Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	believe_v	faith_n	holy_a	10,213	4	5.4982	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41129	The spirituall man's directorie guiding a Christian in the path that leads to true blessednesse in his III. maine duties towards God : how [brace] to believe, to obey, to pray [brace] : unfolding the [brace] Creed, X. Command., the Lords prayer / by that reverend and faithfull minister of Gods word Mr. William Fennor ...	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1648 (1648)	Wing F702; ESTC R41150	81,283	149

2. 18. But if Christ be not in them by his spirit 1 Iohn 3. 24. For all this faith they may be Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. 5. Not every one that swum after the Ark and cryed after Noah in the Ark and clambred and hung upon the arke but onely they that were in the arke were saved 1 Pet. 3. 20. So only they that get into Christ are new creatures 2 Cor. 5. 17. Q. 19. Why so Ans Faith if it bee unfained 2 Tim. 1. 5. Ingrafteth a man into Christ Rom. 11. 23. If a man be not ingrafted into Christ hee shall burne in hell fire Iohn 15. 6. Q. 20. What reasons be there of this Ans Two First the sentence of the Law cannot otherwise be true the same soul that sinneth that soule shall dye Ezec. 18. 4. Therefore all the Elect must have such a faith that they may be one with Christ and Christ with them Ioh. 14. 20. That Christ's death may be their death 2 Cor. 5. 14. Secondly Christ is the life of them that beleeve Col. 3. 4. As the life of a man is in him and the life of every creature is in it Gen. 1. 30. So Christ in a believer this is a mistery Gal. 1. 27. Which whosoever hath not the wrath of God abideth on him Ioh. 3. 36. Q. 21. Dost thou believe the Articles of faith Ans Yea I beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and so forth which being a forme of sound words I must hold fast in Faith and love 1 Tim. 1. 13. Q. 22. Why doest thou say I Believe Ans Because J cannot be saved without a particuler Faith of my own Iam. 2. 18. The just shall live by his faith Hab. 2. 4. Whereby I may say Christ gave himselfe for me Gal. 2. 20. And that hee is my Saviour Luk. 1. 17. For faith is my life Ioh. 20. 31. As David could say J live Psal 116. 2. So hee could say I believe vers 10 Neither is this presumption in a Believer for he knowes it that Christ is his Redeemer in particuler Iob 19. 25. Yea in the time of Spirituall desertion he can say My God my God Psal 22. 1. Q. 23. Is not this Presumption in some Ans Yea it is Presumption in many for if a carnall professor shall say my God Hos 8. 2. The Lord pardons not his sinnes for all this but is an enemy unto him verse 3. As the body without the spirit is dead so Faith without workes is dead also Jam. 2. 26. Ignorant Faith is no Faith but unbeliefe 1 Tim. 1. 13. Faith askes who and what who is the Lord that I may beleeve John 9. 36. For Faith is an explicit knowing Faith through Faith we understand Heb. 11. 3. Knowledge is partly before Faith 1 Iohn 4. 16. And partly after Faith 2 Pet. 1. 5. A man must know what he beleeves or else he cannot beleeve Iohn 10. 38. Yet Faith is not so explicit but there is some implicinesse in it as long as we live here 1 Iohn 3. 2. Q. 24. How canst thou say I beleeve can a man know that hee beleeveth A. A man may know that he beleeveth 2 Tim. 1. 12. Even by that help of Gods Spirit 1 Cor. 2. 12. For he hath that witnesse in himself 1 Joh. 5. 10. Indeed while he is a Babe in Christ it may be he knoweth not a Babe is a Babe though hee understand it not hee understands as a babe 1 Cor. 13. 11. Yea in the time of temptation too a man is a man though in aswound he knoweth it not in such a cause David may feare he is cast of for ever Psal 77. 7. Also when passions are violent as over much griefe or over much joy Luke 24. 41. But a child of God when his unbeliefe is at the worst hath an inckling that hee doth beleeve Marke 9. 24. Or props himselfe at least with this beliefe that hee hath beleeved 2 Cor. 4. 13. How soever Faith bringeth evidence and assurance with it at the last Heb. 11. 1. Q. 25. What say you of them that have the Spirit of bondage A. The child of God had it once but then he hath it no more to feare againe Rom. 8. 