Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	mankind_n	sin_n	4,610	5	5.2552	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10050	A description of the natural condition of being in the flesh. A sermon / preached by Nicholas Smyth ... And published at the request of some private friends for the publique good.	Smith, Nicholas, d. 1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing S4138; ESTC R184316	20,153	60

Galatians 19 and 20 verses The works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication laciviousness uncleanness Idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulation wrath strife seditious heresies envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like they are exceedingly in love with these and spare not to commit them so far forth as they come not within the compass of mens laws to be punished yea and many times they leap over the laws of God and the land wallow in swinish pleasures and sinful surfeting follow their brutish appetites their sinful and sensual desires give no law to their unbridled passions to their loose carriages to their dissolute behaviours to their unjust practises the restraint neither of Gods laws nor of mens can keep them within bounds but they break both and pursue their evil courses with all vehemency and violence And are such as the Scripture speaketh of the unjust Judge They neither fear God nor 18 Luke 4 ver regard man but oppress the poor grind their faces undo the fatherless and widows against all law and equity and yet they have no sence nor feeling of their sins they are touched with no remorse for them The terror of the law which doometh death and damnation to the breach of the least of Gods Commandments the horror of their own guilty consciences when they see their sins laid before them in their own ugly plight shape and form doth not make them so to groan under the burden of their sins that they should see what a sweet thing it is to have a Saviour what a happiness it is to be a Christian They are not so wearied with the heavy load and burden of their sins that they should seek and finde rest in Christ Jesus But they 5 Wis 7 8 ver weary themselves in the way of wickednes and never say what hath pride profited us Or what good hath riches with our vanting brought us till they groan out this in hell where they are never like to have part in God or inheritance in Christ These now are the wicked and such as these they are in the flesh and fulfil the desires of the flesh and of the minde and sure some such men as these the Apostle yieldeth and granteth that there may be They have not their understanding informed nor their reason rectified Their talk is of bullocks and they know 〈◊〉 how to give the kine fodder or their discourse is of their wares and their merchandise and they know how to buy and sell and get gain But they are strangers in Israel unacquainted with the mysteries of Christ and his kingdom That Christ came down from heaven and 13 Act. 23 ver was inclosed in the virgins womb that he was born of the seed of David and took flesh for our redemption his Priestly his Princely his Prophetical office his being God his being Man the necessity of his being both for our redemption His humiliation his exaltation his humility that he humbled himself and became obedient to death even the death of the Cross his exaltation his rising again from the dead his glorification his leading captivity captive These are things that they have small knowledge of or if they have some confused knowledge of the fall of Adam of the corrupt state and condition of all mankind since the fall of the impossibility of keeping Gods Laws and Commandements and of the necessity of a Saviour to free us from the curse of sin which is death and from the punishment of the breach of Gods Laws which is damnation have they now a lively 5 Gal. 6 ver faith that worketh by love to purge their consciences from dead works to serve the living Lord Do they believe in Jesus Christ and him crucified yet they believe that there is one God and one Mediator between 2 Tim. 2 c. 5 ver God and man the man Christ Jesus Yea S. Iames telleth them that the 2 Jam. 19 ver devils believe and tremble But do they believe that Christ died for their sins and rose again for their 4 Rom. 8 ver justification yea they believe that Christ died for the sins of the whole world and more particularly for 1 Tim. 4 c. 10 ver theirs and they are ready at any time when they are weary and heavy laden with the burden of their sins to apply Christ and his merits to themselves for the remission of them and therefore they make no question but they are truly engraffed into Christ and made lively members of his body yea they weary Christ with the load and burden of their sins and make him their pack-horse to bear their iniquities and as God speaketh by his Prophet He is pressed under them as a cart is pressed that 2 Amos 13 ver as full of sheaves But do they so groan under the burden of their sins that they desire to be rid of them and to purge them out of their hearts Doth their faith in Christ for the remission of their sins increase their hatred of 2 Cor. 7 c. 1 ver sin and their desire to cleanse themselves from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit Hereby they shall know whether they be in Christ or no They that are Christs the Apostle telleth us have crucified the flesh with the affections 5 Gal. 24 ver and lusts Unless therefore men crucifie the flesh and mortifie their earthly members fornication uncleanness immoderate affection evil concupiscence covetousness and the like they are not in Christ but are still in the flesh and whatsoever right or title they may plead to Christ they are carnally they are earthly minded Let not sin reign in your mortal 6 Rom. 12 ver bodies that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof If then mens hearts and consciences tell them that they are not renewed in the spirit of their 4 Eph. 23. minde their hearts are set upon evil the thoughts of their hearts are evil and 6 Gen. 5 ver that continually the evil desires of the flesh they swarm there and the carnal desires of the mind they nourish and cherish them please themselves in them take a great deal of delight to suffer their mindes to wander after vain pleasures and sinful delights and as for the inward corruption of the heart they give no stay nor stop to it For the proneness and propensity of the heart to evil and the indisposition thereof to do good they see it not or if they do they love it with all their heart and desire to live and die in this polluted estate this corrupted condition over run with sin and iniquity Their heart is corrupt their conscience defiled and yet they are touched with no remorse for the inward pollution of their souls for the outward defilement of their bodies but make sin their solace and iniquity their pastime and if God do so work by his word by the good motions of his Spirit by