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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	will_n	work_n	work_v	473	4	6.4338	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51256	Instruction to the living, from the consideration of the future state of the dead, or, The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment by Christ as evidenced in the testimony of Christ, as the sum of it was delivered at the funerall of Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison, in Boston, Jan. 1657/8 / by Tho. Moore Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1659 (1659)	Wing M2603; ESTC R3375	92,440	70

them together with or add them unto Christ as a better ground of assurance and hope of the promise of eternall life then they had in him before or yet have simply in what he is hath done and is become in himselfe for us Though these efficacies of the graciousnesse of the Lord tasted by them were his works yet their thus putting them out of their place and in the place of Christ and seeking to deck their Idols with his Ornaments as Ezek. 16. 19-20 These are their works For the Law of faith excludes boasting every where or rejoycing in any thing even in what we have received through grace otherwise then so as the rejoycing be only in the Lord. Rom. 3. 27. 1 Cor. ult 4. 7. And instructs alwayes when we have done all these things to acknowledge our selves therein unprofitable Servants that have done no more then our duty from the grace already bestowed Luk. 17. 10. Yea to be sensible of and acknowledge our short coming of that so much found with us in all things That still we may take shame to our selves and seek to have all our rejoyceing in and feeding on him and not in any of those things And truly this work of our own in this abuseing and misplaceing the works of God cannot stand with our abideing in him as we have received him But doth weaken and draw away the heart from him and also occasion the decay and withering of the good things so rejoyced in and fed upon But he that doth good or that doth truth alwayes comes to the light that he may alwayes see all his works wrought in God in emmanuell That so he may have his rejoyceing in him evermore And as one that hath enough there he comes to that Fountain that he may be filled with the knowledge enjoyment and fruites of that in and with Christ And he that so eatest me saith our Saviour shall live by me They trusting in resting satisfied with and staying upon that perfect righteousnesse perfected in his resurrection And the glorious name of God in him as a full and sufficient ground of rejoyceing and hopeing and matter of feeding for justification sanctification and all things pertaining to life and godlinesse they are therein II. From the fullnesse and riches of grace perceived and tasted in him instructed and strengthened to seek righteousnesse and strength in the Lord so as by an exercise of faith in Jesus to depend on him for and expect from him and with him the hope of his righteousnesse in the perfecting what concerns them According to the promise of eternall life given us in Christ which containes in it both the promise of this life and that to come They believe in Christ that they may be justified by the faith of Christ Gall. 2. 16. Acknowledging themselves as discovered in the light of his testimony as of themselves and from Adam to be sinners and altogether filthy and under curse by the Law and without strength They expect not nor seek that way to help themselves as to the attaining righteousnesse but seek and follow one to know what he hath done and is become for sinners to understand and perceive the perfection of his work and sacrifice its fullnesse and answe ablenesse to all their needs And the infinite riches of the grace of God in him to such sinners seeking and expecting through the knowledge of him to have their hearts and mindes stayed on him preserved in him yea more brought into him And in him to finde acceptance with God and to receive the remission of their sins and so the cleansing of their mind and conscience through his name and in the further and continuall openings of it They likewise believe on him stay upon and trust in his name for all righteousnesse even for sactifying washing and saving them to the utmost Knowing his rich furniture and abillity to save to the utmost all that come to God by him which also they know in knowing what he hath done and is become for us while we were yet sinners and enemies as Rom. 8. 32. Hebr. 7. 25. 9. 15. with Rom. 5. tot In which likewise they are assured that the Gospell of Christ is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth For therein is the righteousnesse of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written The just shall live by faith being also therein made sensible of their own weaknesse insufficiency and deadnesse they are perswaded and strengthened in the light and strength of those instructions to disowne and goe out of themselves cease from their own thoughts reasonings and works and exercise themselves in the light and power of his grace to a diligent beholding and mindfullnesse of him in what he hath done and is become for them and the end and fruit of it and the grace and glory appearing in and through it They run to that and stay in and upon it seeking and expecting in it the light and power of God to conforme them to him and so to strengthen them to purge themselves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit They through the spirit do waite for the hope of his righteousnesse by faith for giving them victory through the bloud of the Lamb and the word of their testimony and for perfecting what concerns them to the perfect Day They seek not righteousnesse by works but seek the works and fruit of his righteousnesse to be wrought and found in them through faith in him who was made sin for them that they might be made the righteousnesse of God in him We have here occasion to mention a double or twofold difference between him that worketh for righteousnesse And him that worketh not but believeth for it on him that justifies the ungodly 1. The one works for a ground of faith that he may believe the other believeth and resteth on a certain ground of faith that he may work the works of God The first seeks for frames and quallifications as the ground of his faith namely that from thence he may gather conclusions of Gods love and good will to him in Christ and of his good condition before God The other believing Gods love and good will to Manward and so to himselfe in Christ while an enemy that through Christ and by his name he might be saved His readinesse to accept any sinner coming in his drawings by Christ and to wash them from their sins in his bloud from hence is encouraged and provoked to seek and expect the framing and quallifying his heart to love and good works in the believing mindfullnesse of this grace And as the end and fruit of his faith 2. The one seekes to work up and frame his heart to love God and men by observing such and such Rules which the wisedome of man teacheth or the precepts of the Law in the wisedome and strength of man And in the same strength of the flesh on which he depends for it may do many