15. Those that thinke they have assurance and sometimes conceit they are aright and somtimes feare not the Lord joynes such with unbeleevers Rev. 21. 8. They live in darknesse and know not whether they goe whether to Heaven or to Hell Iohn 12. 25. The godly may fall sometimes into such feares that Christ may upbraid them How is it yee have no Faith Marke 4. 41. But they are restlesse till their Election and calling be made sure and therefore they are diligent about it 2 Pet. 1. 10. Q. 26. How many objects of Faith are there that thou mayest beleeve A. I must beleeve in one Lord. Ephes 4. 5. Distinguished into three persons 1 Iohn 5. 7. First in God the Father 1 Pet. 1. 21. Secondly in Christ Iohn 14. 1. Thirdly in God the holy Ghost Math. 28. 19. So far forth as it is written in the word Iohn 20. 31. Which is a word of Faith Rom. 16. 8. A plaine and an easie word that the simple may be converted by it Psal 19. 7 Psal 119. 130. It is a perfit word able to make the man of God perfit 2 Tim. 3. 17. Whatsoever men or Counsels or traditions or Angels from Heaven say I must go to the word if they speake not according to it there is no truth in them Isa 8. If Paul himselfe were now alive and should Preach any thing besides it hee were accursed Gal. 1. 8. It is a damnable sinne to adde toit Rev. 22. 18. Or to take a tittle from it verse 19. ●is able to convince all gain-sayers without running to this or that mans Expositions of it the ●criptures themselves shew their own meanings Acts 18. 28. Q. 27. But may not men give their Expositions ●●to it A. There must bee an interpreting of the ●ord people understand not the Originall tongue ●● it 1 Cor. 14. 5. And an expounding too Luke●4 ●4 27. But no man may give their own sense to ●● but the sense of the word Neh. 8. 8. For the ●●me Christ that spake the dark speeches and Pa●ables the same Christ doth expound them Mar. ● 34. The holy Ghost speaking in the Scriptures Heb. 3. 7. Teacheth the right meaning Iohn 14. ●6 Q. 28. How is this A. By sundry wayes First by conferring places with places as Micah 5. 2. with Math. 2. 6. Secondly by the scope as if I would know Peters meaning why he said that Davids Sepul●her was then to be seene Act. 2. 29. I may see the scope of that speech verse 31. Thirdly observing whether the word be proper or figurative Iohn 15. 1. and many others Q. 29. What say you more of the Word A. It undertakes to be a rule to all that we do to the wearing of our hayre 1 Cor. 11.

14. Or of ● Garment 1 Pet. 3. 3. To our eating and drinking 1 Cor. 10. 31. To our marketting and Marchandizing Iam 4. 13. Not so little as a shoo●yer but if it be amisse the word doth condemn it Isa 3. 18. Not so little as an idle word but the word doth tax it Math. 12. 36. Not so little as a thought but it must bee according to the Word 2 Cor. 10. 5. What ever we thinke say or do we must be carefull to observe the judgement of the word and lay it before us Psal 119. 30. Q. 30. Why dost thou say I beleeve in God A. For three reasons First because I do not beleeve unbeliefe I go out of my selfe and deny my selfe Math. 16. 24. Secondly unlesse I cast my selfe upon God and rely on him 2 Chron. 20. 20. Thirdly unlesse not only naturally but also spiritually I be in him move in him and live in him Act. 17. 28. Q. 31. Why dost thou beleeve in God as a Father Almighty A. First that in my greatest dangers I may depend upon him who is able to deliver mee Dan. 3. 17. This I must beleeve Math. 9. 28. Secondly that in my greatest temptations I may not dare to sin against him for I am not stronger then he 1 Cor. 10. 22. Q 32. Why maker of Heaven and Earth A. First that I may consider I am Created of God and for God to live holily for the wicked are for the day of evill Prov. 16. 4. Secondly that I glorify God in my soule and body for they are not mine but Gods 1 Cor. 6 20. Thirdly that I abuse none of his Creatures for they are all unto Gods praise Psal 145 10. Nor prophane them for God is holy in them ver 17. But have pleasure to search Gods greatnesse in them Psal 111. 2. And see the invisible things of God in them Rom. 1. 20. And consider them Math. 6. 28. And meditate on them Psal 143. And learne Parables or Similitudes for Spirituall things out of them Math. 24. 32. For God teacheth mee by such Similitudes Hos 12. 