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	sting_n	14,375	5	12.1860	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95657	Pseudeleutheria. Or Lawlesse liberty. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major of London, &c. in Pauls, Aug. 16. 1646. / By Edvvard Terry, Minister of the Word, and pastor of the church at Great-Greenford in the country of Middlesex. Sept. 11. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing T781; Thomason E356_11; ESTC R201136	37,931	42

on without much opposition From which if that worke of Church-Government so seriously and long debated by You had beene exempted I should have joyned with those that had most questioned it But now a great and effectuall dore is opened unto you God having so blessed the way you have resolved to goe that he hath given it a free entrance into the hearts of many of his people And you have many adversaries and it cannot be otherwise so long as there are such a number amongst us who are like bad Wares which are for Darke shops or like unto Bleare-eyes that cannot endure the Light Most worthy Sirs I dare not flatter you and I shall not if I tell you that it hath been ever my thoughts as the thoughts of very many more who have best meanes to know you that you have done your parts in this great worke The advantage of whose prayers you shall never want to carry you on in it through it and then whatsoever the successe be you may wash your Hands The Lord who only can most graciously assist and abundantly recompence the unwearied paines of you All I have this only to adde in relation to your particular Selves that if my deare and tender respects unto you cannot your pardon may excuse him for this boldnesse who is Your Worships in all Christian observance Edward Terry TO THE READER Reader EVer since the world hath been planted with two different Seedes all the words and actions of men have been exposed unto severall interpretations as this following Sermon expected and found which occasioned this preface at which if they who tooke most exception could but know how tender I am of thinking amisse much more of saying or doing any thing that may justly grieve the spirits of any who truely feare God He would enter into consideration whether I in reprooving or he in meriting just reproofe deserved most blame It would trouble any one who hath not quite lost himselfe to consider how these present times have distracted a very great number amongst us by variety of opinions Many of which though they agree in the maine when a great number goe very much further and doe not so quarrell and contend about the list and fringe of Christs garment as if they meant to rend in peeces that seamelesse coate which must cover our nakednesse Alas Christ hath suffered abundantly for us already why then deale we so injuriously with him as to teare open his wounds afresh by sad oppositions as if he were now to be divided twixt Paul and Apollo and Cephas which thing the Apostle reproves and complaines of 1 Cor. 1. 12. amongst whom some were taken with St. Pauls ministry some with Apollo some with Cephas admiring one of them to the prejudice of the rest And there were some that said I am of Christ And what were these But people of severall factions in the Church of Corinth the last of which though we may parallel them all were of the very selfe same minde that many amongst us are growne such perfectists that they esteeme themselves above all ordinances and therefore shamefully neglect them So depending as they say upon Christ that they care not for any Preacher in the world they regard them not they refuse to heare or pray with them especially if they be orthodox or rightly principled God hath sent forth abundance of light and truth Psal. 43. 3. Truth sufficient to establish annd light sufficient to guide us and it would be very sad if an over curious search after new light should put us out of the way the old way the good way 〈◊〉 6. 16. and so make us to hazard the losse of old truth Alas what would we have What doe we expect A new Christ a new Passion a new Resurrection What would we be Members of a glorious Church that hath neither spot nor wrinkle nor any such thing Ephe. 5. 27. we must wait for that hereafter Why in the meane time doe so many sad quarrells sharpe contentions arise amongst us When we have said and done what we can Knowing Beleeving Doing or Faith Practise well studied that they may be known include in them a Christians whole duty here And doubtlesse a number shall one day finde if ever they returne againe unto themselves themselves most miserably deluded that have hoped to finde some other some nearer and more safe and certaine way to Heaven then that by which all the holy men of God have passed then that which hath been pointed out unto us by the lives of the Saints and enlightned for us by the flames of the Martyrs Yet it is most notoriously manifest that there are too too many amongst us that prescribe a shorter passage to Heaven then any of those worthies have sound by removing all those blocks and rubs which the Law of God casts in a Christians way thither to make it more difficult Which Doctrine if it were as true as it is plausible he were worthy to perish without party that would not close with it But this I am sure of that not any one of those holy men of God mentioned in the sacred story before the comming of Christ nor any since whose praises are in the Gospel have made it appeare unto the world that there is any such way to be discovered That blessed Apostle himselfe who was such a chosen vessell who had such abundance of Revelations 2 Cor. 12 7. was never acquainted with this if he had certainely he would never have complained so much so often of the Law which gives such a strength to sin and such a sting to death 1 Cor. 15 56 He would never have so complained of that body of sin of that body of Death which was in him And therefore Reader let me entreate thee now before thou leave me to have the patience seriously to consider of these following particulars First and in a speciall manner to take heede of spirituall Pride that great sin which banes thousands by sad and severall mistakes in entertaining a floating knowledge for true wisdome a distempered heate for true Zeale Conceits and conceivings about Religion to be true Religion indeede Oh how doth this Pride swell bladder puffe up thousands like empty vessells to make a great sound Putting low and base esteemes upon others Like the people of China who boast that themselves only have two eyes when all the people in the world beside have but one Know thou that the most excellent Christian in the world is most humble And that a good man is first in another mans last in his owne commendation Secondly know that there is a naturall aptnesse and propensity in all to set up Idols in their hearts and heads Ezek. 14. Where they are hardly discovered and whence not easily remooved which they doe not only love but dote on and therefore they hug and dandle those deformed issues of their owne braines as women doe the Children of their bodies and esteem what ever others