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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	punishment_n	sin_n	6,862	5	5.5451	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15826	The saints sufferings, and sinners sorrowes. Or, The evident tokens of the salvation of the one, and the perdition of the other Phil. I.28, 2 Thes. I.6,7	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.	1631 (1631)	STC 26087; ESTC S101332	67,289	372

propagates Evangelicall faith or the want of it to his posterity It is personall both in the habite and privation No man is saved but by his owne faith or condemned but by his owne infidelity The want of faith in Christ is every mans proper sinne and can be imputed to none without the Gospel Wee make it the Churches sinne and not of all the world Gods preparation and donation of faith Leaving the power of Mans innocency and vniversall freedome to beleeve legally or Evangellically wee fall into the safe way and say that wheresoe●●● the Gospel is preached God gives or is prepared to give faith in Christ Hee mockes no man but is serious in the salvation of every soule to which the Gospel is sent Every hearer in the Church is zealously perswaded to repent The Ministers minde and Gods meet in his holy ordinances and the Word is earnestly spoken to every eare God himselfe goes with his message from seate to seate and from man to man with true and hearty desire of his conversion yet notwithstanding he gives not equall grace to all as shall appeare in our distribution thereof The donation of faith Act. 13.48 As many as were ordained to eternal life beloved To the Elect hee gives faith He is not onely prepared to preach unto them his Gospell but hee prepares their hearts to receive it He gives unto his chosen ones the blessed Gospel of peace and reconciliation and hee gives them faith to beleeve it We have all the same capacity but not the same conformitie Our powers are alike in understanding and will but that obedientiall and filiall subjection to God and his Gospel is peculiar to some God is prepared to give faith to all that heare his Gospel Matth. 23.37 I would yee would not It is the will of God by the Gospel that all should be gathered unto him Mans will resisteth Gods will and makes that Gospel of none effect that should be effectuall unto all God may adde further grace and give men hearts to receive as freely as his Gospell is offered unto them but such grace is a royall prerogative and reserved for some of many All are beholding to God but some finde and feele the very riches of his grace and are never able to be thankefull enough that they above others should receive so much Of the righteousnesse of God To require performance and give no power is as unequall in the command to al as it is in the gift to some To seeke where hee sowes not and to reape without labour is unreasonable if not unrighteous Man never had power to obey and therefore a heavy and harsh command is imposed upon him Mans power to obey the Gospel There is never a man but is guilty of that power that God hath given him and does lesse than he is inabled by his owne freedome There is no man but he may frequent the meanes and come to the place of Gods worship Secondly being come hee hath eares to heare Thirdly he hath an understanding to know the logicke and language of the holy Ghost Fourthly by that knowledge to come to an historicall faith Fiftly to affect reverence and regard both Ministers and message Sixtly to bring forth some fruits Seventhly to attend and wait daily for the regenerating Spirit that may convert and turne him truely unto God This power man useth not and is justly condemned for the abuse of it Want of faith in Christ simply no sinne If condemnation were absolutely and originally from faith a power were necessary to beleeve but in divers cases faith is found to be no sinne in the want of it Adam in the estate of innocency had no faith in Christ as a Mediatour and was blamelesse because no Law injoyned it Secondly men that need this faith and yet want the Gospell to convince them are guiltlesse of the sinne though in some sense they may bee said to bee guilty of the punishment Every curse and want of favour being due to every sonne of Adam It therefore remaineth that they onely are to be taxed that have the Gospell Sinnes of the Gospell are aggravations of the Law It must bee presupposed that a man is guilty of sinne and death before the Gospell charge him with a greater measure of evill and make him worse both in sinnes and sorrowes It is not the want of faith barely that turnes a man into hell for finde payment in thy selfe and satisfaction to the Law and God will challenge thee no further but that is impossible and therefore the Law casts the first stone at thee and beares thee over with the blow of death then comes the Gospel and buries thee under that stone without all hope of mercy A man is blind and rejects a cure his wilfulnesse hath made him the worse and more worthy of greater woes so the Gospell tenders thee a pardon thou contemnes it and for contempt deserves the sorer punishment It is not therefore necessary for God to give every man power to be●eeve but it is necessary for every man to be carefull he abuse not the power he hath and so double his terments and punishments in ●e●l Conviction is the worke of the Spirit The Father gives over the administration to his Sonne the Sonne to the Spirit and he is the first that argueth and disputeth with men of mercy and salvation In his hands is now the kingdome of the Father and the sonne and this kingdome is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reggum violentiae the Kingdome that suffereth violence Mat. 11.12 13. Luke 16.16 In this kingdome the Saints in suffering are more than conquerors Rom. 8.37 This is more than ever any Emperour could utter who have gained and kept their conquests with hardnesse and hazzard Matth. 