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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	apostle_n	law_n	transgression_n	5,619	5	10.4785	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36360	Divine contemplations, and spiritual breathings of Mr. Henry Dorney	Dorney, Henry, 1613-1683?	1684 (1684)	Wing D1930; ESTC R41100	252,036	444

he really minds no more it may be than the Grassie Superficies of his Land till he discovers some other Excellency Then he minds that also and owns it whether it be Mines of Gold or Silver or whatever is in the nature of the Earth which was not known when he bought it because he bought a Right to it without Restriction to any particular quality in it So is it with a Soul that by Faith lays hold on and receives Christ's Person it may be his eye is chiefly on freedom from the guilt of sin but in taking the Person of Christ he recieves not only Pardon but a true Right to whatsoever is in Christ relating to this Life and that which is to come the Heaven of Heavens is not able to contain the utmost of that Inheritance which belongs to a Believer because it cannot contain God This Faith discovers and cries out My lines are fallen in a fruitful place I have a goodly heritage Faith being thus mounted it has The Influence of Faith into new Obedience many advantages for 't is skilful and therefore victorious It has the advantage of discovery for offence or defence It has Champion Ground and a clear Air to breath in and so is every way furnished for Victory and Success And as Faith is thus fitted by means of its station and capacity for discovery so it lies under the Bond of Obedience engaged and commanded to accept and drink in the Happiness that lies in Christ Faith is eminently both Privilege and Duty A Privilege in that it enters on the Possession of the whole Covenant of Grace and Eternal Life here upon the Earth and 't is bound thereto in point of Duty The Nature of Duty and Obedience is the better discerned if we consider the nature of Commandment Commandment may be thus understood either Primitive or Superadded Primitive Commandments are such as constitute the Pale between Good and Evil and are the Demonstrations of Righteousness the contrary to which is Sin and Unrighteousness which was originally given to the nature of Man in Paradise and after the Fall renewed in Tables of Stone to which that relates which the Apostle John speaketh Where there is no law there is no transgression for sin is the transgression of the law 1 Joh. 3. 4. This Law was revived by Moses for discovery and conviction of Sin and Transgression Gal. 3. 19. Rom. 7. 7. The Superadded Commandments are all Exhortations and enforcing Precepts in the Scripture which require Obedience to the primitive Rules of God's holy Will which are as it were the Emblem of his righteous Nature manifested to Man And these two have a different manner of Obligement The primitive Commandments do oblige from the very Nature of God and discovery of his Will in opposition to the defilement of Man by his Apostacy And these do shew what is the duty which Man oweth to his Creator The superadded Precepts by way of Exhortation or by way of Commanding Charge do seem rather to oblige from the apparent Equity of the Will of God manifested to shew his most holy and righteous Nature by and serveth to apply the heart thereto The breach of the former is Transgression the breach of the latter is actual though impotent Wilfulness and methinks is properly that which is called disobedience Albeit all sin is truly termed disobedience yet this seems to have a foul tincture of a repugnant Will in disobeying and so oft as the Command is renewed this disobedience is the more aggravated and increased The same Draft and Model serves to discover what is Obedience or Disobedience in the new Creation In this new World as it were of Salvation by Jesus Christ the manifestation of Free Grace in the Doctrine of Christ's Birth Life Death Resurrection and Ascension c. doth make the Treaty between the spotless Purity and Sufficiency of Christ's most holy Nature and the natural Guilt and lump of Wretchedness that has over-spread the Nature and Life of sinful Man which Manifestation of Christ presents it self in a way of Cure to defiled Man and doth in a primitive way viz. in the very nature of it require defiled Man to be Healed There is vertually in the very manifestation of the Gospel a Command gone forth to lost Man to return and accept the Salvation that is thus provided and held forth Besides which there comes in the next place a positive Command to believe 1 Joh. 3. 23. with many invitations persuasions and directions about it The not receiving the former is blindness the not receiving the latter is more eminently wilful blindness and both of them wretched impotency because the Letter of the Gospel it self cannot quicken The Spirit of this Gospel doth therefore go further in behalf of the Elect who were peculiarly given to Christ and presents it self as a quickning power in all the parts of it and as the real necessary and most effectual Remedy against all manner of Guilt which also is in the next place followed with a Law in the hand of the Spirit to receive it by Faith and this is that quickning vertue in all invitations and persuasions to receive and apply that glorious Remedy And this is that twofold Law which every Convert lies under viz. the Manifestation it self and a spiritual requiring Word commanding the Conscience to receive it and live thereby through an actually exercised Faith For as God pursued Man's Apostacy and disobedience through Adam to death and destruction so he pursueth Man's Remedy through the Death and Sufficiency of the second Adam to Justification of Life and Salvation In the former God said Man must die in the latter he saith Man must and shall live He himself is the Commander and the life and strength of his own Commands in that the second Adam is not only a living Soul as the first was but a quickning Spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. This Command from God in the Gospel to believe receive and enjoy Pardon and Righteousness in Jesus Christ Act. 13. 38 39. c. 16. 31. 1 Joh. 3. 23. even that Righteousness and Salvation which is laid up in the Person of the Mediator 2 Cor. 3. 9 10. for every one who comes for it Heb. 7. 25. and would enjoy the same Rev. 22. 17. This Command I say necessarily requires Obedience thereto Rom. 16. 26. This Obedience is exercised in a pure and free receiving Jesus Christ as my only Redeemer as being bought by him and being made his I am not my own I must not measure my self by my self but by what he is for me and to me When the temptations of Fear through my personal Guilt do command me to Despair I must not obey them but must obey the Law of Christ the Law of Faith as 't is called Rom. 3. 22. when Pride of heart or Self-ability doth command me to boast I must not obey it 1 Cor. 1. 13. but must reply I am not under the Law of my own Sin nor

