Selected quad for the lemma: tradition_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	holy_a	know_v	scripture_n	1,758	5	5.8907	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27061	Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Treatise of death.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1442; ESTC R6576	84,751	206

in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1. 10. The God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one towards another acording to Christ Jesus that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God Rom. 15. 5 6. And I beseech you brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you And esteem them very highly in love for their works sake and be at peace among your selves 1 Thes 5. 12 13. And mark those that cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned avoid them Rom. 16. 17. And if there be any consolaton in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfil ye our joy that ye may be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteemother better then themselves Look not every man on his own things his own gifts and graces but every man also on the things the graces and gifts of others Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation or emptied himself of all worldly glory Isa 53. 2 3 4. As if he had had no form or comliness and no beauty to the eye for which we should desire him but was despised rejected of men not esteemed Phil. 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. It is not as you imagine your extraordinary Knowledg Zeal and Holiness that inclineth you to divisions and to censuring of your brethren but it is Pride and Ignorance and want of Love and if you grow to any ripeness in Knowledg Humility Self-denial and Charity you will bewail your divideing inclinations and courses and reckon them among the greater and grievous of your sins and cry out against them as much as your more charitable and experienced brethren do 3. To the third sort the Papists I shall say nothing here because I cannot expect they should read it and consider it and because we are so far disagreed in our Principles that we cannot treat with them on those rational terms as we may do with the rest of the inhabitants of the world whether Christians Infidels or Heathens As long as they build their faith and salvation on this supposition that the eyes and taste and feeling of all the sound men in the world are deceived in judging of Bread and Wine and as long as they deny the certaine experience of true believers telling us that we are void of Charity and unjustified because we are not of their Church and as long as they fly from the judgment and Tradition of the ancient and present Church unless their small part may be taken for the whole or the major Vote and as long as they reject our appeal to the holy Scriptures I know not well what we can say to them which we can expect they should regard any more than musick is regarded by the deaf or light by the blind or argument by the distracted If they had the moderation and charity impartially to peruse our writings I durst confidently promise the recovery of multitudes of them by the three Writings which I have already published and the more that others have said against them 4. And for the fourth sort the Hiders and the Quakers I have said enough to them already in my Book against Infidelity and those against Popery and Quakers but in vain to those that have sinned unto death 5. It is the fifth sort therefore that I shall cheifly address my speech to who I fear are not the smallest part It is an astonishing consideration to men that are awake to observe the unreasonableness and stupidity of the ignorant careless sensual part of men How little they Love or Fear the God whom their tongues confess How little they value or mind or seek the everlasting glory which they take on them to believe How little they fear and shun those flames which must feed for ever on the impenitent and unholy How little they care or labour for their immortal soules as if they were of the Religion of their beasts How bitterly many of them hate the holy wayes commanded by the Lord while yet they pretend to be themselves his Servants and to take the Scriptures to be his word How sottishly and contemptuously they neglect and sleight the Holiness without which there is no salvation Heb. 12. 14. How eagerly they desire and seek the pleasing of their flesh and the matters of this transitory life while they call them vanity and vexation How madly they will fall out with their own salvation and from the errours and sins of Hypocrites or others will pick quarrels against the Doctrine and Ordinances and waies of God as if other mens faults should be exceeded by you while you pretend to loath them If it be a sin to crack our faith by some particular error what is it to dash it all to peices If it be odious in your eyes to denie some particular Ordinance of God what is it to neglect or Prophane them all If it be their sin that quarrel in the way to Heaven and walk not in companie as love requireth them what is it in you to run towards hell and turn your backs on the holie Laws and waies of God If it be so lamentable to the Nation and themselves that so many have faln into schism and disorder what is it then that so many are ungodlie sensual and worldlie and have no true Religion at all in sincerity and life and power Ungodliness is all Heresie transcendently in the lump and that in Practice A man that is so foolish as to plead that Arsnick is better then bread may yet live himself if he do not take it but so cannot he that eateth it instead of bread Hereticks only in speculation may be saved but practical hereticks cannot You think it hainous to denie with the mouth that there is a God who made us and is our only Lord and Happiness and so it is And is it not hainous then to denie him with the heart and life and to denie him the love and obedience that is Properly due to God It is odious idolatrie to bow to a creature as to God and is it not odious to love and honour and obey a creature before him and to seek it more eagerly and mind it more seriously then God If it be damnable Infidelity to denie Christ to be the Redeemer it is not much less to turn away from him and make light of him and refuse his grace while you seem to honour him If it be damnable blasphemy to deny the Holy Ghost what is it to resist and refuse him when he would sanctifie you and perhaps to make a scorn of holiness If it be Heresie to denie the holy