Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	reason_n	7,423	5	5.8303	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62310	Popery display'd in its proper colours wherein its nonentity and nullity is demonstrated by undeniable arguments : with several remarkable passages relating to the present times : humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons / by J.S. gent.	J. S., gent.	1681 (1681)	Wing S83; ESTC R9412	19,102	18

thing is the Touchstone wherewith men●●try what other things can truly come within the Orb or Compass of the thing defined and what not lay down before you the Definition of Divine Faith as the Apostle left it upon Record to Posterity Heb. 11. Faith is the Substance of things to be hoped for the Argument of things not appearing This Definition sheweth that Faith is a supernatural Vertue and not a coactive Romish power and that the object thereof is that which through its own abstruseness and sublimity cannot be apprehended or conceived by Natural Reason To exemplifie this Faith teacheth that in Trinity there is one peculiar Nature in three different Persons no mans natural Understanding can apprehend how this Individuality of Nature can be in three Persons without Distraction or Multiplication of the Nature because every one of these Persons is identified really and formally with this nature in the strictest union In like sort touching the Incarnation mans Reason cannot lay any true level to conceive how one Hypostasis or Person can be in two Natures or how this Hypostasis or Person is identified for between Mans Capacity and the Nature of supernatural Faith the proportion lies certainly and only in disproportion in matters of Faith Reason dictates to us to believe things above reason but never against reason as the Papists affirm This Supernatural Faith hath a necessary reference to two things The First is Prima veritas Revelans which is God who revealeth all Truths and points of Faith The Second is the Authority of the Church to reveal all those things and nothing more which God hath revealed either by himself or his Apostles Now let us examine whether these two points so necessary to true Faith do accord to the Papal Faith or not As to the First Prima veritas revelans which is God I freely appeal to themselves whether their Principles of Faith be either revealed to each particular Pope by God or found in Scripture namely every Papal Decree to be as essential to True Divine Faith and as necessary to Salvation if Revealed by God Purgatory Adoring and Worshiping Images made of Gold Silver Stocks and Stones in the nature of a God praying to Saints and the Virgin Mary with more zeal and eagerne●s than either to their Maker or Saviour teaching Sedition Rebellion and Murder as meritorious Acts if neither who will believe or say but that Popery is a mere Non-Entity or a bare Intentionality As to the Second Point which is the Authority of the Church in propounding to her Children the things by God revealed we know and affirm that the Church of Rome dare not publickly own to have received either from God or Scripture though daily practised by Her and her Emissaries the aforesaid Principles the verity of this we have not only from Scripture but from the ingenious Confessions of their most Learned and Ancient Authors Mark withal how these false Prophers to serve as certain Veils or Curtains to hide their hellish and wicked Principles from the eyes of the Ignorant do forbid under pain of Excommunication the Reading of holy Scripture the infallible Guide to Salvation Thus far to demonstrate both from the definition of Faith set down by St. Paul and from the Points necessarily concurring for the causing not only of true Faith but of Salvation that Popery in regard of its wanting these two necessary Points is but an absolute Nullity of Faith and Religion For every thing that hath a real Existence or Being may have its Nature explicated by the Definition of it which consisteth of two parts that is Genus and Differentia The Genus doth comprehend the Essence of the Thing defined the Differentia doth more particularly Constitute the thing defined and distinguisheth it from all other things For Example A Man is defined to be Animal Rationale a Creature enjoying Reason the word Animal demonstrates the Essence of Man Rationale that is Rationality doth Constitute man in definition and maketh him to differ from all other sublunary Creatures A Definition extendeth it self not only to the Existence or want of Existence in things corporeal or material but also to the Being or not Being in things speculative and immaterial I mean in Do●●rines and other such Theories of the Understanding Now Popery which in it self truly implyeth an absolute Contradiction cannot be thus defined and is undenyably compounded of several Contradictories and opposite Doctrines and Tenets can have no being but intentionally for whatsoever implyeth a Contradiction supposeth a Being and a not Being of a thing and all at one and the same time From whence this Absurdity must needs follow that is if such a thing could be then could a thing be whose Being should consist in a not Being consequently a Nullity This is Popery But to Contract this Point I will particularly insist as most conducing to the Subject in hand and the time that Protestants can now afford or set apart to read there being so many Pamphlets abroad that the Reader may easily discern what mutual Recrimination and what irreconciliable Repugnancy there is between the Papists themselves and this even in matters of the greatest and highest consequence witness the many Books they have written and the acerbity of Style one against another even intimating thereby that the different Doctrines differently maintained by them were truly Contradictories containing and defending different Tenets so repugnant and contradictory one to another that even by the Law and Nature of Contradictories the one side must ever want a real and subsisting Being Several Books written and allowed of in Rome wherein many Principles of Faith and the civil Power of Magistrates were controverted with many Heretical Decrees were by order of the Bishops and Councils of France burned by the Hangmans hand they also decreed that the Church of Rome do vary from the sincere Doctrine of the Scriptures and yet now adays all are good Christians and Papists that oppose Protestancy or cut Protestants Throats Now I close up this point referring to the judgment of the learned Reader how deadly Popery is wounded not only by the Pen of Popery but also by its Hellish and daily Practice For the nature of true Faith and true Christianity exacteth that it should be complete entire and perfect in it self like unto an Action morally vertuous which is accomplished by the access of all due conducing Circumstances but vitiated through the absence but of any one Many other contradictory Points by them maintained as Evangelical and true Popery I here pretermit till better opportunity and assure the Reader that Popery is no true Faith but in respect thereof an absolute Irreality or an intentional Name or Word Thus much for the Nullity of Popery and we say with the Prophet David Thou hast saved us from our Enemies and hast put them to shame that hated us In God we boast all the day long and will praise thy Name for ever Psal 44.7 8. We are not

