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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	sin_n	sting_n	14,375	5	12.1860	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06516	A right comfortable treatise containing fourteene pointes of consolation for them that labor and are laden: VVritten by D. Martin Luther to Prince Friderik Duke of Saxonie, he being sore sicke, thereby to comfort him in the time of his great distresse. Englished by W. Gace.; Tessaradecas consolatoria pro laborantibus et oneratis. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Gace, William.	1578 (1578)	STC 16989; ESTC S106344	39,904	94

euer Amen The seuenth chapter of the seuenth consideration which is of the good aboue vs. I Speake nothing of the eternall and heauenly good thinges which the blessed enioy in the manifest sight of God or at the least I speake of them in faith and as they may be comprehended of vs So this seuenth consideration is of Iesus Christ the King of glorye raysed from the deade as the seuenth consideration of euills was of him suffering dead and buried Here we may see the chiefe ioy of our hart and certaine and sure good thinges here is no euil at all because Christ being raised from the dead dyeth no more death hath no more dominion ouer him This is the furnace of loue and the fire of God in Sion as Esai sayth For Christ is borne vnto vs and not onely that but also giuen vnto vs Wherefore his resurrection is mine and all thinges that he hath wrought therby And as the Apostle most notably glorieth Rom. 8 Howe shall he not with him giue vs all thinges But what hathe he wrought by rysing agayne He hath destroyed sinne set vp righteousnes swallowed vp death restored life ouercome hell and purchased eternall glorie These thinges are inestimable so that the minde of man dare scarce beleeue that they are giuen vnto him as Iacob Gen. 45 when he hearde that his sonne Ioseph was aliue and gouernour ouer the lande of Egypt as it were awaking out of a deepe sleepe he did not beleeue them that tolde him vntill they telling vnto him all the wordes of Ioseph which he had sayd vnto them shewed him also all the charretts which Ioseph had sent to carie him So surely it is harde to beleeue that so great good thinges are in Christ bestowed vpon bs that are vnworthye vnlesse in many wordes he declare the same vnto vs and as he made him selfe manifest to his Disciples by often appearing vnto them so he teach vs so to beleeue as it were by charrets that is by vse and experience It is a most goodly and pleasaunt charret that of God he is made vnto vs wisedome righteousnes sanctification and redemption as the Apostle sayth 1. Cor. 1. For I am a sinner but I am caried in his righteousnes which is giuen vnto me I am vncleane but his holines is my sanctification wherein I am sweetely caried I am foolish but his wisedom carieth me I am damnable but his liberty is my redemption so that a Christian which beleueth may glory of the merits of Christ and of all his good thinges no otherwise then if he him self had done them so properly do they belong vnto him so that he dare now quietly looke for euen the iudgement of God which notwithstanding is intolerable So great a thing is faith so great good things doth it obtaine for vs so glorious sonnes of God doth it make vs For we can not be sonnes vnlesse we inherit the good thinges of our father A Christian therefore may boldly say Death where is thy victorie death where is thy stinge that is sinne for the stinge of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the law but thankes be vnto God which hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ that is the lawe maketh vs sinners sinne maketh vs guiltie of death Who hath ouercome these two Our owne righteousnes our owne life No surely but Iesus Christ raysed from death who hath condemned sinne death hath imparted his righteousnes vnto vs hath giuen vs his merites hath layed his hand vpon vs so that we are in good case and doe fulfill the law and ouercome sinne and death for which honour prayse and thankes be to God for euer Amen This therfore is the last consideration whereby we are now lifted vp not onely aboue our owne euills but also aboue our owne good thinges and doe now enioy the good thinges of an other gotten by an others labour who before were oppressed with the euills caused by the sinne of an other and increased by our owne We enioy I say the righteousnes of Christ wherby he him selfe is righteous because we cleaue vnto it by which he pleaseth God and maketh intercession for vs maketh him selfe wholy ours being our most gratious Priest and Patron As vnpossible therefore as it is that Christ in his righteousnes should not please so vnpossible is it that we should not please by our faith whereby we cleaue to his righteousnes Whereby it commeth to passe that a Christian is omnipotent Lorde of all possessing all thinges doing all thinges wholy without any sinne And although it so be that he haue sinnes yet can it not be that they should hurt him but they are remitted because of the inuincible righteousnes of Christ which swalloweth vp all sinnes whereunto our faith trusteth firmely beleuing that Christ is such a one vnto vs as we saye For he that doth not beleue that heareth in vaine acknowledgeth not Christ neither knoweth whereunto he profiteth or serueth Wherefore euen this one consideration if there were no other may minister vnto vs so much comfort if it be well and duely had that we may not onely not be grieued at our euils but also reioyce in tribulations scarce feeling them by reason of the ioy which we haue in Christ Of which ioy our Christ our Lorde and God blessed for euer make vs partakers Amen By these my cogitations most famous Prince witnessing after a sort the duety of my small abilitie I commende me to your most noble grace being ready to performe greater thinges if the power of my spirit were according to my desire For I will alwayes be a dettour both to euery of my neighbours but especially to your most noble Grace whom our Lord Iesus Christ by his gracious goodnes long preserue among vs at the last bring to him selfe by a blessed and happy ende Amen Your Graces most humble and obedient subiect MARTIN LVTHER * That is fourteen or that which consisteth of that number Man hath hell in him selfe which is the greatest euill in him VVhy God scourgeth euery sonne whom he receiueth Godsuffereth not mā to feele his greatest euill and why The comfort of the first consideration Frutes of the greatest euill which is in man. Feare what it is The euil to come It ought greatly to comfort vs moue vs to loue and praise God that we being in daūger of so many euils few or none come vnto vs. Death the most terrible most certaine euil to come yet the time of the comming therof most vncertaine VVhat euil to come Christians ought to feare True Christians con●ene death all euils that they may be deliuered frō the euill of sinne VVe shall then chiefly perceiue the goodnes of God toward vs the care which he hath ouer vs when we cōsider our life past VVe ought greatly to be comforted in the present euil when we cōsider from how many euills God hath preserued vs in our life