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death_n	adam_n	sin_n	sin_v	19,442	5	9.9710	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40725	Concio ad magistratum a nations honour, and a nations dishonour, or, A kingdoms prospective-glass : discovering who are the most faithful friends, and who the most dangerous enemies to the peace and prosperity of a kingdom / written by P. Fullwood.	Fullwood, P. (Peter)	1673 (1673)	Wing F2522; ESTC R7022	26,022	48

Parrellell how transient is all that is in the World the lust of the flesh the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life it is a peculiar priviledge of the Saints the fountain of whose happiness is sealed up and locked in the cabinet of Gods favour to be out of the reach of worldly power or policy the gates of Hell shall never prevail against them Righteousness likewise exalteth us from being an astonishment and a proverb and an hissing to all the Nations round about us to become a praise and a renown and a glory of all Lands God hath reserved the blood of the grape the choicest mercies for the Righteous Majora erunt S. Chrys praemia quam desideria Sanctorum the Society of the Saints shall be more than their Hunger their happiness Deut. 28. v. 1. shall outreach their desires If thou shalt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God to observe and do all his commandements which I command thee this day that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all Nations of the Earth So then we may see wherein the glory of a Kingdome consists not in outward Pomp and Ostentation but in the Establishment of Righteousness not with Dives to be arrayed in purple and fine Linnen of the Saints that is Righteousness this the Apostle accounted the chiefest 1 Pet. 3. v. 3. ornament whose adorning let it not be outward adorning or wearing of gold or putting on apparel but shew out of a good conversation our works with meekness of wisdome when the Mountain of the Lords house is exalted above the rest of the Hills when his Sabbaths are duly observed his faithful Ministers highly esteemed the preaching of the word and other sacred institutions of the Church duly observed then the glory of a Kingdome springeth forth So I come to the last step of this first general a Nation Righteousness exalteth a Nation Consider what beames of favour shine upon an House or Nation for the righteous sake was not Lebanus house blessed for Jacobs sake Aegypt fared the better for Josephs goodness no sooner Noah entred into the Ark but God opened the Flood-gates of Heaven and drowned the World no sooner Lot was taken out of Sodome but the Lord rained fire and brimstone upon them and burnt the City what lamentation when good Josiah the blessing of the Country was taken from them methinks I see our Kingdome weeping Raehel like for her children that have been lost some by forraign invasions some by domestick differences others by the plague and pestilence and were it not for those Righteous Persons amongst us whose entire devotions have out cryed the screeching of our sins we might justly fear the ruine of our Kingdome approacheth I shall wind up all with an exhortation to such as are in authority over others that they not only be Patterns but Patrons of Religions Rulers are a looking-glass according to which most men dress themselves Zenophon would have his Cyrus to go before others in industry and wisdome the common people are like a flock of Cranes as the first flies all the rest follow after then authority is truly arrayed when the superiority of the civil Power is for the good of inferiours and therefore you must countenance Religion as well as practice it It is not enough to pull down Dagon unless you secure the Ark. The main of your Authority is to make Religion to flourish keep as the Apple of thine eye and under the shadow of your wings against all those malignant spirits that wish all to our Sion so the Lord shall be your reward and crown your endeavours herein with the crown of righteousness in his Heavenly Kingdome Thus having set you upon Mount Pisgah to shew you the glory of the Land that is righteousness I come now to set you upon Mount Ebal to shew you the sinfulness of sin or the curses against it which leads me to the second general Sin is a reproach or a shame to any People 1. Here 's the Indictment and that 's against sin 2. The Sentence Sin is a reproach or a shame 3. The extent to any People Sin is a shame to any People of these in their order and first of the first Sin If any shall start the Question that started touching S. John baptism is it of heaven or of men touching sin is it from heaven by Gods creation or of men by mans defection The wise Eccles 7. v. 24. man determines the Question God made man upright but they have sought out many inventions Man by creation was of a Royal and Princely extract chara Dei soboles the off-spring of the Highest beautifyed with choicest ornaments of wisdome righteousnes and holyness but those conditions which God made him being not observed and his title forfeited to Justice by disobedience God re-enters Gen. 3. 34. and makes seizure of his Charter of happiness until the debt of Adam and those weighty arrears of disobedience were discharged So that by one man Sin entred into the Rom 5. 12. World and Death by Sin and so death passed by all men for that all men have sinned we all who have our descent from unclean seed are from our birth infected with the spreading Leprosy of sin who can bring a clean thing Job 14. v. 4. out of an unclean not one but besides that Primitive sin of Adams disobedience there are other derivations daily brought forth by actual transgression which seem so infinite as could we cast up the stars of the firmament or the sands of the Ocean we might pose all the numbers of Arithmetick yet we should come far short of an exact survey of our daily impieties and so is this guilt of this spreading evil as may make us lyable to the greatest mults and punishments for let guilt go before punishment will follow it at the heels which leads me to the second step of this second general sin is a reproach or shame reproach and contempt make such a deep wound in all those who have not whored their fore-heads as makes them cry out with Cain my punishment is greater then I can bear for a wounded spirit who can bear how many to avoid this have chose the worst of evils nay death rather than life It is better to dye honourably than to live ingloriously now this is the fruit that this tree bears what fruit had you of those things whereof ye are now ashamed Such are Subjects in Sin must be Objects Rom. 6. 21. of reproach and shame It it not the gibbet the gallows or the worst of deaths that can ecclipse the memory of an innocent life nor the vizard of outward profession can take away the obloquies of a sinful life it was a brand upon Jeroboam which neither age nor time can take away that he made Israel to sin the memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot and stink in the nostrils of