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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	militant_a	4,766	5	11.7120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13094	A christal glasse for christian vvomen containing, a most excellent discourse, of the godly life and Christian death of Mistresse Katherine Stubs, who departed this life in Burton vpon Trent, in Staffordshire the 14. day of December. 1590. With a most heauenly confession of the Christian faith, which shee made a little before her departure: as also a wonderfull combate betwixt Sathan and her soule: worthie to be imprinted in letters of golde, and are to be engrauen in the tables of euery Christian heart. Set downe word for word, as she spake it, as neere as could be gathered: by Phillip Stubbes Gent.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1592 (1592)	STC 23382; ESTC S104605	19,337	22

works could ●aue vs then had Christ died in vaine And if they could sa●e vs why should they not be called by the name of Sauiour But when I say that Faith onely iustifieth I meane not a barren faith or a dead Faith wi●hout good works such as the diuels haue but I speake of such a Faith as bringeth forth good works in great plēty and can no more be without good works than the Sun without light the fire without heat or the water without his natural moysture If you would know why we should doo good works if we cannot be saued by them I will tell you we must doo good works for foure causes chiefly First to shew our obediēce to him that commaunds vs secondly to glorifie him that created vs and ordained good works also that we should walke in them Thirdly for the mutuall lou● and charitie which we beare towards the brethren Fourthly to make our saluation sure and certaine vnto vs as the Apostle speaketh For these other causes must we do good works yet must we not trust to be saued by them for there is no other name giuen vnder heauen wherby man can be saued but onely the name of Iesus Christ. I do also constantly beleeue con●esse ●hat al the canonical scriptures are the in●allible word of God and that the holy spirit of God was is the onely author of them that holy men of God spake writ them as they were taught and inspired by the spirite of God as blessed Peter beareth record I also beleeue that the holy scriptures do contain all things necessary to sa●uation without all popish trash of vnwritten verities or rather vnwritten berie lyes I do further also beleeue and confesse that God the father hath from euerlasting and before all worlds in his secret counsel and in his euerlasting purpose and decree elected chosen and predestinate in Christ Iesus certaine of the lost sonnes of Adam to be members of his body coheir●s with him of his heauēly kingdom And othersome hath he pr●destinated to euerlasting destruction leauing them in their naturall sin and corruption still Now if ye aske me what predestination and reprobation is I answer it is the euerlasting purpose or decree of God whereby he doth chuse some to saluation some to damnation If you demaund why he chuseth some to salu●tion and not all finding them all in like state and condition I answer In chusing of some to saluation he sheweth his vnspeakable mercy grace fauour and loue and in chusing other some to damnation he sheweth his power his iustice and his iudgem●nt to all the world For as by the one the mercy of God appeareth so by the other wee may see what we haue all deserued And if you aske me why he chuseth some and reiecteth othersome I tell you hee may doo it at his blessed will and pleasure for if I haue two debters that owe me a thousand pound it is in mee to release the one of the whole debt and to exact the whole of the other for to the one I shew but mercie and to the other but iustice Now those that the Lord hath predestinate in Christ Iesus to euerlasting saluation them doth he call in his good time to the knowledge of his truth to repentan●e to integrity of life to all perfection and those whom he doth call them doth he iustifie and whō he doth iustifie them will he glorifie And that this doctrine of predestination reprobatiō standeth thus the Apostle Eph. 1.11 sheweth euidently saying we are chosen in Christ when we were p●edestinate according to the purpose of him that worketh all things a●ter the counsel of his will And in the 4 5 ver of the same chapter he ●aith we are chosen in him meaning Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy blamelesse before him in loue Read Rom. 9. and many other places of holy scriptures you shall fin● this doctrine to be very cleare I do further beleeue and confesse that God hath his seuerall churches as namely his Church triumphant in the kingdome of heauen his Church militant dispersed vpon the face of the earth I do also beléeue that this militant Church is two folde visible and inuisible The visible Church is knowne and discerned by these marks the word of God preached the Sacraments sincerely ministred Ecclesiasticall discipline and other censures of the Church duely executed The other Church I call the inuisible Church not for that men are inuisible but for that it alwaies appeareth not to the eye of the world but is knowne to God onely who alone knoweth who are his I beleeue that this Church this spouse of Christ cannot erre finally in matters of saluation and damnation so long as she holdeth her head Christ Iesus aright And I constantly beléeue that Iesus Christ is the onely head ruler and gouernour of his Church and not Antichrist the Pope nor any of his shauelings as Paul testifieth Ephes. 4.15 saying Let vs grow vp in all things in him who is the head Christ Iesus Againe in another place hee saith As Christ is the head of the Church so is the husband head ouer his wife I beleeue and confesse that Iesus Christ hath left not onely the holy Scriptures to instruct and teach his Church but also Sacraments in number two to wit Baptisme and the Lords Supper as seales of his grace towards it to confirme it in his truth and as conduits of his mercy to conuey his grace goodnesse to it also These Sacraments I say are Seales and signes of holie things and therefore cannot be the things themselues For it is against the nature of a Sacrament to be the thing signified therby Baptisme consisteth of two natures the visible Element and the inuisible grace The visible Element is water the inuisible grace is the gifts and graces of the holy Ghost conferred in baptisme The water signifieth vnto vs that our whole nature is corrupted and had need to be purged and cleansed It signifieth also vnto vs our regeneration sanctification and new birth And it representeth also vnto vs the bloud of Iesus Christ which cleanseth vs from all sinnes And I faithfully beleeue that it is no more lawfull for a woman to minister this Sacrament then it is lawfull for her to preach or to minister the Sacrament of the Lords Supper And as concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper I beleeue and confesse that it consisteth of two natures also an earthly and an heauenly nature or quality The visible element or earthly nature is bread wine the heauēly nature or quality the body and bloud of Christ signified thereby The wine doth represent vnto vs the bloud of Christ which was shed for vs and the bread doth signify vnto vs also the body of Christ which was giuen for vs. And as many as doe receiue this Sacrament worthily