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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	great_a	lord_n	way_n	3,966	5	4.6102	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16100	Cristian praiers & godly meditatio[n]s vpon the epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes briefly conteyninge the summe of euery chapiter orderly, worthy to be vsed of al the faythfull in this wretched and sinfull time / translated out of Italian into English.		1569 (1569)	STC 2985.5; ESTC S1814	15,923	97

euill for good sewer for swéete They haue defiled their bodies soules with all abhominable vices and vncleanes O Lord god of my saluation kepe me and al thy faithfull seruaunts from so great abomination and from such great blindnes Grant vs O father of lightes in stede of the darke light of our vnderstanding the cleare light of faith that we may acknowledge thée truly and knowing thée euery one of vs to loue thée feare thée and glorifie thée putting al the hope of our saluation in thy mercy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ Vpon the ij Chapiter O How great gods iustice and mercy is we are very redy to iudge condemne other not perceauinge that then we cōdemne our owne selues for because that now with will and now in dede we do those thinges that becōdemned by vs in our neighbour and plainely we know that after thy most iust iudgement whosoeuer sinneth is worthy of death and certeinly we weare already all condemned to death euerlasting if thy mercy pacience were not the which forbeareth vs and calleth vs to repentance Graunt vs perseuerance O Lord to vnderstand so great a benifite and mollifie our hartes with thy grace to the end that our hardnes and vnrepētance do not encrease towards vs so much the greater wrath in the day of anger when thy iust iudgement shal be reueled in the which thou wilt tender to euery persō according to his doings that is eternal death to those which continuing in euill works resisting the truth do prouoke against them thy furor O lord suffer not that we whom thy holy name is called vpon be nombred among those but for thy glory geue vs thy spirite the which may teach vs to do thy will and lead vs in the way of thy most holy precepes to glory honour peace euerlasting through Iesus Christ When Iesus Christ shal come to iudge the quicke and the dead no body shal be hable to excuse his vnrighteousnes with the pretēce of ignoraunce because that they which haue not had the light of the lawe written haue not lacked the knowledge of good and euill by the lawe of nature as clearly the conscience of euery on sheweth the which aloweth that is good and reproueth that is euill But I know my Lord that the knowledge of the lawe without thy grace can nothing profite a man because he is not iust by the law But who can obserue the same our nature is so corrupt and peruerse that it séeth the better and taketh the worse wherby it cōeth to passe that many do know thy will and make profession to rule the blind to lighten those that be in darkenes to instructe the ignorant and to vnderstand thy doctrine and the veritie of thy lawe and yet neuerthelesse teaching others they teach not them selues they forbid theft and adulthy and be theues adulterers they speake against Idoles and be Idolaters they glorie of the lawe be transgressors of the lawe and slaunder thy holy name and cause it to be euill spoken of amongst the wicked Therfore to the end that we runne not into so great wickednes and that the knowledge of the law be not to vs an occasion of greatter damnation write the same O Lord in our hartes by faith and graunt vs such grace that nothing may appéere to vs either so good or so profitable or so delectable as the obseruation of thy commaundements that hauing our hartes circumcised wée may be thy true people that our light may shyne after such a sort in the sight of men that seing our good works euery one of them may gloryfie thee O heauenly father through Iesus Christ our Lord ¶ Vpon the iij. Chapiter MY Lord like as the naughtines of the Iewes was not sufficient to make voyd thy faith of the noble promises made by thée vnto that people because that thou art true and al men liares semblably our iniquitie can neuer be hable to disanull the faith of thy promises which thy onely Sonne hath made to his faithful congregatiō saying to the same I am with you euen to the consumation of the world Therfor although I sée the same altogether vexed deformed and as a little shippe in the middest of the sea beaten of furious windes notwithstanding I am sure that she can not perish because that Iesus Christ according to his promise ruleth and gouerneth her and bringeth her at the length to the porte of eternall saluation And how much greater our vnrighteousnes is so much more commendable is his iustice the which forsaketh vs not for our deserts but defendeth vs for his promise sake Ought we therfore to continue in sinne to thintent that our vnrighteousnes may cōmend the iustice of Christ nay aboue all other thinges we should abhorre sinne as that which of his owne nature dishonoreth Christ and yet he by his goodnes wisedome of so euill sede gathereth the fruite of his glory Deliuer therfore lord Iesus thy Church from all slaunders and from all iniquities so that like as now by our sinnes thou settest forth the faith of thy promises so in time to come by our saluation we may glorifie thy holy name My Lord when thou gavest thy holy lawe to the people of Israell they promised earnestly to obserue the same but afterward comming to the performance they wanted so much of their promise that one of the Prophetes speaking of them saith that there is not one iust or wise neither that seketh after god By the which thing it is requisite that all mouthes bée shutte and all the world confesse to be giltie and to be thy debtour because that none shal be pronounced iust by the workes of the lawe in thy iudgement sith it is so that the lawe doth not iustifie but doth vs to vnderstand sinne the which knowne leadeth a man to desperation if thy grace comforteth hym not Therfore we thanke thée O my Lord with al our harte for thy iustice the which to put away our vnrighteousnes thou hast manifested to the world besides the lawe I meane the iustice which thou doest communicate by the faith of Iesus Christ to all them that beleue of all nations for that without exception euery one hath sinned and is destitute of thy glory and whosoeuer is iustified receaueth wythout any deseruing the iustice of thy grace through the redemptiō wrought by Christ Iesu whom frō euerlasting thou hast determined to bée by the meditation of faith the propitiation of the world through his bloud meaning to set forth thy iustice by the remission of sinnes past the which thou hast suffred for to shew thy iustice in the time of grace to thintent that euery one might knowe that thou art iust and the iustifier of euery one that beleueth in Iesus Christ the which with thée liueth raigneth world without end My Lord when thy saints do say that we be iustified frely by the meanes of faith many beleue that by the preaching of