Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	sin_n	soul_n	sting_n	5,285	5	11.5055	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60356	A treatise of growth in grace in sundry sermons / preached by that lately eminent servant of Jesus Christ, Samuel Slater ...	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1671 (1671)	Wing S3977; ESTC R38255	208,159	341

he was well and duly apprehensive of the benefit and comfort and succour and support that would spring up to him from the consideration of a suffering Christ why this is by my conformity to Christ I account all things saith he but loss and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lord. There you have the very point in hand held forth He speaks concerning the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ I account all things but loss and dung for the excellency of this knowledge Why That I might know the fellowship of his sufferings and be made conformable unto his death I tell you Beloved it 's no matter what condition soever a person come into if it be but such a condition as wherein Christ hath been before him only so as wherein Christ hath been as one that hath gone before us and made it a way for us to walk in Indeed the way of his mediation the way of his meritorious sacrificing that 's not a way that ever he walk'd in so as to constitute it a way for his people to walk in they are never able to live in that way But the way wherein Christ hath been before us and the condition which he hath been brought into as a condition in which he would lead his people into this is that that will comfort us in any such condition let the condition be what it will Christ hath been in this condition before us so that now here 's the comfort to a Beleever a Saint in Christ I suffer thus and thus as the Apostle speaks I suffer as an evil doer so did Christ Christ was before me I suffer as an evil doer unto bonds I am persecuted so was Christ my Lord I am reproach'd and scorn'd and revil'd in the World so was my Lord Jesus Christ I am cast into Prison so was my Lord Jesus I am brought to the place of execution Christ was hanged as a malefactor There 's much to support the soul in this condition And then Secondly consider this This is the comfort that slowes out from the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to support in a suffering state Christ suffered nay but more than this we are to consider further that he suffered penal sufferings legal sufferings O this this hath added to the other that we are to know concerning Jesus Christ that he suffered in a legal way His obedience was legal obedience not evangelical obedience as ours should be so his sufferings were legal sufferings why he suffered upon the account of Divine Justice he suffered according to what the strict Justice of God did and could inflict upon him for sin and transgression and here was the bitterness of the cup a thing that would be seriously weighed and considered of by us He suffered for sinners he put himself as it were into the state and condition of a sinner of a malefactor The guilt of the sins of his people was set over to him Thus it was and upon this account you must conceive that there was not that rejoycing on Christ's part in his sufferings as that which sometimes discovers it self even in Beleevers who have rejoyced at the stake and kist the stake and bid it welcome and have been as full of joy and rejoycings as their hearts could hold why there was reason for it It was not so with Christ but he was in an agony and cryes out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Why Brethren there was reason for it Alas Beleevers do not sip one drop of that cup and that 's their mercy and that 's it that gives them comfort upon the consideration of the sufferings of the Lord Jesus because the cup that was tempered unto him to drink of it was a legal cup it was a cup that the hand of Divine Justice temper'd up for him Son thou hast put thy self into the place of sinners and cursed malefactors that have deserved to drink of the wine of my wrath to all eternity I 'll temper a cup for thee forasmuch as thou hast undertaken to appear on their behalf thou shalt have a cup to drink off in their steads and the hand of Justice tempers up this cup. Now one drop of this legal cup would have made all the Nations drunk and have been made to spew and fall to fall down to Hell one drop of this cup of Justice but Christ must drink it up He must make by suffering satisfaction to the Infinite Justice of a provoked Majesty Here 's the business now and alas we are apt to pass over these things slightly and not consider what the greatness of the love of Christ is in undergoing such a task in drinking such a cup But judicious Christians will weigh these things and endeavour to understand concerning what was undergone by Jesus Christ. 'T is an astonishing consideration that it should be thus ordered out concerning our Lord Jesus Christ. Now here 's the comfort to poor beleeving souls under all their sufferings blessed be God I suffer not in a legal way I suffer not from the hand of Divine Justice I suffer not in order to satisfaction that 's done to my hand Here 's my comfort As I am not called out to pay debts with duties I am not called out to pay debts with sufferings Here 's the comfort of a Beleever which flows out from the well-improved knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ that whatsoever his sufferings be they are not satisfactory sufferings they are not sufferings upon a legal account but they are sufferings in a way of fellowship with Christ as one that did suffer but not as a sufferer in order to satisfaction to God's Justice So that now upon the account of the suffering of our Lord Jesus as a legal sufferer and as one that took the cup from the hand of Divine Justice which was tempered up by that hand upon this account the poyson is taken out of sufferings the terror of the bitterness of death is past the bitterness of suffering is taken out the sting of the suffering is plucked out what 's the sting of the suffering The sting of death is sin the sting of a suffering is sin There 's nothing that makes suffering so bitter to a sensible soul an understanding Christian there 's nothing that makes it so bitter as the consideration of guilt I but the guilt is taken away and so the sting is taken out the venom of the suffering is gone The cup may be bitter but it 's a wholsome cup. This is now a second thing to consider whereby you may come to understand how much a well-improved knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ doth contribute to the promoting a Christians comfortable and bold and confident suffering and you will never be able to quit your selves in a suffering day in a suffering state as becomes the Gospel if so be that these considerations concerning Christ be not well digested 3. Yet further Christians are