Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	sin_n	sin_v	8,157	5	9.6294	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52204	The middle way of predetermination asserted. Between the Dominicans and Jesuites, Calvinists and Arminians, or, A scriptural enquiry into the influence and causation of God in and unto humane actions; expecially such as are sinfull.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; W. M.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3692A; Wing M95B; ESTC R10732	43,527	48

they are Invi●cibly de●ermined to Evil or bent on it in the General or cannot do Good Man in Innocency he had perfect Good or spotl●ss Obedience and also Sin and Evil within his power both being made Mutab●e Man Restored and Manumitted by Grace hath imperfect Good comp●red to the Original Law or Sincere O●edience within his power and also Sin and Disobed●ence being on Earth defectible or not yet Confirmed though the Decr●e and Efficiency of God shall prevent that he sinneth not to Death Yet may Free-Will be denominated or affirmed of them all The one act as freely as the other the worst in sinning as the best in obey●ng He acts freely that can act or not act what when and how he p●easeth in things which m●y be said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. in our power so doth the s●rvant at his Masters Beck Col. 3.23 where note by the way that to act voluntarily or freely and yet necessarily are consistent and may well stand together The Angels in Heaven they love God and serve him Voluntarily and Freely so shall the S●ints in Glory and so doth man in his present state even in what hath a kind of natural Connexion with the Will determine himself Freely according to the Dictate of his Reason and Judgment A Rational a Voluntary and a Free Choice are Convertible Terms The Will acteth Freely not Necessarily as opposed to Volun●ary either contrariè by Coaction or Violence against its Elicit Inclination or negativè from a meer natural Necessity without Reason B●t still it acteth Necessarily in some sense as the Will evermore doth when Reason hath once cast the Scale with necessity of Immutability in respect of the Event which opponitur possibili non esse is opposed to a Possibility not to be God's Supportation and Concurse presupposed or eventus contrarii of the contrary Issue or Event it can do no otherwise and t●at from the Potency or perfection of the Rational Faculty and Cognation that it hath with the Obj●ct And the contrary is as true of Wicked and Unregenerate men they Act freely following the Dictate of their Reason and Judgment such as it is though Brutish Jer. 10.8 21. 55.17 thoug● Carnal ●ensual and Devili●h Jam. 3.15 Jer. 4.22 vo●d of all natural Necessity or Coaction in their choice of Sin and Fl●sh-pleasing Eph. 2.3 Yet do they Act Necessarily also so as that they cannot possibly Will or Do the Contrary without renewing grace Job 5.44.45 Rom. 2.5 and that ab intriseco from a Privation in their Mind Rom. 3.11 Eph. 4.18 and an Impotency or contraty Propension in their Will and Affections preponderating them to Evil though not sub ratione mali and to a Disrelish of true Holiness Rom. 8.5 7. which is languor aegritudo animi the Souls sickness and depravation of its Faculties the fruit of mans first Apostacy from God Job 14.4 though he be still habile subjectum a Subject capable of the Retrivement of God's Image into his Soul Col. 3.10 i. e. Man still with his natural faculties of Reason and Will and so Good is yet possible to him in some sense if God please to adapt him for it Eph. 2.10 In and about particular Acts agible within mans power and unto which he is not actually or virtually by a previous invincible Habit or Propension of Mind and Will predetermined lieth the Contingency and Evitability of Humane actions In such actions hath man a liberty of Contrariety or Contradiction in the Exercise and Specification of his Acts or of Indifferency accordingly as his Reason doth sway him He may and can Act or suspend his Act his Will containeth within its dominion a power and possibility unto contrary acts and effects what is future is yet evitable and that possible that is not future Man saith the Learned Davenant hath not onely potentiam in se liberam a facul●y in its self free or capable of freedom but liberum usum potentiae the free Vse or Exercise of it A wicked Man for instance can upon other Deliberation resolve to do otherwise than he doth which freedom is evident in Adulterers Thieves and all manner of Sinners who being resolved to Commit this or that Sin when they perceive some great Danger presently choose to abstain from it till fitter opportunity Cain Absalom Judas and others were not under a Necessity of committing those Sins whereof they are noted to be Guilty it was out of their free Election having a power whereby they might have abstained from them The Angels that fell notwithstanding the Decree of the Divine Will had a Possibility of Not-rebelling against God and a Sufficiency of Divine Grace given them to have preserved them so had Adam had they not abused it God's absolute prescience doth not take away the possibility of the contrary Action or Event no more doth his absolute decree to think that the decree of absolute Reprobation must leave men under a necessity of committing their several sins is a false Imagination as every mans Conscienee is able to witness so the aforesaid Author p. 116.199.328.344 whom I have the rather consulted for that he is instanced in by some and produced for a maintainer of God's Predetermination of mans will in the sense by them pleaded for Which himself termeth a controversy between the Dominicans and Jesuits with whose Metaphysical speculations our Protestant Divines love not to torture their brains Nor yet do I take all Extrinsick Predetermination to be Inconsistent with humane Freedom in Acting For it hath been before granted that such Predetermination of God is necessary unto the Conversion of any Sinner unto him though the Sinner is capable of doing something that in the Order of Gods appointment hath a tendency to it Prov. 2.3 5. Isa 64 7. and it lieth at the Door of any under the call of the Gospel that they are not converted and healed by God it 's their own fault Jer. 13.27 Mat. 25.29 and their heart will one day Reproach them for it Luk. 16.28 neither do we when we speak of an Irreversible Insuperable Irresistible Determination whether to good or evil Actions meane any more than such as cannot or rather shall not be resisted such as is efficaciously prevalent and never fruastrate Yet is the Liberty and Freedom of Co-operation in the Subject in such case no more than that of a Rational Spontaneity it containeth in it's own nature nothing of contingency or possibility of the contrary Event In Effectual calling the New Creation wherein God worketh something above and besides the Order and Course of second Causes in order to the new Biassing and Pointing the soul towards himself Heaven and Holiness whatever the Influence or Efficiency of God be on the soul or its faculties of Reason and Will or his manner of Operation whether it be by way of objective Proposal and Fixation on the mind Demonstrating the Object and Effectually setting home Truth to an immutation therein and turn of