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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	know_v	8,213	5	4.2899	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85829	A mistake, or misconstruction, removed. (Whereby little difference is pretended to have been acknowledged between the Antinomians and us.) And, Free grace, as it is held forth in Gods Word, as wel by the prophets in the Old Testament, as by the apostles and Christ himself in the New, shewed to be other then is by the Antinomian party in these times maintained. In way of answer to some passages in a treatise of Mr. John Saltmarsh, concerning that subject. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of Divinity and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing G323; Thomason E333_22; ESTC R200760	44,396	50

les upon groundles grounds we may wel say of such perswasions as himself elswhere of desires b Pag. 28. Who is there that have not a desire All the World of common believers are carried on by this principle of a desire and are they not by the like principle of a perswasion 2. c Page 37. Men cannot believe too suddenly d Acts 8.13 Yes they may believ too sodainly as did Simon the sorcerer sure too soon and if too soon then too sodainly presume and be perswaded they may of Christs love if that be faith 3. e Page 98. None can beleev too hastily on Jesus Christ Tru. but to beleev on Jesus Christ and to have some perswasion more or les of Christs love are divers things 4. f Ibid. We ought not to stay the exercise of our Faith for repentance or humiliation or any other grace As much as to say beleev we may the we do not repent directly contrary to g Mark 1 15. Christs own and h Acts 20.21 his Apostles method Yea but can we have tru faith then without repentance and without any other grace 5. i Page 92. None ought to qestion whether they beleev or no. Yet the Apostles incite men to try their faith and the sincerity of it both k 2 Cor. 13.5 Paul and l James 2.14 18 20. James 6. m Page 97. In the Gospel all are immediately called to beleev To day if ye wil heare his voice Were they called on so in the Gospel and were they not called on in like manner under the Law I suppose those words were the n Psalm 95.7 Psalmists before they were the o Heb. 3.7 Apostles And are not men called upon in the Gospel to repent immediately as wel as to beleev p Acts 17.30 Paul was mistaken sure if it were not so and our Saviour himself saith q Mark 1.15 Repent and beleev 7. r Page 93. Christ commands to beleev and this is his commandement that we should beleev in the name of his Son Jesus Christ Now commands of this nature must be obeyed not disputed Gods servants do not reason their duty out first with themselves but fall to doing as they are commanded And doth not Christ command ſ Matth. 4.17 to repent as wel as to beleev yea doth he not t Mark 1.15 command first to repent and then to beleev for in that order his words run And had this Autor but writ or red out the text he cites he had found somewhat more then faith in it u 1 John ● ●● This is his command that we beleev in his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another as he gave us commandement But why commands of this nature is not the commandement of repentance and charity and conversion and humiliation of the same nature with that of faith and belief or are there any of Gods Commandements then that because not of this nature may be disputed and not obeyed for some such matter do these terms of restriction import to wit that some of Gods commands are of that nature that they must be obeyed and not disputed others of that nature that they may not be obeyed but disputed No servant indeed of God ought to reason his duty why God should command him to do this or that either with God or with himself but when he doubteth what it is that God enjoyneth him he may x Rom. 12.2 Eph. 5.10 examine and search what the good will of God is that he may not be mistaken in it and so think that he hath done what he should when he hath done nothing les like those that y John 16.2 thought they did God good service when they did that that he utterly abhorred and when they have done what they supposed they should do they may without wrong or disparagement to their Master unles the Apostle were mistaken z Gal. 6.4 try and examine their work whether it were so done as it should be Yea but saith this Autor 8. a Pag. 95. We ought no more to question our faith which is our first and foundation grace then we ought to question Christ the foundation of our faith 9. b Pag. 93. I find not any in the whole cours of Christs preaching or the disciples when they preached to them to beleev asking the qestion whether they beleeved or no or whether their faith were tru faith or no. I find one saying c Mark 9.24 I beleev Lord help mine unbelief but not Lord whether do I believ or no and d Luke 17.5 Lord increase my faith but not Lord whether is this tru faith or no It would be a strange qestion to ask the Master of the feast whether his dainties were reall or a delusion would not such a question disparage him for a sorcerer So in the things of the Spirit to be over-jealous of the truth of them as many tempted poor souls are doth not become the faithfulnes of Jesus Christ Why Faith should be called the first and foundation grace I know not tho e See Robinsons O●●●rva o●s Chap. 10 § 4. many of our Divines so speake I suppose with f See Pembel of Grace and Faith p. 7. 12. others and without prejudice to any of contrary judgement that as there is the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. de trac cohib seed and spawn of all sin together in mans heart from the time of his naturall birth so there is the seed of all grace sown together in mans soul at the very first instant of his spirituall new birth and that faith is a branch of sanctification as all other graces of the like nature are But to let that pas a man may qestion his faith and yet not qestion Christ for Christ may be Christ tho this or that party have no share in Christ or to use his description of faith be not perswaded more or les that Christ loves him a man tho he qestion not the foundation it self yet he may qestion whether he have built on it or beside it and so whether that be a foundation unto his building or no. And I make no qestion but that many that pretend to believ yea that are perswaded they do so and wil not easily be beaten of from that their perswasion and stick not to compare for belief with the best yet had need to have their faith tried and may wel have it qestioned as wel others as by themselves Yea we find in Scripture examples and instances of such as might wel have qestioned whether they beleeved aright or no and whether the faith they made profession of were tru or no. g Acts 8.13 ●3 Simon the forcerer sure might have done wel to qestion and try the truth of his faith nor might those resembled by h Luke 8.13 the seed sowen in the rockie ground but wel have done the like by