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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	faith_n	infallibility_n	1,857	5	11.4967	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89544	The reformed gentleman, or, The old English morals rescued from the immoralities of the present age shewing how inconsistent those pretended genteel accomplishments of [brace] swearing, drinking, [brace] whoring and Sabbath-breaking are with the true generosity of an English man : being vices not only contrary to the law of God and the constitutions of our government both ecclesiastical and civil, but such as cry loud for vengeance without a speedy reformation : to which is added a modest advice to ministers and civil magistrates, with an abridgement of the laws relating thereto, the King's proclamation and Queens letter to the justices of Middlesex, with their several orders thereupon / by A.M. of the Church of England.	A. M., of the Church of England.; Bouche, Peter Paul, b. ca. 1646.	1693 (1693)	Wing M6; ESTC R20084	100,071	189

Kindreds of the Earth which then began to increase did not God chuse any save faithful Abraham and his Seed to place his Name among them 'T was Jacob was his Chosen and Israel the Lot of his Inheritance 't was in the Tents of the Sanctified Tribes that the Glory of his Presence shone and by his Servant Moses he implanted the Rudiments of a Typified Religion which hereafter was to be refin'd and confirmed by his Successor and Master the LORD JESVS 4. Thus the knowledge of the Divinity was as it were confined within the Borders of Juda and Palestine was more happy then her Neighbours In Judah was God known and his Name was great in Israel in Salem also was his Tabernacle and his dwelling place at Sion Ps 76.1 2. Whilst the greatest part of the World remained in Darkness and sate under the shaddow of Death and groped through their Ignorance at Noon-day Whilst they changed the truth of God into a Lie became vain in their Imaginations and Worshipped the Creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Rom. 1. True it is the Wiser sort of Heathens guided by their Natural Light made some steps towards the raising the Soul from the Bondage of the Body and gave great Pulls to set fallen Man once more upon his Legs But alas their Endeavours fell infinitely short of that End their glimmering Light proved but a false one to them and their Intricate Reasonings and dry Speculations were so far above the reach of Vulgar heads and so uncapable of doing them any good that they have oftimes bewildred the Philosopher himself who after all his search has been forced to confess himself to be in the Dark So that tho' those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made some Advances towards the Civilizing the Barbarous Nations and preached up Morality to their Disciples yet all the Religion they could ingraft in the World was but Delusion and the best of their Altars wore no other Inscription then to the UNKNOWN GOD 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 17 23. whom ignorantly they Worshipped and of whom they could have no certain knowledge till the Sun of Righteousness arose with healing in his Wings and brought Life and Immortality to light through the Gospel Becoming as Old Simeon expresses himself a Light to lighten the Gentiles as well as the Glory of his People Israel Luke 2.32 Bringing the glad tidings of Salvation to the Greek and the Barbarian to the Bond and Free and Preaching Repentance and Remission of Sins among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem Luke 24.47 5. This Abstract of Mercy This Over-flowing Quintessence of Compassion By a mysterious Incarnation condescended to to take upon himself not the Nature of Angels 3. Man considered in his state of Regeneration but the Seed of Abraham Hebr. 2.16 Who being in the form of God thought it no Robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no Reputation and took upon him the form of a Servant and was made in the likeness of Men And being sound in fashion as a Man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Phil. 2.6 7 8. And by that Expiatory Sacrifice of his he satisfied his Fathers Justice offering himself up once for all In this hopeful way of Recovery did that Blessed one leave Mankind upon his Departure hence and intrusted the farther Cure to faithful hands who were not wanting to transmit the Sovereign Balsom Christ Crucified to Posterity 6. And now began that Fevor and Warmness for Religion to appear in the World A short view of the Christian Church from the Primitive to our times All Places Ecchoed with this New Doctrine and every Mouth uttered the Gospel and Glad Tidings of Peace Innocence and sincerity began to be Visible in Mens Lives and Manners and those who could not dispute could die for their Pure and Vndefiled Religion This was the Case of that Flourishing Palm-Tree the Primitive Church which spread its Branches so far under the hottest Persecutions That most of the Dark Corners of the Civilized Nations were enlightened with the Piercing and Resplendent Beams of the Truth And the Earth began to be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea Is ch 11. ver 9. 7. But alass this was too good to last long For no sooner had the Christian World so I might then call it enjoyed a Requiem from thè continual Harasses of Pagan Tyranny and Persecution No sooner was ChristianityVniversally Embraced throughout the Roman Empire No sooner had it the Protection of Emperours and the favour of Complaisant Courtiers who weary of the Pagan Worship became of the same Religion with their Princes No sooner was it Established by the Edicts of Constantine and confirmed by Theodosius and his Successors in the Imperial Throne But it became the Subject of its own fewds and Animosities So that what all the Vnited force of Hell and Earth had in vain endeavoured by open Violence to destroy was Over-whelm'd with its own Ruines and lay buried under its own Heaps Heresie upon Heresie Schism up●n Schism Rent the Vnion of the Church on the one Hand The Arrians and Donatists the Pelagians and Nestorians some Questioning the Divinity others the Humane Nature of Christ some Quarrelling about the Procession others about the Divinity of the Holy Ghost set the Professors of Christianity together by the Ears and involved all in Flames for two or three Centuries together But then on the other hand Superstition Blind Zeal False Principles and Interest draw'd a veil quite over the Truth and for many Ages after Believing as the Church believed Outward Pomp and a Continual Round of Mysterious splendid Ceremony was all the Religion the Indulgence of the Papal Chair required at Mens hands If they could with an Implicite Faith own Infallibility Purgatory Transubstantiation the Sacrifice of the Mass and a hundred such like Whimsioal Notions of Human Inventions were their Lives never so Wicked and their Manners never so Debauched yet they might be assured of Heaven and Eternal Happiness 8. But tho' all these sad Afflictions happened to Christianity in the successive Ages of the Church A view of the degeneracy of the present Age. yet it was free from that generall inundation of Impiety wherewith this l●st and degenerate Age is at present so overwhelmed wherein even the dregs of Sin and Pollution are as it were sunk and setled down to the very bottom Was ever Wickedness more open-faced Wa● it ever more immodest than in these worst of times And truly I cannot wonder that it is so that it struts thus b●l l● unm●sked and fears no contradiction since not only Pagans but Christians not only Papists but Protestants are its Abettors Men now-a-days not only practise but plead for their Vices and maintain a Dispute for any beloved Lust with as hot a Zeal as the best of Christians would stand up for the cause of Christ and his