Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	article_n	believe_v	creed_n	2,820	5	10.5298	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15510	A direction to be observed by N.N. if hee meane to proceede in answering the booke intituled Mercy and truth, or charity maintained by Catholiks &c.	Knott, Edward, 1582-1656.	1636 (1636)	STC 25777; ESTC S101801	13,980	42

fearfull names of Priests and Altars Nay if one doe but mutter against the placing of the Altar after the old fashion for a warning he shall be well warmed by (b) A little Treatise so intituled printed An. 1636. a Coale from the Altar English Protestants are now put in (c) Sunday no Sabbath A Sermon printed An. 1636. pag. 38. minde that for exposition of Scripture by (d) Lib. Can. An. 1571. Can. 19. Canon they are bound to follow the ancient Fathers which if they doe with sinceritie euery learned Protestant Diuine who makes a conscience to belie his owne knowledge can tell what doome will passe against Protestancie euen by confession of Protestants themselues as the Answerer once anouched as shall appeare hereafter Chap. 5. n. 6. and this being only a matter of fact and requiring no more then reading and vnderstanding the toungs wherein the Fathers wrote or the Translations of their Works he cannot in morall honestie and therefore I hope will not gainsay his own words nor can be thought to speake sincerely if hee should forcedly now retract what then he freely wrote And I know that to some Protestants hee so cleerely demonstrated the Fathers to bee on our side that they remained conuineed and haue vpon occasion acknowledged no lesse But let vs goe on The foure prime Protestant Church-Chroniclers who pretend to deduce a succession of the true Church the Centurists I meane are without ceremonle demanded in a particular occasion with what face dare they vente such vntruths and with what conscience dare they (e) Sunday no Sabbath pag. 12. forge c. their bad carriage towards the ancient Fathers is displayd and for a generall Censure they are told that Their credit is eclipsed and their testimonie abated by their (f) Ibid. pag. 10. doings And to conclude all in one maine point The Protestant Church in England willingly professeth so small Antiquitie and so weake subsistance in it selfe that they acknowledge no other visible being for many Ages but in the Church of Rome Which position drawne from them by meere necessitie must force them to yeeld that the Roman Church doth not erre in any point necessarie to Saluation vnlesse they haue a minde to bee telling the world that in their owne Church for many Ages none could be saued They must therefore bee still content to heare vs tell them againe and againe this most necessary truth You cannot bee saued vnlesse you belieue that wee in our Church are capable of saluation but wee neither doe nor can yeelde that Protestancie is compatible with eternall happinesse For to allow saluation for men disagreeing in Faith Religion and Communion is one of the greatest absurdities in Turoisme or Socinianisme and is but disguised Atheisme Wee then are safe by your owne confession but you cannot bee so without repentance and reunion to our Church Besides if our Church enioyed all things necessary to Saluation how can Protestants bee excused from the grieuous sinne of formall Schisme who separated from that Church for points confessedly not necessary to saluation Yea how are they not guilty of Schisme who forsooke that Church which before Luther was only true Church if our Sauiour Christ had any visible Church vpon earth And what heighth of dangerous madnes is it to leaue a Church which cannot erre in points necessarie to Saluation and ioyne in beliefe and Communion with priuate persons who may deceaue and be deceaued euen in fundamentall articles of Faith And I would gladly know with what visible Church existing before Luther did hee ioyne when vpon pretence of Reformation hee departed from all Churches extant when hee first appeared and consequently how can hee auoide the iust imputation of Schisme But I will not vrge these points here refering my selfe to what hath beene said in Charitie maintained and euen to what will appeare in those very Motiues which induced the Answerer himselfe to leaue Protestatisme and afterward being resolued not to remaine Catholicke as not conducing to his temporall ends hee finally plunged himselfe in Socinianisme seeing full well that his owne Motiues could not bee answered in the grounds of Protestants But it is time to returne and shew that I spoke not without ground in accusing Socinians in generall of such vnchristian doctrines as you haue heard since you will see my word made good in particular Tenets of one of them which at this fit occasion came to my hands and I willingly impart them to the Reader as they were giuen me yet so as in charitie I conceale the partie taxed with them no otherwise then I forbeare to publish the name of the Answearer If guiltinesse driue any one to aske (g) Math. c. 26. v. 25. Nunquid ego sum Rabbi Maister am I he And that hee chance to be answered (h) Ibid. Tu dixisti Thou hast said so the blame and shame must rest on himselfe alone who alone would be discouering himselfe CHAP. III. Diuerse enormous Heresies maintained by a certaine Socinian contrary either to the 39. Articles of the Church of England or to the Faith of all Christians 1. THat the Sonne of God is not begotten from euerlasting of the Father is not very and eternall God of one substance with the Father and that two whole and perfect natures were not ioyned in one person Cont. Art 2. 2. That Christ did not ascend into Heauen in his Bodie with Flesh Bones and all things appertaining to the perfection of mans nature Cont. Art 4. 3. That the Holy Ghost doth not proceede from the Father and the Sonne nor is of one substance with the Father and the Sonne true and eternall God Cont. Art 5. 4. That all the Books of the Old and New Testament as they are commonly receaued are not equall in the authoritie and infallibility of holy Scripture Cont. Art 6. 5. That the three Creeds ought not throughly to bee receaued and belieued for that they may be disproued by most certaine warrants of holy Scripture and that among other falshoods in the Creed of Saint Athanasius this is one that if a man disbelieue any part of that Creed without doubt hee shall perish euerlastingly That the Apostles Creed is no certaine and authenticall Tradition and that the Article of Holy Catholicke Church is not necessarily to be belieued Cont. Art 8. 6. That Originall sinue is not the fault and corruption of the nature of euery man nor deserues Gods wrath and damnation Cont. Art 9. 7. That any man may bee saued by the Law or Sects which hee professeth so that hee bee diligent to frame his life according to that Law and the light of Nature Cont. Art 18. 8. That the Church hath no authority in Coutrouersies of Faith to oblige any mans conscience Cont. Art 20. 9. That the Sacraments bee only Badges or Tokens of Christian mens profession Cont. Art 25.27 And that they bee not necessary to saluation Cont. Catechism Protestant Anglie 10. That the