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sense_n	faith_n	justification_n	justify_v	7,231	5	9.1878	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86417	Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, A dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection. / By Tho: Hobbes.; De cive. English	Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2253; Thomason E1262_1; ESTC R202404	220,568	406

that He was to teach and doe such things whereby as by certain signes he was to be knowne All which testify this one thing that JESUS who was so born and did teach and doe such things was THE CHRIST Other Faith then was not required to attain eternall life besides this Article Whosoever liveth and beleeveth in me shall never dye John 11. vers 25. But to beleeve in Jesus as is there exprest is the same with beleeving that JESUS WAS THE CHRIST He therefore that beleeves that shall never dye and by consequence that Article alone is necessary to salvation These are written that yee might beleeve that JESUS IS THE CHRIST the Sonne of God and that beleeving yee might have life through his name Jo. 20. vers 31. Wherefore he that beleeves thus shall have eternall life and therefore needs no other Faith Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God 1 Jo. 4 v. 2. And Whosoever beleeveth that JESUS IS THE CHRIST is born of God 1 Jo. 5. vers 1. And Who is he that overcometh the world but he that beleeveth that IESUS is the Son of God 1 Jo. v. 5. If therefore there be no need to beleeve any thing else to the end a man may be of God born of God and 〈◊〉 the world then that IESUS IS THE CHRIST that one Article then is sufficient to salvation See here is water what doth ●inder me to be baptiz●d And Philip said If thou beleevest with all thine ●e●… thou m●ist And he an●●ered and sai● I beleeve that IESUS CHRIST is the 〈◊〉 of God Act● 8. vers 36 37. If then this Article being beleeved with the whole heart that is to say with inward Faith was sufficient for Baptisme it is also sufficient for salvation Besides these places there are innumerable others which doe clearly and expres●y affirm the same thing Nay wheresoever wee read that our Saviour commended the Faith of any one or that he said Thy Faith hath ●●ved thee or that he healed any one for his Faiths sake there the Proposition beleeved was no other but this IESUS IS THE CHRIST either directly or consequently XI But because no man can beleeve IESUS TO BE THE CHRIST who when he knowes that by Christ is understood that same King who was promised from God by Moyses and the Prophets for to be the King and Saviour of the world doth not also beleeve Moyses and the Prophets neither can he beleeve these who beleeves not that God is and that he governs the world it is necessary that the Faith of God and of the old Testament be contained in this Faith of the new Seeing therefore that Atheisme and the deniall of the Divine Providence were the only treason against the Divine Majesty in the Kingdome of God by Nature but Idolatry also in the Kingdome of God by the Old Covenant now in this Kingdome wherein God rules by way of a new Covenant apostasie is also added or the renunciation of this article once receiv'd that JESUS IS THE CHRIST Truly other Doctrines provided they have their determination from a lawfull Church are not to be contradicted for that is the sinne of disobedience but it hath been fully declar'd before that they are not needfull to be beleev'd with an inward Faith XII Faith and Obedience have divers parts in accomplishing the salvation of a Christian for this contributes the power or capacity that the Act and either is said to justifie in its kinde For Christ forgives not the sins of all men but of the Penitent or the Obedient that is to say the just I say not the guiltlesse but the just for justice is a Will of obeying the Lawes and may be consistent with a sinner and with Christ the Will to obey is Obedience for not every man but the just shall live by Faith Obedience therefore justifies because it maketh just in the same manner as temperance maketh temperate Prudence Prudent Chastity chaste namely essentially and pu●● a man in such a state as makes him capable of pardon Againe Christ hath not promis'd forgivenesse of sinnes to all just men but only those of them w●o beleeve Hi●… to be the Christ Faith therefore just●fies in such a sense as a judge may be said to justifie who absolves namely by the sentence which actually saves a man And in this acception of justification for it is an aequivocall terme Faith alone justifies but in the other Obedience onely but neither Obedience alone nor Faith alone doe save us but both together XIII By what hath been said hitherto it will be easy to discerne what the duty of Christian Subjects is towards their Soveraignes who as long as they professe themselves Christians cannot command their Subjects to deny Christ or to offer him any contumely for if they should command this they would professe themselves to be no Christians For seeing we have shewed both by naturall reason and out of holy Scriptures that Subjects ought in all things to obey their Princes and Governours excepting those which are contrary to the command of God and that the commands of God in a Christian City concerning temporall affairs th●t is to say those which are to be discust by humane reason are the Lawes and sentence of the City deliver'd from those who have receiv'd authority from the City to make Laws and judge of controversies but concerning spirituall matters that is to say those which are to be defin'd by the holy Scripture are the Lawes and sentences of the City that is to say the Church for a Christian City and a Church as hath beeen shewed in the foregoing Chapter in the 10. Arr. are the same thing deliv'rd by Pastors lawfully ordain'd and who have to that end authority given them by the City it manifestly followes that in a Christian Common weale Obedience is due to the Soveraign in all things as well Spirituall as Temporall and that the same obedience even from a Christian subject is due in all temporall matters to those Princes who are no Christians is without any controversie but in matters spirituall that is to say those things which concern Gods worship some christian Church is to be followed for it is an hypothesis of the Christian Faith that God speaks not in things supernaturall but by the way of Christian Interpreters of holy Scriptures But what Must we resist Prince● when we cannot obey them Truly no for this is contrary to our civill Covenant What must we doe then Goe to Christ by Martyrdome which if it seem to any man to be an hard saying most certain it is that he beleeves not with his whole heart THAT IESUS IS THE CHRIST the Sonne of the living God for he would then desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ but he would by a feigned Christian Faith elude that obedience which he hath contracted to yeeld up unto the City XIV But some men perhaps will wonder if