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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
A44609	Scotland pulling down the gates of Rome, or, Christ against Antichrist, the Lambs friends against the Dragons followers containing first, Christs herauld proclaiming his second coming, in allarum to most kingdoms of Europe, from the late presaging comet which appeared, December 1680 and January 1681, and now in August 82 ... : secondly, the popish confessions and catechisms, lately dispersed, and their damnable principles examined ...	Houschone, William.	1683 (1683)	Wing H2944; ESTC R4446	18,854	31

say they God is not bound to recompence such if we look upon his Attributes distinct from his Covenant yea also abstract from it Puteanus Summa Theologiae Quest 115. Artic. 1. Drob 5. In vain therefore do the Papists raise dust proclaiming to the world notorious lies which are there refuge as if it were our Principle not to approve and encourage the works of the faithful we grant and approve of a blessed harmony betwixt Faith and Works yea Works and Eternal Life Yet no casual relation but a relation of orders such respect as Mean has to an End This in a sober sense not in a captious nay as instance I have fought a good fight of Faith henceforth is laid for me a Crown of life the fight is needful to obtain the victory the victory in order to obtain the Crown Nor can we say the conflict of it self produces the Victory the Crown according to promise is freely given What madness would it be in any Rational man to impute the cause of a lights entrance to a chamber to reckon I say to the demission letting down or pulling up of the broads and yet the world knows letting down of the broads is Conditio sine qua non That the light of Life the light of Grace and last the life of Glory may enter in those broads of darkness Atheism Ignorance Formality must all be pulled up and this is the sound Doctrine amongst all Orthodox Divines Yea Ludovicus le Blanc de Justitia amongst rational men and Christians where the name Protestant has not been used without holiness we shall never see Gods face in mercy Concessions we grant farther though God doth highly approve of the works of the Regenerate yet we are not to understand them as if God of themselves did so impower them properly to effectuate Eternal Salvation yet herein can we nor shall we not robe those noble actions in the sight of God of their just value and proper operation proportionable to their sphere being as means natively tending to their end which is Eternal life and Salvation consequently following upon Gods appointment and his gracious promise So very solidly do the Doctors of the Reformed Churches speak the truth in calm terms denying denominatively good works to be the proper cause in a strict sense of our Salvation why because they of themselves do not immediately reach the effect Gods gracious promise mediating betwixt yet in a more larger though improper sense with all our Soul and heart do frame this concession if it would make a reformed Catholick honour them with the name of causes efficient of our Salvation but thus nay as an efficient cause in general is described by all the Philosophers and so morally has a name thus that in general to be an efficient cause whatsoever in what ever way has an operation and concourse into one effect Davenant 39. all we deny and from that the word of God a meritorious efficiency or properly so taken against us is excepted what can be more clear from the Word of God that Eternal life is the reward of good works But Reader know to such a reward for which we now dispute there must be those two ingredients absolutely 1. That there be a proportion of equality betwixt the labour and the reward and that by the exact law of Equity it be so distributed so all our works shall be thrown over the bench-bar of Heaven And further we adde this one concession if it can avail though there may not be a proportion of Equality or poize or valour yet as one tearms it a proportion of convenience such as is betwixt the seed and the fruit the sower and the reaper c. Amongst things of the same order flowing from the same principle having some connexion among themselves Grace is glory begun Heaven upon earth A famous man explains it further thus that word according holds out all and every relation amongst two things betwixt the good works of just men and eternal life good works being a certain moral good life eternal a physical good and so both agree though they be not of the same kind and so worth and dignity admits of a twofold sense one consisting in a relation of justice as the workman is worthy of his wages another consisting in a certain convenience of nature facite fructus penitentos dignos Proposition It 's not only our but the worlds wonder what hath infatuated the great persons of the earth with this man of this sin whose life and fortune he still projects considering what singular advantages doth accrue to their own interest in trampling upon the man of sin how does he clip the feathers of honour yea dethrones the greatest of Princes Platina Sabellicus Krantz l. 5. cap. 7. the Senate of Cardinals did not scruple to invest themselves with the power to choose and refuse Emperours at their pleasure as plainly appears by Hildebrand Electing of Ralfe displacing of Henry under which that horrible Idolatry of worshipping and carrying about of Bread came into the Church kneeling to the Bread god Henry stoutly as became a Magistrate resisted and ramcountred them with the point of the Sword of Justice Though for a long time he submitted too much but perceiving how the pulse of the Senate like to the Treachery of that Prelate Thurstan betraying Gospel King and Countrey to the Popes hands he must needs now declaim himself an open enemy to all such pestiferous persons for which there is nothing but fire and fagot grievous Wars against him Excommunicating Deposing displacing choosed a new Emperour to whom he sent a Crown of Gold with this Motto Petra dedit Petrus Diadema Rodulpho What Tumults Combustions Devastations of Churches and States have they been actors of what dreadful villany under the colour of honesty have they learned of the Devil as one reporteth how Satan prescribed some rules to the Papists for the better defence when questioned upon the meaning of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anselme Hermolaus Barbarin Proposition Our Pamphleteer leads us now to salute this Brother a miscreant creature an Arminian Heresie to over-turn Gods Eternal Blessedness Will Wisdom Providence and consequently his whole Essence it shall not suffice them to write their Panegyrick Theams in beating of their paradoxical brains dipping their quills in the blood of Gods Innocents as their old Mother Babel attempted to pull God out of Heaven we must render all the habits of Grace and the Spirit of God superfluous Advance the Throne of Free-will into the Throne of Free grace cut the Throat of Souls and Life If God was avenged for the blood of Jezabel much more for the blood of Abel and this is all their colour of honesty and picture of lawfulness they are say they only useful dispositively and by no co-efficience the efficient being helped by the habit in taking away the impediment yea increasing the vertue of the agent though not as a natural quality yet doth the habit