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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	adam_n	eat_v	forbid_a	3,497	5	11.6458	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66401	Sermons and discourses on several occasions by William Wake ...; Sermons. Selections	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1690 (1690)	Wing W271; ESTC R17962	210,099	546

in Trespasses and Sins we are now raised to the Hopes and Assurance of Everlasting Glory But here therefore I will be a little more particular And First By these Sufferings our Saviour Christ delivered us from the Curse which descended to us by our first Parents Transgression and from that Eternal Punishment which must otherwise have been the consequence of it For not to enter now into any scrupulous Enquiry concerning the Nature of Original Sin or the Grounds upon which God is supposed to impute it to us Or how far we should have been either condemn'd or not for the Actual Sin of Adam in Eating of the forbidden Fruit This at least cannot be doubted of by any That our Nature is now much degenerated from that primitive Purity in which Man was at first created that we have all the very best of us a strange Propensity to Evil and are born with an Impotency if not Adverseness to that Virtue and Piety which the Principles of natural Religion as well as of revealed require of us So that if we should allow the contentious Disputers of our Days that God will not impute Adam's Transgression to us for Sin nor condemn us for a Defect which we are not our selves consenting to but bring into the World with us yet would this have stood us but in very little stead Whilst we should every one of us have been Guilty of so many Actual Sins as had not Christ purchased a Redemption for us must for ever have sunk us down into Ruine and Destruction And certainly we ought then to esteem it no small Benefit of our Saviour's Passion that he has now delivered us from this Danger and removed the fatal Necessity we must otherwise have lain under of being for ever miserable without all possibility of preventing of it But this is only one Part and that the first and least of those Blessings which his Death and Passion has obtained for us For Secondly Our Saviour Christ has not only delivered us from those Dangers to which we were before exposed but he has put us in a new and better way of attaining to that nay perhaps to a greater Happiness than what we should have had if Adam had never sinned nor by consequence our Saviour Christ ever given himself an Offering for our Sins This is indeed the great Commendation of our Saviour's Love to us that not content to deliver us from those Dangers that before threatned us He saves to the uttermost those that come to him And here to unfold the Greatness of this Benefit as I ought to do I must run through all the excellent Advantages of that New-Covenant God entred into with us by the Blood of his Son But this would carry me into an Argument great indeed and worthy your Attention but beyond the Bounds of my present Discourse In general * If to have a Systeme of the noblest and most admirable Rules of Living that were ever communicated to the World such as by their own Excellence no less than by God's Command recommend themselves not only to our Practice but to our Love too * If to be endued with a supernatural Divine Assistance to enable us to fulfil them and overcome all those Temptations that may at any time seek to draw us from them * If to be assured That upon our hearty Endeavours and earnest Prayers to God this Grace of his shall still increase in us according as we sincerely apply our selves to make use of it or as other Circumstances shall happen to put us in need of it * If besides this Help to keep us from sinning to live under a Gracious Promise of Pardon for those Sins which many times we shall commit notwithstanding all our Labour to the contrary upon our humble Confession and hearty Repentance of them * If to know that for all these Ends we have a Redeemer in Heaven who stands continually in the Presence of God to make Intercession for us and represent to his Father that Death and Passion which he underwent on purpose that he might obtain this Forgiveness for us In a Word * If to be undoubtedly secured That whatever becomes of us now yet let us but sincerely labour what in us lies to fulfil our Duty and we shall be in a little Time eternally happy in the Consummation of all these Blessings in the Kingdom of our Saviour That yet a few Years and our High-Priest shall again return in Glory and pronounce the great and final Blessing upon us which shall instate us in Joys never to be forfeited If I say to live under the Conduct of such a Saviour and such a Religion to have the Comfort of so great Promises now and the blessed Assurance of such Glory hereafter may be esteemed a Blessing as indeed what can we think of it but to be the greatest Blessing that a merciful God could bestow upon his Creatures or a Divine Saviour purchase for his Servants All this and many other Benefits which I cannot now so much as mention to you Christ purchased for us by his Sufferings and calls upon us in this Holy Sacrament to remember with the highest Joy and the most grateful Acknowledgments Which brings me to the other thing proposed for the full Explication of the Duty here required of us viz. Secondly * After what Manner and * With what Affections it is that we are to Do this in Remembrance of Him For the former of these I. The manner How we are here to remember Him I have already observed That the original Word which we here render Remembrance is very emphatical and implies not any calling to Mind all these things but a frequent renewed Commemoration of them And that especially such by which we may not only remember our selves but also set forth to others the Memorial of them So S. Paul interprets it v. 26 As often as ye eat this bread and drink this Cup 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 annunciate shew forth make a solemn Declaration of the Lord's Death until his coming And so indeed the very Design of this Institution will oblige us to understand it When our Saviour first celebrated this Holy Sacrament and commanded his Disciples by the like Sacred Ceremony to continue the Memory of his Death until the End of the World We are told by the Evangelists That he had just finished the Feast of the Passover into the Place whereof he substituted this Christian Feast and as all the Circumstances of it plainly shew designed this to have the same Place in the Christian that the other had till then had in the Jewish Church Now concerning that solemn Feast we read in the Book of Exodus cap. xii 17 That God appointed it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a Memorial that is for a solemn Recognition which the People was thereby to make every Year of that great Deliverance by which they were brought up out of the Land of Egypt And in the thirteenth Chapter they are