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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	aaron_n	faith_n	separate_v	58	3	10.2778	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19306	The shield of our safetie: set foorth by the faythfull preacher of Gods holye worde A. Anderson, vpon Symeons sight, in hys Nunc dimittis. Seene and allowed	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1581 (1581)	STC 572; ESTC S100137	125,541	166

fulnesse of our lyfe perfited in him 2. Cor. 5.16 Heb. 1.2 We doe not in déede beholde Christ nowe anye more after the fleshe or that waye to imbrace him in our armes But he shyneth the beames of his fathers glorye into our ignorante harts and in the bosome of our faythfull brests he maketh his habitation By his holy gospell he sheweth himselfe face to face and not by the infyrmitie of his flesh but by the deuine power of his holy spirite he teacheth vs purgeth vs and pardoneth our sinnes and changeth vs to a lyfe most méete for his holy presence And to be short he is so absent from vs in body that we maye with boldnesse spiritually approch to his grace Heb. 12. Rom. 5.1 set on the right hand of his father in glory Loe this is that christian sight and heauenlye presence that we haue of our Christ And if this cannot worke in vs a wyllingnesse to dye with ioye bicause oure synnes by Christes death purged we shal raigne with him eternally then are we a thousand tymes more harde then the Adamant blinder then the Moules and more vnkinde then the vnnaturall Iewes it is verye significante that Symeon sayth No man saued but by hys owne fayth Because mine eyes hath seene c. In which wordes are layde vp this Emphasis that not other mens fayth could worke this comfort in this good father excepte together his owne eyes in fayth had séene this Babe to be hys sauiour Abac. 2.4 Gal. 3.11 Hebr. 10.37 according to the Prophet Abacuck his saying The iust man shall lyue by his fayth Note he sayth not by the fayth of the Church or by the fayth of another for him but he sayth he shal lyue by his owne fayth For the fayth of an other man cannot saue thée or yet the fayth of the whole church Or that which more is Christ will not saue thée or can his death be thy lyfe vnlesse thou in thine owne hart fyrmely beléeue in him Wherefore let not the Papist longer deceyue thee which teach it sufficient thoughe thou know not what to beléeue if thou yet beléeue as their Churche beléeueth which is the greatest daunger to thy soule that possibly can bée eyther to rest in the later Romishe fayth since the daies of Popery or not to beléeue vpon assured knowledge of Gods promise in the warrant of his word thy selfe For the holy scriptures do condemne al those which themselues effectually beléeue not in christ and promiseth saluation to him that beléeueth 1. Pet. 2.7 To you which beleeue sayth Peter he is precious but to them which beléeue not he is the stone which the buylders refused which stone shal crushe his enemies that beléeue not al to powder 1. Ioh. 3.36 Iohn sayth Hee that beleeueth in the sonne of God hath eternall lyfe But he that beleeueth not the wrath of God abydeth vpon him And Christ our Sauiour Hee that beleeueth in me hath eternall lyfe Againe Ioh. 3.18 He that beleeueth not is condemned already that is to saye it is impossible but he that dyeth not beléeuing shall be damned And to the Gallathians Paule sayth Gal. 3.26 Ye are all the sonnes of God bicause ye haue beleeued in Christ Iesu but as manye as rest in the workes of the lawe are subiect and vnder Gods cursse By this speciall gift in euerye mans owne soule from God is he made the sonne of God and by no other meane is God his father vpon whome he maye call with boldnesse in and by his spirite as the chylde vpon his Parentes and shall be heard For thus the Euangelist sayth As many as beleued in him he gaue them prerogatiue to be the sonnes of God The worde that was preached to Israell in the wildernesse profited them not sayth the author to the Hebrewes bicause it was not mixed with faith in those that heard it yet in the wildernesse God had hys Church Moses Aaron and the rest which beléeued notwithstanding the fayth of this Church could not saue the other Israelits which beléeued not No more can the fayth of the church of God nowe saue them which are not conglutinate by the same spirite in the fayth of Christ loue in him by which the whole body growing together by synewes and ioynts doth encrease to an holye temple in the Lorde But without this coniunction no fayth Ephe. 