Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	punishment_n	sin_n	transgression_n	4,361	5	10.4522	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02744	A cordiall for the afflicted Touching the necessitie and utilitie of afflictions. Proving unto us the happinesse of those that thankfully receive them: and the misery of all that want them, or profit not by them. By A. Harsnet, B.D. and Minister of Gods word at Cranham in Essex.	Harsnett, Adam, 1579 or 80-1639.	1638 (1638)	STC 12874; ESTC S114895	154,371	676

be the name of our good and bountifull God live in plenty of the Gospel so as wee may speak of the food of our souls as Moses doth of bodily Lev. 26.5 Our threshing reacheth unto the vintage and the vintage unto the sowing time and wee eat our bread in plenteousnesse But little do wee know how soon the Lord may send a famine of the word as hee threatned Israel Amos 8.11 12. When wee shall wander from Sea to Sea from North to East too and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it Churches and people of other nations who not many yeares sithence had as little cause of fear and dread as wee do now feel the smart of this famine The Tabernacle of David is fallen amongst them Idolatry and superstition is in the place of the Gospel And why may not wee fear the like judgement especially seeing the Gospel is so much contemned of many amongst us Vse 4 Fourthly doth the Lord thus afflict his dear children be wee then admonished to break off our sinnes by repentance that so the Lord may either divert his judgements or else aswage and alay the heat of them For if wee will sinne God will punish Sin is that seed which being sown grows up unto a harvest of punishment Hee that soweth iniquitie shall reap affliction Prov. 22.8 Trouble waits upon sinne for affliction followeth sinners Prov. 13.21 Yea it so follows them as it will be sure to catch hold of them All these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee till thou be destroyed because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord thy God Deut. 28.45 Is there any thing under the Sunne that is able to make a separation between sinne and punishment If the one be welcomed and entertained the other will not be shut out Paradice could not shelter nor priviledge our first parents from punishment after they had once sinned How then shall those be able to escape the wrath and vengeance of the Lord who make it their pastime to do evill into whose hearts and affections wickednesse hath warped and woven it selfe these must if speedily they repent not look to have the judgements of God to light upon them For what saies Job Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie Iob 31.3 Notorious offenders have oft times notable judgements Wicked ones may revell and be joviall and go on in their own wayes and pleasures but which of them can say I will continue my game my sport my lusts unto the end without feare or danger little do they know how neer at hand some judgement or other is to arrest them as it did Balshazzar to interrupt and turn their jollitie into woe and miserie Shut sinne out of dores if thou wouldst have that punishment either sanctified or taken away which doth now lie upon thee To complain of troubles or to seek to be eased of them and not to mourn and be sorry for those sinns which have procured them is folly and madnesse Do not our children when wee are correcting them confesse their faults and promise to do no more so by these words hoping to have their correction lessened and ended Wee shall shew our selves to have lesse understanding and wisedome then young children if wee take not the same course when the rod of God is laid upon us Repentance will make us gainers by our afflictions What wise man will not be willing to take that course albeit painfull which may be beneficiall and profitable unto him Repentance so sanctifies our affliction or removes it that a blessing comes with it or follows in the room of it If when our heavenly father correcteth us wee doe unfainedly promise and purpose to cast away our sinnes from us the Lord will speedily either lay aside his rod or else bestow upon us some blessing which shall make it evident that hee is pleased with our humiliation and will love us the better after it So well is the Lord pleased to see his children stoop under his hand that he will be so much the more gratious and mercifull unto them by how much the more he hath afflicted them so as they shall see the curse turned into a blessing unto them Repent thee of thy transgressions and the Lord will repent him of his corrections For that which the Lord promiseth unto a Kingdom or Nation Iere. 18.8 shall also be made good unto every person If wee will turn from our wickednesse the Lord will repent of the judgement which hee thought to bring upon us I will cast them into great affliction except they repent them of their works Revel 2.22 As our impenitencie hastens judgements threatned and continues them being inflicted so our repentance diverts them being threatned and removes them being inflicted The Ninivites repentance wrought repentance in God God saw their works that they turned from their evill wayes and God repented of the evill that he said he would do unto them and he did it not Ion. 3.10 Thus by their repentance the sentence pronounced was reversed Is not this a strange thing that the repentance of condemned malefactors should repeal the Judges sentences It were strange to see this in the Courts of men but with God it is not so strange as true our repentance not only frustrates Gods condemning sentence but turns it into an acquitting sentence it turns away the evill and as I said even now brings good in the stead of it Davids murtherous and adulterous marriage with Bathsheba brought many direfull curses but yet unfained repentance turned all those curses into blessings unto them and us for of this marriage came Christ the worlds Saviour Therefore as Daniel said unto the King Dan. 4.24 Let my counsell be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sinnes by righteousnesse for man suffereth for his sin Lam. 3.39 If wee will forsake Gods law and not walke in his judgements if wee break his statutes and keep not his commandements then will the Lord visit our transgressions with a rod and our iniquitie with strokes Psal 89.31 32. The more libertie that any of Gods children shall take to sinne the more liable are they to punishment The more care the Lord takes of them the more love he beares unto them the readier will he be to chastise them offending Is not the whole history of the Jewes a people once as dear unto the Lord as ever any were even as the signet on his right hand and as the apple of his eye Zach. 2.8 a pattern and example of an ungratious child continually exercised under the rod of his loving father evermore labouring as he trespassed so to correct him for his sinne The Scripture doth plentifully tell us how the Lord nurtured his people with severe discipline sending them one judgement upon the neck of another and all by reason of their sinnes Iere. 30.15 Why criest thou for thine affliction because thy sinnes