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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	ghost_n	holy_a	5,369	5	5.6194	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19308	A religious inquisition: or, A short scrutinie after religion Wherein the large cope of true religion is narrowly inquired. By Iohn Cope, of Grayes-Inne, Esquire.	Cope, John, of Gray's Inn.	1629 (1629)	STC 5722; ESTC S118371	36,759	136

continue man but to wayt for his Redemption To what end was it to redeeme man but to serue him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of his life And how could man so do if God had not wrought this worke of Religion in him Neither is God onely a Creator of man and Religion in man to his owne glory but a louing Father to man in suffering him by this Religion to worke out his owne saluation which is the second finall cause thereof as the holy Ghost sets it downe in the Philippians where a Christian is commanded to worke out his saluation in feare and trembling And the Apostle to Titus Titus 1.2 makes eternall life the end of all Religion and godlinesse and in this is declared the wonderfull loue of God to man notwithstanding his disobedience in his fall What man buyes any cattell but either to droyle them out or fat them for the Shambles but this God bought man from death to life yea himselfe was ledde as a sheepe to the slaughter Isai 35.7 that he might saue man What Master when he hath hired a seruant bids him imploy his time and labour to his owne vse But this God doth so to man and bids him if he want stocke to set vp withall to come vnto him and he will furnish him What Land-lord when the Rent-day comes bids his Tenant lay out his Rent for his owne best profit But this God the Land-lord of the World whē man brings him his Rent which is his Worship in a religious life bids him improue it for his owne good and makes his owne saluation the scope and end of all his labour And is it no lesse then saluation that a man aymes at in being Religious Was there euer any man that had a slaue that ran away from him and subiected himselfe to his deadly enemy that would not onely spare him punishment but make him a free-man Yet behold man that sold himselfe as a slaue to the Deuill is made a Free-denizen of Heauen Was there euer any Souldier that rose vp in mutinie that did not onely escape Martiall Law but was sent home to inherit the Generals owne Land Yet behold man that did not onely rise himselfe but drew the whole Regiment of Iesus Christ mankind into mutiny he is sent to inherit the Kingdome of heauen Christs owne inheritance Was there euer any King that when his subiect was conuicted of high Treason would not onely spare his life but make him one of his Priuy Chamber or Bed-chamber where hee should be neerest to his Person Yet behold when man had risen in rebellion against God he is not onely pardoned his Treason but is receiued into Gods Chamber of Presence in this world which is the Church and shall hereafter be made a Priuy Chamber-man of heauen Why then is it to no end to be Religious when he shall not onely thereby promote the glory of his Creator but purchase to himselfe an eternall Mansion in that new Ierusalem The effects of Religion Obedience Sanctitie and Wisedome Neither is this Religion which proceeds from so excellent causes without the like effects amongst which these three may be noted Obedience Sanctity and Wisedome Obedience is either actiue or passiue For actiue obedience God in his Couenant declared to his Children by his Prophet Ezekiel promiseth first to worke Religion in thē A new heart will I giue you and a new Spirit will I put within you and what followes vpon this Then saith the Lord you shall walke in my statutes Ezek. 36.26 and you shall keepe my Iudgements and doe them But this practicall obedience must be generall such as is inioyned by God in the Prophesie of Ieremiah Iere. 11.4 that they should obey his voice and do the words of his Couenant according to all that he had commanded them And God threatens his people in Leuiticus that if they would not doe all his Commandements then he would appoint ouer them terror consumption and the like Cursed is he that doth not abide in all c. Leuit. 26.14 15 16. It is farther required that this obedience should bee constant thereupon our Sauiour grounds his promise That hee that endureth to the end Mat. 24.13 the same shall be saued And it is the condition that Christ propounds to his Disciples in the Gospel of Saint Iohn Ioh. 8.31 If ye continue in my Word thē are ye my Disciples indeed Passiue obedience is to suffer with patience all the afflictions that befall a man for Paul hath giuen euerie Christian his doome where he saies 2. Tim. 3.12 All that will liue godly in Iesus Christ shall suffer persecution And therefore Christ exhorts his Disciples to possesse their soules in patience Luk. 21.19 of which Dauid is a singular example in suffering the curse of Shimei when he saies 2. Sam. 16.10 11 12. Let him curse because the Lord hath said vnto him Curse and makes an excuse for Shimei by way of extenuating his fault since his owne sonne that came forth of his bowels sought his life and in conclusion casts himselfe vpon the Lord It may be saith he the Lord will looke vpon my affliction Neither is it enough to suffer calamity but to be humbled vnder Gods hand in time of distresse which is the admonition of Iames Be afflicted and mourne Iam. 4.9 10. and weepe humble your selues in the sight of the Lord. The next effect of Religion is Sanctity the speech of Paul to the Thessalonians Thes 4.1 3 5 6. is this when we beseech you brethren that as ye haue receiued from vs how ye ought to walke that is in the way of Religion and please God so you would abound more and more for this is the will of God euen your sanctification And this sanctifying consists either in the forbearing sinne to which purpose the Apostle in the same place instanceth in two euils from which they should abstaine namely the lust and concupiscence or vncleannesse and fraud or deceit or else it consists in the practice of holinesse to which end God would haue the children of Israel to weare frindges on their garments Num. 15.41 that they might remember and do all his Commandements and be holy vnto God And Peter setteth God as a Patterne of holinesse exhorting them as obedient children to be holy in all manner of conuersation 1. Pet. 1.14.15 as he that called them is holy and indeed this holinesse is a maruellous effect whereby is wrought such a secret alteratiō in a true Conuert as that none knowes how it comes to passe but his owne soule within him which yet himselfe is not able to expresse neither would any one take him to be the same man he was before Is it not a strange thing to find a man that for twentie thirty forty yeeres together hath swoom in abundance of all earthly things hath denied himselfe no manner of pleasure that is to bee