Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	nature_n	soul_n	2,893	5	5.2542	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01725	Foure sermons vpon seuerall partes of scripture, preached by George Gyffard, preacher of the worde, at Maudlin in Essex	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1598 (1598)	STC 11859; ESTC S117695	68,936	149

heauenly and glorious life then wee that die to sinne with him must needes be raised vp also with him into the partaking of that spirituall and heauenly life As the killing and burying of sinne is called the putting off the olde man so this rising with Christ vnto new of life is called the putting on of the new man This is to walke in true holynes Seeing all this is thus I pray you how can hee be a true Christian that doth continue in sinne Shall wee continue still in sinne that grace may abound You see it manifest that a true Christian is so farre off from continuing in sinne that contrariwise he doth walke in newnesse of life This Saint Paul doth further examplifie in the verses that follow namelie that all they which die with Christ vnto sinne must needes also rise with him vnto the partaking of the newe life and further that being once raised vp from the death of sinne into that life of righteousnes they neuer returne backe againe to liue vnto sinne Touching the former of these for to expresse it hee vseth a similitude taken from a plant If saith he we be grafted to the similitude of his death euen so shall wee be to the similitude of his resurrection Thus it is in the naturall plant as we also doe knowe that when the siences are grafted into a stocke and that is digged into the ground if the stocke die they die with it and if the stocke doe growe and spring vp they doe growe and spring vp with it Euen so the holie Apostle teacheth that a man being by faith grafted into Christ as he is grafted and doth grow to him by a mysticall and spirituall vnion to die with him that is as Christ died to slay sinne so he dyeth to sinne or sinne by the power of Christes death is slain in him likewise he is grafted vnto the similitude of his resurrection that is he receiueth the sappe of life from Christ as from the stocke into which he is grafted and so doth liue and grow vp by him Then you see by the doctrine of the holy Apostle that from the neere coniunction which the faithfull haue with Christ these two thinges goe inseperablie together the dying to sinne and the rising to the newe life euen the life of righteousnesse For how should a man be in Christ and seperate these As a man cannot haue iustification except hee be in Christ Iesus and if he be in him he must needes with it bee partaker of the grace and power of sanctification so also if he be partaker of the one parte of sanctification he can not be voide of the other If he be dead and buried with Christ he shall also rise with him Whereby this is manifest that where holie life appeareth not in a man there sinne is not slaine for where there is a death and a buriall of sinne there must needes be a resurrection vnto a new life All they then are in the bondage of their sinnes which are not by the resurrection of Christ quickned vnto a new life euen to walke in the vertues of him that calleth vs. What shall wee say vnto those also which will seeme to haue the latter without the former They would seeme to be verie riche and plenteous in good workes and so to liue vnto righteousnesse but looke vpon their life and examine it by the rules of the holie worde of God and you shall behodle great and grieuous vices that raigne in them As those other which make no shewe of good workes are awrie when they imagine that they haue parte in the death of Christ and yet they are not partakers of his resurrection because they haue no holy life so these are vtterly deceiued which will seeme to be risen with Christ vnto an holie life and yet were neuer dead and buryed with him In deede they cannot be raised vnto the life of righteousnesse vnlesse they haue first died vnto sinne Will they be grafted to the similitude of Christes resurrection and haue not bene grafted with him to the similitude of his death What then are all those good workes which they worke that together with those good workes doe mingle so many bad vices all their life long Surely their good deedes are euen such as the almes fasting and prayers of the Pharisies which Christ doth reproue Mat. 6. Take this for a most vndoubted truth that there is no holy life but from the vertue of Christs resurrection There is no partaking of the true life of God and consequently not of any action of that true life but from hence that a man be grafted with Christ to the similitude of his resurrection And therefore all the good deeds which men doe that haue not sin first slaine in them proceed but of vain-glory selfe-loue or from other such sinister respects What is it when a prophane dispiser of Gods word an horrible abuser of Gods name by swearing a couetous a proude and an hawty person or an idolater doth almes deeds The poore indeede are relieued by it but they doe not any thing that is good before God And now touching the words that follow Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sinne might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serue sinne for he that is dead is freed froÌ„ sinne This being so notable a matter touching our ingrafting into Christ and growing together with him to the similitude of his death and resurrectioÌ„ the Apostle doth yet lay it open further and so coÌ„meth to that other pointe which I noted of not returning backe again from the life of righteousnes to liue vnto sin But heere now the speeches which are vsed be very effectuall to expresse to open vnto vs this whole matter As the olde man crucified the bodie of sinne abolished and the seruice of sinne from which we are freed First what is it which hee calleth our old man This you must vnderstand or else you shall not attaine to the doctrine of the Apostle It is neyther the essence of our soule nor body which is called the old man but the corrupt qualities As also the new man is in the pure vncorrupted qualities as wheÌ„ we are willed to put off the old man and to put on the new man it is a speech borrowed from the putting off and on of garments for the putting off the old man is as the putting off a most filthy garment the putting on the new man is as the putting on of a pure and clean garment Then further we must note why it is called a man our old man and that is because the filthy corruption hath by nature ouerspread all parts of man both within and without All the powers and faculties of the soule and all the partes of the body are defiled so that there is nothing pure in man as he is in himselfe by nature The power and dominion of sinne hath gotten the mastery ouer all that

