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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	grace_n	work_n	1,789	5	5.8920	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69062	Tvvo Godly and notable sermons preached by the excellent and famous clarke, master Iohn Caluyne, in the yere. 1555 The one concernynge pacience in aduersitie: The other touchyng the most comfortable assurance of oure saluation in Chryste. Iesu. Translated out of Frenche into Englyshe.	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.	1560 (1560)	STC 4462; ESTC S112718	27,188	102

not then feare when we fele our infyrmitie but psal 37 let vs stay our selues vpon god who wyll prouyde for vs seynge he hath Iosu 1. Heb. 13. promised to assyste vs. This hadde nede to be well borne away Let vs therfore applye oure studye and see that we take good hede to remember that whiche is here sayde for he wyll not fayle vs. Thus after many perswasions made for the strengthenynge of vs agaynste suche temptations when we shal be at a full poynte that Phil. 1. god wyl finyshe our saluation as he hath begunne 2 Tim. 3. assystynge vs in the myddle of persecutions in suche wyse that wee shall with constancie surmounte them and tryumphe ouer our ennemyes althoughe 1. Cor. 4 2 Cor. 4 it seemeth to the worlde that we are troden vnder feete yea and vtterly swolowed vp then must we come to this declaration which Saynct Paule addeth towchynge oure saluation and holy vocatiō wherof we haue spoken He saith that Tit. 3. it is not for our desertes but accordynge to the purpose of God and his grace Hereby wyll he better admonyshe vs by declarynge that oure ingratitude is so much the more to be condempned Heb. 6. in that that god hath opened the inestimable treasors of his goodnes toward vs for he hath had Rom. 3. Ep●e 2. no respecte to our worckes or dignite when he called ●s to saluacion it proceaded of h●s fre grace That was the cause wh● he drewe vs to hym selfe A●● therefore the lesse shal be oure e●cuse when we shall falsefye ou● faithe seynge that not onlye w● ●eb 9. haue byn purchased throug● the bloude of oure Lorde Ie● Christ his only begotten son 〈◊〉 that he also cared for our sal●●cion before the creation of t● worlde ●phe 1. Let vs marke wel th● howe S. Paul dothe here co●dempne our ingratitude ●ebr 3. if w● be found vnfaithful to our god 〈◊〉 stande not stoute to beare wytnesse vnto his gospell when he thervnto cauleth vs. For Tit. 3. wee be not saued accordynge to oure dedes sayth he but according to his owne purpose and grace S. Paule addeth that that was geuen vs Ephe. 1. before the worlde was before the worlde had his course and begynnynge but nowe hath it byn manyfested sayth he at the commyng of oure lord Iesus Christ For when that great Tit. 2. sauyoure appered the grace which before was hid yea not to be cōprehended by mans iudgement was manifested and opened And why because Heb 2. the sonne of god settynge death at naught saythe he hath also brought an immortal life And we nede not to make long cyrcuytes to sinde the same Ephe. 3. for the gospell leadeth and conducteth vs therunto When therfore god sendeth vs that message of saluation we must receaue the inheritaunce promysed Rom. 10. we nede not trotte far of for it for god seketh vs out by whose grace we open our hartes and geue passage to this testimony of the gospell immortalite of the heuenly kingdome to dwell in vs althoughe we be Psa 103. Iob. 17. poore and fraile vesselles yea thoughe there be but corruption and rottennesse in vs yet apprehende we out of hand this immortalitie and haue a Rom. 8. suffyciente testimonye acceptynge the grace whiche in the gospell is offered vnto vs. Herein is comprehended the whole processe wherof saynct Paule speaketh Now to vnderstand better that whiche is here conteined let vs note this worde Purpose to betoken the euerlastynge Ephe. 1. Decree of god not as thoughe the matters were to be caryed hyther and thyther for when we speake of the councel of god Rom. 9. we maye not alwayes dispute who hath soo induced hym we may not imagyne reasons as to saye for this cause hath god so determyned or wherfore wolde he so do but contrarye wyse god wold haue vs Rom. 12. 1. Pet. 1. kepte vnder this modestie to thincke that his onely wyll shoulde suffyce vs for reason when he sayth god hath soo ordeyned Althoughe the thynge seme strange vnto vs or that we coulde perceyue therin no apparante reason yet muste we conclude that his only wyl Ro. 9. Psa 92. is iust and not to be reproued That say I shulde be Deu. 4. al oure wysedome to ratifie al that for good which god ordereth and disposeth with out sayenge whye or wherefore Nowe for as muche as men haue always suche tyklynge spirites and geue them selues ouer much lybertie to theyr curiosities S. Paule to abate suche boldenesse bryngeth vs backe 2. Tim. ● to the purpose of god into the whiche wee maye not enter so depelye as to knowe who hath moued him but also to note it as a weyghty matter and that Psa 92. his wyll is iuste Hereby then are we admonyshed that oure saluation Ephe. 2. dependethe not for the respecte of oure merytes that god inquyred not what we were nor whereof we were worthy when he chose vs to him self But he had his purpose that is to saye he sought not without hym selfe the cause of oure saluation for soo this worde purpose signifieth Decree Sainct Paules mynde herein is euydent but because that men accordynge to theyr arrogansie can not temper them selues except they imagine alwayes some dygnytie or worthynes to be proper to theym selues and that theye well deserue that god shoulde seke after them S. Paule specyally the better to Rom. 3. exclude all that men can attrybute vnto them selues sayth purpose and grace which importeth as much as though he had sayde purpose freely It serueth then to abate al our workes to the ende we be no more soo folyshe and obstynate as to thyncke that God hath chosen vs for anye thynge that was in vs. No no for wee knowe Ephe. 1. that god went not out of hym selfe when he chose vs to saluation for he sawe Rom. 5. there was but dampnation in vs he then contented him self with his pure grace infinite mercy Who Psa 102. beholdynge oure myseries wolde Psal 12. succour and helpe vs although we were not worthy therof And for more ample confyrmatiō herof Sayncte Paule saythe that this grace was geuen vs Ephe. 1. before all tymes And herby se we how men are Eccle. 16. depriued of their senses when they wyl bost them selues and stand in theyr owne conceyt that they bee the cause of theyr owne saluation that they haue anticipated or preuented goddes goodnesse Nowe then doth not oure saluation depend of the eternal election Ephe. 1. God chose vs before we were what could we then do were we then apt vesselles were we then well disposed to come to God we se then that oure saluation beginneth not from the time we had knowledge and discretion sithens we were well disposed or mynded oure saluation I saye beginneth not thens but it is grounded vppon the eternall election of