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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	bring_v	fruit_n	tree_n	3,146	5	8.3016	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03012	A soveraign counter-poyson prepared by a faithfull hand for the speedy revivscence of Andrew Sall late sacrilegious apostat ... / Contriv'd by J. E.	J. E.	1674 (1674)	Wing E16; ESTC R171890	44,784	118

of life was drawn S. Mathew sitting in telonio drawn the thief on the Cross Mary of Egipt from the Ordure of her libidinous lust Pelagia from her prostitution and sordid quest of whoredom all these call'd away by several and unknown ways to follow and pursue vertue and the way to heaven so as hereticks and haynous Sinners that sits in the shade of death are illuminated to apprehend their lamentable dark state and look up to Eternity and to the pure light of true life making them from the children of darkness to become the children of grace and all this done by the infinitly great wisdom and Grace of God without which those sit in darkness of ignorance and infidelity in the imminent danger of eternal death having their heart and understanding obscure so as that they are ignorant of God their Maker ignorant of the way to heaven ignorant of the final sovereign happiness for which they were created and do not know themselves nor that they are children of wrath and obnoxious to death being ignorant of their own insufficiency to good ignorant of the necessity of grace and Regeneration ignorant of Christ their Mediator through whose sacred bloud they are restored from death to life but by pure rays of divine faith they come to know all these things and begin to look after earnestly the way of Truth and of life they implore grace they invoke their Mediator and seek after his soul-faving Science and heavenly knowledge according to these words of S. Paul 1 Corin. 4. ille qui de tenebris dixit lucem splendescere ipse illuxit in cordibus nostris c. Of the true Essence of divine Faith 2. Document REason is most properly exercised in t●ings of nature and Faith in matters of Religion great witts set up reason instead of faith and the light of nature against divine light which is at once to deprive man of his highest felicity and faculty and God of his greatest Grace the same Word without question which created the world creates a belief in a spiritual understanding by relying on a divine reavealing Authority It s most certain that God is said to Confound the wisdome and learning of the wise by Faith which declared that without believing they cannot be saved and yet without a supernatural Grace they cannot believe and as God is the chief good and perfect happiness of the soul and the object of our beatitude which cannot be comprehended by natural light or knowledge therefore a kinde of supernatural vertue is necessary by which we may attain to his knowledge which is saith the highest knowledge we have in this world by wch the soul injoys him by him the most excellent guifts and graces whereof it is capable according to S. Paul ad Eph. 2.8 gratia Dei estis salvati per fidem hoc non ex vobis Faith is that divine light by which we prepare our journy towards vertue and heaven without faith it 's impossible 〈◊〉 please God By faith Roman Catholicks do ●alk upon the grounds of the Church mili●ant where there is infallibly an infusion of ●abitual Grace sanctification in its sacraments and surely transcendent is their commendation for their faithful conservation of ●he sacred Oracles of Truth in all ages to ●his day for their well ordered Zeale for their most ravishing devotions deiform in●entions their heroycal acts of fasting praying recollections meditations in●roversies their aspirations humiliations mortifications abnegation of themselves and their dayly abdication of all transitory things so as none in his sences can believe that such a tree can be Corrupted in the root which brings forth such heavenly fruits Some properties we may observe of the doctrine of Faith to be true to be revealed of God to be preached and delivered by the B. Apostles The highest ground by which a man is perswaded that his faith is true is the Authority of God speaking and revealing the highest proof by which a man may be assured that his Faith is revealed is the Authority of Christ and his B. Apostles who delivered and preached the same as from God and that from the beginning to this day it is practised without innovation or alteration in all parts of the inhabitable world The Apostles in the time of Christ conversing with them had sufficient Fait● to prevail with their wills to command the● understanding into the belief of his being God and man consequently an infallibl● faith then it doth follow that whatsoeve● he taught was to be assented unto as infallibly true and that without being questione● by our weak and limited reason And sur● this was very necessary for the true Church otherwise they could not have been sufficiently assured that what Christ their Maste● taught them was true and so it would no● have been a sin in them to have doubted 〈◊〉 This infallible assurance also the Christian● that lived in the B. Apostles time and afte● Christ Ascension enjoied they had sufficien● ground without question to induce them to a belief that the B. Apostles were infallible Guides and Teachers and that whatsoever they taught and commanded was as infallibly true as if God had immediately spoken the same things and no more to be doubted contradicted or disputed against by vain and curious Reason which doubtless were as strong and as good as ours then the immediate words command or dictates of Allmighty God otherwise these who refused to hear and obey them had beenin no fault and it would have been an insufferable boldness in S. Paul to have required such an absolute submission to what 〈◊〉 taught as to oblige Christians of his ●●●e not to have believed even an Angel ●om heaven teaching contrary things to ●hat he taught them Hence it is that the ●●maining writings of the B. Apostles are by ●ll Christians esteemed as the word of God ●nd this was mainly necessary in the ages ●fter Christ for the Church of God in the 〈◊〉 Apostles time to have a living infallible way of direction and this was the way to ●aintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of ●eace so become one body with one heart ●ot as sects divided subdivided scattered ●●to as many parts and sorts as now are ●nd have gone to cuffs raising civil war for ●he diciding of controversies as we have seen they did since they divided themselves from the holy Catholick Roman Church Mark now those words Heb. 11.6 without faith its impossible to please God and of Math. 16.16 he that believeth shall not be damned and Eph. 4.5 there is but one faith one Baptism one Lord Jesus the faith which is to save us and by the which we are to please God cannot be had but in one Church and that of Christ it cannot therefore be found in Sects in contrary opinions it being of necessity but one of contraries one only must be true Do but observe 2 Cor. 10.5 bringing into Captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