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	wage_n	4,026	5	11.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46638	Rebellio debellata et Scotia rediviva, or, The downfall of rebellion and Scotlands resurrection, as it was represented in two sermons the one at Eccles last of May, the other preached at Jedburgh June 27, 1660, being both dayes set apart for solemn rejoycing and publike thanksgiving for the happy restauration of the king's most excellent Majesty to the exereise [sic] of his royall power / by Jo. Jameson minister at Eccles.	Jameson, John, minister of Eccles.	1661 (1661)	Wing J442; ESTC R31158	40,896	102

the hundred part of these tearms yea the truth is sinful walking utterly spoileth honest and lawful profit Secondly Behold the consequences First Shame Rom. 6.21 Jer. 31.19 If the condition of a person be such as he cannot profit his Benefactor factor in any thing yet he ought to be sure that he perturb him in nothing he that doth otherwise cannot but be ashamed to look him on the face God he is thus to us but we perturbing him in every thing cannot but he ashamed in end Thus Adam made a poor game of it in eating of the forbidden fruit he found himself naked and was ashamed to look his Lord and Benefactor on the face If that sin be profitable that produceth no better fruits judge ye The second consequence is Death Rom. 7.22 What a death Eternal death he that hath wrought all the week in drudgery and receiveth at the end of the week his wages payed in the black coyn of death hath made but a very sory bargain but he that hath lived all his life in sin hath his wages payed In a blacker coyn nor bodily even in eternal death so that they are worse than mad that are not convinced of the unprofitablnesse of sin Vse 1. We may see hence that the world is in a great mistake If ye tell the drunkard the unclean person the covetous man this truth they will not receive it nor evidence so much Christianity as to give it entertainment but for one day the reason is he looketh through carnal perspectives which presenteth all sin green and pleasant and richly loaden with the fruits of advantage which mistake is cured by its contrary looking to sin with a spiritual eye and weighing and pondering the same in the ballance of the Sanctuary this whosoever doth shall be taught the thoughts and language of Paul Rom. 6.21 Vse 2. Is sin so unprofitable then Sirs this affordeth me an earand to your souls and it is this to exhort intreat beg and obtest you by the mercies of God and the loves of Christ to forsake sin Are you children to be chasing shaddows fools to believe all to be gold that glisters Or are you men of understanding ad majora nati born to greater things than with Dionysius to be catching Flees As you would not have these joyful dayes this golden age of much contentment to loure upon us and prove as one said of the Summer of this same Country that it was hot but short let us all beware of this unprofitable thing sin Have these in former generations who have made the greatest purchase of this stuff been the most happy and prosperous men in their Estates Or hath not God drawn them out as in a map into his most wise Providence in exempla aliorum to be Beakens unto others making them to lye down with their bones full of the sins of their youth their consciences turning unto a hell of terrours and all the mountains of Riches and preferments acquired by them melting away as the untimely birth or the Snow before the Sun Then I beseech you be no worse than Johns Auditors Matth. 3. who were forwarned to flie from the wrath to come Having spoken to the nature of all sin in general now we come to speak of the nature of one in particular which is hypocrifie represented here metaphorically by tinne and it characterizeth this sin very exactly For tinne it hath when it is well refined a very shyning quality which giveth some resemblance of Silver and hypocrifie it hath the same property a glistering shew and thereby doth not a little resemble holinesse Hence this Doctrine may be gathered Doct. Hypocrisie is a deceiving sin it shineth as it were holinesse but it is as far from it as the one Pole is from the other it is nothing but sin under the mantle of Piety and therefore Christ calleth Hypocrites painted walls whited tombs it is a dung-hill of impiety under the luster of piety So the Ancient shot very near the mark that did call it a subtile evil a secret poyson a lurking venome the paint of virtue and the moth of sanctity For there nothing giveth holinesse a greater blow than unholinesse under the pretence of holinesse this is to have the form of Godlinesse without the power thereof The devil in other sins is but in his country apparel here he is in his neatest and court dresse he dresseth up other sins in a Wooden but this in a Silver dish Concerning this sin these two are to be enquired after 1. Where it is learned 2. Who are the Schollers First Where it is learned even at the devils university the great master being an old practizer thereof from the beginning having such nimblenesse in acting it as he can transform himself into an angel of light this is one of the devils black Artes that he teacheth here and as his image and superscription is thereupon so it sealeth upon the Students thereof the very same and at their reckoning with the great Judge these that are under this stamp will be rendered up to its owner The second is Who are the great Students in this School and the best proficients Indeed it is very throng and many are taking pains to make progresse but these who carry away the Lawrel of greatest proficiency are the Pseudo-Christian and the Pseudo-Politician the false Christian and the false States-man The false Christian to cover his other sins in doing which he discovers them more to God making them to appear in a crimson colour The covetous man to cover his covetousnesse he maketh use of it as a cloak 1 Thess 2.5 The unclean persons to cover their uncleannesse as the Antinomians and Libertines turning the Grace of God into wantonnesse The treacherous man to cover his treachery so Judas took the Sacrament of the Passeover before he betrayed his Master 2. The false Politician for the true Statesman hateth it as the cheat of a Rogue he profiteth much in this Arte ●nd useth it as a cloak to cover his rebellion imitating Absolom who when he intended to usurp the Crown of his Father pretended to go to Hebron to perform a vow 2 Sam. 15.7 And Jehu who designing to snatch the Scepter of Israel puts on and boasteth of broad phylacteries of zeal for God and if the people he purposeth to instrument be fanatick he can pray with them and if need be preach also Nam nemo cautius malus est quam qui absconditur sub appellatione pietatis 2. To cover their bloody oppression 1 King 21.9 Jezabel and Achab calleth a fast that under the colour thereof they may out Naboth of his Vineyard and if one fast be not sufficient his purpose not being to oppresse one person or family but a nation or many nations the fast must be frequent yea monethly that people may be amuzed as well as God is evidently abused by their sophistical devotion 3. To cover his persecution with some pretence of honesty or