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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	grace_n	work_n	6,088	5	6.2038	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34251	The Confession of faith of those called Arminians, or, A declaration of the opinions and doctrines of the ministers and pastors which in the United Provinces are known by the name of Remonstrants concerning the chief points of Christian religion / translated out of the original.		1684 (1684)	Wing C5791; ESTC R26041	123,515	276

Faith and conversion are not of our selves † Mat. 11. 17. 13. 11. 16. 17. c. Faith of or from himself nor is he born again or converted by the power of his own free will seeing in the State | Mat. 7. 17. 12. 34. Joh. 6. 44 45 65. 3. 5 c. of sin he cannot so much as think much less will or do any good which is indeed savingly good such is in special manner Conversion and saving Faith of or from himself but it is necessary that he be regenerated and wholly renewed * Phil. 1. 5 6. 2. 13. Eph. ● 1 c. Jam. 1. 17 18. 1 Pet. 1. 23. of God in Christ by the word of the Gospel and by the virtue of the Holy Spirit in conjunction therewith to wit in understanding affections will and all his powers and faculties that he may be able rightly to understand meditate on will and perform these things that are savingly good 6. We conclude therefore that the But from the grace of God alone grace of God is † Eph. 2. 5 18. Tit. 2. 11 12 13. 3. 4 5. Phil. 1. 6. the beginning | Joh. 15. 5. 1 Cor. 1. 4 c. progress and * 1 Thess 5. 23 24. Eph. 6. 13. complement of all good so that not so much as a regenerate man himself can without this preceding or preventing exciting following and co-operating Grace think will or perform any thing that is savingly good much less resist any † Mat. 26. 41. 1 Cor. 10. 13. Eph. 2. 4 c. temptations that do draw and entice unto evil Insomuch that Faith Conversion and all good works and all pious saving actions which any one can think of are wholly to be ascribed to the Grace of God in Christ as their principal and primary cause 7. Yet may man | Ezek. 12. 2. Prov. 1. 24 25. Mat. 13. 19. 23. 37. Act. 7 51. 13. 46. despise and reject The grace of God may be resisted the Grace of God and resist the operation of it so that when he is called of God unto Faith and Obedience he may render himself unfit to believe and obey the divine Will and that by his own proper fault and that too true and vincible either through * Mat. 13. 19. secure inadvertency or through † Joh. 7. 3 4 5 51. blind prejudice or through | 2 Cor. 3. 13. Rom. 10. 2 3. inconsiderate zeal or through an inordinate love of the * Luk. 14. 18. World or of † himself or other irritating or provoking causes of that kind For such an irresistible Grace or force which as to its efficacy is neither more nor less than ‑ Joh. 5. 44. Creation not Generation properly so called nor raising from the dead and which doth effect the very act of Faith and Obedience in such manner that it being afforded or granted a Man cannot but believe and obey cannot certainly but altogether ineptly and unwisely be there made use of and applied where free Obedience is seriously commanded and that under the promise of an exceeding great reward in case it be performed and under the threatning of the sorest punishment if it be neglected For in vain and without cause doth he command this Obedience and require it of another and promise to reward the Obedience who himself both ought and will work the very act of Obedience by such a force as cannot be resisted and ineptly against reason is he rewarded as one truly and really Obedient in whom this very Obedience is effected by such a kind of force of another's Lastly punishment especially eternal is unjustly Another twofold reason for resistible grace and cruelly inflicted on him by whom this Obedience is not performed through the sole and alone defect of that irresistible Grace which is indeed necessary as one disobedient who really and indeed is not disobedient That we may not now say that it is every where in the Scriptures affirmed of some that they have * 2 Cor. 4. 4. 2 Thess 3. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 2 c. 1 Joh. 5. 4. c. resisted the Holy Ghost that they † Act. 7. 51. judged or rather made themselves unworthy of eternal Life | Act. 13. 46. that they made void the Counsel of God against themselves that they would not * Luk. 7. 30. hear † Prov. 1. 24 25. come | Joh. 5. 40. obey that they have * Act. 7. 39. closed their ears and † Zech. 7. 11 12 13. Jer. 5. 3. hardened their hearts c. And of others that they heard the Word readily and | Act. 28. 24. Heb. 3. 12 13. 4. 2. Psal 95. 7 8. willingly that they obeyed the Truth and the Faith that they shewed themselves attentive and teachable that they * Act. 2. 41. 13. 47. 6. 7. 17. 11. Rom. 6. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 22. attended unto the Truth of the Gospel that they received the Word with chearfulness and that they were therein more generous then those who rejected the same lastly that they obeyed the Truth or the Gospel from the Heart c. All which things certainly to attribute to those who either can no ways believe or obey or cannot but believe and obey when they are called is doubtless too inept or weak and plainly ridiculous 8. And though there be a very great Sufficient grace is afforded to all that are cal●ed disparity of * Rom. 12. 6 c. 1 Pet. 4. 10. Grace according indeed to the most free dispensation of the Divine Will yet doth the Holy Spirit bestow and confer so much † Mat. 11. 21. Tit. 3. 4 c. 1 Pet. 1. 23. 2. 9. Jam. 1. 18. 2 Cor. 3. 6. Heb. 4. 12. Grace upon all Men both in general and in particular to whom the Work of Faith is ordinarily preached as is sufficient to beget Faith in them and to carry on their saving conversion gradually unto the end And therefore not only those who do actually believe and are converted but also those | Isa 62. 2. Ezek. 18. 11. Prov. 1. 24 c. Mat. 23. 37. Luk. 8. 12. who do not actually believe and are not really converted have sufficient grace vouchsafed to them to believe and to be converted For whom soever God doth call unto Faith and Salvation he * Tit. 2. 11 12. 2 Tim. 1. 9. 2 Cor. 5. 20. 6. 1 c. Isa 5. 2 c. Psal 85. 13 14. Joh. 5. 34. 10. 10. calleth them seriously that is to say he doth not call them only in outward shew or only by his vocal Word to wit as therein his serious Precepts and Promises are held forth to those that are called in general but also with a sincere and every way unfeigned intention of saving them will of converting them So that he never intended any