28.18 19. the power of Christ is to preach and proclaim that he will take his power and reigne in and over all men He is mercifull in giving warning before the execution and leaving his Spirit to make preparation for his kingdome which shall bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a kingdome of power Rev. 11.17 ruling and over-ruling all the world Christ having ended the subjection of the world shall give over his kingdome to his Father which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 15.24 O the divine administration of the Trinity The Father the first person passeth all to the Sonne the Sonne makes it descend againe to the holy Ghost The same is the order of regression that was in the progression as formerly we have declared The holy Ghost the first possessour of the kingdome returnes it into the possession of the Sonne and the Sonne leaves it in the hands of his Father where he first had it that he may be all in all From him was the proceeding and by good reason it must be to him againe The comming of the Holy Ghost The Gospel convinceth no man in the absence of the Spirit Wee must pray in hearing of the Word Come holy Spirit and visit our hearts

to sinne and of evils they ever feare the least looking to their temporall life and never regarding their spirituall Thousands feare to dye a corporall death that never heed what it is to die an eternall Feare were better placed upon sinne than sorrow If wee would feare to sinne wee should not need to feare to suffer and in suffering wee were better place our feare upon the second than first death Vtter perdition is not in this world that is reserved for the day of death and dungeon of hell The misery of the place It is sometimes called a prison and judge what an hell it were to live and lie in a dungeon with Monsters of men in this world It is Tartarus of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Pagan name for fearefull and formidable Spectacles They have imagined hell full of horrour for such shapes and shadowes as they have fancied and fabled by their Poets but those are poore affrightments to the dreadfull and terrible face of God and his frowning countenance Cōscience will skarre them more than shadowes and darkenesse than doating dreames It is Tophet or Gehenna a mercilesse place Infants yelling in the fire of Gehenna had their voyces cryings and shrikings drowned by Drums from being heard of their parents The brands of Hell may roare in the Lake and none will bee found to pitty them They cry too late the doore of mercy being shut against them and God of heaven turned their irreconcileable enemie Extreame lamentation They shall weepe their bellies full and to weeping adde wailing and wishing they had never beene They shall wring their hands and curse the day they were ever borne And when sorrow shall doe no good gnash their teeth and grinde them against God for their excessive plagues Teares shall not be taken for repentance but serve to coole the heart and dant the spirits so that extremity of cold may make their teeth chatter and gnash together Heat and cold with all excesses and aggravations of sorrow may meet together We have but lightly touched what they must deepely taste would God it might teach us by so miserable an end to make a happy beginning of our salvation and subjection to the Gospell in this world I will now dispatch the rest more briefely and wish thee the benefit in the whole Vnknowne misery Peter questioneth what we quarrell withall and say hell is not so hot as Preachers make it Peter knowes not how to make it hot enough He had rather aske the question and say What shall the end be than determine It were some comfort to a subject of hell to know his worst Men so solace their soules upon earth with a stubborne resolution to their tormentors doe your worst I know what you can doe and there is an end but it will not be so in hell their sturdy stomackes must come downe and not dare the Almighty to the tryall of his strength The reasons why in hell men shall never faddom the bottome of their woes are these first he that smites is infinite and therefore can augment every blow hee gives Wee whip our children often till they bee senselesse and carelesse of the rod but God will worke them feeling as well as whipping and if need be by an unwonted blow fetch bloud out of another veine Men shall sooner be weary with suffering than he with smiting and every touch shall deare them more than other Secondly man shall never know his owne capacitie Hee hath enough to day to fill him to the brimme his vessell shall be stretched and strained to hold as much or more the next day and so for all eternitie hee shall be inlarged to receive torments Thirdly eternity of extremity can never be brought to light there is still behind whatsoever the measure be for the present We onely that obey the Gospell know our worst and what can be done for us in this world happy time we suffered for God and his truth that we may never suffer for sinne in hell The confusion of unbeleevers Where shall they appeare Sinners