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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	covenant_n	faith_n	seal_n	4,746	5	9.5373	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06068	Two godly and fruitfull treatises the one, vpon the Lords prayer. The other, vpon the sixe principles. Both penned by that learned man, Paul Baine, sometimes preacher of Gods word at S. Andrewes in Cambridge.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1649; ESTC S115503	46,776	286

is not so necessary What were none saued that had not Preachers may we not reade pray at home and serue God without this who are worser thē many that gad after it What can they tell thee more then thou knowest They speake great things of it but what dost thou feele He knoweth that if he can keepe vs from attending on the Word we shall neuer be brought to faith and so neuer haue benefit by Christ Iesus Wherefore let vs come within this net and if we be already borne to God let vs like new borne babes crie after this milke that we may grow by it Secondly note that by the Sacraments our faith is confirmed in vs. For euen as men do further secure those they deale with by putting to their seale vnto their couenants so God willing to giue vs full assurance hath not contented himselfe to make a will paneld by word onely but hath written it yea hath by oath confirmed it by the witnesse of his Spirit Finally hath put to his seale that nothing might be wanting which might the better secure vs and all this is not to make his word more sure in it selfe but to make it more sure in our perswasion This is the vse of Sacraments for the Scripture calleth thē the Couenant signes of the Couenant signes seales of the righteousnesse of faith and therefore signes confirming the weakenesse of our beleefe ratifying Gods couenants with vs not distinguishing onely frō vnbeleeuers which is Anabaptistrie nor yet instruments infusing the first grace into vs for Abraham the father of all the faithfull now being a beleeuer receiued circumcision so Cornelius now an approoued beleeuer was baptized and we neuer find the fruite of our Baptisme or the Lords supper till we be taught to beleeue This then should teach vs both to acknowledge Gods great grace toward vs that thus condescendeth to our infirmitie If a man of worth be not beleeued on his word especially if he giue a deed of his hand he will snuffe at it not take it well but our God who cannot lie dealeth otherwise As also we must reioyce to come vnto these Sacraments should we come to haue the seale passed of some great earthly matter made ouer to vs how would we reioyce shall we not be glad when we come to haue the seales which assure to vs pardon of all our sinnes and life euerlasting Thirdly we must hence giue glorie to God in beleeuing him without all doubtings and vncertaintie which popish religion perswadeth If an honest man should giue vs his word deed oath before witnesse should seale this or that would we not be ashamed to be incredulous Much more shamefull it is to distrust the liuing God Lastly marke faith is increased by prayer not begotten for we cannot pray to him on whom we haue not beleeued it is the first fruit that faith bringeth When babes are borne they say they crie presently but when by faith once the babe of the new creature is borne in vs it presently crieth Lord helpe my vnbeleefe I beleeue Lord Lord increase my faith And as children haue no more compendious way to get any thing then to beg it at their parents no more haue we then to beg at our God who if parents sinfull giue good things to their children that aske them will much more giue vs his Spirit that desire it Let vs then beg increase of this and all other graces Spare to speake and spare to speed open thy mouth wide and God will fill it The sixt Principle Q. VVHat is the estate of all men after death A. All men shall arise againe with their owne bodies to the last iudgement which being ended the godly shall possesse the kingdome of heauen but vnbeleeuers and reprobates shall be in hell tormented with the diuell his Angels for euer Hauing thus inclusiuely laid downe our state by nature and expresly handled our estate present by grace he now vnfoldeth what shall be the future estate of man in glorie or endlesse torment In the answer three things are laid downe as matters to be beleeued first the generall resurrection of vs all secondly the end to which we are raised that we may come to iudgement thirdly the things which shall follow vpon iudgement viz. the execution of Christs sentence both touching the blessednes of the faithfull and the cursed damnation of the wicked For the first marke this what we are to perswade our selues of our bodies and the bodies of all other viz. that they shall at length be raised vp This resurrection of the body and of euery mans own proper body to himselfe is a point of beleefe grounded in the Scripture and power of God which can subdue all things to it selfe Yet sounder reason may make it probable for as the seede sowne doth not so corrupt that it should come to nothing but that a new body may be ingendred so our bodies do not returne to dust that so they might vanish to nothing but that so in their time they might through Gods power fpring vp into immortall and strong bodies And why is it not as credible to think that God can bring againe all those bodies that haue bene as to be perswaded that he can create new generations of bodies that neuer yet had being for that this should be which sometime hath bene is not more maruellous then that such a thing should be which neuer yet had being in the nature of things He that should see a little portion of seede in a glasse and should see the portraiture of a perfect man say he had neuer seene the procreation of mankind he would as hardly beleeue that euer such seede should become such a creature as that dust should be raised vp had he no more seene the one then the other But God hath spoken it and his power can subdue all things to it selfe and these two are the props of our beleefe in this point Now though all shall be raised vp yet in diuers manner to diuers ends these by Christ as a head bringing saluation those by him as a iudge of all flesh these to glory those other to shame For as for the wicked it were better for them if they did not rise as Christ saith it was better for Iudas he had neuer bene The vse of this is comfortable to the godly they die not to be held for euer vnder it but to rise more glorious Who doth not endure to haue an old house pulled downe that may haue a new built vp in the roome Who taketh it grieuously to lie downe to sleepe that knoweth he shall rise againe in the morning Yea this is true if wee could be as sure of this our rising as we are of the other Answ Why should we doubt God hath said it who gaue being to all things out of nothing and can much more make vs this or that being somthing Againe reason doth demonstrate it as being not absurd Finally thou hast in