Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	faith_n	hear_v	3,681	5	5.4955	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42456	An answer to Mr. George Walkers vindication, or rather, fresh accusation wherein he chargeth Mr. Wotton, besides his former foul aspersions of heresie and blasphemy, with Arianism, Mr. Gataker with Socinianism, Dr. Gouge and Mr. Downham with a fase attestation, Dr. Baylie and Mr. Stock with self-condemnation, all the eight ministers employed in the busines between himself and Mr. Wotton with partiality and unjust judgement : upon occasion of a relation concerning that busines / written by the said Thomas Gataker and by him now again avowed, wherein the said M. Walkers vindication is in many things shewed to be an untrue relation.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1642 (1642)	Wing G310; ESTC R14600	105,275	140

his meaning to be that our Repentance is the cause of the remission of our sins This saith he we disallow for as hath a thousand times been shewed Remission of sins that is justification is in nature before repentance and it is impossible therefore to be the cause of it For it is not Repentance but Christs sacrifice that is the true cause of the remission of our sins God indeed promiseth pardon to the repentant but we deny repentance to be the cause for which God doth pardon Here M. Walker strikes in to help Socinus at a dead lift and telleth us contrary to his Text sure without any warrant at all from it that by obtaining forgivenes of sins Socinus means getting the sense and assurance of forgivenesse a glosse wel-beseeming him that professeth such a detestation of the very least sent or shadow of Socinianism in others The third point is that faith is a beleeving of that which Christ taught and an assurance of obtaining that he promised upon our repentance and obedience Which whether it be a just definition of justifying Faith for of that here the question is or do fitly expresse the office of it in the worke of justification I leave to be discussed by others M. Wotton relateth it to shew how that in laying down the nature and office of justifying faith he goes an other way then Socinus doth and further then Socinus either doth or can holding his own grounds follow him who indeed thus defines Faith to bring all home to Repentance and obed●enee as in the former point and to exclude Christs merit and ought done or endured by him as satisfactory for mans sin as appeares plainly by the whole context of his discourse in that Chapter out of which these words are alledged And I would demand of M. Walker how he can free himself from Socinianism when he maintains such points as these for sound and orthodox in Socinus and what censure himself would hape past upon an other that should have thus blancht and vernisht over such Assertions of Socinus As also I would know of him with what face he that condemns in M. Wotton as hereticall and blasphemous positions these propositions To beleeve in Christ is to trust in Christ and to rest on him to have his heart setled and to rely wholy and onely on him and This trust is such a faith as makes us rest upon God for the performance of his promise doth now pronounce Socinus his definition of faith such as you have heard to be true Orthodox and sound But hereby any party not extreamly partiall may easily judge what spirit this man is caried with throughout this whole busines For as for his twenty times sodden Coleworts so oft served in of M. Wottons taking the word Faith in the Apostles words in a proper sense Christs fulfilling the Law for us in our steed Faith being the condition of the Gospel c. taking out M. Walkers fillings and glosses set upon them which concern M. Wotton no more then himselfe enough before hath been said and if M. Walker can prove them to be heretical opinions many illustrious stars besides M. Wotton will by a blast of M. VValkers breath as by the Dragons tail in the vision be thrown out of Heaven and not struck down to the ground only but even hurld into Hel. His first question is Whether M. Wotton deny not the free covenant of Grace when he holds that God covenants not to justifie and give life but upon a condition performed on our part equivalent for all purposes to mans fulfilling of the Law in his own person in the covenant of works To which briefly 1. To covenant to give a thing upon some condition may nothing impeach the freenesse either of the covenant or of the gift as to covenant with one to give him a shilling that you have let fall lying on the ground if he will but stoop and take it up And here by the way to satisfie some who cannot endure to heare of any condition in the promises of the Gospel which yet are every where so propounded let it be considered that a gift or a promise may be said to be free or not free divers waies and in divers respects 1. Free in regard both of condition and of consideration By consideration understanding some valuable consideration as in common speech we use to speak and so it is absolutely every way free as if I promise one to bestow a book upon him and to send it home to him and so do Here being neither condition nor consideration interposed 2. Free in regard neither of condition nor of confideration as if I promise one to give him such a book of mine if he will give me another of his in lieu of it for here is both condition and consideration which both concurring destroy the freenes of it 3. Free in regard of consideration tho not free in regard of condition as if I promise to give one such a book gratis if he wil but cal to me at mine house for it supposing that I dwell at next dore or neer to him Nor doth it derogate ought from the freenes of a gift if it have been promised upon such a condition and the promise made good upon the performance of it no more then a Princes pardon would be deemed lesse free were it granted upon condition of taking it out and that free also for any to do that wil of free cost without fee. or his alms were they propounded and published to all that would but repaire to the Court for them Nor doth M. Wotton therefore necessarily denie the freenesse of Gods gratious covenant if he hold justification and life eternal not to be promised therein but upon condition So M. Fox answering those that might object that to him that M. Walker here to M. Wotton If Gods promise be restrained to certain conditions how shall we maintain with Paul the freenes of Gods mercy whereby he freely justifyeth a sinner Yes saith he I deem and determine Goas mercy to be most free in Christ. albeit this salvation by the merit of Christ be not derived unto us but upon a certaine condition And M. Perkins before recited The condition of the covenant is by grace as wel as the substance Whereunto ad M. Pembles reason that therefore this covenant is a compact of freest mercy because therein life eternal is given to that that beares not the least proportion of worth with it 2. That this condition is Faith the performance whereof is as availeable for our good as perfect obedience at first had been if it be an heresie why doth not M. Walker require M. Pembles if not bones yet books to be burnt as containing in them hereticall and blasphemous doctrine at least why doth he not arraign and condemn him for an heretick as wel as M. Wotton for he hath as hath been shewed the