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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	act_n	grace_n	habit_n	906	5	9.7429	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11078	Testis veritatis the doctrine [brace] of King Iames our late soueraigne of famous memory, of the Church of England, of the Catholicke Church : [brace] plainely shewed to bee one in the points of [brace] pradestination, free-will, certaintie of saluation [brace] : with a discouery of the grounds [brace] naturall, politicke [brace] of Arminianisme / by F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1626 (1626)	STC 21347.3; ESTC S4449	57,093	98

Bernard de lib. arb gra my words but the Apostles who attributes all the good that may possibly be vnto God and not to his owne Will euen to thinke to will and to doe If then God worketh these three things in vs that is to thinke good to will it and to performe it he worketh in vs the first indeed without vs the second with vs and the third by vs. For by sending in a good thought he preuenteth vs by changing our wicked Will hee ioynes it to him by consent and by giuing power to our consent this inward WORKER shewes himselfe outwardly in our manifest worke Post peccatum ante reparationem c. After sinne and ●… Lombard lib. 2 dist 25 Ex Hug. de S. Vict. before the restoring of Grace the Will is oppressed and ouercome of concupiscence and is weake in euill and hath no grace in good and therefore it can sinne and it cannot chuse but sinne and that damnably Operans Gracia est quae praeuenit c. Working or Id. lib. 2. dist 26. ●… operating Grace is that which preuenteth the good Will For by it the Will of man is freed and prepared that it may bee good and that effectually it may will good But cooperating Grace followeth the Will when it is good in helping it Gracia Dei mecum ostendit vt spepo quòd ipsa est causa Bradwarden de causa Dei lib. 1. cap. 40. efficiens c. The Grace of God with mee I hope will shew that Grace is properly the efficient cause of euery good act I meane Grace freely giuen which is an habite poured into the soule freely by God Vertue and chiefly the chiefest vertue Grace of Charity is no selfe EFFECTVALL than Vice But Vice effecteth euill acts wherefore Grace or Charity effecteth good acts And that I may say nothing of vices morally gotten who doth not know who doth not feele what acts one Radicall vice effecteth that law of the members that tyrant of nature that source of sinne Concupisence or the lustfullnesse of our flesh which also the Doctors often call Originall sinne A witnesse hereof is experience too common too forceable A witnesse also is the Apostle when hee saith I am carnall sold vnder sinne for what I doe I allow not For I doe not that which I would but that which I hate that I doe Seeing then that lust is so violent so effectuall so manifoldly actuous how doth Charity represse diminish and ouercome it if she doe nothing at all if she moue nothing at all if shee be altogether idle Qua Gratia non noua Voluntas creatur c. By which Grace there is not created a new will neither is the Cassander Consul●… Art 18●… will inforced being vnwilling but the will being sicke is healed being depraued is rectified and is changed from euill into good And by an inward kinde of motion is drawne that of vnwilling it may become willing and may freely consent to the Diuine calling and afterward the same Grace cooperating it may obey the will of God and by the same Grace perseuering in good workes may also through the same Grace enter into the inheritance of the heauenly Kingdome This Doctrine of the Grace of God and Free-will the sounder Schoole men strongly defended against the Pelagians among whom was Thomas Brauarden or Bradwarden called in his time the profound Doctor who wrote an excellent worke which he calleth a summe against Pelagianisme increasing in his dayes And how much many of them did attribute to Grace Bonauenture alone may testifie This saith he is the dutie of godly mindes that they attribute nothing to themselues but all to the grace of God wherein how much soeuer a man doth giue to the Grace of God hee shall not depart from pietie though by giuing much to the Grace of God hee take away something from the power of Nature or Free-will But when something is taken away from the Grace of God and that is giuen to Nature which belongs to Grace there may be danger THE DOCTRINE OF King IAMES concerning the Certaintie of Saluation and against the Apostacy or falling away of the Saints ABout the same time one Be●…tius a Scholler of the late Declar. against Vorstiue Arminius who was the first in our Age that infected Leyden with herisie was so impudent as to send a letter vnto the Arch-bishop of Canterbury with a booke intit●…led de Apostasia Sanctorum And not thinking it sufficient to auow the sending of such a booke the Title whereof onely were enough to make it worthy the fire hee was moreouer so shamelesse as to maintaine in his letter to the Arch bishop that the Doctrine contained in his booke was agreeable with the Doctrine of the Church of England Let the Church of Christ then iudge whether it was not high time for Vs to bestirre Our selues when at this Gangrene had not only taken hold amongst Our neerest Neighbours so ●… Non solùm paries proximus iam ardebat not onely the next house was on fire but did also beg in to creege into the bowels of Our owne Kingdome It is true that it was Our hard hap not to heare of this Arminius before hee was dead and that all the Reformed Churches of Germanie had with open mouth complained of him But as soone as Wee vnderstood of that distraction in your State which after his death hoc left behinde him Wee did not faile taking the opportunitie when your last extraordinary Ambassadors were here with Vs to vse some such speaches vnto them concerning this matter as We thought fittest for the good of your State and which Wee doubt not but they haue faithfully reported vnto you For what need Wee make any question of the A●…gancy of these Hereticks or rather Atheisticall Sectaries 〈◊〉 you when one of them at this present remaining in your Towne of Leyden hath not onely presumed to publish of late a blasphemous booke of the Apostasie of the Saints but hath besides beene so impudent as to send the other day a copie thereof as a g●…odly present to our Arch-bishop of Canterbury together with a letter wherein hee is not ashamed as also in his booke to lye so grossely as to 〈◊〉 that his Heresies contained in the said booke are agreeable with the Religion and profession of the Church of England For these respects therefore haue wee cause enough very hartily to request you to roote out with speed those Heresies and Schismes which are beginning to bud forth amongst you which if you suffer to haue the Reynes any longer you cannot expect any other issue thereof then the curse of God infamy throughout all the Reformed Churches and a perpetuall rent and distraction in the whole Body of your State His Maiestie doth exhort you seeing you haue heretofore ●…id taken Armes for the libertie of your Consciences and haue so much indured in a violent and bloudie warre the space of fortie yeeres