Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	faith_n	grace_n	justification_n	22,898	5	9.3695	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58493	Remarks on The life of Mr. Milton, as publish'd by J.T. with a character of the author and his party : in a letter to a member of Parliament.	R. E.	1699 (1699)	Wing R933; ESTC R13741	33,766	88

to be a little into Consideration The first thing I shall take notice of is their Agreem●…nt and Harmony w●…th the Church of Rome in the Words of Ruarus one of their own Writers who says That the Papists of all others have the most Reason to be kind to the Socinians because in the chief Articles of the Christian Faith they agree with the Church of 〈◊〉 more than any other Sect viz. in the Doctrine of Predestination Election and Conditional ●…eprobation the Universality of God's Grace and Fruits of Christ's Death of Free Will and its Interest in the Conversion of Man to the Faith of Justification which is made effectual by Charity of the Necessity of Good Works which they urge more vehemently than any other Church of the Possibility of Keeping all God's Commandments of the Difference betwixt the Old and New Testament preferring the New before the Old with respect to the Promises and Precepts of the Difference betwixt Venial and Deadly Sins c. If this be duly considered it will not appear to be any uncharitable or ill-grounded Conjecture for us to think that the Revival of the Socinian Heresie with so much vigour since the Revolution is an Effect of Popish Subtilty and Malice to prevent a further Growth of the Reformed Religion and to disturb His Majesty's Government especially considering their deep Silence before that time and that J. T. and other Socinians of late have been so busie to create an ill Opinion in the People of the present Administration by virulent ill-natur'd Pamphlets and for that very Reason fall in with the Jacobites and Commonwealths-men This probabl●… is the Cause why J. T. and others are so much enraged at the Act against Blasphemy last Sessions and therefore it appears plainly to be His Majesty's Interest to p●…ess the Enacting of further Laws against it as he has graciously done in his Speech We have no Reason to doubt but the Italians are as much concern'd to form a ●…ombination to disturb the Reformation now as they did by Leonard●…s Abbas Buss●…lis Laelius Socinus c. in Calvin'●… Time as has been formerly mentioned The 〈◊〉 thing I sh●…ll take notice of is th●…ir Agreement with the Turks in Ma●…ters of R●…ligion I have already ●…inted that the Author of the Notes on Athanasi●… p. 3●… sa●…s That the Jews and Turk●… who believe and worship the one true God and him only are perhaps in a nearer Proximity to Salvation than such as against suffic●…ent Opportunities of a right Information and for Wo●…ldly Interest have 〈◊〉 from the Ch●…istian Faith to the Athanasian And th●… in another of their Pamphlets intitul●… R●…solutions concerning the Trinity and 〈◊〉 p. 18. and 19. they tell us That divers Historians will have it that Mahomet meant not his Religion should be esteem'd a new Religion but only the Restitution of the True Intent of the Christian Religion They affirm moreover That the Learned Mahometans call themselves the T●…ue Disciples of the M●…ssias ●…r Christ ●…ntimating thereby That Christians are Apostates from the most essential Parts of the Christian Doctrine In order to fix this Charge upon the Generality of English Socinians we shall make use of the Authority of Socinus himself who in his Answer to the same Charge of Mahometanism by 〈◊〉 could not free himself and his Followers from it by any other Argument but that they gave Divine Worship to Jesus Christ And in his Institutions of the Christian Religion Tom. 1. p. 50. he says That they who are against the Worship of Christ cannot be Christians But the Generality of the English Socinians reject the Adoration of Christ and say that there are no Acts of Worship ever requir'd to be paid to the Lord Jesus Christ but such as may be paid to a Civil Power to a Person in high Dignity and Office to Prophets and Holy Men o●… to such as are actually possess'd of t●…e Heavenly Beatitudes Answer to Milborn p. 50. Ergo by the Authority of Socinus himself the Generality of the English Socinians are Mahometans and not Christians And from the Answer to Milborn it likewise appears that they fall in with the Papists in worshipping Saints d●…parted So that their Religion is a Medly of Mahometanism and Popery In the next place it may be proved from the Authority of the learnedst Man who favours their Party and of whom J. T. says that he is the greatest Philosopher that hath been in the World since Cicero p. 1. 17. It may ●…say say be proved by his Authority that the Mahometans are as good Christians as the English Socinians thus in his Reasonableness of Christianity p. 26. c. and p. 192. he says the great Proposition controverted concerning Jesus of Nazareth was whether he was the Messiah or not and challenges any Man to shew that there was any other Doctrine upon their Assent to which or Disbelief of it Men ●…ere pronounc'd Believers or Unbelievers But in the Second Chapter of the Alcoran Jesus of Nazareth is declared to ●…e the Messias in these Words among others Oh! Mary God declar●…th unto thee a Word from which shall proceed the Messias named Jesus the Son of Mary full of Honour in this World and that sha●…l be in the other of the number of Intercessors with his Divine Majesty Ergo the Mahometans are according to the Author of the Reasonableness of Christianity as good Christians as the English S●…cinians and indeed for any thing I know they deserve the Preference for chap. 5. of the Alcoran they say God hath imprinted Indsid●…lity in the ●…arts of the Jews b●…use amongst other things they boasted that they had s●…ain the Messiah ●…esus the Son of Mary whereas as I have said before the Socinians according to their Principles must n●…eds approve of the Jews having put him to Death for his Blasphemy in making himself God Another thing wherein the Mahometans and our English Socinians agree i●… about the Worship of Jesus Christ. We have heard that the latter will only allow him such Worship as may be given to a Civil Power c. and Sandius in his Hist. E●…e lib. 3. a Work mightily ●…eem'd by the Socinians tells us the Turks maintain that Christ ought to be Worship'd but not with that highest sort of Worship wherewith the ●…ord his God is Worship●…ed and yet at the same time Mahomet owns in the Alcoran that Jesus Christ is on the Right Hand of God and he himself on the Left I shall insist no further on the Agreement betwixt the English Socinians and the Turks What is already done being enough to shew that they subvert the very Foundations of Christianity and therefore ought not to be tolerated in a Christian Nation The next thing I shall take notice of is the abominable Hypocrisie and Dissimulation of the Socinians by which in a Jesuitical manner they transform themselves into all Shapes make no Conscience of Fraudulent Subscriptions and Perjury but Subscribe and Swear to what they