and ungodly persons shall be ashamed to be seene and shall finde no place where to hide their shame A marveilous alteration shall befall them and it shall be a wonder to see what a change is made in all their behaviour Impudency and boldnesse did attend them in all places now feare and shame shall accompany them where soever they are I will touch them in two things here related their appearance and place as no ground can hold them from trembling so no sight but it will put them to shame The appearance of unbeleevers It can hardly be credited with what audacious boldnesse and bold audacity men and women dare appeare before God in this world not once thinking that they are either in his debt or danger They prepare not for their audite and account They are like that impudent Ruffian that pictured upon his Target God and the Devill with an inscription under both Vnder God was written si tu nolis if thou wilt not have me I am at a point with thee of defiance c. Vnder the Devill directly opposite to God iste rogitat I am for the Divell and his service God must take them as they are for they meane not to mend and if hee like them not at their worst take them Divell Men live as if they were either to be happy here or without hope hereafter To gaine the world they count all things lawfull and judge they have nothing to injoy when they leave it This makes them appeare empty before God and ashamed of their madnesse and misery Our speech and language might learne us the lesson of our folly We say when wee would be credited for certainty It is as certaine as death and then like fooles we crosse our selves and alter the stile when we have forgotten our selves I did no more thinke of it than my death I judge you by your owne mouthes and manifest your madnesse You beleeve there is nothing that is more certaine than death and confesse there is nothing you lesse thinke of As God shall judge mee is as ready as words and yet by workes you deny it fearing nothing lesse than his judgement To contemne his Law and despise his Gospell is your ordinary practise He may command you will not obey He may threaten you will not feare He may promise you will not beleeve His justice you dare affront his mercy controul his anger does but provoke you his goodnesse emboldens you to sinne You resist and rebell against his Spirit outface and disgrace his Ordinances rage and raile against his Ministers scoffe and scorne at your brethren and there is not any wickednesse you blush at or once checke or challenge your selves for the wrong you doe to God and men Law and Gospel But tell me what you will doe and how you will deale at your appearance and meeting with your judge you have made others tremble defore you and according to your authority have lorded it over your inferiours Thinke seriously of your standing before a greater Lord and gaine an Advocate to pleade with him You shall not bee able to shew your faces or open your mouthes without him Laugh no longer yee impudent sinners at your audacious practises take counsell betimes Bee afflicted and mourne and weepe let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heavinesse Humble your selves in the fight of the Lord and hee shall lift you up Iam. 4.9 10. Lift not up your selves and brow-beat his Ordinances but beare downe the stout and stubborne heart to bee ashamed betimes and the Lord will encourage you in the evill day Presumptuous persons will pricke on in their pride and perish in the end It will be terrible for them to appeare before God that never appeared before him in prayer but alwayes against him Thinke of this appearance and by the Gospel make your preparation Vnbeleevers have no place free from feare Where shall they appeare They may not hide themselves and yet no place shall be safe for their appearance They will be calling to rockes and mountaines to fall upon them and cover them from from the direfull and irefull Iudge But no hill will be intreated to hide them no rocke to rush upon them Miserable wretches that can beare their sinnes with ease had rather lie under hards rockes and massie mountaines than the least touch of Gods wrath Sampson tooke the Gates of Gaza with the posts and barres upon his shoulders and bare them to the very top of the hill such stout Sampsons are our sinners that stick at no sinne breake open the floud-gates of all impietie pull up all posts and barres that should shut them up and carry all down before them and raise up to the very top of the hill the hight of their horrible crimes All places are defiled with their uncleannesse and they leave no roome in the earth for righteousnesse to dwell in Such as they brew such must they drinke and God will not leave them a place where to shew their heads or shelter themselves from danger No Cave shall cover them no den of darkenesse keepe them from eternall darkenesse I will conclude with Saint Paul 2 Cor. 5.11 Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord wee perswade men but wee are made manifest to God and trust also are made manifest in your consciences If the terrour of the Lord as we have touched it were made manifest vnto men they would bee perswaded but alas it will never worke till men apply it to their consciences in them have I laboured to fixe this worke and have found ill hearers of it My comfort shall be with assurance that to God wee are made manifest we deale sincerely and wish it may worke kindly in all for their timely conversion and holy conversation to the end Amen FINIS