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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	law_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,207	5	9.5096	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68970	Two notable sermons. Made by that worthy martyr of Christ Maister Iohn Bradford, the one of repentance, and the other of the Lordes supper neuer before imprinted. Perused and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunction	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.	1574 (1574)	STC 3500.5; ESTC S106383	58,380	201

swearing dronkennes whoredome couetousnes idlenes c. all such I say shal not nor cannot enter into Gods kingdome but hell fire is prepared for them weeping and gnashing of teeth whereunto alas I feare me very many wyll needes go in that very many wil be as they haue bene let vs euen to the wearing of our toung to the stumps preach and pray neuer so much to the contrary and that euen in the bowels of Iesus Christ as now I besech you all all all and euery mothers childe to repent and lament your synne to trust in Gods mercy and to amende your lyues Now me thinkes ye are somewhat astonied wherby I gather that presently you desire this repentāce that is this sorow good hope and newnes of lyfe The which that you may the rather attaine and get to your comforts as I haue gone about to bee a meane to stir vp in you by Gods grace this desire of repentance so through the same grace of God wyl I go about now to shew you how you may haue your desire in this behalfe And first concerning this part namely sorow for your syns and harty lamenting of the same For this if you desire the hauing of it you must beware y you thinke not that of your selues or of your own freewyl by any meanes you can get it You maye easelye deceiue your selues and mock your selues thincking more of your selues then is seemely All good thinges and not peeces of good thinges but al good things saith S. Iames come from God the father of light If therefore penance be good as it is good then the partes of it be good Frō God therfore do they come and not of our free wyll It is the Lord that mortifieth that bringeth down that humbleth saith the scriptur in sundry places After thou haddest stricken my thigh saith Ieremy I was ashamed Loe he sayth after thou hadst stricken me and therfore praieth he euen in the last words almost he writen Turne vs Lord and we shall be turned The which thing Dauid vseth verye often Wherfore first of al if thou wouldest haue this part of penance as for the whole because it is Gods gift so for this part go thou vnto God make some litle praier as thou canst vnto his mercy for the same in this or like sort Mercifull father of our Sauiour Iesus Christ bicause I haue synned and done wickedly thorow thy goodnes haue receiued a desire of repentance wherto this thy long sufferaunce doth draw my hard hart I beseche thee for thy mercies sake in CHRIST to worke the same repentance in me and by thy spirit power grace so to humble mortify and teare my concsience for my syns to saluatiō that in thy good time thou mayest comfort and quicken me again through Iesus Christ thy dearely beloued Sonne Amen After this sort I say or otherwyse as thou thinckest good if thou wilt haue this first part contrition or sorow for thy sins do the beg it of God thorow Christ And when thou hast asked it as I haue laboured to driue thee from trusting in thy selfe so now I go about to moue thee from flattering of thy self from sluggishnes and negligence to be diligent to vse these meanes folowing Unto prayer which I would thou shouldest fyrst vse as thou canst secondly get thee Gods law as a glas to toote in for in it and by it commeth the true knowledge of synne without whych knowledge there can bee no sorrow For how can a man sorow for his synnes which knoweth not hys synnes As when a man is sycke the fyrst step to health is to know his sycknes euen so to saluation the first step is to know thy damnation due for thy synnes The law of God therfore must be gotten and wel tooted in that is we must looke in it spiritually not corporally or carnally as the outward word or letter doth declare and vtter and so our Sauiour teacheth vs in Mathew expounding the sixt seuenth commaūdements not onely after the outward deede but also after the hart making there the anger of the hart a kynde of murther lusting after an other mans wyfe a kinde of adultery And this is one of the differences betwene Gods law and mās lawe that of this mans law I meane I am not contemnable so long as I obserue outwardli the same But gods law goeth to the roote to the hart condemning me for the inwarde motion allthough outwardlye I lyue most holyly As for example If I kil no mā though in my hart I hate mans law condemneth me not but otherwyse doth Gods lawe And why for it seeth the fountain whence the euil doth spring If hatred were taken out of the hart then loftynes in lookes detraction in toūg and murther by hand could neuer ensue If lusting wer out of the hart curiosity in countenaunce wantonnes in wordes baudy boldnes in body would not appeare In that therfore this outward euyll springes out of the inward corruption seyng Gods law also is a law of liberty as sayth saynt Iames and spirituall as saith s Paule perfectly spiritually it is to be vnderstand if we wyll truly come to the knowledge of our syns For of this inward corruption reason knoweth but litle or nothing I had not knowen sayth Paul that lusting which to reason and to them which are guided only by reasō is thought but a triste I had not knowen sayth he this lusting to haue ben syn if the lawe had not sayd Non concupisces Thou shalt not lust To the knowledge therefore of our syn without which we cannot repent or be sory for our syn let vs secondly get vs Gods law as a glasse to toote in and that not onely literally outwardly or partly but also spiritually inwardly and throughly Let vs consider the hart and so shal we see the foule spots we are stayned withal at lest inwardly wherby we the rather may be mooued to harty sorow and sighing For as s Austen saith it is a glasse which feareth no body but euen looke what a one thou art so it paynteth thee out In the law we see it is a foule spot not to loue the lord our God withal all I say our hart soule power might and strength and that continually In the law it is a foule spot not onely to make to our selues anye grauen Image or similitude to bowe thereto c. but also not to frame our selues wholy after the image whereto we are made not to bow to it to worship it In the law we see that it is a foule spot not onely to take Gods name in vayne but also not earnestly hartely and euen continually to call vpon his name onely to geue thankes vnto him to beleue to publish and lyue his holy word In Gods lawe we see it is a foule spot to our soules not onely to bee an open prophaner of the Saboth day but also not to rest