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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	adam_n	law_n	transgression_n	5,599	5	10.5016	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76282	Metamorphosis Christiana: or, The old man changed into the new. An occasional discourse.	Beare, Nicholas.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1563A; ESTC R172674	33,570	43

Controversie three things are to be considered 1. Somewhat here implied which is to be put off viz. the old man or old creature 2. What is here expressed and elsewhere more formally commanded to be put on the new creature 3. The privilege and significancy of this in Christianity above any thing beside for in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor Vncircumcision but a new Creature 1. First then we are to consider what is here implied and supposed and is to be put off viz. the old man which is set forth in Scripture by these phrases the body of sin the law of the members the works of darkness the natural man the members that are upon earth and the like which gives us no small light to the right Understanding of the first thing The old man is made up of the mass of that sin which was the product of Adams transgression And here I design not to give you an account of all the particulars that would be a task too tedious but because I find some more principally by the Apostle recited in the places foregoing and for the reason following I shall glance on these four Pride Malice Anger Envy We are not to look on these as single or common vices they are chief Commanders they have teeming wombs and like the Trojan Horse stock the world with Troops if not Regiments of other Evils and hence hence are the Iliads of our miseries 1. Pride in a strict sense is a special sin as the great Schoolman * 22 ae q. 162. has noted in regard it has a proper object which must specifie and distinguish it but being considered with respect to its prolifick nature it may be fitly called the † Regina Mater Ib. Empress and Parent of all sins though not necessarily so as is observed by the same Aquinas out of S. Augustine sins sometimes receiving their original from other causes yea even in its most peculiar respect it has no less than four monstrous parts verse 5. 1. The proud man thinks that the goodness which he has is not derivative but from himself alone 2. That what benefits he does enjoy are the products of his own merit 3. He boasts that he has what he has not And 4. Despising all other men he covets alone to have what he doth desire 2. Malice This has its proper Seat in the Will and therefore must be acknowledged to be the Principle of all the depravity of our actions proceeding thence this is that poison which corrupts the Fountain and cannot but make the Streams unwholesom the industry the design the resolution of sinning that sin which bends and sets men up for mischief 3. The next is Anger which may be allowed of if it be kept close to its proper Object and within its due bounds Be angry but sin not yet cannot but be hugely sinful and destructive when it has received infection from the aforesaid Leaven when like a River it swells beyond its proper Chanel or like the overflowings of the Gall which at once discolours and disaffects the whole body This Poison may not unfitly be resembled unto Fire of good Use in its right sphere but when it has exceeded that threatens nothing below the certain ruine of our own if not others Houses Of this there are many kinds Aquin. 22 ae q. 150. according to the different Constitutions of men and no less than seven Daughters if we may credit Gregory though I think upon due examination her Issue will appear to be much more numerous 4. The last is Envy which I term the Canker of the Breast a Consumption got by the thriving of others 22 ae q. 36. this also is fruitful and parturient of many other Vices These I have mentioned as the vital and principal parts of the old man like the four Elements to the body natural and as there can be no composition without the union of these so we shall find the other conspiring in a mixture to make up the constitution of the present sinner We are told that while Julia lived the Daughter of Caesar and Wife to Pompey and Crassus by whose triple League and Friendship the two other Generals were kept asunder as the Ionean and Aegean Seas by the Isthmus of Corinth but they are no sooner removed but the Trumpet sounds to Battel which ends in the certain ruine of one and the destruction of the greatest Empire that ever the world saw Thus when men cast off the obligations of Nature Friendship and Religion and give reins to these what other Issue can be expected but that these wilde Steeds like the Horses of the Sun set the world on fire These open the Floud-gates to all our Contentions and Divisions whether publick or private I am bold to assert that there was never any disturbance since the world began wherein one if not more of these was not more immediately concerned in the quarrel The true origine this of all Wars between Princes on one side or t'other of lesser Wars that is to say Law-suits between man and man the Source of all the Contentions Divisions Factions Schisms Heresies Lying Slandering Back-biting Obloquy and of a thousand other Evils These make our Hearts Cages of unclean Birds our Actions virulent and our Tongues no other than the Firebrands of Hell Who then but must conclude for the putting of them off For our encouragement in which work we cannot want Arguments which way soever we cast our Eyes Look we abroad and lo what desolation these have made No Age no Empire no Misery which gives us not sufficient Testimonies of its Spoils I will not begin to give you Examples for the proof lest I should not easily make an end and I suppose it needless to travel either far back or abroad for that which we may meet with at our own doors Look we then round about us and see what havock these have made The old man carries a large and disorderly Retinue at his heels cannot be entertained but with great cost and trouble and if not shaken off the sooner will inevitably bankrupt his hosts in the conclusion The proud man thinks nothing too much that may conduce to the keeping up or advancing his Grandeur The envious and malitious will not be sparing in any thing that may do hurt to their Enemies he will be content to lose one eye that his Adversarie may be bereft of both The passionate man puts all at stake for Satisfaction though the affront were but a trifle See how effectually Divisions and Controversies do weaken like the Duel of the Frog and the Mouse in the Epilogue they drew bloud so long of each other as that an Enemy has the advantage and the quarrel ends in the destruction of both Listen we to the Complaints of the thred-bare Client you may learn the state of his Purse by his habit his countenance does betray the grievance of his heart and 't is ten to one but