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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	promise_v	1,757	5	7.3717	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67773	A short and sure way to grace and salvation being a necessary and profitable tract, upon three fundamental principles of Christian religion ... : how man was at first created, how he is now corrupted, how he may be again restored : together with the conditions of the covenant of grace, and to whom the promises of the Gospel belong ... / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y185; ESTC R14649	25,252	24

is mercifull Or in case that will not serve yet they have another shift or rather the enemy of mankind will furnish them with an ●vasion telling them that they have a strong faith good hearts and mean well they repent of their sins have as good wishes and desires as can bee are elected hope to go to heaven as well ●s the best c. But to every of ●hese I answer First true faith purifieth the heart and worketh by love consumeth our ●o ●●ptions and sanctifieth the whole man throughout so that our faith to God is seen in our faithfulness to men our invisible belief by our visi●le life 〈…〉 holiness are as inseparable as life and motion the Sun and light 〈…〉 ice and coldness the sp●ing and greenness the rose and sweetnes● 〈◊〉 and ●ardness cristall and cleerness pitch and foulness hony and sweetness Again faith believeth the threats of the Word together with the promises Now thou who pretendest belief in the promises shew my thy belief in the threatnings For did'st thou believe the truth of those menaces which God hath denounced against unclean coveteous am●itious unjust envious malicious persons and such like sinne●● how du●st thou then so wallow in these sins ●hat if God instead of Hell had promised Heaven as a reward unto them thou couldest not do more then thou dost Why shouldest thou deceive thy self with an opinion of faith when indeed thou believest not so much as the Devill does for hee believs namely the threatnings of the Word and ●rem●les for horror Jam. 2. but thou goest on in sin even mocking at the menaces and in the infidelity of thy heart givest them the ●ve saying no such thing shall befall thee But Invadunt urbem somno vino●u● sepultam when they shall say peace and safety then cometh on them sudden destruction 1 Thes. 5. 3. Though these persecutors of Christ and murtherers of the Lord of life were the Devills children as they were plainly told by tru●h it self John 8. 44. yet they most confidently believed and stiffly maintained that God was their father ver. 41. And to will the wo●st of men in these days such as do nothing but sin and make others sin such as glory in and maintain their sins Again as faith is wrought by Gods Spirit so where it is wrought it brings forth the fruits of the Spirit mentioned Gal. 5. 22. 23. whereas presumption as it is of the flesh so it b●ings forth the fruits of the flesh ver. 19. 20. 21. But it is very easie to believ thinks the sensualist yes but why Satan troubles not such for then hee who begot this presumptious faith in him should be divided against himself Nay Satan confirm● him in this his deceit Besides this is a sure rule that that perswasion only which follows sound humiliation is faith that which goes before i● is presumption And as Ambrose speaks no man can repent of sin but hee that believs the pardon of sin nor none can believe his sins are pardoned except hee hath repented Besides how easie a matter soever thou thinkest it is to believe hee that goes about it shall find it as hard a work to believ the Gospell as to keep the Law and onely God must inable to both and yet so far as wee come short of either so far forth wee have just cause to bee humbled if wee consider how God at first made us and how wofully wee have unmade our selves But Sect. 22. Secondly as for their good hearts and meanings they may think what they will but every wise ●an knows that the outward actions declare the inward intentions A good conversion is proved by a good conversation The●e is no heart made of flesh which at some time or other ●elents not even 〈◊〉 and marble will in some weather stand or drops Men may flatter God with their mouthes and wit● t●ei● tongues dissemble with him when their hearts are not upright with him Psal. 78 3● 37. and indeed they whose words and dee●●s are faulty and evill and yet plead the goodness of their hearts towards God are like malefactors who being convinced of thes● or the like naughtiness by plain evidence to their faces do appeal to the testimony of such persons for their purgation as they know cannot bee found And in case the hearts of such men could bee seen of others as their works and words are their hearts would appear worst of all as they do to God who seeth them Nor is any evill in the mouth or hand which was not in the heart first of all as the stream in the fountain And let a vici●us man boast never so much of his good heart I will as soon believ him that saith he hath the Philosophers stone● and yet lives like a beggar which two hang together like a sick mans dream Wee have good hearts and mean well alass poor ignorant souls for every drop of wickedness that appears in the life there is an ocean in the heart The heart of man is deceitfull above all things and while hee thinks there is no deceit in it even in that hee is most of all deceived S●nners are like that peremptory Sexton that said howsoever the day goes I am sure the clock goes rig●t So that the Spanish Proverb does every way please mee defienda medios demio God defend mee from my self Carnall men are apt to boast of the goodness of their hearts but a mans heart is as arch a traitor as any hee shall meet withall 〈◊〉 trust it too much and know it too little is it fared with Leah Gen. 30 18. and Hazaell 2 Kings 8. 12. 13. and Peter Mat. 26. 33 Luke 22. 32. Mark 14. 29. And those Jews Act. 2. 36. 〈◊〉 all this they will acknowledge in the end yea prove by experience that Heaven is full of good works Hell of good wishes and that the fetters whi●h sin makes it must wear Sect. XXIII Thirdly touching their repentance my answer is True repentance for sin is a turning from every sin to the contrary good In all true repentance is a change both in the judgment from error to tru●h and in the will from evill to good and in the affections from loving evill and hating good to love good and hate evill in the whole man from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God Without which change no repentance no being saved The two main and essentiall parts of repentance are contrition or humiliation and conversion or reformation It is not true repentance except humiliation and reformation go both together for either of these single make but a half or halting repentance An unreformed sorrow is but deformed and a sorrow less reformation is but a very sorry one Humitation without reformation is a foundation without a building and reformation without humiliation is a building without a foundation Judas was grieved for murthering Christ yet no change followed hee fell to murthering of himself It is not possible