Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	serpent_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,692	5	12.2188	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44395	Golden remains of the ever memorable Mr Iohn Hales of Eton College &c.	Hales, John, 1584-1656.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver.; Pearson, John, 1613-1686.; Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.; Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645.	1659 (1659)	Wing H269; ESTC R202306	285,104	329

He denies him the third time and Jesus looks upon him and then he weeps bitterly Before I come to make use of this it shall not be altogether impertinent to say something unto some queries that here arise concerning the condition of Peter and in him of all the Elect of God whilst they are in state of sin unrepented of for as for Peters faith which some makes doubt of there can as I conceive no question be made It is not to be thought that Peter had rever'st with himself the confession that he had formerly made of Christ or that he thought doubtless I have er'd this is not the person whom I took him to be Indeed through fear and cowardize he durst not confess that with his mouth unto salvation which in his heart he believed unto righteousnes Any thing further then this that speech of our Saviour takes away wherein he tells him before hand I have pray'd that thy faith might not fail But since our Age hath had experience of some who because the Election of God standeth sure and Christs sheep none can take out of his hands conclude therefore that for the Elect of God there is no falling from Grace that to David Peter no ill could happen no though for so they have given it out that they had died in the very act of their sin To meet with such disputants I will briefly lay down what I conceive is to be thought in the point Wherefore parate fauces pani as Saint Barnard speaks Hitherto I have given you milk provide your stomacks now for harder meat and such as befits strong men in Christ. Peter and Judas for I will couple them both together in my discourse whilst they are both joyned together in sin Peter I say and Judas in regard of their own persons were both more or less in the same case both fallen from Grace both in state of sin and damnation till the Repentance of Peter altered the case on his part But the Grace of God signified two things either the purpose of Gods Election the Grace and Favour Inherent in the Person of God which he still casts upon those that are his notwithstanding their manifold backslidings or else it signifies the habit of sanctifying qualities Inherent in the Regenerat Man those good Graces of God by which he walks holy and unblameable Again the state of damnation signifies likewise two things either the purpose of Gods reprobation or else the habit of damnable qualities in the sinful man from the state of Grace as it signifies the purpose of God to save the Elect can never fall In the state of damnation as it signifies something inherent in us every man by nature is and the elect of God even after their Calling many times fall into it that is they may and do many times fall into those sins yea for a time continue in them too David did so for a whole years space which except they be done a way by repentance inevitably bring forth eternal death for the state of mortal sin unrepented of is truly and indeed the state of death yea the whole and sole reason of the condemnation of every one that perishes for Christ hath said it except ye repent ye shall all perish So then you see that into the state of damnation as it signifieth something inherent in us a man may fall and yet not fall from the state of grace as it signifies Gods purpose of election for both these are compatible for a time if then we look upon the persons of Peter and Judas both of them are in the state of mortal sin unrepented of and therefore both in state of damnation but if we look back unto God we shall see a hand reacht out unto Peter pulling him back as he is now running down the hill which hand we do not see reacht out unto Judas Christ had a look in store for Peter which if it had pleased him to have lent unto Judas Judas would have done that which Peter did When then we pronounce Peter and in him any of the elect of God as they are in Peters case to be fallen from grace we speak not with relation to any purpose of God but we mean only that they have not that measure of Sanctification which ought to be in every childe which shall be an heir to life and what hinders to pronounce that man fallen from grace whom we must needs acknowledge to be in that state in which if he continue there is no way open but to death What then may some man say had Peter lost the spirit of adoption Had he not those sanctifying qualities of faith hope charity which are proper to the Saints and are given them by divine inspiration in the moment of their conversion was that immortal seed of the word quite kill'd No verily How then Having all these may he yet be called the childe of death I answer he may and is indeed so for these do not make him that at no time he can be so but that finally he shall not be so for they are not armour of proof to keep out all darts neither do they make our souls invulnerable as the Poets faine the body of Cyenus or Achilles to have been but they are precious balms evermore ready at hand to cure the wound when it is given They are not of force to hinder mortal sin for then every soul in whom they are were pure undefiled neither were it possible that the Elect of God after their conversion should fall but they are of force to work repentance which makes all our wounds remediable He that is mortally sick and dies and he that is likewise mortally sick and through help of restoring physick recovers in this both agree that they are mortally sick notwithstanding the recovery of one party The wound of Peter and of Judas was mortal and in both festred unto death but there was balm in Gilead for Peter for Judas there was none The sting of the fiery Scorpion in the wilderness was deadly and all that looked not on the brazen serpent died The brazen serpent altred not the quality of the Scorpions sting it only hindred the working of the poyson the sting of sin in Peter and in Judas was deadly but he that was lift up on mount Calvary as the brazen serpent was in the wilderness at him did Peter look and live Judas did not look and therefore died How comes it about beloved that God every where in Scripture threatens death without exception to all that repent not if the state of sin unrepented of in whomsoever it is be not indeed the state of death When David was intending to stay in Keilah and suspecting the inhabitants of that city asks of God whether the men of Keilah would deliver him over into the hand of Saul God tells him they would and therefore certainly had he stayed there he had been betrayed unto Saul to urge that Peter because of