Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	mortal_a	4,247	5	8.6378	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91744	The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls Church, London, Octob. 28. / By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to the Kings Majesty. Printed by the order of the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1263; Thomason E1048_2; ESTC R203481	17,874	45

How the one is more perfect and the other more sublime and wherein consisteth the sober and religious use of it But when a man will exalt his Reason into the Throne and set up his own high Imaginations which should be brought into Captivity to the obedience of Christ above Law and Gospel and suffer the wantonness of a luxuriant and discursive fancy to dispute away the love due to the one the faith due to the other and the obedience due to both when men will make their Reason the Judge of Gods own Word and the last resolvtion of every thing which they mean to do and believe This is to tell the world that they are their own and that they acknowledge no authority above themselves 2. When a man maketh his Own Will his chief Law which he is resolved to obey All the contest between God and wicked men is whose Will shall stand The Lord commands that his Will be observed the sinner resolves that his own Will shall be obeyed The Law requires duty the sinner will not do it The Law threatneth curses the sinner will not believe it The Word convinceth of what is Gods Will and the sinner swelleth in contumacy and obstinacy against it Cesset voluntas propria non●erit infernus In this case the Lord resolves to make sinners know whose word shall stand His or theirs Jer. 44. 28. To break those whom he did not bend and to make known his power against their pride Exod. 9. 16. To fetch his glory out of strong and stubborn people Isa. 25. 3. As a Tempest teareth an Oak that resists it but hurteth not the corn that yields unto it He resisteth the proud and will overcome when he judgeth 3. When a man maketh his Own interest his ultimate end directing all his aims and designes to his own gain pleasure credit ease advantage looking in nothing beyond himself eating to himself drinking to himself Zac. 7. 6. Bringing forth fruit unto himself Hos. 10. 1. without any conscience towards Gods Will or aim at his glory But are we so little our Own then that we may not at all seek our selves or eye those things wherein our own interests are concerned Doubtless we may He that commands to love our selves allows to aim at the profiting and pleasing of our selves For love shews it self in benevolence and beneficence willing and doing our selves good But it must not be either arbitrarily or ultimately not arbitrarily but with submission to the Rule of Gods Will and not ultimately but with subordination to the Glory of his Name We may seek our own preservation yet so as to acquiesce in Gods Providence in whose hand our times are and so as to be willing that God be magnified in our mortal body Whether by life or by death We may seek the improvement of any gift temporal or spiritual which God hath given us yet so as to aquiesce in that measure which he is pleased to proppotion unto us and so as to consecrate our selves and all our endowments unto his glory that Christ may divide all our spoils We are to seek our own salvation yet even this if a case could so be put is to be postponed unto Gods glory But such is his goodness as never to oppose these two or set them in competition with one another but ever to conjoyn and to twist them together Whensoever we seek the Glory of God we do eo ipso promote our own salvation Whensoever we prosecute our own salvation we do Eo ipso bring Glory to God Whatsoever glorifies God doth ever end in our salvation Faith glorifies God Abraham was strong in faith giving Glory to God Rom. 4. 20. And the End of our faith is the Salvation of our soul 1 Peter 1. 9. Works of Obedience glorifie God Joh. 15. 8. And they are the ready way to our own salvation for after we have done the Will of God we shall be sure to receive the promises Heb. 10. 36. God can glorifie Himself in our damnation but we neither can nor may do any thing tending to our damnation that God may be thereby glorified for whensoever we break the Law We dishonour God Rom. 2. 23. 4. When a man maketh his own performances the principal ground of all his hopes and desires having no joy or comfort but what he can draw out of himself trusting in his own power to effect and bring about his ends as Pharoah and Babylon did Exod. 15. 10. Isa. 14. 13 14. Sacrificing and burning incense to his own net and drag Hab. 1. 16. ascribing successes to his own might and power Deut. 8. 17. As the proud Assyrian did Isa. 10. 13. and expecting salvation from his own good works like the proud Pharisee Luke 18. 11 12. But may we not build on our own performances for salvation Doth not the Apostle call Good works a foundation 1 Tim. 6. 19. And may we not then build upon it In answer hereunto we are to distinguish inter Rationem condignitatis rationem ordinis Between the merit deserving the reward and the order and consequence which God hath put between the one and the other making the reward mercifully but with all certainly to follow the obedience Again we are to distinguish Inter causam essendi cognoscendi between the cause of confidence a priori and the means and arguments whereby to know it a posteriori Our good works are not the merit or cause or proper foundation of our own salvation or confidence concerning it but only the free Grace of God and the Righteousness of Christ thereby bestowed upon us yet from an holy life as an effect of Faith in Christ and fruit of divine love and certain Antecedent unto salvation we may draw comfortable arguments a posteriori to establish our hearts in the expectations of it In which respect the wise man saith That in the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence Prov. 14. 26. And for the Apostles Metaphor of a foundation it is there opposed evidently to that which he calleth in the same place verse 17 The uncertainty of Riches to note the stability and permanency of that treasure which they that are rich in good works shall at last enjoy so that there is nothing of causality intended in it Not to pass by the notion of a very learned man upon the place who telleth us that there the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} importeth the same which Gnikar doth in the Rabbins which signifieth as he observeth out of Maimonides Scriptum quo cavetur de refundenda creditori pecunia so that the Apostles meaning is the same with Solomons Prov. 19. 17. He that hath pity on the poor bendeth unto the Lord and so hath {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Bonum nomen very good security for that which he hath given God will pay him again We have seen what it is for a man

