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sense_n	faith_n	speak_v	word_n	4,670	5	4.7227	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10795	Gods holy house and service according to the primitive and most Christian forme thereof, described by Foulke Robarts, Batchelor of Divinity, and prebendary of Norvvich.	Robartes, Foulke, 1580?-1650.	1639 (1639)	STC 21068; ESTC S121261	55,029	143

God will give the eunuches in his house a name But now what of all this will they say that the reverence mentioned in the text Philip. 2. is to be given peradventure to the power renown or memory of the sonne of God and not to be done when wee heare him named by the name JESUS But then here would I know of them which of these power renowne or memory shall I conceive to be meant in this text by the word Name If they say his power then I aske why not his renowne If they say his renowne then why not his memoriall For the word Name doth in Scripture by a trope signifie every one of these And when we leave the proper sence of any word in Scripture wee must shew some necessity why we do so and make it plaine that it must be taken in that significative sence which we give therof It is not inough to say such De doct Chr●● 3 C. 10. a word is in some places taken in a figurative sence and therefore I will so understand it here and where I list besides St Austine dealing with such loose expounders of Scripture saith Nihil facilius est quam dicere Tropus est figura est modus quidam dicendi est Hebraismus est i. It is an easie matter to say it is a Trope It is a figure It is a certaine forme of speech It is an Hebraisme And therefore he giveth this rule Oratio figurata est quae proprieintellecta nec ad fidem nec ad dilectionem nec ad ullam aedificationem accōmodari potest i. Then is the speech figurative when it cannot be made to serve for either faith or charity or any edification in the proper sence of the words Illy●●cus that one of the centuristes well knowne to be no friend to Superstition doth among the rest of his rules for the right understāding of scripture give this for De rat Cogn Sacr. lit one Verba sacrarū literarū proprie acccipienda sunt nisi loci sensus in aliquē fidei articulū propalā incurrat i. The words of holy Scripture are to be understood in their proper sence ecept that so the meaning of the words do directy fal foul upon some articles of faith And in an other place he thus adviseth Ne quaerat aliquis umbras aut sectetur somnia allegorianum nisi manifesta sit allegoria literalis sēsus sit alioquin inutilis aut absurdus i. let not a man hunt after shadows or dreame of allegories except there be a manifest allegory And that without an allegory the literall sense be unprofitable and absurd And to this point a learned Countriman of our own speaketh home saying Allegoryes Perk. in gal 4. 24. are to be admitted when the words sound against common reason analogy of faith or good manners Let us consider these rules and see if there be any necessity that the word Name in the text to the Philipians be understood in any other then the proper sense Is it against common reason Faith Charity or good manners so to understand it Or is it against the scope of that place or of any other part or peece of scripture for me to bow my knee or to expresse reverence by any seemly outward gesture when I heare my blessed Lord and Saviour named by his proper name JESUS How then dare I suffer my fancy here to leave the prop●●●●ase and to devise a figure as if I might worke the Scripture like a nose of waxe as I list my self I will here adde one rule more which we have from Saint Hillary Optimus lector est qui dictorum intelligentiam expectat ex dictis potius quam imponat et retulerit potius quam attulerit Neque cogat id videri dictis contineri quod ante lectionem praesumpserit intelligendum i. He is the best l. de trin 1. reader of Scriptures who lookes for the meaning of the words in the words rather then putteth or imposeth a meaning upon them who fetcheth the sense from the words rather then bringeth it unto them And who enforceth not that to seem to be contained in them which he presumed to find there before he read them If any man will contend that yet there is an allegory Ob. in that text because knees are there ascribed to things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth I answer that when knees are ascribed Ans to things which properly have none there necessity enforceth us to acknowledge a figure But the Son of God our blessed Saviour hath a name even the name JESUS in the proper sense And men have knees not figuratively but properly Therefore it is without any figure to say that men having knees naturally shall bow those knees at the name JESUS which is not a metaphorical but the proper name of the Son of God And so there is no necessity to seeke a figure in that text in the word name or in the word knees so farre as the duty concerneth man But it is very dangerous against the faith of a good Conscience and against the true rules of right interpreting the Scriptures thus to rove at figures and to imagine allegories where we need not and upon bare uncertaine conjectures not knowing certainly what to stand unto But by this bowing at the name of Jesus we shall Object magnifie the Son above the Father and the holy Ghost No such matter but we shall honour the Father Ans in the Son For so saith the text that this is done to the glory of God the Father And seeing no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost Let us never feare that that respect which we do to our Saviour by the instinct and direction of the holy Ghost can be any diminution or disparagement to the holy Ghost Will any man say that the blessed virgin Mary did disparage either the Father or the holy Ghost when she said My spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour Luc. 1. 47. But why then is this reverence done at the name Quest of the second person more then at the name of the first or third Ans Because that not the Father nor the holy Ghost but the Son made himselfe of no reputation and tooke upon him the shape of a servant and became obedient to the death even the death of the Crosse therefore God hath exalted Him and given Him a name above every Phil. 2. name that at the name of Jesus every Knee should bow Shall I reverence a word or bow to a sound of letters Quest We bow to and worship not the word sound Ans or letters but God thereby expressed The word is our Remembrancer to put us in minde of the duty which we owe to God our Saviour Why is this speciall reverence done at this more then at any other name of God Quest Every name of God is reverend and holy But whereas a sinfull man shall find terror