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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	create_v	fruit_n	lip_n	2,112	5	9.2614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50251	The summe of certain sermons upon Genes. 15.6 vvherein not only the doctrine of justification by faith is asserted and cleared, and sundry arguments for justification before faith, discussed and answered : but also the nature and the meanes of faith, with the imputation of our sins to Christ, and of Christs righteousness to us are briefly explained and confirmed / preached at Dorchester in New-England by Richard Mather ... ; and now by him published at the earnest request of sundry well-affected and Godly Christians.	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.	1652 (1652)	Wing M1276; ESTC W18271	50,747	60

and to create the fruit of the lips to be peace to the soul Isai 57. 19. Therfore the case of them that want the word of the Gospell must needs be miserable lamentable For there can be no salvation without Christ Acts 4. 12. 1 John 5. 12. nor without faith in Christ John 3. 18 36. Heb 11. 6. and ordinarily there can be no faith without the Gospel but by it Rom 10. 14 17. and therfore where this word is wanting there the people are in a perishing condition Pro 29. 18. and millions of people there are in this condition having none to speak unto them out Starrs trees and the great book of the creatures which is not sufficient for salvation nor for saving faith and therfore such people are without Christ and without God in the world Eph 2. 12. comming into the world know not wherfore and go out of the wor●…d again and know not whither It were well if there were an heart in us to bewayl the case of such people for their misery might have been ours and our mercies theirs They that have the Gospel have great cause to prize it and to be very thankfull for it as for a great ●…le●…sing inasmuch as it is the meanes of faith and so consequently of salvation If wee shall despise it or slight it as the Israelites did Manna or as little children who do but play with their meat and kick it down under their feet it may then be just with God to take it away and that will be a dolefull and most heavy judgment and is often threatned as such See Amos 8. 11. Luke 17. 22. John 12. 35 36. Rev 2. 4. If the word be the means of faith Then it behoovs all them who enjoy the word to take heed they do not live dy without faith For the sin judgment of such will be the more greivo●… even much worse then if they never had the Gospel If they had not had the word they should have had no sin in comparison of what now they have but now they have no cloak for their sin John 15. 22. and therfore the judgment condemnation of such people will be so exceeding just dreadfull that the condition of Tyre Sidon and of Sodom Gomorah shall be more tollerable Math 11. 22 23 24. And hee counted it to him for righteousness Hee that is the Lord who was mētioned before counted that is imputed or reckoned for this word is sometime Englished by one of these words and sometime by another as may appeare by viewing Rom 4. 3 22 23. Gall 3. 6. Iam 2. 23. I●… that is this faith of his this believing in the Lord for righteousness that is unto righteousness that is that by this he might attain righteousness or stand righteous and justified in the sight of God VVhether doth not this text prove that the object of justifying faith is not Christ the promised Messiah or the promise of mercy in Christ but what ever God revealeth and that the act of faith as it justifieth is not of the will in receiving Christ or adhering to Christ but only an assent of the understanding It proveth it not For Abrams faith had respect unto the promised seed in whom all nations should be blessed and so runneth the promise chap 12. 22. 18. this seed must need include the Messiah specially as being the head of all the seed that are blessed and so much is plainly taught in Gall 3. 16. where the seed to whom the promise is made is plainly affirmed to be Christ and if it signifie Christ then doubtless the head not the members only The promise which Abram believed was the Gospel Gal. 3. 8. Now what is the Gospel but the doctrine or glad tidings of salvation by Christ That saying John 8. 56. that Abram rejoyced to s●… Christs day doth shew that Christ was the object of Abrams faith Now from the words he counted it to him for righteousness wee have occasion to consider of three things concerning that great article of faith our justificatiō 1 The Efficient cause therof which is the Lord 2 The Instrumentall cause and that is faith or believing 3 The Formall cause which is accounting reckning or imputing The first of these may be considered in this cōclusion or doctrine That it is the Lord himself that doth justifie or that is the Efficient cause of our justification Rom 3. 30. 8. 30. 33. Gal 3 8. Isai 50. 8. Reason justification is a judiciary act the work of a Iudge pronouncing sentence of absolution upon a man and this appears by this because it is opposed to condemn as Rom 8. 33. Math 12. 37. and so it differs from sanctification which is to make a man really holy by changing his qualityes wheras justification makes only a relative change in a man in respect of state from a state of guiltiness to a state of absolution clearing judicially Now it belongs to God alone to be the Iudg of all the world Gen. 18. 25. Psa. 75. 7. 94. 2. Heb 12. 23. 1 Cor. 4 4. and therfore justificatiō being the act work of God as a judg doth belong to God only Justification either consists in or conteins in it the forgiveness of sins and not imputing of iniquity Rom 4. 4 5. And therfore inasmuch as God only forgives sin Isai 43. 25. Psal 32. 1 2. 2 cor 5. 19. Mark 2. 7. it must need bee that God only doth justifie Therfore a man can not justifie himself Papists teach that a man by his works may justifie himself with that which they call the second justification and wherin they place the merrit of eternal life But the Scripture makes man passive in his justification and that this work is wrought by God himself and by him only So that what Christ spake of honouring of himself Iohn 8. 54. may well be applyed to the matter in hand that if a man Iustifie himself his Iustification is nothing Hence it followeth that justification once obteyned can not be lost A man once justified shall never loose his justified estate nor fall from it For being the work of God wee may say of it as Solomon saith in another case Eccles. 3. 14. it must be for ever When God hath once justified a man he will say as Pilate of his writing what I have written I have written so may the Lord say whom I have justified I have justified it shall not be recalled according to that Jer. 31. 34. their sinns iniquities I will remember 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their sinns may be sough for but they shall never be f●…nd whom I have once pardoned and forgiven Ier. 50. 20. Iustification is one of those gracious gifts of God which are without repentance Rom. 11. 29. And ●…f God do justifie it must need be a great s●… for men to be censorious in judging the servants