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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	die_v	sin_n	11,157	5	5.1542	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50429	The snare broken, or, The natural and eternal deity of the Son of God, as also of the Holy Ghost, asserted by a person, who having been formerly a a [sic] Socinian, and then an Arrian, came at length, by a free consideration of the Scriptures, to be fully convinc'd of the truth of the Catholick faith concerning the blessed Trinity.	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1488; ESTC R19321	12,820	17

taking them when I was a Socinian and the Judgement of my Belief I submit to the Reader of my Arguments So much I humbly conceive may serve to be spoken concerning the Praeexistence of our Saviour to his being Born of the Virgin But here comes in the Arrian And saith he I grant our Saviour was Praeexistent to his being Born of the Virgin and he was made Flesh who had existed Personally before and he was made to partake of Flesh and Blood as those that were to be his Children did that he might die for them and Redeem them He had dwelt in Heaven before ever he came into the World and was not only caught up into Heaven to see and hear what he was to reveal but he was only a Created Spirit or Angel and was in the fulness of time united to the Humane Nature by the power of the Holy Ghost This Opinion I confess I have inclined to also But I am also beaten out of this by the Apostle's Discourse or whosoever was the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the first and second Chapters Ch. 1.13 To which of the Angels said he at any time Sit thou at my Right Hand until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool Are they not all Ministring Spirits Ver. 5. Unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Ver. 6. And again when he bringeth his First Begotten into the World he saith And let all the Angels of God worship him Now if all the Angels of God must worship him and that God the Father said not so or so to any one of all the Angels he is clearly set forth as one above all the Orders of Angels and therefore in plain meaning above all Creatures therefore no less than God Nay whereas the Apostle only words it Worship him all ye Angels or Let all the Angels of God worship him it is in the Psalmist whence the Apostle quotes the Expression Psal 97.7 ' Worship him ' all ye Gods So that whatever Titular God there is or can be conceived in the whole Creation they are all inferiour to him and he is not of their Rank or Kind therefore not a Creature as to his Divine Nature but of the proper genuine Essence of the most High God as a Son is of the fame kind with his Father and we know there is but One God in number tho' the Son and the Father among us make Two in number But that which yet further and beyond all these things convinceth me that our Lord Christ is God by Nature is That he undertook to Answer and Satisfy the Law for Sinners ' The sting of Death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law It were a very small matter for us to Die were it not for Sin that follows us to our Graves to Judgment and to Hell and Sin could have no strength in it to Damn us and cast us into Hell were it not for the Law of God that forbids it and threatens Death and Hell upon the Commission of it Now this Law of God is impowred and invigorated with all the Majesty and Authority of that God that made it and binds down the Sinner unavoidably to destruction until some one come that can deal with this Law so full of Majesty and Authority Until I say such a One come and free us from this Law the Sinner cannot be set at Liberty from the Condemning Power of it I meddle not with that Question Whether God can Pardon without a Satisfaction or no I think it is evidently declar'd that he will not Without shedding of Blood there is no Remission Heb. 9.22 and therefore it comes all to one in this matter Now what Creature tho' never so Great Wise and Innocent dares appear in the face of the Law to rescue the Prisoners for all the World is become guilty before God Jews and Gentiles There is no Creature but is subject to the Law of God and the utmost Good that the Creature can receive from the Law is to be acquitted in his own Person having never offended it Why yet here comes a Champion into the field our Lord JESUS by Name and he comes into the field as it were for that seems to be the Apostle's Scheme Habit or Form of Expression and demands Liberty for the Law 's Captives which he hath Liberty from the Father to Redeem not by offering Violence to the Law but by paying a Price which shall be tantamont to the Damnation or Eternal Sufferings of all the sinful Men and Women of all Ages of the World and by the Ordination of God the Father the Law must yield may not detain them any longer under the Sentence of Condemnation in Case this Great Redeemer Pay to the Law a Valuable Consideration which accordingly he did by Dying And whereas before we were all Naturally or by Condition of our Natures as it were Married to the Law the Law is now by the Death of Christ reputed as Legally-dead and we are no Adulteresses tho' we be Married to another that is to the Son of God who Redeem'd us bought us off from the Law and Marries us to Himself upon the New Conditions of Faith and sincere Obedience and this shall now be accepted at our hands as effectually as perfect unerring Obedience would have been from our first Husband the Law had we stood Innocent I confess the Tropes seem to interfere those of Champion and Surety those of the Fields and the Court but they are all justified by Expressions that we may pick up out of the Apostle's Discourses of this subject And if our Understandings be at last well inform'd it is no great matter what become of the Figures which were only by the Fancy to introduce the matter into our Understanding That Christ's Death-was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Price of our Redemption is expressed often and that he delivered us from the Law is as often found and that this Law was not only the Ceremonial but the Moral Law I think it as plain For else how should the whole World become guilty before God but by the Sentence of the Moral Law which is the Strength of sin And how could our Saviour deliver the Gentiles from their sin but by weakning its Strength that is taking off the Condemning Power of the Law And how could he take off the Condemning Power of the Law but by suffering the Penalty of it And what Creature could sustain the Wrath of God which the Law was armed with Methinks it is as plain as one of the First Principles in Metaphysicks Who but God could sustain the Wrath of God and not perish under it And yet this we find Performed by our Saviour as it had been Prophecied of him Zech. 13.7 Awake O Sword against my Shepherd and against the Man that is my Fellow saith the Lord of Hosts Smite the Shepherd and the Sheep