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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
A63668	A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. Guide for the penitent: or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin.	1677 (1677)	Wing T292; ESTC R219156	74,175	230

God through Jesus Christ to read and hear the Scriptures read and expounded to provoke each other to love and to good works to advance the honour of Christ and to propagate his Faith and Worship I believe this to be a Holy Church Spiritual and not Civil and Secular but sanctified by their Profession and the solemn Rites of it professing holiness and separating from the evil manners of heathens and wicked persons by their laws and institutions And this Church is Catholick that is it is not confined to the Nation of the Jews as was the old Religion but it is gathered out of all Nations and is not of a differing Faith in differing places but always did doth and ever shall profess the Faith which the Apostles preach'd and which is contained in this Creed with whosoever believes is a Catholick and a Christian and he that believes not is neither This Catholick Church I believe that is I believe whatsoever all good Christians in all Ages and in all places did confess to be the Catholick and Apostolick Faith The Communion of Saints That is the Communion of all Christians because by reason of their holy Faith they are called Saints in Scripture as being begotten by God into a lively Faith and cleansed by Believing and by this Faith and the Profession of a holy life in obedience to Jesus Christ they are separated from the world called to the knowledge of the Truth justified before God and indued with the holy Spirit of Grace foreknown from the beginning of the world and predestinated by God to be made conformable to the image of his Son here in holiness of life hereafter in a life of glory and they who are Saints in their belief and profession must be so also in their practice and conversation that so they may make their calling and election sure lest they be Saints onely in name and title in their profession and institution and not in manners and holiness of living that is lest they be so before men and not before God I believe that all people who desire the benefit of the Gospel are bound to have a fellowship and society with these Saints and communicate with them in their holy things in their Faith and in their Hope and in their Sacraments and in their Prayers and in their Publick Assemblies and in their Government and must do to them all the acts of Charity and mutual help which they can and are required to and without this Communion of Saints and a conjunction with them who believe in God through Jesus Christ there is no Salvation to be expected which Communion must be kept in inward things always and in all persons and testified by outward acts always when it is possible and may be done upon just and holy conditions The Forgiveness of sins I believe that all the sins I committed before I came to the knowledge of the Truth and all the slips of humane infirmity against which we heartily pray and watch and labour and all the evil habits of which we repent so timely and effectually that we obtain their contrary graces and live in them are fully remitted by the blood of Christ which forgiveness we obtain by Faith and Repentance and therefore are not justified by the Righteousness of Works but by the Righteousness of Faith and we are preserved in the state of forgiveness or justification by the fruits of a lively Faith and a timely active Repentance The Resurrection of the Body I believe that at the last day all they whose sins are forgiven and who lived and died in the Communion of Saints and in whom the Holy Spirit did dwell shall rise from their grves their dead bones shall live and be clothed with flesh and skin and their Bodies together with their Souls shall enter into the portion of a new life and that this body shall no more see corruption but shall rise to an excellent condition it shall be Spiritual Powerful Immortal and Glorious like unto his glorious body who shall then be our Judge is now our Advocate our Saviour and our Lord. And the Life everlasting I believe that they who have their part in this Resurrection shall meet the Lord in the Air and when the blessed Sentence is pronounc'd upon them they shall for ever be with the Lord in joys unspeakable and full of glory God shall w●…pe all tears from their eyes there shall be no fear or sorrow no mourning or death a friend shall never go away from thence and an enemy shall never enter there shall be fulness without want light eternal brighter then the Sun day and no night joy and no weeping difference in degree and yet all full there is love without dissimulation excellency without envy multitudes without confusion musick without discord there the Understandings are rich the Will is satisfied the Affections are all love and all joy and they shall reign with God and Christ for ever and ever Amen This is the Catholick Faith which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved Tertull. de velandis Virgin Regula quidem fidei ●…na omnino est sola immobilis irreformabilis credendi scilicet in unicum Deum Omnipotentem c. Hac lege fidei manente caet●…ra jam disciplinae conversationis admittunt novitatem correctionis operante scil proficiente usque in finem Gratia Dei The Rule of Faith is wholly one unalterable never to be mended never changed to wit I believe in God c This Law of Faith remaining in other things you may encrease and grow S. Aug. de Fide Symb. Haec est Fides quae paucis verbis tenenda in Symbolo Novellis datur Quae pauca verba fiedelibus not a sunt ut credendo subjugentur Deo subjugati recte vivant recte vivendo cor mundent corde mundo quod credunt intelligant This is the Faith which in few words is given to Novices These few words are known to all the faithful that by believing they may be subject to God by this subjection they may live well by living-well they may purifie their hearts and with pure hearts they may relish understand what they do believe Max. Taurin de Tradit Symb. Symbolum tessera est signaculum quo inter fideles Perfidosque secernitur This Creed is the Badge or Cognizance by which the Faithful are discerned from Unbelievers Hujus Catholici Symboli brevis perfecta Confessio quae duodecim Apostolorum totidem est signata sententiis tam instructa est in munitione coelesti ut omnes Haereticorum opiniones solo possint gladio detruncari Leo M. ad Pulcheriam Aug. This short and perfect Confession of this Catholick Creed which was consigned by the Sentences of twelve Apostles is so perfect a celestial

