Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
scripture_n tradition_n word_n write_a 3,323 5 10.7817 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A54528 Heresiography, or, A discription of the hereticks and sectaries of these latter times by E. Pagitt. Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647. 1645 (1645) Wing P175; ESTC R2783 113,990 184

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

to death these wicked ungodly creatures despise both the Law and the Gospell and in the presence of a cloud of witnesses Yea as I am credibly informed in publike Congregations they vent these their damnable opinions Almighty God deliver our poore Church from them Of the Seekers or Expecters MAny have wrangled so long about the Church that at last they have quite lost it and go under the name of Expecters and Seekers doe deny that there is any true Church or any true Minister or any Ordinances some of them affirme the Church to be in the wildernesse and they are seeking for it there others say that it is in the smoke of the Temple that they are groping for it there where I leave them praying to God to open their eyes and give them repentance that they may consider from whence they are fallen and returne againe to the bosome of that Church from which they have to the great dishonour of God and the scondalizing of the Gospell made so fearfull a defection Divorsers THese I terme Divorsers that would be quit of their wives for slight occasions and to maintaine this opinion one hath publ●shed a Tractate of divorce in which the bonds of marriage are let loose to inordinate lust putting away wives for many other causes besides that which our Saviour onely approveth namely in case of adulterie who groundeth his Error upon the words of God Gen. 2. 18. I will make him a helpe meet for him And therefore if she be not an helper nor meet for him he may put her away saith this Author Which opinion is flat contrary to the words of our Saviour Matth. 5. 31. It hath been said also whosoever shall put away his wife let him give her a testimoniall of Divorsement But I say to you whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for fornication causeth her to cowmit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorsed committeth adulterie Againe he confirmeth the same Matth 19. 9. I say therefore unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for whoredome and marry another committeth adulterie and whosoever doth marrie her that is divorced committeth adultery Vid. Mar. 10. 11. Luk. 16. 18. 1 Cor. 7. 11. Of the Papists A Question may be asked why I ranke the Papists among the late Hereticks To which I answer that there is a great difference between the ancient Papists and the moderne since their Trent Conventicle and therefore I rank them with the former Sectaries their doctrines being many of them new In describing of then Errors I purpose to shew their differences from the Protestants which are set down at large in Master Perkins Reformed Catholike 1. Concerning Free-will the dissent is in the cause of the freedome of mans will in spirituall things and especially in the first conversion of a sinner The Papists say that mans will worketh with Gods grace in the first Conversion of a sinner by it selfe we say that mans will worketh with Gods grace in the first Conversion yet not of it selfe but by grace 1 Cor. 2. 14. 2. Concerning Originall sinne the difference between them and us standeth not in the abolishment of it but in the manner and measure of the abolishment of it They affirme Originall sinne to be so farre taken away after Baptisme that it ceaseth to be sinne properly and is nothing else but a defect and want making the heart ready to conceive sinne we teach although it be taken away in the Regenerace in sundry respect yet it doth remaine in them not as a want or defect but as sin and that properly as St. Paul affirmeth Rom. 7. 17. 3. Of the certainty of salvation we hold that a man may bee certaine of his salvation in this life They also hold the same The difference is they hold the certainty to be by hope and we by faith Iohn 1. 12. The fourth poynt is of the justification of a sinner 1. Concerning the matter of our justification They grant that i● justification sin is pardoned by the merits of Christ and that none can be j●stified without remission of sin 2. That the righteousnesse whereby man is justified commeth from Christ and from him alone 3. The most learned of them say that the merit of Christs death is imputed to every sinner that doth beleeve for his satisfaction before God We say that the satisfaction made by Christs death and obedience is imputed to us and becommeth our righteousnes They say it is our satisfaction and not our righteousnesse The second difference is about the manner of our justification we both agree that a sinner is justified by Faith The difference is the Papists understand a generall faith whereby a man beleeveth the Articles of Religion to be true Wee hold the faith which justifieth to be a particuler faith wherby we apply to our selves the promises of righteousnes life everlasting by Christ. 2. The Papists say that a man is justified by faith yet not by faith alone but also by other vertues as hope love c. 3. They say that we are justified by works as causes we say we are justified by works as by signes and fruits of our justification before God Fiftly touching merit we agree that merits are so far necessary that no man can be saved without them 2. That Christ is the root and fountaine of all merit The Papists place merits within a man making two sorts of them viz. The merits of persons which is to bee found in Infants dying after Baptisme and the merit of works which they teach to be meritorious two wayes First by Covenant because God hath made a promise to reward them Secondly because Christ hath meritted that our works should merit we renounce all merit and rest onely upon the merits of Christ. The sixth poynt of Satisfaction 1. We hold a civill satisfaction a recompence for injuries 2. We hold also a Canonical whereby having given offence to the Church or any part thereof a man doth make an open testimony of repentance 3. We hold that Christ hath made satisfaction for our sins and the punishment of them both eternall and temporall They hold that Christ by his death hath made satisfaction for all the sinnes of men and for the eternall punishment of them all yet so as they themselves must satisfie for the temporall punishment of them either on earth or in Purgatory which we deny The seventh poynt of Traditions The Papists teach that besides the written word there bee certaine unwritten Traditions which must be believed as profitable and necessary to salvation We hold the Scriptures to be most perfect containing in them all things necessary to salvation The eighth part concerning Vowes We say lawfull Vowes may be props and stays of Gods worship but not the worship it selfe They hold Vowes of things not commanded to be part of the worship of God as Continency Poverty Regular