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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	grace_n	work_v	7,291	5	7.3947	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19747	A protestation against popery by way of a confession of Christian religion collected for the benefit of private friends	I. D., fl. 1607.; Dunster, John, attributed name.	1607 (1607)	STC 6172; ESTC S117486	16,972	41

I haue redeemed thee Reioice yee heavens for the Lorde hath done it showt ye lower parts of the earth burst forth into praises ô ye mountaines ô forrest and every tree therin for the Lord hath redeemed Iacob and will be glorified in Israell I beleiue that God J doe not say approued or suggested or furthered but permitted and directed and J may truly say willed and ordeined the fall of Adam that therby he might take occasion to manifest his glory that in two respects 1 In erecting a consistorie and tribunall for his iustice 2 Jn exposing to the view of all men the inexhaustible treasure of his rich mercy or that J may speake in the words of a prophet In opening of a fountaine of mercy to the house of Dauid and to the Inhabitants of Ierusalem and to all the Israel of god for sinne and for vncleannes Concerning the first J confesse that there can no other reasō be assigned of the reiection of the wicked but that of Christ in the Gospell Etiam pater quia sic placuit tibi or to speak to the capacity of the ignorāt but the alone absolute wil of God ordeining and as J may so speak adiudging to distruction the wicked before they were presēted vpon the stage of the world or had done either good or evill For hath the potter power of a lump of clay to make a vessel to dishonour and shall not the almighty Iehouah by his vnlimited transcendent power ordeine vessells of wrath for the euill day and for destruction Seing he is the lord in the parable of Matthew who said Annō licet mihi quod volo facere in meis yet againe J confesse that God condemneth not into hell any man but for sinnes and trespaces for I hold this to be a true position in diuinity that sinne is not the cause of reiection yet may be and indeed is the meritorious and impulsiue cause of damnation wherefore whosoever thou art that settest thy face against heauē openest thy mouth in blasphemies against God lay thy hand vpon thy mouth and look back vnto the fall of Adam and consider what thou broughtest with thee frō thy natiuitie and from thy fathers house Doe not censure God in thy blasphemous thoughts as if vpon lust only and not of deserued iustice he did award sentence of condemnatiō against thee and J could also wish that many men would be more sparing to scann this doctrine chose rather to admire and magnifie then strictly to examine by the Canon of our reason the secret and hiddē will of God saying with St. Paul ô the deepnes both of the wisdome and knowledg of God how vnsearchable are his iudgments and his waies past finding out And with St. Augustine Disputare vis mecum mirare mecum et exclaema ô altitudo Ambo consentiamus in pauore ne in errore pereamus Concerning the second I beleue that all men being infected from Adams sinne not only with imputatiue guilt as Pighius would haue it but by naturall corruption also as S. Paule avoucheth haue iust cause inhering and residing in them at their birth for which they should be reiected of God and left weltering in their filthy blood to the contempt of their person yea to be sent into hell to haue their originall impietie expiated with brimstone but that God for the glorie and riches of his mercy being loath to wreak his fury in the generall perdition of all mankind not of foreseene either woorkes or faith but of his good pleasure and only meere mercy hath called some out of the cursed estate of al mankind on whom to bestow fauout and the kingdome of his loue ordaineing them in his secret c●…unsell to be Citizens with the Angels of the heauenly Ierusalem and heires of heauen coheires with Christ And doth call them at due time some at the third hower and some at the eleventh if not outwardly all by his word yet inwardly all by the hidden vertue and efficatious power of his holy spirit out of the power of darcknes to be of the houshold of God and in the bosome of the Church there to be consecrated by Baptisme nourished at the Lords table instructed by the word gouerned by his spirit and euen then he bestoweth vpon them his Beloued with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he giueth remission both of sinnes and punishment and all the benefits and meritts not of his passion only but of his incarnation also and hath giuen vs the hand of faith to reach and apply them vnto our selues yea to owne and possesse them as truly as if ours not by imputation onlie but originally by inhaesion so that before God all the company of the faithfull are accounted as onlie one Numericall body with Christ for the spirit of God by his sanctifying power by little and little doth worke away the old man of our corruption and doth put on vs a new creature making vs reallie partakers of the substaunce of the flesh yea of the whole person of Christ and his proper ornaments and graces as righteousnes and sanctification The which great blessing of our every way vndeserued redemption when I seriously revolue with my selfe I cannot but break forth into praise in the words of Zachary Blessed be the Lord God of Israel because he hath visited and redeemed his people etc. and vse those words of admiration otherwise applied I confesse in the book of Numbers According vnto this time it shall be said of Iacob and Israel what hath God wrought Man hauing receiued these rich fauours of God in his creation and redemption hath nothing charged vpon him for his tribute but only to shew a good faithfulnes to adorne his christian profession and to be carefull to shew forth good workes Wherfore I confesse vnto the glorie of God that every one of Gods children which hath his sinnes washed away in the bloud of the Lamb hath it not left vnto him as Arbitary but hath a necessitie laid vpō him to doe good works and that in these respects following 1. In respect of God it being his will and commandement that they should be done by such our obedience to testifie our thanckfulnes for his great mercies of Creation and Redemption 2 In respect of our selues that we by these fruits of Sanctification may be led backward to a certainty of our Iustification effectual Vocation Electiō so finding our names written in the book of life may be perswaded Certitudine fidei cui nō potest subesse falsū of our future glorificatiō 3. In respect of others 1. Ne quis de nobis conqueri possit Philip. ca●… 2 2. That other men seeing our good workes may be allured to glorifie our father which is in heauen to saie as the Gentiles to the Iewes in the prophesie of Zachary Ambulabimus vobiscum for we haue hard that God is with you This truth beeing alwaies resolued on that our best workes are not perfit