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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	justification_n	2,857	5	9.3476	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25208	A faithful rebuke to a false report lately dispersed in a letter to a friend in the country Concerning certain differences in doctrinals, between some dissenting ministers in London.	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing A2910; ESTC R215794	39,818	63

A Faithful Rebuke TO A False Report LATELY Dispersed in a LETTER TO A Friend in the Country CONCERNING Certain Differences in Doctrinals between some Dissenting Ministers in London Exod. 23. 1. Thou shalt not raise a False Report Jer. 20. 10. Report say they and we will Report it LONDON Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey M.DC.XCVII Dear Friend IT 's grown of late the Mode with some to communicate their Sentiments under the Colour and Cover of a Letter to a Friend in the Country In complyance with the Humour I have given mine ● same Inscription But you shall excuse me if I imi●e not the Disingenuity the Prevarication the Parti●ty of the Reporter though I comply with the Fashion general Whoever makes a Report ought to be un● the severe Law of Conscience To speak the Truth whole Truth and nothing but the Truth that is who●r will Report ought not to make his Report for an ●●●torian must never be the Author of his History I can afford to pass by the Reporters assuming Spirit ●o determines who are the Most Learned of each Party ●ause I know not by what Authority he ventures upon 〈◊〉 nor whether he be duly Qualified for such a Deter●ation tho' he has a Friend in the City who has pro●med him all over the Town A Learned Divine ● shall I concern my self at his Reflections on those or seven Presbyterians who he says are of the BigNames amongst them hoping they can be content ●e of no Name when the Name of the Lord Iesus ●st may be glorified in them Though perhaps they ● not so tamely suffer their Names to be trampled in Dirt by every insolent Scribler I pass by also his temptuous Stuff at those who meet at Little St. Hel● though you know it is the Body of the United Bre● who meet there of which Number he himself one with others however now absented from the ● and the Union too and is now laudably imploy'd in misrepresenting them or some of them Principal or Accessaries as inclining towards the Unitarians Nor will it be worth the while to take notice of his affected Terms Pursuances Explosion c. for your great Wit● fancy now and then to be Pedantick nor are they fo● little Fooleries to be accountable But it will deserve a serious Remark that since these Persons are resolved never to Unite with them ye● they might have suffered the poor Presbyterians to live quietly by ' em They might at least have let the Spark● of Contention silently die and be buried in their own Ashes and not have blown them up into this Flam● in the Country which they had kindled in the City Light indeed is pleasant but I like not the Sparks an● Flames that come from a Forge That little Artifice which the Reporter may glory i● is obvious and needs not my Observation that his Paper came out at a Juncture when he knew the Unite Ministers had Adjourned their Meetings and so mig● hope to poison the Country before they could prescrib● and send down the proper Antidote and that his Fir● balls might put you all in a Flame before the Ministe● could rally to quench it But you expect to be entertained with more substanti● Matters I. And therefore I present you with the Substance of the Gospel of Christ as he has presented it We are all● Nature under the Curse of the Law and destitute of Righteousness intituling to Eternal Life This is our state a● condition This is the Place in which we are in which we dye we are undone eternally For Vindicative Iustic which is essential to God makes it necessary that the Wra● be inflicted and that there be no Right to Eternal Life wit● out a perfect Meritorious Righteousness That all who believ● might escape the Wrath to come and have Everlasting Life The Lord Iesus Christ undertakes for us by making Satisf●ction both to punitive and remunerative Iustice and that might do so he put himself into our Place State and Condi●●on So that whereas we were Sin and under a Curse ●y this blessed Change Christ is made Sin and a Curse and ●e delivered from Sin and the Curse 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 3. Pag. 5. This he tells us is the Substance of the Gospel of Christ which if it be and sound at the Bottom is the worst ●rawn up of any I ever read 1. Out of his Substance of the Gospel he has left Regeneration Conversion Repentance Holiness Sanctification a new Heart and new Obedience Good Works c. A Blessed Report for the Country you are eased at least of one Moiety of your Work though I question whether your Consci●nces will take his Security that this is the Substance of ●he Gospel which you are to Preach to the People Woe ●o that poor People whether in City or Country who ●t down under such Preachers who make this the Substance of their Preaching for though they may now and then upon the by hint a little at Repentance and so ●orth yet that 's but Accidental to the Gospel the Sub●ance lies in what Christ has suffered for them 't is meer Accident what he is by the Spirit to work in them much more what is if any thing be to to be done by ●hem 2. But suppose this were intended only as the Substance of the Gospel so far as we are to believe what Christ has done and suffered for Sinners without them ●nd with God yet there 's something in this Draught ●hat gives cause of Suspicion to those who are of no ●ealous Inclinations For whereas he informs us that Christ suffered and satisfyed that all who believe might ●cape Wrath to come and have Everlasting Life Here 's ●o necessity of Faith in order to Justification no Be●eving necessary to Pardon of Sin or Peace with God No Faith needful to Union with Christ that we may ●ave an Interest in his Righteousness but only to escape ●rath to come and the having Everlasting Life Well! give me my Bible again I will subscribe without Equ●vocation to the Apostle Rom. 5. 1. Being justified b● faith we have peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ. 3. Be pleased to observe He instructs you Tha● we are all by Nature under the Curse of the Law and dest●tute of a Righteousness that may intitle us to Eternal Life and that this was our Place State and Condition which we all own and lament as too true but then he instruct you also that Christ put himself into our Place State and Condition will you not must you not conclude from hence that Christ also was destitute of a Righteousness t● intitle him and if himself us too to Eternal Life 4. Such an Inference is obvious but it will requir● more Application of Mind to discern the Fallacy i● these Words So that whereas we were Sin and unde● a Curse by this blessed Change Christ is made Sin and under a Curse and we delivered from Sin and Curse