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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	faith_n	paul_n	2,181	5	6.7324	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40635	Peace and holiness in three sermons upon several occasions / by Ignatius Fuller.	Fuller, Ignatius, 1624 or 5-1711.	1672 (1672)	Wing F2390; Wing F2391; Wing F2392; ESTC R2184	61,487	158

Prophet Micah reduce Religion to Righteousness Mercy and an humble Piety and Saint James places true and genuine Religion in Beneficence and Purity of life So that if Christians will contend as such there remains to them only a laudable Ambition to excel in Meekness and Humility in Mercy and Charity in Purity and Peaceableness and not in multiplying Articles of Faith and then like foolish Builders making all of them of the foundation whereof St. Hilary doth gravely complain to Constantius That after the Councel of Nice Christians did Conscii nobis invicem sumus post Niceni Conventus Synodum nibil aliud quam fidem scribi little else but write Creeds Nor in determining fruitless and indeterminable Questions which all Christendom may truly say is Fundus nostrae Calamitatis the Ground of all our Schisms and Divisions Had the Tridentine Fathers had a right notion of Christianity they would have spared their Anathemata and Geneva their Fires and Dort their Wagons had they considered that such and only such Articles are necessary without the explicit knowledge of which we could not perform the conditions of the new Covenant That is Believe in God and Christ and observe their Precepts this entitles us to the Promises They would rather have spent their Zeal in preaching The worthy Author of Causes of the decavs of Christian piety hath one chapter of the mischiefs arising from disputes St. Paul's Doctrine of Repentance from dead works and the exercise of Charity For I would the Proud Disputer and the whole Polemick Rabble should know that necessary Articles are neither many nor obscure Not many How succinct was that Creed upon which our Lord built his Church We believe and are sure that Matth. 16. 19. thou art the Son of the living God and this was Marthas Creed and Salvation John 11. 27. was particularly promised to it This was the end of writing St. John's Gospel that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that John 20. 31. believing we might have life through his name That Jesus Christ was the Son of Acts 8. 37. God was the Eunuchs Creed So St. Paul This is the word of Faith which we preach Rom. 10. 8 9. that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved And this simplicity did the antient Church retain Irenaeus who when he had recited that Creed which then was not so long as now it is adds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not the most eloquent of all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deminorabit traditionem Iren. l. 1. 23. Prelats in the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 believes any more and the most simple Ideot believes no less the Faith being one and the same They who have the greatest plenty of words do not exceed it and they who have the fewest do not diminish it So Tertullian tells us the Rule of Faith is only one stable and unalterable Regula fidel una omnino est sola immobilis irreformabilis Arbitratur Rex rerum absolute necessariarum ad salutem non magnum esse numerum So that it is no wonder that excellent Prince in his Answer to Perrone thinks the number of things necessary to Salvation is not very great And further his Majesty thought there was no more expedite way to Peace than diligently to seperate Necessaries from Non-necessaries and that we might all agree in Necessaries in non necessariis Libertati Christianae locus detur in unnecessary Articles let Christian liberty take place The King further says That if we made Videsis responsionem ad Epist Card. Per. Londini 1612 use of this distinction for deciding of Controversies at this day there would be neither long nor fierce Contention amongst Pious and Modest men about Articles absolutely necessary Nam pauca illa sunt ferè ex aequo ab omnibus probantur i. e. That they are both few and upon the matter receiv'd by all who would be accounted Christians Nay that learned and pacifick King doth so much value this distinction for the lessening of Controversies which excercise Gods Church that he judges it the Duty of all that are studious of Peace diligentissimè hanc explicare urgere docere most diligently to explicate urge and teach it And this is but the breathing of that Spirit which influenced the first and best Ages of the Church How else shall we understand Justin Martyr who answering that objection of Trypho That Christ should be God before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 World was and be made man and be born and yet not be born according to the manner of men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. saith Trypho it seems to me not only incredible but also foolish The holy man answers If I cannot demonstrate that he did pre-exist the Son of him that made the Vniverse and was a Man born of a Virgin herein only 't was fit to say I was mistaken but not to deny that he was the Christ if it should appear that he was a Man born according 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Videsis Just Mart. p. 63. Edit R. Steph. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril p. 101. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the manner of men and be demonstrated that he was made the Christ by Election For there are some friends quoth he of our Profession who do confess him to be the Christ yet do affirm him to be a man born according to the manner of men So Cyril of Hierusalem That God hath a Son that you are to believe but be not so curious as to enquire into the Modus of that Filiation for if you seek it you shall not find it Do not flie too high lest you fall but attend to those things alone which he hath commanded you And a little after he tells 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. It is sufficient to assist thy Piety to know that God has but one Son So Gregory Nazianzen speaking of the holy Spirit tells you There are that do depress him into the degree of a Creature they he says are injurious and bad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz Orat. 44. pag. 709. and the worst of servants There are that think him God and they are Divine Spirits and of clear and bright understandings There are that name him so if it be in presence of men of good judgement They are noble souls but if in presence of weak Christians they are not wise dispencers of the word 'T is all one as to cast a pearl into the dirt to object the voice of Thunder or the brightness of the Sun to So the Greeks if they believed the procession of the holy Ghost from the Son yet did not condemn those of Heresie who did not See the Judicious and Learned Doctor Stilling in his Rational Account pag. 10 11 12 13. a weak ear or