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	sin_n	transgression_n	6,929	5	10.8054	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64688	Vox hibernæ, or, Rather the voyce of the Lord from Ireland a sermon preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster before divers of the right honourable the lords of the upper House in the high court of Parliament : on the last publike fast day, being Wednesday the 22th of December 1641 : wherein the miserable estate of the kingdome of Ireland at this present is laid open and the people and kingdome of England earnestlie exhorted to turne to Almight God by true repentance least the same iudgements or worse fall upon us / by the laborious and reverend Doctor Iames Vsher ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing U228; ESTC R233006	11,072	17

of his soule the will the understandng the conscience the sence it will require all thy power and all thy strength to doe it Thy memory that must draw up the Indenture thou must consider that God will open all when hee comes to judge thee Thou swearest thou hast forgotten it presently but God hath written it in a booke thy conscience shall remember every oath that thou hast sworne every idle word that thou hast spoke you see God Psal. 50. Saith He will set all our sins in order before us he will rub up this dull memory of ours we must draw unto our remembrance the multitude of the sinnes that we have committed against God It is the speech of the Prophet Esah call to your remembrance the sins that you have committed and if you would rubbe up your remembrances and doe as stewards that have a bad memory make it their businesse to cast and account every night what they lay out the day before and so if wee would every day before wee go to bed call our selves to an account how we have spent that day our memories should not be so short wee must know how to set sinne before the sight of Almighty God Briefely thus Looke first in thy owne debt a debt that thou didst commit before thou wast born begin at the highest what was that Doe not you know that many men have beene arrested and undone for debts for which as we say they did never drinke a debt may be owing by the sonne for his Father after that his father is dead thou art in the loynes of Adam if Adam had stood thou shouldest have stood bring he is falne thou fallest with him we all hange upon Adam as the stringe that the Prophet speaks of that as a bunch of keyes hung upon a string when that the string is broken then all the keyes fall downe with him we all hang and with him we all fall the sinne acted by Adams justice imputed unto thee as thou art in his loynes Againe in the second place by reason of this imputation of Adams sinne unto thee thou art deprived of that image in which Thou and Hee were created assoone as ever Adam acted the sinne presently Adam was spoiled His understanding was darkned his will was rebellious his conscience was disordered only heere was the difference Adam was despoyled of it after he had continued long in the world thou assoone as ever soule and body were conjoyned together God considers thee in Adam to have reached forth thy hand to the forbidden fruit and therefore the same thing that befell Adam that he was spoyled of his originall righteousnesse the same befals thee the Prophet David in the 51. Psal. Hee was guilty of murther and adultery yet for all this hee saith he was borne in sinne and doe you not thinke he did it to extenuate his sin and iniquity that he was borne in sinne and concelved in it as if a man should doe me harme because it was naturall unto him hee could not abide me should not I thinke him the more wicked so the sins against God are very haynous the root from whence this adulterie proceeded and this murther came it came from the corruption of his ill nature As we deale with Toades and Foxes and Vermine wee kill and destroy them when they doe no hurt wee thinke they may doe ill because the nature of them is to doe harme so God he findes us such Toades such things even before wee are out of the shell and therefore God may justly deale with us so so that God may take a young Child and cast it into Hell as soone as it is borne If God will doe this for the first sinne Death went over them that did not sinne after the similitude of the transgression of Adam Death went over those that committed no naturall sinne as Adam did Consider this that when we were first borne by reason of the seede o● Rebellion that is in us if God had marked us assoone as we came out of the wombe he might justly have committed us to Hell begin with the vanitie of your childhood Consider with yourselves how soone that evill seedes spring forth into fruit Consider how in its rife in a child before you thinke it hath understanding Consider that which comes from Pride frowardnesse wrangling and wantonnesse Looke afterwards when thou commest to thy riper age when thou wast married when thou wast without governement Divide thy life into severall parts all these things may serve to set before us those sinnes that wee have committed not hiding them not concealing them with Adam To play the part of the Kings Attorney not only to bring an evidence of the fact but to shew how hainous and grievous it is And beloved when this hath beene done both in sinnes of commission and which will breake any ones heart to thinke of the sinnes of omission the innumerable good things which God hath commanded me to doe yet I have neglected them nay rather there proceedes words that are so farre from tending to edification that they are corrupt words as the Apostle speakes this I told unto you Thus you must doe the more of those sinnes you put before you the more incited you should shew your selves My sinnes are more then the haires of my head and in another place my sinnes are a burrhen too heavie for me to beare so that this is the part of a penitent sinner to set his sinnes before him and then to desire God to forgive his secret sinnes so draw them before thy heart before Almighty God and condemne them and then God will not condemne thee when wee have done thus this appertaines to the first part wherein I indite my selfe these and these things I have done these and these things God hath committed to me I have received much grace of God in vaine I have abused my Talent and hid it in a napkin these be for the Inditement But then wee must come to the triall when my memorie hath brought them to me and when my understanding hath considered them and weighed them in the ballance of the sanctuary and I consider that they are sinnes to be aggraated not onely by the Law but by the Gospel then my confience presently like a peece overcharged recoyles me backward and I consider the weight of them that they are a burthen to heavie for me to beare Then the soule strikes the heart this is my case considering what the law hath said considering what the Gospel hath said Alasse if I had not commited these sinnes while I was under grace under the Minister of the Gospel when Christ invited me to come unto him when he bids me cast this burthen upon his shoulders and hee would ease me I will not doe it and though that hee comes with peace and with safetie we will not receive him as you heard in the morning set before you the representation of the true Crucifix The lambe of God that