then I must stop that I may adventure to cast my self before him who has the Golden Scepter in his hand before I go any further who knows but that he will reach it forth and I shall find favour in his sight I come to thee O Lord. 3. This Union it self which I 'T is only and wholly of God's Free Grace would come at and actually live in is beyond and indeed another thing than the Notion of it 'T is the voluntary and delightful Captivity of my Will and Affections through the Knowledge of him who has called me to this Glory and Vertue it is my true Dwelling-place the very Foundation of my Rest and Repose the Palace of my Triumph the very Spring and Rise of Self-abhorring which makes Self-loathing metalsom and vigorous by issuing it self into the Soul's Participation of the Purity Light and Strength of the Divine Nature and into a sincere open-hearted Resignation thereunto It is begun and carried on wholly by the Free Grace of God it sprang from his electing and predestinating Favour who worketh it according to the Counsel of his own Will Ephes 1. 4 10 11. Rom. 8. 29. 'T is the scope of his free and gracious Covenant I will be your God and you shall be my people The actual In-stating of my Soul into it ariseth from the free Call of God 1 Cor. 1. 9. The overcoming and destroying all difficulties that may obstruct it is throughly managed in the Person of Christ who has made both one and died to bring me to God As for the Application and Enjoyment of this Union-state his Prayer Joh 17. 21. and Promise Joh. 14. 20. do stand in force day and night without ceasing to obtain it for me and effect it in me His Blood has confirmed the Covenant for it and has put into it the vertue and force of a Will and Testament which cannot be disannulled Joh. 17. Luk. 22. 20. compared with 1 Pet. 3. 18. and Heb. 9. 17. and the Manifestation of this is only by his Word and Spirit proclaiming and testifying this good Will of God to Men 1 Joh. 3. 24. whereby he doth effectually bring in this Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5. 8 9. and effecteth Union thereupon 1 Cor. 6. 20. Yea are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods So that I am wholly God's Workmanship who has ordained this Union and created me in Christ for it I believe Lord help my Unbelief How little do I see How little do I taste and applyingly possess this bottomless Privilege which the glorious Angels desire to look into 4. Having considered the Purity Improve then by Meditation of this Union and the Inconsistency that is betwixt this Union and Guilt and unmortified sinful Pollutions as to the comfortable Application of it and also the divine Spring the free Grace and Bounty of God in creating and carrying it on into which thoughts and considerations the God of all Grace is only able to put seasoning and heart-framing force to make way for the Application of it Now O my Soul compel thy self to the serious Meditation of it 1. The Reallity of this Vnion be persuaded the matter is real It is invisible but real wondrous incomprehensible but real and true God has made thy sins thy burthen his Holiness and his new Stamp thy greatest and most deliberate desire Whence comes this but from the Spirit of Christ in whom the perfection of Enmity against Sin lies and in whom all the Treasures of Grace are laid How comes his Spirit to work an influence of the same nature in thee but as thou art taken into Union with him as a Member of his Body partaking of the vital Influences of the Head And seeing the Fulness of the Godhead dwells in him whose Spirit dwells in thee Col. 2. 9 10. and the Divine Nature of the Father Son and Spirit one and the same 1 Joh. 5. 7. thou becomest in a way of Adoption and according to the created Capacity thou art in really at present an Heir together with Christ of the Glory of God and shall rightfully through free Grace fully possess that Inheritance These are mine saith the Lord Mal. 3. 17. I am thy God in me thou shalt be saved Isa 45. 7. Thy Maker is thy Husband Isa 54. 5. What is this but Union with him Now O my Soul meditate again Am I indeed brought in by Christ to Union with God Are we no longer two but one Spirit Can such a thing be I do not doubt it but admire it What! He that made Heaven and Earth and all Men upon Earth he who is the very Life of the whole Creation he to whom Abraham Moses and David and all the Worthies of old prayed whom they served and adored who carried them through all Trials to whose Truth Wisdom Love and glorious Power they did bear witness and do still testifie it to all Ages Is he my own God Is this God really mine Is it the Word of his own Mouth I am thy God How unsearchable is this Union is he whom Simeon embraced in his Arms and said My eyes have seen thy Salvation is he mine He who wrought all those Miracles who healed Diseases cast out Devils forgave Sins on Earth is he mine He who had compassion on the Leper and healed him He who had compassion on the Multitude and fed them who spied out Nathaniel visited Zacheus raised the Dead is he mine He who preached the Gospel from Heaven who did bear my Sins in the Garden upon the Cross in his own Body who did sweat Blood and was pierced through for Sins for Sinners is he mine His Satisfaction mine His Compassion mine Those tender Bowels mine Was I then comprized in his Prayer And is this Joseph yet alive and his Nature not changed but glorified to the perfection of Power and Sympathy Is he mine and am I indeed his He who comforted his Disciples buried their Sins and Miscarriages and blessed them immediately at his Ascention and in the full warmth of his Love ascended and sate at the Right Hand of the Majesty on high where Love never ceaseth Is this and none but this the Judge whom I expect even my Lord and my God he whom Paul saw whom all the Apostles did preach who converted the Gentiles has kept alive the efficacy of his Word to this day he who is the faithful Witness is he my own He who is exalted to give Repentance and Remission of Sins is he mine to teach purge justifie and quicken me As near as the Head to the Body the Root to the Tree and Branches as near and dear as the Husband to the Wife doth he call me his own Flesh and Bones Doth he live and breath in me and I in him Oh for more Faith Reverence Thanksgiving with all manner of becoming Thoughts Words and Deeds concerning him and concerning the reality of such a Privilege Oh when