Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	believe_v	scripture_n	1,612	5	5.8214	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40605	A Full answer to Dr. Tenison's conferences concerning the Eucharist		1687 (1687)	Wing F2341; ESTC R11371	3,729	2

a particular to an universal is to declare his own ignorance in Print We Papists then say when ever our Senses represent us an Object as such unless there intervene a proof more prevalent we may believe them as also whensoever our reason sticks to a principle as true and is drawn away by a no more forcible Argument we ought to conclude it is so but because we have Divine Revelation which is of a far greater force than either Sense or Reason tho' my Sense tells me when I see a Consecrated Host 't is Bread I must say 't is the Body of Christ altho' my Reason assures me this principle is evident that those things which are the same with a mean are the same with themselves I must Answer 't is not so because God has told me there is a Trinity which contradicts it But now I conceive 't is my duty to shew that the Divine Revelation we have for Transubstantiation is more prevalent than the Evidence of Sense which opposes it Let us come to our Infidel before I persuade him to embrace Christianity we must agree there is one God that this God is Infinite in every perfection therefore that he sees truths which we cannot understand otherwise he would not be Infinit in Knowledg that he can reveal those truths otherwise his Power would be limited that he can oblige his Creatures to believe them otherwise his Authority would not be Infinit This a Heathen must grant because 't is as evident as that there is a God then I would ask him what evidence he required to rest convinced that God revealed him the Mystery of Transubstantiation he would without doubt require such a one as no Man could prudently call in Question such as is all Moral Evidence which added to the forementioned principles is stronger than that of our Senses or Reason which we know may be deceived Now that this does not bring in Scepticism nor destroy all demonstration is evident because I am to follow the deposition of my Senses the light of my Reason where no Divine Revelation which is a more prevalent Argument does oppose them So that in other cases I am as sure I am not deceived as that I have no Divine Revelation we therefore first prove Divine Revelation and then the possibility of the thing revealed as for example whatever God reveals is true but God hath revealed Transubstantiation Ergo 'tis true The Dr. goes on otherwise Whatever says he is not true God has not revealed but the Doctrin of Transubstantiation is not true Ergo God has not revealed it according to this method he must first convince his Infidel Converts of all the strange truths in the Scripture for example that the World was Created of nothing that God is one in Nature three in persons that all the Sodomites Senses were deceived when they took the Angels for Young Men c. believe me the Philosophers would not so easily assent to these truths nor would they ever Anathematize their Books upon the Drs. Authority or Reason I must desire those who assist at the Drs. Pulpit heats against Popery and Transubstantiation to examin whether his passion against both be not greater than his Reasons and whether they may in Conscience tie their belief to the Authority of a Man who undermines his own Religion so Popery may be involved in the ruin but God be thanked our Church is too strong to waver at the blasts which flow from his mouth and will Triumph when perchance the Dr. may smart for having attempted it's destruction London Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel And are to be sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch-side in Black-Fryers 1687.