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	spirit_n	19,754	5	5.4357	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65358	The saints guide, or, Christ the rule, and ruler of saints manifested by way of positions, consectaries, and queries : wherein is contayned the efficacy of acquired knowledge, the rule of Christians, the mission and maintenance of ministers, and the power of magistrates in spiritual things / by Iohn Webster ...	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1213; ESTC R17627	36,008	50

light and rule 3. There is another Law which is internal spiritual and eternal The Law of the Spirit of Life as sayth the Text For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Iesus hath ●reed me from the Law of sin and death and this is also cal●ed the Law of Faith and the perfect Law of Liberty and under this are all Sa●nts and 〈◊〉 Believers of the second and third we shall 〈◊〉 somthing That the Mos●ical Law of the Decalogue commonly called the Moral Law was onely binding to the Iews not to the Gentiles unless as they became Proselytes and imbraced the Iewish Religion these Arguments confirm it A Law is always binding unto those to whom it is promulgated and made known not to others Now the Law of Moses was promulgated to the Jews or seed of Abraham according to the flesh not to the Amorites Canaanites Persians or other Nations who neither knew Moses nor believed in or worshipped the God of the Hebrews For he sayth You onely have I known of all the Nations of the earth there●ore I will punish you for all your iniquityes and therefore the Pro●het prays that God wou●d pour out his fury upon the 〈◊〉 then that knew him not and he suffered all Nations to walk in their own ways for he did not deal so with other Nations neither had the Heathen knowledg of his Law Therefore was the Law obligatory to the Iews to whom it was given not to the other Heathen Nations that neither knew the Law nor the Law-giver That Law by which 〈…〉 to be judged is obligatory and binding unto him but the Gentiles were to be judged by the internal Law in their own consciences not by the external and written Law of Moses Therefore it was that Law not the other that was obligatory and binding unto them This appears clearly in that of the Apostle For as many as have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law For when the Gentiles which have not the Law do by 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 unto them which 〈◊〉 needs 〈…〉 was the ●aw Moral of Moses and therefore they were a Law unto themselves and were 〈◊〉 by the work of the ●aw written in their hearts 〈◊〉 practice of the Apostles in not declaring the whole 〈…〉 to the Gentiles that were conver●●d to the Faith but onely enjoyning a branch thereof 〈…〉 as the Text with●sseth For it seemed good t● the Holy Ghost and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than thes● nec●ssary things and there as a necessary thing he enjoy●● avoiding of Fornication which is a branch of the Mor●l Law now if the whole had been obligatory by Divine Right as is the Moral Law to all that are under it they could not not would have but enjoyned a part and have suspended or omitted the rest It is undenyably true that men are to be convinced by and from those Principles that they allow and not from those they allow not Therefore if the Gentiles had been under the Law of Moses or ought by divine Right to have been under ●t Paul and the other Apostles that preached 〈◊〉 t●em would have laboured to convince them from those 〈◊〉 and have urged against them the testimony of the La● and the Prophets as they did against the Iews or have pressed upon them the receiving and obeying of the Law o●Mos●s but in their practi●e there is found no such thing but ot●erwise for when Pa●l came to Athens among●● the Ethnick Philosophers he told them not of the Law of Mos●s but took an occa●ion from that inscription 〈…〉 unknown God to preach Iesus Christ unto them and to reveal unto them him whom they knew not This Law Mosa●cal or Moral was never given intentionally of God that any should be justified or made righteous by it but that sin and w●ath might ●e rev●aled all mouths stopt and all men made thereby guilty before God Which is clear 〈…〉 〈…〉 God long before the Law was given had dec●eed and de●la●ed to justifie man by faith and therefore the Law could 〈◊〉 disannul the decree and promise of God made before and 〈…〉 not justifie any 〈…〉 years could not 〈…〉 The Law in its tru and proper end justifies not but 〈◊〉 reveal wrath and discovers sin For we know that what 〈…〉 the Law saith it sayth to them who are under the Law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may 〈◊〉 guilty before God Therefore by the deeds of the Law 〈◊〉 shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the Law is the knowledg of sin and it is the Law that worketh wrath For the Law being spiritual doth condemn whatsoever is carnal and not of its own nature that thereby sin might become 〈◊〉 And it is this M●ses that ou● Saviour told the Iews did accuse them to the Father though they trusted●n him Though the Law Moral was and is a Ministry of condem●nation to those that were or are under it and so is glorious yet is there a Minist●y of condemnation of greater glory which is the Gospel by which men under a Gospel 〈◊〉 are convinced of higher things than the Law could convict them of Which appeareth thu● The Law only condemned men 〈◊〉 not doing whatsoever was written in it and did not condemn them for no● 〈◊〉 in Iesus Christ for the L●w is not 〈…〉 And therefore was there need of a greater and clearer light to make manifest that infidelity was sinfull and damnable and so we ●ee 〈◊〉 convinced not only by the Ministry of the Law as he 〈…〉 I was alive without the 〈…〉 〈…〉 the Commandement came sin revived and I died but also by the Spirit of Christ in the Ministry of the Gospel Saul Saul why persecute●t thou me And he said who ar● thou Lord● And he answered I am Iesus whom thou persecutest wherein it is mani●e●t he was convinced of his infidelity and enmity against Christ The Go●pel therefore being that tru and pure light that convinceth men that not beleiving in the Lord Iesus is sinfull and 〈◊〉 which no light preceding did or could effect 〈…〉 more glorious than all other lights that went 〈…〉 〈…〉 that light is come into 〈…〉 rather than light because ●heir 〈…〉 and therefore the Father judgeth no man but hath give● all judgment unto the Son and he com●in flaming fier to render 〈◊〉 to all those that know not God and obey not the Gos●el of Salvacion So that men are condemned under t●e Gospel for not beleiving as well as under the Law ●or not doing and ●erein appeareth the Ministry of the Gospel more gl●●ious then that of Moses That to a 〈◊〉 Beleiver the Spirit of Christ is his Ruler and Conductor and the Go●pel is interpreted by that