Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	inspire_v	2,844	5	10.2489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04918	An admonition or vvarning that the faithful Christia[n]s in London, Newcastel Barwycke [and] others, may auoide Gods vengeau[n]ce bothe in thys life and in the life to come. Compyled by the seruaunt of God John Knox ...	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059; ESTC S106336	31,856	80

would say Thou hast put thy trust in them which he meaneth by the liyng with thē in bedde and therfore let them 〈◊〉 theyr power in thy deliueraunce and thus he sendeth theim as it were to such water from hate burning coles It shal nothing 〈◊〉 vs to say we trust not in Idols for so wil euery Idolator alledge But if either you or thei in Gods honour do any thynge contrary to Gods worde you shewe your selfe to put your truste in somewhat elce besides God ant so are 〈◊〉 Idolators Marke brethren that many make an Idol of theyr owne wisedome or fantasaye more trustinge to that whith thei thinke good then vnto God who plainlye sayth not that thig which semeth good in thine eies do vnto thy God But what thi lord God hath commaunded the But of this some other time God willynge more shalbe spoken Hereof I suppose it be playne that like as GOD is immutable who by his lawe hath not onely forbidden al felowship with Idolators in their Idolatrye but also hath commaunded that 〈◊〉 and punishment be taken vpon them And as the saintes of God were inspired with the holye gost who would not so much as once fauourably speake of Idols And last as the scriptures be infallible whiche pronounceth that God maye not abide that our bodies serue the deuyll in ioyning our bodyes with Idolatri So is it of mere necessitie that bothe in hodye and soule we 〈◊〉 from the same if we will haue the leage betwene God and 〈◊〉 to stand sure I wil not trouble this time with an swering to any such obicctions as mē sekinge to liue as thei list do nowe a daies inuent seing that partly in another letter I haue answered the same And if God shall graunt anye rest in this wiked life I purpose bi the grace of God as occasion shall bee offered fully to answere what can be sayd for their defence which in veri dedewhā al is sayd that thei can thei haue sayd nothing that God wil admit Now resteth to shewe that inhaūting Idolatrye we declare our selues to be without fayth and do denye to beare witnesse vnto God But that faith perseth the heart I trust none of you wil denie But whether that inward faith reqvireth an ecsternal confession and if a man mane not have faith and yet do in Ceremon 〈◊〉 of the church as the world doth Herein per●… ye doubt As to the first the 〈◊〉 aunswereth in these wordes In the heart it is 〈◊〉 vnto 〈◊〉 but by the mouth is co●…fession to saluation And Dauid saith I haue beleued and therfore haue I spoken but I was sore trobled As Dauid would say I could not 〈◊〉 the confessiō of my faith 〈◊〉 be it trouble did insue the same Thus the holy ghost ioy neth fayth and confession as thinges that be inseperable the one from the other And therefore dare I not take vpon me to disseuer thē but must say that wher true faith is ther is also cō fession of the same when time and necessitie requireth and that where con fession is not founde there faith is a sl●…pe if he be not from home Now is it to be considered yf thys time requyreth the confession of oure faith Christ and his gospel ar oppugned his holy sacramentes are prophaned Christes Messengers are some eccded some cruelly tormented in prison Our aduersarics haue gotten the vpperhād and an ecsecrable idol ●…ted vp in confirmation of al iniquity What now shal I do that am assured that all thys is abhomination Here Christ is in battaile Shal I do as the multitude or as Christeo enemies do What 〈◊〉 giue I then Assuredlt euen such as the reast doth for neither doth foote hand eye nor mouth wytnes the contrary The feete carye the body to serue an idoll the eye beholdeth it wyth a certayne reuerence the mouth dare not whysper what y ● 〈◊〉 thincketh yea the handes are ecstended and giue signification of humble obedience Haue I not now iustifyed the Diuell and dampned Christ it can not be denyed But let me haue no credit vnles the same be yet proued by most plaine demonstrations of Gods sacred scryptures The lord by hys Prophet Esay saith to his people of Israell and this is answer also to the seconde question If I may not do as the worlde doth and yet haue faithe you are my 〈◊〉 whither there be any God but I alone Is ther any Creator that I shuld not know him These words were spoken as it were 〈◊〉 an en●… 〈◊〉 to rebuke al idolatry and the ●…ayne 〈◊〉 of the same As the ●…ord wold say Thou house of Iacob and you natural children discendyng from Abraham You are my people whom peculyerly I haue chosen to shew in you the greatnes of my name and for that end haue I spoken vnto you hid thinges from the begynning that you may vnderstand and knowe that ther is no knowledge but in me a ●…one That you perswaded of my infinite wisdome power and goodnesse may testifye and beare wytnes of the same to such as hath not the lyke vnderstandynge wyth you Hereof it is plain y ● of such as to whō god geueth knowledge he requyreth a confessiō to prouoke the ignoraunt to embrace God and his word or at the least that by the vnderstanding man the vauitie of the foolishe should be rebuked So zelous is GOD ouer his giftes that if we labour not to imploy them to the glory of God and to profite others his creatures he wil according to the threatninge of Christ take 〈◊〉 talent from vs and wil geue it tosuch as wil labour thervpon Some perchaūce would gladly labour but thei se not what fruit shal succede and ther fore iudge they better to cease euē as though God could bryng foorthe no fruit eccept he made vs fyrst of counsaile God is to be obeied in his commaundementes and the successe is to be committed vnto him whose wysdome is vnsearchable He commaundeth vs to refraine from idolatrye to let other men see that they do wrong This ought we to obei albeit the present death should followe for we are ●…alled as witnesses betwene God and the blinde world as is before said Israel thou art my witnes The worlde asketh is the Masse Gods seruice or is it idolatrye God hath opened to vs that it is abhowinable idolatry but when that we for feare of our vyle 〈◊〉 doo as the blind world doth what witnes beare ●…e Assuredly false wytuesse agaynst God and against our neighbour 〈◊〉 God for that we iustifye and mayntayne that wyth our presence which God cōdemneth Against 〈◊〉 neighbour for that we confirme him in errour to both our cōdempnaciōs But when we abstaine from al felow ship of idolatrie what euer ensue ther vpon we do our deuties to gods glorie 〈◊〉 no mā thincke that I am more seuere then necessitye requyreth Na brerhren I 〈◊〉 coutain my affirmacions