Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	believe_v	lord_n	unbelief_n	5,320	5	10.6764	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68302	A most excellent and comfortable treatise, for all such as are any maner of way either troubled in minde or afflicted in bodie, made by Andrew Kingesmyl Gentleman, sometime fellowe of Alsolne Colledge in Oxforde. Whereunto is adioyned a verie godly and learned exhortation to suffer patiently al afflictions for the gospel of Christ Iesus. And also a conference betwixt a godly learned Christian [and] an afflicted conscie[n]ce: wherein, by the holy Scriptures the sleights of Satan are made manifest, and ouerthrowen: with a godly prayer thereunto annexed	Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569.; Mills, Francis.	1577 (1577)	STC 15000; ESTC S107429	44,945	104

his abiding is in heauen his eyes beholde these sonnes of men and laugh them to scorne and at the length shal talke with them in his furie powring vpon them from heauen snares fyre and brimstone whose cup and portion shal be burning storme and tempest Let them persuade them selues and beleeue darkenes to be light trueth falsnes blindnes sight and life death and bring this to passe that mens eyes may seeme with a skinne or slime of superstitious ignorancie to bee couered and made blinde yet can the Lord and also will when he seeth time restore light trueth sight life againe to the aduancement of his owne glorie the comfort of his Church and vtter confusion of his enemies Folowe therefore after the Lord crye vnto him with the two blind men desire him of his mercy to restore your sight mistrust not but he is able to doe it saye with them that you so beleeue and the Lord wil make you answere and performe it in dede after your faith be it vnto you If you truste in the Lord and confesse him to be omnipotente why should you feare the crueltie of Antichrist who afflicteth Christ in his mēbers persecuting and punishing their soules with superstition idolatrie and vnbeliefe and afflicting their bodies with hunger imprisonment exile and painful death Hath not God aforetime assisted his to wade thorowe and ouercome the paines of all these yea in the middes of the bitter stormes to take great pleasure And is he of lesse power to helpe vs shall not we now by his assistance be so able to abide and take pleasure in paines as our brethren haue bene before vs My brethren be strong in the Lord and through the power of his strength learne to whatsoeuer estate God shal call you therewith to be content knowing how to be lowe how to exceede euery where and in al thinges instructed both to be full and to be hungrie both to haue plentie and to suffer neede yea to do all things through Christ who strengtheneth you by whom also you shal ouercome For if you be troubled on euery side yet shall you not be without shift when you bee vexed with pouertie you shall not be vtterly without somewhat wrapt in persecution not forsaken therein cast downe yet perishe not that the excellencie of the power may bee Gods and that you may onely glorie in the Crosse of Christ By the crosse he entred into glorie and they that are his must enter in the same way The Princes had no power ouer him further then was giuen them from aboue neither haue they ouer you no not to plucke of one heare of your head for they be all numbred and not one falleth away without the will of your heauenly Father who worketh all things for the best to all them that loue him And woulde we not haue all things worke to our most aduantage In worldly things we seeke after most gaine and wil we neglect that in heauenly things For to winne a small summe of money we will take vpon vs a farre iourney in daunger of robbing in perils of drowning and let for no payne perswading our selues that God wil be with vs assist and prosper vs in all our trauayle and shall wee refuse to traueile by land to passe the seas to suffer what paine soeuer thereunto belongeth to winne the penny of euerlasting life mistrusting that God will not be with vs ayde and further vs in whatsoeuer painefull perill we shall come in O blinde incredulitie that makest easy things to seeme hard by working an vnwillingnes in the mindes of men whome thou rulest If men forsake their own willes submitting them selues wholy vnto Gods will what thing can bee to harde But if we will followe the appetites and delicate nicenesse of our owne willes what can be easy Crye therefore with Christ deare brethren Not our wylles but thy will O heauenly Father be done So eschue troubles as may stande with his good will and pleasure When they come vpon you embrace them willingly suffer them patiently wade thorowe them faithfully for that is his good will and pleasure Folowe the example of Christe of the Prophetes Apostles and holy martyrs who were not wedded to their owne willes but submitted them selues wholy vnto Gods will who wrought so with them that in pouertie they wanted not necessaries in prison among rauening Lions they liued harmeles in the middes of fyre they burnt not in the most cruell torments they felt no payne and trusting to the faithfull promise and mightie ayde of their heauenly Father desired rather to be exercised vnder the crosse to die with Christ then to be at ease and liue with the world Abraham with his Father Thare forsooke his natiue countrey and from thence was commaunded to depart into a countrey whereof he neither knewe the name where it was neither what cōmodities were therein for men to liue withall neither yet could he abide there any whyle for a great dearth did oppresse the whole land so that he was compelled to flye into Aegypt where he was in daunger of much displeasure for he perceiued before he entred that he must forgoe either his wyfe or els sustaine daunger for keeping her Hee was constrained oftentimes to remoue his habitation not without great losse trauayle and perill Iacob also went forth of his natiue countrey into a straunge place partlie for that his father would not that hee should be ioyned in mariage with the daughters of the Idolatours of that countrey partly to flye the crueltie of wicked Esau his naturall brother where he serued Laban fourteene yeres for his two daughters in keeping his sheepe a painefull kinde of labour Afterwarde in his olde daies was constrained by the force of a great dearth to remoue into Aegypt where his ofspring was grieuously molested many yeres Ioseph was solde by his brethren to the Ismaelites and by them vnto an Aegyptian where he susteined great paine and perill in a straunge countrey The Prophete Ely being persecuted by the wicked Iezabel fled from post to pillar The Prophete Daniel with a great number of good and godlie Israelites were caried into Babylon captiues there to liue in captiuitie in a straunge countrey among their deadly enemies The Apostles of Christ and many godly men and also women in their time forsooke all they had and went into straunge coūtreis for the Gospels sake And after their time to this our time the Ecclesiastical histories are full of the examples both of men and also women that left landes and goodes fled their countreis and did choose rather in an vnkoth and vnknowē land to liue in hardnes with freedom of conscience to serue God after his wil then to tarie at home in wealth with bondage of conscience and dishonour the Lord in disobeying his holy will. It is not read that any of these did murmure grudge to leaue their houses landes goodes and natiue