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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	believe_v	faith_n	implicit_a	1,688	5	13.6300	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02181	Paramythion tvvo treatises of the comforting of an afflicted conscience, written by M. Richard Greenham, with certaine epistles of the same argument. Heereunto are added two sermons, with certaine graue and wise counsells and answeres of the same author and argument.; Most sweete and assured comfort for all those that are afflicted in conscience, or troubled in minde	Greenham, Richard.; Greenham, Richard. Two learned and godly sermons.	1598 (1598)	STC 12322; ESTC S103418	97,808	214

our selues of faith because he saith that we beleeue not knowing that he is not only a murderer but also a lie● from the beginning and the father of lying Now he that was neither ashamed nor afraide to charge God himselfe with vntrueth will make lesse scruple to deale fal●ly with vs that therfore we vtterly reiecte his witnesse as the witnes of a notorious treacherous deceauer vnworthie all credit and whome we cannot beleeue euen in the truth it selfe without danger For which cause he was so oftentimes silenced by our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles euen then when after his deceiuable man the bare wit●es vnto the truth Againe when the qu●stion is of our faith in Christ wether we beleeue in him or not we must beware that we stand not here vpon perfection of knowledge which in the best Diuines is vnperfect nor vpon the perfection of our perswasion which in all flesh is mingled with imperfection It is enough for our present cōfort to the silencinge of our aduersarie that we haue a cōpitent knowledge of the misterie of our saluation by Christ far remoued from that ignorance and implicit vnderstanding which Sathan hath planted in the kingdome of Antichrist For perswasion also we acknowledge that partly by the corruption of nature and partly by his assalts by the grace of God it is such as the same is oftentimes assailed shaken Yet faileth not nor falleth vnto the ground but standeth inuincible against all his attēpts inuasions whatsoeuer And finally for that faith wherby we rest for our saluation vpon Christ Iesus we glory not in our own strength but we say euery one for himselfe whi●h him in the Gospell wee beleeue Lord helpe thou our vnbeliefe For if faith be as it is in deede a repose setling placing and putting of our trust and confidence for saluation in Christ whome the father hath sealed Then we doubt not to prooue against Sathan and all his instruments of inside litle that wee doe beleeue and that the weakenesse of our faith wich we willingly acknowledge and that remnant of vnbeliefe which yet hangeth vpon vs is so farre off from dismaing vs that it is both a warning and motiue vnto vs of great force to sturre vs vp and to set vs a worke by all good meanes to establish and to increase our faith wherein wee finde the good hand of the Lord not to bee wanting vnto vs and his eares not to bee shutte vp against our prayers in which wee alwaies say with the Apostles of Christ Lord increase our faith If it shall be obiected that because we haue not the same sence and feeling of faith which some times we had as Sathan himselfe could not then deny therefore wee haue nowe noe faith but haue vtterly lost the same wee may answere the argument followeth not for euen in many diseases of the bodie it is so with them that haue them that they seame little better then dead corses and yet there is life in them which hidden for a time after is recouered and raised vp againe so it is many times with the children of God that being ouerborne and distressed with extremitie of affliction and temptation they seeme for the time both to themselues and others to haue lost the life and light which once they enioyed Yet so it is that when the tempest is ouerblowne and the gratious countenance of the Lorde againe beginneth to shine vpon them the faith which was as it were hid for the time taketh life and sheweth forth it selfe plainly prooueth that as the trees when they bud in the spring time and bring fourth their fruit ware not dead in the winter as they seemed to be so the faith of Gods childrē springing a fresh after the stormy winter of temptation declareth manifestly that it was not dead when it seemed so to bee but was only respited for the time that afterward it might bring forth more fruit wheras the afflicted soule desireth nothing more then to beleeue though it feele not a present operation of comfort by faith euen that desire argueth a secret sence that cānot easily be discerned together with assurance of better estate in time to come according to that of our sauiour Christ. Blessed are they that hunger thirst after righteousnes for they shall be satisfied that of the blessed virgin he filleth the hūgry with good things but the rich he hath sent empty away Also that bewaling deploring of vnbeliefe which is found in the afflicted is not only a steppe vnto their former comfort but a certaine proofe demonstration of the returne thereof For the Lorde working by his spirit in the hearts of his children gronings that cannot be expressed therby assureth them that in his good time hee will heare them and grant their requestes And so much the more we may be perswaded hereof because the loue of God towards vs as it began not of vs as S. Iohn sayeth so it depēdeth not vpō vs but vpō the truth constācie of him with whom there is no change nor shadow of change Againe the temptation it selfe frō which our afflictiō doth arise though it haue of it selfe a most bitter sharp tast euen vnto the wounding of our soules neare vnto death yet hath it also in it argument of cōfort the Lord himselfe out of darknes raising vp light vnto his children For euenby this that Sathan so busily and so fearcely assaileth vs it doth appeare that as once helost his possession in vs and was cast out by one more mighty then himselfe which is Chirst so now he findeth no peaceable entrance but a strong mighty resistance that therefore there yet remaineth such part of the former worke he could not hitherto ouerthrow nor shall be able foreuer which is the secret seede of faith still sustained nourished by the spirit of god when we would think it were vtterly extinguished For as the fire when it wrasteleth with the water throwne vpon it ceaseth not till it haue ouercome so this resistance of the spirit against the flesh will not cease vntil the full victory be obtained sathan himselfe troden vnder our feete Neither is there any more sure testimony either of our present deliuerance begun or of our full perfect victorie in time to come then this that by the worde of God we do though but weakly resist the tentations of the enimy continue in the battaile against him mourning in deed traualing vnder the bou● then of afflictiō but yet standing vpright before the enimie so that he cānot fully preuaile against vs much lesse ouerthrow destroy vs. But here one thing must carefully be loked vnto that we be not so far discouraged either with want of feling or ouerborne with desire of that we haue not as we forget what mercy hertofore we haue receiued When Iob so earnestly as on would thinke impatiently wiseth the good