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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	divine_a	scripture_n	word_n	4,862	5	4.4594	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41074	Lex talionis, or, The author of Naked truth stript naked	Fell, Philip, 1632 or 3-1682.; Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.; Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1676 (1676)	Wing F644; ESTC R20137	30,835	44

Godhead and the Shiboleth of his Eternal Generation and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am no friend to the unravelling of Mysteries and making them so evident as to forfeit their nature yet I must not be so much a Socinian notwithstanding our Authors opinion concerning the procession of the Holy Ghost of I will send the Comforter Or of the Sacrament This is my Body To believe every one Orthodox who admits those words to be Scripture and declaratory of truth He says indeed that we have no other s●fe way to speak of divine matters but in Scripture L●ng●age ●psissi●is verbis with the very same words How then I pray comes it about that we may speak of them in Dutch or French or English they are none of them the ipsissima verba the original Hebrew or Greek It were easie to shew how much of our Creed the Socinian would have us cashier on this account and how pestilent consequences have been drawn from these unhappy Premises Nay let us give even the Socinians their due they in their sober Moods are not so extravagantly mad as is our Author Volkelius in his Fifth Book and Seventh Chapter says Sacris voluminibus ob ipsorum perfectionem nihil nec adjiciendum nec subtrahendum hoc tamen non eo consilio à nobis dictum existimari velim quasi omnes dictiones omnes sententias omnesque collectiones iisdem literis ac syllabis in S. Scriptura non expressas ob hoc ipsum repudi●mus Nam vel dictio aut phrasis aliqua subaudiri vel sententia aliqua si non verbis reipsâ tamen in S. literis contineri potest vel denique ex iisdem colligi Id autem qualecunque est perinde habendum existimamus ac ●i disertissimè scriptum extaret Neque enim in sola verba sed praecipuè in verborum sententiam animum intendere debemus Such is the perfection of the holy Scripture that nothing is to be added to or taken from it This we say not that we reject all Words Sentences and Inferences which are not there in the same Letters and Syllables For many times Words and Phrases are to be understood and divers things though not verbally yet really may be be contained in the Scripture or inferred from it All which we take to be the same thing as if it were most expresly written for we must not consider naked words but the meaning of them Thus much a soberer man I am sorry to add a better principled Christian is this Socinian than our Pretender to Naked Truth But he is so liberal as to give a reason of h●s opinion If in Divine Matters we once give way to Humane Deductions a cu●ning Sophis●er may soon lead a weak Disputant into many Errors Truly very well urged Whose fault is it that men are weak Disputants or being so that they will meddle with Controversie St. Paul has abundantly provided in the case Him that is weak in the Faith receive but not to doubtful Disputations Men of Parts and Learning will comprehend a Deduction as perfectly as the Text it self And they who are deficient either in natural or acqui●ed Knowledge will understand neither one or other whereof we have an example here before us And now a mighty heat is struck upon the sudden against School-Divinity as the greatest plague to Christian Religion In which career our Author to shew his Learning tells us That the School at Alexandria was the first Divinity-School he reads of He might have better told us of the School of one Tyrannus where St. Paul read his Lectures Certainly the Angelical the irrefragable the subtil and most founded Doctors would have been very proud of s●ch Antiq●ity as the age of Pantenus But Peter Lombard it is likely would not have taken it well to be robb'd of his Mastership and to be made an Usher nay School-boy to Pantenus Well we will pass this over The School of Alexandria we are told was set up by Pantenus Our Author might more ●easonably have said that it was set up by St. Mark had he ever heard of E●sebius his relation he could not have been so grosly ignorant In this very account here pointed to he expresly says that this School was in Pantenus his time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There was of ancient Custom settled with them a School of the holy Scriptures Now Pantenus lived in the time of Commodus and what could then be said to have been from ancient times will bid fair to be almost as old as Christianity it self Our Author goes on with the same ill Stars and the very next Period is a new misadventure From this School says he sprung forth t●at damnable Heresie of the Arians What shall we say if Arius were neither bred up at all nor was a Professor in this School but an Afri●an by birth and a plain Parish Priest of Alexandria Nay farther what shall we say i● this School was employed in an honest Catechism-Lecture or Exposition of the Scripture and had nothing more to do with teaching School-Divinity than in teaching Anatomy or Mathematicks Will not this Gentleman whoever he is appear a wonderful meek Writer fitter to deal in a Romance than Church History Of his Country and Employment Epiphanius informs us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was of Libya by his Country and being made a Priest in Alexandria was preferred to the Church called Baucalis And that we may be more assured of the nature of his Employment Epiphanius presently reckons up the other Churches of that great City and recites the names of several of the Rectors of them That this School was for Catechizing St. Ierom is most express who in his Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers says that Clement after Pantenus Alexandriae Ecclesiasticam Scholam tenuit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Magister fuit Clement after Pantenus kept the Ecclesiastical School at Alexandria and was Catechist there We see then what a goodly Bracelet of ●alse Pearls our Author has hung together upon a string in hopes to adorn himself with them One would now have the curiosity to ghess what should come into his head positively to assert so many false and extravagant things Was Pantenus a Heretick or noted for a great Sophister and man of Notions and thereby obnoxious to have the great plague to Christian Religion School-Divinity fathered upon him Nothing of all this He is by Eusebius l. 5. c. 10. stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a most famous man and said to have shewed so much and such Divine Zeal for the Word of God as to have gone and preached the Gospel unto the Indians And that after his return he was made Master of this School where partly by Words partly by Writing he expounded the Treasures of Divine Knowledge But secondly had this School at any time been so unfortunate as to have bred up notorious Hereticks or perverse Disputers that did mischief in the Church Nothing of this neither it was the happy Nursery