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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	great_a	sin_n	transgression_n	3,082	5	10.1157	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15826	The saints sufferings, and sinners sorrowes. Or, The evident tokens of the salvation of the one, and the perdition of the other Phil. I.28, 2 Thes. I.6,7	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.	1631 (1631)	STC 26087; ESTC S101332	67,289	372

great a sinne it is Want of faith in Christ is of all sinnes the greatest it denies the mercy of God and makes a man the murtherer of himselfe It tals for Iustice and refuseth a pardon It convinceth of sin and rejects the remedy It casts a man into the jawes of death and cares not for helpe or hand that should pull him out Moses Law is not without punishment but this without escape If the Gospel deny us mercie our misery is irrecoverable The neglect Heb. 2.2 3. The Law of Moses in every transgression and disobedience is repayed with recompence and reward All the benefite is that an escape is granted from the rigour of this Iustice but if we neglect the great salvation of the Gospell we have no way to avoyd vengeance and wrath to come Lose the opportunity of the Gospel and all is lost Wee may recover the losses of the Law but if we looke not to the Gospel our case will bee desperate The Contempt There is no mercie Heb. 10.28 to the despiser of Moses Law and yet ver 29. there is sorer punishment to him that despiteth the Spirit of grace speaking in the Gospel No mercy is the hight of misery and yet Moses Law cannot be strained so high as to deny all mercy It may inflict death but the Gospel may take off the eternall punishment thereof but alas if the Gospell be abused and mercy denyed what Law shall remove that curse and bee able to release the sinner Evangelicall Apostacy We are all fallen in the first man and are for our Apostacy to be loathed and left of God without pittie But the Lord dealt not so with us for our sinnes He had mercy upon us in the Mediatour and made him a meanes to reconcile us againe and bring us into favour but reade with trembling all Apostataes frō the Gospell and see with horrour your dreadfull doome Heb. 10.38 If any draw backe my soule shall have no pleasure in him Woe unto us if such words had beene uttered against us for our Apostacy in Adam The Lord never set his soule against us but even with it pittied us and pardoned us graciously but now to Apostatize and forsake his mercy his very heart riseth against us and we are most loathsome and abominable in his eyes Hee abhorres for ever to cast a favourable looke upon us or once to vouchsafe us acceptation againe Christian Apostataes are the worst of men and shall have wages with the greatest vengeance Matth. 12.31 32. Blasphemie against the Gospell cannot be forgiven All legall blasphemie is pardonable the Father pardoneth it against himselfe the Sonne will remit it for his part but if it proceed to touch the Spirit it passeth all mediation I will not bee peremptory and yet I presume never any man committed this sinne against the Law I conceive it onely to be a Gospel-sinne that will admit of no pardon in the rejection of mercy The Iewes committed this sinne in the Scribes and Pharisees and I feare all this rabble here condemned in Peter were not farre from it having had the Gospell so long continued and so violently and wilfully opposed It is enough that I have touched it as the height of disobedience against the Gospell and have wished men to take warning of this woe and wickednesse Evangelicall despaire The preparation of the Law is to bring the sinner to despaire in himselfe and all worldly helpe and so is a meanes to bring him to Christ but Evangelicall despaire of mercy after the meanes of the Gospell offered and contemned is deadly and dangerous and few ever went out of it Men lie long under the sense of their owne misery without comfort but they may with confidence wait and expect to the last and rest in hope they shall not alwayes bee denyed their suites and supplications Onely desperate contemners of the Gospell when they fall into some extraordinary judgement of God and the horror of their owne consciences are little better than Devils waiting for the damnation and utter perdition of their soules Satan will be sure to perswade men first that God will not punish and then that GOD will not pardon The world is guilty of this sinne Want of faith in Christ is as common as it is dangerous for Saint Iohn stickes not to charge all the world with it and truely either in the penalty or the sinne wee may judge no mā exempted Where the Gospel is not preached it is the punishment of their first rebellion God is not tyed to give faith to any or to affoord him his Gospell These mercies are transcendent and of no mutuall right betweene God and his creature The Gospell was preached in Paradise but Adam had no Covenant that it should be hereditary and follow him and all his posterity The Law was intailed but the Gospell is the free blessing of Almighty God Want of faith the penalty and punishment of all Mankinde Faith in a Mediatour and faith in God are of a large difference The Law in commanding threatning promising is to be beleeved and the want of this faith brought Adam into sinne and it is the roote of all sin and deserver of all judgement What GOD commands that the creature must beleeve to be his duty what he threatneth he must in faith and feare yeeld unto and what he promiseth hee must likewise with the same faith imbrace Now this faith is an affection or rather a piece of Gods Image framing the affectiōs in a conformable power to all Gods cōmands cōminations promises but Evangelicall faith is no part or piece of the created image of God but a new principle put into the soule in place of originall righteousnesse to bring forth actuall obedience both in the inward and outward man The want of this faith as I said before is not the root of all sinne for where there is no Gospel the want of this faith will never bee imputed for a sinne The want of that other is truely and indeed the root of all sinne and originall of all punishment Not to beleeve in God was the sinne of Adam and all his posterity But want of beleeving in Christ is not of the same extent It is a signe that no sin is discharged we may safely say it is the desert of all men for the want of the first faith to be deprived of this Negative Infidelity condemnes no man for sin take away the meanes of Conviction and the sinne ceaseth Non positis medijs c. Deny men the Gospel and free them of the Gospel-sinnes but positive Infidelitie is a sin and where God affords his Gospel hee lookes for obedience and condemnes the contrary Want of faith the sinne of the Church To want faith where the Gospel is preached is an hainous and horrible sinne better such men had never heard it than that the sound of it should passe away without sense and sanctification This is that that truely makes the world guilty Legall

