Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	dead_a	holy_a	pilate_n	2,163	5	11.4686	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12162	A compendious form and summe of Christian doctrine, called The testimonie of a true faith meete for well disposed families, for the more knowledge [in] God, and better nourishing vp, and confirming of all such, as loue saluation in Iesus Christ. Gathered, corrected, and newly augmented, by Christopher Shutte, Maister of Arte, seene and allowed.	Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626.	1579 (1579)	STC 22468; ESTC S100084	27,860	76

whiche in due tyme bringeth forth the fruites of good liuing 36. Question What doest thou learne hereby Answeare First I learne to know God who is made my Father by Christ thorowe adoption and grace 2 Secondly I applie to my selfe by this my faith al the merites of Christ as fully as if I had doone the same my self 3 Thirdly I haue a sure trust in his merites and mercy and boldnes to offer vp my prayers to GOD the father by him 4 Last of all I knowe his promises to be faithfull and true and that he will perfourme them whē it pleaseth his godly wisedome 37. Question Whence commeth faith Answeare It is the gift of GOD wrought in my hart by the preaching of the Gospell and by the holy Ghost 38. Question What is the summe of faith Answeare I beleeue in God the father almightie maker of heauen and earth and in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lorde which was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary suffred vnder Poncius Pilate was crucified deade and buried he descended into Hell and rose againe the third day from the deade he ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almightie from thence he shall come to iudge the quicke and the deade I beleeue in the holy Ghost the holy catholike Churche the communion of saintes the forgiuenes of sinnes the resurrection of the body and the life euerlasting 39. Question What art thou taught hereby Answeare 1 First what to beleeue of God my father and creatour 2 Secondly of Christ my redeemer 3 Thirdly of the holy Ghost my sanctifiour Last of all concerning the church of God 40. Question What canst thou say of God Answeare God is a spirituall nature euerlasting almightie infinite true good righteous and mercifull who hath made the worlde and hath begotten the Sonne of himselfe from euerlasting The sonne is the wisdome and image of the father begotten of the father very God of very God who in his time appointed became man. The holie Ghost is the power and vertue proceeding from them both which three although they be distinct in persons yet are they equal al one in Godhead eternitie dignitie and power 41. Question What sayest thou of the first parte of this faith Answeare I beleeue that God is not onely the naturall father of his sonne Christ but also that he is by grace my father by whose wisedome as heauen and earth and all things therin conteined were made so the same by his power is gouerned and preserued 42. Question What thinkest thou of the second Answeare I beleeue that the sonne of God became man in all thinges like vnto me onely sinne excepted and in my nature wrought what was needefull to my saluation wherefore he is named Iesus that is a Sauiour 43. Question How is thy saluation wrought Answeare This woord Christ doth teach the same for first it signifieth him to be a king and to haue purchased to him selfe by his bloode the spirituall kingdome of his Church all the enemies thereof conquered Whiche kingdome now he gouerneth by his woord and by his spirit whereby he raigneth in my hart and in the hartes of his elect Secondly it teacheth that he was a prieste to offer vp him selfe once for all a swete sacrifice to take away my sinnes and to be a mediatour by whom and in whose name I may offer vp my prayers to God my heauenly father and through him be heard Thirdly it putteth me in mynde that he was a Prophet sent to preach the will of his heauenly father whom alone I must heare and obey as my Lord who being thus appoynted of his father was betraied of Iudas condemned by Pilat crucified by the Iewes buried by Ioseph of Aromathia and Nicodemus suffred in his bodie not onely the punishmentes due to my body but also in his soule the punishmentes due to my soule that was the very tormentes of hel and death and separation from God by whose death my obedience is wrought the malediction of Gods Lawe cancelled the Diuell and his power subdued the wrath of God appeased and I set in his fauour agayne And thus is the death of Christ the onely and full raunsome for my sinnes by vertue whereof sinne also dyeth and is killed in me 44. Question It is verie needefull to keepe this excellent benefite alwayes in minde tell me therefore howe thou canst meditate the same aright Answeare First I consider howe great the wrath of God was towarde my sinnes which coulde be appeased with nothing but onelie with the deare bloudshedding of his sonne and thereby I beginne to hate and eschewe sinne euermore Secondly herein I doo behold also the great loue of GOD whiche spared not his sonne for my sake and likewise the great loue of his sonne that vouchesafed to doe so much for me Thirdly I applie and appropriate the same vnto my selfe whatsoeuer Iesus Christ herein hath done for I am fullie assured that he did it for me 45. Question What sayest thou of his resurrection Answeare As he died for my sinnes so he rose agayne for my iustification hauing gotten the victorie ouer sinne death hell and damnation and geueth me power through his spirit to rise vnto newnes of life assuring me that my bodily death shal be no destruction but that I shall rise againe at the last day to life euerlasting 46. Question Shewe thy minde of his ascention Answeare He ascended with his bodie into heauen where he remayneth hauing all power geuen him of his father but with his spirite he is present with his people by which his ascention he hath taken possession for me in heauen where he also continueth a mediatour to make intercession for me to his father and finally teacheth me to set mine affection vppon heauenlie thinges 47. Question What meanest thou by his comming to iudgement Answeare I beleeue that he which is my sauiour shal come to cleare me and all his elect in iudgement and to condemne the wicked which in their life time refused him to followe their pleasures 48. Question What saiest thou of the holy Ghost Answeare I beleeue that he is the spirit of sanctification geuen to lighten my mynde and to leade me into all trueth he is the earnest of mine inheritance in heauen the seale to imprinte Gods promises in my heart the fountaine of grace and the water which purgeth me from mine vncleannesse and maketh mee to die to sinne and to be holy vnto God. 49. Question Shewe thy minde concerning the Church Answeare The Church is the societie of all faithfull people whom God in Christ hath chosen to saluation before the world was made of which