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spirit_n	body_n	let_v	soul_n	7,333	5	5.2669	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91004	Syneidēsilogia ̇or, The doctrine of conscience, framed according to the points of the catechisme, in the Book of Common-Prayer. / By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Prideaux, late Lord Bishop of Worcester, for the private use of his wife.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.; N. Y.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3436; Thomason E1697_2; ESTC R203209	47,433	193

from the sense and directions no more then we can imagine the leaves of a Physick book will cure a disease or wound if it be applyed to the part ill affected Those pieces therefore of Scripture or names of God or Angels thence pretended to be deduced by Exorcists and Magicians or names of the three Kings of Cullen or the beginning of Saint Iohns Gospel or the like hung about the neck of any are delusions of Satan The words that I spake unto you are spirit and life saith our Saviour John 6.63 and were written that ye might believe and that believing ye might have life through his name Iohn 20.31 not for charms to doe mischiefe or seeming cures upon the body which Satan useth as a bait to destroy the soule Let the Pythonists in the Acts say never so truly concerning S. Paul and Silas these men are the servants of the most high God which shew to us the way of Salvation Act. 16.17 yet Saint Paul would not endure such she-Chaplains of the Devills ordering who take up good to do mischief and act the Devils part in the attire of an Angell The punishment of the mongrell-blasphemer Lev. 24. should make all conscionable men afraid how they adventure to make bold with Gods Sacred name or word lest perchance as the Sons of Sceva they meet with some mad Devils that will wound and strip them for their folly and terrifie others causing them to burne such damnable books of curious Arts though of never so much esteemed value Act. 19.18 19. On the contrary a Conscience must be made for the abusing any parts of the Bible or things once consecrated to God to prophane and sordid uses lest Belshazzers proscription stand against them to their sodaine ruine for non est tutum ludere cum sanctis as the common saying is it is not good to dally with a Deity CHAP. III. Cases concerning the Apostles Creed THree Creeds are received in all Catholick Churches the first called the Apostles Creed the second the Nicene and the third the Creed of Athanasius The two latter of these are but expositions of the Apostles Creed composed more especially to withstand the Arian Heresie which denyed the Deity of Christ and had then well-nigh over-spread the whole face of Christianity Into the Apostles Creed as our Liturgy hath hitherto led our fore-fathers we were baptized To make then this the first case of Conscience it may be well enquired Whether the rejecting this Creed C. I. out of our Liturgies and Catechismes into which we were baptized and to which our sureties undertook for us we should alwayes stand to be not a kind of renouncing or rather plain Apostacy from the Faith we were baptized in whereto may be applyed that speech of God to Samuel they have not rejected thee but me 1 Sam. 8.7 They can best give satisfaction to this that have been the actors in it To say they supply it in the Doctrine of their preaching their auditors will tell them that they have not the art nor are taught it by them how to pick out so punctuall Articles for their Belief and so to order them that they may have them by heart to be ready alwaies to give an account to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in them as Saint Peter chargeth 1 Pet. 3.15 upon which they may ground the good Conscience that followes in the next verse Now those that have a touch of Conscience reason thus with themselves either the new Articles we are to expect from the Sermons of our new Lights are the same which we had in our old Creeds or different If they prove the same why might not the old have stohd but if we shall have new Articles of our Creed which the Papists themselves hold to be above his Holinesse authority to make then woe to our ancestors that have so long misled and to our dull capacity which cannot with a safe conscience yet cease to contend for the Faith which hitherto we have conceived was once delivered to the Saints Jud. 2. How may the Conscience be assured C. II. that this is the Apostles Creed which is stood somuch for seeing the tradition that it was made by the twelve Apostles before their separation to preach the Gospel hath no warrant to confirme it Though it may not be call'd the Apostles Creed as divers D. of the ancients would have it because it was made immediately by the Apostles themselves yet modern Divines are forced to agree in this that the Articles in it are clear deductions from the Doctrine of the Apostles in which sense it is rightly called the Apostles Creed in substance though not for composure A true translation is held with us for the Word of God though not so immediately yet as undoubtedly as the originall Christ is said in this Creed to be conceived by the Holy Ghost C. III according to that of Saint Matthew that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost cap. 1.20 and of Saint Lute cap. 1.35 the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee therefore that Holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Whence an ungrounded Conscience may gather that Christ should be rather called the Son of the person of the Holy Ghost then the onely Son of the first person the Father Almighty which confoundeth the believed doctrine of the sacred Trinity and is urged by Novellists to puzzle weake Consciences The Nicene Creed clears this D. by putting a plain difference between begetting made and incarnate Begetting hath relation onely to the Father begotten of the Father saith the Creed not of the Holy Ghost before all worlds that is from eternity as God of God Light of Light very God of very God being therefore of one substance with the Father that begot him infinitely of a higher pitch then any thing that was made For things made are all sorts of Creatures and so the Son that begotten from eternity was made Man in the fulness of time when it is said he was incarnate by the Holy Ghost and this incarnation is appropriated to the Holy Ghost though it be the worke of the whole Trinity united ever in all outward operations in regard this power of the Highest proceeds from the Father and Son and is next in order and more conspicuous to the producing of the greatest effects Whence as in the Creation the spirit of God is mentioned moving upon the waters so in Christs baptisme the Spirit is visible in the shape of a Dove and in inspiring the Apostles in cloven tongues where the Father was onely heard or heard of not seen and the Son not seen as the begotten Word but as he took flesh and dwelt amongst us Joh. 1. But these mysteries are more submissively rather to be believed then curiously pryed into The beginning therefore of our Letanie expressing as much