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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	tradition_n	2,130	5	9.1915	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80319	A confession of faith, according to the best-reformed churches: for the generall satisfaction of tender consciences.		1647 (1647)	Wing C5759; Thomason E370_5; ESTC R201284	5,434	13

the righteousnesse of God might bee wrought by faith That as well the Law of God as the Word of his promise endure the same for ever but that they have beene revealed in severall manners according to the dispensation of times For the Law was first imprinted in that remnant of light of nature which was left after the fall being sufficient to accuse then it was more manifestly expressed in the written Law and was yet more opened by the Prophets and lastly expounded in the true perfection by the Son of God the great Prophet and perfect interpreter of the Law That likewise the word of the promise was manifested revealed first by immediate revelation and inspiration after by figures which were of two natures the one the Rites and Ceremonies of the Law the other the continuall History of the old world and the Church of the Jewes which though it bee literally true yet it is for the most part pregnant of an Allegorie and shadow of the work of the redemption to follow The same promise or Evangel was more clearly revealed and declared by the Prophets and then by the Son himselfe and lastly by the holy Ghost which illuminateth the Church to the end of the world That in the fulnesse of time according to the promise and oath of a chosen lineage descended the blessed seed of the Woman Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of God and Saviour of the world who was conceived by the power and over-shadowing of the holy Ghost and tooke flesh of the Virgin Mary That the Word did not onely take flesh or was joyned to flesh but was made flesh though without confusion of substance or nature so that the eternall Son of God and blessed Son of Mary was one person So as the blessed Virgin may be truly and Catholickly called Deipara the Mother of God so one as there is no unitie in universall nature not that of the soule and body of man so perfect For the three heavenly unities whereof that is the second exceed all naturall unities the unity first of the three persons in the Godhead secondly of God man in Christ thirdly of Christ and the Church the holy Ghost being the worker of both these latter unities for by the holy Ghost was Christ incarnate and quick'ned in the flesh and by the holy Ghost is man regenerate and quick'ned in the spirit That Jesus the Lord became in the flesh a sacrificer and sacrifice for sinne a satisfaction to the Justice of God a meritor of glory and the Kingdome a patterne of all righteousnesse a Preacher of the Word which himselfe was a finisher of the Ceremonies a Corner-stone to remove the separation between Jew and Gentile an Intercessor for the Church a Lord of nature in his miracles a Cōnqueror of death and the power of darknesse in his resurrection and that he fulfilled the whole Councell of God performed all his sacred offices and annointing on earth accomplished the whole worke of redemption and restitution of mans nature to an estate superiour to the Angels whereas the state of man by creation was inferiour and reconciled and established all things according to the eternall will of the Father That in time Jesus the Lord was borne in the dayes of Herod and suffered under the government of Ponce Pilate being deputy of the Romans and under the high Priesthood of Caiphas was betrayed by Judas one of the twelve Apostles and was crucified at Jerusalem and after a true and naturall death and his body laid in the sepulchre the third day he raised himselfe from the bond of death and rose and shewed himselfe to many chosen witnesses by the space of divers dayes and at the end of those dayes in the sight of many ascended into heaven where he continueth his intercession and shall from thence at the day appointed come in great glory to judge the world That the sufferings and merits of Christ as they are sufficient to do away the sins of the whole world so they are only effectual to those which are regenerate by the holy Ghost who breatheth where he wil of free grace which grace as a seed uncorruptible quickneth the spirit of man conceiveth him anew a son of God and member of Christ so that Christ having mans flesh and man having Christs spirit there is an open passage and mutuall imputation whereby sin and wrath was conveyed to Christ from man and merit and life conveyed from Christ to man which seed of the holy Ghost figureth in us the Image of Christ slaine or crucified in mortification through a lively faith and then reneweth in us the Image of God in holinesse and charity though both imperfectly and in degrees farre differing even in Gods elect as well in regard of the fire of the spirit as of the illumination which is more or lesse in a large proportion as namely in the Church before Christ which yet neverthelesse was partaker of one and the same salvation with us That the worke of the spirit though it be not tyed to any means in heaven or earth yet it is ordinarily dispensed by the preaching of the word administration of the Sacraments Covenants of the fathers upon the children prayer reading the censures of the Church society of the godly crosses and afflictions Gods benefits his Judgements upon others miracles the contemplation of his creatures all which though some be more principall and perpetuall God useth as the means of vocation and conversion of his Elect not derogating from his power to call immediatly by his grace and at all hours and moments of the day that is of mans life according to his good pleasure That the word of God whereby his will is revealed continued in revelation and tradition untill Moses and that the Scriptures were from Moses time to the times of the Apostles and Evangelists in whose age when after the coming of the holy Ghost the teacher of all truth they had delivered the tradition of Scripture the book of the Scripture was shut closed so as not to receive any new addition And that the Church hath no power over the Scriptures to teach or command anything contrary to the written word but is as the Arke wherein the tables of the first Testaments were kept and preserved that is to say the Church hath only the custody and delivery over of the Scriptures committed unto the same together with the interpretation of them but such onely as is conceived by themselves That there is an universall or Catholicke Church of God dispersed over the face of the earth which is Christs Spouse and body being gathered of the Fathers of the old world of the Church of the Jewes of the spirits of the faithfull dissolved of the spirits of the faithfull militant and of the names yet to bee borne which are already written in the booke of life That there is also a visible Church distinguished by the outward workes of Gods Covenant and the receiving of the holy Doctrine with the use of the mysteries of God and the invocation and sanctification of his holy name together with regeneration by his spirit That there is also a holy succession in the Prophets of the New Testament and Fathers of the Church from the time of the Apostles and Disciples which saw our Saviour in the flesh unto the consummation of the worke of the Ministrie which persons are called from God by guifts or inward anointing and this vocation of God followed by an outward calling and ordination of the Church I beleeve that the soules of those that dye in the Lord are blessed and rest from their labours and enjoy the sight of God yet so as they are in expectation of a further consummation of glory in the last day at which time all flesh of man shall arise and be changed and shall appeare and receive from Jesus Christ his eternall judgement and the glory of the Saints shall then be full and the Kingdome shall be given up to God the Father from which time all things shall continue for ever in that being and state which then they shall receive So as there are three times or parts of eternity if so they may be called The first the time before beginnings when the God-head was onely without the being of any creature The second the time of the mystery which continueth from the creation to the dissolution of the world And the third the time of the revelation of the sons of God which time is the last and is everlasting without change FINIS