Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

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
B20672	Truths testimony and a testimony of truths appearing in power, life, light & glory, creating, manifesting, increasing, and vindicating itself in the midst of persecution : wherein is discovered what truth is, and also a lye, who knows it and lives in it : with the authors call and conversion to the truth, his practice in it, his publishing of it, and his several tryals for the same ... : together with the particular accusations brought against him in each tryal and his answers to the same, and also the courts proceedings both by judges and juries : with an humble appeal to His Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector, as a general redress for all people / by Richard Coppin.	Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6105	74,193	93

did again and again say that Christ suffered not for them as acted by him but as imputed to him and so they became his which he proved from these Scriptures He was made 〈◊〉 for us and The Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all And Secondly That he should say There is no heaven and hell but what is in man He did not but did prove from Scripture that there was a heaven and a hell in man not denying any other which by others might be believed as to them And Thirdly That he should say That everlasting life should end in this life He did not but said That there was that written in Scripture which was said to be everlasting yet had an end as he proved from the ending of the first Covenant and Priest-hood under the Law with the conditions thereof which was said to be for ever And Fourthly as to his life and conversation it hath been so civil honest and respective towards all men for all that ever we saw or knew of him that none ever yet could accuse him and therefore we do believe that for the good that is in him and proceeds from him to the edifying of many people he is hated and persecuted To all which particulars we have here subscribed our names and shall be ready to take our Oaths A Copy of a Certificate presented to the Court by many of the godly and well-affected people of Oxford in the behalf of Richard Coppin WE the Inhabitants of the City of Oxford whose names are here underwritten do hereby certifie That Richard Coppin hath several times preached in Oxford and hath been heard by us who never heard any thing delivered by him to our knowledge but what hath been true and sound doctrine according to the Scripture and the manifestation of God to us And we do also certifie that his life and conversation hath ever been towards all sorts of men honest just and upright that ever we could see know or hear of him Concerning which we have here subscribed our names and shall be also ready to testifie upon Oath The first particular Charged in the Indictment FIrst That I should say That Christ Jesus the Son of God and Saviour of the world did suffer for his own sins as well as the Peoples Answ My Lord for answer to this I do affirm and ever did since I knew and declared any thing of God That Jesus Christ the Son of the living God and Saviour of the whole world as he lives in God never acted sin but imputatively all our sins became his were laid upon him John 3.17 1 John 2.2 Heb. 10.5 6.7 Rom. 8.3 Heb. 2.14 Luke 1.74 and reckoned to him by the Father and Jesus Christ as the Son in obedience to the Father freely took them upon himself clothed himself with our flesh sinful flesh and so suffered for sin overcame and condemned sin and all enemies in our nature wherein his appearance in us doth manifest to us that he satisfied the Fathers justice payed our score and set us at liberty though Christ himself which is Mat. 1.23 1 Pet. 2.22 2 Cor 5.21 Isa 53. Rom. 5.10 Iohn 14.19 Emmanuel God with us did no sin neither was guil found in his mouth as saith the Scripture yet he was made sin for us and The Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all and by his stripes are we healed by his life are we saved and do live for saith Christ Because I live ye shall live also And now the head cannot be said to live without the body nor the body without the head 1 Cor 11.3 Ephes 5.23 29 30. Heb. 5.3 7.27 1 Cor. 12.12 13 27. so not Christ without us nor we without Christ he being our head and we members of his body of his flesh and of his bones and Christ suffering for the sin of us ●his members may also be said to suffer for the sin of his own body whose body we are for saith Paul Ye are the body of Christ and members in particular and in this sense he may be said to suffer for his own sins which is no blasphemy to say Secondly That there is no heaven and hell but what is in man Answ My Lord for answer to this I do affirm and ever did as aforesaid First That there is a God according to the Scriptures and that this God is the God of truth peace and love and the Father of it who is called a Spirit and whose throne is in heaven Isa 66.1 1 Tim 6.16 1 King 8.27 Jer. 23 23 24. Isa 6.3 and that dwelleth in light and which the heaven of heavens cannot contain and who is not limitted to any time place or person but heaven and earth is full of his glory And so much for God what and where he is Secondly That there is a Devil according to the Scripture and this Devil is the god of sin as of this world which darkens all appearances of good things 2 Cor. 4.4 Rev. 20.1 2 3. whose habitation is in hell and who is limitted to time place and person and cannot go beyond his bounds and is the Prince of darkness and of death the power of the ayr Ephes 2.20 John 8.44 Rev. 21.8 and 12.10 John 5.45 Iude ver 9. the spirit ruling in the children of disobedience which makes them so long to continue the children of the Devil who is a lyar and the father of them and all lyes and lyars are of and in him who shall together with him suffer in hell fire and who is also the accuser of the brethren from whom all accusations proceed with all hatred envy and malice and hath no part in Christ and that this Devil Iam. 3.14 15 Iohn 14.36 1 Pet. 5.8 Gen. 3.15 Psal 110.5 6 as a roaring lyon goes about from City to City from County to County or from Worcester to Oxford seeking whom he may devour till the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah meets with him breaks his head destroys his power frustrates his design and so ruines his Kingdom And Thirdly That there is also a heaven for the righteous in Christ to be saved and made happy in life and salvation with Christ in God and there is a hell also for the wicked in which they are and shall be tormented with the Devil and false Prophets but for the place what and where it is so far as the Scripture is silent in it we are to be silent in it and cannot determine of it any further then the Scripture doth But this we may say with the Scripture first concerning heaven that the Kingdom of God is righteousness peace and joy in the holy Ghost and Behold the Kingdom of God is within you yet on high with God Rom 14.1 Luke 17.20 21. above the earth or any creature And as concerning hell it is in Scripture compared to a grave and we read that Christ descended into it and David saith to