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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	mean_v	soul_n	5,173	5	5.5842	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09439	How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts faile.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1601 (1601)	STC 19728; ESTC S2275	25,478	110

How to liue and that well Jn all estates and times specially when helps and comforts faile Printed by Iohn Legat printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1601. And are to be sold at the Crowne in Pauls Churchyard by Simon Waterson To the Reader GOod Reader if thou wouldest be saued by thy faith in Christ after death thou must here liue by it before death And faith for the time of this life hath two great vses The first is to cut off worldly sorrowes and cares It is the common fashion of men to multiplie their cares out of measure and thereby to make their liues most miserable For first of all beside necessarie labours they take vpon them many needelesse and superfluous businesses Secondly their manner is to care not onely for the labours to be done but also for the euent and successe of their labours that they may alwaies prosper and neuer be crossed but this care belongs to God alone Thirdly they content not themselve with their lot and condition but seeke by all meanes to increase their estate and to make themselues rich Lastly they exercise themselues not onely in disposing of things present but they forecast many matters in their heades and plotte the successe of things to come Now faith when we haue done the works of our callings according to the prescript of the word of God saith I say makes vs commend to God the blessing successe euent therof by prayer and affiance in his promises not doubting but he will giue vs all things necessary And if we want the blessing and successe we looke for yet faith makes vs to renounce our owne desires and in silence to quiet our hearts in the good pleasure of God And thus many worldly cares are cut off Secondly when a man at his wits ende knowes not what in the world to doe being as it were plunged into a sea of miseries faith giues direction and staies the minde For when all temporall things faile vs euen to the very skinne and life faith preserues within vs an affiance of the grace and mercie of God and the hope of life euerlasting Faith shewes vs hidden things not to be discerned by sense and reason Life euerlasting is promised vs but we die for al that we heare of the resurrection but in the meane season we rot in our graues we are pronounced blessed but yet we are ouerwhelmed with infinite miseries bundance of all things is promised but for all this we often hūger and thirst God promiseth to heare vs and to be present with vs but he seemes oft times to be deafe as it were at our cries Now then comes faith which is the substance of things hoped for and makes vs lift our minds aboue the whole world to apprehend the inuisible and vnspeakable things of God which he hath reuealed and promised vnto vs. These things I shewe more at large in this small treatise following read it at thy leisure vse it for thy good and see thou be a doer of them W. Perkins Hab. 2.4 The iust man shall liue by his faith IN the former chapter the Prophet complaines and expostulates the matter with God why the Iewes the people of God should be oppressed by the Chaldeans the enemies of God In the beginning of the 2. chapter the Lord makes answer to the Prophet and the effect of the answer is this They shall certenly be deliuered in the time appointed but they shal not yet be deliuered Vpon this answer the Prophet might happily obiect on this manner How then shall the afflicted Iewes be able to liue in the mean season the Lord answers by a distinctiō thus The vniust man puffs vp himselfe with vaine confidence but the iust man shall liue by his faith For the better vnderstanding of the words fiue things are in order to be explaned The first what is meant by the iust man Iustice mentioned in the word is twofold the iustice of the law and the iustice of the Gospel The iustice of the law hath in it all the points and parts of iustice and all the perfection of all parts and it was neuer found in any vpon earth except Adam and Christ. The iustice of the Gospel hath all the parts of true iustice but it wants the full perfection of parts as a childe hath all the parts of a man in the infancie though it want perfection of stature and talnesse And this kind of iustice is nothing else but the conuersion of a sinner with a purpose will endeauour to please God according to all the commādements of the Law Thus was Noe iust Iob Zacharie and Elizabeth and thus must the iust man be taken in this place for one that turnes to God by grace indeauours to please God according to the whole law of God in his place and calling The second point to be considered is what life is here meant As death is here twofold the first and the second so is life The first is the coniunction of the bodie and the soule the second is the coniunction of the whole man with God The first is called naturall the second spirituall or eternall life and both are meant in this place For Paul brings this very text to proue the iustification of a sinner by faith and iustification is a part of spirituall life because it is the acceptation of a sinner to eternall life And for this cause the prophet saith The iust man shall liue hauing relation not onely to the time of affliction then to come but also to eternall life The third point to be considered is what is the faith here meant And that is iustifying or sauing faith because we must liue by the same faith whereby we are saued And faith hath his effect not onely after this life but also in this life We must liue first by it before we can be saued by it Paul therefore in his own example expounding this text saith And in that I liue in the flesh I liue by the faith of the sonne of God who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for me The fourth point is the construction of the wordes and that is two waies The first is thus The iust by faith shall liue the words by faith being ioyned vpon the word lust And then the sense is this He that is iust by his faith shall liue or haue eternall life The second is thus The iust shall liue by his faith the words by faith being ioyned to the words shall liue then the sense is this The iust while he liues in this world he shall liue by his faith This latter construction and sense I rather choose and imbrace because Paul cuē in this sense brings this text to prooue that life eternall and consequently iustification comes not by working according to the law but by beleeuing and he makes an exposition betweene liuing by faith and liuing by workes The fifth and last point to be considered is How a man