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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	believe_v	faith_n	justification_n	11,818	5	9.2159	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47466	King William's toleration being an explanation of that liberty of religion, which may be expected from His Majesty's declaration, with a bill for comprehension & indulgence, drawn up in order to an act of Parliament.	William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Nottingham, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1621-1682.	1689 (1689)	Wing K580; ESTC R22778	16,192	20

all things necessary to Salvation For the Third Way It is that which if I might choose I should prefer before any as most agreeable to my Spirit for the sake of other Incumbrances like this and my Proposal shall be the putting into the Bill or such Bills a Clause for the saving a Mans Conscience though he do Subscribe and submit to such Injunctions as these are and that Clause which I would offer upon this account should be to this purpose committing the Words here and before if they offend to the amendment of the Lawyers And forasmuch as all Impositions are to be taken in the Sense of the Imposers unless some provision of Liberty Allowance or Exception be made for the Taker to do otherwise it is hereby declared That this Subscription Assent Consent Approbation is not imposed or to be impoted on any in the very Sense and Meaning of the Compilers of the Articles or Imposers whereof a Man can never be sure and hardly so much perswaded of sometimes as to act in Faith but in a Rational Construction agreeable to the Holy Scripture of the Subscribers own or of some judicious Expositor that is in the Terms of the School not in the Authentick but a Doctrinal Interpretation For the Fourth and Last Way which is That I take in this Bill in regard to the Passing it with the less Notice for it is brought-in as the Reader may see in a Parenthesis I must confess it to be some thing coincident with the third but more confined consisting in a Liberty of a Man 's own Sense for such as scruple at any Article but so as to bring his Explication to the Bishop that if it be Heretical he may reject him if Orthodox receive him and so a due Regard be had to the Consciences of such Persons and yet the Church not neglected upon that Account By this way of Providing against the Scruples of the more Considerate about this momentous piece of Conformity the Subscription to the Articles when the Provision only of the Exception of Three of them will be too short we must not understand this Bill to be drawn up so because this way is best but upon Supposition that neither of the other Proposals would be granted and also because this Bill is no new Bill now but Produced This is a Bill Printed Six or Seven Years since and at that time this way was that only which could be thought on and in this manner to be brought in as more likely to be Passed Howbeit the Scene now being altered I cannot tell but one of the other ways may pass sooner and this I am sure that some Condescention herein appears more and more necessary from that Consideration which is yet farther to be pressed the difficulty I mean at bottom which lies here The Articles of the Church must be taken in the Sense of the Church The Parliament indeed imposes the Subscription but is not the Imposer in whose Sense the Articles must be taken because it enjoyns them as the Churches Articles that is all one as enjoyning them to be taken in her Sense and that Church is the Church in Q. Elizabeth's Days when the Articles were compiled and enjoined at first And hereupon I will offer one Instance and suppose a Man to scruple the 11th Article which tells us That we are justified by Faith only I do here believe in my Conscience that the Sense wherein the Church then understood This must be the Sense of our First Reformers and that is by Faith taken Objective in sensu Correlativo not as a Work but an Instrument which in short is in such a Sense which Divines know as excludes all Works Evangelical as well as Legal from Justification I will suppose now that the Man comes to the Bishop and says He can not subscribe this Article in the Churches Sense because he verily believes this to be her Sense and that to be inconsistent with St. James who says directly to the contrary That by Works a Man is Justified and not by Faith only and therefore desires he may subscribe in his own Sense which he is ready to tender viz. That by Faith he understands Christianity or the becoming a Christian and that by Faith only he understands St. Paul's Faith without Works that is Faith without the Works of the Law or without being Circumcised and living according to the Laws and so he gives in the Sense of St. Paul for the Sense of the Article That a Man is not justified by living according to the Law but living according to the Gospel only I would ask now Whether there be not reason here both that such a Man should not be excluded for this scruple and that there should be License provided by some such Clause in the Bill for the Bishops to admit him upon this Explanation Especially seeing the Reconciliation of St. James and St. Paul is thereby made so clear as it must tempt his Acceptation As for the Roman Catholicks at last I will not baulk my Opinion The King while Prince of Orange hath expresly said in his Declaration that he Excepts not the Papists And I need not refrain my constant Thoughts I am one my self be sure that am not for Popery but must distinguish between the danger of it when it is in Dominion that is Uppermost by Law or Force and where it is in Subjugation I very much dread the One I am very gentle toward the Other In order to this I must be against the Permission of Factors for a Foreign Jurisdiction yet should not murmur if the Sanguinary Laws whereby such a Crime is made as Treason to be capital were repealed Again I am one not for the Mass and a general open tolerating its Votaries in the Publick Assemblies because all Protestants judg it Idolatry and that open Idolatry is not to be tolerated where it can be helped But for the private peaceable Recusant that enjoys his Religion to himself and meddles not with other Folks his Case is the same I judg with the Dissenters and I am still for our doing to them as we would have had them do unto us but a while ago sin only excepted Yet not altogether with the Idolater for then must ye needs go out of the World. I have no more to say now but some little about the turning the Two Bills as they were formerly in the House into One which is done by the Print from whence I took it the Reason whereof I suppose was the tediousness of the Bill for Indulgence which providing for the Case of so many and something or other being like to be omitted it seemed more easie and more safe to wrap up all these Cases together in the security of a general Suspension of the Penal Laws about Religion until a Parliament come that can have leisure by a Committee or Appointment of Two or Three Sedulous Lawyers that are fit for the Work and willing to attend it to look