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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	believe_v	faith_n	hope_v	1,483	5	7.8841	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74975	A manifest and breife discovery of some of the errours contained in a dialogue called the Marrow of moderne divinity. Wherein is shewen, especially the authors errour in the manner of the iustification of a sinner, and the truth cleared from all the falshoods contained in that booke concerning the same, with some other of his errours.	I. A.	1646 (1646)	Wing A10; Thomason E359_16; ESTC R11271	15,083	24

lost condition none but such as are wounded will look for and highly prize the Physician to cure their poore soules Now this Grace of Repentance is purchased by Christ and admitted to poore Sinners through him and to be preached in his Name and it is wrought in the hearts of the Elect by the holy Ghost through the free grace of God and is not wrought or produced by any power that is in the creature For the truth is we are all passive in every thing that concernes our salvation we cannot repent unlesse God give us repentance we cannot beleeve unlesse God give us faith to beleeve And therefore I doe the more wonder at the Author that hath so much urged Faith and believing and yet never tells us how this so precious Faith is wrought or how wee may attaine thereunto but speakes of it as if it were in our own power I acknowledge freely that Repentance is wrought by the Word preached and Faith also But yet it is the Lord that works by the means and without which all would be unprofitable and so all is of free Grace for there is no worke that we can doe before Justification or after Justification can merit any grace for us before God Ephes 2.10 for we are his workmanship created in Jesus Christ c. And whatsoever gift of grace any man receives it is from the free bounty and grace of God in Christ And every gift so received is to be put forth by us to the glory of our God and the good of our brethren And to so forth to all men the goodnesse of our God towards us through Christ by way of thankfulnesse for mercy received and to no other end whatsoever And thus you may see I am no enemy to the doctrine of Free Grace nor to the Teachers thereof if they publish only the truth thereof without running into by wayes for feare of something which they need not if they did truly understand the truth But I desire above all things to advance the Free grace of God in Christ and by Gods help will doe it And now because the Author hath so much spoken of Faith and of beleeving yet hath not told us what this Faith is I will Christian Reader for thy help and the Authors information for downe what this precious Faith is for other Faith 's mentioned in Scripture I let passe This only is to our purpose at this time and I suppose may be thus defined To be a gracious worke of Gods Spirit wrought in the hearts of such as are Penitent wherby they are assured in their soules of the free pardon and remission of all their sins and of peace and reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ Rō 5.1 This is that speciall faith which none but the Elect are partakers of and therefore called the faith of Gods elect other faiths are common to all this only to the redeemed in Christ and this faith is never given to any but to the repentant only And this repentance and this faith are the parts of Regeneration the new birth from above spoken of by our Lord Christ John 3.5 Water and the Spirit The first prepareth the other purgeth and without which work no man shall enter into the Kingdome of heaven according to that eternall decree never to be called back which saith Except a man de borne againe of Water and the Spirit be cannot enter into the Kingdome of heaven I wonder the Author could not see this or if hee saw it would not so much as mention it in the bringing of a poore sinner home to Iesus Christ but presseth men to believe as if Faith were in mans power whereas indeed it is the gift of God Ephes 2.8 Mortification of sin and Sanctification or newnesse of lise doth alwayes follow the Justification of a sinner by faith and are some of the fruits proceeding from one that is justified and reconciled unto God through Iesus Christ for they must be first ingrafted into Christ before they can bring forth fruit in him Now the parts of Regeneration Repentance and Faith are but the ingrafting and no part of the fruit the Fruit alwayes follows the ingrafting and these are no part of Repentance if truly considered for every grace of the Spirit may be clearly distinguished each from other by the Scriptures and must not be confounded together as the manner of some is to doe who would make Repentance to consist of Mortification to sinne and newnesse of life nay some have said that Repentance consists of Faith also and so they make a great confusion and are never able to find out the truth For though Repentance doth continue in a time beleever and justified person so long as he lives here for he sins daily and therefore must repent daily And it is required of them Ephes 6.15 that they should have their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace namely Repentance yet is Repentance truly to be distinguished from other the effects of the spirit as Faith Hope Patience Love and Ioy and not to be confound one with another as some doe And by the way let this bee considered that howsoever Christ hath wrought perfect Redemption for us yet the application and the making this Redemption effectuall unto us is done by the holy Ghost every one in the undivided Trinity having his speciall worke appropriated unto him to make perfect the salvation of poore Sinners which severall workes must of necessity be distinguished And take notice of this that this speciall Faith that justifieth the beleever apprehending the grace of God in Christ is alwayes grounded upon some speciall promise in Scripture For there cannot bee this speciall faith in any soule where there is not first a promise And the promises as I have said are made only to the Penitent the broken-hearted the mourners such as are heavy laden c. Christ calls only such to him And the holy Spirit of God doth never write the Covenant of Peace with God in other hearts but only in the broken and contrite heart namely the repentant soule and they only can and doe beleeve with this speciall Faith for none else can worke that worke to beleeve in him whom God hath sent John 6.29 but only such poore soules for where there is no promise there can be no faith for though faith be the ground of things hoped for yet there must be a promise to ground that Faith on For though Abraham beleeved beyond hope yet he had a promise first made unto him by a faithfull God And therefore I pray the Christian Reader to observe what I have before set down for it is not our beleeving till wee be perswaded that we do beleeve for as I have said before so I say againe there must be first a promise for such poore Sinners to lay hold on then they finding themselves to be such penitent and broken hearted to whom the speciall promises do pertain the holy