Selected quad for the lemma: tradition_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	church_n	confess_v	scripture_n	1,423	5	5.9158	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31115	[Antiteichisma], or, A counter-scarfe prepared anno 1642 for the eviction of those zealots that in their workes defie all externall bowing at the name of Jesus, or, The exaltation of his person and name by God and us in ten tracts against Jewes, Turkes, pagans, heretickes, schismatickes, &c. that oppose both or either by Tho. Barton ... ; wherein is added A tryall thereof.	Barton, Thomas, 1599 or 1600-1682 or 3.	1643 (1643)	Wing B996; ESTC R21325	100,426	115

thing but wish it were not so knowne that it might not be thus written If I have beene over bold now in the Apostles words I beseech you brethren that yee know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you I beseech you that yee have them in singular love for their workes sake Be at peace among your selves 1 Thes 5.12 13. Be at peace and in this yee confesse that Jesus Christ is Lord. For peace is his He is the God of peace 1 Thes 5.23 and our peace too Ephes 2.14 He cannot be acknowledged the peace-maker betweene God and us nor we his members whilest we be at hatefull oddes among our selves Where love is not the Holy Ghost will not be and where he is not no man can as he ought say that Jesus Christ is Lord 1 Cor. 12.3 For confessing him Lord we confesse more then he in himselfe is our selves also to be in obedience unto him Who keepe not in his service deny him to be their Lord. For it is not enough with Saint Peter to cry Lord save I sinke Matth. 14.30 unlesse also we can with Saint Paul say Lord what wouldest thou that I should doe Acts 9.6 and doe what the Lord wils With the whole man too outwardly and inwardly where and as he requires He being wholly ours who are onely his will be whole to him Soules bodies lands goods lives and all are at his service So he be ours and we his let him doe with us as he pleaseth He saved us and we will be governed by him To whom he hath beene Lord Jesus to us be he Jesus Lord. The Ebionits Samosatenians that deny the greatnesse we affirme requisite in our Mediatour to salvation The Anabaptists Brownists Barrowists Separatists that seclude whom they please as if none save their holy on earth might ever be Saints in Heaven and yet handle our Saviour as if he were to serve their turns alwayes and they him onely when and as they list And the Simonians Menandrians Pseudo-Christs that sacrilegiously impropriate his vertue are condemned at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For there confessing our deliverance from such evill we confesse the greatnesse of our Saviour also and acknowledge him the onely able for us and not onely for us but for the sinnes of the whole world We say not whose he is not but knowing him to be ours rest in that The Valentinians Marcionits Manichees with the other Opinats or Docits that make Christs death fictitious to take away the truth of his Sacrifice The Ethnicks that in opposition preferre Apollonius Tyanaeus before Christ the Novatians Rogatists Maximinianists Circumcelliones that borrow the broome of Donatus to sweepe the Church The Jewes Chiliasts Aeternals that provide for the Messias as if his Kingdome were of this world and our happinesse in the various delights thereof And the Papists that like the Heathen have set up a great Cauldron to purge souls in equall traditions to the Scriptures and make the Pope head of the Church are condemned at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For there we confesse him such a Priest such a Prophet such a King as never the like In his propitiation the ransome is unvaluable in his institution the doctrine infallible in his government the supremacie incommunicable All these onely in him infinite may not be held by any other The Basilidians Origenists Arrians Apollinarists Donatists that saying there was a time when Christ was not impiously call the Sonne of God the first begotten creature The Artemonits Photinians Monophysits that will not have him God before he was incarnate The Semi-arrians whether Acatians that affirme the Sonne to be like the Father or Ennomians that teach him of another nature then the Father or Aetians that make him unlike in all things to the Father or Eudoxians that hold him as a servant of the Father The Carpocratians Messalians Coluthians that denying God the administration of the world bestow the Lordship over men on the evill Angels The Marcionits Manichees that deeming the world a worke unworthy of Divine providence substitute some Atlas to sustaine it The Pontificiaries Socinians that question the sufficiencie of Christs Lordship And Schismatiks or relapsed Protestants that scorne to give him due and full worship are condemned at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For there Christ is confessed the eternall God consubstantiall and coequall with the Father The same before the Incarnation and no other now Lord of all above and below ruling his servants graciously in peace and trampling his enemies under his feete in ire Nothing may controll him nor is any thing too little for his providence This and all we maintaine from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and still the argument is the Union and our salvation True Christians we considering humility the basis of glory can value our Saviour even by his disrespect in the world Who would save it Jew and Gentile from sinne must be reckoned among sinners He therefore being the Sonne of the Highest the lower he appeared for us the more he shewed his love For in that estate not losing his owne all his gaines redound to us Because he could not be unlorded in ours we are dignified in his Not so as if he having served our turnes we should no longer serve him but that his annointing descending on us we might walke in the odour of his unguents He the constituted Priest to mediate by redemption and intercession we his sanctified to offer in faith the fruits of regeneration prayers praises good workes and a holy life He the Prophet by the Word and the Spirit to instruct we the Disciples to beare the characters of the one and set forth the graces of the other He the King ruling in might and mercie to preserve we the subjects in feare obedience and faithfulnesse to observe his pleasure in fighting against the enemies and maintaining the peace of his Kingdom Such we confesse him and our selves such confessours through him Nor is this all Our King our Prophet our Priest our Saviour is not transiently ours but eternall he Not now and not hereafter the same now and ever What comfort have we We being annointed shall never be feared nor ever fleeced being his saved For Jesus Christ is still that Lord which the Sonne of God he was before the Incarnation He hath the Keyes to unlocke Heaven and the Keyes to locke up Hell In whose hands we are none can snatch us from him Because he is that being whence all things have being and the immutable God having elected us will never alter his purpose That he will not we can domonstrate that He informes us by his Word confirmes us by his Sacraments and replenisheth our hearts with heavenly desires Our thoughts our words our workes tend to him And such is our reverence in adoring that if an unbeleever should be present at our publike service he falling downe would say Verily God is among us and with us confesse that Jesus