Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	baptism_n	preach_v	remission_n	3,201	5	10.1727	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54833	A correct copy of some notes concerning Gods decrees especially of reprobation / written for the private use of a friend in Northamptonshire ; and now published to prevent calumny.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1655 (1655)	Wing P2170; ESTC R26882	69,017	81

is the form of making Covenants betwixt God and man every where throughout the Scripture and according to the fulfilling or not fulfilling of the Condition the Righteous Iudge of all the world proceeds to sentence Which that we may not so much as doubt of He by a merciful Anthropopathia is pleased to speak like one of us I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it and if not I will know There is an expression of God to Eli 1 Sam. 2. 30. which shewes his will sometimes is either not absolute or not immutable I said indeed that the House of thy Father should walk before me forever But now the Lord saith Be it far from me Which words do not argue any ficklenesse in his Will but demonstrate his Promise to have been conditionall there was an If impli'd though not expressed and so it appears by the very next words This is also the style that is used in the New Testament If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and shalt beleeve in thine heart c. thou shalt be saved From whence it followes that if thou shalt not confesse with thy mouth nor beleeve in thine heart c. thou shalt be damn'd If we forgive not men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses If we suffer we shall also reign if we deny him he also will deny us I will cast her into a bed and them that commit fornication with her into great tribulation except they repent Rev. 2. 22. If ye beleeve not that I am he ye shal dye in your sins Joh. 8. 24. In a word the very end of Christs coming into the world was to save us from our sins Mat. 1. 12. to redeem us from all iniquity Tit. 2. 14. He came to deliver us indeed out of the hand of our enemies but to the end that we might serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of our lives Luk. 1. 44. 45. Now the end we know is the prime condition the greatest requisite of all which to neglect without repentance is the true Cause of condemnation for so runs the sentence of our Saviour Mat. 25. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire Why for what Reason He gives the true reason in the next verse not because ye were Reprobated by an absolute Decree not because ye were ordain'd to be vessels of wrath by a meer irrespective and inexorable will but because I was hungry and ye gave me no meat because I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink Which yet they could not have given him if it had not been given them from above to give From which and a thousand such Texts besides I do thus state the matter betwixt me and my self That no man is infinitely punisht by an unavoidable necessity but for not doing his Duty nor because he cannot but will not do it Impossibility is not a sin and therefore no man is punisht for not doing that which it is impossible for him to do It was the cruelty of Adonibezek to cut off mens Thumbs and then to make it their task to gather up meat under the Table A greater cruelty in Pharaoh to require a Tale of brick where he gave no straw Whereas the master we serve will render to every man according to his works With him there is no respect of persons But whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap And therefore let us not sin under pretence that all we do is by an absolute Decree an opinion brought amongst other Merchandise out of Turkie into Christendome and would be rooted out in the next Reformation for every such sinner is his own worst Satan he seeks out death in the errour of his way and puls upon himself Destruction with the works of his hands Other proofs out of Scripture and perhaps to some more convincing will be found interweaved in my followlowing proofs 23. I must next confirm this truth by Reason and because this Reason will be manifold I will make it my endeavour to be brief in each Whereof the first shall be taken from the nature of punishment which as before I signified does praesuppose a sin sin does imply a breach of Law and this again does imply at once a rational and a voluntary agent Which seems to me to be the Reason why God is not offended with the Cruelty of the Bear or with the Pride of the Peacock or with the Theevery of the Fox This is the reason why the Earth does not sin by breeding Thornes and Thistles against its primitive Institution For the ground cannot be punisht and was not cursed for its own but for Adam's sake Gen. 3. 17. 18. And lastly this is the Reason why the Tower of Siloe was not Damn'd for committing murder Man is an Agent very capable of a Law and so of sin and so of punishment and is therefore punisht not because he could not but because he could help it by that goodnesse of God which would have led him to Repentance if he had not despis'd the riches of his goodnesse Man is punisht because he would sin and not because he could not but sin 24. My second Reason is taken from the nature of a Covenant which ever implies a Condition now when the first Covenant was broken God immediately made a second not with a part but with all mankinde And this is observable in the Title of our Gospel {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which though we render the New Testament we might better render the New Covenant which cannot be without Conditions Heaven and Hell are set before us the performance of Faith and Obedience is that important condition without which as the former will not be had so cannot the latter be avoided 25. My third Reason is taken from the unlimited Generality whereby Promises and Threats Rewards and Punishments Exhortations and Dehortations are exhibited to all The Gospel is commanded to be preached to all and it is published in writing that all might read and beleeve Baptisme Repentance and Remission of sins are commanded to be offered to all in general even to them that refuse both the Word and the Preachers Who when they are refus'd and not before are to shake the Dust off their feet for a Testimony against them Now preachings would be vain and exhortations would be deceitful if life and death did not depend upon submitting or refusing to be amended by them 26. My fourth Reason is taken from the Degrees of Damnation Some shall be beaten with many stripes and some with fewer some shall have a lesse and some a greater Condemnation It shall be worse for Chorazin then for Tyre worse for Bethsaida then for Sidon worse for Capernaum then for Sodom worse for the Iewes then for the Ninevites which is not because one had a greater Necessity of