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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	authority_n	holy_a	scripture_n	3,181	5	5.9823	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03012	A soveraign counter-poyson prepared by a faithfull hand for the speedy revivscence of Andrew Sall late sacrilegious apostat ... / Contriv'd by J. E.	J. E.	1674 (1674)	Wing E16; ESTC R171890	44,784	118

that this faith or beli●ving was to be sealed in the understanding that the understanding was to submit n● arrogantly to dispute And that this Act 〈◊〉 believe was a command or precept of Al● mighty God who will have his will obeye● by all his subjects and the not obeying 〈◊〉 which is punished with eternal damnat●on Lastly consider Hebr. 10.23 let us ho● fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithfull that hath promised That faith is truly divine must be an infallible assent of our understanding submitting it self obediently to believe the Revelation● of God for otherwise faith consequently all Religion may be no more then fancy o● opinion and then no ways certain and if so then no obligation Now it must follow first that there must be some means appointed by God by which we may know this one true faith from all false Sects and opinions whereas to require one to believe upon pain of damnation not to give him any means whereby he may know what to believe for salvation in this Religion or that sect were to require him to walk without leggs these means must be infallible for we cannot be brought to an infallible assent by fallible and uncertain means as God would not require us to assent to an Authority which may deceive us then our understanding must of necessity submit to those ●eans under pain of damnation O terrible ●r if our understanding were at liberty to ●bmit or not submit to the means by which ●ving Faith is conveyed unto us it would ●en be no sin not to believe consequently ●od would not jnstly damn us for not be●eving and withall whosoever shall re●se to be governed by those heavenly ●eans and the same authority that God ●ath appointed to govern us he shall be a ●ebel against God and a vile Traitor Last●y I say that two men of two differing ●iths or beliefs cannot be saved for both of ●hem knowing that they are bound to be guided and governed by those means which God hath appointed to convey saving faith ●o them and one of them flatly refusing to submit this person who refufeth must be guilty of disobedience and refractoriness to Gods Command and consequently cannot be saved And so to our present purpose ignorant people by reasonable and earnest diligence as it is very tollerable to humane frailty and very possible and easy for them may come by Gods grace to the true knowledge of these means otherwise God would have appointed means which would prove unprofitable to the end and so the far greater number of souls for whom Christ died would not be sufficiently provided for by Gods sweet providence 〈◊〉 that prophesy would prove also ineffectual Esay 35. Say to them that are of a fear f●● heart be strong fear not behold your G●● will come and save you then the eyes of th● blinde shall be opened and the eares of th● deaf unstopped c. and one high way shall 〈◊〉 there and a way and it shall be called the holy way that way-faring men though fo●● shall not err therein It cannot be denyed b●● this wholsome doctrine is agreeable with all sorts of people Apostats sectaries o● Dissenters from the Mother Church for it must be granted that there must be a way and a Rule there must be means appointed there must be a governing power to judge and decide all arising doubts and teach a● the world the true way and path to heaven with certainty but when we come to find●● it out all persons will agree That they are obliged under pain of damnation to submit to it receive it and embrace it and wal● according to it as to the Apostles if they were actually living or to Christ himself 〈◊〉 and when you understand this Rule and guide then you cannot but believe all and every article of faith which we the Roman Catholicks did all along from the Apostles time and this day do unanimously believe and practise this is the main point which will allay all controversies contests wranglings ammosityes and hatred between Roman Catholicks and all dissenters the God ●f union and truth open the eyes and illu●inate the understandings of apostats to ●ake right use of this my labour Now I ●t them know that neither private spirit or natural reason of any man can possibly 〈◊〉 this Rule and Judge for this must sub●it as a subject and Vassal to that Rule and ●udge and it 's always fallible and strangdly ●t to mistake misleade which is against ●e nature of the true Rule and Judge to be ●r if God should oblige us upon pain of ●amnation to submit unto and to be go●erned and ruled by an Authority that might receive and might teach for a truth what 〈◊〉 not we should be bound to believe that 〈◊〉 true which is not so and yet be dam●●d for not believing the truth further ●our private spirit or reason were to be ●is Rule and Judge then it would follow ●●ntrary to the scripture that it is not im●●ssible to please God without faith for ●●ason would sufficiently teach us how to ●ease God yet it would be a breach of this ●ule to believe what we do not understand would likewise follow that every pre●●nded Religion would be the truth and 〈◊〉 contradictions would be true and there would be not only one faith but no faith 〈◊〉 all but reason above which faith is for reason excludeth faith and there 〈◊〉 scarce that man living but his reason diffe● from anothers understanding judgmen● differing as much as their faces therefo●● none that follows his own Reason could 〈◊〉 justice be condemned by God and so 〈◊〉 ilation all men would be saved unle●● peradventure you will say that in a bu●●ness of such main consequence as the salv●tion of souls our primate reason perswad● us to prefer the authority of such as a● wiser then our selves before our own jud●ments which is most true But I then infe●● that Roman Catholicks are the most rati●nal most learned most wise most godly most unbiased people now in the world a● consequently have the best Religion 〈◊〉 acting most conformably to reason in the belief for they rely still on the authority 〈◊〉 General Councils consisting of the able and most learned men of all Nations whi●● is the greatest authority to be found 〈◊〉 Earth especially having the assistance of t●● holy Ghost visum est spiritui sancto 〈◊〉 bis as it appears they have both by th● testimony of the Scripture and the consta●● tradition of all ages Upon these ground we may be sure that certainly God in h●● good providence had appointed a mo●● sure Guide Rule and Judge to bring ma● to the infallible faith for salvation the Reason and proud spirit otherwise God is defective in necessaries and that Religion were no more then fancy and opinion and it is worth observation how for the first two thousand years before any Scriptures were written the visible