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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	sin_n	sin_v	transgression_n	4,837	5	10.4181	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61837	Balm in Gilead, or, A spur to repentance as it was lately delivered in a sermon by James Strong ...	Strong, James, 1618 or 19-1694.	1676 (1676)	Wing S5989_VARIANT; ESTC R34626	15,886	50

new refuge for thy names sake O Lord pardon my iniquity c. 3. And yet he hath not done but puts off the temptation a third time with the same expedient v. 18 Look upon my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins And thus you see how this tried Saint answers every new challenge from sin Satan and his own accusing Conscience with prayer Prayer is the last piece of spiritual Armour which that great Apostle prescribes the combating Christian Ephes. 6. 18 Praying always c. And one gives this reason because 't is not only a part of the Armour but it inables us to use all the rest and is not only a charm against that crooked Serpent to inchant him but a whip to torment him and put him to another Hell By this we fetch Christ into the battel obtain fresh supplies of the spirit Phil. 1. 19. and in the issue it makes us more than Conquerors Well 't is the Psalmisi's second conflict that lyes before us as the intended Subject of our discourse For thy names sake O Lord pardon my iniquity for it is great In the words we have a Petition for pardon And this contains two parts 1. We have a Petition preferred and here again we have several things considerable 1. The Person Petitioning David 2. The Person Petitioned The Lord 3. The Petition it self or the thing for which he Petitions Pardon The second General contains a twofold argument by which he urgeth God to pardon him 1. The first is taken from the end or final cause of this pardon 't is that which will tend to the glory of Gods name Therefore for thy names sake pardon my iniquity c. 2. The second argument whereby he urgeth God to pardon is taken from the nature of his sin and that is a strange one for it is great I shall give you the sum of the whole verse in these Conclusions most of which I shall but litttle more than name having designed the last clause of the verse for the Subject of my discourse Doct. 1. That God alone ought to be the object of our Prayers The Lord Jesus Christ when he taught his Disciples how to pray taught them also to whom to pray in the first words of that pattern of Prayer Our Father Mat. 6. and indeed that Spirit of Adoption which God bestows on all those who are regenerate doth by vertue of their new nature direct all his children to himself and make them cry Abba Father Rom. 8. 15. Reas. 1. God commands it Call upon me in the day of trouble Psal 50. 15. As prayer is a duty in the Creature so 't is the Dignity or Glory of the Creatour one of the highest Services that we owe him him and him only must we serve Mat. 4. 10. 2. God accepts it the Sons of Jacob shall not seek him in vain 'T is a title wherein the great God glories he calls himself a God that heareth prayers and therefore to him all flesh must come Psal. 65. 2. 3. Every sin is a wrong done to God though the trespass may be against man yet the transgression is against him Though David had murther'd Uriah and defiled his wife yet he cryes out Against thee only have I sinned c. Psal. 51. 4. Every sin is a violation of his Law who is the only Lawgiver Jam. 4. 12. Though then David knew he was not innocent either to Bathsheba or Uriah yet the sin was mainly against God in that he had hereby given his enemies occasion to blaspheme him 2 Sam. 12. 14. 4. 'T is Gods property to pardon sin and therefore to him alone we are to pray Isa. 43. 25 I even I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for my own sake and will not remember thy sins This God challenges as his peculiar right Dan. 9. 9. Compassion and forgiveness is in the Lord our God albeit we have rebelled against him To thee O Lord belongeth mercy c. Psal. 62. 11. Use. Oh then let us all set up this trade of prayer and say as Peter To whom else should we go but only unto God But remember that we pray to God in Christ for there 's no coming to the Father but by the Son Joh. 14. 6. and for our incouragement we are assured whatever we ask of God in his name he will deny us nothing 'T is but to open our mouths wide and God will fill them Ps. 81. 10. 'T is storied of Reverend Doctor Preston that being on a time in company with some godly men one of them asked what was the best trade Whereunto he answered Beggars was both the hardest and the richest trade He meant Prayer the hardest to be well managed and yet the richest when 't is well followed Oh what rich returns doth this duty bring home like a merchants Ship coming from a far Country It may pass for a maxim in Religion He that can pray can never be poor Note we next Doct. 2. That 't is the nature of saving Faith in spiritual distresses to take hold of every advantage that God gives us And this we have from the title which the Psalmist gives to God he prays to the Lord Jehovah Now we must know that Gods titles are no empty ornaments In Exod. 6. 3 when God renewed his promise of delivering the Israelites he says thus to Moses I appeared to Abraham Isaac and Jacob by the name of El Shaddai God Almighty but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them An instance we have in Gen. 17. 1 When God appeared to Abraham he says thus I am El Shaddai God-All-sufficient or God Almighty By this title God was pleased especially to make known his Power but by the other his Mercy by the one God made himself known as Creatour by the other as a Redeemer by the one he appeared in himself by the other in his Son God was in Christ 2 Cor. 5. 19. Quantum illis sufficiebat tantum indulsit non indulsit quod orat summum God gave them enough but not the main In short that name whereby God made known himself to the Patriarchs did discover a part of his nature but his name Jehovah implies all his infinite Perfections as 1. It implies Gods being in himself before the World was 2. His giving being to his creatures 3. His faithfulness in performing his promises by full and answerable effects and above all the promise of the Messiah Well God hath given David a fair advantage to take hold of him which advantage lies in his very name Jehovah and David by faith fastens on this lock The name of the Lord is a strong Tower to this the righteous flie and are saved Prov. 18. 10. And again In the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength and therefore he trusts in him for ever Isa. 26. 4. Use. 1. It blames such Christians who under spiritual distress slight the Consolations which God offers them and the means whereby they are conveighed Oh