Selected quad for the lemma: tradition_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	faith_n	receive_v	scripture_n	3,204	5	6.0081	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20451	Justice vindicated from the false fucus [i.e. focus] put upon it, by [brace] Thomas White gent., Mr. Thomas Hobbs, and Hugo Grotius as also elements of power & subjection, wherein is demonstrated the cause of all humane, Christian, and legal society : and as a previous introduction to these, is shewed, the method by which men must necessarily attain arts & sciences / by Roger Coke.; Reports. Part 10. French	Coke, Roger, fl. 1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4979	450,561	399

be esteemed as the greatest goddess and that the greatest power ought to be ascribed to her overcoming and triumphing over all the oppositions of Men and verisimilitudes Nor can any reason be given that Polybius Livy Plutarch c. did either write such Histories or that such Histories written by them were truer then those which are lost and rejected by Men but only a kind of divine ayre informing Men of their truth whereas those books which are falsely and factiously written are exploded and neglected in a very short time and yet whether they were truly or falsely written few or no Men can judge from any thing known to the outward sence I say few or no Man can so judge of them for in that time when they were written there were many more false and factious Historians to delude Men then true and just to inform them Nor can Men in subsequent generations from any thing in their outward sences judge or discern whether any thing they record be true or false Nay further no Historian except Caesar and Xenophon and some very few others who recorded infinitely more things not known then known to them to be true did ever know whether what he recorded were true or not To evidence this yet more fully there was scarcely except Caesars Xenophons ever any History truly written in those times wherein the things were done that men might take information from their outward senses but Men were so carried by Faction or Interest that in recording of things they record things not as true or false but as advancing their Faction and Interest whereas Men in the subsequent generation not having those Passions and Appetitions nor any sense of these things subjecting all their Passions and Affections as it were assisted by a divine Election do make Election of those things which are true and reject others which the Malice or Faction of Men had imposed upon the World And a Man is as certain that there have been such Men as Caesar Hanibal Alexander c. and as assured of their Actions as if he had seen them 46. Since all things which proceed from God immediately and for Faith is an extraordinary Gift of God which no reason can be given by any Creature may be justly required for principles by intellectual and reasonable Creatures and since the Scriptures proceed immediately from God or they could not be the Word of God are therefore the principles of Faith And since there is nothing within man naturally which may assure him that those things revealed in Scripture were Gods Revelation it does necessarily follow That Faith or the Belief of God in the Scriptures is Gods gift supernaturally and extraordinarily Nor can all the Arguments of Tradition Church Excellency of stile Truth c. move one stone to the proof of them For they were the Word of God before any Church or Tradition c. was And if they had not been the Word of God before the Church received them and delivered them to posterity their Reception and Tradition could never have made them so Besides the Church having its being from the Scriptures it can never prove the cause of its being And what was it less then the power and grace of God extraordinarily given to Moses That the Bush burned and was not consumed And of all the miracles done by him and the other Prophets and more then those done by our Saviour and the Apostles and blessed Martyrs since And that by the Preaching of a few Fishermen against all the Temporal Powers in the World Christianity should be propagated generally over the face of the Earth and that I without any thing in me or desert of mine am baptised into this Faith And he that shall dispute the truth of the grace and power of God in the Old and New Testament and since recorded in Ecclesiastical and Prophane History ought as much to be confuted with clubs and hissing as he that denies or disputes his Principles in any Art or Science 47. All Principles are true or false just or unjust good or bad either All Principles are prime and necessary either necessitate absoluta or necessitate medii necessitate absoluta or necessitate medii Principles that are true or false necessitate absoluta are so that they are immutable by God himself as that two and two added should not make four or that things equal to the same thing should not be equal to one another or that any being should be superior to the cause of its being or that contradictions should be true or else true or false good or bad just or unjust necessitate ex hypothesi And these though they are necessary and principles to those to whom they are given and immutable by them yet are they not principles and necessary to them who made and gave them As the Laws of Nature and Gods revealing himself in the Scriptures are principles necessary and immutable by all the Men in the World yet are they not principles necessary or immutable by God but he might if it had pleased him made something else the Law of Nature or otherwise revealed himself in the Scriptures So Humane Laws must be prime necessary and immutable by Subjects or their conforming or not conforming their actions to them could not be just or unjust But they cannot be prime and necessary or immutable by the Legislator but as he sees occasion may alter or make something else which was not before Laws for the Subjects to conform and direct their actions to It is therefore absurd and wilde to suppose that the Law of Nature is Annotat. simply necessary and immutable by God or that the will of Men can make it mutable 48. All Science all Learning all Reasoning and all Conclusions by Contra negantes Principia non est disputandum the Authority of Aristotle is begotten from pre-existent principles for which no reason can be given by the Learner which being granted do nemonstrate the Conclusion but by the Authority of Aristotle and all Philosophers no Science or Conclusion can demonstrate the Principles Where therefore either by a defect in the Understanding Men cannot or by a stubbornness in the Will they will not apprehend Principles there all Reasoning Learning or Discourse is at an end If therefore I would learn a Man Geometry and he either cannot or will not apprehend the Axioms or common Notions of it it is impossible I should ever make him understand the constitution of an equilateral Triangle Or if a Man denies the Laws of my Countrey I cannot teach him whether such an action be just or unjust Or if a Man denies the Law of Nature I cannot prove that he ought to honor and obey his Superior and to deal justly and uprightly with all Men Or if a Man denies or disputes the Authority of the Scriptures there cannot be any Conclusion or Inference from them whether as Christians any thing ought to be or not to be done or believed