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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	salvation_n	5,162	5	7.3070	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05470	Two sermons viz. 1. A preseruatiue lilie to cure soules. And 2. How to seeke to finde Christ. Preached by that famous and iudicious diuine, Peter Lilie, Doctor of Diuinitie, and sometime fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge.	Lily, Peter, d. 1615.; Lily, Dorothy, d. 1627.	1619 (1619)	STC 15600; ESTC S108559	27,509	75

be baptised In which words diuers things do offer themselues to bee considered and that which I thinke first is necessary is the coniunction of these two namely Faith and Baptisme He that shall beleeue and be baptised must be read without dis-junction and make but one proposition For our Sauiour Christ doth not heere meane that he which is baptised but beleeueth not or that he that beleeueth and is not baptised shall be saued but both are heere ioyned together He that beleeueth and is baptised Betweene these two I meane Faith and Baptisme Christ doth part the causes of Saluation yet let none mis-take me in that I say these are causes of Saluation I doe not say they are principall causes but instrumentall adiuvant secundary inferiour causes which it pleaseth God to vse and sanctifie for the sauing of our soules I doe not say that either both together or any one of them by it selfe is a cause absolutely necessarie to Saluation so that he that wants either one or both must be damned which in the latter member I shall more largely declare but I say they are necessarie in respect of our obedience and necessarie because commanded and therefore if of contempt or grosse or affected negligence we either refuse the one or the other we incurre the displeasure of God and by that meanes eternall damnation In this sence I call them causes and ioyne them both together euen as Christ himselfe doth Hee that beleeueth and is baptised both of them are in their kinde necessary Of the one that is Faith the Apostle sayth Without faith it is vnpossible to please God Hebr. 11.6 Of the other that is Baptisme the Apostle sayth Titus 3.5 it is Lauacrum regenerationis the washing of the new birth and is resembled by Saint Peter 1. Pet. 3.20.21 to the Arke in which Noah and his children were saued The Arke was not a signe onely of the mercy of God but God vsed it as an instrumentall cause to preserue Noah in that great and vniuersall deluge and to it is Baptisme compared The ancient Fathers grounding themselues vpon that and the like places doe speake as becomes them reuerently resembling Baptisme to the red-Sea in which Pharaoh that is the Diuell with all his workes are drowned and the Israelites that is the true Christians regenerate are deliuered from the wrath of God To the Poole of Bethesda into which the Angell descended at a certaine time and stirred the water and who first descended there-into was cured of his infirmitie I say they not onely resemble it but preferre it before this water for that water did onely cure the bodie but this the soule in this water but one could be cured at one time there many are cured into that water the Angell descended at a certayne time and before he had stirred the water it would not worke and therefore it might bee called Fons signatus a Fountaine sealed vp but this water is open and common and floweth plentifully to all Christians according to that prediction of the Prophet Zacharie In that day Zach. 13.1 there shall be a fountaine opened to the house of Dauid and to the house of Ierusalem for sinne and for vncleannesse In that water God did worke by the ministerie of an Angell heere he worketh by the ministery of sinfull men yet is the effect wonderfull neither doth our humility derogate from the power and operation of it I might repeate many other their similitudes to this purpose many speeches they haue which some thinke to be Hyperbolicall and beyond the truth but indeed they are no more then the Scripture teacheth A man may as well ascribe too little as too much to the Sacrament and as the Papists haue erred in Superstition so some perhaps in Prophanenesse to which these our times do too much incline A meane may be held betweene both that is to thinke of these as they are in effect causes and instruments by which Christ doth deriue into our soules the efficacie of his precious bloud He that beleeueth and is baptised shall be saued And this is the first thing I thought meete to be obserued I meane the coniunction of these two Faith and Baptisme But is nothing else will some say required to Saluation Is it sufficient to beleeue and be baptised VVill these two without good-workes bring them that are come to yeares of discretion to heauen God forbid any should think so yet some in former times haue beene of that minde who held that Faith without Workes was sufficient to Saluation and against that heresie Saint Augustine hath written a whole Booke very learnedly Our Aduersaries of the Church of Rome doe ascribe vnto vs this errour and say that we haue reuiued this Heresie wherein their conscience tells them they doe vs wrong It may be you haue heard some say that Faith onely is necessary to Iustification and that is very true but did you euer heare any say that onely Faith was necessary to Saluation I suppose there was neuer any so madde as once to thinke it Bellarmine in this poynt doth vs right who sayth That both they and wee doe hold a necessity of workes though in a diuers sence They hold in workes necessitatem efficientiae a necessitie of the efficacie of workes we holde necessitatem praesentiae a necessitie of the presence of workes In plaine termes the Question betweene vs is not of the necessitie of workes but of the merit and dignity of workes in which there is some difference betweene vs but the necessity of workes is held of both and therefore there is no need to refuse the words he is supposed to be in the wrong which taketh away the necessity of a vertuous life it rather requireth a reall refutation For although it is confessed on both sides I meane of Protestants and Papists that good workes are necessary to saluation yet in eyther Religion many there are who ouerthrow the confession of their faith with the notorious sins of their liues professing they know God but denying him with their workes Tit. 1.16 as the Apostle saith and that is a kinde of indirect and implicite Atheisme How true this is the times doe testifie and I shall easily make knowne yet not without griefe as one that taketh small delight in this discourse and yet not without profit for I see a profitable vse of it I will beginne then with our Aduersaries who in contention do iustify themselues and lay heauy imputations vpon others but as the old saying is Hee that condemnes another ought not himselfe to be faultie Let vs consider then their demeanour Bellarmine amongst other notes of the Church saith that Sanctitas doctrinae Purenesse of doctrine both concerning Faith and Manners is a speciall one and another is Sanctitas vitae Holinesse of life at the least in the authors and founders of their seuerall Orders But if you should measure truth either by some of their doctrine taught or by