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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	action_n	good_a	sin_n	1,294	5	4.8298	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77703	Repentance and prayer or, the two fundamental pillars of the nation. Being the substance of four sermons preached at St. Peters Poor, London. By that famous and reverend divine Ralph Brownrigge, formerly vice-chancelour of Cambridge, and lately Lord Bishop of Exeter.	Brownrig, Ralph, 1592-1659.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5208; ESTC R229484	54,943	157

be as their forefather a stubborn and rebellious generation that set not their heart aright and whos● spirit was not stedfast with God and thi● instruction was not onely for them tha● the after times of the Jews should make a profitable use of the former times bu● it reaches to us Christians Saint Pau● tells us that the times of the Jews concer● us Christians Rom. 15.4 Whatsoever things were written before time were writ● ten for our learning and again 1 Cor. 10● He acquaints them what befell the Jews then adds verse the 6. These things were written for our examples to the inten● we should not lust as they also lusted and then telling them of the Judgments tha● befell the Jews in the 11. Verse he saith these things hapned to them for examples and they were written for our admonirion so then this Psalm sets forth the great disobedience and stubbornesse o● the people of Israel under Gods government First it upbraids them with forgetfulnesse of his mercies Secondly it objects unto them their ●●proficiency and untractablenesse even ●y miracles Thirdly it reminds them of the probane abuse of his patience Fourthly it reproves them for their ●●corrigiblenesse by his chastisements Fifthly it shews them withal the false●esse and unsoundnesse of their hypocri●icall Repentance The Text it contains this last and so ●ake the purpose of it to be Gods censure ●nd reproof of the Jews unworthy Repen●ance and in it observe these two parti●ulars First the severall Acts of their Repen●ance Secondly the many defects and faults ●f their Repentance The first will shew us how farr they ●ent in the practise of Repentance The second will discover their fal●ings how much they came short of a ●ue spiritual saving Repentance First the Acts of Repentance which ●ere they performed they are four First seeking they sought him Secondly returning they returned Thirdly inquiring they inquired ea● after God Fourthly Remembring they remembred that God was their strong rock a● the high God their Redeemer these as the four Acts and exercises of their Repentance such as they were Secondly the Text sets out the defect of their Repentance how much they fai●ed in it they likewise are four The first defect and fault of their Repentance t was untimely delayed Repen●ance that 's implied in this word when no● till such a time then not till then Secondly t was an inforced Repen●ance not ingenuous and voluntarily undertaken t was extorted by plagues the repented when they were under the ro●nay under the sword t was when he sle● them Thirdly t was an unsound Repentanc● not true and sincere but fained and act● onely 't was a flattering and lying Repentance they flattered him with their mou● and they lyed unto him with the● tongues Fourthly 't was a momentany transitory unsettled unconstant Repentance not firm and lasting their heart was not right with him neither were they stedfast in his Covenant these foure faults First untimely and backward Secondly inforc't and extorted Thirdly unsound and dislembling Fourthly vanishing and unconstant These are usually linked together one draws on the other these four twists makes up Esays Cart rope of sin First he that puts off procrastinates and delayes his repentance he will never bethink himself of it or set himself to ●it till some judgement awakens him and constrains him to it Secondly he that repents not but by constraint and when he is under the lash usually if he look not well to it it will be but a shew of Repentance and outward humiliation and no better And then lastly unsound Repentance will never prove lasting Repentance he will soon be weary of it and return to his former wont again Come we to the first briefly take 〈◊〉 view of the Acts and exercises of their Repentance seeking returning inquiring after god and remembring of him Actions all of them in their own nature good all of them if rightly performed penitential Acts good ingredients into Repentance First put them together they are such acts as accompany Repentance and will afford us a double meditation The first meditation arises by way of supposition The second by a direct position First by way of supposition these actions of seeking returning enquiring remembring being acts and duties and exercises of Repentance they all suppose the quite contrary actions that accompany our sinning as thus First when we repent we set our selve● to seek God therefore when we commit sin we part with God repentance that 's a seeking therefore sin and wickednesse that 's a losing of God Secondly in Repentance there is a returning to God 't is a work of conversion therefore in our sinning there is a departing from God and a forsaking of God that 's more forsaking is more then a losing Thirdly in Repentance there is an inquiring after God therefore in a course of sinne and before we repent we never think of him but sleight and neglect him Fourthly in repentance there is a remembring there is a remembring of God and of his mercies therefore by sin we do not onely not actually think of him but we grow into forgetfulnesse of God we have no remembrance of him these four evil effects of sin take notice of them by sinning against God First we lose him nay we forsake him nay we never so much as think of him nay we remove him out of our memories we utterly forget him here 's the condition of a stubborn and a wilfull sinner a man that lives and lies in sin he doth wretchedly cast off all communion with God rejects and abandons him though he may have some vanishing notions of God yet to all good purposes he is an arrant Atheist without God in the world no interest in him no effectual cogitation of him this estimate the Scripture puts upon a wicked people First it calls them forsaken of God a● sinfull Nation they have forsaken the Lord Isa 1-4 So your fathers have forsaken me Jer. 16.11 as Saints are a generation of Seekers so these are a generation of forsakers Secondly the Scripture calls them departed from God Ezek. 6.4 They have departed from me with a whorish heart David describes a wicked man Psalm 18.21 I have not wickedly departed from my God there is a wicked departure the Apostle forewarns them of it Heb. 3.12 Take heed of an evil heart to depart from the living God Thirdly the Scripture calls them revolters Isa 31.6 The children of Israel have deeply revolted they are grievous revolters Ier. 6.28 The Scripture represents them as thrusting God from them Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us Isa 30.11 and for the matter of inquiry or thought or remembrance of God the Scripture makes this the mark and guise and Character of a wicked man to lay aside all thoughts of God the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God God is not in all his thoughts Psalm 10.4.5 God is far above out of his thoughts he tushes