Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	remember_v	young_a	youth_n	230	3	8.7075	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46526	Compunction or pricking of heart with the time, meanes, nature, necessity, and order of it, and of conversion; with motives, directions, signes, and means of cure of the wounded in heart, with other consequent or concomitant duties, especially self-deniall, all of them gathered from the text, Acts 2.37. and fitted, preached, and applied to his hearers at Dantzick in Pruse-land, in ann. 1641. and partly 1642. Being the sum of 80. sermons. With a post-script concerning these times, and the sutableness of this text and argument to the same, and to the calling of the Jews. By R.J. doctor of divinity.	R. J.	1648 (1648)	Wing J27; ESTC R213600	381,196	433

in prosperity Trials whether our sorrow be for sin as sin NOw the better to judge of our sorrow whether it be not more out of fear or feeling of punishment and shame and such like evils then for sin as it is sin Let it be considered First 1 Sorrow for sin as sin is as well in prosperity as adversity whether we can humble our selves and grieve for our sins against God as well in our prosperitie when all things in the world go well with us as in adversity in wants in our feares troubles dangers c. I know evill men and hypocrites can in their prosperity rejoyce or rather seem to rejoyce in God as their God Hypocrites hence discovered 1. By not sorrowing in their prosperity Job 27.10 but can they then mourn for their offences against God as being then more apt to sin against him then at other times I trow not Will the hypocrite alwaies call upon God No. Will he mourn for sin whiles he may yet sin in regard of health youth occasions and opportunities to sin No he makes that his time for taking liberty against God he will repent and cry God mercy and sorrow for his sin when he is old and that the yeares come in which he shall say which many take for their time of sinning I have no pleasure in them Or in case of some dangerous sickness crosse disaster bodily weakness or the like Oh thinke of this you yong men especially on whom God calls for repentance young and healthy men especially and to remember your creator in the time of your youth or as the word implieth of your elections when you may yet chuse the good yet not by any power of will of your own and refuse the evill that is before the time of age sickness and death come when through infirmity of body debility or want of occasions and opportunities you cannot sin at least in act for many kinds of sin though you would as now you will not when otherwise you may and when God chiefly expects it from you Never then tel me that your sorrow if there be any so much as in seeming in you can be sound at such time as Gods hand shall be upon you 2 By their forced sorrowing in adversitie For I know secondly That hypocrites yea very profane wretches when by affliction sickness dangers by sea or by land Gods hand lyeth heavy upon them they can then humble themselves and seem sorry as King Ahab did and the incredulous and disobedient Israelites who when God slew them they sought him they returned and inquired early after God Neverthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth for their heart was not right with him Psal 78.34 ● 36 37. and so they lying and dissembling or at least deceiving themselves in heart return but not to the most High they in grief and sorrow seek the removall of Gods stroakes but they grieve not that they have provoked God to strike them being as ready when Gods hand is removed from them and when without apparent danger they think they may to sin against God even with delight as ever before But thus either to forsake sin when sin for the acts thereof forsakes them first or to sorrow for sin onely when Gods hand is upon them or in regard of the shame or punishment of it in this life or in hell is a signe of unsoundnesse and if thy sorrow whosoever thou art be no other then this thou hast cause to sorrow and repent of thy sorrow and repentance and exceedingly to question the sincerity of it and Gods acceptance if thou canst not as heartily at least truely and sincerely mourn for thy sin in thy health as in sicknesse in thy youth as well as old age in thy prosperity as well as adversity SECT 3. True sorrow is for all sin in our selves and others True sorrow is for all sin 2 IF thy sorrow be occasioned and wrought in thee for sin as it is sin and as it is a disobedience and dishonour to God then it will be against sin not onely at all times In our selves and in others but against all sin both in thy self yea and in others also 1 In thy self Thou wilt both hate every false way and desire to be rid of all sin as well as to have all pardoned 1 In our selves 2 Tim. 2.19 yea also mourn for all as well as any one as knowing any one sin persisted in with delight will amount to as much in Gods account as if thou wert guilty of all Jam. 2.10 And though thy sorrow be not so great for some one sin as for some other all sins being not alike hainous yet it will be true and sincere against all because all sins There being the same nature of all sin though not all alike are against God and his will revealed against his holinesse soveraignty crown and dignity will and glory This quatenus or as all and each being against God when we say wee must mourn for sin as sin being a reduplicative implyeth a universality because there is the same nature in all sin every sin being against Gods holinesse wil soveraignty and glory so that he that is sorry for any one sin in that regard Quicquid propter Deum fit aequaliter fit will be sorrowfull for every sin and he that is not sorry for all sin upon the same ground and respect is truely sorry for no sin at all True sorrow is 1 For smaller sins as well as great 2 Et contrà Try then thy sorrow hence Is it 1 For lesser sins as well as greater Davids heart smote him for that which as I take it was in it self no sin even for cutting off the lap of Saul's garment 1 Sam. 24.5 2 For greater sins as well as lesser seeing hypocrites often strain at a gnat and swallow a camell 3 For such sins as the world taketh no notice of 3 Is thy sorrow as well for such sins as the world takes no notice of to wit for spirituall pride inward lustings and pleasing thy self with contemplative vanities arguing sensuality of heart covetousnesse ambition revenge c. as for more open and shamefull sins Thus it should be God is dishonoured and disobeyed by these and they are against his holinesse as well as more open sins 4 For naturall corruption 4 Art thou humbled at the uncleannesse of thy nature the depravation of thy soul yea deprivation of Gods image according to which thou at first wast made Is it a burthen and grief to thee to finde so much untowardnesse in thee and aversenesse from whatsoever is good holy or true and such a pronity and readinesse to imbrace errour admit of sin and to do evill This was part-cause of David's sorrow when bewailing his actuall transgressions hee traced them home to the root and originall confessing and bewailing saying Behold I was shapen in iniquity and