Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	appear_v	life_n	sin_n	4,010	5	4.7063	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50250	An heart-melting exhortation together with a cordiall consolation presented in a letter from New-England to their dear countrymen of Lancashire : which may as well concern all others in these suffering times / by Richard Mather ... and William Tompson ...	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.; Tompson, William, d. 1666.	1650 (1650)	Wing M1273; ESTC R3673	23,412	92

and so iniquity shall not be your ruine for the Lord hath said and sworn that as he liveth he taketh no pleasure in the death of the wicked but rather that he turn from his way and live turn you turn you wherefore will you die The very Angels of heaven will be glad at the day of your conversion But if you harden your hearts and refuse to hearken to the gracious call of the Lord your damnation is just your bloud will be upon your own heads you have been warned and warned again and again by many worthy Ministers and messengers of God that have preached in your Congregations and amongst others you have been warned heretofore by us in preaching and now by us in writing But besides this sinne of prophanenesse and open ungodlinesse there is another evill no lesse dangerous which is often found amongst them that professe more purity and reformation of life and that is when men blesse themselves in their own righteousnesse and think their condition safe and good meerly because of some legall reformation without any feeling of their need of Christ any high prizing of him any earnest longing for him any true relying or resting on him That it is incident to professors to offend in this kinde is plain by that which is written of the Pharisees that they trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others and accordingly one of them is brought in boasting of himself before God that he was not like other men he was no extortioner no adulterer no unjust person nor like that Publican but he fasted twice a week he gave tithes of all that he possessed and the like And it is said of the nation of the Jews generally that they being ignorant of the righteousnesse of God and going about to establish their own righteousnesse did not subject themselves to the righteousnesse of God Which place doth also shew the dangerous condition of all such justitiaries in this respect that being so full of their own righteousnesse they submit not themselves to the righteousnesse of God nor unto Christ Jesus who is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeves But of this you may be sure that whatever a mans righteousness may be unlesse he were one that had never sinned he hath nothing in him that is of any worth for the present justification of his person nor for the everlasting salvation of his soul For the text is plain that in Gods sight there is no flesh living that can be justified Psal. 143.2 And therefore such holy men as David Daniel Nehemiah Paul and others durst not stand to be tried and justified that way Psal. 143.2 Dan. 9.18 Neh. 13.22 Phil. 3.9 but have been glad to fly for this matter only to the free mercy and grace of God and the righteousnesse of Christ Jesus which is by faith and you will finde that it will be best for you to do the like It may be you will say We have no need to be told of this for we are not Papists to hold justification by works but do beleeve that justification is by faith only without the works of the Law Neverthelesse we cannot think it needlesse for men to be put in minde of this matter I partly because there are many the Lord knows in that dear countrey of ours who discover themselves to be deeply tainted with this as well as other points of Popery and partly because this Popery this pride and self-love is naturall to all the sons of men being a part of that originall sinne which is common to all as well as to those that make direct profession of popery and therefore your selves unlesse you were free from all originall corruption are in danger of this relying upon self-righteousnesse as well as Papists nay we fear be it spoken without offence that there are sundry amongst you that do so rely indeed and though they be not outwardly culpable in respect of popery and prophanenesse but professe a stricter and purer way yet in very truth are in no better condition to God-ward then others are as being utterly without part and portion in Christ Jesus For the manifesting whereof we hope you will easily grant that whoever hath no more religion in him but what might have been attained if Christ had never been such an one whatever relgion he may seem to have is certainly without Christ and in a state of death unto this day And that so it is with many professors may appear by this that trouble of conscience for sinne and reformation of life after that troubler is all the religion that is found in many professors for let a man attain to these two to be stung in conscience for his sinne and afterwards to take up a stricter course of life in the practice of good duties as praier in his family frequenting of Sermons conversing with Christians and such like and how many are there that hereupon would account themselves and be accounted by others to be right good Christians and in a most blessed condition Whenas the truth is all that is here mentioned is no more then might be wrought by the Law though Christ Jesus had never come into the world For a serious consideration of the curses of the Law being threatned might produce the one and the serious consideration of the duties of the Law being pressed urged might produce the other but both the one and the other without Christ and consequently both the one and the other without salvation sith there is no salvation without Christ Wherefore dear friends in the bowels of Jesus Christ we do beseech you examine your selves whether it be thus with you or with any of you ask your selves this Question whether any Evangelicall and saving work of grace and faith in Christ be yet wrought in your souls or whether all that yet you have had experience of doe amount to no more but legall affrightment and legall amendment And if upon examination any soul amongst you shall finde his condition to be no better then this that here we are speaking of in the name of God let such a soul be deeply humbled and repent in dust and ashes for this amongst all his other sinnes that he hath prized Christ no more thinking himself to be rich and encreased in goods and to have need of nothing because of legall duties and ●●mmon graces not knowing how through want of Christ Jesus in his soul he hath all this while been miserable and wretched and blinde and poor and naked And let a man consider with himself and the Lord grant that he may consider it seriously that it is not all this humiliation and reformation that can make satisfaction to the justice of God for any one though but the least of all his manifold transgressions nor justifie his person in the sight of God and therefore if he die in this condition which God forbid he will certainly die accursed