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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	timothy_n	1,872	5	11.8568	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01453	The portraitur of the prodigal sonne liuelie set forth in a three-fold discourse.1. Of his progresse. 2 Of his regresse. 3. Of his ioyfull welcome home. Published by Samuell Gardiner Batchler [sic] of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1599 (1599)	STC 11579; ESTC S105696	153,821	288

patient to his Phisitian the sinner to his Sauiour the lost sonne to his mercifull father and the creature to his Creator who is blessed for euer The third Chapter That wee must with the Prodigall sonne ioine faith to our repentance the better to incite and pricke vs forwarde to rtturne vnto our father VNlesse a sinner wit● the knowledge of his sinne and his godly sorrowe conceiued for the same doeth also strengthen himselfe with faith and hopeth of the pardon and forgiuenesse of it it nothing at all auaileth him it rather serueth as a sworde to wounde him then a medicine for to heale him It is to no purpose for a man to knowe where hee may haue a sworde to take awaie his life rather let vs seeke where wee maie haue a salue to cure our deadlie woundes and to preserue our life But our only comfort and remedy is our faith which withstandeth all temptations ouercommeth all assaultes and preuenteth desperation Faith is vnto vs Exod. 14 as the fire and clowdy piller was vnto the Israelites seruing to conduct them in their way out of Egypt thorough the vaste wildernesse it guideth vs in the right way whilest wee trauaile in the solitarie desart of this world towards the heauenly Canaan ● similitude The strength of an house is in the foundation and if that bee sure the building will not shake for anie storme and tempest that doeth beate against it Faith is the foundat●on and substance of our building Faith is the substance of things hoped for Heb. ●● and the euidence of thinges that are not seene Whilest the sterne and maine Mast of a ship is founde if in a mightie tempest the marriners shall caste out their Anchors into the sea and disburden the shippe of her heauie fraight it is to bee preserued and saued from shipwracke but if these faile and suffer wracke by the weather it cannot bee that it shoulde escape destruction so men that are emptied as it were of their vertues and suffer their godlinesse dailie to diminish yet so long as faith lasteth and remaineth stedfast they cannot quite perish but let them loose this there is no helpe for them they loose altogether This similitude is Paules which hee vseth to this ende writing thus to Timothie 1. Tim. 1 This commaundement commit I vnto thee sonne Timotheus that thou shouldest sight a good fight hauing faith and a good conscience which some haue put away and as concerning faith haue made a shipwrack As Merchauntes albeit they haue susteined great losses similitude for two yeares together yet a thirde lucky yeare maketh vp all againe so though wee haue lost the good graces of God with this prodigall sonn● yet if at length wee haue a good faith with him we shall well enough ouercome and recouer our former losse and be in good estate and happinesse againe What faith this man hath appeareth by his wordes For after hee acknowledged his fathers bountie to his hired seruants he harteneth himselfe with the hope of greater kindnesse to bee extended towardes him vppon his returne beeing a sonne And therefore premising and meditating vppon this Howe manie hyred seruauntes in my Fathers house haue bread enough and I die for hunger Hee cheereth himselfe with a confidence of comfort saying to himselfe I will arise and go to my Father Hee placed his wordes in verie good ranke speaking to great purpose to mooue affections I a Sonne They Seruauntes They haue enough I die for hunger They manie and yet are replenished I but one and loe I am famished Therefore it must needes bee well with me if I returne home as it is with them who are now at home I wil therefore hie me home and appeare before my father Wherfore vnto the true repentance of our sinne consequentlie of necessitie a true faith must bee adioyned which onelie discerneth trueth from falsehoode true repentance from hypocrisie which stayeth it selfe wholie vppon the worde of GOD the foundation thereof this word being the argument and subiect of our faith If therefore we do repent and bewaile our sinnes it is manifest that we are moued and touched with Gods word that it hath pricked our hearts And this good tree cannot but bring forth good fruit it cannot be idle in the harts of the faithful In this respect learned men do make Faith and Contrition the two essential parts and members of repentance Contrition whereby we repent that is past and faith wherby we hope of grace to come Wee goe not so fa re with them as to make faith a part of repentance but wee hold it needefull that it bee matched with repentance that it goe hande in hand with it that it be not diuorced and diuided from it In man there are two partes whereuppon hee doth consist ●●militude the minde and the bodie yet we saie not that the minde is a parte of the bodie or the bodie of the minde The like may be said of faith and repentaunce In the Sunne there is his orbicular and rounde proportion similitude and his light and brightnesse yet though they bee conioyned neither is the forme of it a parte of this his brightnesse neither is his brightnesse anie part of his forme So faith and repentaunce goe togither in the faithfull and are not separated yet one of them is not a member of the other faith is ioyned to it as the originall of it the only motiue of it like vnto a Captaine that giueth the onset This holdeth vp our slipperie feet from falling and this lifteth vp those that are downe this maketh vs to goe thorough fire and water and ordereth our goings this is the victorie that ouercommeth the world This maketh vs to march out couragiouslie with Dauid against Goliah of Gath that vncircumcised Philistine it teacheth our handes to war and our fingers to fight and our armes to breake euen a bowe of steele Marcellinus Bishop of Rome Marcellinus B. of Rome hauing before sacrificed vnto Idols and by faith moued to repentance boldly preached that which he denied before became a martyr for the trueth sake and confirmed it with his deaths Cyprian in his sermon and treatise de lapsis maketh mention of Castus Aemilius Castus Aemiliu● who violentlie coacted to an abiuration of the trueth through extremity of tormentes afterwarde beeing reclaimed thorough remorse of conscience repenting themselues exceedingl●e of their weakenesse grewe so strong in the faith as they ouercame the fire and brake the yce valiantlie and couragiouslie did vndergoe the tyrannie of their tormentors But what need we heape vp forreine examples seeing wee haue so many domesticall The late time of Queene Mary affordeth vs many Master Foxe in his booke of Monuments doth largely intreat of them among others in London there was a certaine priest who thorough feare of the crueltie and bitternesse of death which was before his eies abiured and renounced the true religion and embraced Popery But the