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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	know_v	nature_n	revelation_n	1,266	5	9.3823	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36211	The Doctrine of the Catholick Church and of the Church of England concerning the blessed Trinity explained and asserted against the dangerous heterodoxes in a sermon by Dr. William Sherlock before my Lord Mayor and the court of aldermen.		1697 (1697)	Wing D1774; ESTC R1156	21,435	32

Church has nothing in it in the least unconceivable or mysterious viz. That the Godhead as St. Paul speaks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as St. John 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tabernacl'd and dwelleth in the Lord Christ Not as in Prophets occasionally and in measure but as the Soul in the Body viz. always enlightning and actuating him and exerting by him and in him the Divine Attributes Omnipotence and Omniscience so that 't is truly said God was made Man and the Lord Christ is God Yet not as Eutyches exceeded in the case so that God was changed into Man and the Humanity was Deified which besides that 't is blasphemous is also contradictory but so that the Terms used are to be interpreted by the Doctrine not the Doctrine by the Terms That is to say We believe that God is essentially Omni-present but dwelling in the Lord Christ as the Soul in the Body that is always inlightning and actuating him by an eternal indissoluble Vnion exerting also in him and by him the proper Characters of the Divinity Omniscience the Knowledg of the future and of the Thoughts c. and Omnipotence that is the Power of Miracles and of Creation as was seen in the case of the multiplied Loaves and Fishes therefore we rightly affirm a Communication of Idioms as to the terms Namely that in respect of such an Incarnation God became Man and the Lord Christ was true God I say there is nothing in these two Explications that is incomprehensible or mysterious there was no reason that F. Socinus or that very learned Person J. Crellius should cry Jargon and Mystery and as little that Catholick Writers should defend these Doctrines under the name of great Difficulties mysterious and inconceivable Articles There is nothing in them that can puzzle either a learned or a discerning Man nothing that shocks our Reason or to which any System of Philosophy yet known makes any opposition If what is intended in the Terms of these Articles is made intelligible nay obvious and if the Explication implies nothing contrary to Philosophy or Reason that is to experimental or to natural Knowledg I shall be glad to be taught why these Articles must be called Mysteries a name that offends so many and in which others so much delight both in my poor Judgment without Cause To his Answer unto the last Objection THE Second Objection is this To what purpose can such a Revelation serve or of what use can such a Faith be which is concerning things that we cannot understand or cannot comprehend I do not think any Sect of Religious ever made this Objection for how could it escape them that on the one side the Articles of Religion are not altogether inconceivable or unintelligible and that on the other hand there is scarce any thing in Nature or in Art that is altogether conceivable and intelligible But let us hear what the Preacher says upon it He says 1. We may use the World as fully and every thing in it to as good purpose as if we understood the Reasons and internal Natures of things No Trisler not so fully nor to so good purpose as if we better understood the Natures of things Nay we can make no use at all of it but only so far forth as we understand the Nature and Reasons of things in it We can use nothing to any purpose till we know or understand something of its Nature and no farther can we apply it and use it than we understand its Nature and know its Properties and Powers The matter is so plain I will dwell no longer upon it He says Lastly The lapsed State of Nature makes supernatural Knowledg necessary when Man had sinned he forfeited the Favour of God and his natural Immortality and the Light of Nature could not teach him how to make Atonement for Sin or give any hope that God would bestow Immortal Life True but not in the least to the purpose 't is no Answer to that Objection but to another namely to this why Revelation or a supernatural Knowledg is necessary or however highly requisite The Objection was concerning a Revelation and Faith not intelligible or not conceivable The Answer is only concerning Revelation or supernatural Knowledg in general why it was given to Men There is a great difference between supernaturally revealed and unconceivable the whole Christian Religion the Precepts as well as Faith of it is a supernatural Revelation and yet a System so intelligible that it must be taught to the Women to the Poor and even to little Children It was not made the matter of supernatural Revelation for its Difficulty Mysteriousness or Transcendency of the humane Understanding but to ascertain the Truth of it and to enforce its Authority in the World I have done with the Sermon and shall hope that such Apologists for the Articles of the Catholick Church as first corrupt those Articles by an Heretical Sense put on them and then betray them by a Defence partly false and partly weak will no more be incouraged to print as well as preach their Errors and Follies I know 't is an usual Civility of the Court especially to such Divines as are Dignified Doctors and Deans to desire them to print their Sermons I know too that some heard this Sermon and moved the printing of it who understood well the Heretical Aim of the Preacher and expected it would be answered by some or other that understood the Doctrine of the Church and how to defend it Notwithstanding it were better that treacherous Defences and false Representations of the Articles of our Faith might not be countenanced out of a dangerous Civility to the erroneous Person or Poison be sold and even cried about the Streets from an expectation of some good Antidote that may be found against it I mean that it might not be sold and cried about by direction of an Honourable Court only in compliment to the mere Station or Post in which Mr. Preacher happens to be As for him we know before-hand what his Defence will be the same that he always makes on this occasion as he has answer'd to the Oxford-Heads to Dr. S th and to the Author of A Judgment of the Controversy between Dr. S th and Dr. Sher-Iock that his Opposer is a Sabellian or a Socinian By which Insolencies and Falshoods he has at last so provok'd every body that the Charge of Socinianism is now brought home to himself and may it be left where 't is so well deserved and so truly imputed There is nothing more true than that his Sentiments about the Trinity are the same with those of Laelius Socinus V. Gentilis G. Blandrata J. Lismaninus and other Founders of Socinianism and that he can never defend the Unity of God on those Principles He will be led by a necessary Chain of Consequences to the Scheme of Faustus Socinus which is built on this Mistake common to him and Dr. Sherlock that Person and a particular