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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	kindness_n	temperance_n	3,273	5	11.5097	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59622	The rising sun, or, The sun of righteousnesse shining upon the sons of unrighteousnesse a theological sun-dyal wherein is to be seen the rising, motion, influence and manifold operations of Christ upon the soul ... as also the description of the true believer ... as also the highest degrees and full growth and grace are here delineated ... / by John Sheffeild [sic]	Sheffield, John, fl. 1643-1647.	1654 (1654)	Wing S3064; ESTC R30141	166,752	332

believe Christ is a Sunne of Righteousnesse a stone elect and precious to such as believe not he is onely a stone of stumbling and rock of offence 1 Pet. 2. 7 8. The righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all that believe for there is no difference not between believer and unbeliever as if asserting Universal redemption but between a weak believer and strong believer as asserting an equal Justification of all true believers Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth None but such as have the eye of faith have benefit by this Sun as only those who looked up to the Serpent received cure 3. To whom he is made of God wisdome and Sanctification to them he is also righteousness and redemption He is made to us of God Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption We must not pick and chuse take two and leave two As Christs so the Christians garment is made up of four quarters but they must not be divided Many would be content Christ should be Righteousness to them who desire not he should be Wisdom All desire he should be Redemption few care for his being made Sanctification to them But Christ will be all or none As there is a golden chaine of Decrees Rom. 8. 30. Whom God hath predestinated he hath called whom called justified whom justified glorified so that he that looketh to have benefit by the one must bee sure to hold fast all the other So there are four other golden chaines laid downe in Scripture 1. That golden chaine of Graces 2 Pet. 1. 5 Add to your Faith Vertue to Vertue Knowledge to Knowledge Temperance to Temperance Patience to Patience Godliness to Godlinesse brotherly Kindnesse to it Charity 2. Of Beatitudes Mat. 5. 3 4. c. Blessed are the poor in spirit Blessed they that mourn Blessed are the meek c. 3. Of Duties laid downe 1 Thess. 5. 16 17 18. Rejoyce evermore pray without ●easing c. 4. So of Priviledges 1 Cor. 1. 30. Christ is made to us of God wisdom c. Now in all these golden chains hold one hold all break o● lose one lose all 4. Christ is the Sun of Righteousnesse only to those who disclaim all other Righteousness and stick to his I count all but loss and dung that I may win Christ and be found in him not having mine own Righteousness which is of the Law but that which is of the faith of the Son of God the Righteousness of God by faith We must make loss of our Righteousness durus sermo or it will lose us and make dung of our Righteousness foetidus sermo defiling the Tophet of our Sacrifices or it will defile us Dung might do well in the field not in the streets in the streets better then in the house in the house better then in the Church and on the Altar It makes a bad perfume an ill sacrifice therefore God commanded the dung and skin of the beast sacrificed should be carryed out of the Sanctuary and burnt in the field Our Righteousness and Goodness may extend to men not to God may benefit the Commonwealth but not fit for a Sacrifice It is all but skin and dung which we must carry and burne without the Camp In this sense that may pass for Orthodox Bona opera sunt perniciosa ad salutem If I should wash my selfe with snow water said Job and make my hands never so clean yet thou shalt plunge me in the ditch and mine owne cloathes shall make me be abhorred Mordecai might not come into the Kings Court in sackcloth nor we into Gods in our owne Humiliations nor the fairest virgins come into the same Kings presence till besides their own native beauty they had been purified according to the Kings appointment The Priests were to put off their own and put on the holy Garments whensoever they came into Gods presence Kings suffer no Money to go in their Dominions but what hath their own Stamp God will be paid in no Coyn but Christs He that ran to the City of Refuge was to leave all houses and Castles of Strength and only abide in his Sanctuary if taken out of it he might dy Over the Ark was the Mercy Seat over the Mercy Seat a covering Law and Works need Mercy Mercy needs a covering that Gods Mercies which are over all his owne works may cover even our best works 5 If Christ be the Sun of Righteousnesse let us as followers of him bee Stars of Righteousness Righteousnesse makes one man more excellent then his neighbor It is the glory of God called oft the Righteous God of Christ he called Jesus Christ the Righteous of the Holy Ghost whose fruit is in all Goodness Righteousness and Truth It is the paving of Gods Church The Kingdome of God is Righteousness and Peace The members of the Church Militant must be all Righteous Isaiah 60. 21. And all in the Church Triumphant are called the Righteous Mat. 25. 37. Righteousness is Gods clothing our Ornament the Priests Vesture Psal. 132. 9. the Brides attire Rev. 19 8. The Christians Armor on the right hand and on the left 2 Cor. 6. 7. But we must distinguish here there is a twofold Righteousness 1. Dangerous 2. Safe 1. There are four kinds of Righteousness which are dangerous 1. The seeming Righteousnesse which is not real but counterfeit Simulata Sanctitas duplex iniquitas Sincerity commends Sanctity and Truth Righteousness the one is the warp the other the woof of the Christians garment if the plague of Hypocrisie had taken the warp or the woof the whole garment or web was to bee burnt 2 Semi-Righteousness which is partial not universal In this sense true Righteousness must not be single but double to God and man Moses came with the two Tables in his two hands Our Armor of Righteousness must be an the right hand to God and left to man The Pharisees were double hearted and double tongued and but one handed Professors paid Tyth Mint Rue and Cummin their petty Tythes but kept back the greater Tythes the sheaf of Mercy Truth Righteousness 3 The desaying Righteousness which was as a morning cloud or the morning dew growing lesse and lesse till the cloud is vanished and the dew dryed up not as the morning light which shines more and more to a perfect day This hath many a terrible Threat denounced against it more then any unrighteousness See Ezek. 3. 20. and 18. 24 26 27. 4. Thy Self-conceited-Righteousness or any Righteousness of thy owne confided in Our Saviour in the Parable of the Pharisee and Publican doth cut down all this Righteousness He spake the Parable to such as trusted in themselves that they were Righteous They were their owne Creed and their owne Saviours The like Ezek. 33. 13. When I say to the Righteous he shall surely live if he trust in