Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	election_n	grace_n	justification_n	1,624	5	9.7216	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03622	A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of allmygthye God wroten Exo. 20. Deu. 5. Collectyd out of the scripture canonicall, by Joanne Hopper.	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1549 (1549)	STC 13746; ESTC S104202	118,189	256

saithe that the scripture doothe conclude all men vnder sinne in those thre places thow mayst se the thre wordes that I rehersid before withe the whiche Paule describithe the infirmites of man whiche infirmites Esai 53. Io. 1 Soothe testifie that they ar translatid into Christ Not so that we shuld be clene deliuerid from them as thowghe they were ded in oure nature or oure nature changid or shuld not prouoke us oni more to I le but that they shuld not damne vs bicause Christ satisfied for thē in his awne bodie And Paule saithe Rom. 5. that Christ died for sinners whiche were infirme and callithe those synners thennimies of God how beyt he callythe not them Theostygas in the scripture that is to say cōtemnours of God Euery man is callid in the scripture wickid and thennimie of God for the priuation and lacke of faithe an loue that he owithe vnto God Et impij uocantur qui nō omnino sunt pij that is to say they ar callid wickid that in all thinges honorithe not god beliuithe not in God and obseruithe his commaundementes as they shuld do whiche we cannot do by reason of this naturall infirmite or hatred of the fleshe as Paule Callithe it Ro. 8. against God In this sense takithe Paule this worde wickid Rom. 5. when he saithe that Christ died for the wickid So must we interpretat sainct Paule and take his wordes Or els noman shuld be damnid Now we know that Paule him selfe Saint Iohn and Christ damnythe the contemprours of God or souche as willinglij cotinew in sinne and will not repent Ma. 12. Mar. 3. Luce 12. Paul Rom. 8.1 Corint 5.2 Co. 6.2 Pe. 1. Those the scripture excludithe frome the generall promis of grace Thou seist by the places afore rehersid that thowghe we can not belyue in God as vndourttidly as is requirid by reason of this oure naturall sickenis and diseace yet for Christes sake in the iudgment of God we ar accōptid as faithfull fydeles for whoys sake thys naturall dyseace and syckenys ys pardonyd by what name so euer Sainct Paule callithe thes naturall infirmite or Originall sinne in man And this imperfection or naturall sickenis taken of Adame excludithe not the person feom the promis of God in Christ except we transgresse the limimites and boundes of this Oryginall synne by oure awne folie and malice and ether of a contempt or hate of Godes worde we fall into synne and transforme our selfes into the ymaige of the deuill Then we exclude by this meanes oure selfes frome the promises and merites of Christ who only receuid oure infirmites and Originall diseace and not the contēpt of him and his law farther the promes appertaine to souche as repent Therfore Esai Capit. 53. said without excepcion that the infirmites of all men were cast vpon his Blessid shulders It is oure office therfore to se we exclude not oureselfes from te generall grace promisyd to all men It is nat a Chrystiane mannes part to attribute his saluation to his awne frewill withe the pelagion and extenuat originall sinne Nor to make God thauctor of I le and oure damnatiō withe the Maniche Nor yet to say God hathe wrotē fatall Lawes as the Stoicke and withe necessite of desteny uiolently pullithe one by the here in to heauen and thrustithe thother hedling into hell But assertaine thy selfe by the scripture what be the causes of reprobation and what of Election The cause of reiection or damnation is sinne in man whiche will not hire nether receaue the promes of the gospelle or else after he hathe receauid it by accustomid doing of I le he fall ether in a contempt of the gospell will not studie to liue there after or else hatiht the gospell because it condemnithe his vngodly liefe And would therwere nether God not gospell to punishe him for doing of ile This sentence is trew how so euer man iudge of predestination God is not the cause of sinne nor wold not haue mā to sinne Psalm 5. Non Deus uolens iniquitatem tu es That is to say thow art not the God that willyt he sinne Osee 13. it is said Thy perdicion o Israel is of thy selfe and thy succur only of me The cause of oure electiō is the mercy of God in Christ Ro. 9. How be it he that wil be part taker of this election must receaue the promes in Christ by faithe for therfore we be electid because afterward we ar made the membres of Christ Ephe. 1. Rom. 8. Therfore as in the iustification or remission of sinne there is a cause towghe no dignite at all in the receauer of his iustification euen so we iudge him by the scripture to be iustified and hathe remission of his sinne because he receauid the grace promisid in Christ So we iudge of election by the euent or successe that happenithe in the liffe of man those onli to be electid that by faithe apprehend the mercy promisid in Christ other wice we shuld not iudge of election for Paule saythe plainlye Ro. 8. that they that be led by the sprit of God ar the children of God and that the sprit of God dothe testifye withe oure sprites that we ar the children of God being admonishyd by the scripture we must leaue sinne and do the workes commaundid of God or els it is a carnall opinion that we haue blindid oureselfes withe all of fatall desteny ād will not saw vs. and in case there folowe not oure knolege of Christ amendement of liffe it is not liuelie faythe that we haue but rather a vayne knolege and mere presumpsion Io. 6. saithe Noman commithe vnto me except my father draw him many men vnderstond these wordes in a wrong sence as thowghe God requirid in a resonable man nomore then in a ded post and markithe not the wordes that folow Omnis qui audit a patre discit uenit ad me That is to say euery man that hirithe and lernithe of my father cumnithe to me God drawithe withe his word and the holy gost but mānis dewty is to hire and lerne that is to say receaue the grace offred cōsent vnto the promes and not repugne the God that callith God dothe promesse the holy goost vnto them that aske him and not to them that contemne him We haue the scripture daily in oure handes reade it and hire it preachid Godes mercy euer cōtineu the same let vs thinke verely that now God callithe and conuerte our liefes to it let vs obey it and beware we suffre not oure folyshe iudgmentes to wander after the fleshe leste the deuill wrappe vs in darkenis and teache vs to seke the election of God out of the scripture all thowghe we be of oure sealfes bound men vnto sinne and can do no godd by reason oure originall and race is vitious yet hathe not the deuill inducid holie his similitude into ony of Adames posterite but only into those that contemne and of