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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	deed_n	faith_n	justify_v	7,974	5	8.9335	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54652	A caveat against covetousness occasioned by some scandalous and pernicious fruit of it, in one amongst us, whose heart went after it / written for admonition to others, by Charles Phelpes.	Phelpes, Charles.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1974; ESTC R13348	74,727	85

world and loose his own soul these are idolaters and as such they shall be punished their worm dyeth not in that lake into which they shall be cast and their fire is not quenched Were it not infinitely better for us now to receive the love of the truth that we may be saved from our iniquities and idols than expose our selves to the wrath to come Oh who knoweth the power of it what shall a man then give in exchange for his soul than a great ransome cannot deliver will he esteem thy riches no not gold nor all the forces of strength Job 36. 18 19. these profit not in a day of wrath Oh how dreadful will it then be when the Son of man shall say Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire propared for the Devil and his angels For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink I was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and ye cloathed me not sick and in prison and ye visited me not Math. 25. 41-43 He saith not your heart was so given to your covetousness you so loved the world and the things thereof that you defrauded me and took away from me wrongfully what was mine you were not content with that portion of earthly things that was in your own possession but you coveted mine and took it away by violence and extortion and so exposed me to hunger thirst cold and nakedness no this was not directly laid to their charge though this is strongly supposed to be a more grievous iniquity but that for which they are sentenced to everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord it is that they did not cast their bread upon the waters they withheld more than was meet and now it tends to this great poverty they are now left destitute of his favour and for ever separated from him and doomed to the vengeance of eternal fire now when his poor servants that formerly injoyed their evil things are comforted those who formerly injoyed their good things are tormented and shall be so for ever For there will then be such a great gulf fixed that there is no passing from that state and condition to another Luk. 16. 25. at this our heart may tremble and be moved out of place who amongst us will give ear to this who will hearken and hear for the time to come such an one as thus shuts up the bowels of his compassion when opened may possibly by some men be look't upon as an hard man and as one that too much loves his money and this may be deemed as a venial or small offence in him and yet he may pass for an honest man though somewhat hard but were it wisely considered how such wil hereafter be proceeded against it would as viewed in Christ in whom there is now forgiveness and cleansing and power to deliver from the wrath to come be powerful to awaken us to quit our selves from this iniquity What hath been said in shewing that we may take heed and beware of covetousness and by what means we may do it may be of usefulness to us Vse 1. To shew unto us the preciousness of the blood of Christ in its vertue and in it's discovery for redeeming us 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. As that is it whereby forgiveness is procured peace made spirit received great and precious promises confirmed eternal life and redemption obtained so the discovery and application thereof is that whereby he doth wash us from our sins Rev. 1. 5 1 Joh. 1. 7. redeem us unto God from the Earth and from amongst men Rev. 5. 9. and 14. 4 5. purges from dead works as well as from those that are deadly to serve the living God Heb. 9. 14. 2. It shews unto us the reason why we are not washed from this filthiness of covetousness namely because we come not unto and are not obedient to the blood of sprinkling 1 Pet. 1. 2. Eph. 5. 6. for were we obedient thereto it would save us and if we do not thus experiment it let us judge our selves and search and try our ways for certainly we have been wandring out of the way of understanding 1 Cor. 15. 2. 1 Thes 1. 9 10. Oh thou who art named the house of Jacob is the spirit of the Lord straitned are these his doings do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly Mica 2. 2-7 3. Let it instruct and ingage us to give more earnest heed to the things which God hath testified of his Son in what he hath done and is become in what he is now doing and in what he will do and so let us receive and walk in the spirit minding the things of the spirit and we shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh Gal. 5. 16. this is our victory even our faith who is he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God 1 Joh. 5. 4 5. it is onely through the spirit we may mortify the deeds of the body Rom. 8. 13. it is good for us to know that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Christ the word of faith in which he is now manifested to be the foundation and object of faith as formerly he was not that we may believe in Jesus Christ that we may be justifyed and cleansed also as justified sometimes signifies as Dan. 8. 14. by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified Gal. 2. 16. That we may therefore flee covetousness consider we and remember what God hath given us in Christ and the hope set before us to be possessed and injoyed when he shall appear in glory and wait through the spirit who glorifies Christ for the hope of Gods righteousness through faith so shall we meet with his Divine power for delivering us from every path of the destroyer Col. 3. 3-5 Gal. 5. 5. And to ingage us to take heed and beware of covetousness let us briefly consider the motive here laid down by our Savior to seal home this caution For a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth From whence we noted 3. That the consideration of this that a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth is also proper as viewed in the glorious Gospel to move us to receive this admonition viz. to take heed and beware of covetousness By the abundance of the things which he possesseth is here meant the things of this present world as appears in that it is said a man as a man possesseth them and by the parable which our Savior presently joyns unto this Caveat Luk. 12. 16-18 the things of the Earth which he possesseth here on Earth as distinguished from what is laid up in Heaven in the motions and teaching of his grace And by a man's life is