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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	believe_v	faith_n	1,884	5	5.9965	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86563	The righteous mans hope in his death: in a sermon at the funerall of Mr William Conye of Walpoole, justice of peace, and captain over the trained band in Marshland. / Preached by John Horne Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ at Southlyn in Norfolke 2d⁰ May 1648.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2808; Thomason E562_3; ESTC R206072	29,394	38

and is in him not every one that talks of him and professeth him and cals him Lord Lord but he that 's found in him is imputed of God and accounted righteous by him and in him A righteousnesse this is that will as well rule him righteously that receives it as present him unto God righteous Now the way of receiving it is beleeving and for that cause partly it is called The righteousnesse of faith as also because it worketh righteousnesse or causeth us so to work through faith Rom. 10.6 which beleeving in its actings towards Christ and God in him and in its acting from God and Christ towards man by Gods love acting it Gal 5.6 is called as I understand our working righteousnesse or doing righteousnesse in 1 Joh. 2.29 Every one that doth righteousnesse is born of him which answers to chap. 5.1 Every one that beleeveth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and so in 1 Joh. 5.7 He that doth righteousnesse is righteous as he is righteous Which agrees with that in Col. 1.22 23. To present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight if ye continue in the faith grounded and setled c. That I say is our righteous doing especially as it works towards God or receiving Christ resteth in God through him in which respect it is said also to be imputed to us for righteousnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or unto righteousnesse Rom 4.5 Not for any inward merit in our acting it for indeed it 's rather acted in us but such is the love of God to his Son that he accepts our beleeving on him and takes it in as good part as if we had never sinned against him imputing it unto righteousnesse that is out of his meer grace and gracious determination so approving it that he looks on us now through Christ whom we therein beleeve on and reckons us after Christ who is his righteousnesse It is true that it is a righteous thing in it self that we should beleeve the word of God Istis duobus Christiana file que gloriam tribu●● Deo imputatione De● sides enim firma est 〈◊〉 oportet imputationtia Dei accedere Luth in Gal 3 6. and there-through beleeve in Christ set forth therein and so in God through him but yet this righteous thing of it self as acted by us or in us is too weak and low to denominate us righteous with God or intitle us to Christ his righteousnesse and make him ours did not God graciously so reckon of it as to accept it unto righteousnesse or to the intailing Christ upon us to be our righteousnesse But however that is our righteous-doing to give credit to God and beleeve on Christ and the not doing so is great unrighteousnesse that great sin which the holy Ghost will convince the world of Joh. 16.8 9 11. That that makes it a righteous thing to beleeve God is because he is true and all his words are pure and upright there is no fraud or perversnesse in him or his sayings none ever trasted to them and were deceived by them and thence it is too that unbelief is so great a sin and so unrighteous a thing because it gives God who is truth it self the lie and makes a liar of him 1 Joh. 5.10 And so again it is but a righteous just thing for men to beleeve on God in Christ and the contrary is unrighteousnesse and sin and why because he is good and loving yea love it self and doth good to men so as that they have good ground of committing themselves to him and staying on him and this in Christ because he hath in him testified his love to poor fallen mankinde and Christ hath so wonderfully deserved well of them for he came from his Father into the world on purpose to take our nature and therein bear our sin and die the death that was due to us which he also out of pity and good will towards us hath done and being risen again and ascended up to his father he is with him the propitiation for our sins and having received of him all authority and power yea being filled with all the fulnesse of God he holds forth himself as a Saviour to men as a Captain and leader ready and able to save them to the uttermost who ever submit to him and follow him Now God having done so much for us and upon these grounds requiring us to hope in him through Christ and cast our selves upon Christ it s but a most just and equall thing to beleeve on him and not to trust to one that hath prevented us with so much love and done so much for us is horrible ingratitude and injustice But by the way some may cast in this doubt concerning themselves Whether it can be made out that it is just and righteous that they in particular should beleeve in him Doubt For there are some so much bewilded in pooring upon themselves that they think it rather presumption and sin for them to hope in God and beleeve in Christ then any waies right and just for them and therefore if their hearts any time begin in consideration of this mercy and goodnesse a little to look towards him and conceive hope in him they are ready to start back again and say alas I am such a sinner I am not so well qualified I fear it's presumption in me to harbour any such thoughts of mercy in him for such a one as I Such a one I say might here object and ask me how I can make it good that it 's a just thing for him to beleeve in God and that God hath done so much for him as doth challenge his hoping and trusting in him To which I say S●lu Not that thou maiest know this by thy so doing or beleeving for that would be fallacious and as to thee dangerous it being the want of such frames that make thee in this temper besides that thou nor any man can througly beleeve in God or be rightly framed toward him till he beleeves that God hath done so much for him and is so graciously affected towards him that there is good warrant for beleeving in him and this too from divine testimony not humane conjectures for faith that 's right comes by hearing Rom 10.14 and that hearing by which it comes is of the word of God To answer positively then out of the word of God It 's evident by Gods own testimony there that there is good ground for thee to beleeve on him It 's but that that his grace and good will testified towards thee doth require of thee for all that good will that I spake of before as a good ground for faith is testified in the Scripture to appertain to thee for minde what the Scripture saith in this particular and thou shalt see it clearly Joh. 3.16 for it is said that he so loved the world as to give his son yea for the unjust 1