Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	apostle_n	believe_v	tradition_n	2,485	5	9.1706	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15075	Truth and error discouered in two sermons in St Maries in Oxford. By Antony White Master of Arts of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.	White, Anthony, 1588 or 9-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 25376; ESTC S119899	33,437	64

inference be nakedly layd downe the articles of our doctrine and the tenents of the Romish Church it were not possible but he should admire the sweet consent which our religion hath with Gods word and he would more then wonder from whence all the rest were fetcht and would conclude that if what they teach in many points be true there hath crept into the world a new Gospell whereof no footsteps in the many writings of the holy Prophets and Apostles doe appeare These additaments are stiled sacred traditions but by what chaine were they let downe from heauen Or how can their necessary vse by prudent hearted christians bee embraced when they are already bound to beleiue 2 Tim. 3.15.16.17 that the Scriptures are able to make vs wise vnto saluation as Saint Paul saith and that they are of sufficiency for all those things whereby the man of God may be perfectly furnished to euery good worke men may bee wise aboue that which is written but then they are wise aboue sobriety for it is a luxury in religion to desire more then what will instruct vs to every good worke here and fit vs for eternall saluation hereafter But here wee must goe one step farther to quit that obiection which good soules doe many times make against their owne good for they willingly granting that God hath made the scripture a perfect register of his will and that it is a great contentment to man that God himselfe is become his teacher by whom if he bee deceiued he may say as he of old Rich. de So vict Si erròr è Domine a te decepti sumus if I am in an error thy word hath deceiued me yet how shall these writings bee vnderstood by vs For wee heare many and those none of the meanest clerkes complaining of the great obscurity to be found in that booke and how shall wee Puisnes and Pigmes in comparison of others reach to the sence thereof buy the truth we would but it is somewhat aboue the proportion of our states and abilities to this I can giue no better answere but doe yee with humble diligence and teachable affections read ouer this heauenly booke and you will answere your selues for doubtlesse you shall finde many easy places therein and those will incourage you to read the rest Euen this writing of Solomon though it containe parables high enough for the most reaching vnderstanding yet withall it certifies vs in the very* entrance that they are framed to giue subtilty to the simple Prov. 1.4 and to the young man knowledge and discretion and will the spirit faile of the end proposed Experience will teach vs otherwife for howsoeuer we shall meete in scriptures with some of those depths wherein Eiephants may swimme and if they will bee too curiously and presumptuously venturing be drowned too yet we shall also light vpon exceeding many foords and those streaming likewise with the waters of life wherein those that are yet but lambes may wade and be refreshed admirable is the temper of holy scriptures as the Author thereof takes care of all and is rich to all that call vpon him as speakes the Apostle Rom. 10.12 so is the stile thereof disposed and bending towards all that approach with reuerence it so exerciseth the wits of the most learned as that it satisfieth the desires of the most ignorant God is the Father and lord of vs all and he speakes as becometh both those titles for hauing differing children and seruants and having commandes for all of them he must needs attemper his speech to each seuerall capacity that euery one may know his duty in the place hee holds vnder him Vide Vivem de verit fidei lib. 2. cap de virtutibus evangelii Howsoeuer then the olde Philosophers savouring of the heathenish envy and pride and mindeing onely the benefit of a few professe they will write obscurely and to the most as good as if they wrote not at all Arist epist ad Alexandrum de libris phyfic auscult witnesse the epistle of Airistotle to his greatest scholler yet to conceiue so of God the author of mankind aswell as of the Bible were the impeachment of his wisdome and goodnesse for what shall he be the God onely of vniversities shall the witty onely ingrosse him No 1. Reg. 20.28 doubtlesse hee is a God of the* vallies as well as of the mountaines the showres of his gratious pleasures shall equally descend on both there are in euery corner of his family soules sicke and to be cured hungry and to be fed naked and to be clothed lost and to be found and therefore there is doubtlesse in his word that medicine meat succor saluation that shall bee fit for all there is a spirituall market where all may buy but heere is the folly we are many of vs lazy and then lay our sloth vpon obscurity of scriptures and some of vs it may bee drunke with inordinate affections and then like drundards though the way bee broad and plaine inough yet we find fault with the narrownesse vneuennesse yea by the abuse of our selues and the word of God instead of buying his truth wee purchase that his grieuous iudgement that seeing wee shall not see and hearing wee shall not vnderstand that so that of the Apostle may bee verified Mat. 13.14 2 Cor. 4.4 if the Gospell bee hid it is hid vnto them that perish in whom the God of this world hath blinded their mindes that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ should not shine vnto them Much fault may bee in our selues that wee misse of so rich a bargaine as truth but came wee with honest mindes to the word we should finde that though many hard things therein surpasse our vnderstanding yet if we practise but so many duties of piety and embrace so many articles of faith which wee may clearely vnderstand there will remaine of easy lessons such store as shall serue to the attainment of eternall life Thus haue wee layd downe the prime and master direction how to descerne falshood from that heauenly truth which we would buy shewing that nothing is to be retained as necessary to the true worship of God which beares not conformity to his will whereof the letters patents are the holy scriptures but further because in the ware it selfe which we would get into our hand there are found certaine proper qualities or characters whereby it may be distinctly knowne from sophisticate falshoods it will not be impertinent to admonish somewhat herein The first innate property of this truth is that it is alway one and the same euen as God himselfe the parent thereof is in whom is no variablenesse or shadowe of turning saith St Iames Iac. 1.17 Eph. 4.5 as one Lord so one faith is St Paules doctrine to imagine that diuers and contrary traditions in religion may be true is to bring in a plurality of Gods For the one and simple vnderstanding