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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	charity_n	faith_n	justification_n	4,801	5	9.5998	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61467	England's faithfull reprover and monitour	Samwayes, Richard, 1614 or 15-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing S547; ESTC R1746	86,140	264

example preferring these to close worldly interests and carnall ends of pride vain-glory strife covetousnesse and desire of preheminence above your brethren yea what hopes might we yet conceive of peace and happinesse after our hot and bloudy contentions about that which hath not been hitherto fully determined what it is and the wasting calamities of unnaturall war were there a true affection with faithfull and univer sall endeavour in you towards the composure of your owne and of popular differences in judgement according to the minde and will of Christ Jesus But alas it is greatly to be feared the breaches are so wide that it passeth humane industry or skill to make them up again this being a worke of his wisdome who knoweth all things and of his power who doth all things as seemeth best to his godly will For that which most hindereth this desired union doth still stand in the way Namely the unwearied practice of powerfull subtile and secret Agents to continue and enlarge your divisions even to the utter confusion and desolation of the Church And would to God your owne disaffection unto peace errour from the Truth and unequall conversation in respect of Evangelicall parenesse and perfection did not too much further the hellish designes and attempts of these men For doth not the same fire of distempered zeal still burn in the breasts and flash sometimes in the mouths of those who did heretofore set all on a flame is not your power rather restrained then your will reformed and if there be a change is it not because of your present condition not from your inward disposition and affection Jude 11. to preserve the fruit of falsehood and the reward of unrighteousnesse after which yee have greedily ran with Balaam and I pray God ye perish not in the gainsaying of Core Can you be so vaine as to imagin that the specious pretenses and plausible excuses wherewith yee have smoothed the eares of men to make way for their good conceit of your bad proceedings will finde like acceptance with God the searcher of the heart Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed in his sight as the potters clay Is 29.16 with 15. Now such as these as well as others have risen of your own selves in the last and worst age of the world speaking perverse things against the Doctrine Discipline government and Governours of the Church to draw away Disciples after them as it is Act. 20. handling the word of Christ deceitfully and forming their Doctrine not according to the impartiall rule of Truth but after their own fancy and as it might best suit with the present humour and passion of the giddy multitude preaching or rather crying up one point of doctrine to the disparagement of another Faith to the vilifying of charity and good workes of repentance and mortification as though there was no necessity of these in order to salvation because not concurring with Faith in the businesse of justification Insomuch as some have been traduced by their followers as Popishly affected for no other reason but for that they did inculcate and presse upon the consciences of men in their homilies or Sermons the duties and workes of sanctification as necessary in our Christian practice both in respect of Gods command and mans obedience due unto it and also of the heavenly reward notwithstanding nothing can be more consonant thenthis doctrine to the precepts of Christ Jesus In like manner they limited the gracious Act of Divine Predestination to those of their own sect or faction onely as if they alone had been the truly called of God the rest of men no better then castawayes for some of their disciples and those not weakly principled according to their fashion have in our hearing accounted of others who did not adhere to their way as of carnall or at the best but meer civill and morall men who were perchance partakers of common grace but aliens from that which they term Speciall and is of a saving virtue Neither have there been wanting those who have proceeded yet farther like the false Prophets of old false teachers among the people now under the Gospell foretold by the Apostle S. Peter privily bringing in damnable heresies 2 Pet. 2.1 even denying the Lord that bought them as it is to be feared bringing upon themselves swift destruction the which because unfit to be mentioned I shall passe by at the present and the rather for that many have already more then enough enlarged themselves upon this subject As for the universality of Redemption and liberty of humane will to accept or to reject divine grace offered to the choice thereof with such like doctrines agreeable to these or directly thwarting the same not to be comprehended perchance by mans understanding at least not to be clearly evidenced or proved unto either opposite party by any deductions of reason from the word of God so far as to satisfie all objections and to reconcile all seeming repugnances of controverted places the which both adversaries hold forth as their bestweapons whether for defence or for offence in this fight what fierce contentions and hot disputes to say no more have some raised about these as if Salus ecclesiae did wholly depend upon them and not rest upon a sure foundation of evidence and truth enlarging the power of mans will or freedome thereof to a morall capacity of admitting or resusing grace tendred unto it according to its pleasure while others did as much contract and limit it or rather indeed utterly deny it this pretended liberty as inconsistent with primigeniall corruption and privation of originall righteousnesse common to all who naturally descended from the loyns of our first Parents and being in truth nothing lesse then a spirituall death of that living soul which God first breathed into mortall flesh one part maintaining the divine decree concerning mans salvation or damnation to be absolute in God the other to be conditionall in man grounded upon prevision of faith and obedience in the elect of unbelief and disobedience of the truth in those that are reprobate and from hence endeavouring to shake the others confidence and certainty of perseverance unto the end the which they did apprehend that apply unto themselves from the immutability of Gods counsell purpose and will In the mean while what shiftings and fallacies have been used of both to hold their ground and to evade or elude the force of the adversaries reason insomuch as some have taught themselves and others to say in defence of the absolute decree as just and equall in it self contrary to the expresse word of Christ himself Mat. 26.24 Mat. 26.24 that it is better to have a being though in endlosse torments under the wrath of the Almighty then not to be at all a meer speculative nicety of Metaphysicall heads and too small a wyer whereon to hang the weight of such a controversie But what did the people gain