Captain of our salvation stronger than the strong man able to save to the uttermost those that come unto God through him Heb. 7. 25. To finish the work given him to do John 17. 4. To go forth conquering and to conquer Rev. 6. 2. To lead Captivity Captive Ephes. 4. 8. To destroy Satan Heb. 2. 14. To spoil Principalities and Powers and to triumph over them Col. 2. 15. To deliver us from the wrath to come 1 Thes. 1. 10. And in one word to offer up himself by the Eternal Spirit unto God so as to obtain Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12 14. By that one offering perfecting for ever those that are sanctified Heb. 10. 14. Ceasing from his work as God did from his to note the consummation of it Heb. 4. 10. These things qualifying the person that is to redeem The work it self is double there is Redemptio per modum liberationis by way of deliverance out of Captivity or by way of Ransom which is called delivering us out of the hands of our enemies Luke 1. 74. And per modum Acquisitionis called by the Apostle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Redemption of the purchased possession Ephes. 1. 14. We have them both together Gal. 4. 4 5. For the former of these we must observe that here is the Captive Mankind They under whom this Captive is detained the Supreme Judge Almighly God under whose Law the sinfull world is held so the Judge is said to cast into prison to destroy soul and body in Hell to deliver to the Tormentors to conclude in unbelief And under this supreme Judge Satan sin death the powers of darkness which are Jaylors Serjeants Officers all under the Rebuke and Command of the principal Judge The Redeemed the Lord our Righteousness Jesus that delivereth us from the wrath to come The Price by him laid down for the obtaining of our discharge for in Redemptions a price was to intervene Ier. 32. 7 10. and this was his Blood Ephes 1. 7. 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. Men may be several wayes freed from Captivity 1 By Escape as Peter by the help of the Angel Acts 12. 11. 2 By Dismission and free release as Absolom was dismissed from banishment by the free pardon of David 2 Reg. 14. 21. 3 By Power as Abraham rescued Lot out of the hands of those that had taken him captive Gen. 14. 16. 4. By Commutation of one for another as Prisoners in War use to be mutually exchanged 5. By Ransome and payment of a price And in this manner hath Christ delivered his Church by giving his life a Ransome for many Mat. 20. 28. 1 Tim. 2. 6. For though it be as to our selves a free condonation we have remission of sinnes by the Riches of his Grace Rom. 3. 24. Ephes. 1. 7. And though it be as to Satan and all the powers of darkness a victorious Rescue whom Christ spoileth Luke 11. 21. Yet as to God the Judge whose Justice our sinne offended from whose wrath we cannot be delivered till that Justice be first satisfied It was by the Solution of a price or laying down of a proper Ransome for the Lord spared not his own Son but laid upon him the iniquity of us all which he bare in his body on the tree so that he was made a curse for us made purposely under the Law that he might pay by his Obedience to the Law that debt which we had contracted but could never discharge Unto his Father did Christ pay this price for us He had the primitive and original Property in us from his service we revolting unto the service of another Lord were responsible to him as our Judge for so great a wrong Debet omnis qui peccat honorem quem rapit Deo solvere as Anselm speaks His Prisoners and Debtors we were to him alone we pray for the pardon of them Satan and Death were but his Jaylors unto whose power and custody we were delivered Though they were our Lords and we their servants by a Covenant of sinning yet they were Usurpers in regard of God by intruding upon his Right in us for we being His and not our own had no more power to alienate our selves from his service then one mans Apprentice hath to bind himself unto another Master Here then having been a double wrong done unto God one by the sinner another by Satan Christ satisfieth for the wrong of the sinner by suffering his curse and revengeth the wrong of Satan by rescuing the sinner from him unto his natural service again the one in a way of Justice the other of Power Now lastly Emption being a Contract whereunto three particulars concurre Res Precium Consensus the thing bought the price for which and the consent of the parties contracting unto the consummation of this work is required besides the solution and validity of the price the Acceptation thereof by the consent of the Judge that is of God to the Ransome And this abundantly made known unto us in the Word the Lord declaring that he was well pleased in his Son That when his soul should be made an offering for sin He should see his seed and prolong his dayes and the pleasure of the Lord should prosper in his hand and he should see of the travel of his soul and be satisfied and by his knowledge should justifie many c. Isa. 53. 10 11. That we are accepted in the beloved Ephes. 1. 6. Who was answered in his prayer by a voice from heaven to signifie Gods owning of that sacrifice which he was presently after to offer Iohn 12. 28. Thus we see how we were bought by way of liberation and Ransome Now lastly by way of Purchase and Acquisition Christ having thus bought his Church with his own blood Acts 20. 28. Hath further by the Redundancy of the merit of that his blood purchased for it an excellent Inheritance a Dowry of Grace and Holiness here and of Glory and Blessedness hereafter called by the Apostle The Adoption of sonnes Gal. 4. 5. And being thus redeemed we are now Gods Own not only upon the common and general Title of Creation as all other things in the world are but by a peculiar and in a more gracious manner by Redemption as his liberti by Dedication as his Temples by Vnion as his Members by Unction as his peculiar people whom he hath chosen and formed for himself Ps. 4. 3 Isa. 43. 21. Which leads us to the last particular in the Text the practicall inference or use which the Apostle makes of both the Propositions that therefore we should glorifie and as the vulgar addeth Bear or shew forth God both in our Bodies and in our spirits which are both His for therefore he hath given us both the one and the other that we might use them both unto his honour and preserve them in that dignity and relation which they