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tradition_n	book_n	holy_a	scripture_n	2,474	5	6.0561	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67047	A word in season. Or Three great duties of Christians in the worst of times viz. abiding in Christ, thirsting after his institutions, and submission to his providences. The first opened, from 1 John 2.28. The second from Psal. 42.1,2. The third from Jer. 14.19. By a servant of Christs in the work of his Gospel. To which is added, by way of appendix, the advice of some ministers to their people for the reviving the power and practice of godliness in their families.	Servant of Christ in the work of his Gospel.	1668 (1668)	Wing W3548A; ESTC R204145	100,163	272

to Christ walking in your uprightness in an exact obedience to his blessed will both in matters of Worship and Homage towards God and in matters of Holiness Justice equity and Mercy towards men 1. 1. Br. Abide in the faith of Christ that is in a firm and fixed perswasion of the truth of those propositions of truth which Christ hath in his Gospel revealed This is the least of a Christian and that which distinguisheth him from a Jew wh●● believeth the Old Testament but not th● New and from a Pagan who believeth neither A man may go to he● who hath it for the devils also believe and tremble they could say Thou an● Christ the Son of the living God but n● man can go to heaven without it It is ●he foundation of justifying faith it hath an influence upon all our practice How shall men call on him on whom they ●ave not believed Therefore the Apostle ●eaking of some Apostates joyns both ●hese phrases together Having made ●ipwrack of faith and of a good conscience Without reliance on Christ none can ●e saved who will trust and rely and ●dhere to a Saviour who doth not ●now him or is not perswaded of him ●● his circumstances of sufficiency Think not therefore light of this The propositions of the Gospel are various the Scriptures are as full of them ●s the Heavens are of Stars but as one ●ar differeth from another in glory ●● it is with these Propositions All are ●ot of equal weight glory and influence Divines have usually distinguished ●hem into Fundamentals and such as ●e no Fundamentals But what are Fun●amentals is not yet agreed nor I think ●er will I shall not undertake to de●●de the controversie But in short I think Propositions of truth may be illed Fundamental 1. With reference to others So those truths are Fundamental which are the bases and foundations of all others from whence the● flow by way of just consequence o● inference 2. With reference to our salvation and so those are fundamental upon which our salvation depends And 〈◊〉 these 1. There are some that must be explicitly known and assented to or we can not be saved I think truly the number of these is not great though I durst n●● undertake to define them 2. Others there are of which 〈◊〉 cannot say that an explicit disting knowledge of them is necessary to salvation but some knowledge of the● and assent to them is necessary especially to persons living under the light of the Gospel I shall not pretend ●●give you a strict account of all that f●● under either notion but some I shall more especially commend to you 1. That the holy Scriptures are 〈◊〉 Word of God and the only rule of fai●● and life This is the principle of 〈◊〉 Christian Religion and the proof of from Scripture is not to be expected Take heed you fail not in this yea and take heed upon what argument you receive the Scripture as such The Socinian will tell you there are arguments enough from reason but the greater is not blessed by the less The Papists will tell you the Tradition of the Church is enough If you take the Scriptures upon either of these evidences as sufficient the devil hath a fair advantage to tell you That both these are but humane testimonies and humane testimony can beget but an humane faith and if an humane faith be sufficient for the Scriptures in general It is sufficient for every proposition of faith revealed in them Our Saviour ●lessed Peter for believing what flesh and ●loud revealed not to him The old Doctrine of Protestants was That nothing ●ut the impression of the holy Spirit work●●g by and with reason and the self-●vidence of those holy books can be enough ●old there or you lose all Do the ●apists bid you Prove the Spirit you pre●nd to perswade to Bid them prove their Church whose traditions they obtrude upon you and you are even with them They must certainly prove it by the Scriptures or not all and i● so I hope the Scriptures may as we●● be allowed to shine in their own light as in the light of the Church which hath no light but what it must borrow from the Scriptures 2. That the Lord Jesus Christ th● Eternal Son of God prophesied and prefigured of old in the fulness of time assume our nature and as God-Man died ●● our sins and rose again for our justification being our only Saviour Mediator and Intercessor and he whom God hath appointed to judge the world The Socinian or Vnitarians as they call themselves deny the eternal existence of the Son God and so call you to believe in a insufficient Saviour they deny his M●rits or the Satisfaction of them The Papists tell you of other Mediators and Intercessors hence their invocation 〈◊〉 Saints they teach you to trust in you● own merits take heed of these the shake the foundations The Apost calls Christ God over all blessed for ev●● It tells you Rom. 9 5.4.25 Rom. 4.25 He was ●● livered for our offences 1 Tim. 2.5 and rose again for our justification It tells you that there is but one Mediator between God and man even Christ That he liveth to make intercession for us Heb. 9. Acts 4.12 That there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved neither is there salvation in any other Let this be a second 3. That there is none righteous no not one No Infant Rom. 3.10.5.15 17 18 19. The Scripture tells you Ephes 2.3 We are all by nature children of wrath Psal 51.4 That our mother hath conceived us in sin That by one mans disobedience many were made sinners No grown person either legally righteous 1 King 8.46 For there is none who liveth and sinneth not Jam. 3.2 Ja. 2.10 Eccles 7.20 There is not a just man that liveth and sinneth not Nor yet Evangelically righteous from any righteousness of his own But of this more by and by 4. That the righteous Lord loveth righteousness And without righteousness no man can stand before God but will certainly be accursed to all eternity The Psalmist tells you The righteous Lord lovth righteousness The Law is Gal. 3.10 Cursed be he that continueth not in every little of the Law to do it The Gospel dispenseth not with that curse it only allows of our Sureties fulfilling the Law for us and our fulfilling of it in him according to that of the Apostle In him you a●● complete 5. That there is no righteousness when in any poor creature in the great day 〈◊〉 the Lord can stand before a righteous God but the alone righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ that is his active and pass●● obedienee imputed and made over unto ●● Nor is there any deliverance from wrath but by this righteousness of Christ imputed This point is the very hinge of the Gospel Luther called it The Article of banding or falling Church it is the Article of a