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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	believe_v	faith_n	justification_n	5,240	5	9.4416	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06030	A helpe to true happinesse. Or A briefe and learned exposition of the maine and fundamentall points of Christian religion. By Mr. Paul Bayne	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 1642; ESTC S117277	94,533	420

wrath the iudgement of a faithful man for the time may bee so depraued that he shall thinke God his enemy and euery thing to bee otherwise toward him then it is The third thing to bee marked is that about which faith is conuersant which is Christ obeying to death that he may finde righteousnesse and forgiuenesse of sinnes to life in him For to beleeue that my sinne is now forgiuen in Christ is rather an acte of experience in a Beleeuer now iustified then that beleefe which is required to iustification to rest on Christ obeying to the cursed death of the Crosse ●●at I may get pardon and ●●se euerlasting from the ●race of God this is the acte ●f true beleefe with the ●atter also about which it is ●●nuersant Christ is the full ●●d adequate obiect of be●●efe as it doth iustifie euen 〈◊〉 colour is the full obiect of ●●e power of seeing that is ●●rs Faith doth not looke ●any thing else as it doth ●●ercise that facultie which worketh to the iustification ●f vs faith doth beleeue ●●reatnings doth sustaine vs 〈◊〉 aduersities doth like a Queene guide all our acti●●s doth worke by loue as 〈◊〉 instrument conioyned ●●th it but it doth not iusti●●● vs but onely as it doth ●●me it selfe to apprehend Christ as our reasonable soules doe see in the eye heare in the eare digest in the stomacke but doth no● reason as it doth thes● things but onely as it conceiueth discourseth within vs. For looke as nothing in a poore man can mak● him rich further then it doth get riches into his possession so nothing in vs Sinner● can make vs righteous to life further then it doth lay hol● on such a righteousness● which can take away sinne and make vs righteous to th● receiuing of life eternal● Wherefore though the fai●● that iustifieth vs bee a fai●● working through loue y● it doth not hence follow that it should iustifie vs as 〈◊〉 worketh by loue no mor● then this followeth that because the fire which is hotte and giueth heat is also light therefore it should make hot so farre forth as it is light not so farre forth only as it hath heate in it 4. For the last obserue That a true iustifying faith doth incline a man to beleeue Gods grace in particular toward him through Christ euen as they that ●ere st●ng w●th Serpent did come and looke to the ●easen Serpent beleeuing to finde the healing of those deadly stings that were fastned in them Thus a soule ●tung with sinne and feare of death commeth by saith to Christ relying on him trusting to finde in and through him cure of those deadly euils wherewith it is wounded If a Physitian should call sicke persons saying do but come to mee and I will heale you and we should see many flocking about him would wee not presently know that they beleeued that he would cure their diseases So when Christ saith to sinners beleeue on mee or come to mee for a Ioh. 6.35 these are all one I wil help you What saith think we haue sinners who resort to him is it not a beleefe that he will according to his word heale them deliuer them from sin and death and restore them to life eternall If there be a particular word or that which is equiualent then is there a particular faith but there is so For b 1 Ioh. 3.23 God bids euery one beleeue and saith that c Ioh. 3.16 whosoeuer hee is that beleeueth shall not perish but haue life which is as much as beleeue thou Thomas and thou shalt haue life How can we proue that Iohn or Thomas are vnder wrath and the curse Wee cannot prooue it otherwise then thus d Gal. 3.10 Cursed is euery one who continueth not in ●ll c. Againe the saith of true Beleeuers goeth farther then the faith of Deuills can doe but they may beleeue that Christ died in generall for all sinners that shall beleeue on him Remember that voyce of Thomas e Ioh. 20.28 My Lord my God and of f Gal. 2.20 Paul who hath loued mee and giuen himselfe for mee This pronoune in diuinitie is most precious The seuerall applications of these would bee too prolix Vse Let vs then stay on Christ as our Sauiour and so vnite our selues to him that wee may through him obtaine saluation What is apparell helpefull to vs before wee put it on The Papists are like those Taylors who carry suites vnder their arme which themselues neuer weare so they doe carry Christ in the swimming knowledge of the braine without resting on him with their whole hearts to finde saluation in him most pittifull is their faith For whereas this particular confidence is a shield against all the fiery darts of the Deuill their faith is such as may be intire and whole and yet a man hauing it may be in damnable desperation as themselues teach and by reason is euident For if faith hath not in it any hope or confidence then is it not opposed to despaire so as to expell it for things which will not endure the one the other must haue contrariety as fire and water if the one doe not fight and driue forth the other then may they dwell together But true saith in Christ doth breed confidence and boldnesse according to that a Heb. 10 22. Let vs enter with confidence and boldnesse through faith on him True faith therefore hath in it confidence toward the grace of God For as nothing can make hot which hath not heate in it selfe so nothing could make confident which after some manner had not confidence in it QVEST. VI. 10. Q. HOw is FAITH wrought A. It is the gift of God by the worke of his Spirit in the preaching of his word This answere doth set downe Faith first from the generall nature of it viz. That it is a gift of God Secondly from the manner of working it which is set forth by the paincipall Author the Spirit the instrumentall which is the word For the first obserue Eph. 2.8 that Faith is Gods gift Iam. 1.17 Euery good thing commeth from the Father of Lights but Faith and other graces are gifts after a speciall manner for they come not from a common bountie such as God made shew of in the creation but from a speciall fauour which he beareth his in Christ Iesus Phil 1.29 To you it is giuen saith Christ not onely to beleeue c. The naturall head doth not onely giue sense and motion to all the members now conioyned but doth send foorth those bonds whereby they come to be coupled with it so is Christ the spring whence this sinew of Faith doth flow and issue vnto vs. What is there in a gift but it doth agree to faith Nothing we say more free then gift it must come from the grace of the Donour and be ours by no former title thus faith it is bestowed on vs when we were euery way vnworthy