Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ghost_n	holy_a	spirit_n	3,926	5	5.5026	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11256	The key of David that openeth the gates to the citie of God also, of faith and repentance, and how they are wrought, and brought to passe, and whether faith be commanded in the law or not.	T. S.	1610 (1610)	STC 21520.5; ESTC S4869	26,727	88

Rom. 3.28 Therefore wee conclude that a man is Iustified by faith Whilst B. is inquiring and searching for the originall or beginning of this faith First of all he is reckoning vp the causes thereof but hee doth that very vntowardly for hee speaketh of the Efficient cause and of no more but that one He might haue dealt more exactly in all mens iudgements if hee had put downe all the rest of the causes But at once to rid the silly man of that trouble for as it seemeth he sticketh fast hereat we say that the matter of this faith is a sure full and vndoubted trust or confidence the forme is the fauour or grace of God the Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ The efficient cause is the finger of God Viz. the holy Ghost who alone imprinteth this confidence of Grace in the hearts of the elect The end subordinate is the saluation of the Saints but the maine and cheefest end is the glory of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the holy spirit one God blessed for euer be all power praise honour throughout all times and ages Amen Now then wee vnderstand what faith is as also the causes and essentiall parts wherof it consisteth viz Confidence or trust and grace or fauour Therefore let vs thus passe ouer these things yet so as although wee haue dispatched them aforehand neuerthelesse wee will that they remaine still in minde for our help in those matters that follow after that wee may haue an eie as it were backe againe vnto them as occasion shall require One thing onely is yet behinde yet the greatest of al euen that wherin the summe of the whole controuersie is placed Namely that wee discusse this point How this so precious faith is wrought and ingrafted in men and by what degrees wee must attaine vnto it In the setting foorth whereof if our Diuines had walked so vprightly as they ought to haue done in so waightie a cause peraduenture wee might haue had this powerfull faith vpon earth the true nature whereof being now as it were vtterly lost wee doe retaine nothing of it but the bare shadow onely First let vs see what B. holdeth concerning this point and then wee will establish the truth it selfe Whilest B. goeth about to proue vnto vs the petigree as it were of Faith or whence or how it commeth he teacheth that the whole substance or nature thereof ariseth and issueth from three effects or workes of the holy Ghost the first of which hee saith is knowledge the second as it were an increase of the former he calleth assent and the third beeing the end and perfection of al the rest is trust or cōfidence Now in asmuch as hee saith these are three effects or works of the holy Ghost that doth hee well enough But in this that hee teacheth them to be essentiall parts of faith therein hee is much amisse But let vs discusse these things seuerally and in order This first worke therefore of the holy Ghost B. with moe doth call it the gift of illumination or the faith of knowledge And hee teacheth that the same is incident to vncleane spirits and wicked men into whom the Faith of Abraham can no way come For which cause I do the more exceedingly wonder at the man that when as hee perceiued these differing natures of Faith and knew them to bee as sundry specials of one and the same generall and so diuers gifts of one and the same spirit yet for all that hee maketh one an essentiall part of another for indeed howsoeuer this faith of knowledge doth necessarily goe before the faith of Abraham yet doth it not thereupon follow that it is an essentiall part thereof for many things may bee of such necessitie that some worke cannot bee dispatched vnlesse they be had before yet were it a very improper speech to say that they be of the essence or parts substantiall whereof such worke is made and consisteth it is most necessarie that a man should be born before hee can be an Arithmetitian is birth therefore a part of Arithmetick It is necessarie for him that will deale iustly first of all to consider the case prudently is prudence therefore a part of Iustice But euen like stuffe to this is that also which presently hee inferreth in tearmes forsooth iumping trimly with Aristotles Philosophie Viz. that the end of this good being once knowne is to desire it to follow after it and to apprehend or lay hold vpon it viz. that we may speake according to sobriety The end of this faith of knowledge is to enioy GOD and his righteousnesse euen the grace of Iesus Christ which to affirme vvithout setting downe any due and reasonable difference is an impious falshood for God vouchsafeth not this faith of knowledge to Satan and to reprobates to this end that he may bring them vnto his Christ viz. to righteousnesse of life But euen as the bountifulnesse of God doth grant the benefit that commeth from earth and heauen together with the fruit of that benefit which is growth and increase as well to the Tares as to the Wheat equally and indifferently yet not to this end that the Tares should be made wheat In like manner God very often granteth the benefit of the word and the fruit of that benefit which is to beleeue the truth euen to those that perish yet not to this end that hee may sanctifie them but that insomuch as they would not obey the knowne truth which they plainely vnderstoode he may take vengeance vpon them in greater rigour of his Iustice and seueritie for he that knoweth and doth not shal be beaten with more stripes and to whom more is committed of him more shal be required The second effect or worke of the holy Ghost B. sometimes calleth assent sometimes a certaine putting forward of the will or a kinde of loue and good liking of this happinesse which is offered But what strange boldnesse is this ô B. that thou in things appertaining to God shouldest thus platonize or rather play and deceiue the people of God for the scripture speaketh farre otherwise and ealleth this 2. worke of the holie ghost which is the beginning of our regeneration by the name of Repentance euen the thing whereby wee are prepared to receiue the sanctification of faith For not one beleeue mee either of the Prophets or Apostles hath at any time called it assent or a forward inclination of the will or a loue of the cheefest good beeing offered vnto vs neither doe I thinke indeede that any other durst euer so call it besides thy selfe I let passe this that thou so wantonly hast deuised a twofold loue one called the former which forsooth is before faith and another tearmed the latter which followeth after faith which all of vs with one consent doe say is the effect of faith and called Loue or Charitie But what shall wee say that former loue of thine