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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	evil_a	good_a	tree_n	6,434	5	10.3457	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12709	The mystery of godlinesse a generall discourse of the reason that is in Christian religion. By William Sparke divinity reader at Magd: Coll: in Oxford, and parson of Blechly in B[uck]ingham-shire.	Sparke, William, 1587-1641.	1628 (1628)	STC 23026; ESTC S100099	133,807	175

once in seaven dayes so long as the i Rom. 8.21.22 creation groneth vnder the burthen of corruption vntill wee enter into his rest and enjoy an eternall Sabbath in glory Vpon this law stood the covenant of Nature Doe this and liue The covenant of Nature To liue is to be doing for life is the energie of nature and consists in action And to doe this law which God had by nature inacted in man should haue beene the naturall life of man Not a meanes to attaine life which hee then already had in present fruition but the very forme and manner of liuing and that well and happily k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Ethic. l. 1. c. 7. a perpetuall well doing and perfect beeing in that blessed estate wherein hee was made l Luke 10.26.28 What is written in the law This doe and thou shalt liue For these things if a man doe he shall liue in them not for the doing but in the doing of them And m Iames 1.25 who so looketh into the perfect law of liberty beeing a doer of the worke that man shall bee blessed in his deede Of which covenant God gaue n Primordialis data est lex Adae Evae in paradiso quasi matrix omnium praeceptorum Dei c. Tertull. adversus Iudaeos Quae lex ei sufficeret sheffet custodita ibid. man in his innocency as it were o Erat homini in lignis alijs alimentum in hoc Sacramentum Aug. two Sacraments The p Hac generali primordiali Dei lege quarn in arboris fructu observari Deus sanxerat omnia praecepta legis posterioris specialiter indita fuisse cognoscimus quae suis temporibus edita germinaverunt Tertul. adversus Iudeos In hac enim lege Adae data omnia praecepta condita recognosim us quae posteà pullularunt data per Moysen Ibidem tree of knowledge respecting the law doe this and the tree of life respecting the promise liue By the former it pleased God to make triall of mans faith and obedience A small matter as it may seeme a trifle the greater was the sinne in eating the forbidden fruite whatsoever it was of the tree of knowledge of good and evill So it was called by God his institution who forbad it to proue make knowne what a creature q Haec ipsa quo que possibilitae eveniendi non levitati ipsius qui non movetur sed retum facilitati quae naturâ non indignante moueri possunt convenienter ascribitur Ioan Sarisber Policrat l. 2. c. 21. could doe of it selfe and would do being left to it selfe which was by nature free to chuse and indifferently inclinable to good or evill It stood not with the counsell of the Almighty only wise God nor with the condition of a reasonable creature that man should be inforced to do his duty vpon necessity whom he had made arbitrary or that all r Quae igitur cum fiunt carent existendi necessitate eadem prius quam fiant sine necessitate futurasunt Booer de consol phil lib. 5. pros 4. contingency of second causes should bee intercepted in the course of nature by his Almighty power howsoever by his providence the effects shall certainely follow which hee in his secret ſ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suidas counsell foreseeth and preordaineth to his glory vpon their free or contingent and sometimes contrary operations t Sicut series retum Dei providentiam non immutat sic aeterna dispositio retum naturam non perimit Ioan. Sarisber Policrat lib. 2. c. 20. Every thing hath its owne course together with God his providence and God hath his purpose notwithstanding their deficience Sin which is an evill and aberration of our actions from the righteous law of God is the defection of the creature from the creatour and not the u Deus non est auctor illius reicuius est vltor Fulgent l. 1. c. 19. ad Monim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eurip. effecting of the creatour by the creature For it is not an effect but a x Nemo quaerat efficientem causam malae voluntatis non enim est efficiens sed deficiens quia necilla est effectio sed defectio August l. 12. de Civ Dei c. 7. Malum nihil est cum id facere ille non possit qui nihil non potest Booet de consol Phil. l. 3. pros 12. defect in the doing The y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bas Homil Quod Deus non est author malorū p. 422. default whereof resteth vpon the immediate doer and redoundeth not to the first mover who will haue euery thing worke in its own kind No man could haue had any z Iohn 19.11 power against Christ except it had beene giuen him from aboue Yet did not that excuse his adversaries nay therefore they had the greater sinne For the greater the a Non queramur de autho re nostro Deos si beneficia eiu corrumpimus ve essent contraria efficimus Sen. quaest nat l. 5. c. 18. gifts the greater the fault if they be abused The Devill cannot do any thing without God yet b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Neque tamen quoniam mutabiles vires habemus improbitatis nostrae culpa in Deum conferenda est Non enim in facultatibus sunt vitia led in habitibus c. Nemes lib. de natura homin when hee speakes a lye he speaketh of his owne for hee is a lyar and the father of it c Iohn 8.44 Who being the first Apostate from God The Fall and the perpetuall enemy to God and man affecting to be the d Naturales impatientias in ipso diabolo deprehendo iam tunc cū dominū Deum vniversa opera quae fecisset imagini suae id est homini subjectisse impatienter tulisset Tertul. de pat Adeò decepit eum quia inuiderat ibid. Prince God of this world in a proud emulation of God himselfe and an e Eph. 2.2 Ioh. 14.30 2. Cor. 4.4 envious indignation against man whom God had deputed as it were his Vicegerent here vpon earth soone tooke occasion by the inhibition and watching his oportunity wrought subtilly vpon the womans frailty in nature f 1. Pet. 3.7 the weaker vessell and by hir prevailed also against the man with whom naturally the womans importunate weakenesse is most powerful And like as Ahitophell after his example gaue counsell since to a rebellious sonne against his father so did the Devill perswade the man to g 2 Sam. 16.21 vsurpe vpon that which God had precisely reserued vnto himselfe the knowledge of good and evill h Acts 15.18 foreknowne vnto God are all his workes and the issues of them from everlasting pretending that by this meanes the mā should become as God himselfe with absolute power and command over the creature whereof before hee had but the bare vse that only