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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	salvation_n	work_n	5,482	5	6.3075	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89685	The first epistle. A crying voice of the holy spirit of love, wherewith all people are out of meer grace, called and bidden by H.N. to the true repentance for their sins, to the entrance into the upright Christian life, and to the house of the love of Jesu Christ.	Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1648 (1648)	Wing N1126; Thomason E1188_5; ESTC R208256	33,456	64

the same in writing is so hard or profound of understanding to answer oh no but because that the understanding of the same mind is so utterly unknown a Mat 11. Mat. 13. Iohn 14. Ephes 3. before all sense of the flesh 4. Yea how naked and bare soever the Scripture sheweth it according to the mind of the Spirit yet can it not for all that be understood b 1 Cor. 2. nor conceived by flesh and blood unlesse the man must first according to the counsell of the Scripture be turned into another mind 5. Seeing now that the Scriptures of the Apostles of Christ is spirituall c 1 Iohn 5. 1 Iohn 6. and witnesseth of spirit and life and that the man which readeth the testimonies thereof in the Letter standeth captived with a fleshly mind d Rom. 7. under the sin of his own good-thinking and sotaketh upon him out of the same mind of the flesh and his own good-thinking to understand the mind of God out of the Letter e 1 Cor. 2. so can he not doubtless bring it to passe for his fleshly senses and good-thinking thoughts doe surely stretch no further but like to such an Intelligence or knowledge of the fleshly understanding 6. For that cause also the mind of the man doth not out of the letter of the Scriptures understand nor comprehend the mind of God rightly by meanes whereof there is likewise now at this present day like as came to passe also in times past among f Ier. 26. Ier. 28. Ier. 29. Mat. 12. Mat. 23. Mat. 26. 27. the worldly wise Scripture-learned ones much contention variance and controversie found among the children of men who doe contend about that which they themselves understand not and will seem to know that which according to the mind of their understanding wherein they are comprehended is not to be known nor understood 7. The whilst now that the rich bountifull God out of the love of his grace understood giveth unto us in g 1 Cor. 2. our inward mind another Spirit for to discerne and understand withall which h 1 Cor. 1. 1 Cor. 2. is not of flesh and blood nor yet minded according to the earthly and fleshly wisedom of this world nor according to the Prudence of the Ingeniousness of the worldly wise and of the contentious Scripture-learned or those of famous Schools therefore we doe perceive that it is perilous to write over unto any man of the secretness of God i Ephes 3. and Christ and that therefore we doe daily bear a care or a suspition whether those that aske after the understanding of the godly truth doe not desire to know the same k Act 17. out of curiousness or sensuality or l Iohn 8. to judge the same according to their own good-thinking 8. Therefore it is dangerous in this perillous time to discover or to write over the groundly depths m Rom 11 of the godly wisedom unto any man because that we doe now find many men that doe aske to the end to know much Yea they seek many knowledges whereby to understand and to judge the godly things out of their sharpwittedness or industry And that liketh all those well which have no lust to do the Lords will For therein lyeth the old root of n Gen. 3. Rom. 5. Adam where-out the disobedient knowledge springeth or cometh forth 9. But to o Iohn 8. submit themselves obediently to the requiring of the gracious word of the godly wisedom and to the right Service of the love of Jesu Christ also to cleave unto the living God in his godly nature or beeing p Exo 20. Deut. 5. and to serve to praise and to honour him as he is a God in his Christ that liketh few or none Yet is the same the new fruit of the planting of Iesu Christ whereunto the Scripture pointeth us which neither the q Mat. 11. Iohn 14. 1 Cor. 1. 1 Cor. 2. world nor her wise or Scripture-learned ones do understand nor yet conceive the minde for they know not the same 10. Although I do thus rehearse these things my beloved and that my Carefulness standeth to such a suspition towards many yet do I notwithstanding hope and trust somewhat better of thee as that thou art more inclined to understand the will and mind of God to the intent to r 1 Pet. 5 submit thy self obediently therunto to thy salvation and to the s Ephes 1. laud and praise of the godly glory and so to beleeve the living God and his Christ to incline unto him and to become i 2 Pet. 1. partaker of his being then for to know much thereof according to the pleasure of thine own mind 11. Therefore also I will not thinke it tedious unto me to answer thy demand with diligence out of fervent Love If happly God would vouchsafe through my small service to open u Ephes 1. thine understanding and through his Increase or Blessing to endow thee in thy Spirit with his Grace and to stir up thy heart to a pure mind towards God and towards his Love in Iesu Christ The Second Chapter THus was then thy saying unto me as I remember that the word which the Apostles of Christ do write was dark or incomprehensible for thee to understand a Rom. 1. 1 Cor. 1. 2 Cor. 1. Gal. 1. Ephes 1. namely God our Father and the Lord Iesu Christ And that in certain places Christ in stead of the Son is also uttered forth for a Father and God 2. Forasmuch as thy understanding supposed that there was no more but one b Deut. 3● Esa 44. Esa 45. 46. 1 Cor. 8. God as it is also true therfore was thy demand thus unto me whereof thou requiredst an Answer in writing Seeing now that there is no more but one God wherefore is he then pronounced forth in two manner of states The which seemeth according to the sound of the Scripture as though the Apostles published two Gods 3. Verily the difference of this matter wherof thou desirest the Instruction could not likewise c Iohn 6. Iohn 7. 8. certain Iewes in times past conceive according to their understanding out of the flesh yea the same is yet also rightly understood of few Yet doe many perswade themselves notwithstanding because that they in historicall manner are minded after the new Testament that they have thorowly well conceived the understanding of this matter and doe for that cause perswade themselves that they doe far exceed and excell the Iewes supposing that they have the faith and the salvation and that the Iewes remain by the works of the Law Now this passed over we will proceed to further the intent of our matter 4. Verily as we have spoken before of God the Father and the Lord Iesu Christ these are hard things before the man for to search out the understanding of them in his knowledge if he