Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	justify_v	righteousness_n	ungodly_a	4,797	5	11.0468	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60666	The work of Gods power in man with something that the spirit of truth leads to practise, and what it leads to deny ... / W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4346; ESTC R19003	14,538	19

you and by his blood you are justified and by his imputed righteousnesse you are accepted Now consider the ground of your Faith who is the Author of it and how was it wrought seeing there is but one true Faith and seeing that true Faith stands in the power of God and seeing Christ is the power of God according to Scripture Now is your Faith within you or without you if within you then Christ is there also for he is the Author of true Faith if without you then it cannot purifie your hearts which is the Work of Faith for faith purifies the heart and if you will not have Christ within you then not faith within you and then not pure hearts and what good doth all your apprehensions do you if you cannot witnesse pure hearts they that are in the unbelief can but lie there And what better are you by your Faith then they that that have no Faith at all For all men have not Faith This is in tender pity to you that you might once look within and have regard to that which doth reprove you for that which cryes peace when there is no peace wil not do you any good that was ever the Message of the false prophets to cry peace to that nature which lived and ruled over the good Seed and that never did people any good but became a hinderance to them for following on to know the Lord and they wanted peace in the latter end let no such Message strengthen you where you are nor perswade not your selves thereby that you are what you are not for if you do so you do but deceive your selves and there is no greater danger then to grow strong in that part which God will break and wise in that part which God will destroy and whosoever strengthens you in that nature and cryes peace to you there they are such as run when God sends them not and they only please that life which must come to death Friends the truest love is in plain dealing there is no deceit in that but the truth is spoken to every state and condition as it is and though there may be a part that likes not reproof yet the love reacheth to something that lies under that which is reproved for all people would have love and mercy and peace but they start aside when reproof comes that is the sound doctrine which they will not endure and though love mercy and peace be in God yet the birth of the flesh is not therein concerned and therefore it must be reproved before the love mercy and peace of God be obtained for you that talk so much of Justification by Christ whilst you are not changed and renewed by the work of his power you have yet a large journey to go before you can come to that place where Justification is witnessed for he doth not justifie any in sin though he justifie the ungodly which is a sentence often urged as a proof for justification in ungodlinesse and where such doctrine is received it gives the flesh an occasion to use its liberty for a man may sometimes have been ungodly and such were som of you saith the Apostle but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Mark here was not justification in the ungodlinesse but here was washing and sanctifying and then justifying such as had been ungodly justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus mark that for Abraham as pertaining to the flesh found nothing but believing in God he found the Seed and his Faith was counted unto him for righteousnesse and being come to the righteousness by faith the reward was reckoned not of Works and so a debt but it was reckoned of Grace and Abraham was justified in the righteousnesse and not in the ungodlinesse and so he received the sign of Circumcision a seal of the righteousnesse of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised who against hope believed in hope that he might become the Father of many Nations according to that which was spoken So shall thy Seed be Therefore to apply justification by Christ whilst people are found sinners is to exclude the Work of Christ in man who appeareth to take away sin and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse and to justifie man in his own righteousnesse for in no other thing can man stand justified before God who is righteous and this is a Truth shall stand for ever And they go on too fast that would be justified before they submit to reproof for Christ must be received as he is a reprover before any can know him as a justifier and so man being filled with his apprehensions he is vainly puft up with his fleshly mind and knows nothing concerning Christ as he ought to know for people in that state are too high their apprehensions of justification lifts them up and they will not stoop nor bow to such a low degree as to reproof they are too vvise in their own eyes by their apprehensions and filled too full with their own conceivings and so loses the sense of hunger and thirst after Christ and that which should live by him is in want of him for where can any come to feed upon Christ if they find him not within them How can they eat his flesh and drink his blood if he be not within them And can any have life in him if they do not eat his flesh and drink his blood Or can any eat that flesh that was crucified in times past and drink that blood which was shed as it is flesh and blood without them Nay nay there must be a nearer communion with Christ if any eat his flesh and drink his blood they must feel him to be within them and his fan must go in his hand within them and his fire must burn up the Chaff and his water must wash away the uncleannesse and they must be wholly separated from that nature which cannot come into communion with him And they must be wholly separated from that nature which cannot come into communion with him And this must all people know before they eat his flesh and drink his blood Therefore all you that professe God and Christ in words and apprehend your Justification where you are do not deceive your selves with such an uncertain hope for it will fail fail you in the latter end and now learn of Christ whilst his love is to you learn meeknesse and lowlinesse that your souls in him may find true rest yea a rest within and that in this present World for you are not at rest amongst your apprehensions but are tossed with divers conceivings concerning the Scriptures and are wearying your selves in an endless travel and though you may apprehend a rest to your selves and perswade your selves that all is well yet there is a day wherein you will know that it is poluted and out of that rest you