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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	know_v	8,213	5	4.2899	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21024	A voyage to Mount Libanus wherein is an account of the customs, manners, &c. of the Turks : also a description of Candia, Nicosia, Tripoly, Alexandretta, &c. : with curious remarks upon several passages re[l]ating to the Turks & Maronites / written originally in Italian by the R. F. Jerome Dandini.; Missione apostolica al patriarca de' Maroniti del Monte Libano. English	Dandini, Girolamo, 1554-1634.	1698 (1698)	Wing D168	76,284	146

not all in the same manner of the Perfections of God The Mahometan Doctors glory also they are divided into many Sects You must nevertheless observe that this diversity of Opinion is no ways hurtful to the State for they all agree in the fundamental Articles of Religion and as the fundamental Articles are very few in number they have an entire liberty to dispute of an Infinity of important points and judge of 'em as they please without being reputed Hereticks or Schismaticks for it This great Division passeth amongst them for a War of Metaphysicks where one has one Sentiment another another as amongst the Scotists and Thomists they say that all that ought to be believ'd is contain'd in the Alcoran and Assona or Tradition but that there are certain difficult points therein about which the Doctors ought to be consulted and whose Decision they ought to stand to however they do not believe that the Decisions of their Doctors are infallible for Probability alone sufficeth to put their Consciences in repose and altho ' they might be false they do not sin in crediting of them For say they God hath commanded those that are not knowing in the Law to follow the Doctors that instruct them and not to examine too scrupulously if their Decisions be true Besides 't is a great point of their policy not to insist but upon a few fundamental and necessary points of Salvation for it were impossible but that of such great Philosophers they should produce a great number of Heresies if their Religion had consisted of many Articles of Faith and of difficult Belief This great Liberty therefore which they have to speak at their pleasure of all matters of Religion that are not included in the Fundamental Articles hath produc'd an infinity of Sects who all endeavour to destroy one-another for that every Sect believes its own Principles uncontestable They handle with much Subtilty the same Questions which we do in the Schools for example in regard to the Attributes of God Besides that which I have already remark'd they examine all the Divine Power if such a thing is possible or impossible if God can do Evil and if also he can do what he will how many sorts of Wills there be in God whether it be that Will which is from all Eternity or that same Will within the time They dispute of Predestination of the Liberty of Man if he produceth his Actions himself or is it God alone who is the Author and that Man serves but for a passive Instrument who hath not in himself the Principle of Action One Sect attributes all to God as being the Cause of all things others on the contrary give all to the Creatures and will have that God reposeth himself without having need to be occupied about our Affairs There are some of them who pretend that God is not the Cause of our Faith but that it comes of it self and from our own good dispositions Others are of a contrary Opinion who go so far as to destroy all the Liberty of Man from whom they remove all sorts of Indifference and say that God considers not our Merits but his own Will alone and 't is He that hardens the Hearts of whom He pleaseth and is no less the Author of Evil than of Good This Opinion which is very common amongst the Turks is founded upon the Idea which they have of all the Divine power to whom they attribute all things as if the Creatures were but meer Instruments They believe for example that it is God that produceth heat in the Hand and not the Fire That the Victuals which we eat doth not nourish us but that it is God alone that doth that in us For say they there is no other Mover but He. there are some who keep in the medium of these and place neither Constraint nor absolute Necessity in the Will but yet do not attribute so great and absolute an Indifference thereto Finally they hold great Disputes touching the Liberty of the Blessed some believe that the Liberty of the Blessed is a true Liberty others pretend that it merits rather the Name of Necessity than Liberty having no Indifference The nature of Habit which hath been produced long since in our Schools is not unknown to them for they there dispute of Faith if it be an Habit if that Habit be simple or no if it be acquired all at once or by degrees Calvin might have found Masters amongst the Mahometans who might have read him Lectures of Faith and Good Works for there are some of them who have writ before him that the Faithful can never lose the Faith that neither Murder nor Adultery nor the other great Sins can hinder him from being always of the number of true Believers unless he say the Sins that he committed were with permission for then he sins out of pure malice Likewise they cannot agree amongst themselves about the distinction of Faith if it comprehends in it Works or no and they search out with much subtilty if it 's possible to be saved without Faith and that being such as they ought to believe of them who are in the utmost parts of the Earth and have never heard speak of Mahomet many believe that in that case Faith is not so absolutely necessary and that then they may be saved by the meer Light of Reason as 't is to be feard some have in the same manner been saved under the Old Testament They have also very great Disputes touching explicit and implicit Faith There are some who teach 't is sufficient to have an explicit Belief of God and Mahomet that as to other Articles of Faith 't is enough to believe them implicitly and in gross and they found this upon a Principle that is very common to the Turks to wit that to believe a Truth there is no need to know nor comprehend it that God punisheth not the Faithful for not taking greater care to be instructed in their Belief nevertheless they are never permitted to use Equivocations when they are question'd about their Faith for then they are obliged to answer without hesitation whether they are Mussulmans or true Believers Altho' the Mahometans are great Mathematicians yet that hinders not their having amongst them Sects which attribute all to Sense and who believe that God is a Body and that what is written of him is to be taken literally In a word those have the same Opinion of God as the ancient Anthropomorphites There are some also who are so far from considering God in himself according to the method of the Platonists and to acknowledge in him all the Perfections that may be conceiv'd that they pursue on the contrary the Principles of Aristotle who regarded not the Ideas in themselves for that he believed them to be Chimera's but formed Ideas after the induction of particular things These sort of People pretend that God knows not things but after they are come to pass that that which