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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	jesus_n	sin_n	17,300	5	4.7228	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60471	The designed end to the Socinian controversy, or, A rational and plain discourse to prove, that no other person but the Father of Christ is God most high by John Smith.	Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680.	1695 (1695)	Wing S4103; ESTC R15169	29,912	68

of a Trinity make me a more merciful and righteous Man than I shall be if I did profess the contrary Will it make me love and honour God better Will it make the Service which I render to his Divine Majesty a more reasonable Service And if on serious Consideration you find it will not then 't is plain that the Unitarian Faith which denies a Trinity of Persons in the Godhead is much to be preferr'd since 't is not perplex'd with such Contradictions to humane Understanding but depends on more plain and noble Evidences and does also in all Respects whatsoever effectually secure a good Life which when all is done is the very Soul and Life of Religion and will stand by a Man when Hypostatical Vnions and Mutual Consciousness and Somewhats will prove but poor things to depend upon for Salvation There can be no Danger of Damnation for not assenting to such mysterious Notions as Men can at no tolerable rate understand such as is that of the Doctrine of a Trinity which makes the Divine Power of the Godhead to reside in three distinct Persons whose Constitution is like that of a free State rather than the more Divine Government of a single Monarchy if in the mean time they believe heartily the plain Doctrine revealed in God's Word and live up truly to the undoubted Precepts which the Christian Religion commands which I am certain does no where say that unless ye believe that three Persons are truly God ye shall certainly be damn'd Salvation and the Belief of the Trinity not inconsistent 'T is objected as dangerous to believe the Doctrine of God's being but one in Person because we should hereby as much as in us lies exclude from Salvation all those pious and just Men who in former Ages have liv'd and died in the Belief of a Trinity I answer The Wisdom of the Unitarian Doctrine never was so uncharitable as to suppose this yet doubtless the Belief of a Trinity must needs much lessen their future Happiness though not wholly debar them of Salvation And therefore to persist therein after due Admonition especially is very imprudent and dangerous 'T is plain that though those who believe a Trinity do believe more than either God or Christ do require as necessary to Salvation yet together or therewith many Persons do also believe all the chief Fundamentals in Religion that are requisite to save them and therefore their Hope and Trust in God's Mercy on one Hand may out-ballance their Error on the other If God winked at the Ignorance of the vertuous Gentiles how can we imagine that he should not be gracious to the heedless and unwitting Errors of the humble and contrite-hearted Christian If any Man saith the Apostle build on the Foundation Hay and Straw and Stubble that is Doctrine that will not stand the Test of Truth he shall suffer Loss yet he himself shall be saved but so as by Fire 1 Cor. 3. 15. that is with great Difficulty he shall escape Damnation If God should be extream to mark what is done amiss no Man could stand in Judgment before him as it is in Psal 143. 2. 130. 3. All Salvation is of the free Grace and Mercy of God who pardons Iniquity Transgression and Sin Exod. 34. 7. A good Life will make great Abatements upon the account of a bad Faith Mercy rejoiceth against Judgment Jam. 2. 13. and Charity shall cover a multitude of Sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. But though 't is possible for a Man to be saved in this Faith who otherwise has lived well yet 't will doubtless much lessen his future Happiness for Error of any kind is the fruitful Parent of many Mischiefs it betrays us into Absurdities and involves us in many unwarrantable Words and Actions As our Faith is so will our Practice be apt to be and consequently Error in one respect or other will be apt to make Mens Lives less innocent and the less innocent our Actions are the less doubtless will our Reward hereafter be For the eternal Glories compar'd to that of the Sun and Moon and Stars 1 Cor. 15. will be in proportion to the Degrees of our Christian Perfection They therefore whose Religion is such only as will but just preserve them from Damnation must not expect so large a share of the Divine Recompences as by God's Grace is due to the inlarged Capacity of the more exactly knowing and undefiled Soul But notwithstanding what has been said on the Behalf of those otherwise good Livers who have not been ignorant of the Truth merely out of Malice and Design I add that in case Men of false Principles are told plainly that they are in the wrong and yet they still do obstinately persist therein and refuse to consider seriously the Arguments both of Scripture and Reason that are offered to convince them I see not how in any case 't is possible for such to be saved for this is truly and plainly to reject the Counsel of God and to do Despite to the Spirit of Grace By what Nature the World was redeemed When Men have argued whatever they can about the Necessity of Christ his being truly God that so the Sacrifice he offered might be of Merit sufficient to answer the Demands of God's most Infinite Justice yet after all it must be acknowledged that our Peace was made with God only by the holy Life and Death of an humane Person for nothing that is truly God can die or shed Blood but 't is by Blood even the Blood of a dying Jesus that we are cleansed from all Sin 1 Joh. 1. 7. And this his Death for our Redemption is an undeniable Instance to prove that his Person was truly humane Christ Jesus our Lord was undoubtedly filled with the Divine Spirit for in him dwelt the Fulness of the Godhead but this did not make him God any more than a Believer shall be made God by receiving of his Fulness Joh. 1. 16. or by being Partaker of the Divine Nature promised to such 2 Pet. 1. 4. It only fitted him for the Work of Redemption he by that eminent Inhabitation of the Divine Spirit became able to surmount all Temptations to Sin and 't was only the underfiled Obedience of his Life even unto Death that made the Sacrifice which he offered unto God acceptable The Blood that was shed to manifest the intire Obedience of Jesus unto God was no other than the Blood of a most holy and excellent Man 't was not the Blood of God as some Men rashly do affirm On the Cross he that thus died cried out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Now for him to be God that thus prayed to God is I think impossible Wherefore 't is evident that he who thus died was not a true Deity and yet 't was by him that died that the World was redeemed for which blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath thus visited and redeemed his People and hath raised up a