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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	believe_v	faith_n	holy_a	10,213	4	5.4982	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28096	The confession of faith written by Sr. Francis Bacon.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1641 (1641)	Wing B280; ESTC R5546	5,342	16

THE CONFESSION OF FAITH Written by Sr. FRANCIS BACON Printed in the Yeare 1641. The Confession of FAITH FIRST I believe That nothing is without beginning but God no Nature no Matter no Spirit no essence but one onely and the same God That God as he is Eternall Almightie onely wise onely good in his Nature so he is Eternally Father Sonne and Holy Spirit in three persons I believe that God is so holy pure and zealous that it is impossible for him to be pleased in any creature though the worke of his owne hands so that neither Angell Man nor World could stand or can stand one moment in his eyes without beholding the same in the face of a Mediator And therefore that before him with whom all things are present the lamb of God was slaine before all worlds without which eternall Counsell of God it was impossible for him to have descended to any worke of Creation but should have enjoyed the blessed and individual societie of the three persons in the God-head onely for ever but that out of his eternall and infinite goodnesse and love purposing to become a Creator and to communicate with his Creatures that so in the person of the Mediator the true Ladder might bee fixed whereby God might descend to his Creatures and his Creatures might ascend to God so that God by the reconcilement of a Mediator turning his Countenance towards his Creatures though not in the same height and degree made way unto the disposition of his most holy and sacred will whereby some of his Creatures might stand and keep their estates others might fall and be restored unto their estates but yet remaine in being though under wrath and corruption all in the vertue of a Mediator which is the great mysterie and perfect Center of all Gods wayes unto his Creatures and unto which all his other Workes and Wonders doe but serve and referre That hee chose according to his pleasure man to be that Creature to whose Nature the eternall Sonne of God should be united and amongst the generations of men hee elected a small flock in whom by the participation of himselfe he purposed to expresse the Rayes of his Glorie all the ministration of Angels damnation of Devills and Reprobates universall administration of all Creatures and dispensation of all times have no other ends but as the waies and Ambages of God to he further glorified in his saints who are one with the Mediatour who is one with God That by the vertue of God his Eternall Counsell touching a Mediator he descended at his owne good pleasure and according to the times and seasons to himselfe best knowne to become a Creatour and by his eternall word created all things and by his eternall spirit doth comfort and preserve them That hee made all things in their first estate good and removed from himselfe leaving the beginning of all evill and vanitie unto the liberty of the creature but reserving in himselfe the beginning of all restitution and the liberty of his Grace using never thelesse and turning the falling and defection of the Creature which to his prescience was eternally known to make a way to his eternall Counsell touching a Mediatour the work he purposed to accomplish in him That God created Spirits whereof some kept their standings and others fell he created heaven and earth and all their Armies and Generations and gave unto them constant and everlasting laws which we call nature which is nothing but the laws of the Creation which lawsneverthelesse have had three changes or times and are to have their fourth and last The first when the matter of Heaven and Earth was created without forme The second by the Interim of every days worke The third by the curse which notwithstanding was no new Creation but a privation of part of the first Creation And the fourth and last at the end of the world the manner whereof is not yet revealed So as the Lawes of nature which now remaine and governe inviolably till the end of the world began to be in force when God rested from his worke and ceased to create but receaved a revocation in part by the curse since which time they change not That notwithstanding God hath rested from creating since the first Sabboth yet neverthelesse he doth accomplish and fulfill his divine will in all things great and small generall and particular as fully and exactly by providence as he could doe by miracle and new Creation though his working bee not immediate and direct but by compasse not violating nature which is his owne Lawe upon his Creatures That as at the first the soule of man was not produced of heaven or earth but was breathed immediatly from God so that the wayes and proceedings of God with Spirits are not included in nature that is in the lawes of heaven or earth but are reserved to the lawe of his secret will and grace whereby God worketh still and resteth not from the worke of Creation as he doth from the worke of Redemption but continueth working to the end of the world at what time also that work shal be accomplished and an eternall Sabboth shall ensue Likewise that whensoever God doth breake the laws of nature by miracles which ever are new Creations he never commeth to that point or passe but he hath regard to the work of Redemption which is the greater and whereunto all Gods Saints and Martyrs doe refer That God created man in his own Image or likenesse in a reasonable soule in innocencie and soveraignty that he gave him a law and command which was in his power to keep but he kept it not That man made a totall defection from God presuming to imagine that the lawes and prohibitions of God were not the rules of good and evill but that good and evill had their principles and beginnings and lusted after the knowledg of those imaginary beginnings to the end to depend no more upon Gods will revealed but upon himselfe and his owne light as a God then the which there could not be a sin more opposite to the law of God That yet neverthelesse this great sin was not originally moved by the malice of man but was insinuated by the Instigation and suggestion of the Devill who was the first defected creature and fell of malice and not by temptation That upon the fall of man death and vanity entered by the Justice of God and the Image of God in man was defaced and Heaven and Earth which were made for mans use were subdued to corruption by his fall but then that instantly and without intermission of time after the word of gods law because throgh the fall of man frustrate as to obedience there succeeded the greater word of the promise that the righteousnesse of God might be made and wrought by faith That aswell the word of God as the word of his promise endure the same for ever but that they have beene revealed in severall manners according