common as well as dangerous thousands dye and are never sensible of any hurt this way The world is to be dealt withall to take notice that these wants are the greatest poverty of it Vse 3. It is pitty the danger being so great and so common but that Ministers should faithfully preach and convince these sinnes before all others Sinnes of the Law light more clearely upon mens consciences but these sinnes finde conscience not onely asleepe but livelesse as never stirring in any thoughts that such evils lie at the doore more to watch vs with damnation than any other Vse 4. There is no preaching or meanes effectuall but that is accompanied by the Spirit There is a difference between Preachers as there is betweene an Infant and Gyant drawing the same Bow Yet the Arrow of a Gyant shot against the stone wall pierceth not but reboundeth backe againe with the greater violence So the most happy and dextrous Preacher flocked after for his gifts may shoot as unprofitably as a weaker Teacher his arrowes and errands to the soule speed no better for the hardnesse of it than if hee had never lost his labour or spent his strength in vaine upon so stubborne spirits Christ and all his Apostles were resisted by the unbeleeving Iewes their stiffe neckes would never bend to the yoake of the Gospel or uncircumcised hearts beleeve it Vse 5. Must bee for true triall and examination of our selves whether the Spirit be come and hath convinced us to give over all opposition and yeeld to live by a new principle rest upon a new righteousnesse and be ruled by a new Law I shall give the tryall in my further search unto this Conviction Luthers three Schoole masters have helped me in these thoughts Afflictions and accusations have set prayer on worke and both have put forth Meditations Humble repentance said that worthy Chancellour of Paris is the first staire of the Ladder of Contemplation I will not complaine of my wrongs yet if they had never beene thou mightst never have had my thoughts so legible I thanke God I never found the hands of Authority so ready to smite as evill tongues to accuse 1 Pet. 4.17.18 What shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God Where shall the ungodly and sinner appeare The great sinne and endlesse sorrow of Gods houshold Enemies HAving discharged my selfe of the first part concerning the sharpe and strict government of Gods Familie I come to the sharpest and severest of his judgements upon their enemies Peter instanceth in the Iewes for to them he writes both his Epistles and in both hee aimes at three things 1 the consolation of beleevers 2 the destruction and just punishment of their enemies 3 the future promises made to the Nation of the Iewes at the comming of Christ Beleevers had strong trials when S. Peter writ his Epistles and even their owne Nation was worst to their profession This Nation Christ threatens with an end and Saint Peter now applies it and by the accomplishment of signes gives assurance that it is now at hand Iudgements are begun at his owne house and familie and therefore will end suddenly upon their enemies This was the yeare when Nero made Bone-fires of the bodies of Christians and to extinguish the ignominie of his owne setting Rome on fire fireth Christians as Faggots and makes their flames to give light the whole night This is the fiery tryall beleevers are told of verse 12. and deserves to begin the first persecution It shall not be long before it bring an end upon the Iewes and their Nation for obstinacy and cruelty to their brethren It is supposed Saint Peter and Saint Paul suffered in this first fiery tryall Their sinne and disobedience They are taxed in this Text for the violation both of Law and Gospel neither Iustice nor Mercy affect them They disobey the Gospell and against the Law they are found guilty both of impiety and uncharitablenesse They are cast in both Courts In the Court of Iustice they are here arraigned for ungodly persons under the charge of the first Table and sinners and unrighteous under the charge of the second Table In the Court of Mercy they are branded with the Gospel as a rule disobeyed and a remedy despised Iustice might be pacified by Mercy and the Law taken off by the Gospel but these faithlesse and fearelesse wretches care neither for rule nor remedie They neither are mindfull of that which is against them in the Law or might doe them good in the Gospel Of the Gospel sinnes To disobey the Gospell is by Saint Iohn Chap. 16.8 summoned up in three particulars First in the want of faith Secondly in the want of righteousnesse Thirdly in the want of holinesse The disobedient Iewes found no want of faith in Christ They supposed they were full of righteousnesse in themselves and that they wanted no spirit of grace to displace Satan in his government and set up the government of Christ in their hearts I will from the instance and example in large my selfe in laying to the charge of the whole world this Gospell-sinne here applyed to the Iewes and by way of warrantable explication follow St. Iohn as a Commentary upon Saint Peter Three Gospel Controversies Iohn 16.8 And when he is come Hee will convince the world of sinne and of righteousnesse and of judgement Here lie three great Controversies betweene God and the whole world First what that sinne is which the world counts no sin Secondly what that righteousnesse is which in the esteem of the world is no righteousnesse Thirdly what that judgment is that the world reputes for no judgement There is a Law from God and conscience in man that tels the world of many sinnes that it yeelds unto that gives information of righteousnesse applauded in the vertues and actions of men and it takes from both a forme of judgement and government that for it owne safety it allowes and likes well of but alas in these three there is neither Law nor conscience to informe us nay to both they are ridiculous conceiving nothing reasonable in all these but that which is morall and naturall to our condition in the state of innocency and remainders therof in our corrupted natures Adam in Paradise was not apprehensive of these disputes neither were such doctrines agreeable to his insight These are for new creatures conquered and convinced by Gods Spirit The unknowne Sinne. All the world is ignorant of faith and would so perish but for the Gospel It was not the Law the Iewes so much insisted upon that could reach or resolve their reason in discovery of this secret and because they would know no more than Moses Law they perished in this sinne This finne is expounded to be want of faith in Christ verse 9. It is either the root or signe of all other sinnes He that wants faith in Christ is discharged of no sinne Convince him of this and convince him of all How