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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	conscience_n	sin_n	soul_n	4,210	5	5.0824	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27042	A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the setling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1413; ESTC R209398	26,650	54

and to have been cast into the bottom of the Sea Matth. 18. 6. It is a sure and grievous condemnation that waiteth for all that are themselves unholy but to the haters or despisers of the holy Laws and Servants of the Lord how much more grievous a punishment is reserved 3. Enquire also Whether there be none among you that let loose your passions on your inferiours and oppress your poor Tenants and make them groan under the task or at least do little to relieve the needy nor study not to serve the Lord with your estates but sacrifice all to the pleasing of your flesh unless it be some inconsiderable pittance or fruitless drops that are unproportionable to your receivings If there be any such let them Remember their iniquities and cry for mercy before the cry of the poor to heaven do bring down vengeance from him that hath promised to hear their cry and speedily to avenge them Luk. 18. 7 8. 4. Enquire Whether there be none that live the life of Sodom in Pride fulness of bread and idleness Ezek. 16. 49. and that are not pust up with their estates and dignities and are strangers to the humility meekness patience and self-denyal of the Saints That ruffle in bravery and contend more zealously for their honour and preheminence then for the honour and interest of the Lord For pride of apparel it was wont to be taken for a childish or a womanish kind of vice below a man but it s now observed among the gallants that except in spots the notes of vanity are more legibly written on the hair and dress of a multitude of effeminate males then on the females proclaiming to the world that pride which one would think even pride it self should have concealed and calling by these signs to the beholders to observe the emptyness of their minds and how void they are of that inward worth which is the honour of a Christian and of a man It being a marvel to see a man of Learning gravity wisdom and the fear of God appear in such an antick dress I have done with the first part the Remembring of your own evil wayes and doings I beseech you practically go along with me to the next The loathing of your selves in your own eyes for all your iniquities and abominations Every true Convert doth thus loath himself for his iniquities and When God will restore a punished people upon their Repentance he bringeth them to this loathing of themselves 1. A converted soul hath a new and heavenly Light to help him to see those matters of humbling use which others see not 2. More particularly he hath the knowledge of sin and of himself He seeth the odious face of sin and seeth how much his heart and life in his sinful dayes abounded with it and how great a measure yet remains 3. He hath seen by Faith the Lord himself The Majesty the holiness the jealousie the goodness of the eternal God whom he hath offended and therefore must needs abhorr himself John 42. 6. 4. He hath tasted of Gods displeasure against him for his sin already God himself hath set it home and awakened his conscience and held it on till he hath made him understand that the consuming fire is not to be jested with 5. He hath seen Christ Crucified and mourned over him This is the glass that doth most clearly shew the ugliness of sin And here he hath learned to abhor himself 6. He hath foreseen by Faith the End of sin and the doleful recompence of the ungodly His faith beholdeth the misery of damned souls and the Glory which sinners cast away He heareth them before-hand repenting and lamenting and crying out of their former folly and wishing in vain that all this were to do again and that they might once more be tryed with another life and resolving then how holily how self-denyingly they would live He knows if sin had had its way he had been plunged into this hellish misery himself and therefore he must needs loath himself for his iniquities 7. Moreover the true Convert hath had the liveliest tast of mercy of the blood of Christ of the offers and Covenant of grace of reprieving mercy of pardoning mercy of healing and preserving mercy and of the unspeakable mercy contained in the promise of everlasting life And to find that he hath sinned against all this mercy doth constrain him to abhorre himself 8. And it is only the true Convert that hath a new and holy nature contrary to sin and therefore as a man that hath the Leprosie doth loath himself because his nature is contrary to his disease so is it though operating in a freer way with a converted soul as to the Leprosie of sin Oh how he loaths the remnants of his pride and passion his excessive cares desires and fears the backwardness of his soul to God and Heaven Sin is to the new nature of every true Believer as the food of a Swine to the stomack of a man if he have eaten it he hath no rest till he hath vomited it up and then when he looketh on his vomit he loatheth himself to think how long he kept such filth within him and that yet in the bottome there is some remains 9. The true Covert is one that is much at home his heart is the Vineyard which he is daily dressing his work is ordinarily about it and therefore he is acquainted with those secret sins and daily failings which ungodly men that are strangers to themselves do not observe though they have them in dominion 10. Lastly A serious Christian is a workman of the Lords and daily busie at the exercise of his graces and therefore hath occasion to observe his weaknesses and failings and from sad experience is forced to abhorre himself But with careless unrenewed souls it is not so some of them may have a mild ingenuous disposition and the knowledge of their unworthiness and customarily they will confess such sins as are small disgrace to them or cannot be hid or under the terrible gripes of conscience in the hour of distress and at the approach of death they will do more and abhorre themselves perhaps as Judas did or make a constrained confession through the power of fear But so far are they from this loathing of themselves for all their iniquities that sin is to them as their element their food their nature and their friend And now Honourable Worthy and beloved auditors it is my duty to enquire and to provoke you to enquire whether the Representative body of the Commons of England and each man of you in particular be thus affected to your selves or not It concerns you to enquire of it as you love your souls and love not to see the death-marks of impenitencie on them It concerneth us to enquire of it as we love you and the Nation and would fain see the marks of Gods return in mercy to us in your self-loathing and return to God Let