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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
A91509	A Pastoral letter from a minister to his parishioners, being an earnest exhortation to them to take care of their souls; and a preparative in order to render all his future methods of instruction more effectual to their edification.		1700 (1700)	Wing P674; ESTC R181511	9,457	16

second Covenant was made with Adam and us in him presently after his Fall and is briefly contained in these Words Gen. 3. 15. where God declares that The Seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head and this Second Covenant is made up as the first was of some Mercies to be offered by God and some Duties to be performed by us God herein promised to send on Earth his only Son who is God equal with himself to become Man like unto us in all things Sin only excepted and he to do for us these several things 1. To make known to us the whole will of his Father in the performance whereof we shall be sure to be accepted and rewarded by him And this was one part of his business which he performed in those many Sermons Doctrines and Precepts we find set down in the Gospel And herein he is our Prophet for it was the work of a Prophet of old not only to foretel but to teach Our duty in this particular is to hearken diligently to him to be most ready and desirous to learn that Will of God which he came from Heaven to reveal to us 2. The second thing he was to do for us was to satisfie God for our sins not only that one of Adam but all the Sins of Mankind that truly repent and amend and by this means to obtain for us forgiveness of Sins and the favour of God and to redeem us from Hell and Eternal Damnation which was the punishment due to our Sin All this he did for us by his Death He offered up himself a sacrifice for the Sins of all those who heartily bewail and forsake them And in this he is our Priest it being anciently the Priest's Office to offer sacrifice for the sins of the People Our duty in this particular is first truly and heartily to repent of our sins and to forsake them without which they will never be forgiven us though that is the thing for which Christ died Secondly stedfastly to believe that if we give our selves up to Christ we shall have the benefits of that Sacrifice of his that all our sins how many and great soever shall be forgiven us and we shall be saved from those Eternal Punishments which were due unto us for them Another part of the Priest's Office was Blessing and Praying for the People and this also Christ performs for us It was his special Commission from his Father to Bless us as St. Peter tells us Acts 3. 26. God sent his Son Jesus to bless you and the following Words shew wherein that Blessing consists in turning away every one of you from your Iniquity Those means which he hath used for the turning of us from our sins are to be reckoned of all other the greatest Blessings and for the other part that of Praying that he not only performed on Earth but continues still to do it in Heaven He sits on the right hand of God and makes request for us Rom. 8. 34. Our duty herein is not to resist this unspeakable Blessing of his but to be willing to be thus blest in being turned from our sins and not to make void and fruitless all his Prayers and Intercessions for us which will never prevail for us whilst we continue in our Sins 3. The third thing that Christ was to do for us was to enable us or to give us strength to do what God requires of us This he doth First By taking off from the hardness of the Law given to Adam which bound us never to commit the least sin upon the pain of Damration So that now God requires of us only an honest and hearty endeavour to do what we are able and where we fail of that through weakness heaccepts of our sincere Repentance Secondly By sending his Holy Spirit into our Hearts to govern and rule us to give us strength to overcome Temptations to Sin and to do all that he now under the Gospel requires of us And in this Christ is our King it being the Office of a King to Govern and Rule and to subdue our Enemies Our duty in this particular is to give up our selves to be obedient Subjects of his to be governed and ruled by him to obey all his Laws not to take part with any Rebel that is not to cherish any one sin but diligently to pray for his Grace to enable us to subdue them all and then carefully to make use of it to that purpose Lastly He has purchased for all that faithfully obey him an eternal glorious inheritance the Kingdom of Heaven whether he is gone before to take possession for us Our duty herein is to be exceeding careful that we forfeit not our parts in it which we shall certainly do if we continue impenitent in any sin Secondly Not to fasten our Affections on this World but to raise them up to Heaven and Heavenly Things according to the Precept of the Apostle Col. 3. 2. Set your Affections on things above and not on things on the Earth continually longing to come to the possession of that blessed Inheritance of ours in comparison whereof all things here below should seem vile and mean to us This is the sum of that second Covenant we are now under wherein you see what Christ hath done how he executes those three great Offices of King Priest and Prophet as also what is required of us without our faithful performance of which all that he hath done shall never stand us in any stead for he will never be a Priest to save any who take him not also for their Prophet to teach and their King to rule them nay if we neglect our part of this Covenant our condition will be yet worse than if it had never been made for we shall be to answer not for the breach of Law only as in the first Covenant but for the abuse of Mercy which is of all sins the most provoking On the other side if we faithfully perform it that is set our selves heartily to the obeying of every Precept of Christ not going on wilfully in any one sin but bewailing and forsaking what ever we have formerly been guilty of it is then most certain that all the forementioned Benefits of Christ belong to us And now you see how little reason you have to cast off the care of your Souls upon a conceit that they are past cure for that it is plain they are not nay certainly they are in that very condition which of all others makes them fittest for our care If they had not been thus Redeemed by Christ they had been then so hopeless that care would have been in vain On the other side if his Redemption had been such that all Men should be saved by it though they live as they list we should have thought it needless to take care for them because they were safe without it But it hath pleased God so to order it that our care must be the means by which