Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	fruit_n	sin_n	5,300	5	5.2076	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54249	The true primitive state of civill and ecclesiasticall government discussed and cleared also a vvay briefly propounded to reconcile the saints, by what names (now) soever distinguished, in unity of doctrine and discipline, according to our covenant in a government neerest to the word of God.	D. P.	1649 (1649)	Wing P14; ESTC R35085	22,555	32

they might the Ceremoniall and other Lawes Secondly From the nature of the law it selfe which in Scripture is compared to fire hammer Sword c. whereof circumcision was a figurative signe shewing it to be no lesse then a keen cutting instrument through the penalty which by a secret insition was to seperate that caule skin or film spread over the Spirit eye judgement of reason at first occasionally entering in by the sences now through custome being so habitually contracted in mans nature as it proves to some many times an incureable disease i Necessary it was then that from the eight day of the wombe at the first budding of the sences they should bee gradually and regularly disciplined accordingly And as for time so for place this signe was very significant it being done there from whence instrumentally was to bee acted the strongest and most burning lust of humane and naturall concupiscence the difficulty in suppressing which and the danger of neglecting was secretly hinted by the paine sorrow and bloodshed in this ceremonial transaction neither is the persons lesse observable God shewing by such an administration that it was the male not the female that was first intrusted from whom as the head and stronger vessel he cheifly of him required performance or else his blood must go or some others for him must doe and suffer what in Gods account is a satisfaction equivolent Thirdly When circumcision and the Law was most in force and highly exalted and through a sence thereby of mans weaknesse though it became instrumentall to beget as upon Hagars knees faithfull children unto Abraham Yet Gospell and Evangelical righteousnesse as a spring and river of life sweetly yet secretly was then running under allegories tipes and ceremonies in a ministration distinctly differing from the former for they all dranke of the same spirituall Rocke that followed them and that Rocke was Christ and they all were baptized as wel as circumcised though mistically under a cloud and in the Sea where water and not blood was the materiall substance of this ordanicall Sacrament Fourthly From the nature and end of baptisme it selfe which is not to bee paraleld so as to come in the roome of circumcision The matter and manner of which holy institution presenteth to our view and serious consideration these severall things following First That it is neither circumcision nor any other ceremoniall reparation but an absolute Sacramentall dissolution of our bodily elements into their first principles as best suiting with a visible Gospell administration From which secondly was lively represented to the eye of faith not sence by the death of the body a spirituall freedome from the imputation of sin * power of the law curse death and the devill The ground of which is this in that God at first gave this Law principally to be binding to the sensitive and weaker part the inward man from it being destinct although united makes but one person l upon which the outward being first in the transgression and by occasion an inlet of sin to the other It pleased God to impute that sin and charge the punishment upon it when yet by a decreed union If faith in an unexpected promise had not intervened the inward had also been in the same predicament from the neernesse of which union of these two destinct natures there is a communion of operations and proprieties so that what may be affirmed of one and the same person at one and the same time in referrence to one nature may be denyed of the other so that by one he may be said to be earthly dead under the law c. and by the other he may be said to be yet heavenly not living under that Law holy blessed and under the protection of God for ever And yet again where faith in a promise is not there a person in both natures is perpetually miserable but where it is that person in both Natures is eternally happie Yet in order first the one and then the other this then asserted is cleared if we observe that when God came to execute judgement he progressively past sentence upon that which was the first occasion of sin beginning with the Serpent then the woman and last of all with the earthly man making good his former threatning That in the day it did eat it should die For earth it was and to earth it should return which was the substance of the outward not the inward m man Thus then this exact compounded elementarie substance at first a fit instrument for the celestiall Spirit to transact a terrestial service being under the sentence of death it became not only unserviceable through a declining weaknesse but it caused also a spirituall death dulling the edge and quenching the sparklings in the Intellect of the divine off-spring for the cheering and reviving again of which he was pleased by a promise in a blessed seed of the same substance to give hope to the one by dying of a better Resurrection and through the quickning spirit for the present to give the other deliverance from a sinful captivity Now a figure of this death of the body was lively held forth by the bodies blood of Beasts which were to be offered up in Sacrifice as a present attonement for the reprieve of all sublimary created things of the same elementary substance until the substance of that which was chiefly tipified and intended namely the body of Christ in which as a spiritual publike person all the bodies of the Saints was included in the offering up of which the wil of God being done he hath consecrated for ever through that will those which by faith in his blood were sanctified Thirdly Baptisme was also ordained that it might be not only a similitude of that union and communion of the body of Christ with the faithfull but also that it might hold forth by this union to a visible part in the behalf of the rest of the members of the invisible body a community of the same Spirit vertue life resurrection and glory of the Head And this we find excellently set forth to us worthy our serious perusall in the sixt and seventh Chapters to the Romans the Apostle in the seventh shewing That now the first husband the body to whom the Spirit by union was marryed it was dead to the Law in the body of Christ so that now the spirit without being counted an Adulteresse might make choice for a husband him that is raised from the dead That by such a union it might bring forth fruit unto God for faith he when we were in the Flesh the affections of sin which were by the Law had force in our members to bring forth fruit unto death but now we are delivered from the Law he being dead that is to say the body in whom we were holden that we should serve him in newness of Spirit and not in the oldnesse of the Letter Fourthly and lastly by the