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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	divine_a	faith_n	revelation_n	3,458	5	9.7228	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90348	Ho kalos agon tes pisteos. The good fight of faith. Being the substance of a sermon preached to the congregation assembled at the interring of the body of Master William Hill lately one of the magistrates of Guildford in Surrey. / By his sonne in law Francis Peck, Master of Arts, sometimes preacher there, and now minister of God's word in Hertford.	Peck, Francis, d. 1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing P1031; Thomason E286_25; ESTC R200082	15,503	23

hath flesh and blood and devill strong lusts and corruptions to fight against this hath much more There is indeed a fight in humility combating against horrid pride and cursed vaine-glory there is a fight in love combating against malice envy and hatred those cruell enemies to the soule a fight in patience against murmuring repining impatient discontentednesse a fight in chastity against scorching and broyling lusts in liberality against covetonsnesse in temporance against drunkennesse but faith is the Captaine grace and the maine in a christian combate against these and many such spirituall enemies None that know any thing in Christianity but knowes this that there is a fig it in faith no sooner is a man a beleever but he is a warriour But for the prosecution of this point I shall shew you three things 1 The paralell between corporall and spirituall warre 2 The maine particulats wherein faith is engaged in this combate 3 By what strength this fight is managed To shew you wherein the resemblance holds in every thing would be too tedious the paralell holds chiefly in these five particulars I. Souldiers are gathered together and battels brought on by the sound of a Trumpet so are true beleevers and worshippers in the Lord's mountaine to be brought on to his spirituall warfare by the sound of the Lord's Trumpet viz. the powerfull preaching of the Gospell Isa 27. 2. which as a shrill sound of a Trumpet summons them hereunto The service of the Tabernacle which must be managed by faith in the Messiah or else abominable is twice said in th' originall to be the warfare of the Tabernacle and this is brought on by the sound of the Trumpet Numb 8. 24. 25. Againe 1 Cor. 14. 8. for if the Trumpet give an uncertaine sound who shall prepare to the battell and what is this Trumpet but the plaine preaching of the Word in such a manner as it may be easily understood else none will be excited to this warfare for as the sound of the Trumpet so the Word serves not onely to teach what is to be done but to excite with courage to Pareus in ●oc performe the duty II. In fighting there are encounterers and strong opposites so in this fight of faith it meets with strong opposites world flesh and devill and all that they can muster up and bandy together Faith is like Thmael in this case the hands of all these are against faith and the hand of faith is against them all 1 Satan hates faith and all the faithfull and would not leave any alive in the world as the King of Syria said to his 32 Capraines concerning the King of Israel so saith satan concerning 1 King 22. 31 faith and the faithfull fight neither against small nor great but against these onely 2 The world is a deadly enemy witnesse 1 In preaching of it the world hates it 2 In professing of it the world scornes it 3 In practizing of it what a world of malice is continually manifested against it 3 The flesh and carnail reason cry it downe as the most absurd thing in the world III. In fighting there is much difficulty so in beleeving the hardest thing in the world to beleeve It 's durum certamen a hard combat a wrastling with principalities and powers which Eph. 6. 12. are not overcome but with much difficulty as when a poore Christian gotten from under the slavery of a Turke or a Prorestant from the cruelty of a barbarous Cavaleir he is pursued by his potent and cruell enemy who againe layes hold on him to reduce him to his former thraldome Imagine with what vigor he wrastles with his enemy and with what difficulty he escapes his fury Or as a poore man throwne over-board and ready to sink under water his friend reacheth him out a pole at which he catcheth and no sooner got hold on 't but his enemy strives by rapping knocking and cutting his fingers to make him let goe his hold yet he cryes and holds and holds and cryes but with much difficulty So it is often with a poore beleever got from under the tyranoy of Satan His arch enemy would faine reduce him to his former condition and by temptation layes hold on him yet the poore beleeving soule escapes through much difficulty Christ tenders and offers himselfe to him to free him from that gulfe of wofull misery whereinto he is so deeply plunged with difficulty faith layes hold on this Object no sooner doth it so but Saran is ready to beat him off from his hold yet faith like a brave spirited child fights and cryes and cryes and fights weeps and prayes and prayes and weeps and still keeps his hold IV. In fighting there is a Victory aimed at and whosoever goeth a warfare hath an eye and aime at this so there is in the fight of faith an eye and aime at victory It 's this which makes the beleever triumph in the midst of misery when wealth is gone faith tels him of a treasure in Heaven when husband father or friend is gone faith tels us of a better husband and better father and friends in Heaven when life comes to a period faith tels of an eternall life of glory of which he can never be bereaved V. There is violence used in other fights to get the victory so there is in the fight of faith Mat. 11. 12. The Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by sorce Qu. 2. What are the main particulars wherein faith is engaged or the businesse of faith in which if it be at all it cannot but combat fight and contend A. In twelve particulars faith is engaged as a combating and conflicting grace at which I must but hint without illustrations First to maintaine all divine revelations to set to the seale that God is true that he must have the honour of all divine truths revealed in his holy word though they seeme to be nothing Rom. 4. 17. but Mysteries Riddles and Paradoxes and in beleeving these and closing with them to become a foole that he may be wise 1 Cor. 3. 18. As for example 1 To beleeve the doctrine of the glorious Trinity in Unity that three should be one and one three that the Sonne should be as old as his Father and the holy Ghost proceeding from them both equall with them both 2 The doctrine of the creation that God made all things of nothing which worldly reason contradicts saying ex nihilo nihil fit out of nothing nothing can be made and so we might runne over all till we come to the doctrine of resurrection and last judgement 3 To beleeve that bodies so long dead shall rise againe nay bodies buried in the sea and devoured by fishes and severall fishes swallowing severall parts and though cut into a thousand pieces and given to the fowles of the ayre yet to beleeve that these bodies shall rise againe 4 To beleeve that soule and body so long separated shall at the