Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	adam_n	death_n	similitude_n	3,593	5	10.9079	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01711	Certaine sermons, vpon diuers textes of Holie Scripture Whereof some haue been seuerally before published, and other some for the greater benefit of the godly reader are here now added. By M. George Giffard, preacher of the worde of God at Mauldon Essex.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon on the parable of the sower. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. Two sermons upon I. Peter 5. vers. 8 and 9. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. Foure sermons uppon the seven chiefe vertues of faith. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A godlie, zealous, and profitable sermon upon the second chapter of saint James. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the thirtie day of May. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon on the third chapter of Saint Iames. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 11848.5; ESTC S120470	152,707	288

tempteth hee any man but euerie one is tempted when hee is drawne away by his own concupiscence and is entised then lust when it hath conceiued bringeth forth sinne and sinne when it is finished bringeth foorth death The first thing we haue heere to note in this doctrine is this that all corruption is of our selues not comming from any outward cause It is true that Satan is an instrument and as it were the bellowes to stirre and kindle in vs the lustes of sinne and beareth a verie great stroke in the matter but if it were not for this concupiscence that is in vs hee could not bring his matters to passe the prouocations and allurementes of wicked men are so manie meanes to driue vs and drawe vs into sinne but yet the cause is in our selues A chiefe point to bee obserued that we may lerne to condemne our selues when wee haue done amisse and not after the maner of men which looke when they haue faulted howe they may disburthen themselues and bee discharged of the blame and therefore they will either crie out of the diuel as though he as they say ought them a shame or els they will say woe woorth such or such that euer I knew them if it had not been for them I should not haue done thus The Prophet Dauid when he had committed murther and adulterie being reprooued by Nathan although he knewe right well that the Diuell was a greate furtherer in the matter likewise he might haue thought vpon the fonde dealing of the woman which so vndiscreetlie washed her selfe in such a place as others might see her yet he letteth these go and to the end he may wholy and fullie condemne himselfe hee looketh home to the welspring of all this foule and beastlie sinne saith Behold I was borne in wickednes and in sinne hath my mother conceiued mee as if he should say O Lord I cannot seeke any way to be excused for all this rebellion against thee is conceiued and bred in mine owne corrupt breast I brought the roote of it from my mothers wombe This is a good lesson for vs to learne for so long as we do not know it but like partiall and corrupt iudges go about to excuse our selues to rid our hands of that we haue committed we shall neuer come to any sincere repentance Further wee are heere to obserue in this place that all corruption comming from this lust if we will repent indeed wee must begin heere For if they be changed only in their outwarde deedes and wordes and this inward sickenes not healed they haue gained nothing no more then a man which would destroy a tree and doth no more then lop and shred off certain boughes and twigs leauing the stumpe and roote behinde for so long as this doeth liue in them they may well seeme in the eies of men to be very great conuertes if they of ignorant idiotes are become such as haue gotten some skill and knowledge from drunkards ruffians adulterers and such like they become sober modest and of good behauiour as this may be done before men and yet the heart nothing altered before God for there be many causes which may mooue men to seeme outwardly to bee godlie when the heart within is fraught with lothsome lustes and ful of rotten corruptions which make men still altogether abominable before God To bee short therefore a man shall neuer rightly iudge of himselfe whether hee haue repented vnlesse hee looke to the bottome of this sore that it may bee healed The greatest multitude of men being as blind as Beetles in this point imagine that repentance is a verie light and easie thing which they can haue when they list when a man of wisedome saith this that here lieth so deepe a matter that heere bee rootes which are hard to bee pulled vp hee is mooued to bee the more carefull least hee deceiue himselfe Looke therefore euery man to his thoughts for by them is the triall made if the thoughtes bee chaunged and the inward desires altered so that of prophane and worldlie they are become holie and heauenly then hee may boldlie say I haue a newe heart and there is a right spirit renued in me I haue repented I haue not playd the hypocrite I feele an vpright heart toward God I feele the corrupt fountaine stopped so that the filthy matter and stincking mudde doeth not boile foorth as it did It may also bee demaunded heere whether this lust be not a sinne or a corruption of it selfe because Saint Peter saith that corruption resteth in it The place which I alleadged out of the 51. Psalme doth prooue it to be a sinne also it may bee prooued out of the fift to the Romans where Saint Paule prooueth that infantes haue sinne because they are subiect to death which is the rewarde of sinne although as hee saith they sinne not after the similitude of the transgression of Adam Therefore if wee had none other but this it were enough to condemne vs and vtterly to cast vs away Let vs neuer cease therefore vntill we feele a chāge in our selues euen in this secret infection for otherwise wee shall neuer be able to flie the corruptions which are in the world or as Saint Iames speaketh in the first chapter of his Epistle to keepe our selues vnspotted of the worlde so long as we carie the corrupt world in our breast neither shall our religion bee pure for thus it is faide If any man among you seemeth religious and refraineth not his tongue but deceiueth his owne heart this mans religion is vaine Pure religion and vndefiled before God euen the father is this to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their distresse and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world The second Sermon vpon the 5.6 and 7. verses 5 Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto ioine moreouer vertue with your faith and with vertue knowledge 6 And with knowledge temperance and with temperance patience and with patience godlinesse 7 And with godlinesse brotherlie kindnesse and with brotherlie kindnesse loue ANd hereunto giue all diligence c. He hath declared in the former verses among other chiefe matters this one especiallie to how great holinesse and purenesse through sanctification we be called which was chieflie expressed in these wordes that by them yee may bee made partakers of the diuine nature in that yee flie the corruption which is in the worlde through lust vnto this now he ioyneth an exhortation requiring at their handes not onlie to put to their diligence but also as he saith euen all diligence For as it is the greatest and chiefest thing which we are to looke after so there is required at our handes to giue our principall care and studie thereunto this equitie must easilie be graunted that if we cannot obtaine or get the thinges of this life which are small in comparison vnlesse wee put to our diligence for God will haue it to be so that then of good right