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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	godliness_n	kindness_n	temperance_n	5,159	5	12.0879	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10052	Prælium & præmium. The Christians warre and rewarde A sermon preached before the Kings maiestie at VVhitehall the 3. of May. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge, and chapleyn in ordinarie to the prince	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1608 (1608)	STC 20298; ESTC S113692	18,212	36

hath caused the Romaine faction to traduce vs for a solyfidian profession as if we did pluck vp good works as weeds and cast them out of dores which how much contrarie to our profession it is anie indicious ingenuous maie vnderstād So we that hold this against mē Angels that a true effectual liuely faith doth onlie iustifie so that we remoue not works from faith but works from iustifying We grant works to bee vta regni non causa regnandi Aug. Aquin. Hil. Origen as Austine speaketh and to be required necessitate praesentiae non necessitate efficientiae for as Hilary in his Comment vpon Math. teacheth Fides sola iustificat and S. Austen on the 4. of the Rom. fides sola mundat and as Origen on the same Chapter fides sola sufficit But then they replie out of S. Iames yee see saith the Apostle that of works a man is iustified and not of faith onlie Yea but saith S. Paule we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the worke of the Lawe To reconcile both which places I saie that as we are iustified by faith without the works of the Law so by the works of the Law must our faith be iustified So that there is one righteousnesse imputed another righteousnesse excercised there is a iustice of iustification and a iustice of testification the one acquiteth before God the other approueth before men Paule speaketh of the former of these two Iames of the later The one establishing a real Christian iustifying faith Aquin. the other confuting a false fained divelish faith Aquinas in this one distinction ending this Christus iustificat effectiue fides iustificat apprehensiue opera iustificant declaratiue our works by faith faith by Christ doth iustifie vs. Our workes maie claime a part in our faith but not in our iustifying for in that great act of Cāceling the handwriting acquiting the conscience pacifying Gods anger and presenting vs blamelesse before Gods holy eies faith is wholie and solely imploied and our works not claiming anie part therein I speake not this to stoppe the blessed fountaine of good works I know that he that hath proclaimed of Mary Magdalen wheresoeuer this Gospel shal be preached mention shal be made of this woman he hath also promised that hee that shall giue to one of the lest the verie least gifte a Cup of cold water in his name shal not want their reward And therefore if any haue beene to busie in this kinde I say to such why cause ye the people to staie from their workes get ye to your burdens laie vpon the people the number of workes which they did in the beginning diminish nothing thereof for they be idle let them worke and worke continue in working that when Christ commeth to iudgment he maie finde them working and saie good servants and faithful yee haue beene faithfull in a little I will make you rulers over much enter into your masters ioy Let the vse of this doctrine mooue you al to consecrate your external and internal Vse inward outwarde actions vnto God that ye maie shew forth the vertue of him that hath called you if yee haue onlie outwarde sanctity ye deceiue others if only inward you deceiue your selues if neither inward nor outward ye deceiue God But be ye not deceiued God is not mocked S. Peter proueth that if temperance patience godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and loue be in you you shall neither be idle nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of Christ 2. Pet. 1.8 Amor Dei saith Gregorie otiosus non est operatur magna si est si operari renuerit amor non est where the loue of God is it is not idle and where it is idle it is not Be earnest zealous religious and be ye so religiouslie zealous that you maie continue to the end for Nemini palma datur priusquam cursus conficiatur therefore God required not a working only but a cōtinuing perseuering keeping to the end For the end of that shal be rewarded O beloued shal not wee continue Tantum boni in bono quantum mali in malo shall the drunkard continue so long as his longues last the adulterer so long as his loines last the glutton while his skin the prowd man while his purse the wicked man while his life and shal not we continue To the ende that you maie continue to the ende Remember that God in his Arithmetique requireth Multiplicatiō not Substraction in his iournies progreds not regredi in his Philosophie motum velociorem in fine quam in principio Mistake me not I saie he requireth motum velociorem not violentiorem for I know violent motions be vnnatural and yet there haue beene latelie so many violent motions in our Church that had not the diuine gubernation of our primū movens restrained the heat of inferiour Spheres our Church had beene on fire the Clerolaicall presbiterie had brought among vs a Cyclopical anarchy But I need not to bring these in publicke Theophilact vpon Luke obserueth that Lady Philautia Lady selfe loue was maried to the Pharisie in the Gospel Theoph. in Luk. The Pharisie I am sure is dead shee was then left a widdow The Anabaptists Brownists Barronists and Humorists are in competition yet for her The Presbiterie is corriual with them they much torture themselues in the suit we are not much troubled with them and I hope we shal be lesse I come not hither to trample them if there be anie thing good in them I honor it the exorbitancie I pitty I would they would remēber that as knowledge without zeale is not religion so zeale without knowledge is not discretion They would not then be so violent and virulent Our motions beloued they must not bee violent as these but natural it must bee a perpetual motion to the end we maie stretch out our selues but not out stretch our selues runne but not ouerrunne wee must continue in a ciuil sober sanctified course runing our race fighting our fight til wee haue finished our course we shal be sure to finde help in running comfort in cōtinuing ioye in obtaineing a reward in triumphing though al the world bee against vs yet wee shal bee as Mount Syon that shal not bee remoued as Socrates whoe neuer changed countenance or as the Cypresse tree which neuer changeth colour Troubles maie assault the godly but neuer insult ouer them they shall haue a refection in their affliction and Consolation after desolation post praelium praemium and so J come frō praelium to praemium my second part I will giue him power ouer nations were there not greater reward for delightinging in the Lord then the delight of that delight the ioie of that ioie ● Pars. the plesure of that pleasure it were sufficient dilectionis nulla maior expetenda est remuneratio quam ipsa dilectio saieth leo But behold the bountifulnesse mercy liberalitie munificens of our good god hee inciteth and