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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	faith_n	just_a	justification_n	4,881	5	9.4800	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75849	Satans stratagems, or The Devils cabinet-councel discovered whereby he endevors [sic] to hinder the knowledg of the truth ... wherein is laid open an easie way to end controversies in matters of conscience ... together with arguments to each book ... / by Jacobus Acontius ... ; as also the testimonies of some ancient divines, together with an epistle written by Mr John Goodwin ; and Mr. Duries letter touching the same.	Aconcio, Iacopo, d. 1566.; Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1648 (1648)	Wing A443A; ESTC R42404	127,449	159

case Now in the first place this ought to be layd down for a sure rule that if we shal depart from the Divine Oracles contained in the holy Scriptures there is nothing whereto we may safely trust there is nothing but what is liable either to fraud or Error Gods Testimonies are only sure they only are of that worth that the Conscience of a man may rest upon them and quiet it self And doubtless if there shal be such a Cuntroversy about any point of Religion as that some shal say it is a point so necessary to be resolved about and to know the Truth of as that he which shal not understand and close with it cannot be saved possibly others though they are of the same judgment for the point it self shal yet deny that it is of such weight and rather conceive that such as judg amiss thereabout may attain salvation and ought notwithstanding to be reputed members of the Church In case I say such a Controversie arise when both sides cannot be said to judg according to Truth the one or other must of necessity err Wherefore to be certainly informed which part thinks aright wil be to know some what even as to be at a stand and doubt herein wil be to be ignorant of somewhat whence it must be concluded that we cannot come to certain knowledg in this point unless there be some word of God extant to guide us Now we must be sure to mark in this place that a point of Religion and the judgment which is made concerning the weight and consequence of that point are very different things As it is one thing to say A Christian ought not to be Circumcised another thing to say if ye be Circumcised Christ shal profit you nothing For he which had heard how that a Christian must not be Circumcised might yet think that though a Christian should not be Circumcised yet if a man iudg that he ought to be Circumcised it were not much material But having heard that other word If you be Circumcised Christ shal profit you nothing he wil now understand the matter to be of fargreater importance And inasmuch as a Doctrine is one thing and the iudgment and estimation of the weight of that Doctrine is another if it shal be put to the question concerning any Tenet whether or no it be a point which ought of necessity to be known as for example that it is lawful to swear before the Judg it wil be nothing to the purpose for a man to bring many Texts to prove that an oath in point of judicature ought not to be refused for it wil be said by one or other that I grant neither do I any ways make scruple thereof but I would be resolved concerning the weight of the thing whether it be a matter of such consequence as that in case any man shal be perswaded that he ought not in any case to swear and shal remain in that Error there is no hope of his salvation So that such proofs are in this case requisite not which evince that a man ought to swear before the Bench for that is not the thing in question but which prove that he which is perswaded he ought not to swear shal be damned such as there is concerning the not retaining of Circumcision Now a point is then to be accounted proved by divine Testimony when the Testimony or Text cannot be true unless the point in question be true which may come to pass both when the Text shal contain the very thing which it is brought to prove as also when it shal lay down that which being granted the other must of necessity follow as for example we are to prove that a man is accounted just by beleeving and not by the works of the Law we alledg the words of Paul We judg therefore that by faith a man is iustified without the works of the Law This Testimony expresses the very thing which we would prove But suppose it were to be proved that a man is iustified only by faith and one did thus reason Unless there were only one way of Justification and that by Faith the Apostle had foolishly inferred that forasmuch as the iust should live by faith and that works were not faith therefore no man living is just by the works of the Law but it cannot without great wickedness be charged upon the Apostle that he reasoned foolishly there is therefore righteousness in faith alone and so a man is justified only by faith Now this Testimony of Scripture cannot be said to contain that which it is brought to prove but yet it affirms such things as being granted the point in question must needs follow But if so be that which is brought as a Testimony may be true while the thing it is brought to prove may be false that thing cannot be said to be proved by such a Testimony so that if a man to shew that the Pope hath Authority to make new Laws wherewith to bind the Consciences of men shal cite that place what ever thou shalt bind on earth shal be bound in heaven it wil be therefore denyed that that place proves the point in question because power of binding might be given to Peter and yet no power be given to the Pope to make new Laws Now a thing may be expressed either by comprehension under general terms or word for word for when as the general term Law comprehends as wel those Laws concerning Conversation as those concerning religious Ceremonies as wel Divine Laws as Humane that Christ shal not profit him who shal place his Righteousness in keeping the moral Law is in general terms comprehended in that speech of the Apostle where he denys that they have any share in Christ who place their Righteousness in the works of the Law And that a man is justified by Faith is in so many words comprehended in that passage of the same Apostle We iudg therefore that a man is iustified by Faith without the works of the Law Furthermore as concerning our present occasion I find that one thing may follow from another two manner of ways One is when a matter is laid down as necessary to be known which cannot yet be understood and believed unless some other thing shal be first understood and believed for in such a case the latter is to be reckoned among such things as are of necessity to be known Thus inasmuch as it is necessary that we believe that Christ is rifen from the dead and we cannot believe that unless we shal likewise believe that he died it is altogether necessary that we believe he died The other way is this if we find expresly set down that a matter more doubtful then the point in question whether it ought of necessity to be known is to be known necessarily yea if it be notless doubtful for that which is less doubtful or at least not more doubtful must be as necessary as the other But some