Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	sin_n	sin_v	7,635	5	8.8022	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45425	Of scandal	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing H562; ESTC R32475	25,972	34

we render my heart is faint and so Is 1. 15. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the whole heart is faint by faintnesse meaning sicknesse which is the cause of greife and therefore the same Hebrew word is in other places rendred {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} affliction or pain and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Disease Deut. 7. 15. agreeable to the 21 verse of that Ro 14. where stumbling or being offended is explained by being made weak which phrase is not to be taken in the sense that weakenesse is used in v. 1 a. that of infirmity or errour for such he is before stumbling but in this other as weaknesse and disease i. e. sin are all one So also another Hebrew word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifies perdition and destruction and is frequently rendred by {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is once interpreted {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Pr. 31. 6. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for which our English read ready to perish very agreeable to which doth St Paul here interpret greiving the brother by destroying him i. e. bringing him into some snare or sin the notion of Scandal which all this while we speake of From all which observations and analogies it will be no rashnesse to conclude that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} being greived in that place is perfectly synonymous with {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which we there render is made weak and indivers places of the new Testament signifies {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} disease or sicknesse and is so rendred by us Jam. 5. 14. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is any man sick and with {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1 Cor. 8. 11. in the same matter thy brother is weak and dieth or perisheth through weaknesse and with the like phrase in this chapter also in the end of v. 15. All which clearly denotate the disease or perishing of the soule i. e. sin which will destroy if repentance and mercy intervene not 36 The 3 which is indeed the maine occasion of the mistake is an ordinary but an unjustifiable humour of men to accuse condemn all whom they do not like i. e. a desire to lay some crime to the charge of them with whom they are angry if it be but se defendendo that they may not be said to be angry without a cause and when they cannot find any such reall crime then they fly to the case of Scandall and mistaking that for offending or displeasing or occasioning anger and dislike their being angry with them must make them with whom they are angry criminous which what a circle it is first to be angry without a cause and then to make that a cause of anger i. e. a sin in the other because I am angry I conceive will not be hard for any to understand 37 I will only add that if another mans displeasure or anger at my indifferent action should make that my indifferent action a sin against him then any mans sin of uncharitablenesse against me must make me to be uncharitable for so I should be if I sinned against him in scandalizing him but if I were not so before his sin being utterly accidentall and extrinsecall to me shall not I hope make me to be so now 38 To all which I shall here insert this appendage that even for proper-scripture scandals the criminousnesse of them is not to be measured by the event but by the naturall scandalousnesse or aptnesse to give Scandals inherent in them for I conceive God passes Judgment upon sinners by intuition not by prevision by seeing what the sin is in it selfe and in the aggravating circumstances that are inseperable from it as that it is apt to give scandals c. not by the casuall consequents that may possibly either follow or not follow And I conceive that that opinion of the Papists on which they lay part of the foundation of their Purgatory that men may after their Deaths sin and have more acts of sin lying on them by reason of other men sinning by the scandall which they gave in their lives then they had at their Death and so require in just recompence some punishments increasable above what they could be adjudg'd to at their death is but a phansy or Schoole notion that hath some shew of truth but little substance seeing God punisheth every man by the verdict of his owne Conscience and therefore that other sin which my sin is apt to produce in another will be by way of aggravation laid to my charge by God that sees my heart and the inherent scandalousnesse of that action of mine though that other man by the grace of God do resist the Temptation which my Scandall gave him as much as if he had not resisted it so as his not sinning shall not excuse lessen my fault which was apt to have brought him to sin so in like manner if he do not resist the temptation or if by occasion of it he fall by accident i. e. by the motion of some other part of his temper into some other sin to wit that of causlesse anger which no action of another can be said apt to produce for if it might the anger would cease to be causlesse this accidentall fall of his shall not add to the sinfulnesse of my act any more then his former not sinning did detract from it nor consequently make it sinfull if of it selfe it were not so 39 You will best judge of this truth by an example That Heliodor a Bishop committed a fault first in writing then in setting forth an amorous light fiction or Romance and then improving that fault by choosing rather to loose his Bishoprick then to subscribe the condemnation of his worke is and may be reasonably acknowledged That some men also by reading that Author have since been transported to the commission of some sins may not improbably be imagined but having granted all this and withall that the aptnesse to give such Scandall was matter of aggravation to his sin let me now suppose that immediately after his death that book had been burnt as before his death it was condemn'd when he was no longer able to preserve it would the Councels condemning and committing that execution upon that worke any whit have mitigated his sentence in Heaven to affirme that were to suppose Purgatory or somewhat like it or else that God by his foresight of that act of the Councell should have allowed him that mitigation at the day of his particular judgment i. e. imputed the casuall future actions of others to the present acquitting of him and then besides the many inconveniences that might attend such concessions it must also follow that every reprinting of that book since that time hath been a damnable sin not only of giving Scandal to such as have been since infected