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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	faith_n	holy_a	1,533	5	5.3032	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10723	A true and a kinde excuse vvritten in defence of that booke, intituled A newe description of Irelande Wherein is freely confessed 1 The cause of the writing of that booke. 2 How that booke was brought into obloquy and slander 3 A reuocation of all ouersightes that through ignorance were published in that booke. 4 A bulwarke or defence of all truthes contayned in that booke. Pleasant and pleasing both to English, and Irish. By Barnabe Rych, Gent. Seruant to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 21003; ESTC S115925	41,531	58

where faith is wanting The papist will say that we must beleeue in Christ and that faith is the foundation of our saluatiō but it iustifieth not except it bee furnished with charity and good works but faith of it selfe is Gods gift and Gods worke in our heartes which therefore iustifieth because it apprehendeth Christ Mans reason can not comprehend this but thinketh of charity and of workes what I haue done and what I haue not done but faith hath no other obiect then Iesus Christ the Son of God deliuered to death for the sinnes of the whole world saith looketh neyther to charitie nor to workes it saith not what haue I done or what haue I deserued but what hath Christ done what hath hee deserued the gospell then truely answereth that hee hath deliuered me from eternall death and damnation therefore a true and a stedfast faith must lay hold vppon nothing else but vpon Christ alone When I can feele and confesse my selfe to be a sinner through Adams transgression without my deseruings why shoulde I not thinke my selfe to bee made righteous againe through the righteousnesse of Christ without my deseruinges And therefore he that apprehendeth Christ truely by faith although he be neuer so much pressed downe with the waight of his sinnes may yet take comfort and accoūt himselfe to be righteous by that onely meanes that he possesseth Christ by faith if this faith faile and that it must giue place to workes or charity or to another helpe besides then it is but a fable that Christ is the Sauiour of the world and God also founde to bee but a lier that hath not performed what he hath so confidētly promised Let vs now acknowledge the lawe to be as it is diuine and holy and let vs learne of it both how wee ought to loue God and to demeane our selues towards our neighbour to aske counsaile how wee should be deliuered from sinne the power of the Deuill and eternall damnation Let vs haue nothing to do with the lawe which in that poynt doth rather terrifie then minister comfort heere let vs flie to the gospell which teacheth vs that Iesus Christ the sonne of God hath payde the ransome with his precious bloud and redeemed vs from our sinnes and here faith alone willeth vs to receiue this and to beleeue it and therefore when the lawe accuseth and sinne terrifieth let vs looke vppon Christ laying holde on him by fayth wee haue then present with vs the conquerour of the lawe sinne death and the deuill himselfe Whosoeuer will diligently consider of the whole argument of that booke called the Actes of the Apostles shall finde that it teacheth nothing else but that the holy Ghost is not giuen by the Lawe but by the hearing of the gospell for when Peter preached the holy Ghost forthwith fell vppon all that heard him in one day three thousand that were present at the preaching of Peter beleeued and receiued the holy Ghost Cornelius receiued the holy Ghost but not by his almes giuing but Peter preaching the gospell of Christ the holy Ghost fell vppon him and of all the rest that were present with him so that the whole summe and argument of that Booke is that wee are iustified by fayth onely in Christ without our workes and that the holy Ghost is giuen by the onely hearing of fayth at the preaching of the gospell and not at the preaching or worke of the Lawe Well sayth the papist if the holy Ghost may be obteyned but by hearing of fayth and the gospell preached and that there is nothing else required of vs alas this is but an easie matter soone performed but the giuing of the holy Ghost the forgiuenesse of sinnes the deliuerance from death are matters of greater moment then to be so easily attayned vnto And therefore if thou wilt obteyne these inestimable benefits there belongs more to it then eyther hearing or beleeuing Thus argueth the papist and this seemeth conformable to a mans owne reason and this opinion is well liked and the Pope and the deuill himselfe will approue it Thus the inestimable greatnesse of the gift is the cause that wee cannot beleeue it and because this incomparable treasure is freely offered therefore wee despise it but lette Christians learne that the forgiuenesse of sinnes Christ and the holy Ghost are freely giuen vs by hearing of faith and the gospell preached And that wee must not so much thinke of the greatnes of the thing that is giuen nor of our vnworthines that are to receiue it as of the greatnes gratiousnes of the giuer we must thinke that it pleaseth God freely to giue vnto vs that vnspeakeable gift as Christ hath sayd Luke 12. Feare not litle flocke for it is your fathers pleasure to giue vnto you a kingdome Let foolish reason now be offended let the papist neuer spare to rage and raile against vs let them say we teach men to doe nothing at all for the obtaininge of so inestimable a gift but to heare the gospel preached let them therfore refraine themselues frō going to church that they might not partake with vs of this heauenly treasure but for those that will exercyse themselues in righteousnes indeede let them first exercise themselues in the hearing of the gospell hauinge once receiued that let them giue thanks vnto God and afterwardes let them exercise themselues in those good workes whiche are commaunded in the lawe so that the lawe and workes may followe the hearing of fayth but to seeke any iustification by the lawe or by workes we leaue the one to the Iewes the other to papistes the papist teacheth that no man can haue any certayne knowledge whither hee bee the child of God or no but he that doubteth of Gods good will towardes him that man cannot beleeue that he hath forgiuenes of sinnes but imagineth the tenth article of the Christian fayth and maketh doubt of his own saluation the papist indeede hath not this feeling for it belongeth to none but to him that hath the spirit of God Knowe ye not your selues that Christ is in you except ye be reprobate persons sayth Saint Paule 2. Corin. 13. And in the sixt to the Rom. Hee that hath not the spirit of God is none of his Now the spirit of God is the onely marke that is giuen to those that are elect now the Papist that hath not this feeling if Saint Paules woordes bee true is a reprobate for he hath not the marke If any man feele in himselfe a loue towardes the word of God and willingly heareth talketh and thinketh of Christ lette that man know that it is not the worke of mans wil or reason but the gift of the holy Ghost So agayne where the loue of the word and gospel is comtemned dispised and vtterly set at naught as we see at this day but especially heere in Ireland let them assure themselues that it is the worke of the deuill that so blindeth their eyes and