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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	flesh_n	sin_n	sinful_a	2,809	5	9.4946	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40073	The design of Christianity, or, A plain demonstration and improvement of this proposition viz. that the enduing men with inward real righteousness or true holiness was the ultimate end of our Saviour's coming into the world and is the great intendment of his blessed Gospel / by Edward Fowler ...	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1671 (1671)	Wing F1698; ESTC R35681	136,795	332

is and how much he hateth sin on the one hand and how infinitely gracious he is in his willingness to forgive sinners on the other was Christ set forth by him to be a Propitiation through Faith in his blood There are many and they no Adversaries to the Doctrine of our Saviour's satisfaction that do not question but that God could have pardoned sin without any other Satisfaction than the Repentance of the Sinner and in the number of them were Calvin P. Martyr Musculus and Zanchy as might be fully shewn out of their several works but that this is not a place to do it in but he chose to have his Son die for it before he would admit any terms of Reconciliation that so he might perform the highest act of Grace in such a way as at the same time to shew also the greatest displeasure against Sin And therefore would he thus do that so he might the more effectually prevent wicked mens encouraging themselves by the consideration of his great mercy to persist in their wickedness Therefore was Christ set forth to be a propitiatory Sacrifice for Sin I will not say that his Father who is perfectly sui juris might be put by this means into a capacity of forgiving it but that it might be a Cogent motive and most prevailing Argument to Sinners to reform from it There is an excellent place to this purpose Rom. 18. 3. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin or by the means of sin condemned sin in the flesh that is what the Precepts of the Mosaical Law could not do in that they were weak by reason of the impetuosity of mens fleshly inclinations that the Son of God coming in the humane Nature and in all respects becoming like to us sin onely excepted did and by being a Sacrifice for Sin so the word Sin signifieth in diverse places as Leviticus 4. 29. Chap. 5. 6. 2 Cor. 5. 21. and as I suppose also Gen. 4. 7. Condemned Sin in his flesh he by this means shewing how hateful it is to God took the most effectual course to kill and destroy it And moreover the most dearly beloved Son of God undergoing such extreme sufferings for our Sins it is evidently thereby demonstrated what dismal vengeance those have reason to expect that shall continue impenitent and refuse to be reclaimed from them For saith he Luke 23. 31. Is they do these things in a green Tree what shall be done in the dry If God spared not his own most innocent holy and onely Son than whom nothing was or could be more dear to him but abandoned him to so shameful and horrid a death for our Sins how great and severe sufferings may we conclude he will inflict upon those Vile Creatures that dare still to live in Wilful disobedience to him And from the Death of Christ considered as a Sacrifice we farther learn what an esteem God hath for his holy Laws that he would not abate their Rigour nor remit the punishment due to the Transgressors of them without a Consideration of no meaner value than the most Pretious blood of his own Son And lastly in that Christ hath laid down his life at the appointment of God the Father for the purpose of making an Atonement of Sin this gives all men unspeakably greater assurance of the Pardon of True Penitents than the bare Consideration of the Divine Goodness could ever have done And so by this means have we the greatest encouragement that our hearts can wish to become new men and return to obedience and have all ground of Jealously and suspicion removed from us that we have been guilty of such heinous and so often repeated impieties as that it may not become the Holiness and Justice of God to remit them to us though they should be never so sincerely forsaken by us In the Death of our Saviour thus considered are contained as we have seen the strongest and most irresistible Arguments to a Holy Life and I farther adde such as are no less apt to work upon the principle of Ingenuity that is implanted in our natures than that of self-love For who that hath the least spark of it will not be powerfully inclined to hate all sin when he considereth that it was the Cause of such direful sufferings to so incomparably Excellent a person and infinitely obliging a Friend as Christ is Who but a Creature utterly destitute of that principle and therefore worse than a Brute Beast can find in his heart to take Pleasure in the Spear that let out the heart-blood of his most blessed Saviour and to carry himself towards that as a loving friend which was and still is the Lord of Glory's worst enemy Again hath Jesus Christ indured done so much for our sakes and are we able to give our selves leave to render all his sufferings and performances unsuccessful by continuing in disobedience Can we be willing that he should do and suffer so many things in vain and much more do our parts to make him do so Is this possible Nay hath he been Crucified for us by the wicked Iews and don 't we think that enough but must we our selves be Crucifying him afresh by our Sins and putting him again to an open shame by preferring our base lusts before him as the Iews did Baral bas Hath he expressed such astonishing love to us in dying for us and wo'nt we accept of it which we certainly refuse to do so long as we live in Sin Hath he purchased Eternal Salvation for us and such great and glorious things as Eye hath not seen nor ear heard and which have not entered into the heart of man to be conceived by him and can we perswade our selves to be so ungrateful to him as well as so wanting to our-selves as to refuse to receive these at his hands on those most reasonable terms on which he offers them Hath he bought us with such a price and can we refuse to be his Servants and rather chuse to be the slaves of Sathan the Devil's Drudges Where can we find so many strongly inciting Motives to hate and abandon all sin as are contained and very obvious in the Death and sufferings of our Saviour for it Fifthly The Death of our Saviour is in a special manner effectual to the making of us in all respects vertuous and holy as he hath thereby procured for us that Grace and Assistance that is necessary to enable us so to be In regard of his humbling himself as he did and becoming obedient to the death of the Cross hath God highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every name that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth And that every Tongue should Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God