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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	age_n	church_n	time_n	2,142	5	3.6322	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41142	Wilfull impenitency, the grossest selfe-murder all they who are guilty of it, apprehended, tryed and condemned in these sermons, preached at Rochford in Essex not long before his death / by ... Mr. William Fenner ...	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1648 (1648)	Wing F712; ESTC R14613	82,808	158

making the world guiltlesse before God I had thought to have sent it to my Lord of Warwicke for his subcisive howers and if you judge it profitable after your perusall of it to commit it unto him from me you shall do well J am sory to hear of such a worthies sicknesse or weaknes Now Elisha the man of God was fallen sick The very words are able to strike through The Lord lend you health and strength peace and comfort and joy it is not only a matter of courtesy to pray for such as you are but of debt our very necessities duties call for it and mine more especially The Lord be mercifull to me and to many in raysing you up and make you plenus dierum and serus in coelum redire that 's all the hurt that I wish you And so I commend you to the word of his power that is able to keep you and rest Yours in the Lord Jesus WILLIAM FENNER To the Christian Reader who desireth to hold fast the forme of sound words in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus and to advance Free-Grace above Free-will MOst admirably wise and fatherly hath been the Lords care of his Churches in all ages and when there were false Prophets under the old Testament the Lord had his Jeremiahs to confute them whom he made a defenced City an Iron pillar and brazen wals against all opposition When the devill stirred up Hymmeneus Philetus and others to undermine the truths of the Gospel in the times of the new Testament the Lord raysed and accomplished his Pauls to confound them also You shall finde when the Churches of Christ are in a wildernesse condition and the serpent casts out of his mouth waters as a floud after the woman that is multitudes of unsound and Hereticall opinions the earth helped the woman and opened her mouth and swallowed the floud which the Dragon cast out of his mouth that is Jesus Christ had those here that did encounter and overthrow all false Doctrine with which the devill by his Agents endeavoured to poyson and destroy the Churches Besides the foure generall councels namely that of Nice when Arrius a Presbyter of Alexandria denying that the Son of God was consubstantiall with the Father and that there was a time when he was not was confuted and truth obtained a victory there God stirring up many learned men to oppose him And in the second that of Constantinople when there was a Macedonius who called the Holy Ghost a creature many were able by the power of truth to confound him And the third when a Nestorius who denyed that the Virgin Mary could be called the Mother of God providence ordered it so that then a councell of learned Bishops and Elders at Ephesus should blast that opinion And when an Eutiches who in a different way from Nestorius who denyed the personall Vnion of the two Natures in Christ would have the humane Nature so swallowed up by the immensity of the Divine nature in Christ that there was onely the Divine Nature in him another councell at Calcedon overthrew him God had variety of champions to contest with the most subtill and prevailing adversaries from hand to hand particularly when there was Manes Manichaei who rejected the old Testament and affirmed that man fell not by voluntary defection but of necessity because mans body was made of the prince of darknesse wherewith Austin was levened before his conversion The Lord had Chrysostome and others to hinder the spreading and prevayling of it When there was an Arrius who denyed the Divinity of Christ there should be an Athanasius raysed to overthrow him When a Macedonius to oppose the holy Ghost then a Basil to break him When a Pelagius to advance Free-will into the Throne of Free-Grace then God would rayse up an Austine that great light of the Church in his time to depose that and to restore this to its crown and dignity This Pelagius was borne in Britan the same day that Austin in Affrick he was the first presumptuous advancer of the pride of Free Will He did not thinke the grace of God to be necessary for the helping of Free Will for good things in every act This was condemned in the councell of Carthage wherein indeed to save himselfe he did aequivocate in the word grace acknowledging a naturall an exciting and after conversion an Assisting grace This Doctrine was likewise condemned in the Synod of Palestina 1200 Years agoe and therin Arminianisme kil'd before it was borne by the strength of that place 2 Tim. 1.9 This Pelagius had his Scholers Julianus and Caelestinus Iesus Christ would not then leave Austin without some Disciples to conflict with those as Chrysostome had his Oecumenius and Theophylact his Pedissequi his followers so was there a Prosper and Hilary Arelatensis to encounter the old M●ssilians and Semi-pelagians in France And when there was a Faustus Regiensis a most subtill adversary A Bishop who did closely defend Pelagianisme in two Bookes of Free-Will The Church should have a Fulgentius and Petrus Diaconus and others to oppose him Yea sentence was then given against Pelagius and Semi-pelagians in the councell of O●ange In the general that their opinions touching free-wil and free-grace were not agreeable to the Catholique faith Further about the yeare 850 one Johannes Scotus not he which wrote upon the Sentences with so much opposition against Thomas Aquinas but an other wrote a Booke against Praedestination which the Church of Leyden confuted with a godly and learned book When Godescalcus a man of the Low-Countries is reckoned in the number of this age about the yeare of our Lord 849. Because he spake of Predestination perilously to wit That those who were predestinated to Life by the decree of Gods predestination were forced to do well and those who were predestinated to condemnation were forced by the decree of God to do evil was resisted by Hincmarus and other learned men This infectious errour Pelagianisme spread into England where it was apt to take the deeper rooting because Pelagius himselfe by Birth was a Britaine But the Lord raysed learned Bradwardine Arch bishop of Canterbury and some others ●o appear in the cause of God and of Free-grace and to fortify the Churches against all Pelagians whom Augustine calls Inimicos gratiae dei and Fulgentius vasa irae dei Afterwards the subtilty of the Serpent insinuated himselfe into the Garden of the Church by the wit and learning of Faustus Socinus another Infaustus Faustus in Poland They who have opportunity to consult Socinus bookes de Ministerio and the Catechismus Cracoviensis a most subtill and dangerous booke shall finde there the seeds of Arminianisme their Helena there to be conceived however Molina and other Popish Authors contend as once the seven Cities did whose Homer was their Media Scientia They will grant a Divina