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work_n	create_v	good_a	workmanship_n	4,350	5	11.8942	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80547	The perfect-law of God being a sermon, and no sermon;-: preach'd,-, and yet not preach'd;-: in a-church, but not in a-church; to a people, that are not a people-. / By Richard Carpenter. Wherein also, he gives his first alarum to his brethren of the presbytery; as being his-brethren, but not his-brethren.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1652 (1652)	Wing C625; Thomason E1318_1; ESTC R210492	112,779	261

causâ nomino declared Christianity to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Imitation of God Which afterwards the Greek Church ty'd up as with a third of Gold into one Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The ground is Man was made by God after the Image and Likeness of God Gen. 1. 26. And therefore our work in our lapsed Condition is to perfect and imbellish this Image in us by conforming our selves through God's Grace every day more and more in likeness to him this likeness consisting truly in true Holiness as it is call'd Eph. 4. 24. or as it is in the Original hue and return'd by the Vulgar Latin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sanctitate Veritatis the Holiness Text. Gr. Edit Val. of Truth And a good Man is called by a new Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 holy from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 colo veneror I worship I honour Because true Holiness onely makes one after all the Transactions of Life truly worshipful and venerable Circumspicite dùm nè quis nostro Auceps Sermoni sit Enimverò sunt qui auribus Aucupium faciunt simplices atque incautos ex insidiis adoriuntur Look about you pray and tell me if any be here that come hither a Birding with their Ears and lie here ambushing to catch and ravish a Word or to antedate the Sense Dionysius Areopagita amongst other Excellencies in Christ holds up before us for our Imitation his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Dyonis Areop Eccl. Hier. cap. 3. not his Impeccability but his Impeccancy To the which we must draw by spiritual Access as neer as human Weakness will be drawn after us being egregiously carefull to preserve in their perfect Being and Appearance all the Titles and Punctilios of God's Honour Perhaps your Thoughts now may turn upon me with a fierce Assault How comes it that your Life is not thus exact Strange Things fly abroad concerning you Beloved Know as God knows that these Strange Things are the Strange Apparitions Delusions Inventions of the Devil and of devilish Enemies More afterwards St. Gregory Nazianzen gives holy S. Greg. Naz. orat 4. in Paschate Counsil Simus ut Christus quoniam Christus quoque sicut nos Essiciamur Dii propter ipsum quoniam ipse quoque propter nos Homo factus est Let us be as Christ is because he was as we are Let us be made Gods for him because he was made Man for us And Nullus est Deificationis Terminus There is no stop or enclosure of Deification Boetius throws an Ey this way Vltra homines provehere Boet. lib. 4. de Consol pros 3. Sola Probitas potest True Holiness and true Honesty will promote a Man beyond a Man St. Dorotheus names the holy men of old thus S S. Antonium Pachomium S. Doroth. Serm. 1. Macarium caeterosque Deiferos Patres holy Antonius Pachomius Macarius and the rest of the Fathers that carried God in them Anastasius Synaita S. Anastas Synait lib. 7. Hexam that strict-liv'd Patriarch of Antioch entitles such persons quodammodò veluti Christos in Divinitate simul Humanitate after a sort christs as partaking both of the Divine and Humane Nature Acknowledge St. Peter's Phrase 2 Pet. 1. 4. Partakers of the Divine Nature Expediam Verbo In a word It is the Holy Ghost Himself that dwels in the righteous Heart by an abode much remote from his common abiding with us per Essentiam Praesentiam Potentiam by his Essence Presence Power For besides that holy Scripture manifoldly stands up for it It is incongruent That the Devill should be more neer to his and more intimate by Possession than the most good God to his by Communication who hath more manifested himself to us in his Works of Mercy than of his Justice And Grace the Instrument of the Holy Ghost is more honourably born than other Things of our Acquaintance It is a deep bottom'd Question in Divinity Vtrùm Gratia producatur per Creationem Whether Grace be Created or not Created The Affirmative seems clear Ephes 2. 10. For we are his Workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good Works We are God's Workmanship more excellently in respect of the new and inward Man And Good works good in order to our Supernatural End cannot be wrought without Grace which Source or Fountain is only correspondent and answerable to the high-flowing of the Stream The Apostle clears and illuminates it farther 2 Cor. 5. 17. and Gal. 6. 15. In both which places he calls a regenerate Soul novam Creaturam a new Creature But this Opinion would plain and even the way to a dangerous Conclusion Creatura potest attingere physic è Creationem School-Divines well know and have well sounded the danger of it These Positions therefore asserted by the Apostle ye shall understand of Creation in genere moris in regard of our first Conversion and Justification For the first Grace being given without any precedent Works of Grace is made as it were of Nothing in genere moris it being impossible and unimaginable that Man should dispose himself for the reception of the first Grace because he that produceth the last Disposition is truely said also to produce the Form call'd by it and coming after it and therefore he that disposeth himself by his meer self to Grace produceth Grace in his own Heart of the which no pure Creature can be the cause This Opinion therefore I lay down and lay me down to rest in another The revelation of which if great Clerks will needs extort and wrest from me they shall receive it secundùm modum recipientium in their own Dialect Gratia non creatur sed educitur supernaturaliter ex potentia Subjecti in quo Spiritus sanctus inhabitat Sicut aliae Formae supernaturales Visio Dei Lumen gloriae hujusmodi I discover here that there is yet Terra incognita a Land unknown to you in Learning Religion Holiness Dear Christians attend to me Should I a reasonable Creature hear men that Profess and Preach God and his only Son Christ Iesus together with the holy Spirit the Sanctifier of Souls three Persons and one immortal invisible and only wise God telling me from a Pulpit in the Air to the which I must look up as if the Pulpit Men came even now from Heaven of Humility Continency Temperance Contentedness Guiding of my Tongue Charity Peace and other things of that Feather and bringing about at every half-turn our glorious Gad for so they call him Iesus Christ the Saints the humble Soul let a going with a notable Aspiration he was a pretious Man the Lard Iesus be with all your Spirits And should I find after a most accurate search eosdem numericè the very same Men down from the high-place to be in their Actions most high and haughty-minded and proud as Lucifer most lustful and effeminate most great and most greedy-Lovers and Worshipers of their Bellyes most uncontented and unsatisfyed in their desiring