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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70158	Gods eye on His Israel, or, A passage of Balaam, out of Numb. 23, 21 containing matter very seasonable and suitable to the times : expounded and cleared from antinomian abuse, with application to the present estate of things with us / by Tho. Gataker ...	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing G321; ESTC R7798	128,608	144

which is as by the main course of their teaching plainly appears 1. To keep men from making conscience of any sin in regard of Gods sight of it in them and so to take off from mens consciences all such kind of curb and restraint as might thereby represse the remainders of corruption in the heart of a Christian. 2. To disswade them from being at all in that regard troubled when they have been so overtaken and from endevouring by the practice of humiliation and renewed repentance to make up again those breaches that have been made between God and them by their sins and by perswading them that their sins have no hand in the procurement of the present calamities to divert them from being humbled in that regard for any sins of their own whatsoever they may be for the excesses of others Which are such consequences as those men never intended but would have extreamly abhorred whose expressions and speeches as with divers passages of holy writ they likewise deal contrary to their own minds and intents they do wretchedly abuse The Apostle telleth the Romans that where sin had abounded there grace did much more abound but doth he therefore inferre Let men sin therefore as fast as they lust the more they sin the more shall Gods grace abound in the abandoning of their sin Nothing lesse nay rather having by way of preoccupation propounded what some corrupt heart might hereupon have suggested Shall we sin then the more that grace may abound with detestation he rejecteth it and with an absit answereth it God forbid as if he should say Far be it from any Christian heart to entertain the least thought looking that way and as far would it have been either from the Apostle or from any of those whose speeches these men cite and presse concerning Gods free grace and the power and efficacy of Christs blood for the taking away of sin to have added upon their discourses of either subject such an inference as this Let Christian men therefore sinne a● fast as they list there is Christs bloud at hand ready to wash all away Sure it is let their intendement be herein what it will as they remove hereby one main means of restraint from sinne Gods sight of it in his when they sinne so they take away one main ground of sincere repentance to wit that godly sorrow and grief for sinne whereby men are grieved because by their sinnes they have grieved God and vexed his good Spirit for as we use to say What the eye seeth not the heart ●ues not nor can God be grieved nor his Spirit vexed by us with that which he neither sees nor takes notice of at all in us nor can any man be grieved with the apprehension of that which he beleeves not to be 4. It is to be considered that these their assertions thus grossely delivered may and do in likelihood passe fo● currant with many of their hearers and followers these their qualifica●ions and modifications of them being concealed from them and reserved to themselves And herein also they deal just as our Popish teachers do in many points of their religion For example to gull the people and draw money from them they tell them that through the Popes pardons they may have free and full remission of all their sins whatsoever even that sin not excepted which tho the Frier in the Pulpit shamed not publikely to mention I abhorre to relate whereas when they come to debate and dispute the point in the schooles they are by evidence of light enforced to confesse 1. that they cannot free from the fault it self for that cannot be without infusion of grace 2. nor from the guilt of any sin either mortall or veniall 3. nor from any naturally penalty as sicknesse death or the like 4. nor from any civill or ecclesiasticall censure but from what then onely from those pains which a man should have suffered in Purgatory for his veniall sinnes had he not made satisfaction for them while he lived here but while they dispute the point thus in the schooles the poore people mean while take for Gospel what in grosse they tell them that their sinnes are so blown away so soon as the Popes Bull bloweth upon them that they shall never more hear of them or be reckoned with for them so in the matter of image-worship they teach the people to ado●e images and the cruc●fix as Christ. and when for such doctrine and practise we charge idolatry upon them they tender us a many distinctions to salve the matter withall that they worship not the image it self simply but that by it whose image it is or if the image it self yet not with the same but with a lower degree of worship then that wherewith they worship that whose image it is or if with the self-same worship yet not properly but improperly as the image standeth in Gods or in Christs stead like an Embassador representing the person of his Soveraign to receive for either the worship due to the Deity or if properly yet not by it self but by accident as a man conceives God or Christ invested with that image and so worships it with the same act of worship that he worships God or Christ with as a man worships the royall robe that the King weares when he worships the King mean while the common people not able to sound these subtilties supposing that being aright conceived and observed they could free from idolatry are taught to practise and encouraged to commit grosse idolatry without fear as they cannot but know who thus mince out the matter in their scholasticall or rather sophisticall disputes In like manner here suppose we that by such reserved qualifications as these men are sometime enforced unto when the points in controversie are pressed upon them these assertions some of them could in some sense be maintained as free from those horrid and even blasphemous tinctures that they carry with them in the forehead yet being thus crudely and rudely propounded to many shallow headed people either not at all acquainted with their nice distinctions or not well able to understand them they are by them swallowed without more ado unto the poysoning of their souls being the rather prone to entertain them because tending to that which the bent of mans nature is of it self over-strongly enclined unto Lastly I desire that it may be advisedly weighed what a wide gap may be broken up for the venting and spreading of all manner of strange fancies and impious assertions to the poysoning and destroying of the souls of silly people or such as are of themselves forward to imbrace new upstart opinions and uncouth paradoxes such as have not been formerly received or heard when tho they sound pure blasphemy as they are delivered yet they shall go for sound and orthodox because by the help of some concealed nice subtilty they may be wrung and wrought into some such sense as is agreeable unto truth For example A