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
B02273	An additional word to The body of divinity, or Confession of faith; being the substance of Christianity. Added on special occasion, tending further to confirm some truths therein. With a further discourse about the doctrine of election, universal, and special grace, &c. All which were touched in the said Confession of faith, but in this more plainy and fully (though briefly) discoursed and designed for the good of all. Whereunto is annexed a seasonable word of advice, being an essay for peace and union among all the sons and daughters of peace. / Written by Thomas Collier.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691. Body of divinity.	1676 (1676)	Wing C5267AB; ESTC R174082	85,720	108

ministration of the glorious Gospel he hath made it the duty of all men that come under the hearing thereof to believe and obey him therein Mark 16. 15 16. Luk. 24. 47. Act. 17. 30. 1 Tim. 2. 3 4. All which proves a capacity in men to answer his will or we must reflect on God supposing that he requireth of men that which by his helps they can in no case perform and so justifie the saying of the evil Servant Mat. 25. 24. 2. It appears in that he blames those under all his ministrations that did not nor do not suitably believe and obey him therein As 1. The Gentiles under the ministry of the Creation Rom. 1. 21. to 25. 2. The Jews under the ministry of the Law Exod. 32 7 8 9. Deut. 32. 15. to 19. Psal 81. 11. and pittys them for their Rebellion against him therein Deut. 32. 29. Psal 81. 13. Isa 48. 18 19. Jer. 13. 27. Luk. 13. 34. and 19. 41 42. 3. He blames Unbelievers under the Gospel Joh. 5. 40. 1. 11. Act. 13. 45 46. 3. It appears in that God hath threatned and executed and doth threaten and will execute Judgment upon all that have do or shall disobey him in his several ministrations 1. The Gentiles that lived or do live only under the ministry of the Creation Rom. 1. 24. 26 27. And will execute future Judgment upon them that live not to him therein Rom. 2. 12. 2. The Jews for sinning against him under the ministry of the Law Lev. 26. 14. to 43. Deut. 28. 15. to the end all which was executed for their disobedience against God See Lamentations of Jeremy with multitudes of other Scriptures that do confirm the same 3. Under the Gospel great wrath is threatned and must be executed upon all under the Ministry thereof that do not believe and obey it as also great promises are made to all that do believe and obey the same Mark 15. 15 16. 2 Thes 1. 7 8 9 10. Rom. 2. 7 8 9 10. All which seriously considered must needs tend to prove a capacity in man with the helps of those Ministeries to believe and obey the Lord therein or else we cannot have right honourable and God-like thoughts of him to require blame pitty promise threaten and execute terrible Judgment on a people that in no case was able to help it I know what it would render any man so to do in all rational mens understandings Let us dread the having so dishonourable thoughts of God 4. It must be so because the contrary leaves the Condemnation of sinners at God's dore which far be it from any sober spirit to imagine for God to bring forth a glorious Ministration of Grace and Life to the World tender it to Sinners on such terms as is impossible for them to perform with the helps he affords to damn them for non-performance thereof necessarily leaves a necessity of perishing without hope or help So that if this were true that men could not believe and obey the Gospel where it comes simply from their debility and impotency and the debility of the means afforded them for help therein It could not be their sin for it s no mans sin not to do what he cannot do but what he can and might do had he a will to do it The contrary supposeth that God hath laid a necessity upon the World to die the second death whereas by sin men destroy themselves This I am bold to affirm as suitable to the holy Name of God that he will damn no man for that which in no case he could not help but what-ever hath befaln man or doth befall him that he could not nor in any case cannot help it is his Affliction but not his Sin and such things shall never occasion the second death It s true the first death is come on all men by Adams Transgression they having the same original nature of sin and death it s come into all men as a Judgment for the first transgression but not as a sin to the second death To instance in some particular cases that what man cannot help is not his sin but his affliction It s generally granted that it s not the sin but affliction of those born naturally Ideots or through natural distempers lose their senses because they cannot help it So likewise Sickness in it self is an affliction not a sin A man that hath a bad memory he bewailes it and endeavours its help it is not his sin but his affliction Damnation is the judgment of Gospel-unbelief and disobedience yet those that never heard the Gospel cannot be under this Judgment because its impossible without a miracle that they should believe the Gospel its in some sense their affliction and judgment that they have it not but not their sin that they believe it not because they cannot Rom. 10. 14. All men are born into the world with sinful Natures commonly called original sin because it is derived originally from our first Parents Now this defilement of our Natures though sinful no man can help therefore it is not their sin but their affliction and cause we have to bewail it as our affliction but not as our sin so the Apostle doth Rom. 7. 24. It is consenting to it which is the sin Rom. 7. 15 16. Jam. 1. 14 15. When persons consent to covetous and wordly Lusts to proud envious and disobedient Lusts this is the sin that will usher in the second death original guilt and stain only brings under the first death but not the second as distinct from consent from which God hath ordained a blessed remedy if men were willing to improve the same This truth acquits not only Idiots but all Infants so dying from the second death whose debility is such as they cannot help relative to the defilement of their Natures and incapacity to believe the Gospel and therefore God hath given no Law unto them and where is no Law is no transgression all which serves to confirm the matter in hand viz. The ability that is in men to believe suitable to the means and Ministry without which they should not die the second death which must be for wilfulness and not for weakness and likewise that the contrary leaves the Condemnation of the World at God's dore 5. It appears in that the true and righteous God expostulates the matter with sinful men to convince both them and us that his ways are equal and just and sinful mans ways are unjust and unequal Ezek. 18. 25 29 30. and 23. 17. to 20. which could not be if man had no power at all to eschew the evil which he forbiddeth or do the good which he requireth neither the one nor other could be sin in man had he no power thereunto nor could it be just and equal in God to punish man for not doing that which he could not In this lyeth the difference between Men and Beasts they have no capacity to understand and obey