Selected quad for the lemma: reason_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	divine_a	faith_n	revelation_n	3,413	5	9.3938	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91744	The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls Church, London, Octob. 28. / By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to the Kings Majesty. Printed by the order of the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1263; Thomason E1048_2; ESTC R203481	17,874	45

by challenges and duels or by any other way of rashness and wickedness expose their lives unto danger of ruine or on the other side do so pamper nature and indulge to their sensual appetites as propter vitam vivendi perdere causas and have their souls only for salt to keep alive their bodies and to serve for no other purpose Who use the gifts of God against the giver of them and have their wisdom power wit learning wealth interests only as a Panoply of Satan Luke 11. 22. to fight his battles against God and his Church as Achitophel used his wisdome against David and Tertullus his Oratory against Paul and Jeroboam his power against the Prophet and the Scribes and Pharisees their learning against Christ and Libanius Lucian Porphyry Celsus and other proud Philosophers their wits and pens against Christian Religion Here then offers it self a weighty and serious question to be resolved namely when doth a man act as if he were His own and as if he had the Original Propriety and plenary possession and Dominion over Himself In the general I answer when a man doth exempt himself from all superior jurisdiction will be subordinate unto none and from all brotherly Communion will be co-ordinate unto none will neither live to the glory of God above him or the use and benefit of his brethren about him will be as it were alone Isa. 5. 8. And as if he had a kind of Deity and sufficiency within himself as Tyrus said I am a God I fit in the seat of God and did set her heart as the heart of God Ezek. 28. 2. And as Nebuchadnezar said Is not this Babylon the great that I have built for the house of my kingdom and for the honour of my Majesty Dan. 4. 30. And as Pharoah Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go Exod. 5. 2. But more particularly we shall resolve this question in four propositions A man then acteth and liveth as if he were His Own and in his own disposal 1. When he maketh his own Reason his supreme Rule by which to work 2. When he maketh his Own Will His chief Law and Authority therein 3. When he maketh his own Interest His ultimate end in working 4. When he maketh His own performances the principal ground of all his hopes 1. When a man makes his own Reason his supreme Rule resolving as Joroboam did to follow what his own heart hath devised and contrived 1 Reg. 12. 33. Reason indeed is the candle of the Lord Prov. 20. 27. But what is a Candle to the Sun-beam unto which the Apostle compareth the Gospel Rom. 10. 18. The Lord will have no disputing or replying against Him Rom. 9. 20. But will have humane Reason strike sail and captivate it self to the Word of God For stating of this point we are to distinguish between carnal Reason and right Reason Carnal reason or Reason darkened and corrupted by the Original pravity which cleaveth unto it is Enmity against God and neither is nor can be subject unto him Rom. 8. 7. It is that which the Apostle calleth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Imaginations High Things Thoughts Reasonings 2 Cor. 10. 5. By the help whereof it is that men do so argue and dispute in defence of those lusts which they are loth to part with or be convinced of a notable example whereof we have in Saul 1 Sam. 15. 15. 20. 21. Right Reason may be considered either with relation to the Law or to the Gospel With relation to the Law so we acknowledge that it being the remainder of the Image of God in the mind of man it is in things moral though short of the Word yet consonant unto it It is short of it for the Apostle had never known concupiscence to be sin if the Law had not forbidden it Rom. 7. 7. And if Reason in Morals those we mean which were natural and concreated had not been dimmed and defaced there would not have been any need in that respect of the publication of the Law which was promulgated that thereby we might know sin Rom. 3. 10. Nay after the Law was published the Apostle till his conversion had not the full knowledge of the spiritual nature and wideness of it as after he had Rom. 7. 9. Phil. 3. 6. The Law is perfect and spiritual Reason is not Yet withal it is consonant to the Word and therefore the Apostle in some cases appeals to nature and bids us Judge within our selves and tells us that they who have not the Law are a Law unto themselves 1 Cor. 11. 13 14. Rom. 2. 14. And saith of the sinne of the incestuous person that it was not so much as named among the Gentiles 1 Cor. 5. 1. There is a a natural {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or habit of practical Principles ingrafted notions of original light which the mind doth most readily assent unto Called Natural knowledge Jude v. 10. And the knowledge of God in the heathen which makes them without excuse Rom. 1. 20. With Relation to the Gospel so we say that the Mysteries of Christian Religion though they be not against Reason are yet above Reason They are not b against it therefore our Saviour proves the Resurrection by the Power of God And in like manner the Apostle Mat. 22. 29. Acts 26. 8. Yet they are Above it for eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2. 9. Therefore it is every where known by the name of a Mystery and hidden Mystery Ephes. 3. 9. Col. 1. 26. A mystery which flesh and blood hath not revealed but the Spirit of God Mat. 16. 17. Evangelical Doctrines of faith are not comprehended nor virtually comprized in the seeds of natural reason but made known only by divine and supernatural revelation Lastly Though Reason is not able to discover Evangelical Mysteries yet the Revelation of them being supposed it is an excellent Instrument to make use thereof and to deduce such consequences from the Principles of the Gospel as have a natural clear connexion unto them and therefore the Apostle calleth Evangelical Teaching {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A Demonstration Conviction Manifestation of the Truth 1 Cor. 2. 4. John 16. 8. 2 Cor. 4. 2. All which are acts or ways of clear Ratiocination For as nature standeth in need of grace to elevate the faculty and give it a spiritual perception of things which are above it so Grace useth nature and the perspicacy and Acumen thereof to make the more clear discoveries of those Truths which are revealed We see the state of that habitude and degree wherein Reason stands with relation to Law or Gospel