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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	law_n	work_n	2,920	5	6.2264	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08442	Sermons of Barnardine Ochine of Sena godlie, frutefull, and uery necessarye for all true Christians translated out of Italien into Englishe	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady, 1528?-1610.	1548 (1548)	STC 18764; ESTC S101443	23,048	79

teare of Christ hath bene more pleasaunt to god then all the synnes of the worlde be displeasaunt Christe hath be able to do more to appeace hym then we to prouoke him to anger Christes liuyng was more formall and ordinarye then oures was out of ordre and frame Christe hath done more to the honour of god then we haue done to hys dishonour Wherfore I maye well say Christ that is my wisdom right wisnes 1. Cor 1. holynes redemcion is sufficient inought to saue me And if haplye he shulde say it is not sufficient for thy saluacion to beleue in Christe the behoueth to kepe hys commaundemēts thou must loue god wyth all thy harte and thy neyghboure as thy selfe and desier nor couet anye thynge worldlye whych thyngs because thou doest not ergo thou art dāned if fayth onlye were inough I also all the diuels shuld besaued because as yt is wrytten euen the deuels beleue feare lames ii They beleue the god made created heuē and earth and that christ came dyed rose ascended in to heuen that hesent the holy ghost that he shal come to iudge the quicke dead and yet are not we therfore saued that bicause we obserue not his diuine preceptes wherfore thou also art but lost he wyll thus labour to bryng the vnder the law to thinke that thou be iustified not by christ but by per fourmynge and fulfyllynge of the lawe to the ende that thou shulde despayre But I wyl that thou make answere and say yf thou dyddest beleue as by goddes grace I beleue that is that god for thy wealthe hath created the worlde and semblably preserueth it in such sorte that thou couldest fele in the creatures the loue of god lykewyse wolde beleue firmely that Christe came and dyed for thy synnes for to saue the and for thy sake profyt and in lyke maner of the other articles thou also shulde be saued and then when thou haddest a lyuely feling of the goodnes and loue of god thou woldest loue hym and thy neyghbour likewyse beynge rauished into god woldest beginne to set litle store by the worlde as al good Christen men and women do If it fortune that he say Deut. xx 7 he is cursed that kepeth not and obserueth the law wherfore thou art one of myne saye to him agayne Gala. 3 for that cause christ dyed on the crosse Roma 7 for to delyuer me from all curses and in somoche as I am all ready of christ I am dead to the law Agayn yf he reply esaying wher be thy workes wherby thou trusteth to be saued answere I trust not to be saued by my workes for they be soch that yf I shulde haue regarde or respecte to them I feare me to be dāned yea I were surely ascerteyned of my damnacion Roma 8. I hope onelye to be saued by Christ and hys workes whyche be myne owne and so moche rather myne then they I dyd my selfe as that the sprite of christ geuē to me is more entyer to me then myne own lyfe or any other thyng Further yf he shuld endeuoure to proue the to be none of the electe by reason of the innumerable and outragiouse synnes that thou hast committed for prosperites or aduersites thou hast had for the great euils wherin thou arte founde at thy deathe or for the temtacions thou hast susteyned sayinge that god preserueth his elected frō the like euels make hym answer and say Roma 3. rather doth god practise them in diuerse soche maners albeit of euery thynge they be certifyed to the honor of god thou shalt more ouer say to hym thus I geue more credite and trust to christ whiche when he was deade for me on the crosse tould me I was saued then to the that art always alyer and father of erroures I wyll thou tel hym how thou geuest more fayth to Christ alone then to al the reasons and autorities of the worlde thou may bysyde thys say to hym the sprite of god bearyth wytnesse to my sprite Roma 8. that I am the sonne of god and to hym must I rather trust then to the. when he shal say if thou were the sonne of god he woulde not leaue the in souch punishmēts as thou art in but wold giue the some release and easmēt Answer hym In case it were as thou sayest Christ shulde not haue bene the sōne of god sithen on the crosse he had no comfort nor sensual tast or feling so that he saied my god Marci 15. my god why haste thou forsaken me it sufficith to me that he she wyth me so moche fauouer for I am contented wyth all that pleasethe hym as Chryste also was yea in hys sufferynge he felte excedynglye the infinite loue of the father Besyde these of he say ●●he ii thou art the sonne of Adam ergo thou art acursed ●●hn 1. Answere thou thus I am blessed agayne by beyng borne of god and by meane of that blessed sede Christ as god longe agone promysed Adam when he sayed ●ene xii In thy sede al nacions shal be blessed thou shalt tell hym how thou art despoiled and berest of the olde Adā ●oma 13 and clothed with Iesu Christ as Paule teacheth and aduertyseth the. What tyme as he shal declare to the that christ is wroth angry and sharpe make hym answere howe Christ is not soch one for he is the healthe and hope of synners and whylest we be in thys lyfe present he is vttered to vs pytiful sweete and our Iesus that is our sauiour and albeit heseme to speke sharpe and cruel wordes to the woman of Cananye Math. 1● yet in herte he gaue her confydence and boldnesse and shewed hym self to her full of sweetnes and loue In dede at the daye of iudgement to the damned shall he be shewed angry and wrathful but in the meane tyme tyll that day while we be here in this presēt life he is shewed pitiouse to al and principally to the great synners And yf it so were that he wolde saye thou art not trulye confessed nor haste rehersed all thy synnes and the circūstances of the same ne hast examyned suffyciently thy conscyence nor yet hast not that pure perfecte great and vnfayned sorow for thy synnes that thou of dutye shuldest haue thou hast not satysfyed for those so great an vnnumerable dettes that thou hast towarde god make hym thys answere and saye thou art a seruaūt and not a iudge or to saye more truelye ●●●n 3. thou art all ready iudged and condemned seyng thou beleuest not in Christ and woldest thou indge mettrouble thy selfe no longer in prouing that I haue failed in al for sure I am and fully I beleue to be saued not by my workes by reason they be vnperfecte nor yet by the worthynes of my fayth for in that also I am not perfecte bycause I beleue not with so great a faith as I