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soul_n	believe_v	body_n	faith_n	4,273	5	5.2454	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44609	Scotland pulling down the gates of Rome, or, Christ against Antichrist, the Lambs friends against the Dragons followers containing first, Christs herauld proclaiming his second coming, in allarum to most kingdoms of Europe, from the late presaging comet which appeared, December 1680 and January 1681, and now in August 82 ... : secondly, the popish confessions and catechisms, lately dispersed, and their damnable principles examined ...	Houschone, William.	1683 (1683)	Wing H2944; ESTC R4446	18,854	31

influence into the very act which the natural power do choose but best of all with good ground we deny all active concurrence in natural abilities to the generating grace in the heart at the first infusion of grace into the Soul Durand and this Pamph. only a passive capacity for in this neither the holy Ghost works like a natural Agent nor man as a moral Agent in the production of material forms brought out of the power of the matter resulting from the inherent qualities of the Subject diversly compounded and ripened by one external Agent as those Agents working in the generation of second qualities arising out of the different mixture of the first both which the qualities the qualities of the subject concurs with the outward Agent in producing the effect But this is all the infusion of the Soul into the body into whose conception and creation it confers nothing so that the whole pack of Moral Vertues so Christionized cannot kindle a spark of this heavenly fire though they would make us believe that a saving interest were nothing but a dogmatical assent of the will for say they we place Faith in two distinct faculties to flow from two divers principles but these are not distinct faculties who have dictinct actions the Understanding essentially including the Will And if the Memory be not a distinct faculty because the mind sufficeth no more are the Will and Understanding Their object being on the truth and goodness of the same thing Christ and his Bible being as essentially good as true in order to the practical use of those former debates spirits being hot and toiled travelling throughout floods of errour Let 's solace our Souls in the contemplation yea application of those fundamental Truths called in question by Spirits who know not whither to rest posting throughout Hell and Earth and this we shall do in denying of some inferences and then consider the Controversie absolutely and resolutely before ever a Papist had a being Inference first what sad distemper attend yea possess the spirits of those men fluctuating betwixt wind and wave airt about as the weather cock goes travail hell over to purchase a Proselite and make him seven times a child of the Devil than one of themselves How does Satan sute the tentation to their necessity yea every way qualified to their inclination what ever may be his search scrutiny yea knowledge experimental and revealed Yea further revealed from God as a Judge to some yet still doth God challenge the first room in the Soul he having that only Prerogative to know the Heart by external Symptomes The Devil strangely reads the mind of Man and knows best whether when and how to sow his seed one a stranger to the work of Mortification another grapling after this ship wrack of the world looses the life in purchasing the means of life another of one unestablished spirit when natural parts and gifts possibly swell yet empty of the grace of God the Devil sits down upon the mans lips orders his pen frames his tongue and almost weapons against the God of Heaven yea otherwise sink him upon the sand-bed of presumption or chatter him upon the rock of despair Luther one day spreading his case before God in recapitulating his Trespasses Satan threw into his Chamber a paper containing dreadful aggravations to which he shortly replyed I will honour thee for the fire who came from him who would adjudge me into eternal torments by dreadful forgeries If God shall sugar our cup amongst many bitter Ingredients the enemy shall be sure to drop some poyson Inference O let principle and practice go hand in hand the pride of some the peevishness of others cannot let some recover when engaged in a sad practice I am sure their master did never show such pattern Christianily doth Augustine say Errare possim haereticus esse nolo Inference the third To tamper in the matters of God how dangerous is it but to dispute the Fundamentals of Godliness how near damnable is it either of two he must speak the Language of Ashdod or the Language of Canaan There is not a third half way to Rome shall not serve our turn though hundreds huddle themselves under the notion of