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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
A50246	A catechisme, or, The grounds and principles of Christian religion set forth by way of question and answer wherein the summe of the doctrine of religion is comprised, familiarly opened, and clearly confirmed from the Holy Scriptures / by Richard Mather, teacher to the church at Dorchester in New England.	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing M1268; ESTC R43433	66,565	136

are some of those evils comprehended in this sinne A. There was great umbeliefe to doubt of the truth of Gods threatning there was great Idolatry in preferring the counsell of Satan afore the commandment of God and great blasphemy in yeelding to Satan when he said God forbade them that tree because he did envy their happinesse Q. What evill else was there in that offence A. There was discontent with their estate though it was exceeding good abominable pride that would be like unto God and horrible unthankfulnesse to sinne against God that had so highly advanced them Q. What further evil was in it A. There was curiosity in desiring to know more then God would have them to know also also they sinned needlesly and wilfully that commandement being so equall and easie to have beene kept Q. How may that appeare A. Because man then had no inward Concupiscence or corruption of nature as we now have that could move him to breake the commandement nor was he any necessitated thereto through any want having such variety and abundance of other fruits whereof he might freely eat Q. What may be a last particular to shew the hainousnesse of this first offence A. Man shewed himselfe herein to be wretchedly carelesse of the good of his posterity to whom in this act he was both unkind and Cruell Q. How may that appeare A. In that by this meanes he brought sinne and misery upon them all Rom. 5. 12 18 19. 1 Cor. 15. 22. Q. Why should this sinne of Adam bring the guilt of sinne and misery upon all his posterity A. Because he stood at this time as a publike person in the roome of all mankind we being all considered in him as members in the head as children in his loines as debtors in our surety and as branches in our roote Q. VVhat was the cause of this great and lamentable offence A. It was not any weaknesse or want of power in man to stand for being made in Gods Image he might have stood if he would Q. You thinke then he was not compelled and forced to sinne and breake the commandment A. God was so farre from forcing him to sin that he gave him power to have obeyed and threatned him with death in case of disobedience Q. But might not Satan compell him to it A. Satan could doe nothing against him by compulsion or constraint and therefore doth onely assault him by Crafty and subtill perswasions Q. VVhat then was the cause of this their sinne A. The principall cause was man himselfe in abusing his owne freewill to receive the temptation which he might have resisted if he would Eccles. 7. 29. Q How farre was Satan a cause of that first offence A. Though he could not constraine man to sinne without his own consent yet he was justly to be blamed for that sinne of man in that it was through his entisements that man was drawen unto it Q. How did he entise man to it A. By abusing the serpent to seduce the woman and the helpe of the woman to seduce the man Gen. 3. 1 6. Q. VVhat are the effects and fruits of his Fall A. By means of this Fall both the Serpent and Satan became accursed and Adam and Eve and their posterity plunged into a depth of sin and misery Gen. 3. CHAP. 10. Of Sinne the definition of it and the distribution into Original and actual Q. WHat is sinne A. Transgression of the moral Law of God by a Creature that is bound to keepe it Q. Why is sin said to be a transgression of the Law A. Because the Apostle Iohn doth expresly so call it a and elsewhere it is said where there is no law b there is no transgression Q. Why say you that sinne is a Transgression of the law of God onely for are not Transgressions of the Lawfull commandements of parents and other Superiors sins also A. Yes so farre as they tend to the dishonour of Superiors such Transgressions are also sins but the reason of that is because obedience to the lawfull commands of Superiors is enjoyned in the fifth commandement of the law of God in which respect God is said to be the onely Law-giver Iam. 4. 12. Q. But why doe you make sinne a Transgression onely of the morall law sith unbeliefe and Impenitency though they be against the gospel are also sinnes and so were violations of the Ceremoniall law that was given to Israel by Moses A. Violation of the Ceremonies by the people of Israel was a sinne because the observation of them was enjoyned to that people in the second commandement of the moral law like a●… the observation of baptisme and the Lords Supper are now enjoyned to Christians by the same Commandement Q And why are unbeliefe and Impenitenci●… sinnes A. Though these be directly against the Gospel yet they are also sinnes when they are found in them to whom the Gospels comes as being against the first commandement of the law which enioynes obedience to God in whatsoever he hath shewed or shall shew to be his wil Q. Why do you make sinne a Transgression of the law by a creature A. Because God the Creator may do things forbidden in the Law and yet not sinne as to kill and destroy because the law is not a rule to him but to us his owne will being his rule Eph. 1. 11. Ps. 115. 3. Q. Why is it added by a Creature bound unto it A. Because though Angels may sinne yet many things in the law specially in the fifth and seventh commandement are not applyable to Angels and as for other Creatures the Law is no rule to them at all Q. Who among men are tainted with sinne A. All that are meere men none excepted Eccles. 7. 20. Rom. 3. 23. and 5. 12. Q. How many sorts of sinne are there A. Besides that first offence of eating the forbidden fruit there is the corruption of nature which is usually called originall sinne and the sinnes of life which are usually called actuall Q. What is the nature of originall sinne wherein doth it consist A. It consists in the losse of Gods Image wherein man was created at the first c and in a contrary vitiousnesse instead thereof d Q. What is the measure or greatnesse of this sinne A. It contaynes not onely some one or few particular evils but a masse of all iniquities even the most abominable that can be named or Imagined Rom. 3. 12. 13. c. Q. How farre doth this sinne extend A. It overspreads the whole race of mankind as a contagious leprosie and epidemical disease e and infects all the powers and parts both of soule and body f Q. How is this sinne propagated A. It is conveyed from parents to children not by imitation but by generation Gen 5. 3. Psal. 51. 5. Iob 14. 4. Ioh. 3. 6. Q. What do you understand by actuall sinnes A. All omissions of good g and failing in the maner of doing it h