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heaven_n	enter_v	kingdom_n	lord_n	7,476	5	4.1420	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55472	A rational catechism, or, An instructive conference between a father and son	Popple, William, d. 1708.	1687 (1687)	Wing P2966; ESTC R25590	45,595	164

He offered himself a Sacrifice and bare our Sins in his own Body on the Tree But why That we might be sanctifyed by his Offering and that being dead unto Sin we should liv unto Righteousness He redeemed us also it is tru But from what From Iniquity And onely consequentially thereunto from Punishment This we must needs take to be the Sense of those Expressions and that the great Design of his Appearance was to destroy the Works of the Devil For it is expresly said that nothing Unclean shal in any Wise enter into the new Jerusalem and that no Man without Holiness shal see God. And hence it is that Jesus-Christ himself so plainly tels us that it is not every one that faith unto him Lord Lord which is to say that acknowledges him to be the Messiah or that believs in him so far onely as to pray unto him and to expect Salvation by him that shal enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Wil of the Father who is in Heaven And the Apostles also therfore so carefully precaution us against the Mistake of Thinking that the hearing of the Law could profit us any thing without the doing of it Let no Man deceiv you says one of them he that doth Righteousness is Righteous and he that committeth Sin is of the Devil And another Be not deceived God is not mocked for what soever a Man soweth that shal he also reap There lys the Stress of al It is in doing Or if this be not yet sufficient to prove it we have but to reflect in the last place upon those Conditions by which the Scripture declares we shal be judged at the last Day What ar those Conditions that wil be then demanded in us so as that with them we shal be received into Happiness and without them condemned unto Misery In one Word they ar nothing else but Good Works Works of Piety and of Charity Such Works as we have already found to be required from us both by the Natural and Written Law of God. The Places that witness this Truth ar ful and clear Wherfore I refer them with al others that I hint at to thy careful Perusal And I think I may now conclude this Point firmly established That the performance of our Duty is the onely Means by which we can't expect Success in the working out of our Happiness Tho it had hinted at this before yet thy last Questions have made me think it needful to repeat and fortify it S. And I can not but acknowledg that tho I was also in a great Measure perswaded of it before yet I have now received a new Satisfaction in this clearer Conviction But I see not yet the use you intend to make of it in order to the solving my foresaid Difficultys Becaus those Difficultys ar grounded even upon the very Supposition that this Doctrin is tru F. Thou wilst quickly perceiv that Use. For this Principle being once firmly established will open us an easy Passage through al manner of Obstacles Let us apply it to thy first Inquiry What shal we say to al the ceremonial Outside of Religion I answer That it is just of so much tru Valu as it contributes Help to lead us in a Course of Obedience to the Wil of God And no more For that is the onely thing of Consequence unto us and nothing is to be esteemed further than as it has a Tendency therunto S. Since you keep so strictly to that Rule I beg leav to ask one Question by the by before we proceed any further And it is this Whether has this Ceremonial Outside any such real Influence upon that more substantial part of Religion which you place in Practice or no F. Yes it has The public Assembling of People to profess their Adoration of a supreme Deity is an Honor absolutely du unto that Deity and in that Respect is it self a part of natural Religion It is also a proper Means of preserving that awful Sense of Reverence towards the Deity in the Mindes of Men which mightily curbs their disorderly Inclinations and preservs Regularity and Moderation in their very Hearts And further it is a great Help to the entertaining of Brotherly Lov amongst Neighbors and therby to the Setlement and Peace and Wel-Being of Societys These ar al essential Parts of our Duty And therfore an external Profession of Religion having so great an Influence therupon ought not to be slighted But to prevent Mistake I wil ad this Word That as several Circumstances of Persons of Time and of Place may require different Methods of making this outward Profession becaus one may be more succesful in som Occasions than in others therfore it is not to be supposed that one and the same exact Form therof is always necessary But that several Alterations may be allowed in this Ceremonial Part according to the Exigency of those Circumstances And that which way soever contributes most at any time to the main End of Religion is then to be esteemed and chosen as the most perfect S. I now conceiv this wel enough And therfore I intreat you to proceed to my Second Inquiry which is about the more Notional Part of Religion those Speculative Articles of Belief which seem not proper to have any great Influence upon our Practice F. To that I say That if those Speculations have really no Influence at al upon our Practice then ar they to be looked upon as meer Trifles of no real Valu But if they have any Influence that way then as I said before they ar to be had in more or less Consideration according as that Influence is stronger or weaker The fundamental Point of al Points without which the Apostle has observed there can be no such thing as Religion is the Belief of the Existence of a Deity and of future Rewards and Punishments The Influence of this is Universal it being adapted to the natural Facultys of al Mankind and especially to work upon those main Springs of Hope and Fear which ar the chief Movers unto Action And therfore it is called the Power of God unto Salvation and it is in effect the powerfullest Engine of al others to ingage Men to their Dutys There ar other Points also inferior indeed to this in Strength and general Usefulness tho of a more refined and nobler Nature yet of great Efficacy also where they ar on the one side judiciously inculcated and on the other side received into Mindes that ar fitly disposed Such Points or Articles I mean of Belief as Work by a Principle of Love and whose particular Foundation is in Christianity But I judg it not needful to branch out these general Heads into so many Subdivisions as som have don On the contrary I rather blame the too great Curiosity of those Spirits who by such like Nicetys have rendred our plain Duty an intricate Science and by laying