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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	life_n	work_n	3,707	5	6.0653	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09418	The foundation of Christian religion gathered into sixe principles. And it is to bee learned of ignorant people, that they may be fit to hear sermons with profit, and to receiue the Lords Supper with comfort.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1591 (1591)	STC 19710; ESTC S105978	14,111	53

Sacrament A. A signe to represent a seale to confirme an instrument to conuey Christ and all his benefites to them that doo beleeue in him Q. Why must a Sacramēt represent the mercies of God before our eyes A. Because we are dull to conceiue and to remember them Q. Why doth the Sacrament seale vnto vs the mercies of God A. Because we are full of vnbeleefe and doubting of them Q. Why is the Sacrament the instument of the spirite to conuey the mercies of God into our hearts A. Because we are like Thomas we will not beleeue till wee feele them in some measure in our hearts Q. How many Sacramēts are there A. Two and no more Baptisme by which wee haue our admission into the true Church of God and the Lords supper by which wee are nourished and preserued in the Church after our admission Q. What is done in Baptisme A. Solemnly in the assembly of the church a couenant is made betweene the Lord and the party baptized Q. In y e making of this couenāt what doth God promise to y e party baptized A. Christ with all blessings that come by him Q. To what condition is the party baptized bound A. To receiue Christ and to repent of his sinne Q. What meaneth the sprinkling or dipping in water A. The couenant being solemnly made is therby sealed and confirmed Q. How commeth it to passe that many after their baptisme for a long time feele not the effect and fruit of it and some neuer A. The fault is not in GOD who keepes his couenants but the fault is in themselues in that they doo not keepe the condition of the couenant to receiue Christ by faith and to repent of all their sinnes Q. When shall a man then see the effect of his Baptisme A. At what time soeuer he doth receiue Christ by faith though it bee an hundred yeares after hee shall then feele the power of GOD to regenerate him to work al things in him which he offered in Baptisme Q. Howe if a man neuer keepe the condition to which he bound himselfe in Baptisme A. His damnation shal be the greater because hee breaketh his vowe made to God Q. What is done in the L. supper A. The former couenant made in Baptisme is renued in the Lords supper betweene the Lord himselfe the receiuer Q. What is the receiuer A. Euery one that hath been baptized and after his baptisme hath truly beleeued in Christ and repented of his sinne from his heart Q. What meaneth the bread wine the eating of the bread drinking of the wine A. These outward actions are a second seale set by the Lordes owne hand vnto his couenant And they doo giue euery receiuer to vnderstād that as God doth blesse the bread wine to preserue strengthen the bodie of the receiuer so christ receiued by faith shall nourish him and preserue both bodie and soule vnto eternall life Q. What shall a true receiuer feele in himselfe after the receiuing of the Sacrament A. The increase of his faith in Christ the increase of sanctification a greater measure of dying to sinne a greater care to liue in newnes of life Q. What if a man after the receiuing of the Sacrament neuer finde any such thing in himselfe A. Hee may well suspect himselfe whether he did euer repent or not Q. What is another meanes of increasing faith A. Praier Q. What is praier A. A familiar speach with God in which either we craue things needful or giue thanks for things receiued Q. In asking things needfull what is required A. Two things an earnest desire and faith Q. What things must a Christian mans heart desire A. Sixe things especially Q. What are they A. 1. That he may glorifie God 2. That God may raigne in his heart not sinne 3. That he may do Gods will and not the lusts of his flesh 4. That he may rely himselfe on Gods prouidence for all the meanes of this temporall life 5. That he may be iustified and be at peace with God 6. That by the power of God hee may be strengthened against all tēptatiōs Q What is faith A. A perswasion that these things which we truly desire God will grant them for Christs sake VI. Q. After that a man hath led a short life in this world what followeth thē A. Death which is the parting asunder of body and soule Q. Why doo wicked men and vnbeleeuers die A. That their bodies may goe to the earth and their soules may be cast into hell fier Q Why doo the godly die A. That their bodies may rest for a while in the earth their soules may enter into heauen immediatlie Q. What followeth after death A. The day of iudgement Q. What signe is there to knowe this day from other dayes A. Heauen and earth shall bee consumed with fier immediatlie before the comming of the Iudge Q. Who shall be the Iudge A. Iesus Christ the sonne of God Q. What shall bee the comming to iudgement A. He shall come in the clouds in great Maiestie and glorie with infinit companie of Angels Q How shall all men bee cited to iudgement A. At the sound of a trumpet the liuing shall be changed in the twinckling of an eye and the dead shal rise againe euerie one with his owne bodie and all shall be gathered together before Christ and after this the good shall bee seuered from the bad these standing on the left hand of Christ the other on the right Q. How will Christ trie and examine euery mans cause A. The bookes of all mens dooings shall bee laide open and euerie man shal be tried by the workes which he did in his life time because they ar● open and manifest signes of faith o● vnbeliefe Q. What sentence will he giue A. He wil giue sentence of saluation to the elect and godly but he will pronounce sentence of damnation agains● vnbeleeuers and reprobates Q. What state shall the godly be in after the day of iudgement A. They shal continue for euer in the highest heauen in the presence of God hauing ful fellowship with Christ Iesus and raigning with him for euer Q. What state shall the wicked bee in after the day of Iudgement A. In eternall perdition and destruction in hell fire Q. What is that A. It stands in three things especially 1. a perpetuall seperation from Gods cōfortable presence 2. fellowship with the diuel and his angels 3. an horrible pang and torment both of bodie and soule arising of the feeling of the whole wrath of God powred foorth on the wicked for euer worlde without end FINIS A direction for the ignorant a 1. Cor. 8.6 b Rom. 1.20 act 14.17 c Heb. 11.3 gen 1.1 d Math. 10.30 pro. 15.3 e Matth. 3.12 1. Iohn 5.7 f Rom. 3.10