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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	sin_n	world_n	2,522	5	4.6350	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19458	Andrewes caueat to win sinners A true and perfect way to win carelesse sinners (if there be but the least sparke of grace in them) vnto speedy repentance, that in the end they may obtaine eternall life. Directed vnto all the elect children of God, which truly repent. Newly published by Iohn Andrewes preacher of Gods Word. Being first seene and allowed.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1631 (1631)	STC 588; ESTC S115924	10,032	26

ANDREWES CAVEAT TO WIN SINNERS A true and perfect way to win carelesse sinners if there be but the least sparke of Grace in them vnto speedy Repentance that in the end they may obtaine eternall life Directed vnto all the elect Children of God which truly repent Newly published by IOHN ANDREWES Preacher of Gods Word Being first Seene and Allowed LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate at the signe of the Bible 1631. Andrewes Caueat to win Sinners Sinne no more THe chiefe and principall thing that ariseth to our Christian consideration or meditation out of these words is the comfortable practise of our Sauiour who not only cureth this foule and loathsome diseased criple but sheweth him how hee should liue and continue his health according to that of Marlarot vpon this place Qui aegrotos sanat sanatos admonet He that healeth the diseased aduiseth how they should maintaine preserue their health Sin no more Wée are here to consider that no man is without sinne If we say wee haue no sinne we deceiue out selues and there is no truth in vs. Christ did not séeke his absolute obedience to the whole Law nor his totall immunity or fréenesse from all sinne for it is impossible for a man to bée cleane without sinne in this life And therefore our Sauiour in bidding this man sinne no more Non exegit ab omni peccato vt sit immunis Requireth not that he should bee frée from all sinne Sed comparatione vitae prioris but in comparison of his former life For our Sauiour Christ knew that hee was not only impius improbus void of all holinesse and honesty for a time but that he was insignis nebulo a notorious grosse and grieuous sinner Therefore in bidding him sinne no more Is that as hée hath formerly obeyed sinne now he must withstand it and walke no more so inordinately in it and as hée was wont to yéeld vnto it so now he must striue against it that it may reigne no more in him to captiue and enthrall his soule vnto eternall perdition For Ex sani●ate animae fit sanitas corporis The soules soundnesse is the bodies safety and if his soule had not sinned no doubt his body had not smarted but had beene alwayes preserued for the joyes of Heauen Wherefore wée may gather that the only cause of our Sauiours conference with this man in the temple was to shew him that the first and efficient cause of his sicknesse was nothing but his sinne And therefore hée admonisheth him to sinne no more lest a worse thing come vnto him Christ would haue him to sinne no more neither in Cogitatione proposito actione nec obduratione Neither in thought purpose performance nor countenance Hee would not haue him to sinne in thought lest it should cause him to stumble nor in purpose lest it make him fall nor in performance lest it cause him to lye prostrate neither in continuance lest it make him become obdurate and past all sence and féeling of sinne But aboue all things to abhor sinne Sinne no more Our Sauiour Christ would haue this man sinne no more which forewarning was a signe that hee loued him and was loath to lose him But this loue was not of him to Christ but of Christ to him whereby wee may note that Christ leueth not only proximum his néerest nor amicum his dearest for cum inimici essemus when wee were his enemies foes and aduersaries he so loued vs that he dyed for vs. If you say this man was Christs friend because he cured him I may answer he cured him indeed Amicum nondum amantem his friend not yet louing him Sed amicum vt jam amatum but as his friend now beloued of him Wherefore it may truly bée said that he was Non amicus quasi amans not his friend as louing Sed amicus vt amans but his friend as beloued But yet let vs marke Although God loue man neuer so dearely yet if he continue in his sinne he will seuerely punish him It is wonderfull and fearefull to remember how God hath dealt with those that haue beene néerest and dearest vnto him and of him best beloued How for sinne only and that but once committed as it is thought hee hath changed his countenance towards them turned ouer another leafe and hath most seuerely punished them The Angels whom hee seated in heauen and adorned with singular graces and perfections aboue all other creatures for one onely sinne of pride against the Maiesty of their Maker were hurled into hell and are holden with chaines of darknesse for euer-lasting damnation After this God made him a new friend of flesh and bloud he created Adam and placed him in Paradise whom he loued excéedingly and liued friendly and familiarly withall hée made him Vice-gerent and sole supreme Soueraigne ouer the whole world And as the Psalmist speaketh put all things in subiection vnder his féet yet for all this when once hee brake his commandement and did eat the forbidden fruit all friendship was broken betwixt them and God mightily offended insomuch that he banished him out of Paradise and condemned him and all his posterity had he not repented to eternall misery and euerlasting damnation How seuerely this sentence is executed may easily appeare by this that many millions of people yea all the sonnes of Adam are adiudged to hell fire for euer saue onely those whom Christ Iesus hath ransomed with his precious bloud and bitter passion on the crosse Lastly because I will not trouble you with a cloud of witnesses to this purpose which filleth the booke and are too long to repeat King Dauid a chosen vessell and a faithfull seruant of God as the Texttermeth him a man after Gods owne heart yet for his adultery and numbring the people God vnsheathed the sword of his vengeance and made it drunken with the bloud of seuenty thousand for his sake Hereupon let vs consider with our selues search the Scriptures and let each of vs descend into his owne soule and conscience and sée whether there bee any reason or cause in the world why God should spare vs or change the course of his justice towards vs when he hath dealt thus seuerely with great personages and holy Prophets for some few sinnes and those only of infirmity And let vs resolus with our selues that vnlesse we repent vs of our sinnes God will mete the like measure vnto vs and our reward and punishment shal be the same which hath be fallen vnto others Here we may learne what it is that is the cause of Gods anger and haleth downe a punishment vpon men the Text sets it downe in a grosse summe and in generall to be sinne For sinne causeth the children of vnbelée●e