Protestants yet by practice declare themselves Protestant-Atheists or Protestant-Papists putting to their hands to give Gods Ark a wrong touch Temple ruines calls for Temple vengeance Yea also acute wits intoxicating their brains into crabbed and ticklesome subjects have their spirits hell hot drive on most furiously which did sadly puzzle a profound pate in too much daubing which otherwise might have produced to the world a notable wit as Vorstius But we come closely home have not we sufficient warrant to take our Fathers Silver Trumpets and sound to Europe no peace with Rome where to the satisfaction of all rational men without the least breach of Charity I shall illustrate and confirm that Position in serious sadness a Papist qua Papist so living so dying cannot be saved and this is satisfactory from Reason and Religion if the Lord permit the basest of them if a zealous Papist entering the Chair of God by a miscreant Priest to deifie a man in robbing God of his Prerogative in pardoning or punishing Quod non regina perunca donat We are somewhat sensible that multiplicity of Arguments pungently applying exhortations cannot prevail with a deluded Soul the one perhaps may have weight with a prophane person we therefore address our selves to Gods Tribunal for the farther confirmation of all who love the truth In the name of the Son of God we arrest Souls under the wrath of an Eternal God who from self-respect self-honour or worldly profit shall bring the truth of Christ in composition with a penny of the world the basest of all his slaves to which perhaps the limbs of the least may probably entice be it known the hinge of the Controversie depends now upon Salvation and Damnation from which men scarcely shall retreat when engaged with this Romish Fouler and bloody Edom. Cruel as Esau his Apparel dyed with the blood of Saints Alas too much proof for it so long as men hope to be gainers by Christ so long they will follow joyfully as if the truths of God were not momentous they turn Religion into a drudge Christ could not be rid of sensual Belly-gods so long as he fed them with loaves Joh 6.25 profit and preferment will make a man hear diligently profess openly preach painfully till preferments choak both Preachers and Professors what doth this speak they are all but sublunary Soul villifying a celestial interest all men seek their own Vix queritque Jesus propter Jesum and as the Proverb do not diligere Christum in Augustino its only Christ for Augustines sake love to the Benefice Preachers and Professors labour but the spring of life says I love Augustine because of Christs Image which love scruples not upon difficulties in prosperity and adversity Though most

professors now would have two Summers in one year Heaven here and Heaven hereafter Yet Christ who had a right to Heaven by both Blood and Birth could not have it without Blood and Blows it s not got without stroke of Sword saith one speaking of affliction yet in all this the way of Free-grace is nothing ragged Christ himself straws to glory as with pleasant flowers it is but a bed of Roses to the Believer Inference the fifth and that for direction as a general rule all the Scripture is not delivered in Aphorisms or Canons which occasion stumbling of many ignorant Souls when Satan with some shadow of the word of God drives home a tentation takes hold of them presently as instance that of Extream Unction Pennance Purgatory all the Fopperies of Rome for our safeguard here take this one argument for all why would we not sacrifice our first-born with Abraham but no farther this being sufficient Now in one word to exhaust all the reason of a Souls declining from the way of God deficiency in holiness truth and holiness being inseparable and reciprocally which produces so many Sects the want of this persons without the habit of Faith are Christless persons duties without the exercise of Faith are duties out of Christ what wonder then Souls can never steam Heaven wards but blind reason deluded fancy enthusiastical injection is their Pilot. Reader travail one hour to the Sanctuary and to the ballance thereof 1. Thy Principle whether from Heaven or from Earth 2. Thy Practice 3. Thy Profession 4. Thy Graces Faith and Patience of the Saints 5. Thy Conversion in the work of Conviction and Compunction 6. Thy decay in Grace My soul melteth away with heaviness Psal 119. 