is in man For this cause also euen as the naturall body of man hath diuerse members so there are ascribed members to the old man as when he saith Mortifie therefore your earthly members Colos 3. And then reconeth vp particularly those members of the old man euen vnclean vices as you may reade in that Chap. Then he saith Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him Here the manner of the death is noted by which this our old corruption of sinne is slaine teaching withall that it is not crucified but in the crosse of Christ for he saith With him This our old man will retaine his force and power vntill hee be slaine it is not in man to come out of the bondage of his natiue corruption vntil it be wounded to death and nothing there is that can giue that deadly stroke vnto it but onely the death of Christ wherfore it is said to be crucified with him When a man is in Christ and so the efficacy of Christs death hath crucified his old maÌ„ yet there is still a body of sinne there doth remaine that whole dead carkasse though not with the force and dominion it had before which daylie by little and little is consumed abolished for so the words of the Apostle are that the body of sinne might be destroyed First the old man is crucified that so the body of sin may be destroyed Behold here what is wroght by the redeemer Sinne in mans nature may be espied and many goodly precepts may be giuen against it with perswasions to come out of it but all in vaine vntill it be crucified with Christ Moreouer this we are to note that the slaine body of sinne though through the burial of christ it do coÌ„sume is diminished in the regenerate so that froÌ„ day to day the remnaÌ„ts of sin haue lesse lesse force in theÌ„ yet it remaineth in them none are fully deliuered from it so long as they liue in this world for you may reade what the great Apostle cryeth out touching himselfe O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death Rom. 7.24 This slaine body of sinne doth still annoy al the faithfull but as he giueth thanks there we shal bee fully deliuered by Christ Iesus our Lord. Nowe followeth the end why our old man is crucified namely that henceforth wee should not serue sin By nature we are all in bondage wee are vnder a most tyrannous Lord that ruleth ouer vs euen sin wee doe our seruice and obedience thereto Christ doth set vs free from this bondage as he saith If the sonne make you free then are you free indeede Iohn 8. and it is by slaying the tyrant wherefore he saith He that is dead is free from sinne Wee all knowe this that death setteth the bond seruant free from his master Here-upon S. Paule doth reason that if we be dead with Christ vnto sinne then are we freed from it So that you may plainely see that they that doe in such sort professe the Gospell of Christ as that they doe continue still in sin are little acquainted with this that Christ came to slay sin that wee by dying there-unto might be set free froÌ„ the seruice and bondage thereof And now to the other point which is that hee which is once crucified with Christ so is ded to sin the same must needs as we shewed before rise with him liue with him wherevpoÌ„ it followeth that he which so hath died risen with Christ can neuer returne againe vnto the spiritual death which is to liue to sin This point is not common I meane euery one doth not vnderstand it and therefore I doe pray you to marke well the speeches of the holy Apostle Wherefore if we be dead with Christ wee beleeue that we shal also liue with him This hath a necessary consequence as you haue seene before in the similitude of a plant where the science grafted in growing to the stocke doeth die and liue with it If theÌ„ we be dead with Christ vnto sinne If the power of his death hath crucified our old man then doe we beleeue that we also rise with him vnto the new life for hee rising vp to life how should we being plaÌ„ted into him and growing vnto him but rise also to life with him This is the first step vnto the matter now in hand Then in the next place he addeth that Christ being enrred into that heauenly life neuer returneth out of it to die anie more This is so euident that he saith Knowing that Christ beeing raised from the deade dieth no more death hath no more dominion ouer him If death haue no more dominion ouer him then can he neuer returne from that glorious life for life is not taken away but by death Nowe that death shall haue no more dominion ouer him he sheweth by this reason that in that he dyed he dyed once to sinne but in that he lyueth he lyueth to God This was the cause why Christ dyed euen that he might satisfie for the sinne of the world and that he might destroye sinne This being once done there is now no cause why it should euer bee done againe for the full satisfaction is made at once for euer and sinne by his crosse shall bee vtterly dissolued But touching his life the Apostle saith he liueth to God his life then is perpetuall and euerlasting Thus much touching Christ the head And now hee commeth to the application of it in the members Likewise thinke yee also that ye are dead to sinne but are aliue to GOD in Iesus Christ our Lord. First in these wordes the Apostle willeth vs not barely as the worde is translated to thinke for that is but an opinion but to conclude as it were necessarie by a Syllogisme for that speech he vseth that wee are deade to sinne and are aliue to God through Christ Iesus our Lord. Here now lyeth the force of his matter as Christ dyed but once for to satisfie for sinne to slay it so all the true members of Christ can but once die to sinne Sinne or the olde man being once crucified in them and hauing receiued the deaths wound can neuer reuiue againe Christ dyed once to sinne so his must die but once to sin for being in him can they be off and on now dead to sin now aliue vnto it Most true it is that sinne is in the faithfull by degrees put downe and not at once but yet it is at once by the death of Christ slaine Then the partie in whome the old man is once crucified and slaine is also rysen with Christ and is partaker of the new life and so with him or rather in him is aliue to God Then marke the drift of the Apostle If Christ could die but once to sinne and then liueth for euer then they that be in Christ can die but once to sinne and likewise doe liue with him to God for

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