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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	faith_n	holy_a	rule_n	12,074	5	7.1699	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62625	The spirit of popery tryed, whether it be of God a sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, upon the fifth of November, 1699 / by the Right Reverend Father in God William, Lord Bishop of Oxon.	Talbot, William, 1658 or 9-1730.	1699 (1699)	Wing T126; ESTC R33894	14,395	26

making the Predicate to refer to his Offices as the Messias and not to his Incarnation which is supposed in the Subject And this Interpretation is not only agreeable to the Original but to many parallel Places where St. John expresly makes the Predicate the Christ and to the general Sense of Commentators upon this Place Now it 's known that Christ signifies Anointed and that Jesus is so called with relation to his Offices The Ceremony of Anointing with material Oil has been anciently very usual in the designation of Persons to the Offices of Prophet Priest and King And our Lord Jesus being to take upon him those three great Offices For Moses foretold of him A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up Deut. 18.16 And the Psalmist Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedek Bsal 110.4 I have set my King upon my Holy Hill of Sion Psal 2.6 He being to execute those Offices was Anointed thereto with the Holy Ghost and with Power and for that reason is called The Christ Or The Anointed By virtue of his first his Prophetical Office he was to reveal to us and instruct us in the whole Will of his Father so Moses predicted of him in the forecited Place he shall be like unto me and him shall ye hear in all things And we read in Heb. 3.2 that he was faithful as Moses was faithful in all his House And he himself tells his Father Joh. 17. that he had finished the Work he gave him to do had manifested his Name to Men 4 and 6 and in the 8th Verse the Words which thou gavest me I have given them and they have received them By virtue of his second his Priestly Office he was to offer Sacrifice and intercede for us The former of which he did upon the Cross when as the Apostle in Heb. 9.14 says he offered himself through the Eternal Spirit without spot to God And that Offering he tells us was to be but once made in several places of that and the following Chapter and gives Reasons for it First because it could not be oftner made for then he must often have suffered Chap. 9.26 And secondly because it was needless to be repeated for he had by that one Offering perfected for ever them that were sanctified Chap. 10.14 As to the other part of his Priestly Office that of interceeding for us the same holy Pen-man tells us Chap. 7.25 that he ever lives to make Intercession for us And Rom. 8.24 Christ is at the right hand of God and maketh Intercession for us and there is but one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 By virtue of his third his Kingly Office he was to rule and govern his Church as Head thereof to prescribe and give Laws to her So St. Paul Eph. 5.23 24. Christ is the Head of the Church and the Church is subject unto Christ And Col. 1.18 He is the head of the Body the Church that in all things he might have the pre-eminence And St. James tells us in his fourth Chapter that he is that one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy We have now seen why Jesus is called the Christ or the Anointed and what he does in virtue of those Offices he was anointed to Let us than examine how the Doctrines and Practices imposed by the Church of Rome comport with this Account which the Scriptures give of Christ and his Offices And here it is obvious at the first View that his first his Prophetical Office by which he was to reveal to us the whole Will of God is struck at by those Doctrines of theirs which assert that the Holy Scriptures in which he has discovered that Will are not a perfect Rule of Faith that the Holy Scriptures in which he has discovered that Will are not a perfect Rule of Faith that the sense of them is not clear and perspicuous but dark and uncertain that they are like a Nose of Wax or leaden Rule liable to be turn'd and bent any way and therefore are to be pieced out with the addition of Traditions and not to be read or received without the Expositions of the Church for what kind of a Prophet or Teacher is that who hath neither reveal'd to us all that it was necessary for us to know nor clearly explain'd what he has reveal'd And as to his second his Priestly Office by which he was to sacrifice and interceed for us how is that affronted by their frequent Sacrifices of the Mass which they assert to be true proper propitiatory Sacrifices for the sins and wants of the Dead and of the Living and by those multitudes of Intercessors the Virgin Mary and other Saints whom they join with or as one would be tempted by their Practice to judge preferr before him Which must necessarily argue that he has neither fully satisfied nor does effectually intercede for us for if he had compleatly satisfied or did sufficiently intercede what need of other Sacrifices or other Intercessors to be added to him but if he has not fully satisfied nor does effectually intercede what sort of a Priest or Mediator will they make of him Touching his third his Kingly Office by which he was to rule his Church as Head thereof and to give Laws to her We know who he is that assumes to himself the Title of Head of his Church and who they are that have pretended to a Power of dispensing with his Laws their own Council of Constance will inform us which tho' it freely confesses that our Saviour and King instituted the Sacrament in both kinds has yet with a non obstante to the Institution declared it should be given to the Laity but in one And then since they have in all these Instances given too plain proof that they believe our Lord Jesus has not sufficiently discharged those Offices which belong to the Christ they must not blame me but St. John if I conclude that their Spirits their Religion is not of God for it is his Assertion that every Spirit that confesses not that Jesus is the Christ is not of God 2. The Religion taught and profess'd in the Church of Rome is in a great measure contrary to the Nature and Design of the Christian Religion As for the Nature of the Christian Religion it was manly spiritual plain not made up of those Rudiments and beggarly Elements by which as by a School-Master the Jew being but a Child was to be tutor'd and led to Christ not clothed with that multitude of outward Observances nor adorn'd with that gaudy Pageantry and Shew with which the Mosaical Dispensation was But now let any one look into the Church of Rome view 〈…〉 ●ultiplicity of Ceremonies and Shadows the variety of 〈…〉 their frequent Crosses Burnings Sprinklings c. 〈…〉 ●ord how their Religion is almost wholly made of onew and Pageantry and let him tell me whether the outward Circumstances have not eaten up the