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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	conceive_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	15	3	7.7527	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27107	The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author	Bayly, Lewis, d. 1631.	1695 (1695)	Wing B1502; ESTC R29026	286,386	487

by which God doth indeed whatsoever he will and hindreth whatsoever he will not have done Psal. 115. 3. 5. Majesty is that by which God of his own absolute and free authority reigneth and ruleth as Lord and King over all Creatures visible and invisible having both the right and propriety in all things as from whom and for whom are all things as also such a plenitude of Power that he can pardon the offences of all whom he will have spared and subdue all his Enemies whom he will have plagued and destroyed without being bound to render to any Creature a reason of his doing but making his own most holy and just Will his only most perfect and eternal Law From all these Attributes ariseth one which is God's soveraign blessedness or perfection Blessedness is that perfect and unmeasurable possession of joy and glory which God hath in himself for ever and is the cause of all the bliss and perfection that every creature enjoys in its measure There are other Attributes figuratively and improperly ascribed unto God in the Holy Scriptures as by an Anthropomorphosis the members of a man eyes ears Nostrils mouth hands feet c. or the senses and actions of man as seeing hearing smelling working walking striking c. By an Antropopatheia the affections and passions of a man as gladness grief joy sorrow love hatred c. or by an Analogie as when he is named a Lyon a Rock a Tower a Buckler c. Whose signification every Commentary will express Of all these Attributes we must hold these general Rules NO Attribute can sufficiently express the Essence of God because it is infinite and ineffable Whatsoever therefore is spoken of GOD is not GOD but serveth rather to help ●ur weak Understanding to conceive in ●u● Reason and to utter in our Speech ●he Majesty of his Divine Nature so far as ●e hath vouchsafed to reveal himself unto ●s in his Word 2. All the Attributes of God belong to very of the three Persons as well as to the Essence it self with the limitations of a ●ersonal propriety As the mercy of the Father is mercy begetting the mercy of the ●on is mercy begotten the mercy of the H. ●host is mercy proceeding and so of the rest 3. The Essential Attributes of God dif●er not from his Essence because they are ●o in the Essence that they are the very Essence it self In God therefore there ●s nothing which is not either his Essence ●r Person 4. The Essential Attributes of God dif●er not Essentially or Really one from ano●her because whatsoever is in God is ●ne most simple Essence and one admits no ●ivision but only in our reason and under●●anding which being not able to know ●arthly things by one simple Act without ●he help of many distinct Acts must of ●ecessity have the help of many distinct Acts to know the incomprehensible GOD. Therefore to speak properly there are ●ot in God many Attributes but one only which is nothing else but the Divine Es●ence it self by what Attributes soever you all it But in respect of our reason they ●re said to be so many different Attributes for ●ur understanding conceives by the name of mercy a thing differing from that which is called justice The Essential Attributes of God are not therefore reall● separate 5. The Essential Attributes of God are no parts or qualities of the Divine Essence nor Accidents in the Essence nor a Subject but the very whole and entire Essence of God So that every such Attribute is no aliud aliud another and another thing but one and the same thing There are therefore no Quantities in God by which he may be said to be so much and so much nor Qualities by which he may be said to be such and such but whatsoever God is He is such and the same by his Essence By his Essence he is wise and therefore Wisdom it self By his Essence he is good and therefore Goodness it self by his Essence he is merciful and therefore Mercy it self By his Essence he is just and therefore Justice it self c. In a word God is grea● without quantity good true and just without quality merciful without passion a● act without motion every where present without sight without time the fi●st and the last the Lord of all Creatures from whom all receive themselves and a● the good they have yet neither needed nor receiveth he any increase of goodnes● or happiness from any other This is the plain description of God so far as he hath revealed himself to us in his Word This Doctrine of all other every true Practitioner of Piety must competently know and necessarily believe for four special uses 1. That we may discernour true and only God from all false Gods and Idols for the Description of God is properly known only to his Church in whom he hath thus graciously manifested himself 2. To possess our hearts with a greater awe of his Majesty whilst we admire him ●or his simpleness and infiniteness adore him for his unmeasurableness unchangeableness and Eternity seek wisdom from his under●tanding and knowledge submit our selves to his blessed will and pleasure love him for his ●ove mercy goodness and patience trust to his word because of his truth fear him for his Power Justice and Anger reverence him ●or his Holiness and praise him for his Bles●edness and to depend all our life on him who is the only Author of our Life Being ●nd all the good things we have 3. To stir us up to imitate the Divine ●pirit in his holy Attributes and to bear in some measure the image of his Wis●om Love Goodness Justice Mercy Truth ●atience Zeal and Anger against sin that ●e may be wise loving just merciful true ●atient and zealous as our God is 4. Lastly That we may in our Prayers ●nd Meditations conceive aright of his Di●●ne Majesty and not according to those ●●oss and blasphemous imaginations which naturally arise in Mens Brains as whe● they conceive God to be like an old Man sitting in a Chair and the blessed Trinity to b● like that tripartite Idol which Papists hav● painted in their Church-Windows When therefore thou art to pray unt● God let thine Heart speak unto him as t● that Eternal Infinite Almighty Holy Wise Just Merciful Spirit and mo● Perfect indivisible Essence of three sever●● Persons Father Son and Holy Ghost w● being present in all places ruleth Heave● and Earth understandeth all mens heart knoweth all mens miseries and is only able bestow on us all graces which we want and deliver all penitent sinners who with faithf● hearts seek for Christ's sake his help out all their afflictions and troubles whatsoever The ignorance of this true knowledg● of God maketh many to make an Idol the True God and is the only cause w●● so