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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	act_n	grace_n	habit_n	4,993	5	9.9892	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50394	Love to the life, or, Some meditations upon loving, and washing in the blood of Christ together, with a tast of gospel-promises, as the churches stock, or, believers patrimony. By R.M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house.	Mayhew, R. (Richard)	1674 (1674)	Wing M1440; ESTC R217769	43,513	159

inquiry after these six things What these Gospel-Believers are Method 1. that have a Gospel-right to promises What these promises are unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right Whether Gospel Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises How Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises Why Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises What use may be made of this That Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-right to Gospel-promises What these Gospel-Believers are that have a Gospel-right to promises I would hope to arrive thee at a Discovery of a Gospel-Believer under a Discussion of a gospel-Gospel-Faith There is the Habit of Faith and the Act of Faith There 's the Habit of Faith There 's the Seed of Faith or Faith in the Seed The Heart that 's the Soil and Grace that 's the Seed Being born again 1 Petr. 1.23 not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible Grace is the Seed Faith is a Grace if no thee Grace for 't is the leading Grace the Grace that lead the Van of all other Graces Grace is the Seed and this is incorruptible As there is no Grace in Sin so there is no Sin in Grace There 's the Act of Faith As there is the Habit of Faith so there is the Act of Faith Gal. 5.6 As there is the work of Faith so there is a working-Faith But Faith which worketh by Love But what manner of Faith Question is this Faith 'T is a Faith that hath Christ for Object Solut. 1 That He might be just Rom 3.26 and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus This Faith hath Christ but not the lying vision of the heart for its Object 'T is a Faith of the Operation of God Faith is a work but 't is Gods work Col. 2.12 'T is expresly called a Faith of the Operation of God As Faith is Gods will so 't is Gods work 'T is a Faith that 's wrought not only by the power of God but by the exceeding greatness of Gods power And what is the super-eminent magnitude of his power to us-ward Eph. 1.19 20. who believe according to the working of the might of his power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead There is concerned in the working of Faith a power aequivalent unto and aequipollent with that power which gave a Resurrection to Christ Jesus 'T is a Faith that hath a Train of good works Jam. 2 18. Shew me thy Faith without thy works and I will shew thee my Faith by my works By works I mean works from a right Principle to right Ends that is works from a gracious Principle to a gracious end works from a Principle of the Grace of God to a promotion of the Glory of God Now though such works are not Essential unto Faith yet they are Evidential unto Faith though they are not the Essence of a lively Faith yet they are the Evidence that Faith lives Jam. 2.26 For as the Body without the Spirit is dead so Faith without works is dead also This is a Gospel-Faith and he or she that hath this Faith is a Gospel-Believer What these promises are unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel right Promises they say are Absolute or Conditional Absolute promises are Spiritual Absolute and Caelestial As Grace and Glory Redemption and Remission Sanctification and Salvation Conditional promises are temporal Conditional and corporal As Health and Honour Prosperity and Plenty Seed and Substance c. But in short there 's a three fold promise Civil Religious and Divine Civil This is a word passed from Man to Man Civil A Civil promise is a word passed from Man to Man for the performance of some lawful thing as in Contracts and in other affairs Thus Laban made promise to Jacob to give him his Daughters Thus Saul made promise to David not to hurt him and hunt his Soul to take it Thus also Jonathan made promise to David 1 Sam. 19.1 2 3. Religious This is a word passed from Man to God Religious A religious promise is a word passed from Man to God concerning some Duty relating to his Honour This is called a Vow If a Woman also vow a vow unto the Lord. Thus the Psalmist Psa 66.13 14. I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my vows Which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Divine This is a word passed from God to Man Divine A divine promise is a word passed from God to Man concerning the fulfilling of some Good or removing of some Evil Spiritual Psa 119.38 49 50. or Temporal Stablish thy word unto thy Servant who is devoted to thy Fear Remember thy word unto thy Servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me Now Gods promises are Legal or Evangelical Legal Do this and live Thus God passed his word Legal to give eternal life and Creature-Comforts upon condition of performing the Law Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandement with promise But these are not the promises Eph. 6.2 spoken off in the Text To Abraham and his Seed were the promises made Evangelical Thus when God passeth his word freely to give Evangelical freely to give Christ and together with Christ all things freely to give Whereby are given unto us but what promises yea precious promises yea great 2 Pet. 1.4 and precious promises yea exceeding great and precious promises Now these are they they are Gospel-promises unto which Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-Right Of these my Text speak To Abraham and his Seed were the promises m●de Whether Gospel-Believers have a Gospel Right to Gospel-promises It were no hard Task to produce a cloud of witnesses But in the mouth of two or three shall every word be established Gal. 3.22 For instance The Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by the Faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe Gal. 3.29 If ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise Now Gal. 4.28 we Brothren as Isaac was are the Children of promise How Gospel-Believers have a Gospel-Right to Gospel-promises Through Grace Free-Grace gives a right to the promise Through Grace Promises are Donatives they are free gifts Gal. 3.18 If the Inheritance be of the Law then 't is no more by promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise Here the Inheritance is given that is under promise and the promise is given under which the inheritance is God gave it to Abraeham by promise Through Christ Christ is he first and great Heir Through Christ he is Heir of all things and through ●im Believers inherit the pronise 'T is the Prince of life ●hat gives a propriety in the promise of life For this cause Heb. 9.15 ●e is the Mediatour of