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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
A91927	Collections, or brief notes gathered out of Mr Daniel Rogers's practical catechism for private use : and how hereby communicated to som private friends, towards the building of them up in their holie faith. / By R.P.	D. R. (Daniel Rogers), 1573-1652.; R. P.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1795; Thomason E1138_1; ESTC R210078	131,966	329

any sens can bee our righteousness but becaus Christ apprehended by faith is the same thing which faith it self in the Scripture Beesides faith must needs concur with imputation in the act of it and therefore the holie Ghost honor's it with the name of beeing imputed to righteousness For first God enable's the soul to believ on the Lord Jesus by the promise and the spirit thereof Secondly the soul yeeldeth and consenteth Thirdly God casteth hereby this righteousness thus believed on the soul and impute's it to pardon and life So in the point of justification faith is said to justifie becaus of her necessarie concurrence which phrase is tropical the instrument beeing put for the principal agent The issue of this imputation of God is the Act of God justifying us really and freely from all our sin and guilt and all the curs due thereunto quitting us by proclamation as I may say from heaven by the voice of his spirit through faith so that haveing disabled all enemies from giveing in evidence lo hee absolveth us as haveing nothing com in against us Vse I. Let this bee consolation to all faint and weak children of God in the sight of their little grace and mean gifts and in the fear of persevereing to the end If one should com and tell thee thou art as holy as Job as Upright as David Believing as Abraham Zealous as Phinehas would it not make thy heart leap within thee Surely though I dare not say these of thee yet I say this If all these had not the robe of Christ's imputed rightousness cast over the holiest of all their Graces their unhallowedness had defiled them and the greatest of their holiness had not profited them And lo this robe thou hast as fully largely and deeply as the best of all these ever had Thy righteousness of imputation is as large as the largest of theirs Again touching thy fear of holding out proov to thy self thy faith in this act of imputation and that thou hast received that from God and then I assure thee that eternal Spirit by which the Lord Jesus offred up himself for his Elect the weakest as well as the strongest shall sustain thee it is the stock which thou art by imputation implanted into which hold's thee not thou it Vse II. Teacheth us the excellencie of faith first in respect of the nature of it other Graces of inherence dwel in the soul and are active within the soul more or less as patience sobrietie c. But the nature of faith although it bee a gift put into the soul yet standeth rather in a passive receptiveness then an activeness Secondly in respect of the constancie of it other graces while they last stand us in great stead as patience under a cross thanks for blessings but faith alwaies receiv's his imputation of Christ from the father as well to cover and beautifie us all our life as at our first conversion and carrie's her influence into each grace both to strengthen and keep the life of it as also to cover the wants of it yea the defects of the whole cours No grace can supply faith properly but faith suppleth all them Thirdly in respect of the prerogative of it that it 's admitted to bee all in all with God for the soul for it's Faith onely that maintain's Union and thereby communion with God Vse III. Let it provoke all that partake this imputation to bee thankful to God for his most wise and gracious providence that hath cast their portion so in this life that if there bee any defect it should bee in things of less necessitie but for those that are most essential hee is most large and full in his provision for them Vse IV. Let it bee a ground of self-denial to us As wee would obtain this righteousness of another so let us bee naked of our selvs It is witten of Mr Rollock that beeing on his death bed and much encouraged by them that visited him by his worthie labors I abhor saith hee my Rectorship of the Universitie Readership of Divinitie and Pastorship of Edenborow all which with great profit to all hee under-went that I may bee found in Christ cloathed with his righteousness all mine own is dung in comparison of this Com as Mephibosheth a limping cripple to David when I was a dead dog my Lord accepted mee I Sam. 19. As poor Abigail sent for to bee a Queen said Let mee bee an handmaid to wash the feet of thy servants 2 Sam. 25. Shee knew meer marriage to a King would make a Queen without bringing any thing And thus doing thy unworthiness shall not hurt thee but help on this robe upon thy bare shoulders Com thus to the Lord and say here Lord is a naked wretch put on the Lord Jesus upon mee I have no cloathing to hinder thee thou bid'st mee put him on Rom. 13. vlt. But Lord do thou fit him for mee in particular for my soul for my sin against my curs and then take him Lord put him on mee also reckon him to mee account with mee in him and make mee his righteousness as thou madest him my sin and I shall count it as real as if I had it of mine own Vse V. Let it stablish and comfort every beleever against all his fears Oh! it cannot sink into a poor soul privie to all her defilements that the Lord should ever pardon or accept her Remember imputation is not takeing all sin out of thee at once that must abase thy heart as it abased thy Suretie but a not-imputeing it unto thee Our blessedness stand's not in the want of sin but in the Lord not imputeing it The bush burn't but the wonder was that it was not consumed The Lord imput'es not thy sin cover's it take's away the condemning power impute's not the actual offences thereof to thee Hee look's at his own image in thee In all thy duties praiers there is thy dunghill and his pearl hee behold's that which is his cover's that which is thine not to make thee bold but thankful and humble Vse VI. Let this excellencie of faith as comfort us in one respect so humble us in another For imputation is onely for this life and argueth a defect of that which shall bee in another the thing imputed is perfect but the person to whom is corrupt and faith herself shall ceas and bee abolish't Wee will perhaps confess that wee should bee blank for our corruptions of pride and covetousness but the truth is our grace and virtues should humble us yea faith it self becaus still our life of inherence and perfect holiness is wanting ARTIC VI. The Gospel and the offer of Grace in it is the Revealer of this deliverance THe Soul in her distress hath to do with God to his tribunal shee stand's as her Judg. Now it is not the hearing of his giveing of Christ nor of a satisfaction which can quiet her but this that shee may know it 's given