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	trinity_n	2,581	5	9.6972	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15396	A catholicon, that is, A generall preservative or remedie against the pseudocatholike religion gathered out of the catholike epistle of S. Jude, briefly expounded, and aptly, according to the time, applied to more then halfe an hundreth of popish errours, and as many corruptions of manners. With a preface seruing as a preparatiue to the catholicon, and a dyet prescribed after.; A catholicon.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1602 (1602)	STC 25673; ESTC S114006	113,250	270

contrarie to No man can keepe the cōmandement● in thi● life the Scriptures Isa. 64. 6. We all haue beene as an vncleane thing and all our righteousnesse is as filthie cloutes Psalm 130. 3. If thou O Lord straitly markest iniquities who who shall stand This priuiledge to be without sinne is peculiar and proper onely to Christ as Augustine well saith Nullus existit homo de quo in haec vita constituto veraciter dici potest quod nullum habeat peccatum excepto vno mediatore There is no Contr. Pelag. lib. 2. c. 29. man of whome it may be truly saide in this life that he hath no sinne excepting onely our alone Mediatour Secondly seeing we doe hope one day to be presented vnspotted and blamelesse before God through Christ we ought now to endeauour to lead an holy life and with the Apostle to prease forward toward the marke as Saint Peter exhorteth Seeing ye looke for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spotte and blamelesse 2. Pet. 3. 14. that although we can not while we liue in the flesh be freed from all infirmitie yet that we should pray to God to be preserued from iniquitie as Augustine saith writing against the Pelagians Op●andum est vt fiat conandum est vt fiat supplicandum est vt fiat non tamen quasi factum fuerit Contr. Pelag. lib. 3. c. 10. confidendum This which they say that some men haue liued without sinne in the world we are to wish it may be to endeauour it may be to pray it may be not to be confident as though it hath beene Uers. 25. To God onely wise our Sauiour Doct. 3. Christ one God with his father Here in that the Apostle calleth our Sauiour Iesus Christ the sonne of God only wise God the father is not excluded for he is also the onely wise God Rom. 19. 27. Like as the Apostle before v. 4. calleth Christ Iesus the onely Lord yet god the Father also is the onely prince king of kings Lord of Lords 1. Tim. 6. 15. By these scriptures then is euidently proued vnto vs the vnitie of the Godhead and that Christ with his Father and the Holy Ghost is one God one onely wise one Lord who onely hath immortalitie 1. Timoth. 6. 16. that although we beleeue the blessed Trinitie of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost yet these three are one onely wise immortall God they haue all one power one Godhead one wisedome one eternitie one essence as by these scriptures is euident And the Apostle Saint Paul further saith Philip. 2. 6. Who beeing in the forme of God thought it no robberie to be equall to God But if our Sauiour Christ had not beene one God with his father it had bin wrong and robberie to be made equall to him Here then we learne that God is the fountaine of all wisedome and that the wisedome of man is but foolishnes before God 1. Cor. 3. 18. The Lord knoweth that the thoughts of the wise be vaine v. 20. and the foolishnes of God as men count it is wiser then Testimon men 1. Cor. 1. 15. Examp. This was confessed by Pharao when he said thus to Ioseph Gen. 41. 39. For as much as God hath shewed thee all this there is no man of vnderstanding or of wisedome like vnto thee He acknowledgeth that Ioseph must needes be a prudent man because he had his wisedome from God Dauid also setteth forth the infinit wisedome of God when he sayeth Psal. 119. 98. By thy commaundements thou hast made me wiser then mine enemies the wisedome of the world was not like that wisdome which Dauid receiued from God Exornat Christ is then as the oliue tree that ministereth oyle to the candlesticke of the Church Zach. 4. 12. that giueth all grace and wisedome to his members and he is the stone with seuen eies grauen with the Lords owne hand Zach. 3. 9. Aitiolog For who can compare with God in wisedome who is the auncient of daies Dan. 7. 9. who was before all things from all eternitie his eies are as flaming fire Reuelat. 1. he seeth all things he dwelleth in light 1. Tim. 6. 16. He is light and in him is no darkenes 1. Ioh. 1. 5. If then antiquitie and knoweledge bring wisdome who is wiser then Christ who knoweth all things and was before all things Applicat First of all where the Apostle saith to God onely wise our Sauiour c. Error 65. a certaine erroneous opinion of the Papists is confuted as touching the god head Christ God of himself though not the sonne of himselfe of Christ for they say that he had not only his person but his substance of his father Rhemist Ioh. 1. sect 3. We contrariwise doe hold that Christ though as he is the sonne he be of the Father in respect of his person yet he is God of himselfe as the father is as the Apostle saith here he is only wise as Saint Paul calleth God the Father onely wise Rom. 16. 27. wherefore Christ is God himselfe wise of himselfe immortall of himselfe as God the father is if that his wisdome power Godhead should be begotten of god then he should be wise not as he is God but as he is the sonne then could he not be onely wise for the sonne cannot be said to be sole or onely because he is neuer without the Father as Ambrose well noteth Audeo dicere primus est fillus sed solus non est primus quia cūpatre semper solus non est quia sine patre nunquā est non ego hoc dico sed ipse dixit non sum solus quia pater mecum est solum diuinitas facit quod vnum est solum est I dare say the sonne is first but the sonne is not alone he is first because alwaies with the Father not alone because he is neuer without the father I say not this but himselfe said it I am not alone because my father is with me the Godhead maketh him alone for that which is one is alone Wherefore Christ is onely wise as his father is he is wise of himselfe and God of himselfe as his father is and so our Sauiour Christ saith that as the father hath life in himselfe so likewise hath he giuen to the sonne to haue life in himselfe Ioh. 5. 26. Secondly seeing we haue a Sauiour who is onely wise in whome dwelleth the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Coloss. 2. 9. to whome God giueth not his spirit in measure Ioh. 3. 34. but in great aboundance beyond all measure and of whose fulnesse we haue receiued grace for grace Ioh. 1. 16. We are taught nowe to whome we may haue recourse if we want any spirituall grace as Saint Iames teacheth if any man lacke wisedome let him aske of God who giueth vnto all liberally Iam. 1. 5. Wherefore the carnall securitie of all worldly minded men is here