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	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
A77835	The marrovv of divinity Wherein the weakest Christian may be informed in the whole body of gospel-truths. By George Burches batchelor in divinity; rector of Woodchurch, within the county of Cheshire; and sometimes minister of St. Johns Church in Chester.	Burches, George, d. 1658.	1649 (1649)	Wing B5614; Thomason E1376_1; ESTC R209237	7,914	16

THE MARROW OF DIVINITY Wherein the weakest Christian may be informed in the whole Body OF Gospel-Truths By George Burches Batchelor in Divinity Rector of Woodchurch within the County of Cheshire and sometimes Minister of St. Johns Church in Chester Prov. 22.6 Train up a Childe in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu Hor. London Printed for Marmaduke Boat and are to be sold neer Pauls Wharfe at the White Lyon 1649. TO The READER Courteous Reader I Am not ignorant how that the Presses swell with subjects of this nature and though many worthy men have written in this kinde yet here I dare be bold to say thou shalt be sure to finde the quintessence of their writings closed within this cabinet of brevity Let it therefore move thee to read and try by experience what is therein contained and thou shalt finde the pureness of golden Truths brought within the compass of a little room which for thy memory being shorter I hope will prove the better the better to be carryed away and the better to be kept and the better to be called for when thou hast use for them what benefit therefore thou doest reap from this short Compendium Give God the glory and I am therefore fully satisfied in my reward and rest The least and unworthiest of the Churches Servants Geo. Burches A short Catechism Question WHat ought to be the main end of mans chiefest endeavors A. Mans chiefest endeavor ought to be the glory of his God the gaining of Christ and the enjoyment of Heaven 2 Corinth 10.31 Phil. 2.12 Q. How doth it appear that there is a God A. By the Book of Nature the Book of Scripture and the Book of Conscience Q. VVhat is the book of nature A. The glorions work of the Creation wherein the vast fabrick and frame of the world moved by a supream power shew that there is a God Psal 19 1. Q What is the Book of Scripture A. It is the revealed will of God written in this word given by inspiration of God unto his people and contained in the old and new Testament Math. 11.25 2 Tim. 3.16 Q. VVhat is the book of conscience A. The book of conscience is that light which God hath left in mans soule since Adams fall called the Law written in our hearts informing mans judgment of a God to be feared and of an Hell to be avoided Rom. 2.15 Q. VVhat is God A. He is a Spirit incomprehensible immutable most wise most holy most merciful eternal John 4.24 Jer. 23.34 Jam. 1.17 Psal 147.5 Rom. 11.13 Psal 5.4 Isai 6.3 Exod. 3.6 7. Psal 90.2 Q. Are there more Gods then one A. There is but only one and no more Deut. 6.4 Isai 44.6 8. Q. How is this God to be conceived of us A. As he hath revealed himself by his properties and works Deut. 4.16 Judg. 13.18 Tim. 6.16 Q. VVhat are the chief properties of God A. His wisdom his holiness his omnipotence his omniscience his eternity his mercy and his justice Job 12.13 Isai 6.3 41.4 Psal 139. Q. What are the works of God A. That eternal Decree whereby God hath determined with himself shall come to pass the creation of the world and all things therein and the continuation of their being by his special providence Gen. 1.1 Act 17.18 Q. What are we further to conceive concerning God and to beleeve A. That in one simple and undivided Godhead there be three distinct persons Father Son and Holy Ghost which three are one God equal in glory coeternal in majesty though distinguished by their person properties Matth. 8.19 2 Cor. 13.13 1 John 5.7 Q What are the personal properties A. It is proper to the Father to beget the Son the Son to begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost to proceed from them both Psal 2 7. Joh. 1.14 7.16 Q. How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father A. By their names and attributes works and worship ascribed unto them Isai 9.6 Deut 9.16 John 14.18 28. Q. What was the first state and condition of man A. It was a most happy and glorious condition Gen. 1.26 1 Cor. 11.7 Col. 3.10 Psal 8.6 7.8 Q Wherein stood the happiness and glory of it A. In that man was the character of his God created after his Image standing in wisdom and holiness voyd of the least tincture of evil Ephes 4.24 Gen. 3.1 9 6. Psal 139.14 Q. Did man continue long in this happy estate A. No but fell from wisdom to folly from righteousness to sin Eccles 7.29 Rom. 18.19 Psal 49.12 Q. Wherein doth this state of misery appear A. In the loss of Gods favor in the loss of his Image and in the exposing of the whole posterity of Adam to endless shame and misery Rom. 8.7 1 Cor. 2.14 Eph. 2.2 Job 15.15 16. Q. How came this great misery on man A. By Adams swarving from his God who standing in the room of whole mankinde did through his transgression bring misery upon all Rom. 6.12 Q. What is sin A. The least breach of the Law of God 1 John 3.4 Q. How many sorts of sins be there A. Two Original and actual Psal 51.5 Job 15.14 Jam. 3.2 Q. What is original sin A. A determinate and wilful transgression of the Law of God depriving all the parts and faculties both of soul and body of all kinde of goodness and all maner of happiness Gen. 6.5 Tit. 1.15 Rom 3.12 Q How is this sin conveighed from our first parents unto their posterity A. By natural generation so that all that proceed from them that way are conceived and born in sin Job 15.15 16. Psal 51.5 Q. What is actual sin A. It is the fruit of original corruption whereby the soul of man walks in darkness and contrary to the Law of God Psal 82.5 Rom. 7.15 16. Q How is actual sin distinguished A. internally Externally Q. How internally A. By the faculties of the soul as the minde will and affections Eccles 8.11 Ephes 4.22 23. Q. How externally A. By the outward Members of the Body concuring with the faculties of the soul acting contrary to the will of God Eph. 2.2 2 Cor. 10.5 2 Tim. 2.26 Q. How is actual sin effected A. It is effected either by omitting things that ought to be done or committing that which is forbidden Q. What be the differences of actual sins committed A. Their differences appear when committed either through ignorance or knowledg presumption or obstinacy Acts 17 30. Isai 59.2 Rom. 1.28 Q. What are the punishments of sin in this life A. They are either inward in the soul as blindness of minde hardness of heart horror of conscience and the like or else outward as the curse of God upon the creature for our sakes whereby good things bestowed upon us become snares unto us Eph. 4.18 19. Deut.