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truth_n	faith_n	scripture_n	tradition_n	2,203	5	9.2236	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91721	The Racovian catechisme vvherein you have the substance of the confession of those churches, which in the kingdom of Poland, and great dukedome of Lithuania, and other provinces appertaining to that kingdom, do affirm, that no other save the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that one God of Israel, and that the man Jesus of Nazareth, who was born of the Virgin, and no other besides, or before him, is the onely begotten Sonne of God.; Racovian catechism. English. 1652.	Smalcius, Valentin, 1572-1622.; Socinus, Faustus, 1539-1604.	1652 (1652)	Wing R121; Thomason E1320_1; ESTC R200387	94,429	183

have you shew that the very Religion it self is divine A. You may already have perceived that from the divine Author thereof neverthelesse it may be also acknowledged from those things whereof this Religion doth consist namely from the Precepts and Promises thereof as also from all the circumstances of the same Religion Q. How is it gathered from the Precepts and Promises that this Religion is divine A. Because both the Precepts comprehend perfect holinesse of life and the Promises perfect happinesse Q. What are the circumstances of this Religion A. The rise progresse efficacy and effects thereof Q. How can you prove by the rise thereof that it is divine A. This may be easily perceived if you consider who they were that first founded this Religion namely mean and contemptible persons and withall that they did it without any worldly power wealth wisdome or authority making use of nothing but preaching and perswasion to draw men to their opinion Q. How prove you the same by the progresse thereof A. Because in a very short space this Religion wonderfully encreased whilest innumerable Nations and persons both learned and unlearned noble and ignoble of either sex renouncing the Religions received by tradition from their Fathers embraced this Religion being neither allured with any commodities of this life nor affrighted with any calamities that usually attend this Religion Q. How prove you the same by the efficacy and effects thereof A. First because it could be suppressed by no counsell nor craft nor force nor power of men next because it took away all the old Religions saving the Jewish which it acknowledged for such a Religion as proceeded from God and was to continue for a certain time Q. Hitherto you have shown how firm and certain the writings of the New Covenant are shew also that those of the Old Covenant are no lesse firm A. The Scripture of the New Covenant testifieth that the writings of the Old are certain and consequently since the witnesses are true and certain as appeareth by what hath been said their testimony likewise must needs be true and certain CHAP. II. Touching the sufficiency of the holy Scriptures Q. THat the sacred Scriptures are firm and certain you have sufficiently proved I would therefore further learn whether they be so sufficient as that in things necessary to eternall life we ought to rest in them only A. They are altogether sufficient for that inasmuch as Faith on the Lord Jesus Christ and obedience to his Commandements which twain are the requisites of eternall life are sufficiently delivered and explained in the Scripture of the very New Covenant Q. If it be so then what need is there of Traditions which the Church of Rome holdeth to be necessary unto eternall life calling them the unwritten Scripture A. You rightly gather that they are unnecessary to eternall life Q. What then must we think of them A. Not only that they were fancied and invented without just cause and necessity but also to the great hazard of the Christian Faith Q. What may that hazard be A. Because those Traditions give men an occasion of turning aside from divine Truth to falshood and the imaginations of men Q. But they seem to assert those Traditions from the very Scripture A. Those testimonies which they produce out of the Scripture to assert those Traditions do indeed demonstrate that Christ and the Apostles spake and did certain things which are not comprehended in the holy Scriptures but no wayes prove that they were delivered from hand to hand by them to be perpetually so conserved or that those things which are consigned in the holy Scriptures are not sufficient to Religion and salvation CHAP. III. Touching the clearnesse of the holy Scriptures Q. YOu have already shown that the sacred Scriptures are both certain and sufficient I would entreat you also to shew that they are clear to all and easie A. Although some difficulties occur in them yet are the holy Scriptures especially that of the New Covenant easie and cleare in those things that are necessary to salvation Q. How will you demonstrate that A. First inasmuch as God would have the holy Scriptures to that end and purpose delivered to men that they might thereby come to the knowledge of his will it is altogether incredible that he would have such writings delivered from whence his will could not be perceived and known by all Next because in the very beginning of the Christian Religion the Apostles directed their Epistles wherein the chief mysteries of the Christian Religion are contained to plain and simple men Q. Whence arise so many dissentions in drawing out the sense of the Scriptures A. Because men either negligently read the Scriptures or bring not a sincere heart discharged from all incumbrances and lusts or do not with such care and carnestnesse as is requisite implore the divine assistance I mean the gift of the holy Spirit which God hath promised to those that call upon him night and day Q. If so what use is there of teachers A. That men may by them be stirred up to maintain and practise those things that they understand and be assisted in understanding the more difficult ones Of the way of Salvation CHAP. I. Touching the causes of discovering the way of Salvation Q. AS to the holy Scriptures I acknowledge my self to have received satisfaction from you but forasmuch as in the beginning you said that this way which leadeth to immortality was discovered by God I would fain know for what reason you said so A. Because as man by nature hath nothing common with immortality so could he not by himself possibly know the way leading thereunto Q. Why hath man nothing common with immortality A. Because he was at first formed of the earth and therefore created mortall Again because he transgressed the commandements of God proposed to him and so by the decree of God himself expressed in the commandement was necessarily subjected to eternall death Q. But how agreeth this with those places of the Scripture wherein it is written that man was created after the image of God Gen. 1. 26 27. that death by sin entred into the world Rō 5. 12. A. As for the testimony which pronounceth man to have been created after the image of God we must know that by the image of God immortality is not signified which appeareth from hence that the Scripture at what time man had been subjected to eternall death acknowledgeth the image of God in him Gen. 9. 6. He that sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed for after the image of God made he man Jam. 3. 9. With the tongue we blesse the God and Father and with the same we curse men who were made after the image of God but mans power and soveraignty over all the creatures made by God upo● the earth as the same place wherein it is trea●●● o●●is very image Gen. 1. 26. doth cleerly intimate Let us make man