7. Thy experiences and manifestations of Divine Love time year day month upon the Sabbath-morning to record every week all the passages of Gods Providence but much more the enjoyments of his own person all which God will try Amos 9.9 Behold I will command and I will sift the house of Israel like as corn is sifted in a seive yet shall not a grain fall to the ground Inference read that of 1 John 5.1 Beloved try the spirit whether they be of God or no put Preacher and Preaching to proof a Crape profession will not do their Leaders caused them to erre and those that were lead of them are fallen into destruction when Satan glides into Pulpits and sow his fair coloured seed of Free-will universal redemption universal grace objective and subjective he sets the Soul upon the very threshold of Heaven but never further how with specious pretences promising peace and nothing but war safety and nothing but ship-wrackt Salvation and nothing but Damnation which that very Learned man being the Chariot-driver of this League now intended could never effectuate read his own words George Cassander his Legacie being himself ordered by the Emperour to compose the Quarrels of the Church Consultation p. 57. YEt I cannot deny but in the beginning that many out of a godly zeal and care were driven into a sharp and severe reproof of certain manifest abuses and the principal cause of this calamity of the Church is to be laid upon these who being puft up with a vain insolent conceit of their Ecclesiastical power proudly and scornfully rejected them who modestly admonish them for their Reformation Wherefore my opinion is That the Church can never hope for any firm peace unless the beginning which have been the cause of the distraction that is unless those which are in place of Ecclesiastical Government to remit something of these too much rigour and yield somewhat to the peace of the Church but above all to hearken to the Prayers and Admonitions of godly men and to correct manifest abuses according to the rule of Divine Scriptures yea of the Antient Church from which our Cardinals Prelates in Doctrine and Discipline have swerved This we present to your Majesty begging without partiality that ye would sift the Clergy-men those Asses who ride with Golden Bridles when Princes walk on foot from which we infer what peace when they have razed the Fundamentals can we expect for says another Bishops to the end that they might get Proselites the Pagans permitted them to intermingle many of their Superstitions with Christianity Clowis 1 Christian King sent a Crown of Gold to B. Hormisda 513. content that they should change the name of those false Deities into the blessed Martyrs it s ever proper to Errour to retain what has affinity with it self and forasmuch as that pagan people had extream veneration for their Prelates the same way did it tickle Apostatizing Ministers Nay we may take a further reflection look Tertullian in his Chapt. 7. for Christians Tell me where is your Religion where is that reverence due by you to your Fathers into whom ye are become exceeding unlike in your Habit in your course of life in your Manners in your Opinions and finally in your Language Ye still applaud Antiquity and yet engross Novelty as much as ye can deviate from the laudable institutions of our Ancestors ye retain that which is of no value stopping the Channels of life and streams of Salvation stopping the Ministers of Christ in discharge of their Message the Devil has sitten down upon that mans lips who would shut his Brothers But let us view that pious and judicious practice of the Bishop of Lincolne Robert Groasthead containing the Reasons of his Non conformity to Pope Innocent maintaining That hindring of Preaching is the sin next Devilism Paganism Antichristianism Mat. Par. Ann. 12.53 p. 871. Let 's yet take a look of the rise progress and success of those Ceremonies scattered amongst Reformed Churches Ann. 2007. was very fruitful for besides they retained many things that proceeded from the Jews the Pagans also incorporating themselves into the Christian Church intermingled various Pagan Rites having infinite number of Superstitions in their very ordinary converse Christians were promiscously conversant with them not only in the same City but in the same House at the same Table notwithstanding they resolve to be acknowledged for Christians and for the evidence of their Faith they introduced the sign of the Cross and forasmuch as it was judged ignominious Origen Hom 3. in Psal 39. Cypr. 1. de Haeret. Baptiz they formed that badge in their Foreheads going into or coming out of their Baths lying down in their beds and rising from their Tables they thus marked themselves yea Satan gains ground even upon account of Martyr dome very honourable and those who were prisoners for the truth by a frequent intercourse of Letters did maintain a correspondencie with the Church erroneous persons to purchase more credit to their Errours and Delinquents to cloak their knavery sollicited the Martyrs approbation they having influence by Letters interceded with the Church that they would admit such penitents into their Communion but sadly did they abuse the facile nature of the