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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	evil_a	good_a	indifferent_a	2,973	5	9.5052	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10964	The general session conteining an apologie of the most comfortable doctrine concerning the ende of this world, and seconde comming of Christ, written by Thomas Rogers. The first part, wherein for the comfort of the godlie is proued not onely that God wil, but also that he doth iudge this world.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1581 (1581)	STC 21233.3; ESTC S106670	65,044	146

I neuer finde that à restoring shalbe made of things either absolutely good or absolutely euil but of things indifferent For neither can virtue bee turned into vice nor vice into virtue trueth cannot become falsehoode nor falsehoode become trueth No theie cannot degenerate in anie sort from their verie natures And therefore à restitution cannot be made of them as though theie had changed either into others nature But man for that being left in his owne handes to chuse either good or euil he left that good was and followed the contrarie hee must be restored vnto his first integritie and the creatures which haue serued to the lust of man theie shalbe renued Thirdlie and last of al the end of the iudgement which theie faine is That the wil of God maie be accomplished in earth as in heauen The grossenes of the former mer pointes maie palpablie be perceaued and yet theie wil seeme more blasphemouslie wicked when the impietie of this last clause is discouered These thinges come to passe saie the Familie That the wil of God maie be accomplished in earth as in heauen Wherebie as I nowe sit me thinkes theie imagine verie baselie and grosselie of the euent of this iudgement Saint Paul saith When al thinges shalbe subdued vnto him meaning Christ thē shal the sonne also himselfe be subiect vnto him that did subdue al thinges vnder him that God maie be al in al. That God maie be al in al is the euent of this iudgement saith Paule that the wil of God maie be accomplished in earth as in heauen saie the Familie Thus are the Scriptures and the Familie of Loue cleane contrarie not in this point onelie but in the other points beside For the Scripture saith That in à momēt in the twinkling of an eie iudgemēt shalbe the Familie make it either euerlasting or of long continuance saie that Now it is The scripture testifieth y t al mē and other creatures shalbe restored the Familie restraine it vnto the Lie in his lieing being and to the truth of which there is no mention in the Scripture The scripture maketh nothing capable of euerlasting felicitie but the obedient seruantes and sonnes of God the Familie make virtue capable both of the same of damnation too as though virtue could be contrarie vnto virtue that is Trueth vnto Righteousnesse or Righteousnesse vnto Trueth Finalie the Scripture proueth the ende of the iudgement to be that God maie bee al in al the Familie wil haue it that the wil of God maie be accomplished in Earth as in heauen that is that theie maie leade à life answerable vnto the forme which H.N. hath prescribed in this present worlde For proofe of which my wordes I could cite manie places both out of the Prophecie of the spirite of Loue and out of the Prouerbes of H. N. and also out of the spiritual land of peace but for al heark what in his Euangelie he doeth saie Beholde nowe in This present daie is the Scripture fulfilled and according to the testimonie of the Scripture the raising vp the resurrection of the Lordes dead commeth also to passe Presentlie in this same daie through the appearing of the comming of Christ in his maiestie Which resurrection of the dead seeing that the same Is come vnto vs from Gods grace we doe likewise this present daie to an Euangelie or ioieful message of the kingdome of God and Christ publish in al the world vnder the obedience of the Loue In which resurrection of the dead GOD sheweth vnto vs that the time is Now fulfilled that His dead or the dead which are fallen à sleepe in the Lorde rise vp in This daie of his iudgement and appeare vnto vs in godlie glorie which shal from hence-forth liue in vs euerlastinglie with Christ and raigne vpon earth Were it my minde to stande vpon this place of H. N. I could easilie proue moe curssed errours in the same than it containeth lines but I hasten vnto other matters I alleage it in this place onelie to shewe that he teacheth happines to bee naught els but à pretended righteousnes in this present worlde and that such as be risen-againe from the dead and enioie felicitie doe liue and raigne vppon earth Then by their owne wordes if the iudgement be come if the dead be raned if happinesse bee attained they shal neuer be partakers of the fruites of the second resurrection nor of those thinges which eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard nor heart conceiued prepared for such as loue God For they are happie alreadie in their owne opinions in mine theie are of al men the most miserable and that partlie because they are altogether destitute both of faith without which it is impossible to please God and also of Hope without which they cannot bee saued For Faith is the grounde of thinges that are hoped for and the euidence of things that are not seene Which thinges being once seene and attained Faith cesseth and hope vanisheth-awaie For howe can à man hope for that which he seeth But if we hope for that wee see not we do with patience abide for it They therefore being come vnto the top of blessednesse haue banished-awaie al Faith Hope and feare of God Maruel then I wil no more whie they cal themselues the familie of Loue neither whie they so highlie commend Loue sayeng of those three virtues Faith Hope and Loue the chiefest is Loue neither whie they wil needes be caled not the householde of Faith but the Familie of Loue for I haue them nowe They are come forsooth vnto the third forme and become capitanes in the schoole of Christ they are past Faith and Hope and are come vnto Loue which is the chiefest wherebie they are like Angels what saie I like Angels Theie are Godded with God or incorporated with God in al Loue and are consubstantiated or conformablie vnited as one man of God in God Especialie I account them of al men the most miserable for that theie take drosse for golde miserie for happinesse this life for à blessed life earth for heauen yea theie dreame or doate rather that theie see God not through à glasse darkelie but face to face and knowe him not in parte but as theie are knowen and are in such à state wherein theie laugh alwayes and neuer weepe liue alwaies and neuer die alwaies reioice and neuer bee sadde alwaies merrie and neuer sorrowful in pleasure alwaie and neuer in paine For that is y e state of an happie life And yet who seeth not that they liue wretchedly as sinners and die like men to speake no worser of the ends which commonlie they haue Nowe by what auctoritie of scripture doth H. N. proue that the iudgement is nowe for that would be considered His principal places be taken out