10. Q. 33. Why dost thou beleeve in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord A. For two reasons First that I may bee justifyed freely by his Grace Rom. 3. 24. Who though he knew no sin yet was made sinne for mee that I might bee made the righteousnesse of God in him 2 Cor. 5. 21. Secondly that looke whatsoever hee did or suffered or had may bee woven in a mistery into my heart if this mistery had not been in Paul hee himselfe had been a reprobate 2 Cor. 13. 5. 6. Q. 34. Must that then which was a history in Christ be a mistery in us A. Yea by the application of all these articles concerning Christ to our soules I must bee an adopted Son of God 1 Iohn 3. 1. Christ must bee formed and conceived in me Gal. 4. 19. I must suffer with Christ Rom. 8. 17. And mine old man must be crucifyed in me and sin dye in me Rom. 6. 6. I must bee crucifyed to the world and the world unto mee Gal. 6. 14. I must bee buried with him and raised up againe to a new life Col. 2. 12. And seeke the things above in Heaven Col. 3. 1. And judge my selfe here otherwise I shall bee judged and condemned of the Lord. 1 Cor. 11. 31. Q. 35. Why dost thou say Christ was conceived of the Holy Ghost c. A. He was conceived Luke 1. 31. By the holy Ghost ver 35. for the woman was found with child of the Holy Ghost Math. 1. 18. Supernaturally that his conception might be without sin ver 20. For all others are conceived in sin Psa 51. 5. Because that which is borne of the flesh is flesh Iohn 3. 6. And yet the Holy Ghost made him of a woman Gal. ● 4. And hee was borne of her Math. 1. 1● Being the seed of a woman Gen. 3. 15. Of the seed of David Rom. 1. 3. The roote of Iesse Isa 11. 10. Hee suffered under Pontius Pilate who gave sentence that he should be Crucifyed Luke 23. 24. And scourged him and delivered him up to death Marke 15. 15. Vnder whom he had witnessed a good confession 1 Tin● 6. 15. And therefore Christ is said to be crucifyed at Rome the great City of Antichrist Rev. 11. 8. Because Pontius Pilate who delivered him to be Crucifyed was governour under Tiberius Caesar Emperour of Rome 3●1 Q. 36. Did Christ suffer in Soule too A. Yea for his Soule was exceeding sorrowfull even unto death Math. 26. 38. His Soule was an offering for sin as well as his body Isa 53. 10. Whole Christ was surely for us Heb. ● 22. And a curse for us Gal. 3. 13. For our Soules have need of Redemption as well as our bodies Psal 49. 8. It is a signe he suffered greater torments then bodily by his sweat in the garden which was a bloody sweat Luke 22. 44. And by his lamentable speech on the Crosse my God my God why hast thou forsaken me Math. 27. 46. And by his not tasting of the first death of us Heb. 2. 9. But also keeping of the second death from hurting us Rev. 2. 11. Q. 37. How is hell taken in Scripture A. First for the Grave Isa 14. 9. Secondly Hell is taken for the feares of Hell Psal 116. 3. Thirdly Hell is taken for the place of the damned after this life Luke 16. 23. Fourthly for the hidden parts of the earth Psal 139. 8. Fiftly Hell is taken for the Devill and whatsoever is hellish Rev. 20. 14. Sixtly for the lowest degree of Christs humiliation Acts 2. 27. Q 38. What sayest thou of Christs diseent into Hell A. Not as though he descended to hell to suffer there the paines of the damned for he said upon the Crosse it is finished Iohn 19. 5. Or to deliver the Soules of the Patriarch and Fathers of old out of Limbo for they were glorifyed before Math. 17. 3. And in Paradice by the vertue of Christs death he being the ●amb slaine from the foundation of the world Rev. 13. 8. Or to Preach to Soules there in prison 1 Pet. 3. 19. For that was his Spirit Preaching in the mouth and dayes of Noah while they were alive ver 20. or to tryumph over Hell and Divels for that hee did upon the Crosse Col. 2. 15. Nor as though he descended Locally at all into Hell for all that we know for dying he said unto the good Thief This day shalt thou bee with mee in Paradice Luke 23. 43. And hee commended his Spirit into the hands of his Father in Heaven verse 46. Q. 39. Is it not an Article of Faith and hath it not its meaning A. Yea it is an Article of Faith though the Greeke Church hath omitted it in their Creed taken out of Scripture Acts 2. ●1 And by this same descent into hell is meant Christs lowest degree of humiliation opposed in the height of his exaltation and