Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	able_a	holy_a	wise_a	2,457	5	5.8764	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27169	A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven.	Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.	1687 (1687)	Wing B1572; ESTC R20774	24,111	46

having read the Bible a Man can never think theirs to be that Worship in Spirit and in Truth which the Gospel appoints We dare not offer to Almighty God what is so like to be injurious to him and so unlike his own Institutions and have much greater Assurance to have our Sacrifice of Prayers and Praises accepted when according to Divine Appointment we offer it to God in the Name of his blessed Son The same holds also for vertuous living and Improvement in Goodness that their new Doctrines are rather Obstacles to than Helps towards it The great dependence upon Rome and the Papal Power hath made many of that Communion very ill Subjects and many more very cruel and uncharitable to all other Christians The making a whole State of Sin although known and persisted in yet to be a State of Pardon and Safety consistent with the Love of God the buying and Imputation of other Mens Merits and good Works the easy Purchase of many Indulgences the customary and frequent Absolutions for mortal Sins the Patronage of the greatest Saints to the greatest Sinners when they are their particular Votaries such prevailing Opinions as these abate much of the Necessity of a serious and speedy Repentance and earnest Pursuits after Sanctification and too much gratify the Corruptions of Men that are desirous to enjoy their Lusts and not lose the Hopes of Heaven So if Mixture of false and uncertain Propositions with their Faith if a Worship very corrupt and very superstitious and if Doctrines apt to betray Men to a careless and vicious Life if these can endanger humane Souls we cannot think them safe in the Church of Rome So far as they differ from us in their Additions to the Primitive Faith so far they are in danger We pronounce no Sentence and we pray Divine Mercy to pardon them that err in the Simplicity of their Heart But their Errors and suitable Practices may be the Ruine of many and our Charity can save none Blessed be God we are safer and have many Advantages for Comfort and for Holiness of which they are destitute Men of a timorous and a tender Conscience amongst them can never have a comfortable Knowledg and Assurance of their having confest all their Mortal Sins or all those Circumstances that alter the kind nor of the Intention of the Priest which is necessary to make effectual his Absolutions nor of the Validity of any Sacerdotal Ministrations and Consecrations all which depend upon sceret Intentions or Irregularities which may be incurr'd many ways and may proceed so far as to be irremediable of these which according to their Principles so much concerns their Happiness a thoughtful Man I say can never be so sure as to make him rejoyce in Hope and have a solid Peace And what a sad Prospect is it to them that think the Sufferings of this present Life so very grievous that after all their Pains and Charges to gain Pardons and Indulgences and Prayers for their Souls they can have no Assurance without a Miracle but that they shall lie hundred of Years in scorching Flames paying the Score of those temporal Punishments which were due to their Sins Besides the Uncomfortableness of these Roman Tenents they want in that Communion the Benefit of those Divine Instructions which were written for our Learning that we through Comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope That holy Word of God which giveth Light and Understanding to the Simple and is able to make us wise unto Salvation and to save our Souls if we believe the Blessed Author of it That Word in the Church of Rome is kept from the People lest it should make the Ways of God plain before their Faces and shew them what a mighty Change in the Christian Religion hath been made amongst them And that keeps the Vulgar in a State of Darkness and timorous Superstition and deprives them of those Spiritual Joys and Improvements which Divine Revelation would afford If any Book in the World can be truly pleasant and comfortable it is the Holy Bible wherein we see the infinite Wisdom and Power and Providence of God in the Creation and Government of the World and particularly in his Care for them that love and serve him The sacred History is so full of Comfort in all Changes of Humane Life the infinite Goodness and other Perfections of God are so clearly revealed in it that by reading thereof an attentive Christian in all his Afflictions is inspir'd with wise and good Thoughts and Courage and Firmness of Mind and a joyful dependence upon God Then the Mercies and Mysteries of our Redemption the Life and Death of our Blessed Saviour the Excellency of his Precepts and of the Sermons and Writings of his Apostles and the infinite Graciousness of his Promises These are so ravishing and so wonderful so apt to support our Spirits and to nourish our Hopes to give a good Man a fore-Taste of the Joys of Heaven and to bring us to the Likeness and the Sense of God's Love that nothing can give equal Comforts to Christians or any ways supply the Want of these It would be the greatest Wonder why any Church that believes the Old and New Testament to be the Book of God should forbid the reading of it but that the Contrariety betwixt their Traditions and those Divine Writings is very apparent to them that can consult and compare both That or nothing must excuse their Uncharitableness in taking the Divine Oracles from them for whose Consolation and Guidance they were appointed Again they want the Comfort and Instruction of God's publick Worship What Scriptures are read in the publick Assemblies of the Roman Communion are in the Latin Tongue by which the Understanding of the People is rendred unfruitful What Prayers and Supplications are put up to God are in the same Language they know not what is said and therefore cannot assent with their Hearts nor excite such devout Affections in their Souls as would recommend their common Requests to the Throne of Grace Neither are the Celebrations of the Divine Goodness understood they praise not God with joyful Lips And that pious Entercourse they should have with him in paying their Homage and presenting their Thanks and Petitions to his Divine Majesty being thus interrupted by their not understanding what is said they are deprived of one of the principal Means of Edification 'T is strange it should ever enter into the Hearts of Men to offer to God for a reasonable Service Words of which they know not the Signification And it renders ineffectual those Acts of Religion which should most affect and better the Hearts of Christian Worshippers and raise up their Thoughts and their Affections to Heaven From hence it is that we have more knowledg of God and more Understanding of the Christian Religion They amongst us that really believe Christianity and would make sure of the Happiness it offers by searching and meditating of the Holy Scriptures and