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
A61254	A treatise of God's government and of the justice of his present dispensations in this world by the pious, learned and most eloquent Salvian ... ; translated from the Latin by R.T. ... ; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Wagstaffe.; De gubernatione Dei. English	Salvian, of Marseilles, ca. 400-ca. 480.; R. T., Presbyter of the Church of England.; Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712.	1700 (1700)	Wing S519; ESTC R16712	155,065	281

own Fault he has made his Distemper worse lays the Blame on the Ignorance of the Doctor As if the best Prescriptions could cure any Infirmity if the Sick Party does not follow them or that any Method laid down by a Physician can set any one upright unless the Sick Party resolves strictly to pursue it What good will a bitter Draught do the Stomach if Syrups be presently powr'd upon it What good does the Silence of the by-standers do to a Man in a Phrensy when he destroys himself with his own Noise How can that Antidote work which is follow'd by a larger Dose of Poyson Now the Law is our Antidote and our Vices are the Poyson The Antidote of the Law cannot cure us whom the Venom of our Vices does destroy But I have now and formerly spoke sufficiently of these Matters and if there shall be occasion I shall with God's Assistance say more to the same purpose hereafter II. In the mean time since I have before The Description of the Hereticks and of Tradition made mention of two Sorts or Sects of Barbarians viz. Pagans and Hereticks because as I suppose I have spoken sufficiently of the Pagans I shall now as my Method requires discourse likewise of the Hereticks For it may be urg'd That altho' the Divine Law does not require at the hands of Pagans that they should obey those Commandments which they never knew yet it certainly exacts Obedience from the Hereticks who do know them for that they read the same things which we read and have the same holy Prophets Apostles and Evangelists and that therefore the Law is not less neglected by them than 't is by us but rather indeed much more because they have the Advantage of reading the same Scriptures we do and yet do much worse Things than our People Let us therefore take a view of Both. They read say you the same Things that are read by us How I pray you can those things be said to be the same which have been formerly by wicked hands most lewdly corrupted and depend on worse Tradition So that they are not the same because those things cannot be said to be altogether the same which are faulty in any one of their Parts For they can have no safety in them since they have lost their Perfection nor have they always continued in the same State which are depriv'd of the efficacy of the Sacraments 'T is We therefore alone that have the sacred Scriptures perfect uncorrupted and entire who either drink of them at the very Fountain head or by the assistance of a just Translation have drawn them from their purest Originals 'T is only We that read them truly and I would to God we fulfill'd the Contents of them as truly as we read them rightly But I fear that we who do not observe them well do not read them well neither because there do's less Guilt acrue by not reading holy things at all than by disobeying the good Things we do read For other Nations either have not the Law of God or they have it tatter'd and corrupted and so by that means as I said before they have not at all what they have only so And altho' there may be some of these Barbarians who may seem to have the holy Scripture not so much abus'd and alter'd yet they have it corrupted with the Tradition of their antient Founders so that they have rather a Tradition than the Scripture because they do not adhere to what the Truth of the Text directs but to the wicked Gloss inserted by their naughty Tradition For they are altogether Barbarians ignorant not only of the Of Ignorance which excuseth Roman but even of all Humane Learning who know nothing in the World but what they hear from their own Doctors and what they hear That they follow so that 't is of necessity that they who being thus without all Learning and Knowledge do come to know the sacred Truths of the Divine Law by Doctrine rather than by Reading should rather retain that Doctrine than the Law it self And so the Tradition of their Teachers and their accustomed Doctrine is to them instead of a Law because they know nothing else but just what they are taught They are then Hereticks but not wilful ones They are reckon'd Hereticks with us but not among themselves For they fancy themselves so good Catholicks that they bestow the civil Title of Hereticks even upon us So that we are the same to them that they are to us We are certain that they are injurious to the divine Generation when they assert the Son to be less than the Father And they think we are as injurious to the Father because we believe both to be equal We have the Truth with us but they presume that they have it among them The true Honour of God is among us but they fancy that what they believe is more for the Honour of the Deity They are unkind and unneighbourly and 't is one of the greatest pieces of their Religion to be so They are ungodly but yet they think 't is true Piety to be so 'T is plain therefore they are in Error but yet they err with an honest Mind not out of Hatred but of love to God believing that they love and honour our Lord. Altho' they have not the right Faith yet they nevertheless believe this to be the perfect Love of God How they shall be hereafter punish'd for this Error and mistaken Opinion no body can tell but the Judge And in the mean time I presume God Almighty affords them his long-suffering because he sees them altho' not right in their Creed yet to be mistaken with a Desire of entertaining the true Opinion and especially since he knows that they do all thro' Ignorance but our People neglect those things which they believe so that they sin purely thro' the Fault of their Teachers but our People by their own they are ignorant ours very knowing they do that which they take to be the right but our People that which they know to be wrong And therefore by a most just Judgment the long-suffering of God supports them and severely punishes us Because Ignorance may in some sort be excus'd but Contempt can never merit a Pardon For thus says the Scripture The Servant who knows not the will of his Lord and does it not shall be beaten with few stripes Luk. 12. v. 47 48. but he who knows his Will and does it not shall be beaten with many III. Let us not wonder then if we are asflicted many ways because we sin not for want of Knowledge but out of Perversness For tho' we know what is good yet we do it not tho' we understand the difference between Vertue and Vice yet we follow the latter we read the Law and yet trample upon the Contents of it and make our selves acquainted with its sacred Sanctions and Precepts for no other end but to sin more heinously