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sense_n	faith_n	impute_v	righteousness_n	3,744	5	8.8004	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60942	Interest deposed, and truth restored, or, A word in season, delivered in two sermons the first at St. Maryes in Oxford, on the 24th of July, 1659, being the time of the assizes : as also of the fears and groans of the nation in the threatned, and expected ruin of the lawes, ministry, and universityes : the other preached lately before the honourable Societie of Lincolns-Inn / by Robert South ...	South, Robert, 1634-1716.; South, Robert, 1634-1716. Ecclesiasticall policy the best policy.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4733; ESTC R4025	42,795	62

wayes mentioned of confessing or denying Christ but principally in respect of practice and that 1. Because by this he is most honoured or dishonoured 2. Because without this the other two cannot save 3. Because those who are ready enough to confess him both in judgment and profession are for the most part very prone to deny him shamefully in their doings Pass we now to a Second thing to shew What are the Causes inducing men to deny Christ in his truths I shall propose Three 1. The seeming supposed absurdity of many truths Vpon this foundation Heresie allwayes builds The Heathens derided the Christians that still they required and pressed beleif and well they might say they since the Articles of their Religion are so absurd that upon Principles of Science they can never winne assent It is easy to draw it forth and demonstrate how upon this score the cheif Heresies that now are said to trouble the Church doe oppose and deny the most important truths in Divinity As first hear the denyer of the Deity and satisfaction of Christ. What saies he can the same Person be God and man the Creature and the Creator can we ascribe such attributes to the same thing whereof one implyes a Negation and a Contradiction of the other Can he be also Finite and Infinite when to be finite is not to be infinite and to be infinite not to be finite And when we distinguish between the Person and the Nature was not that distinction an invention of the Schooles favoring rather of Metaphysicks then Divinity If we say that he must have bin God because he was to mediate between us and God by the same reason they will reply we should need a Mediator between us and Christ who is equally God equally offended Then for his satisfaction they will demand to whom this satisfaction is paid If to God then God payes a Price to himself and what is it else to require and need no satisfaction then for one to satisfie himself Next comes in the Denyer of the Decrees and free grace of God What saies he shall we exhort admonish and entreat the Saints to beware of falling away finally and at the same time assert that it is impossible for them so to fall what shall we erect two contradictory Wills in God or place two contradictoryes in the same Will and make the Will of his Purpose and Intention run counter to the Will of his Approbation Hear another concerning the Scripture and Justification What saies the Romanist relye in matters of faith upon a private Spirit How doe you know this is the sence of such a Scripture Why by the Spirit But how will you try that Spirit to be of God Why by the scripture this he explodes as a circle and so derides it Then for Justification How are you Justified by an imputed Righteousness Is it yours before it is imputed or not if not as we must say is this to be Justified to have that accounted yours that is not yours Put again did you ever hear of any man made rich or wise by imputation why then Righteous or Just Now these seeming Paradoxes attending Gospell truths cause men of weak and prejudiced intellectualls to deny them and in them Christ being ashamed to owne faith so much as they think to the disparagement of their Reason 2. The Second thing causing men to deny the truths of Christ is their Vnprofitableness And no wonder if here men forsake the truth and assert interest To be Pious is the way to be Poore Truth still gives its followers its own Badge and Livery a despised nakedness It is hard to maintaine the truth but much harder to be maintained by it could it ever yet feed clothe or defend its assernors Did ever any man quench his thirst or satisfie his hunger with a Notion Did ever any one live upon Propositions The Testimony of Brutus concerning vertue is the apprhension of most concerning truth that it is a Name but lives and estates are things and therefore not to be thrown away upon Words That we are neither to worship or cringe to any thing under the Deity is a truth to strict for a Naaman he can be content to worship the true God but then it must be in the house of Rimmon the reason was implyed in his condition he was Captaine of the Host and therefore he thought it reason good to bow to Rimmon rather then endanger his place better Bow then Break. Indeed some times Providence casts things so that truth and interest ly the same way and when it is wrapt up in this covering men can be content to follow it to presse hard after it but it is as we pursue some beasts only for their skins take of the covering and though men obtaine the truth they would lament the losse of that As Iacob wept and mourned over the torn Coat when Ioseph was alive It is incredible to consider how interest outweighes truth If a thing in it self be doubtfull let it make for interest and it shall be raised at least into a Probable and if a truth be certaine and thwart interest it will quickly fetch it down to but a Probability nay if it does not carry with it an impregnable Evidence it will goe near to debase it to a down right falsity How much interest casts the Ballance in cases dubious I could give sundry instances let one suffice And that concerning the unlawfullness of Usury Most of the Learned men in the world successively both Heathen and Christian doe assert the taking of Use to be utterly unlawfull yet the Divines of the Reformed Church beyond the Seas though most severe and rigid in other things doe generally affirme it to be lawfull That the case is doubtfull and may be disputed with plausible arguments on either side we may well grant But what then is the reason that makes these Divines so unanimously concurre in this opinion Indeed I shall not affirme this to be the reason but it may seem so to many that they receive their Salaryes by way of pension in present ready money and so have no other way to improve them so that it may be suspected that the change of their salary would be the strongest argument to change their opinion The truth is Interest is the grand wheele and spring that moves the whole Vniverse Let Christ and truth say what they will if interest will have it gain must be Godliness If Enthusiasme is in request learning must be inconsistent with Grace If pay growes short the Vniversity Maintenance must be too great Rather then Pilate will be counted Cesars enemy he will pronouce Christ innocent one hour and condemne him the next How Christ is made to truckle under the world and how his truths are denyed and shuffled with for profit and pelfe the clearest proof would be by Induction and Example Bus as it is the most clear so here it would be the most unpleasing Wherefore I shall