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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	law_n	sin_n	wrath_n	1,461	5	9.1221	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08770	The compasse of a Christian directing them that be tossed in the vvaues of this vvorlde vnto Christ Iesus.	A. P., fl. 1582.	1582 (1582)	STC 19054; ESTC S102898	60,800	156

the hope of his kingdome that they might be pricked forewardes to bring vnto him that acceptable sacrifice of a sorowfull spirite and broken hearte Psal 51. 17. which hee at no time will despise but hath bounde him selfe by promise that at what time soeuer any do come vnto him which are ouer burdened Mat. 11 28. with the sight of their sinnes they shall finde refreshing here you see also the trueth of this doctrine verified that the Lorde doth first wounde before he maketh whole hee firste Osce 61. humbleth before hee doeth exaulte bee bringeth dovvne to Hell beefore 1 Sam. 2. 6. hee raiseth vppe to Heauen And to conclude hee maketh vs to see our miserie before he will bestow vpon vs his mercy for to whom is meat most sauery but to hun that is moste hungrie to whome is liberty most delightfull but to him which is in the most miserablest bondage and to whom is life most sweete but to him that is in the greatest danger of death For offer liberty to such a one as is fre● from bōdage or life to him that is in no dāger of death and they will laugh thee to scorne but goe to some prison and offer liberty to him that hath hen long in chaines and life vnto him that is already iudged to die and thou shalt sée how thākfully he will receiue thy proffer and how mindefull he will be of the same A similitude very fit to teach vs for what cause the Lord doeth thus deale with his children in humbling of them to the ende that they may praise him in trueth for deliuering them out of such wonderfull miserie and neuer be vnmindefull of so great a benefitte In this sense it was sayde of Marye Magdalē that she loued much because many sinnes were forgiuen her For who amongst the children of women was there euer found● to be a more greuouser sinner then she which was Make 16. ● Luke 8. 2. a common harlot and had ●●uē deuils rast out of her that is to say a greate many we know not the number and who againe was there euer founde to shew foo●th y● like affection of loue vnto our lauiour Christ as she did after she perceiued that these greate sinnes were forgiuen her and she redeemed Iohn 12. ● from the danger therof for she washed his fee●e with her teares and wyped them with the heire of her head In this sense also it is sa●d of the Apostle saint Paul that hee laboured more aboundantly then all the reste of the Apostles and what moued him so to do euen this because hee perceiued that many and grieuous sinnes were forgiuen him What the●● shall wee sin much that we may loue and laboure much God forbid The holy Ghoste hath no such meaninge neither is it saide that they loued and laboured much because they had sinned much but because many sinnes were so giuen them There is none of vs all but doe commit many and grieuous sins and the more wee doe commit the worse we are to be liked for the lesse doe we loue and the lesse also is our labour in the waies of Godlines but if wee were come vnto this steppe that wee did clearelie see these sinnes and were perfectlie humbled and wearied with the burden of them hungring and thirsting for easement there is no doubt but that wee should quickly perceiue and feele the great loue of God towardes vs in pardoning and forgiuing all these our sinnes whiche we haue committed against him and so by that meanes wee also might bee drawē with Mary and Paule to loue and labour much because many sins are forgiuen vs. But before wee can haue faith to beleeue and strength to feele that many sinnes are forgiuen vs we must first learne to knowe feele both that wee haue committed many sinnes yēa that we doe nothing els but sinne and to the ende that we may vnfainedly bee brought vnto the knowledge therof the best meane or way that we can vse is this euē so set the purenes and seuerity of the law as it is in it selfe without Christ against our own affectons vntill such time as we be euen plunged into nothing and perfectly hūbled therby for this is the office of it to this end it was ordayned The vse of th● Lawe First to reueale vnto vs our sins as it is very plainly declared in y● e●●stle to y● Romanes where it is writtē by y● lawe shall no flesh be iustified in Rom. 3. 20. his fight for by it cōmeth the knowledge of sin againe the lavve causeth Rom. 4. 15. vvrath for vvhere no lavve is there is no trāsgressiō that is to say there is no trāsgressiō knowē according to y● which y● Apostle speaketh in another place where hee vseth these words I had not knovvē sin but by Rom. 7. ● the lavv for I had not knovvē that lust had beene sin except the lavve had said thou shalt not lust so th●n hereby you may eastly perceiue y● the first office of the lawe is to reueale or make knowē vnto vs our sinnes Secondlie it goeth forwardes and maketh vs to bee out of measure sinnefull For to this ende the lavve Rom. 5. 20. entered that sinne might abounde And after this sorte the Apostle reasoneth in another place where hee hath these wordes Sinne tooke occasion Rom. 7. 13. by the commandement and deceiued me and thereby slew me wherfore the lawe is holie and the commandement is holie and iust and good Was that thē which is good made death vnto me God forbid but sin that it might appeare sin wrought death in me by that which is good that sinne might be out of measure sinnefull by the commandement And thus you see how the Lawe doeth proceede not onely in reueiling vnto vs our sinnes but also in making vs out of measure sinnefull not onely in be wraying the corruptions of oure workes but also of our wordes and not of our wordes and works alone but also of our thoughts not in condemning some iustifyinge the rest but in vtterly reiecting of all If there haue been but one thought in all our life time out of square and admitte it to be so that we were free frō sinne both in worde work thought yet the s●ueritie of the Lawe is suche that it wholy depriueth vs of all hope of life because wee were borne in sinne and hauing thus bewrayed in vs such a huge heape of corruptions whereby we perceyue our selues to be aboue measure sinfull yea nothing els but a masse and lumpe of sinne doth it leaue vs so noe but then it proceedeth in setting before our eyes the iudgmentes of God for the same threatning condemning and cursing vs for not fulfillinge that in euery poynt which we are not able to performe in one of the least poyntes therof Deut. 28. 16. 1 13 c. pronouncing vs To be cursed in the field cursed in the towne