Selected quad for the lemma: reason_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	2,676	5	10.9658	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86420	Fourteen queries and ten absurdities about the extent of Christ's death, the power of the creatures, the justice of God in condemning some, and saving others, presented by a free-willer to the Church of Christ at Newcastle, and answered by Paul Hobson a member of the said Church. In which answer is discovered, the extent of Christs death, the nature and truth of election, the condition of the creature both before and after conversion, &c. Published in tenderness of love for the good of all, especially for the Churches of Christ.	Hobson, Paul.	1655 (1655)	Wing H2273; Thomason E1492_4; ESTC R208520	40,720	127

which design is directly opposed and endeavouring to be destroyed by your opinion Now your holding Election of qualities and not of persons cannot heal the lameness of your opinion nor any way maintain this great design of God for if Salvation and Damnation be carried on upon any other account relating to the creatures doing or not doing then Gods glory in his grace is not exalted but denied for if of works then of debt according to these Scriptures Rom. 4.4 Galat. 5.4 Ephes 2.8 9. And if by debt then we have wherewithall to boast and if God who might justly have condemned all doth not by his free gift and pleasure save some then the singularity of his love in the vessels of grace is denied and then for the advancement of his power and justice in the vessels of wrath according to Rom. 9.18 19 20 21 22 23 is soly overthrown and the prerogative of his will and pleasure absolutely denied the sadness of this Absurdity will look grim upon your face in the day of the Lord. 7. Your opinion is so inconsistent to truth that it destroys it self for if CHRIST died for all alike then he must needs satisfie for all the sins of all Now that he hath satisfied for all the sins of the Elect I have fully proved and if for all in that sense then all must be saved or else infidelity is not a sin for if it be a sin and Christ hath satisfied for all sin and died for all alike as you affirm then infidelity cannot destroy or else you must hold he died not for that sin then not for all sin That you may further see how absurd this Absurdity you are guilty of is I shall prove to you these things 1. That Infidelity is a sin 2. That it is a sin Christ died for First that it is a sin that is clear from these Scriptures John 16.9 Besides these Scriptures minde this Reason that which crosses the command of God must be a sin but Infidelity crosses the command of God therefore The Major is proved from this Scripture 1 John 3.4 where the Apostle saith Sin is the transgression of the Law The Minor is proved from these Scriptures 1 John 3.23 Mark 5.36 John 1.14 The conclusion followeth Reason 2. That which is to be confessed and bemoaned to CHRIST as a sin that is a sin but infidelity or weakness of faith is and was bemoaned to CHRIST as a sin Therefore The Major none will deny The Minor is proved from this Scripture Mark 9.24 That which gives God the Lie must be a sin but infidelity gives God the Lie the Major is not questionable the Minor is proved from 1 John 5.10 The next thing 〈◊〉 that Christ died for this sin and that I prove thus 1. If Christ died for all sin then he must die for this this being amongst the rest but Christ died for all sin and that is clear from these Scriptures 1 John 1.7 Heb. 10.14 Isai 53.5 Rev. 1.15 2. If men finde mercy for this sin then it must needs be that Christ died for this sin but men finde mercy for this sin according to these Scriptures Rom. 11.32 1 Tim. 1.13 Then Christ must needs die for it for mercy is given out by God through Christ and what is given through Christ is given as Remission by his bloud for without bloud there is no Remission Heb. 9.22 Lastly if infidelity is a sin that the Elect of God are subject to then Christ must needs die for it and that infidelity is a sin that the Elect of God are subject to is clear from these Scriptures Matth. 17.20 Mark 16.14 Now dear Friend in the fear of the Lord consider how inconsistent with truth your opinion is that holds that CHRIST died for all alike and yet all shall not be saved one of these things must of necessity fall upon your opinion 1. That Christ died not for all sins 2. That Infidelity is not a sin 3. That God doth condemn creatures for that sin which he receives satisfaction by Christ for All or any of which is sad to aver but one or all of them you must own and therefore in the fear of the Lord search the Scriptures and beg of God to give you light that your poor soul may not be deceived nor God so sadly dishonoured or abused by bringing him and his eminent acts of love and grace power and justice under the control of your low reason for the prevention of which it shall be the daily prayer of him who in sincerity can say he is a real lover of your soul P. Hobson FINIS