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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	bear_v	good_a	tree_n	8,220	5	10.2554	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47125	The arraignment of worldly philosophy, or, The false wisdom its being a great hinderance to the Christian faith, and a great enemy to the true divine wisdom / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1694 (1694)	Wing K143; ESTC R1585	27,083	30

foolishness to the Greeks that sought after wisdom To wit The Worldly Philosophy as well as a stumbling block to the Jews 4. Both Platonists and Stoicks placed all their happiness in an inward principle lodged within themselves which tho some owned to be God yet they greatly erred in not understanding in acknowledging That all divine influences and communications flow from God into men through the Man Christ Jesus our alone Mediator and therefore any Religion they had was mixt with great ignorance and error or not understanding the necessity of the One Mediator in whom God has placed all fullness of the divine influences and communications of Grace and Truth Light and Life out of whom we are to receive our several measures as our Faith is exercised on him and as our dependance is upon him even as the Members depend upon the Head and the Branches on the Root for life and nourishment But they placing all within themselves even of what they did or could enjoy of God were in a great error even as much as who should say The Branch has all within it that makes it fruitful or the members of the body have all within them that makes them live and move so no dependance upon the Head Christ the Mediator betwixt God and men yea this error is so great that whoever holds it as too many do at this day as well as formerly they make themselves as God or equal to him for it is the alone perfection and dignity of God to have all within himself and needing nothing without himself for even the Man Christ had not all from within himself but hath God to be his Head as God hath given him to be our Head as he taught concerning himself My Father is greater than I and as the Father hath Life in himself so he hath given to the Son to have Life in himself that he may quicken whomsoever he will therefore we read that in his prayer to the Father he lifted up his eyes to Heaven Joh. 17. 1. expecting to be heard from thence yea in his comparing his Disciples to the Branches and himself to the Vine and his Father to the Husbandman this great mystery is held forth how as our dependance is on the Man Christ so his dependance is on the Father for as the Vine giveth sap and nourishment to the Branches so the Husbandman giveth earth and soil to the Vine it being a great part of the Husbandmans work to put fat or good earth to the root of the Tree as well as to prune and dress the Branches of it And he did receive of the Father these Divine Gifts that he gave and still giveth to his Church 5. None of all the Philosophers taught remission of sin and justificasion by the blood of Christ and Faith in it or understood that Evangelical mystery how Christ was wounded for our Transgressions and was bruised for our Iniquities and that by his stripes we are healed and how he did bear our sins in his body on the Tree and made peace for us by the blood of his Cross But they placed their whole Acceptance upon their Vertues and good Works tho divers of them professed Platonists and Stoicks as well as Peripateticks and particularly Aristotle in his Ethicks That what Vertues and good Works they did bring forth was from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some Divine Thing or Principle within them But that this was a great Error in them Paul doth abundantly prove both out of his Epistle to the Romans and Galatians That as the Jews were not justified before God by any Works of the Law so neither were the Gentiles but all were guilty before God For whatsoever the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law that every mouth may be stopt and the whole world become guilty before God Now this that makes the whole world guilty and stops every mouth is the Law within which is from the divine principle seeing the greatest part of the world have no Law without And therefore he concludes That no man is justified by the works of the Law but by the faith of Christ All are justified who have that Faith which Faith is the gift of God and is wrought in every one that has it by the mighty power of God which Faith is a Living Faith and is always accompanied with good works 6. Tho many of the ancient Philosophers profess'd to believe the Immortality of Souls and future Rewards and Punishments to mens souls yet they had no belief of the Resurrection of the Body as is clear not only no from their own books but also from the Testimony of the Holy Scripture For when Paul preached to them at Athens Jesus and the Resurrection certain Philosophers of the Epicureans and Stoicks mocked him and called him Babler Now as this their Denial of the Resurrection of the Dead did proceed from the two aforementioned Errors held by many both then and at this day viz. that the body of man was no part of him but the soul's prison and grave and that the body has no Life or perception when united to the soul so it did proceed from a 3d gross error as absurd as any of the 2 former viz. That the substance or first matter of earthly bodies differ in kind from heavenly bodies and consequently that no earthly body is convertible into an heavenly body and no animal body is convertible into a spiritual body And from such a great Error the ignorance and unbelier of those floweth that do not believe that Christ's Animal and visible body of flesh and blood is converted and changed to be now in Heaven a spiritual and heavenly body And as they do not believe this change of Christ's body the substance remaining the same so nor do they believe that the bodies of the Saints shall be changed from animal to spiritual and from Terrestrial to Coelestial and Heavenly tho the Scripture-testimony is plain and express for such a change the substance of the body remaining the same For if the substance did not remain the same the change would not be a conversion or transmutation but an exchange or permutation as when one changeth Copper for Gold by selling Copper for Gold this is quite another thing than when Copper is transmuted and converted into Gold 7. The ancient Philosophers did not believe any general Day of Judgment or end of this world but mostly they did conceit That as it was from Eternity in the manner and condition as it is now in rouling and revolving in a continual sphere of generation and corruption even Vegetables and Animals as well as Men so it would continue to Eternity in the like manner and condition as it is now in still running round in a continual sphere of generation and corruption and of Living and Dying and Dying and Living again but as to this they were divided in Opinions some holding That the Souls of Men that were throughly purged from all