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
A20688	Innovations unjustly charged upon the present church and state. Or An ansvver to the most materiall passages of a libellous pamphlet made by Mr. Henry Burton, and intituled An apologie of an appeale, &c. By Christopher Dow, B.D.	Dow, Christopher, B.D.	1637 (1637)	STC 7090; ESTC S110117	134,547	244

them too but I spare them yet surely I have knowne strange effects of this doctrine and what consequences naturally doe flow from it I leave to the judicious and indifferent consideration of any understanding man Thirdly it produces a strange kind of justification whereby at once all their sinnes past present Ames p. 121. Calvin Inst. l. 3. c. 4. §. 3. and to come are remitted and they without more adoe as sure of heaven as if they were in it already and that without any repentance which with them is no cause of the remission of sinnes neither indeed can bee as comming too late and when that worke is done already by faith or rather before all faith which apprehends the free and full remission of their sinnes ready sealed before all repentance which as they teach ever comes after faith though to say the truth it seldome either precedes or followes after as it ought and indeed I wonder how it should when they hold that neither it nor good workes are of any efficacie in procuring mans salvation Yea so farre have some gone in opposition to repentance and good workes that they blush not to teach that impenitencie it selfe doth not exclude from grace or salvation for they say that impenitencie is but a sinne and the impenitent but a sinner and so the proper object of justification and salvation inasmuch as the Apostle saith This is 1 Tim. 1. 15. a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation that Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners so ignorantly and against the maine grounds of Christian faith and piety doe they wrest that most sweet and comfortable place to serve their owne fancies So for good workes though all agree to exclude them from being any meanes of not only of justification but of salvation yet some do admit them as it were spectators and witnesses of the worke done and in that respect require their presence as necessary though they contribute nothing to the worke But others are of a more sublime straine and they think them no way necessary but rather hinderers of salvation and whereas vulgar Christians and the under-forme or ranke of Professors doe make use of them as signes and evidences of their faith and justification these teach as the most new and more refined way that men should try their workes by their faith and that this is the onely way to have constant and untottering comfort which the commission of no sinne can ecclypse or diminish for they beleeving that God loves hath accepted their persons and that once for all must beleeve also that hee will take them altogether with all faults that they are or shall bee gulty of and being his favorits they may be assured that he will give them more liberty and winke at more and grocer faults in them than in unbeleevers and reprobates who may haply be condemned to hell fire for but looking upon a woman to lust after her when these scape with actuall adultery and many other grosse and grievous sins lived dyed in without repentance those being but infirmities in them which in others are scandalous and crying sinnes In which regard they enjoy two notable priviledges First that whereas to others death to them life is the wages of sinne for they so farre extend that of the Apostle Saint Paul Rom. 8. 28. to include sinne and all which together with all things else workes together for their good and salvation Secondly they are by this means exempted from all punishment as well in this world as in the next that all the afflictions which befall them and death it selfe are not punishments for their sins or signes of his displeasure against them whom hee once and ever loved so dearely but onely fatherly corrections and exercises of their graces As their faith is new so are many acts of Gods worship new too I le begin with the principall of them all their Prayers which are farre different from the Prayers of the Church of England for first our Church appointeth publick Prayers after a set and solemne forme Prayers received from the ancient Church of Christ and venerable for their antiquity Prayers wherein the meanest in the Congregation by reason of the continuall use may joyne in and helpe to set upon God with an armie of Prayers Prayers composed with that gravity with such pious and soule-ravishing straines with those full and powerfull expressions of heavenly affection that I suppose the world setting them aside hath not the like volumne of holy Orisons But these are by them slighted and vilified in whose mouthes the short and pithy prayers of the Church are but shreads and pieces and not worthy the name of Prayers and the Letany accounted conjuring And in stead of these regular devotions they have brought in a long prayer freshly-conceived and brought forth by the Minister and that God knowes many times in bald and homely language such as wise men would bee ashamed to tell a tale in even to their equals with many gasping and unseemely pauses and multitudes of irksome Tautologies and which is none of the least defects of it in which none of the Congregation is able to joyne with him or to follow him as not knowing no nor the speaker himselfe sometimes what he is about to say Againe the Church of England hath consecrated certaine places to be houses of publick prayer which places so consecrated and appropriated to that holy Service they judge fit that publick prayer be there made as in the places where God is in a more speciall manner present but these places are by them contemned and every place a parlour barne or play-house accounted as holy and fit as they for publick prayer or any other act of Gods worship Thirdly prayers in the Church of England have ever been conceived not only as duties to bee performed but as meanes also sanctified by God for the obtayning of his blessings whereby he is moved to grant our desires but with them they are accounted only duties which must bee done in doing whereof men do not so much move God or dispose him to grant their desires as themselves to receive them Fourthly when we according as our Saviour hath taught us in that holy pattern of prayer which he left with his Disciples do pray that God would forgive us our trespasses wee meane simply and unfeignedly to obtayn fogivenesse and that by this meanes but they praying for forgivenesse of sinnes intend only continuation of that grace of remission of sinnes which they have already received which grace being immutable prayer for that purpose is by them judged altogether superfluous the mayne end therefore that they ayme at in their prayers is that they may grow more and more in sense and assurance of the remission of their sinnes If we passe from prayer to the Sacraments which as our Church teaches are morall instruments to conveigh those graces unto the receivers which the outward signes visibly represent and