Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	mortal_a	sin_n	venial_a	6,152	5	13.8485	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66020	The arraignment of a sinner at the bar of divine justice delivered in a sermon in St. Maries Church at Oxford, March the 5. 1655 before the Right Honourable, the Judges of Assize, &c. / by Robert Wilde ...	Wild, Robert, 1609-1679.	1656 (1656)	Wing W2165; ESTC R22649	25,661	46

sinn'd It yeilded to nothing but a Commutation which is proper for justice to doe And by the Exchange had gold for drosse a richer and nobler draught of mans bloud than if the whole species had suffered eternally And that none but the Elect party might by this expedient escape Eternall punishment In the whole Instrument Indenture betwixt God and our Goel our kinsman and undertaker Jesus Christ This vindictive Iustice hath these provisoes most strictly inserted to be inviolably observed 1. That whosoever should not have the Benefit of Christs death and satisfaction should personally suffer and as certainly dye as if there had been no such way of salvation found out 2. That none of those for whom he should dye should be allowed to live as they list to commit sin and delight in wickednesse or ever come into heaven where God had to doe with the least spot of sin upon them but that Christ should looke to them and sanctifie their natures and make them by his spirit fit and meet to be partakers of the inheritance c. And 3. In order to all faire proceedings betwixt Grace and Iustice a certaine fixed Day is pitcht upon unalterably wherein the date of this Covenant shall expire and cease and that even Jesus Christ himselfe who had for so many thousands of yeares gratified Mercy should in person appeare to see vindictive Iustice righted to the utmost In order whereunto all Mankind dead and alive young and old shall be called together viewed and examined impartially and that then All wicked and ungodly men who were not suffered for and paid for by Christ and made new Creatures however they sped in the dayes of their flesh shall both Soul and Body all of them to a man most certainly and eternally be damned as if there had been no such Saviour in the world at all And lastly Because it was the Lords good pleasure and purpose for the glory of his blessed patience and many other weighty causes him thereunto moving to let the world continue long and if Iustice should not shew its selfe and exercise its wrath at all untill the last Judgement day the children of men would grow intolerable in their blasphemies and impieties against God and be ready to thinke him such a one as themselves and break out also into bloud rapine and confusion among themselves It was therefore resolved and agreed That the Covenant of Grace should not hinder or binde up Divine Iustice's hands but that God might reveale wrath from Heaven when how as often and upon whomsoever he pleased provided they were out of the book of life And also that vindictive Iustice shall have her Officers and Deputies by the name of Magistrates and earthly Gods who should have power and authority from God to punish sinners according to the merit of their crimes and as far as a temporall life goes Yea and over and above all this that the world might know and be well satisfied that Jesus Christ and his Religion were no enemies to or would any waies abate the power of Justice and of Magistrates by patronizing or protecting the wickednesse of wicked men He also hath done Justice this further right by the Gospell by granting not onely that no badge of Christianity or Church-priviledge what soever let the Pope answer for his counterfeit power as well as he can shall excuse much lesse exempt any one from the hand of Iustice but also by setting up a new and high Court of Iustice within his Church inabling them to proceed further with open and scondalous sinners then the Magistrate doth or can viz. to punish their very Soules and Consciences by delivering them up to Satan and accursing them he engaging himself to see it made good Quid ultrà potuit facere quod non fecit What could be done more and what more need be said to prove against all doubters and disputers that Iustice to punish sinners is none of those indifferent Acts of God which he might doe or not doe as the making of the world and but one world c But yet more and in a farre more excellent manner is spoken be Lactantius in his dispute against the stupid and sottish Stoicks and Epicures By Pareus against the subtill and sinfull cavills of the Socinians who pull hard to overthrow this Doctrine thereby to make their way easier to invalidate the merit of Christs death And lately by a learned Pen of one of your one in this place I shall onely adde this That upon this Hinge all piety and righteousnesse among men turnes for if God should be uncertaine in his rewards who would serve him if in his punishments who will feare him and I conclude this point with that determination of the Father Iraquae ad correctionem vitiorum pertinet nec homini adimi debet nec Deo potest 2. Concerning the second thing that there is in sinne in every sin that which deserves the death the Eternall death as well as the Temporall of the sinner I have not provided to say much neither indeed need I. Socinus himselfe grants the merit of Eternall destruction which is the greater and every Protestant and Orthodox Writer against the Papists distinction of sinnes Veniall and Mortall have sufficiently cleared both Many Scriptures I could call in to make proof hereof let two be enough I. The words of the Text {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Worthy of death By Death all good Expositors doe understand and take in all evills of punishment death in its latitude death corporall and spirituall temporall and eternall of sense and of losse the full vialls of wrath And by the word worthy is meant due deserved just and proportionable Beza saith the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is taken from the even and equall poising and weighing things in a Ballance an antient Embleme of Justice so that though Cain or any man may say truly enough My punishment is greater than I can beare yet no man can say say truly that his sufferings are more or greater than he deserves Dives in Hell cries out of his torments but not a word against the Judge or the Sentence that sent him thither the enemies of God have cause to blesse God that spared them and kept them so long alive but no cause to cavill at their punishment for eternall death is full weight and yet but weight for sinne even among men whole scales cannot be carried with so even an hand as Gods Corrective Iustice hath an Eye to the quality of the party wronged and proportionates the punishment to his dignity and greatnesse an abused Majesty makes that high Treason which committed against a meaner subject would be but Felony or Mis-demeanor Peccanti in summum bonum summum debetur supplicium He deserves to suffer the greatest evill who sinnes against the greatest good The second Scripture shall be that of