-walkings windings and insinuations are now the Devil being grown to a Dragon most dangerous I could speak to the seventh Reason but it concerns Raggione di Stato Reasons of State which are above me His eighth Reason presses a Belief upon us That the Roman-Catholick is an enemy to Innovation and propitious to Monarchy and that his Faith leads him to a strict obedience These things are gloriously said but as St. Justine writeth S. Just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 se● Cohort ad Graecos Gentiles to the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christian Religion is practical and consists in works not in words I am half-perswaded that here the Author of the Reasons mocks and scoffs at the Romanist● Aquinas his Doctrine restored by Bellarmine in his Question Utrùm Imago Christi sit adoranda adoratione Latriae where he resolves That the Image of Christ or a Crucifix may be adored with the adoration of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being a worship due to God alone is it not an Innovation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him only shalt thou serve with the service of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I charge you only with your most grosse Innovations D. Tho. p. 3. q. 25. a●t 3. If ye be enemies to Innovation why is not this Doctrine thrown out and condemned Is it not an Innovation of which Nicolaus Lyra mournfully complaineth Aliquandò Matth. 4 10 in Ecclesiâ fit maxima deceptio populi in Miraculis factis à Sacerdotibus vel eis adhaerentibus proptet lucrum Sometimes the people are very greatly deluded in the Church Nic. Lyr. Comment in cap. 14. Dan. secundùm Edit Vulgat by forged Miracles the Priests or their Adherents forging them for gain Is it not an other Innovation of which irrefragable Alexander Hales treateth in sad terms In Sacramento Alex. Halens part 4. quaest 53. Memb 4. Art 3. Solut. 2. apparet Caro interdùm humanâ procuratione interdùm operatione Diabolicâ Flesh appears in the Sacrament sometimes by humane procuration and sometimes by Diabolical ●perati● I could name a thousand of these When you urge That you are pr●pi●ious to Monarchy the word pr●pitious is ill-plac'd Propitiousnesse is of a Superiour to an In●eriour as Oratio est Inferio is Prayer is of an Inferi●ur to a Superiour Deus esto propitius cryes the Publican God be proptious to me a sinner Mona●chs and Monarchy are very much engaged to you that you are propitious to them In good sooth you honour Monarchy in order to your Pope and his Supporters as appears by these your Arguments St. Thomas his Ground is irresistible Deus omnibus providet secundùm quod competit eorum naturae God provides for all things agreeably to their natures D. Tho. p. 1. q. 1. art 9. in Corp. The Church m●litant is partly visible and invisible partly Visible in respect of our persons and Bodies and in regard of our Souls invisible Why then as she hath a Head invisible ought she not to have likewise a visible Head homogeneous with her visible condition And whereas according to Heaven-born Divinity Praedestinatio est pars nobilissisima divinae providentiae Predestinat●on is the most noble p●rt of divine providence excellently dealing and disposing concerning the last and ul●imate end of God's people If Monarchy be the Government of Heaven and also the secur●st and most peace-preserving Form upon Earth why should it be disanull'd in and abrogated from the Church which is the most noble and most excellent Convocation conjunction and society of people upon Earth and the society without the Steerige of which we cannot arrive at our last End The Ground-Axioms are also most noble The one is mansion'd within the