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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	effect_n	sin_n	1,588	5	5.2412	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04156	The conuerts happines· A comfortable sermon preached at S. Maries Spittle in London, in Easter-weeke, the 19. April. 1609. By Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word, at Wye in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1609 (1609)	STC 14298; ESTC S107440	42,495	61

knocketh at the doore open vnto him yea imbrace and hugge him in the armes of faith and say welcome Christ for there is none that I desire in comparison of thee and when he is once entred carry thy selfe so as thou dost not grieue his spirit and prouoke him to depart which nothing can doe but sinne he can brook pouerty sickenesse persecution slaunder or any misery there is nothing maketh him weary of dwelling with vs but sinne onely that doth seperate him and vs But what benefite shal we haue by his comming in vnto vs that the second promise sheweth I will suppe with him and he with me where by the metaphor of a Supper or feast the sweet and heauenly Communion and Fellowshippe betwixt Christ and a sinfull soule conuerted are shaddowed out which holy Communion consisteth in a mutuall or reciprocall giuing and receiuing and therefore shaddowed out by a double Supper first the soule conuerted suppeth with Christ for he saith I will suppe with him Now the dishes that she hath to present and entertaine him withall are these three Viz. first sinne secondly sorrow for sinne thirdly misery the effect of sinne The first I say is sinne for if this dish be wanting in the seruice Christ is not welcome Nay he will not tarry Supper for he is come to seeke and to saue that which was lost the whole neede not the Physition but those that are sick he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance howsoeuer then proude Merit-mongers and Iusticiaries may with Martha take care and trouble themselues about many things yet is this the one needful thing which our Sauiour Christ taketh in good parte and the Angels of heauen reioyce at Viz. that we present our sinnes vnto him and say with the prodigall sonne Father I haue sinned against heauen and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne and with the humble Publicane O God be mercifull vnto me a sinner The second is sorrow for sinne this is a mournfull Supper where is not heard the sound of the Vyoll Tabret and Harpe and such like Instruments of Musicke but of grieuous mourning and lamentation like Rachel who wept and could not be comforted as if they had obtained ●eremies wish euen their heads to be full of water and their eyes a fountaine of teares so the Prophet Ioel preparing men to this Super biddeth them turne to the Lord with al their hearts with fasting weeping and mourning Saint Iames doth the like suffer afflictions sorrow and weepe let your laughter be turned into mourning and your ioy into heauines so we reade that King Iosiah his heart melted and he rent his clothes and wept before the Lord the like did King Dauid he caused his bedde to swimme and watered his Couch with teares Peter went out and wept bitterly and the sinfull woman washed Christs feete with her teares and how acceptable this was appeareth from Christs owne wordes to Simon Simon seest thou this woman thou gauest me no water but shee hath washed my feeee with teares yea blessed saith he are they t●at mourne A broken and contrite spirit is a sacrifice pleasing vnto God yea more acceptable then a Bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes and for this cause Saint Paul vvas glad that he had made the Corinthians godly sory yea I vvould to God I could make you so sory for your sins and cause such abundance of teares to be shedde for the same that this place might be called Bothim vvee should neuer a one of vs haue cause to repent or to be sorie for such a sorrovv The third and last is misery the effects of sinne as hunger thirst vvearisomnes sadnes pouertie anger c. vvhich being presented vnto Christ he taketh them at our hands yea he so farre submitted himselfe to all the generall and vnblameable infirmites and passions of our nature that the Prophet Esay foretolde hee should neither haue forme nor beautie but men vvould hide as it vvere their faces from him and Dauid confesseth in his person I am a worme and noman yea a shame of men and the contempt of the people my strength is dried vp like a potsheard my tongue cleaueth to my iawes and I may tell all my bones But passing from this supper which hath nothing but sinne sorrow and miserie let vs come to the second part of this blessed Communion and see what a royall and happy feast Christ maketh vnto the conuerted sinner noted in these last words of my Text and ●e with me he commeth not to be entertained onely but to entertaine also if any inuite Christ as the Church doth saying Let my welbe loued come to his garden and eate his pleasant fruit he is not a churlish Nabal but wil inuite them againe and that to a royall feast indeed euen to a feast of fatte things full of marrow and of wines fined and purified and will say eate friends drinke and make you merrie O yee beloued which blessed Supper is heere begun and continued in his kingdome for euer wherein these three things are principally communicated vnto vs first righteousnes in steade of sinfulnesse so Saint Paul saith he is made of God to be vnto vs wisdome righteousnes sanctification and redemption and againe he was made sinne that knew no sinne that wee might be made the righteousnes of God through him whose righteousnes of fulfilling and suffering actiue and passiue being made ours by faith the sinnes of omission and commission are done away and wee stand before God not onely as not hauing broken his law but also as hauing absolutely kept and fulfilled it The second is ioy and peace in stead of sorrovv and anguish he taketh avvay our sackcloth and girdeth vs with gladnes for hauing his righteousnes and being iustified we haue peace with God yea and ioy in God vnspeakeable and glorious which we can neither suppresse nor expresse which yet is but a taste as the bunch of Grapes were to the Israelites the full fruition is not granted till we come into Gods presence where are the fulnes of ioyes where they shall drinke of the Riuers of pleasure and be satisfied with the fatnes of Gods house where ioy shal not enter into them for it is so great as heart cannot conceiue the taste of it but they shall enter into it and bathe themselues in ioy and euen swimme in the bottomlesse streame of the sweete pleasure of God as a little fish taketh his pastime in the huge Ocean Sea The third and last is happines and felicity in steade of our wretchednes and misery which consisteth both in full redemption from all euill and the perpetuall fruition of all good in regard