2.21 no saluation or can the workes of such please God in whose heartes Christ dwelleth not by fayth as sayth the scriptures without fayth it is impossible to please God I denie not Rom. 14.23 Gen. 18. but the fayth and godlynesse of some may temporally bring some benefite to the Infydels as the Cities of Sodome had bene saued if there had bene founde in them but ten iuste persons And for Helias sake the wicked king Achab Iesabel The faythfull may obtayne temporall blessings and bodily helth but saluation is the gift of God to him that beleeueth onely and that persecuting kingdome Samaria had raine to fertyl the soyle which thrée yeares had lyen barren Also the Euangelists report the fayth of them which bare the man taken with Palsye much to profyte his health to whose fayth the Lorde Christ gaue respect and not chiefely their worke and healed the man But to the man he sayde My sonne thy synnes are forgiuen thee This worde sonne approoueth the Palsye man to beléeue in Christ by which fayth his sinnes are forgiuen him as by his bearers fayth his body was healed Luc. 9.8 Mar. 2.3 Mat. 9.1 I also comfortably confesse that the fayth of our father Abraham doth so much profite his posteritie bicause of the couenant of God with him and hys seede after him so as they are imputed to be gods children and that so long as they continue in that couenant But when they degenerate from their fathers fayth Gen. 17. God cutteth of this imputation and that the chylde borne of contrarie parents as the father an Infidell the mother a christian 1. Cor. 7.14 Abac. 2. Ezec. 18.20 I say with Paule that the chylde is holye through the fayth of the beléeuing parent But to iustification it is established that euerye man should be saued by his owne fayth To this sayth Ezechiel The righteousnesse of the righteous shal be vpon him and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be vpon himselfe To this end serueth that whole excellent Chapter to the reading whereof I referre thée The prayers of the faythfull doe much preuayle to those that yet are not fully brought to Christ Yea the ardent zeale of others fayth doth enflame the soules of their brethren to follow their steps in Christ and the prayer of one faythful man doth promise auayle to another for encrease in fayth Ephe. 6.18 19. Phil. 1.19 Wherefore Paule prayeth for all saints and desyreth them to pray for him For by the prayers of the Phillipians he perswadeth the trouble of

mightye hande and outstretched arme delyuer you Whose pacient perseuerance the same Iehouah approoued when moste tryumphantly he caused the senceles seas in the faithfull answere of his merciful promise to obey his voice in the mouth of a man far inferiour to Pharaoh at whose commaundement they became against their nature seruiceable to his people Exo. 14.21 for they reared themselues as a loftie wall on either side and the sincking sandes were turned into a most firme ground and pleasaunt gréene path Hebr. 11.29 for the Israelites safetie in this their moste miraculous passage After whose ariuall on the other shore the saide Sea did returne to her former course and in the sight of the Hebrewes gaue to the Egiptiacall Tiranny his iust rewarde by the hand of God which herein drowned Pharaoh and all his host And déere Reader thou hast no lesse promise Exo. 14.27.28 but much greater to thée being a christian Israelite Namely that by faith thou shalt be deliuered from the power of spiritual Pharaoh the power of darkenes Col. 1.13 Rom. 3.24 bée translated into the kingdome of the Sonne of God in whom thou shalt be iustified and shalt haue forgiuenes of thy sinnes shalt be at peace with God shalt haue Christ thy sanctification iustification and redemption 1. Cor. 1.30 Thy Lord thy peace thy saluation thy light and thy glorie Thy selfe shalt approch the throne of grace with quiet conscience beholden of the father for his blessed and therefore beloued sonne for a citizen of the heauenly Ierusalem Ephe. 2.19 Rom. 8.17 an heire of that kingdome yea a fellowe heire with Christ Iesus And this is that peace which Symeon felt and saw with the eies of his faith when hée saide hée now went to his Fathers in peace But euerie opinion receiued in or of Christ is not this regenerating fayth There is a fayth attributed to the Deuils The Deuils beleeue saith S. Iames but they tremble and quake Iam. 2.19 There is a faith said to be in the hypocrits of the earth but Iames calleth that a dead faith And Paule to Timothy Iam. 2.17 Fides ficta a fained faith a faith all one with the