and in God by him and rely entirely on the mercies of God through Jesus Christ. From thence he shall come In the Clouds shining and adorned with the glory of his Father attended by millions of bright Angels with the voice of an Archangel and a shout of all the Heavenly Army the Trump of God and every eye shall see him and they that pierced his hands and his ●…eet shall behold his Majesty his Terror and his Glory and all the families of the earth shall tremble at his presence and the powers of Heaven shall be shaken and the whole earth and sea shall be broken in pieces and confusion for then he shall come to put an end to this world and To Judge the Quick and the Dead For the Father judgeth no man but hath given all judgment to his Son And at this day of Judgment the Lord Jesus shall sit in the Air in a glorious Throne and the Angels having gathered together God's Elect from the four corners of the world all the kindreds of the earth being brought before the Judgment-seat shall have the Records of their Conscience laid open that is all that ever they thought or spake or did shall be brought to their memory to convince the wicked of the Justice of the Judge in passing the fearful Sentence upon them and glorify the mercies of God towards his Redeemed ones and then the righteous Judge shall condemn the wicked to the portion of Devils for ever to a state of torments the second and eternal and intolerabl death and the godly being placed on his right hand shall hear the blessed Sentence of absolution and shall be led by Christ to the participation of the glories of his Father's Kingdom for ever and ever Amen I believe in the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit Who is the third Person of the holy undivided ever-blessed Trinity which I worship and adore and admire but look upon with wonder and am not in a capacity to understand I believe that the Holy Spirit into whose name as of the Father and the Son I was baptized is the heavenly Author the Captain the Teacher and the Witness of all the Truths of the Gospel that as the Father sent the Son so the Son from Heaven sent the holy Spirit to lead the Church into all truth to assist us in all Temptations and to help us in the purchase of all Vertue This Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and our Lord Jesus received him from his Father and sent him into the world who receiving the things of Christ and declaring the same excellent Doctrines speaks whatsoever he hath heard from him and instructed the Apostles and builds the Church and produces Faith and confirms our Hope and increases Charity And this Holy Spirit our blessed Lord hath left with his Church for ever by which all the servants of God are enabled to do all things necessary to Salvation which by the force of Nature they cannot do and we speak by the Spirit and work by the Spirit when by his assistances any ways imparted to us we speak or do any thing of our duty He it is who enlightens our Understanding sanctifies our Will orders and commands our affections he comforts our sorrows supports our spirits in trouble and enables us by Promises and Confidences and Gifts to suffer for the Lord Jesus and the Gospel And all these things God the Father does for us by his Son and the Son by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit by all means within and without which are operative upon and proportionable to the nature of reasonable creatures This is he who works Miracles gives the gifts of Prophecy and of Interpretation that teaches us what and how to pray that gives us Zeal and holy Desires who sanctifies Children in Baptism and confirms them with his grace in Comfirmation and reproves the world and consecrates Bishops and all the Ministers of the Gospel and absolves the Penitent and Blesses the Obedient and comforts the Sick and excommunicates the Refractory and makes intercession for the Saints that is the Church and those whom he hath Blessed appointed and sanctified to these purposes do all these Ministeries by his Authority and his Commandment and his Aids This is he that testifies to our Spirits that we are the Sons of God and that makes us to cry Abba Father that is who inspires into us such humble confidences of our being accepted in our hearty and constant endeavours to please God that we can with chearfulness and joy call God our Father and expect and hope for the portion of Sons both here and hereafter and in the certainty of this hope to work out our Salvation with fear and reverence with trembling and joy with distrust of our selves and mighty confidence in God By this holy and ever-blessed Spirit several persons in the Church and every man in his proportion receives the gifts of Wisdom and Utterance and Knowledge and Interpretation and Prophesie and Healing and Goverement and discerning of Spirits and Faith and Tongues and whatsoever can be necessary for the Church in several ages and periods for her beginning for her continuance for her in prosperity and for her in persecution This is the great Promise of the Father and it is the gift of God which he will give to all them that ask him and who live piously and chastly and are persons fit to entertain so Divine a Grace This Holy Spirit God gives to some more to some less according as they are capable They who obey his Motions and love his presence and improve his Gifts shall have him yet more abundantly but they that grieve the Holy Spirit shall loose that which they have and they that extinguish him belong not to Christ but are in the state of reprobation and they that blaspheme this holy Spirit and call him the spirit of the Devil or the Spirit of error or folly or do malicious despites to him that is they who on purpose considering and chusing do him hurt by word or by deed so far as lies in them shall for ever be separated from the presence of God and of Christ and shall never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come Lastly this Holy Spirit seals us to the day of Redemption that is God gives us his Holy Spirit as a testimony that he will raise us again at the last day and give us a portion in the glories of his Kingdom in the inheritance of our Lord Jesus The holy Catholick Church I believe that there is and ought to be a visible company of men professing the service and discipline that is the Religion of the Gospel who agree together in the Belief of all the Truths of God revealed by Jesus Christ and in confession of the Articles of this Creed and agree together in praying and praising