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truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	fundamental_a	1,746	5	10.1277	5	false

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A43978	De corpore politico, or, The elements of law, moral and politick with discourses upon severall heads, as of [brace] the law of nature, oathes and covenants, several kinds of government : with the changes and revolutions of them / by Tho. Hobbs of Malmsbury.	Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1652 (1652)	Wing H2221; ESTC R41339	83,707	190

also all such as be evidently inferred from thence as Belief in God the Father Joh. 12.44 He that beleveth in me believeth not in me but in him that sent me 1 Joh. 2.23 He that denyeth the Son hath not the Father Belief in God the Holy Ghost of whom Christ saith Joh. 14.26 But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my Name And Joh. 15.16 But when the comforter shall come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth Beleife of the scriptures by which we beleeve those points and of the immortality of the Soul without which we cannot beleeve that he is a Saviour 7. And as these are the fundamentall points of faith necessary to salvation so also are they only necessary as matter of faith ●nd also essential to the calling of a christian as may appear by many evident places of Holy Scripture Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eteral life and they are they which testifie of me Now forasmuch as by the Scripture is meant there the Old Testament the New being then not written the beleife of that which was written concerning our Saviour in the old Testament was sufficient beleife for the obtaining of Eternal Life but in the old Testament there is nothing revealed concerning Christ but that he is the Messiah and such things as belong to the Fundamentall Points thereupon depending And therefore those fundamental Points are sufficient to salvation as of Faith And Joh. 6.28.29 Then sayd they unto him what shall we do that we might work the works of God Jesus answered and said unto them this is the work of God that ye beleeve in him whom he hath sent So that the Point to be beleived is That Jesus Christ came forth from God and he which believeth it worketh the works of God Joh. 11.26.27 Whosoever liveth and beleiveth in me shall never dye Beleevest thou this She sayd unto him yea Lord I beleeve that thou art the Christ the Son of God which should come into the World Hence followeth He that beleiveth this shall never dye Joh. 20.31 But these things are wri●ten that ye might beleeve that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that in beleiving ye might have life through his Name By which appeareth that this Fundamentall Point is all that is required as of Faith to our Salvation 1 Joh. 4.2 Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come into the flesh is of God 1 Joh. 5.1 Whosoever beleiveth that J●s●s is the Christ is born of God and ver. 5. Who is it that overcometh the World but he that beleiveth that Jesus is the Son of God and vers. 13. These things have I written unto you that beleeve in the Name of The Son of God that ye may know that ye have ●ternall life Act. 8.36.37 The Eunuch said Here is Water what doth let me to be baptized And Philip said unto him if thou beleevest with i● thy heart thou mayst He answered and sayd I beleeve that Jesus Christ is the Son of God This point therefore was sufficient for the reception of Man into Baptisme that is to say to Christianity And Act. 16.30 The Keeper of the Prison fell down before Paul and Silas and said Sirs what shall I do to be saved And they sayd beleeve in the Lord Jesus Christ And the Sermon of S. Peter upon the day of Pentecost was nothing else but an explication that Jesus was the Christ And when they had heard him asked him what shal we do he said unto them Ac. 2.38 Amend your lives and be baptized evry one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of sins Rom. 10.9 If thou shalt conf●ss with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt beleeve in thy heart that God raised him up from the Dead thou shalt be saved To these places may be added that wheresoever our Savior Christ doth approve the Faith of any man the Proposition beleeved if the same to be collected out of the Text is alway some of those Fundamentall Points before mentioned or something Equivalent as the Faith of the Centurion Mat. 8.8 Speake the word only and my Servant shall be healed beleiving he was omnipotent The Faith of the Woman which had an Issue of Blood Math 9.21 If I may but touch the Hem of his Garment implying he was the Messiah The Faith required of the blind men Mat. 9.28 Beleeve you that I am able to do this The Faith of the Canaanitish Woman Matth. 15.22 That he was the Son of David implying the same And so it is in every one of those places none excepted where our Saviour commendeth any mans Faith which because they are too many to insert here I omit and refer them to his Inquisition that is not otherwise satisfied And as there is no other Faith required so there was no other preaching for the Prophets of the Old Testament preached no other and John the Baptist preached only the Approach of the Kingdome of Heaven that is to say of the Kingdome of Christ the same was the commission of the Apostles Mat. 10.7 Go preach saying the kingdome of Heaven is at hand And Paul preaching amongst the Jews Act. 18.5 did but testifie unto the Jews that Jesus was the Christ And the Heathens took notice of Christians no otherwise but by this name that they beleeved Jesus to be a King crying out Act. 17.6 These are they that have subverted the state of the World and here they are whom Jason hath received And these all doe against the Decrees of Caesar saying that there is another King One Jesus And this was the Sum of the Predictions the Sum of the Confessions of them that beleeved as well Men as Devils This was the Title of his Crosse Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jewes This the occasion of the Crowne of Thorns Scepter of Reed and a man to carry his Crosse This was the Subiect of the Hosan●a's And this was the Title by which our Saviour commanding to take another mans goods bad them say The Lord hath need And by this Title he purged the Temple of the profane market kept there Nor did the Apostles themselves believe any more then that Jesus was the M●ssiah nor understand so much for they understood the Messiah to be no more then a Temporall King till after our Saviours Resurrection Furthermore this Point that Christ is the Messiah is particularly set forth for Fundamentall by that word or some other equivalent thereunto in divers places Upon the Confession of Peter Matth. 16.16 Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God Our Saviour ver. 18. saith Upon this Rock will I build my Church This point therefore is the whole Foundation of Christs Church Rom. 15.20 S. Paul raith I so inforced my self to preach the Gospel not where Christ was named lest I should have built upon another mans foundation 1 Cor. 3.10