Diuels and of some called an historicall fayth Iames ioyning them together saieth of them thus speaking to the counterfeite Christian Thou delightest in thy selfe and takest pride herein that thou art perswaded that there is but one God and the same thou holdest for thy God against the error of Paganisme which defend many Gods Thou doest this right and hereby thou doest farre excell them but yet art not thou ascended one step from the Deuils fayth who beléeueth euen as much and that Iesus Christ is the holye sonne of God also and the Redéemer of the world But in that he beléeueth God and Christ to be God and cannot beléeue in God that is as Augustine hath it to loue God and to walke in his feare with obedience they do al tremble at this name as the théefe before the Iudge and so do Hypocrites which haue but fictam fidem a fayned fayth Let no man obiect that the godly also doe feare God For it is easily answered their feare in God is coupled wyth fayth and loue in GOD with hope and perseuerance in constant faythfulnesse and obedience to his worde But in Deuils in wicked men and in hypocrits there is nothing but feare and desperation For as they beléeue they loue not they obey not wyllingly wherfore wanting his Spirite they haue no boldnesse they hope not but feare and looke for his anger not for his mercy bicause they cannot but be most cruell against his beloued members But the fayth which Symeon and all the iuste haue in God and Christ is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an opinion True fayth descrybed which leaneth to one parte yet so as he standeth something doubtfull of his side but it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so fyrme stable so sure an assente and consent to the worde of truth by the working of the holy ghost that no doubt can driue vs from our Ancor holde in Christ And this gracious fayth is the gift of God which by the bright beames of his truth in his holye spirite doth not onely shyne and presse into our harts the worde of our saluation and fayth in Christ but doth enflame and transforme them and maketh them of an old substance a newe creature that thus knowing God they loue him as their father they worship and honor him as God they tremble at his worde least they offende such a most louing father they walke in his statuts and ordinances to doe them and put their whole truste in hym and in the worde of his truth though their synne their conscience and Satans malice doe accuse them yea though infynite temptations to the contrary of Gods louing fauour do assault them As that their synnes might alter his good purpose or that their weaknesse in fayth might chaunge hys mynde and loue towards them yet hauing this promise by Symeon 1. Cor. 1.30 1. Pe● 2.24.25 Heb. 9.12 Christ is our peace our light our saluation our glory by Paule our sanctification iustification and redemption by Peter our Byshop and high Priest by whose strypes we be made whole by the Epistle to the Hebrewes our sacrifice which once for all offred hath founde eternall redemption Hebr. 10.26 1. Ioh. 2.2 after whose Oblation there remayneth no more offering for sinne Finally our Mediator and Aduocate and the full reconciliation for our sinnes and the sinnes of the whole worlde yet I say notwithstanding such former assaultes these present promises doe seale vs vp and we conclude by our fayth in Christ after the assured word giuen vnto vs in the Pen of Paule There is no condemnation to them which bee grafte in Christ Iesus Rom. 8.1 which lyue not after the fleshe but after the spirite and we be so stablished by hope that tryumphantly we stande the accusation of Synne Rom. 8.33 34. Satan and Hell saying It is God which iustifyeth who can condemne It is he that is dead yea but which is rysen from death is set at the right hande of God and maketh intercession for vs his spirite teacheth vs to pray and in vs doth worke effectuall suspiration and supplications with hope to receyue moste certainly the loue of God and in this manner with Symeon Ioseph of Aramathea and the rest of Gods elect we daylie wayte for and expect with pacience the redemption of our bodyes Rom. 8.23 Luc. 21.28 that is the day of the last Resurrection And this our liuely fayth hath this loue so conioyned in vs that we do loue our Christ bicause he loueth vs first and walke in the effects therof before him and our brethren 1. Iohn 4.10 through the same his loue and therefore also tryumphantly against Satan Sinne Pope and Hell Desperation and Death we say in hart Who shal seperate vs from