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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	law_n	time_n	write_v	3,058	5	5.6338	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11256	The key of David that openeth the gates to the citie of God also, of faith and repentance, and how they are wrought, and brought to passe, and whether faith be commanded in the law or not.	T. S.	1610 (1610)	STC 21520.5; ESTC S4869	26,727	88

ought to call to minde so often hee may thinke of the riches mercy and loue of God by giuing him thanks by Christ Iesus his Lord and intercessor who so mercifully hath set him free from the wrath of this iust and holy law Nothing that I know is now omitted Let vs therefore take breath awhile especially seeing we haue gone so far and come as it were to the sepulchre of this dead and spiritlesse opinion which whiles it is cast into obliuion as into the fire and while the buriall is attended I will turne me to B. and by a certaine comparison as much as I can I will comfort him lest he without comfort lament the death of his opinion as of a daughter dearely beloued and if any sense be left in him I will labour to make him sound minded A certaine king hath many debters indebted vnto him for much money by writing whereby it is prouided that except they faithfully pay all the mony at the day appointed their goods should be confiscate and themselues cast into prison the King in the meane time foreseeing that they wil not be able to pay the debt being moued with pitty he maketh a new edict that if any of the debters wil desire to be released before the day of paiment hee will freely forgiue them You see B. the bill is iust and sure for he requires nothing but his owne you see also that the Edict is good and firme for by it hee succours the poore miserable soules that otherwise should perish in prison you see the Bill is contrary to the Edict for that adiudgeth the not paier to perpetuall bondage contrariwise the Edict frees him that paieth not so he pray to bee pardoned further you see the Bond established by the edict for all that will reioice for the benefit thereof doe no lesse satisfie the King then if they had fully paid all the debt due by the Bill for the King requires his fummes either by the vsurers seuerity or by his great equity shewed towards those that craue release the first by law the latter by fauour if thou dost either thou doest sufficient Lastly B. you see what you would not namely that the Bill doth not command any asking of pardon no it admits no such matter it cals either for paiment or punishment nothing else for the free benefit of asking pardon pertaines onlie to the Edict Goe to then let the Decalogue be the Bill let the law of promise be the Edict or Proclamation of free pardon namely the grace of the Messias let faith be the asking of pardon I will not mince it smaller a word is enough to a wise man Behold now B. the fruit of your outcrying the seeds whereof this twenty yeeres you haue dispersed with such roughnesse of words and impotency of minde that you ought to beare it more patiently if the truth now take some punishment of you For beleeue me B. euery error shall suffer punishment shall suffer I say at the hands of truth either sooner or later neither is there a more certaine houre of sinning then of suffering Call to minde with me that day wherein applauding your selfe in your subtilties you challenged one in the Vniuersities to whom when as it was not lawfull to answere or reply sufficiently vnto you making the Challenge either for the authority of your part or for the obscurity of your Sophistrie and snares of your subtilties good God how you crowed ouer him Neither did you thinke it sufficient onely this your poore lecture to bee published in triumph of this so base victory that it might bring darkenesse to the light except also the sixt yeere after daūcing in the funerals of the truth you caused to bee published a new Commentary of the excellency and dignity of the law an eternall Monument of your ignorance blindnesse for it is almost incredible how in that worke you mingle heauen and earth together and make squared things straight how often in that little booke you put foedus for foedere The law for the law faith for faith viz. a lie for a testimonie and that which is a signe of a minde smally ingenious how oft doe you make monsters to your selfe which you might easily make away I accuse you not the matter it selfe speaketh you shall be iudgeed of your owne papers This one thing I would haue you vnderstand whereof B. you shall be an example to posterity while this worke shall liue and it shall liue foreuer That the booke of God is a booke indeed full of eies within and without and written on both sides but withall sealed so that there are many hard things in it which you Barowists doe not vnderstand But if you desire to open your closets to enter into the inwards of it you had need of a key I meane not that which Rome reioiceth in which openeth the bottomlesse pit and bringeth out monstrous lies and blasphemies neither doe I meane that key B. which laieth vp for thee a great heape of siluer which bringeth great increase to the dropsie of thy couetousnesse neither doe I meane that key which openeth the smokes of Sophistry and the meere froth of words and of Diuine Plato and the Sophisters or such like builders of darkenesse and made wisdome But I meane B. the key of Dauid that searcheth out the most secret things of the truth and the hidden things of Gods wisdome and so openeth them that none can shut and so shutteth them that none can open Which key by your writing I am sure you are without as any thing that you want And thus much of faith the holinesse whereof you haue defiled Thus much also of the law the maiestie whereof you haue violared And if any thing seeme lesse spoken then ought to be either for your deserts or as so weighty a matter requireth let him thinke it is reserued vntill anoother time when God blessing our enterprises wee shal haue more strict examination of you vpon that booke which you haue scribled of the excellency and dignity of the law Jn the meane time I bid you in Christ Iesus to repent and Farewell FINIS