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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	4,953	5	4.9858	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15388	A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue with the exposition of Theophilus, a supposed elder in the sayd Familye vpon the same articles. By William Wilkinson Maister of Artes and student of diuinitye. Hereunto are prefixed by the right reuerend Father in God I.Y. Byshop of Rochester, certaine notes collected out of their Gospell, and aunswered by the Fam. By the author, a description of the tyme, places, authors, and manner of spreading the same: of their liues, and wrestyng of Scriptures: with notes in the end how to know an heretique.	Wilkinson, William, d. 1613.; Young, John, 1534?-1605.; Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1579 (1579)	STC 25665; ESTC S101312	139,324	194

they are of my chosing out of HN. is truth but that they are my Articles that is vntrue for they are as I made the title in the inscriptiō of my Articles which I deliuered to the Familie Errours out of the bookes of HN. Agayne if they be true Articles and onely my additions vnto them be false how cōmeth it to passe that Theophilus in his notes vpon my title afore the Articles where I say that they are faythfully and truly gathered there he aūswereth they are vnfaythfully lyingly slaunderously maliciously or vncharitably gathered But let it be that HN. sayth truth as for my additions whiche he mentioneth I deny that I haue added any one word to the text of HN. whereby it might either be empared or his meaning and sence peruerted and herein I referre the whole determination therof to him which shall peruse this my labour with an vnparciall eye The place whereon I gathered the Articles is this But if they videl our old sinnes and paramoures which we loued sent 17. take or lay hold on vs with force and violence that thē although we cry there cōmeth not any power nor help vnto vs for to withstand them in their force and violence and euen so rauish vs agaynst our will so are we giltles of the transgressing for we haue cryed to be released from the Tyrāny of the euill and there is no helpe come vnto vs Of which guitltles transgressing the law likewise witnesseth where it sayth a womā which is violently taken in the field whereas there is not any helpe and so rauished and although she cry aloude yet gottē no helpe she shal be giltles of the trāsgressing Now the proposition which Theophilus gathered vpō these wordes of HN. is this When we cry c. and haue no helpe we shall be free from that transgression for beyng condēned for it The which interpretatiō of his is vtterly vntrue for God is not bound by duety to geue ought to any man his giftes are of his mercy not of our merite So that albeit being prayd vnto he yeld not vnto our requestes at the first yet is not his withholdyng of his grace a sufficient warrant to geue vs libertie to offend For who shall wryng from the Lord that whiche he will not geue or if presently he doe not enable vs to resist and preuayle agaynst sinne who I say shall accuse God to be accessary vnto our sinnes as HN. and his Scholler Theophilus in this place flatly affirme And be it true as it is most true that Christ sayd vnto his Apostles Aske and it shal be giuen you seeke and ye shall finde knocke and it shal be opened vnto you c. and S. Iames sayth The prayer of a righteous man auayleth much if it be feruent yet because our prayers are not so perfect no not in the iust man as they ought to be therfore cōmeth it to passe that we obtaine not at Gods hand because we aske amisse neither did Christ obtaine at his fathers hād that the cup of his death might passe from him for that it was not so agreable with Gods will nor expedient for the accomplishyng of our saluation So that when we accomplish not the cōdition in our prayers that God hath prescribed in his word we are not to bynde or charge God with his promise for that he knoweth better what to geue vs thē we know what or how to aske of him So that now we sée that it is but a vayne kyndnes which Theophilus in this place threapeth on God when as either hee will haue God to bow vnto him at euery becke or els by and by he will make him the authour of sinne For what is this that Theophilus doth els burthen him withall that if we pray not helpe come thē are we guiltles of the transgression But to accuse God to be accessory to our misbehauiour which thyng be far frō him Now if Theophilus cā not comprehēd this what is it not truth because he can not conceiue it Gods iudgementes are alwayes true and iust though often secret and those thynges whiche we vnderstand not at the first let vs rather reuerence and worshyp them then wonder at them God when he leaueth vs to our selues and punisheth one sinne with an other doth that most righteously in him selfe that sinfull flesh doth sée no reason in Shall the pot reason with the potter because he made him not a vessell vnto honor shall the axe extoll it selfe agaynst him that heweth therewith may God make his creatures as séemeth best to his singular wisedome and shall he not dispose them as he will when he hath created them God geueth his children pardon in his mercy yet he that flyeth to his mercy not first fully hauing satisfied his iustice deceaueth his owne soule ere he be aware So that when any man shall presume vpon repentaunce fall in hope to rise true it is he that hath promised pardon vpō repētaunce hath not promised that we shall liue till to morrow that we may haue leysure to repēt he that is not fit to day the Lord knoweth how fit he wil be to morrow Now it is also most assuredly true that albeit God in respect of him selfe for Christes sake doth fréely forgeue both the fault and the punishment yet because he will not haue men dally with his iustice vpon the opē sinnes of the godly committed before men hee taketh open punishment least the enemy should haue a cause to rayle This is manifest by kyng Dauids example he sinned openly in the sight of God and before Israell God freely forgaue him both the punishment and the fault yet before men because the enemyes of God had openly a cause to blaspheme therfore the Lord tooke away the child that was borne in adultery Furthermore when he numbred the people and had continued in the same sinne without any notable repentaunce 9. monethes and 20. dayes after albeit he prayed hartly yet was his sinne punished by a great and seuere scourge as is manifestly to be sene in the place of that History By which places it is to be vnderstode that we ought not to offend in hope of pardon neither that God is faultie who will not boulster vs in our faultes nor so easly be satisfied in his iustice as we imagine of But if Theophilus déeme that herein he is not fully satisfied for that this question is of him that prayeth before sinne committed and both these examples are not sufficiently playne I further aunswere him that before Iudas honge him selfe he was sory and made a shewe of outward repentaunce as by his restitution may easly be perceiued yet God stayed him not here but because hee should be a notable spectacle of Gods vengeaūce to them that were then vnborne that no man be so hardy to sinne agaynst his conscience he ranne so farre that he caste himselfe willingly and wittyngly away and yet albeit God