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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	believe_v	faith_n	law_n	1,021	5	5.0662	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60703	Deo ecclesiæ & conscientiæ ergo, or, A plea for abatement in matters of conformity to several injunctions and orders of the Church of England to which are added some considerations of the hypothesis of a king de jure and de facto, proving that King William is King of England &c as well of right as fact and not by a bare actual possession of the throne / by Irænevs Junior ...	Iraeneus, junior.	1693 (1693)	Wing S4396; ESTC R14451	122,821	116

in doubt To which methinks the Scripture replies There be three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which cannot be interpreted for a bare Unity of Consent because it seems contradistinguished from it and which is mentioned in the following words there be three that bear Record upon Earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood and these three agree in one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Besides that I may not be suspected guilty of Socinianism I will beg the Reader 's Patience to dispense with a small Digression in giving some little account of that Faith which is in me and reason of it He that is to be worshipt with Divine Honour is God but Christ is so to be worshipt and therefore I believe him to be God The major Proposition is built upon the tryed Foundation of a Divine Law viz. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Besides when St. John fell down to worship the Angel he forbad it and the reason was because he was his fellow (a) 10 Acts 25. and as Peter was coming in Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipt him But Peter took him up saying stand up I my self also am a Man Creature Now this reason which the Angel gave was good or it was not if it was good then a Quatetenus ad omne valet consequentia If it had not been good which I suppose none will be so bold as to assert then St. John might have reply'd Though you be a Creature yet you may be worshipt for Christ was so and yet he is not only allowed but commanded to be worshipt And let all the Angels worship him 1 Heb. 6. which words so convince Socinus that in his disputation with some Arrians in the Hall of Paulicovius he cried out Tam certus sum Christum esse adorandum quam me pileum in manu habere But that which is a further Ground and Pillar to this Faith which is in me is the Parity and Likeness of that Honour which is given to the Father and the Son And for this purpose it was that all Judgment was committed to the Son namely that all Men might honour the Son as they honour the Father From whence I argue thus that betwixt a Creature and the great Creator there is an infinite disproportion for one is finite and the other infinite but there is no such disproportion betwixt God the Father and his Son Ergo. The Minor is proved thus where Objects are infinitely disproportionate and beneath one and other there the same Honour and Worship is not to be paid and performed But the same Honour and Worship is to be given to the Son which is paid to the Father therefore they are not so different and disproportionate for shall we offer that to God that we will not offer to our Prince Shall we pay the same Reverence to him that grindeth at the Mill which is due to him that sits upon the Throne Shall we worship the Creature with the same Worship which we give to the Creator Wherefore if God command us to worship the Son as we honour the Father we may account it no robbery to esteem him co-equal to him and co-essential with him which would be impossible where there is an infinite distance as there is betwixt God and the most exalted Creature in Heaven or Earth Yet to have this Article of Faith spun out and wyar-drawn into too many and nice Propositions by a single Doctor of the Church and then imposed upon it to all Generations upon pain of Damnation seems too strict an Imposition upon the Faith of Christians 22. q. 1. art 10. R. ad 3. an Aquinas saith it was not composed per modum Symboli sed per modum Doctrinae not with a purpose to impose it upon others but to declare his own Belief Dr. Taylour saith Lib. of Proph. p. 46. that many of the ancient Bishops who did believe this thing yet did not like the Nicety and Curiosity of expressing it yea many wise Personages think the Church had been more happy if she had not been in some sense constrained to alter the simplicity of her Faith and make it more curious and articulate insomuch that he had need be a very subtle Man to understand the very Words of the new Determinations When we stand upon the brink of this great Mystery for without Controversie it is no less it cannot but make us cry out Oh the height depth length and bredth of it How unsearchable is this Divine Essence this Being which is past finding out And tho' with that ancient * Tertullian Father I have so far given up my Faith to the Conduct of Divine Writ as to say Propose me any thing out of this Book and require whether I will believe it or no and seem it never so incomprehensible to humane Reason I will subscribe it with Hand and Heart as knowing no demonstration can be stronger than this Chilling p. 376. The Relig. of Protestants Credo quia impossibile To believe what the Scripture saith though I cannot untie every knot and solve by my feeble Reason every 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is in it Yet I think such things ought to be stated with Modesty and urged with Candor upon the Consciences of Men. I believe that he which serves God with his whole Heart that honours the divine Being in whom he is sensible he lives moves and hath his Being that out of a Principle of Love and Duty observes his Laws both of the first and second Table so far as he is able he that fears God and works Righteousness shall be accepted of him though he should not have so clear and distinct a Notion of the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity or have a settled Faith and Belief of every Proposition expressed in the Systeme composed by (o) If he was the Author of it Athanasius but not designed as some affirm to be the Standard of the Churches Faith viz. That there are not three Lords but one Lord that the Son is of the Father alone the Holy Ghost of the Father and of the Son that none of the Persons are before or after each other These are nice Speculations and intricate Propositions And that every single and well-meaning Christian must perish everlastingly that believes them not is a Censure too uncharitable to offer to the Church or to be used by the Church And that whoever will be saved must thus think of the Trinity Hosius the Bishop of Corduba speaking of this subject saith That it is a Matter so nice so obscure and intricate that it was neither to be explicated by the Clergy or understood by the People Besides there be several difficult Propositions concerning that great this Mystery of Godliness Is not this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ manifest in the