Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	true_a	truth_n	7,323	5	5.7216	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25853	The nevv heresie of the Jesuits publickly maintain'd at Paris in the Colledge of Clermont, by conclusions, printed 12 Decemb., 1661, denounced to all the bishops of France / translated out of the French original.; Nouvelle hérésie des Jésuites. English	Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing A3730; ESTC R15927	16,007	24

unto him Confertim autem percussit cum Angelus Domini eo quod non dedisset honorem Deo And yet how much lesse criminal was the flattery of that people then this of the Jesuites theirs might have passed for a sudden transport of joy not regulated by reason and sometimes the Holy Scripture it self gives the Name of God to Supream Judges and Princes But here is given to the Pope deliberately upon a laid Defign and by way of establishing a Dogmatical Assertion of Theologie not an empty and insignificant name but one of the most glorious Attributes of God and most incommunicable to a creature to wit that his Word should have entailed upon it such an infallibility as to deserve that submission of divine Faith which cannot without Idolatry be rendred to any but the first and soveraign Verity For the like cannot be said in this question which those who maintain the Popes infallibility in matters of Faith are wont to answer That in beleeving the decisions of the Pope they do not build their Faith on the word of a man because he doth but propose what hath been formerly revealed by God in Holy Scripture and Tradition and so their faith relies still on the Word of God Nothing I say like this can be applied to the matter in hand in regard whereof the Jesuites pretend That the Pope is as infallible as Jesus Christ and that his decision is an Object of Divine Faith For when the Pope shall propose a fact of the 17 th Age as that certain Heretical Propositions were taught by an Author of those times it cannot be pretended that he proposes a matter revealed in Scripture or Tradition He may well say I judge it to be thus but he cannot say God hath revealed it He may speak as from himself but he cannot say God hath spoken Dominus locutus est And as it is a man that speaks and not God all they who hold that one may beleeve with divine Faith a decision of this nature do most visibly commit the like abominable excess which that blinded people did by crying out with them Voces Dei non hominis And albeit the Popes piety be a sufficient Antidote to preserve him from being poisoned with this sacrilegious opinion nevertheless they who present this poison unto him cannot excuse themselves from being as guilty towards him as were those wretched Sycophants towards their King of whose death they were the cause by their impious flatteries For a man is not then only esteemed a murderer either of the soul or body when effectively he takes away the life of one or the other but also when he lays a cause which of its own nature is sufficient to work the death of either though the effect do not follow So S. Cyprian calls those Christians Parricides who through fear of persecution offered up to the Idols their sucking Infants because although they could not really deprive them of the life of Grace which they had received in Baptism by this Idolatry whereunto they were in no sort consenting as S. Austin remarks they did notwithstanding what lay in them to bereave them of it In illis quidem interfectionem non faciunt sed quantum in ipsis est interfectores fiunt Flatter not your selves saith S. Austin speaking to those who give occasion to others of committing sin upon account that your brother is not dead by the scandal you gave him it is true he is not dead and yet you are murderers Et ille vivit tu homicida es One may say the same to the Jesuites in respect of the Pope whom they go about to poison with so pestiferous an opinion Non sibi blandiantur quia ille non est mortuus ille vivit isti homicidae sunt But it is not the Pope only before whose feet they cast this stumbling block but even the generality of the faithful by perswading them to build their belief on the word of a man and to submit their judgements thereunto as to the first Verity which as hath been shewed cannot be done without a kinde of Idolatry Insomuch that the Jesuites are near upon the same impiety with those Hereticks who would have Divine honours exhibited to the Blessed Virgin for as the true respect and veneration due to her as the most holy of Creatures took not any thing off from the crime of those Hereticks and their followers even so the reverence which all the faithful ought to bear to the Head of the Church will in no sort exempt them from a heavy sin before almighty God if through the deceit of the Jesuites they give unto the words of a man how eminent soever he may be in the Church that soveraign difference of divine Faith which cannot without impiety be given to any thing but the Word of God himself Worldly men make small accompt of these kind of sins because being wholy buried in flesh and blood none but grosse and material Objects make Impression on them Deluded devotes permit themselves to be easily carried away with these excesses because they imagin it to be a part of their false Piety to imbrace blindly whatever contibutes to the honour and advantage of those things and persons for which they ought to have a respect and from this root are sprung all those opinions which they call pious without ever examining whether they be true or false as if a falsity could be the object of piety or that God who is truth could be honoured with the unclean Sacrifice of a Lie But you My Lord know that all those who have been nourished with the true spirit of Christianity make a far different judgement hereof they equally hate a lie to whose advantage soever it redound whether of the Pope or the Blessed Virgin or of Jesus Christ himself which yet would a little startle a man to hear had not St. Austin expresly taught it For this Holy Father fears not to maintain that if a lye or calomny which one makes use of to take away the temporal life of Man be a detestable crime That is yet a far greater which tends to the destruction of his spiritual life as all manner of lyes in matter of Religion even though employed in giving false praises to Jesus Christ For which reason the same Father says that a Christian would commit a notorious folly who would not rather expose himself to all manner of indignities even those that strike the greatest horror into pious Souls then condescend to the insolence of a person that would force him to corrupt the holy Gospel thereby to bestow false praises upon Jesus Christ Since then according to the Judgement of this great Father it would be a crime of abomination to give false honours to Jesus Christ himself who being God is above all our praise and honours how much more abominable is it to give a mortal Man invironed with infirmities as the Scripture sayes the honours that appertain to God alone