S. Paul when he had reprehended the Corinthians for their Sects curious Doctrines and Questions he distinguisheth between Fundamental Points and Superstruction and saith I have laid the Foundation and another buildeth thereupon but let every man take heed how he buildeth upon it For other Foundation can no man lay then that which is laid which is Jesus Christ Colos. 2.6 As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk in him rooted and builded in him and stablished in the Faith 8. Having shewed this Proposition Jesus is the Christ to be the only Fundamentall and necessary point of Faith I shal set down a few places more to shew that Other Points though they may be true are not so necessary to be believed as that a man may not be saved though he believe them not And first If a man could not be saved without assent of the Heart to the truth of all Controversies which are now in agitation concerning Religion I cannot see how any man living can be saved so full of subtilty and curious knowledge it is to be so great a Divine Why therefore should a man think that our Saviour who Mat. 11.30 saith that His Yoke is easie should require a matter of that difficulty or how are little Children said to believe Mat. 18.6 or how could the good Thief be thought sufficiently catechized upon the Crosse or S. Paul so perfect a Christian presently upon his Conversion and though there may be more Obedience required in him that hath the Fundamental points explicated unto him then in him that hath received the same but implicitely yet there is no more faith required for salvation in one man then in another For if it be true that Whosoever shall confesse with his mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in his heart that God raised him from the Dead shall be saved as it is Rom. 10.9 and that Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God the Belief of that point is sufficient for the salvation of any man whosoever he be for as much as concerneth Faith And seeing he that believeth not that Jesus is the Christ whatsoever he believe else cannot be saved it followeth that there is no more required to the salvation of one man then another in matter of Faith 9. About these points Fundamental there is little Controversie amongst Christians though otherwise of different Sects amongst themselves And therefore the Controversies of Religion are altogether about Points unnecessary to salvation whereof some are Doctrines raised by Humane Ratiocination from the points Fundamentall As for Example such Doctrines as concern the Manner of the Real Presence wherein are mingled tenets of Faith concerning the Omnipotency Divinity of Christ with the Tenets of Aristotle and the Peripatelicks concerning Substance and Accidents Species Hypostasis and the Subsistence and Migration of Accidents from place to place Words some of them without meaning and nothing but the Canting of Grecian Sophisters And these Doctrines are condemned expresly Col. 2.8 where after S. Paul had exhorted them to be rooted and builded in Christ he giveth them this farther Caveat Beware lest there be any man that spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceits through the Traditions of men according to the rudiments of the World And such are such Doctrines as are raised out of such places of the Scriptures as concern not the Foundation by mens natural Reason as about the Concatenation of Causes and the Manner of Gods Predestination which are also mingled with Philosophy as if it were possible for men that know not in what manner God seeth heareth or speaketh to know nevertheless the manner how he intendeth and predestinateth A man therefore ought not to examin by Reason any point or draw any Consequence out of Scripture by Reason concerning the nature of God Almighty of which Reason is not capable And therefore S. Paul Rom. 12.3 giveth a good Rule That no man presume to understand above that which is meet to understand but that he understand according to Sobriety which they doe not who presume out of Scripture by their own Interpretation to raise any Doctrine to the Understanding concerning those things which are incomprehensible And this whole controversie concerning the Predestination of God and the Free Wil of Man is not peculiar to Christian men For we have huge volumes of this subiect under the name of Fate Contingency disputed between the Epicurians and the Stoicks and consequently it is not matter of Faith but of Philosophy and so are also all the Questions concerning any ot●er Point but the Foundation before named and God receiveth a man which part of the Question soever he holdeth It was a Controversie in S. Pauls time whether a Christian Gentile might eate freely of any thing which the Christian Jews did not and the Jew condemned the Gentile that he did eat to whom S. Paul saith Rom. 14.3 Let not him that eateth not iudge him that eateth for God hath received him And vers. 6. in the Question concerning the observing of Holy Dayes wherein the Gentiles the Jewes differed he saith unto them He that observeth the Day observeth it to the Lord and he that observeth not the Day observeth it not to the Lord And they who strive concerning such Questions and divide themselves into Sects are not therefore to be accounted zealous of the Faith their strife being but carnal which is confirmed by S. Paul 1 Cor. 3.4 When one saith I am of Paul and another I am of Apollos are ye not carnal For they are not Questions of Faith but of wit wherein carnally men are inclined to seek the Mastery one of another For nothing is truly a Point of Faith but that Jesus is the Christ as S. Paul testifieth 1 Cor. 2.2 For I esteemed not the knowledge of any thing amongst you save Jesus Christ and him crucified And 1 Tim. 6.20 O Timotheus keep that which is committed un●o thee and avoid prophane and vain bablings and Opposition of Science falsly so called which while s●me profess they have erred concerning the Faith 2 Tim. 2.16 Stay prophane and vain bablings c. vers. 17. Of which sort is Hymeneus and Philetus which as concerning the truth have erred saying that the Resurrectionis past already Whereby S. Paul shewed that the Raising of Questions by Humane Ratiocination though it be from the Fundamental Points themselves is not onely not necessary but most dangerous to the Faith of a Christian Out of all these places I draw only this Conclusion in general That neither the points now in Controversie amongst Christians of different Sects or in any point that ever shall be in Controversie excepting only those that are contained in this Article Jesus is the Christ are necessary to salvation as of faith though in matter of obedience a man may be bound not to oppose the same 10. Although to the obtaining of Salvation there be required no more as hath been already