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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	justify_v	5,380	5	8.8463	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43720	Speculem Sherlockianum, or, A looking-glass in which the admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the man, as to his accuracy, judgement, orthodoxy by an obedient son of the Church of England.	Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing H1916; ESTC R10759	37,301	72

other of our vertues or works properly doth therefore Scripture useth to say that faith without works doth justifie ibid. All the Fathers Martyrs and other Holy men whom St. Paul spake of Heb. 11. had their faith surely fixed in God when all the world was against them They did not only know God to be the Lord Maker and Governour of all men in the world but also they had a special confidence and trust that he was and would be their God their comforter aider helper maintainer and defender This is the Christian faith which these Holy men had and we also ought to have And although they were not named Christian-men yet it was a Christian-faith that they had for they looked for all benefits of God the Father through the merits of his Son Jesus Christ as we now do This difference is between them and us that they looked when Christ should come and we be in the time when he is come Therefore saith St. Aug. the time is altered and changed but not the faith for we have both one faith in one Christ The same Holy Ghost also which we have had they God gave them then Grace to be his Children as he doth us now c. In effect they and we be all one we have the same faith they had in God and they the same we have pag. 25. Faith giveth life to the Soul and they be as much dead to God that lack faith as they be to the world whose bodies lack souls without faith all that is done of us is but dead before God although the work seem never so gay and glorious before man Even as the picture graven or painted is but a dead representation of the thing it self and is without life or any manner of moving so be the works of all unfaithful persons before God They do appear to be lively works and indeed they be but dead not availing to the everlasting life They be but shadows shews of lively and good things and not good and lively things indeed For true faith doth give life to the works and out of such faith come good works that be very good works indeed without faith no work is good before God as saith St. Aug. pag. 30. And there and in pag. 31 32. much is quoted to the same purpose out of St. Augustine St. Ambrose St. Chrysostom Among other things this is quoted with approbation from Chrysostome I can shew a man that by faith without works lived and came to Heaven but without faith never man had life The Thief that was hanged when Christ suffered did believe only and the most mereiful God justified him And because no man shall say again that he lacked time to do good works else he would have done them Truth it is and I will not contend therein but this I will surely affirm that faith only saved him If he had lived and not regarded faith and the works thereof he should have lost his salvation again But this is the effect that I say that faith by it self saved him but works by themselves never justified any man These are some of many things which I could have quoted out of the Homilies which Mr. Sh. is bound to read to his people and which were published by Queen Elizabeth to expel erroneous and poysonous Doctrine and were reprinted by King James not only for a help of Non-Preaching but withall as a pattern for Preaching Ministers How ill Mr. Sh. hath fitted his cloath to this pattern he that is not very blind may see somebody perhaps may be at so much trouble as to gather up his drolling Parenthesis and adapt them to the expressions in the Homilies composed perhaps as to the first Tome of them by Arch. Cranmer and as to the last of them by a Prelate not inferior to him for learning and piety I have no mind to make the Papists and other Sectaries so much sport But certainly had I a Cure of Souls I would every Holy-day when there was no Sermon in my Church either read or cause to be read one of them to my People and should not dare to expose the Doctrines contained in them as Mr. Sh. manifestly doth I might look before I leapt well consider whether it were meet to tye up my self not to contradict some passages in the Homilies but when I had so tyed my self I would either strictly observe my Obligation or openly declare my sorrow for bringing my self under it But because he hath so much applauded the Milk for Babes or the Liturgical Catechism let us take some notice of that which for my part I so much approve that I would not for all the Money in my Pocket a new Catechism were now to be made In that Catechism we shall find something of Art and Subtlety as this Gentleman would call it The Child in that Catechism is first asked What is his Name that Question may be answered without Art or Subtlety but then in the next place being asked who gave him that Name he is directed to make answer My Godfathers and my Godmothers in my Baptism when I was made a Member of Christ a Child of God c. If the Child was at Baptism made a Member of Christ he was also then united to Christ and put into Christ for nothing can be a member of that unto which it is not united Now suppose any Child should be so pert or malepert as to ask the Rector what the word Christ signifieth when it is said that he was made a Member of Christ the Rector will gravely answer Christ hath four significations It signifies the Office of Christ the Person of Christ the Doctrine of Christ the Church of Christ The Child was not I suppose made a Member of Christ's Office nor of Christ's Doctrine he must be made a Member therefore either of the Person of Christ or of the Church of Christ It is like Mr. Sh. will answer the Child that he was made a Member of the Church of Christ But what this Church of Christ is the Child no where finds explained in the Church Catechism The Holy Catholick Church is mentioned as one of the things to be believed in the Creed and I think the word also occurs in the first question concerning the Sacraments which part of the Catechism is no older than the Hampton-Court Conference but what the word Church signifieth is no where opened in that Catechism will Mr. Sh. now say that the Child is to profess himself a Member of he knows not what I suppose he will not but rather will tell him what the Church is and then he must use some Art or Subtlety to make him understand how he is Member of that Church and I think he must be very subtle that can make a Child understand how he can be a Member of the Church of Christ before he have first made him understand how he was made a Member of Christ himself And I doubt the Child's head