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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	reason_n	reveal_v	2,166	5	8.9320	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26946	The judgment of non-conformists of the interest of reason in matters of religion in which it is proved against make-bates, that both conformists, and non-conformists, and all parties of true Protestants are herein really agreed, though unskilful speakers differ in words.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1676 (1676)	Wing B1293; ESTC R1374	14,946	24

the great and hourly Work of Prudent Reason and of exceeding great use to our daily innocency and peace 24. The more the Understanding of a Christian discerneth the Evidences and true Reasons of all things in Religion the far greater advantage his Will hath for the Love of it and fixed Resolution never to forsake it and for seriousness and constancie in a holy self-denying Life and for patience in sufferings and joyful hopes of Heavenly Glory for Grace worketh on Man as Man that is as a Rational free Agent whose Will must be guided by the light of his Understanding And he must needs be the lowest and loosest Christian that hath least Knowledge and Intellectual apprehension explicite or implicite why he is a Christian 25. It is a great cause of the slight superficial Religion and weakness of all Grace which abounds among us that too many taking the Essentials of their Religion too much on the trust of those that educate them or with whom they live do labour only to build upward on such an ill-laid Foundation when as Trees grow downward in the Roots as well as upward they should be all their days still growing downward in the confirmation of their Faith and in the clearer and more orderly discerning of their Fundamentals and the Evidences of them It being an increased sight of Evidence of Truth intensively and extensively in depth and clearness of perception as well as material Evidences which is indeed the true increase of Knowledge and Belief And the ablest Christians should be not questioning but as long as they live growing clearer and stronger in the Knowledge of God the Immortality of the Soul and reality of the future Life and Misteries of Redemption and Sanctification where holy Reason will find the most necessary great and fruitful Work 26. Objective Religion being the thing which Reason must discern it is as vain to ask whether Religion or Reason should be preferred as to ask whether we should in seeing preferr the Eye or the Light or the material Objects which must all Concur to make one Act And they that ask Whether Reason and Religion be contray must know 1. That the Faculty of Reason as such is no more contrary to Religion than the visive Faculty to the Light or Object 2. That so far as Reason hath any pravity in Disposition or Act privative or positive ignorance or errour in the matters of Religion so far it is contrary to Religion 3. That so far as Reason is sound in Act and Habit it is agreeable to Religion 4. Therefore the worse any Mans Understanding is the more it is against Religion And not only the Learnedst and Wisest but also the Holiest and best having but an imperfect Illumination in this Life hath still some remnants in him of that which is contrary to Religion and every Man so far as his blindness and pravity is yet uncured 5. But as to the Objective parts themselves it is said before that none of them are contrary The Common Principles or Notices of Nature have nothing contrary to them in the Scripture There is nothing in the Doctrine of the Trinity Incarnation or Resurrection contrary to any Natural Verity nor any thing which true illuminated Reason by true Divine Revelation cannot prove 27. The blessed in Glory whose Intellects are perfected will see for ever such Reasons for all the parts of Religion even the Trinity Incarnation and Resurrection as will delight them everlastingly as seeing the admirable Harmony of all the sacred Truths and Works of God and the transcendant Wisdome of God manifested in all And Christ who is now both essentially in himself and o●jectively to Believers the Wisdome of God will as such be admired by Believers as he is now by Principalities and Powers in Heavenly places who know the manifold Wisdome of God by the Church Eph. 3.9 10. Even that Misterious Wisdome of God which seemeth Foolishness to the Worldly Wisdome of foolish Men 1. Cor. 1 2. And must be spiritually discerned 28. As the Devils believe and tremble so it is probable that the Judge of all the World will convince the wicked and Infidels at last that it was a Reasonable Gospel which they rejected and a Reasonable Faith and Service which God required of them and that they lived against Reason in their unbelief and sinning against God For the Spirit doth reprove the World of sin because they believed not in Christ John 16.8 And he that will come in flaming Fire to take vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and will punish them with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the Glory of his Power and will come to be glorified in his Saints and admired in all them that believe in that day even because they believed 2. Thes 1.9 10. Will sure convince Men that Faith was a reasonable and Infidelity an unreasonable thing In all these particulars we have reason to believe that not only Conformists and Non-conformists but all true Protestants are agreed And they agree in the Renunciation of these contrary Opinions though we cannot say that any Man living is so perfect as to hold nothing that hath some remote Contrariety to the Truths which he doth profess not discerning the Contrariety I. They all reject the Infidels Opinions who think that the Misteries of Christianity and the Gospel are not to be believed at least as certain because Reason without supernatural Revelation cannot know them or who hold that the Gospel hath no Evidence of certain truth II. They all reject their error who take some part of Gods supernatural Revelation to be false and will judge what is true and what is false by the Conjectures of their Reason which ought to see the Truth and Concord of all And that supposing falsly a Contradiction do set up one part of Gods own Word against the rest III. They all reject their error who will not believe the difficulties of Faith upon the Reason or Proof of Gods Veracity and Revelation unless the thing revealed be evident in it self and may be proved by Natural Proof alone IV. They reject the proud conceits of those who when they find passages in Gods Word which they cannot reconcile or think not probable are readier to accuse or suspect Gods Word than their dark and erring understandings V. We all reject their impudent errour who feign Miracles where there was none or put false Constructions on the Text yea on the Articles of Faith and charge their own errours by misunderstanding on Gods Word even when those errours are contrary to the common Notices of Nature or the greatest clearest and most evident Doctrines and then tell Men that they must either deny those great Doctrines as cross to Gods Word or else that both must be believed as of God even the Canon Verities and these Mens inconsistent errours And we reject their Method that will try many plain great