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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	anger_n	angry_a	just_a	1,601	5	7.4510	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90059	The sinners hope: as his priviledge, and duty, in his worst condition, stated, cleared, and improved. Tending as well to the startling and inviting of the wicked from his sinfull and wretched course, upon the conditionall hopes that are layd out for him; as the confirming and directing of the truly humble and weak Christian in his duty and comfort, in the severall cases of darkness, sin, and affliction. Being the substance of severall sermons, / preached by Henry Newcome, M.A. and one of the ministers of the Gospell, at Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster.	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing N899; Thomason E1764_2; ESTC R209655	106,234	225

sin doth not evidence the want of Grace He that is born of God sinneth not 1 Jo. 3.9 The Seed of God abideth in him This Seed of God that bringeth him off makes him humble and turn to God abides in him Thy sin may argue a defect of strong Grace but not of true Grace 2. They are Not to conclude against perswasions of Gods love to them if ever they had any upon Scripture grounds I am God I change not God doth not cast off for every Offence Mar. 3.6 1 Sam. 12.21 God will not forsake his People for his great Names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make them his People 3. They are Not to conclude this sin less pardonable then another God can forgive this as well as he hath forgiven others and will do it upon their repentance for it Psa 151.1 Forgive my sin for it is great A great Sin infinite Mercy can forgive If we sin he is not only Mercifull but just and faithfull in respect of his Justice so fully satisfied by Christ and his Truth of promise whereby he is engaged to forgive us our sins CAP. IV. The Grounds of the Sinners Hopes as before stated 3. THe Reasons why a Sinner should take notice of and cherish his hopes in his worst condition 1. Because of the large footing God hath given for a Sinners hoping in any state almost R. 1. he can be in by his sin 1. The first ground is the Lords disposition and nature of mercy and placableness towards a poor Sinner Which gives him footing for his hope abundantly in any particular case As 1. From his Name and Attributes whereby he hath made himself known to his people God proclaims his Name to Moses to be the Lord the Lord God the powerfull the mighty Jehovah Exod. 34. which ministers comfort when annexed to his manifestation of himself in this way of mercy Mercifull inclined to pity the sin and misery of his people ready to relieve them in their distress and not only just to require the due Service and punish the defaults Gracious of an affable condescending descending nature not standing upon the distance that he is in as a great King above all his Creatures he may be petitioned sought unto and prevailed with by his poor Suitors Long-suffering that is not hasty to use severity with the worst of Sinners usually taking all other waies first with them 1 Tim. 2.4 Willing that all men should repent and come to the knowledge of the truth Trying many that repent not with much goodness to draw them to it Rom. 9.22 Enduring with much patience the very Vessells of wrath before he brings Destruction on them And one that with his own Children bears abundantly takes them not at the worst in every thing they do Suffers their manners in the Wilderness Can take great Indignities at their hands and pass them by upon their repentance Micah 7.18 and put them up That passeth by the transgression of his people If his people want good things though they deserve them not at his hands yet he hath Goodness out of which he is ready to supply them he can satisfie them out of his goodness he hath made them promises of mercy upon all occasions of their sin and repentance And he is a God of truth He holds himself though no Debtor to us yet a Debtor to his own good Word to his Servants and both these in no stinted manner but he is abundant in them We cannot need him so far but his goodness and truth abounds to us he will multiply his goodness and truth to us upon occasion many have had experience of his mercy but this exhalts it not to those that come after He keeps mercy for thousands not only shews mercy but reserves mercy for thousands and not only in some cases but in all cases he forgives Iniquity transgression and sin Now observe he proclaims himself by this Name when the people had finned a great and fearfull sin in making a Calf in Horeb when he was highly provoked Would have destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stood in the breach c. Yet for all this Ps 106.23 this great provocation could not make him change his Name but though he declares his resolution to visit for obstinate sin yet he will for all that be known by no name but this in respect of the truly penitent 2. He is described to be slow of anger Ps 103.8 not easily provoked men are soon provoked great men usually expect more punctuall observance then others and are easily incensed if they be not observed in every circumstance But God is slow to anger It were sad for us if we had such an one of him so hard to please so very criticall so easily moved as some Children and Servants have Parents and Masters of us But God is not so he would have us slow to wrath Ja. 1.19 for so should we be Children of Our Father which is in Heaven for such a one indeed is he 3. Not apt to stir up all his anger upon any enforcing occasion or provocation Moses was frighted over the people Deut. 9.19 when he saw the Lords wrath waxed hot for he saw nothing but a consuming fire in it for them But many times he turns his anger away and puts up some peevish untowardness in us Psa 78.38 And when he is angry he doth not stir up all his wrath it would be sad if he did 4. Not apt to be long angry he will not retain his wrath Ps 30.5 6. 86.5 Isa 57.16 he will not contend with his Creatures for then the Spirit would fail before him and the Soul that he hath made Many of us for no cause can be angry and heartily angry and long angry but if we have just cause of provocation we rather study how to express our anger then how to bear the Offence and few think at all how to proportion our anger so as to know how they can bear it against whom it is stirred Ps 103.14 But he though provoked is considering our frame and remembring not only what he can do against us and what we have done against him to provoke him to it but what we are and what we can undergo of what he might lay upon us Now who ever they are that make it their first work to despait in every difficult case they must needs have other thoughts of God then what these expressions manifest of him If he be such a one what case is there but one may have some hopes about it 2. The second ground is That full and compleat way of mercy that he hath found out and set forth for us in Jesus Christ He is one not only with whom Mat. 3. ult but in whom he is well pleased well pleased with all that have interest in him He is every way such an high Priest as became us