Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	apostle_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,685	5	10.8916	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06388	Tvvo soveraigne salves for the soules sicknesse deliuered in certaine sermons at Hurst-church in the county of Berkes, neere Reading. By Robert Lovell, then minister and preacher of Gods word in the same parish.	Lovell, Robert, curate of Allhallows, Barking.	1621 (1621)	STC 16859; ESTC S102843	33,805	48

we Dwell not in it if we let it not raigne in our mortall bodies f Rom. 6.12 Sponte exequendo quod Peccatum imperat g Caluin in loc readily obeying whatsoeuer sinne commandeth wee neede not feare its Residencie Per Baptismum enim tollitur non vt Non sit sed ne Imputetur h Aug. de Nuptijs cap. 25. For by Baptisme it is taken away but how not So taken away as that it is not in them after Baptisme but So as that it is not accounted vnto them as sinne to whom all sinne is forgiuen And there are good reasons why Sinne should not haue this dominion Reason 1 First looke backe to our Baptisme in which being Baptised into Christ we haue put on Christ i Gal. 3.27 Proclaiming him to be our King and vowing our selues to be his Subiects and how can we then for feare or shame let sinne raigne in vs The Spirit hauing Deified vs by Baptisme saith Nazianzine k Nazian de bap orat 6. that is by Holinesse made vs Partakers of the Godly nature saith Saint Peter l 2 Pet. 1.4 yea being by It deliuered out of Prison discharged from the debt we owed It hauing deliuered vs also from Death regenerated the Soule gorgeously arrayed it and made passage for the Kingdome of heauen saith Basil m Basil 〈◊〉 ad P●p●… how shall we then suffer sinne to raigne Reason 2 Secondly see Sinne who or what it is Sinne is a Tyrant yea such a Tyrant as thrusteth himselfe by force and fraud into our best hold● so to shoulder our the right owners which who will if he know him entertaine in his house much lesse let raigne in his heart Sinne indeed is a Tyrant yea a Consuming Exacting Insatiable and Holding Tyrant For being dead in it we are holden saith the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n Rom. 7.6 De●eneb●ntur that is forcibly holden Holden in a miserable slauery and bondage both of the power of the law of the rigour of the law and of the curse of the law Sinne like a Tyrant ouerturneth all lawes and constitutions it maketh its owne will its law which when we haue entertained and obeyed and suffered to raigne what slauery is like ours Surely none No not the Israelites oppression in Egypt nor their vnmercifull entreatie in Babilon not the bloudy persecution of Antiochus nor the Turkes Gallie slauerie not the Popes fire nor Papists Gunpowder not the Spaniards Inquisition nor Amsterdam Brownists mercilessenes are not to be compared vnto it I remember a pretty question of the Orators and it is this Cicero Tarad 5 An ille liber sit cui mulier imperat cui leges imponat Whether he be a free man whom a woman may command and vnto whose lawes he must be obedient And he answereth Istum non solum seruum sed nequissimum seruum That such an one is not onely a Seruant but a Slaue yea an vnhappy bondslaue Etiamsian amplissima familia natus sit though he be both borne and bred and brought vp in neuer so ample neuer so honourable a familie I speake it not to approue the Orators speech I condem●e it rather but it will serue to inferre that the same may be s●ld of sinne For if any personall vice doth but obtaine its rege●cie what will it not make vs to doe Poscit et dandum est Vocat et veniendum Eijcit et abcundum Minatur et extimescendum It craues and we must giue it cals and wee must come it casts vs out and we must be gone it threatens and we 〈◊〉 f●are Nay and if this were all it were well but it is not ●f 〈◊〉 by as tyranny it makes the fruit of the wombe which is a Blessing to be a Curse it makes God of a tender Father to be a terrible Iudge it makes Christ which is a corner-stone to support to be a stone of offence to slumble at yea it makes the Gospell which is of it selfe glad tidings to be vnto vs heauie newes euen the sauour of Death vnto Death oh therefore let it not raigne in vs but rather let vs deale with Sinne as with a Tyrant and that on this wise 1. Take away its weapons 2. Banish its friends 3. Preuent its pollicies 4. Neuer offer conditions of peace with it for if we doe it will quickly encroach and get the chayre of estate and sit in our soules as King Therefore let it not Raigne c. Reason 3 Lastly consider sins wages when it hath made vs to take paines what will be our pay Surely in this life a galeing and wounded Conscience which shall continually suggest vnto vs our sinnes committed Gods law violated his Maiestie offended and punishment deserued This Worme shall gnaw this Scourge shall whip vs in this life Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum o I●menal sat 13 Yea the Tormentor shall shake an hidden whippe in the soule of the Tormented Nay neither is this all but Death shall also play its part for That indeed is sins proper pay as the Apostle witnesseth Rom. 6.23 saying The wages of sinne is death Mors vt debitum soluitur peccanti vti Militi stipendium suum ex pacto p Aretius in Rom. 6.23 Death is the Sinners due and shall be as surely paid him as the Souldier hath his presse money and the Seruant his couenant penny Therefore let not sinne raigne c. My application of which point shall be none other but this Vse namely to instruct vs Therefore to raigne ouer sinne Which if we will doe we must as warlike-kings fight lustily and with a good courage fearing none but God and yeelding to nothing but godlinesse which hath the promise of this life and that which is to come Both which if we will doe wee must follow the counsell of the Apostle who willeth vs To take the whole armour of God that wee may be able to withstand the assaults of the Deuill q Eph. 6.11 and to Resist in the euill day and to stand fast r v. 13. Know this oh thou Christian man whatsoeuer thou art that liuing here thou liuest in a Millitary world t 1 Cor. 7.31 and in a Church Millitant v 1 Tim. 2.15 Thou must therefore be a Souldier * 2 Tim. 2.3 and the course of thy life must be a fight x 1 Tim. 1.18 thou must expect the opposition of enemies y Luke 1.71 and annoyance with assaults z 1 Pet. 2.11 And therefore like a good Souldier thou must fight manfully that thou maist raigne Regally But before thou entrest combat with thy foes Put on thine armour be euery way in euery thing wel instructed as Mr Caluin expounds it a Quo signisicat debere omni ex parte instructor esse ne quod nobis desit But what Armour must thou put on Not Ionathans Bow nor Sampsons Iaw bone not Dauids Sling nor Peters Sword not