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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	faith_n	justify_v	object_n	6,929	5	9.3831	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92842	Antinomianisme anatomized. Or, A glasse for the lawlesse: who deny the ruling use of the morall law unto Christians under the gospel. / By John Sedgwick, B.D. and Pastor of the Church of God at Alphag, neer Cripple-gate London.	Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643.	1643 (1643)	Wing S2359; Thomason E63_5; ESTC R4740	39,115	56

doth shew it self every way opposite to all even the appearances of wickednesse this teacheth men to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and calls upon T it 2. 11. 2 Cor. 7 1. them to cleanse themselves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit Sixthly As it doth make known a remaining vertue in all the curses and menaces of the Law under the Gospel the believing soul doth flee from the dreadfull sentence of the Law to Jesus Christ even as the man slayer did to the Cities of Refuge seeking to repeal all the actions of the Law against it self surely if the Gospel did not make it to be of force it would not be thus with believers Seventhly As it doth look at the satisfaction of the Law ere it alloweth the justification of a sinner The Gospel will have men justified per modum justitiae in a way of satisfaction unto justice which cannor be done untill that right be done to the Law the right of the Law must be fulfilled in us as satisfaction was made unto it in our names by our Surety and Rom 8. 4. Saviour till when no man is by the Gospel admitted to love and life Eighthly As it dot give license and liberty to poor sinners to come in and plead the satisfaction of Christ to the Law for their discharge from that guilt contracted in and through their breaking of the Law When the Law hath found men to be sinners by its sentence condemned them for the same and left them under many miserable wounds and horrours the Gospel will now admit and give way to them to come in to God and deal with him for grace and mercy in and for the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ which is his righteousnesse Ninthly As it doth presse to humility and self-denyall An humble self-denying heart is never above duty all the while the heart is proud and selfish its disobedient and unfft for duty where self raigneth there carnall reasonings vave mastery and base ends do over-bear the heart carrying it from duty Now the Gospel calls upon men to deny themselves and to be lowly minded and humble hearted it would have men to loose their wills in Gods as the wife doth lose her name in her husbands Tenthly As it doth spring up love to God and man Love is not the rule but spring of sound obedience to Gods Law no affection disputes lesse and doth more then love Christ puts all obedience on love and Paul puts all love upon Faith if men love they cannot but obey if they believe they cannot but love as love is a part of duty so it is a provoker to duty The love of Christ doth mightily constrain 2 Cor 5. 14 Eleventhly As it do●h excite men to look up to their helps for performance of obedience The Gospel sheweth to men their work and the way how to accomplish their work it sets before them all encouragements to be doing and where all their springs of ability for doing lie especially it sets Christ before men not onely as an example of obedience to his Fathers Will whom they are to follow but as the spring of all-obeying vertue it teacheth that all power to do and obey is treasured up in Jesus Christ and from him it floweth even as the service of the naturall members ariseth from the influence which passeth from the head in one place it saith Without me you can do nothing and in another place I am Ioh. 15 4. able to do all things through Christ that strengthneth me Phil. 4. 13. It woes and wins men to come to Jesus Christ seeking obeying vertue from him Lastly As it keeps men upon a oourse of obedience We reade of the obedience of Faith and the work of Faith the Gospel cannot endure idlenesse it s for working in one place it saith Work out your salvation with fear and trembling In Phil. 2. 12. 2 Pet. 1. 10. I●● 2 another place Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure In a third place Sh●w me thy saith by thy works Thus it is in the Gospel works do not justifie persons in Gods ●ight yet they justifie faith to a mans own conscience and all the world We are not to be ignorant that as Faith hath an immediate and primary act called Application which is the taking hold of speciall and saving objects so it hath a mediate derived or resulting act called Su●jection which is the delivery up of the person to be ruled and governed by the Lord in all things the grace of Faith in life will make men and women to apply themselves to keep Gods Commandments with chearfulnesse as the Gospel doth shew that God is gracious so it teacheth that man must be dutifull he that said I am God all-suffi●ient said also Walk before me that covenant which makes God to be a loving Father doth stile Christians obedient children Nomist If it might not be troublesome unto you I would gladly hear the uses you made of these Doctrines Evangelist It is meat and drink to me to do my Masters will and your Spirituali profit is my souls pleasure I gladly yeeld to your motion and do acquaint you that this Scripture thus opened Vse 1 In the first place doth wipe off that divelish slander and unjust imputation of the Romanists against the Protestant Divines Bellarmine in his fourth Book De justification● and fifth Bellar. de justifi ● 4. c. 5. Chapter useth these words ●gitur adversarii ut supra diximus in co ponunt Christianam libertatem ut nulli legi subjecti sint in conscientia coram deo Christum habeant pro redemptore non pro legis-latore Moses autem cum suo Decalogo nihil ad eos pertineat i The Adversaries to us do place Christian Libertie in this that they are altogether freed from the obedience and subjection of the Law so that Moses and his Commandments do no way belong to them We reject this charge as false and unjust and do from our hearts abhor any such opinions we onely teach a freedom from the Law as men would make it a covenant of Works and seek justification thereby we constantly and earnestly maintain That the Morall Law is a binding rule for dutie and ties all sorts of persons to the observation of it self and such who teach otherwise we do oppose as Antinomians We do not abolish the Law but rather as the Apostle saith We establish it to be an immutable and perpetuall Doctrine and rule of life and holy walking binding not by a naturall but a Divine obligation I shall conclude this with the saying of a learned Divine Vnanimi consensu docemus omnes Christianos Andr●as Rivet in 〈◊〉 Dec●l●gi p. 17 fid l●s l●gis moralis regulae directioni imperio obligationi subjectos esse omnium mandatorum divinorum quibus ●liquod officium nobis imponitur quae libertas non destruit legis obligati●n●m obedi●ntiam sed