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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	41,079	5	6.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02885	The catechisme, or manner how to instruct and teach children and others in the Christian faith appointed to bee read in all the lands and dominions of the late right and mightie prince, Frederike, countie palatine of the Rhein, one of the electors of the Holy Empire, and duke in Bauier / newly translated out of Latin and Dutch into Englishe.; Heidelberger Katechismus.		1578 (1578)	STC 13029; ESTC S3764	26,578	74

abide for euer Question What meanest thou by the communion and felowship of saintes Answere First that all and euerie one that beleeueth are in common partakers of Christe and of his good déedes as his members and parts of his body and then that euerie man ought willingly readely and carefully to bestowe the giftes which hee hath receyued to the common profite and health of all men Question What beléeuest thou of the forgiuenes of sinnes Answere That GOD for the satisfaction or full recompence that Christ hath made hath put out the remembraunce of my sinnes and also of that my crooked nature and wickednesse wherewith I must fighte all my lyfe time and that hee will freely giue vnto mee the righteousnes of Christ so the I shall not come at any time to iudgement to be condempned Question What comfort hast thou by the rysing againe of the flesh Answere That not onely my soule after that it shall departe from the bodie shall streight way be taken vp vnto Christe her head but also that this my fleshe raised vp by this power of Christ shal be ioyned againe vnto my soule shall be made like vnto the glorious body of Christ Question What comfort takest thou of the article of euerlasting life Answere That for as much as I féele alreadie the beginning of euerlasting life in my hearte it shall afterwarde come to passe that after this life I shal come to full and perfect blessednesse wherein I may praise God for euer which blessednes neither eye hath séene nor eare hath hard neither the thought of man is able to reach vnto Question But when thou beleuest all these thinges what profite hast thou thereby Answere That I am righteous in Christ before God and an heire of euerlasting life Question Howe art thou rightuous before God Answere Onely by faith or beléefe in Iesus Christ in somuch that although my concience did accuse me that I haue sinned grieuously against all the commaundements of God and haue kepte perfectly neuer a one of them am also readie and disposed yet still to all euill yet for al that so that I can receiue all these good déeds of Christ by a true faith of my mind the perfecte satisfaction or amends making the righteousnesse and holynesse of Christe is counted and giuen vnto me by the only mercy of God euen as though I had neuer doe any sinne neither any spot shoulde cleaue vnto mee and furthermore as though I had fulfilled in mine owne person the obedience whiche Christ hath fulfilled and performed for me Question Why doest thou holde that thou art made righteous by faith alone Answere Not because I doe please God with the worthinesse of my faith but because the amendes making or satisfaction righteousnesse and holinesse of Christ are my righteousnesse before god I cannot take holde thereof and apply the same vnto me by any other means then by faith alone Question Why are not our good workes accounted righteousnesse or at the least some parte of righteousnesse before God Answere because that righteousnes that must stande faste before the iudgement of God must be in all pointes perfect and agréeing with the word of God and all our good workes euen the most holy perfectest workes that we do in this life are vnperfecte and defiled with sinne Question Howe doe our good workes deserue nothing when as God doth promise that hee will giue a rewarde for them both in this life and in the life to come Answere That rewarde is giuen not of deseruing but of fauour Question Doth not this learning make men to be carelesse Godlesse and of a loose life Answere No for it is not possible but that they that are grafted into Christe through faith shall bring forth good and thankful fruites Of the Sacramantes Question THen séeing that onely faith maketh vs partakers of Christ of his good déedes from whence commeth this faith Answere From the holy Ghost who kindleth it in our heartes through the preaching of the Gospell and strengtheneth the same by the vsing of the Sacramentes Question What are the Sacramentes Answere They are holy signes and seales set before our eyes ordeyned of God for that cause that by them he might open vnto vs and settle or confirme more largely the promise of the Gospell that is to witte he giueth fréely forgiuenesse of sinnes and life euerlasting not onely to the number of beléeuers but to euery one that beléeueth for the onely sacrifice of Christ which he made perfect vppon the crosse Question Then whether do both the worde and Sacraments tend to that end that they may leade our faith vnto the sacrifice of Christ fully ended on the crosse as vnto the ground of saluation Answere It is so in déede for the holy Ghoste teacheth by the Gospell and assureth vs by the Sacramentes that all our saluation standeth in the onelye sacrifice of Christe offered for vs vppon the crosse Question How many Sacraments hath Christ ordeined in the newe testament Answere Two Baptisme and the holy supper Of Baptisme Question HOwe art thou warned and assured in Baptisme that thou art partaker of that onely sacrifice Answere Because Christe commaunded the outwarde washing putting to this promise that I am assuredly washed by his bloud the holy Ghost frō al the vncleannes of my soule that is from all my sinnes as I am outwardly washed with water wherby all the filthines of the body is scowred away Question What is it to be washed with the bloude and spirite of Christ Answere It is to receiue of God forgiuenesse of our sinnes freely for Christes bloude sake which he shed for vs in his sacrifice vpon the crosse and also to be made newe men by the holy Ghost and by his making of vs holy to be made members of Christ that thereby we may die from sinne more and more and may liue holily and vnblamedly Question Where promised Christe that hee would so surely wash vs with his bloud and spirite as we are washed outwardlye with the outwarde water of Baptisme Answere In the xvi of saint Marke where as he first ordeined Baptisme whose wordes are these Goe and teach all nations and Baptise them in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy Ghost And he that will beléeue and be baptised shall be saued but he that will not beléeue shal be dampned and this promise is rehearsed again wheras the scripture nameth Baptisme the bath of the newe birth and washing away of sinnes Question Is not the outwarde baptising with water the washing away of our sinnes Answere It is not for onely the bloude of Christ maketh vs cleane from all sin Question Then why doth the holy Ghost call baptisme the bath of the newe birth and washing away of