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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	eternal_a	good_a	work_n	4,394	5	6.6946	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05679	The portraiture of hypocrisie, liuely and pithilie pictured in her colours wherein you may view the vgliest and most prodigious monster that England hath bredde.; Portraiture of hypocrisie, lively and pithilie pictured in her colours	Bate, John, M.A.	1589 (1589)	STC 1579; ESTC S101572	70,120	198

tongue when your heart is on your halfepeny For there where your treasure is there will your heart bee also and in this one regarde your condition is most desperate in that by the sleight and subtilty of Sathan by the deceitfull perswasion of the diuell himselfe you thinke you knowe much when as you knowe nothing vnlesse this howe to serue the world the flesh and the diuell of such it is saide in the fifth of Esay Vae quod sapientes in oculis vestris et corám vobismet ipsis prudentes videmini And in the 26. of the Prouerbes Vidisti hominem sapientem sibi videri maiorem illo spem habebit insipiens Oh blinde and senselesse creatures more blinde than they which are blinde on both eyes for they knowe their owne blindenesse although they knowe little else but you knowe not your owne blindnesse but rather séeme wise in your owne conceites and count your selues good Christians when as your conuersation is vnseasonable in the Lordes taste and your praiers vntuneable in the Lordes eares For how can he inuocate the name of God which beléeueth not Howe can hée beléeue which hath no faith And can he which hath no faith bée saued This is euerlasting life to knowe God him whom he hath sent Iesus Christ Autoph Do you thinke y t we haue no faith Or can we not think you say our Créed Then in déede we had liued too long and learned too little Philox. Yea certainly I thinke you can saie it and as it is reported so could Caesars parrot neither do I doubt it but the deuils can say it And yet neither is the parrot néerer heauen nor the deuill further from hell the one bableth vnderstandeth not what she saith the other beléeueth that there is a God and therefore trembleth and quaketh Autoph Well might the Parrot prate by custome but shee lacketh vnderstanding Philox. And as the Parrot learned it by custome and vnderstood it not euen so some of you saie it for custome not once considering what it is nor what you saie Autoph Yet shall you not perswade vs but that our beléefe is as good as the best Philox. Euen such as is pourtraied of S. Iames in the second Chapter Tu credis quod vnus Deus est et bene facis Demones credunt et contremiscunt Thou beleeuest that there is a God thou doest wel the deuils beleeue and tremble also Autoph This is notable stuffe in déede will you make the deuill more religiously faithfull than they that professe the name of Christ Philox. I dare not call you religiously faithfull for this is not a true faith whereby you shall be saued but a vulgar knowledge which carries a man as néere vnto God as the beholding of the Sun beames doth carry him vnto heauen notwithstanding in that they beléeue all things to bee true which are spoken of God writtē in sacred scripture yea and quake and tremble when mention is made of his name euen as the théefe and wicked malefactor fearefully is terrified with the countenance of the iudge redie to denounce sentence of condemnation against him confesse according to your owne conscience doe they not go beyond you verie farre Autoph It may be Philoxenus that there bée some such as you make reporte of which carrie such couragious heartes that although they heare all the thunder clappes of Gods iudgementes from the first Chapter of Genesis vnto the last leafe of the newe Testament denounced against sinne and sinners they woulde hardly quake or tremble Philox. Call you these couragious stomackes Naie it is a flintie yea rather a dullish mind so ensnared through the subtil sleights of Sathan so choked with the thornie cares of this world so drowned with the desire of earthlye doung so dazeled blinded with the delight of worldlie pleasure that it neyther hungreth for the ioyes prepared for the good nor is terrified with the torments threatned against the wicked that it neither regardeth God nor séeketh after his kingdome neither is afraide of the deuil nor of the vnspeakable paines of hell fire and that I may speak y t which is true neither thinkes that there is a God in heauen who is the rewarder of the iust neither anie deuils in hell who are executours of Gods terrible wrath and indignation agaynst the wicked and vniust Autoph Will you then make vs worse then deuils and no better than Atheistes séeing wée can saie our Créede and the confession of our faith as readily as cunningly as the most curious clarke of you all Philox. I know and confesse that this one worde Credo containeth a greate force and efficacy towards the edifying and sauing of your soule if it be sayde and performed as it ought to bée and how that is learne of Saint Augustin himselfe It is not enough to beléeue al things which God hath reuealed in his wordes are true that hée himselfe is also truth and veritie and cannot lie for this is but Credere Deo which things the deuils doe as well as his selfe standing in a greater feare of his iudgement But in Deum credere as sayth Saint Austen is by beléeuing to runne vnto him by beléefe to cleaue and take fast holde vppon him and as a member to bée incorporated and ingrafted into the bodie of Christe Whereby it is euident that hée which wilfullie and obstinatlie stoppeth his eares and turneth them awaie from hearing of the worde and as it were malepertlie doeth oppose himselfe agaynst the Lorde doeth filthilie and abhominablie when as hee sayth Credo in Deum I beléeue in God No no God neyther admitteth such beléefe nor such beléeuers Autoph Doeth not Saint Iohn saie Hee that beleeueth in me hath eternall life Philox. True it is Si non credideritis non permanebitis saith the Prophet Esaie For which cause saith Augustine Ruinam videtur quaerere qui sine fide vult aedificare And the same Augustin saith That euen as the boughs braunches of the trée doe wither awaie vnlesse they receiue sappe and nourishment of the roote so what good worke so euer y u intendest or what false face of fained sanctitie and holinesse like an hypocrite thou doest pretende to the worldwarde it is dead and worketh nothing at al to the edifying of thy soule Therfore although hypocrites seeme at the first blushe to shew some resemblaunce of the sonnes of GOD yet so long as they remaine in the corruption of their first nature they can doe nothing but sinne Theyr almes déedes are turned to sinne béeing giuen hypocriticallie to bée praised of men Their solemne sacrifices are turned to sinne béeing not done in faith and with mortification of the flesh The prophet saith that before God they are accounted of no better than the killing of a man the cutting in sunder of a dogges necke the offering vp of swines bloud or the blessing of an Idoll Their praiers