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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	salvation_n	4,849	5	7.2836	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61867	Five cases of conscience occasionally determined by a late learned hand.	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1666 (1666)	Wing S603; ESTC R15053	36,781	135

of Rome as indeed who can blame him to bring his Wife into a capacity of everlasting salvation the restless importunity whereof together with the ill advantages they of that party can make from the sad Confusions that are amongst us in these times it will be very hard for one of the weaker sex perpetually to resist or else in case she stand firm in her Religion against all Assaults and Attempts to the contrary whatsoever he may be towards her in outward carriage he cannot but in his inmost thoughts pass judgment upon her as an obstinate and desperate Heretique and so living and dying an accursed and damned Creature These are sad things both and it is not conceiveable how a Woman so matched should live with any comfort or ever hope to see a good day wherein she shall not either be tempted from her Religion or censured for it what assurance can she have of his good affections towards her who is bound not to permit any better opinion of her then of a Reprobate and Castaway It is possible there may be so much good nature in the Husband as to take off somewhat from that rigidness which otherwise the Principles of his Religion would bind him to or so much discretion sweetness and obligingness in the Wives demeanour towards him as to preserve a good measure of Conjugal Affection between them notwithstanding their different perswasions This I say is possible and where it happeneth so to be it rendereth the condition of the Parties so much the less uncomfortable and that is the utmost of the happiness that is to be hoped for from such Marriages and I think there cannot be produced many examples thereof yet even there there cannot be that cordial Affection and fulness of Complacency wherein yet the chiefest happiness of Conjugal Society consisteth that would be if the same Parties supposed to be of the same Qualifications otherwise were also of the same Religion I omit other oeconomical differences that may and very frequently do occasionally arise betwixt Husband and Wife from this difference in Religion as concerning the Entertainment of Friends the choice of Servants the education of Children very considerable things all besides sundry others perhaps of less moment yet such as are apt to breed Discontents and Jealousies and sometimes break out into great Distempers in the Family Such Marriages therefore I should utterly disswade especially in the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty where there is choice enough otherwise to be had of Persons of equal Degree Estate and Education of the same Religion to match withall Kings and Princes for reasons of State and because there is little choice of Persons of equal Dignity with themselves are therefore oftentimes by a kind of Necessity put upon such Marriages yet even there where they are certainly the most excusable it hath been observed that such Marriages have proved for the most part unfortunate The other Particular proposed in your Letter is concerning the Marriage of a Daughter to one that Professeth the Protestant Religion but having had Popish Parents may be suspected though he deny it to be that way inclined The resolution whereof as of most other Cases and Practical Questions will depend very much upon the consideration of Circumstances whereunto being altogether a stanger I am lesse able to give Judgement in the Case with any certainty only in order to the resolution of the Question these to my understanding seem to be the most proper and important Enquiries First Whether the Parents of the young Person be living or no one or both if both be dead the temptations from them which in such Cases are wont to prevail very much are by their Death clearly superseded and then the danger is by so much lesse but if either be living there can be little security of the Sons continuance in the Protestants belief notwithstanding his present profession thereof when he shall be assaulted with the whole authority of them to whom he oweth reverence Secondly With what degree of confidence and with what kind of asseverations he professeth the one and denieth the other Religion for although they that out of design put on a counterfeit vizor use all the art they can to dissemble it yet very seldom can it be done so cunningly waringly and constantly but that at some time or other the dissimulation will unawares bewray it self to the eye of a curious observer Thirdly What measure of understanding the young Person who is you say of great Abilities for his Age hath in the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Religion those I mean wherein the English and Romish Churches are at agreement for in those the substance of Christianity consisteth he that rightly understands those Catholique Truths taught in the Catechisms of both Churches and concerning which all Christendom in a manner are at a perfect accord and then will but suffer himself to consider that the Church of England doth not impose upon the judgments and consciences of her Members any thing to be believed or received as of necessity to Salvation then what is truly Catholique and by her Adversaries confessed so to be and consequently that the difference betwixt her and the Romish Party is wholly about those Additionals or Superstructures which they of the Roman faith require to be believed and received with like necessity as the former but appear to us of this Church respectively either evidently false or of doubtful truth or not of absolute necessity to be believed I say whosoever well considereth this may rest satisfied in his judgment and conscience that the Faith taught and professed in the Church of England is a plain and safe way to lead a Christian Believer to Eternal Salvation if he withal lead his life and conversation answerable thereunto To the last particular in your Letter all the return I have to make is no more but an humble acknowlegement and sense of his Lordships noble favours towards me in entertaining an opinion of me more suitable to his own goodness and ingenuity then to my merit I know not nor desire to know of any occasions likely to draw me into those parts so distant from me being grown into years and infirmities that render me very unfit for long Journies unless the business of my Sons Marriage which occasion'd my late Journey to London require a second thither in Michaelmass Term. But I am so sensible both of the trouble and charge of such Journies besides some inconveniences to my affaires at home whilest I am long absent that I will avoid it unless there be no other remedy I shall not willingly decline any employment within my low and narrow sphere both of outward condition and parts wherein my service may be any wayes useful or but acceptable to that noble and excellent Person but truly Sir I conceive there will be little need of my further endeavours as to that particular expressed in yours whether what I have written now give satisfaction or not there