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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	sin_n	wage_n	5,559	5	11.2143	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40634	VVords to give to the young-man knowledg and discretion, or, The law of kindness in the tongue of a father to his son by Francis Fuller ...	Fuller, Francis, 1637?-1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing F2389; ESTC R7286	71,878	224

transgressions 1 John 3. 4. of Gods Law Thoughts are free from the censure Cogitationis paenas nemo luit de minimis non curas lex of Humane Laws and small offences are little regarded or taken notice of but the Divine Law reaches to the least sins and forbids the whole Latitude of sin from the beginning to the end from thoughts to deeds and from the appearance to the act for 1 Thes 5. 22. Mat. 5. 28. Heb. 4. 12. Gods Law as the Exchequer Accounts reaches to the least sums and farthings Little spots as well as great ones made a Leprosie as much crookedness may be in a small line as in a greater and as much contempt of God and his Law in the least sin as in the greatest 2. Little sins are Mortal The breach of every Law of Earthly Kings is not Capital and Mortal but all of the King of Heavens are for the wages of sin the transgression of those Laws viz. of sin indefinitely is Death they are not all alike great but all are Mortal and will Rom. 6. 23. without Repentance bring sure Damnation though not equal degrees of it for as the promise is annexed to the least Grace so a curse is to the least sin A little leak unstopt will sink a Ship a little Sword will kill as surely as a great one a little Debt will cast into Prison as well as a great one and a little sin unrepented of will as surely send you to Hell as a greater and when once there it will be but sorry comfort to think what you are there for whether for great sins or small ones 3. Little sins make way for greater David by being Idle became wanton and from a wanton glance of his Eye he proceeded to Adultery from lust to act and from one act to another viz. from Adultery to Murder Solomon from sensual Lusts went on to Spiritual viz. to Idolatry Judas from Covetousness to Murder first he grudg'd the costly Oyntment bestow'd on Christ and then betray'd him and Peter from Lying to Perjury and so will all not only Seducers but all that indulge any sin wax worse and worse and 2 Tim. 3. 13. Jer. 9. 3. proceed from evil to evil viz. both as to kind and degree Little Wedges make way for greater little Burthens strengthen for greater little Coals kindle greater the lowest stair helps up Principis obsta to the highest the least figure in Arithmetick increaseth the Sum In minimo esse fidelem magnum est Aug. and in the least sin there is a tendency to the greatest it is of an increasing Nature and will unless timely prevented proceed untill it is out of measure sinful That sin is ever most dangerous that is most contemptible Of Custom in Sin Much might be said as to the evil of Custom in sin viz. that it will indispose you to any thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo that is good and disenable all the Faculties of your Soul to receive it that it will put you upon sinning with freedom facility pleasure and delight and bring you under a fatal necessity of sinning whether you will or no or at least without any sense of it like the People of Alexandria who did not mind their Earthquakes because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Omne peccatum vilescit consuetudine fit quasi nulium qui ad ostia Ni●i vivunt nimium audiendo nihil audiunt ex voluntate perversâ facta est libido dum libidini servitur facta est consuetudo dum consuetudini non resistitur facta est necessitas they were daily Or like them that lived at the Cataracts of Nilus who by hearing too much heard nothing at all A doleful Paradox but true But all that I shall say relating to it shall be onely two things viz. 1. That nothing provokes God more than Custom in sin 2. That nothing is more hardly remov'd than Custom in sin 1. That nothing provokes God more than Custom in sin Custom in sin is sin by Multiplication for it is not got by one act but by many and the multiplication of sin is the great aggravation of it the breach of Humane Laws is not lessened but aggravated by a frequent repetition of it and so is the breach of Divine Laws too for as sin has a Power and a Law by which in some it reigns so it is the more heinous when it is so for the least sin that reigns is more displeasing to God than the Rom. 6. 12 16. greatest that does not All Acts whether good or bad please or displease as the good or evil habits are from whence they come 2. That nothing is more hardly remov'd than Custom in sin Evil Habits as well as good are got by degrees and perfected by use for Acts strengthen Habits and A●io perfecta non recipitur nisi imperfecté primó Ab imperfecto ad perfectum consuetudinem vincere dura pugna the stronger they are with the greater difficulty will they be conquer'd and overcome Trees well Rooted and of some standing are not easily transplanted streams of Water of long continuance are not easily diverted from their Chanel the League of Friendship betwixt Old Friends is not easily broken nor sin easily remov'd when habituated by Custom for Custom is a second Nature and that is not without difficulty if at all repell'd Naturam expollas furcâ licet usque recurrit Mark 9. 17 21 26. The Devil that possess'd the Young Man from a Child was of all with the greatest difficulty cast out The Cretians when they Curse one another say the Devil lead you into an evil Custom but my Prayer for you shall be that God would keep you from it that you may not be hardened in sin Zech. 7. 12. Adamas né ferro quidem cedit nullis seilpris nullis malleis doma●ilis Mark 6. 52. 16. 14. The stone of the Heart is in all by Nature and felt by all that are not dead in sin your Heart by Nature is a stone and by custom in sin it will be as an Adamant the hardest as Naturalists observe of all stones a greater Misery than which you cannot lye under either here or in Hell for Hell it self would be no Hell to any of a tender and broken Heart Of Thoughts The great Misery come upon all by reason of sin is that every Gen. 6. 5. imagination of the thoughts of their Heart are evil onely evil and continually so Evil thoughts are all thoughts of evil against God and Man so called either as arising from evil or tending to it Thoughts are known to God Gen. 6. 16. The Ark that was made close on every side had a Window on the top towards Heaven as an Emblem of Gods Omniscience who sees you not onely when in secret but the secret within you for he knows your thoughts yea your thought every single thought afar off viz. either