credit then can a Protestant propose to himself in keeping company with a Papist much less in promoting or maintaining his Interest For no Protestant can be so infatuated if not deeply concern'd in the Plot or very ignorant to believe that a Papist fears God or keeps his Precepts But since they are not all Israel which are of Israel as St. Paul said nor all Protestants that come to Church as I wish they were and there really appear what they are as well internal as external and not lye sheltering themselves within the pale of our Church and under the wings of Protestants promote the Popish Interest But they are easily known for what our Saviour said of the Wolves in Sheeps cloathing is eternally true By their Fruits ye may know them Matth. 7.16 Having this infallible mark and Divine Caution besides several late past Passages if well observed nothing more doth concern all Protestants than to United and Act as the Protestants did in Q. Eliz. time The Papists forelaw they could do nothing unless they could cut her off therefore all their Plots and hellish Designs were calculated against her life as they are now against his present Majesty whom God long preserve The Protestants foresaw that there was no end of their Plots and hellish Designs till they would have cut her off and consequently extirpate the Protestant Religion if by some extraordinary means they did not prevent it upon which they did by an universal and unanimous Assent enter into an Association by which they mutually promised to each other to repair to their Arms and stand by and assist each other with their Lives and Fortunes in these three cases 1. In case of the Queens death 2. In case of a Foreign Invasion 3. In case of any Popish Insurrection Besides they obliged themselves one to another whenever the Queen fell by any untimely end they would revenge her death upon the Papists This immediately put a stop to all their Plots and Designs against her for when they saw the Protestants were unanimously agreed on that point which is to be wished for now and that taking away the Queens Life was their total Ruine and Destruction the Papists had soon done with their Plottings This never to be forgotten Act of Queen Elizabeth's Protestants and in an interval of Parliament was so universally approved of that she her self in the next Parliament confirmed it and made it Law Now it 's to be admired how one Protestant calls another Rogue and Rebel for subscribing or promoting a harmless Petition for the Sitting of Parliament to redress the Grievances of the Nation The Parliament having already stigmatized these horrid Abhorrers and strange kind of Protestants never to be forgotten and not worth my while to decipher their Popishly affected Crime it being daily to be seen and read in their faces I only tell them that I am sorry that such are permitted amongst Protestants for they can make as good Papists supposing Interest as they are now Protestants These are the men that prosecute Protestant Dissenters and if Popery were turned Trump would willingly destroy all that would not conform to their Livery and Superstitious Levies as they did in the days of Queen Mary for it is very well known that the professed Papists were no more able then than they are now to destroy they Protestants No it was the Protestant Abhorrers that wicked Crew the worst wretches that turned Papists and spilt the blood of all true Protestants as they thirst to do with ours now Of such Abhorrers as these I would have all honest minded men and true Protestants to shun and avoid their Company and scorn their Society with a juster indignation than a known professed Papist from a known Papist you can guard your self but from these miscreant Wretches you cannot for they walk and converse with you as Friends like deceitful and bloody men and lye in the bosom of the Church till they sting her to Death as they did in the Marian Days Now is the time not to Dispute or debate much about a Plot which is so evidently demonstrated and confessed by all except those that are therein concerned but to Act and that with speed and universal Assent against Popery and all its Adherents otherwise England's Religion Liberty and Property is lost In this our Gracious King neither is or will be wanting as he assured this present Parliament in his Royal Speech to them Popery and all its professors 1. Are Enemies to God by their setting up and worshiping of Idols as God contrary to his express Command Truth hates Competitors 2. To Christ by their new found Mediators and especially the Virgin Mary whom they style Salvatrix Peccatorum 3. To Scripture by their many corrupt Traditions and humane Inventions in imposing a belief upon all their Proselytes not only to deny their Reason but all their other Senses to the great detriment of their Souls and the dishonour of their God and Saviour 4. To all Opposers by Fire and Faggot 5. To all Government that will not subject to their Antichristian and Imperious power by Plots Assassinations Poysoning and horrid Massacres these to be Popery's usual and common steps to worldly Advancement to its support and propagating is notoriously known especially to this Nation whom Popery the common Enemy of Mankind hath so often attempted our ruine and at several times hath been at the very point of effecting it has once more with that great violence attempted our utter ruine which I hope will be so ordered as to be their last Attempt and if not we are not to be pitied The great Undertakers and Encouragers of this Hellish Plot some have had their deserts some are fled from Justice and promise themselves good success in their Design not because of the many thousands of Masses that are daily said all over the Papal World for the prosperity of their Design but because they have Friends in Disguise amongst us as they most impudently assert in our Courts in our Armies in our Navyes which I would not have believed had not some late passages happened Their Design is not to convert but to kill burn and plunder it being just and meritorious to extirpate Hereticks Root and Branch But Blessed be God their chief Aim the Killing of the King whose only life is our safery has failed and so confounded them that they afterwards resolved to surprize us and make a Night-work of us as they did in France Piedmont and Ireland in those most bloody and barbarous Massacres of poor innocent Protestants but God notwithstanding the multitude of our sins hath hitherto preserved us though design'd many a time to a total destruction and discovered this impious and hellish Conspiracy to the great confusion and shame of the Conspirators he has also beaten up our Quarters and given us the Alarm if we will take it as we ought all things considered We have been told that not only our Forts our Militia but