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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	believe_v	forgive_v	forgiveness_n	3,528	5	10.5756	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51810	Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God discovered, in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some discourses upon Acts 10. 35, 36. Wherein several important doctrinal truths, more immediately influential upon practise, are plainly opened, and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning.	Manning, William, 1633?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing M491; ESTC R217102	67,577	173

refreshment Zech. 9.11 Yet a Prisoner of hope through the blood of the covenant v. 12. Christ died for thee and God is propitious towards thee on his score he can with safety to his Honour and the repute of his law be just and righteous and yet pardon thee and receive thee to favour Rom. 3.25 26. on the terms proposed to thee so runs the preamble of our Ministerial Commission and that which in the first place we are to declare To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses unto them 2 Cor. 5.19 that is as to the Impetration thereof doing what belonged to him as to so much as concerned the sufficiency of the ransom toward an actual Reconciliation whereupon our Embassage is bottomed v. 20. I don't say that thou art immediately to believe thy sins to be forgiven thee for that may be a lye and is so if thou fearest not God Nor do I say that thou art bound only to believe that there is forgiveness with God for them that do or shall fear him for they are then actually forgiven but that there is forgiveness with him for thee i. e. a readiness to pardon antecedently to thy fear of him as the motive to it whether thou finally acceptest or refusest it or the terms of it trampling under foot the Son of God and despising the blood of the covenant Heb. 10.29 Defeating thy self of its advantage still there was forgiveness with him for thee otherwise he would not have sent to thee an Embassage of Reconciliation or therein have prescribed his fear unto thee in order to it that stumbling-stone is therefore removed out of thy way Yea moreover so sure it is that the belief of the Atonement made for thee by the Sacrifice of Christ so far as to render God appeasable towards thee Joh. 3.16 as also the belief of thy actual acceptance with him on the same score Eph. 1.6 So soon as thou shalt entertain the terms or receive and embrace the atonement Rom. 5.11 Is now become the leading condition of the Gospel and indispensibly necessary to life first to be admitted as true and worthy of all acceptation before any farther treaty with thee can be had touching thy acceptance with God it behoveth thee therefore to mind it The fear of God and working righteousness compriseth all the rest that God doth require of thee We pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God 2 Cor. 5.2 Thy sins may have been as scarlet and crimson of a dye or tincture on the account of some aggravating circumstances greatly inhauncing their nature and demerit but come now saith the Lord for all that and let us reason together Isa 11.18 Say not wherewith shall I come before the Lord Will he be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oil Shall I give my first-born for my transgression Mic. 6.7 No God has found a ransom He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth he require of thee but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God v. 8. to fear him and obey him First then if thou wouldest begin at the right end look to get thy Heart and Soul possessed with the fear of God that is the very beginning of Wisdom as it imports a thorough change habitually determining the whole man toward God and Holiness Here lies the root of the matter without it nothing can be referred to God or be truly Religious some partial and superficial Change or Reformation may be had or attained unto and something effected or done more than formerly but nothing without it that may denominate thee a righteous Person Nay it 's ten to one but that at one time or other thou wilt get loose again from thy convictions and restraint whilst thou rowest against the stream and tide of thy native inclination tugged on by a kind of force from without thee destitute of the Spirit without the new Nature or any holy disposition or tendency towards God Thy goodness will be but as a morning cloud and as the early dew will it go away Hos 6.4 and in the mean while thou livest not to God as the Apostle expresseth it Rom. 6.11 In the next place look to thy walk thy fruits That they be the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God Phil. 1.11 The wicked must forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and return unto the Lord or there is no mercy for him Isa 55.7 Be exhorted then in the fear of God that thou puttest off concerning thy former conversation the old man with its deceitful lusts and let thy conversation witness thee to have put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Eph. 4.22 24. Talk not of thy heart or good meanings towards God whilst the Flesh the World and the Devil bave thy service Know ye not that to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey Rom. 6.16 Herein the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God 1 John 3.10 For a motive or argument enforcing the word of Exhortation take that of the Text. Thy acceptance with God or eternal Rejection by him is immediately suspended thereon be not deceived in this point See I have set before thee this day life and good and death and evil in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments Deut. 30.15 16. The word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it v. 14. this was the voice of the Gospel to lapsed man Rom. 10.6 8. The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul that thou mayest live v. 6. The two Tables of the Law did ever enter the Covenant of Life struck with fallen man termed thence the Tables of the Testament or Covenant Chap. 9.11 made with Israel in the Blood of Christ in the Type Exod. 24.7 Psal 103.17 18. Thou art inexcusable who ever thou art if ever thou didst read in the Bible or hear the sound of the Gospel and hast taken no notice of this That Godliness hath the promise of the Life to come and that without it no man shall see the Lord or find Acceptance with him It 's then a matter of no small moment unto thee whether thou obeyest the call of God this day unto thee or not Thy Soul lies at stake on it thou hast the promise of God on the one hand to invite and encourage thee if but thy own Life eternal Life may bear any weight with thee till thou beest capable of seeing something higher Is Gods favour not worthy acceptance

of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 1 John 1.7 so Rom. 2.7 ch 8.13 And in as much as so great weight is laid upon the message sent by Peter from God unto Cornelius termed Words by which he and all his House should be saved that is if attended unto believed and embraced as we have it 1 Cor. 15.1 2 in a parallel Instance v. 3 4. It might be very pertinent in our way first to open what that message did contain and import but that it would prove too long a digression from what we have undertaken yet I can't wholly pass it over neither because what was last proposed unto him to be believed and recelved as ever he would be saved is first to be attended unto by us as the leading condition of the Gospel now yea it began already to be perillous to Cornelius and his Houshold to be ignorant of Christ That word saith Peter you know which was published throughout all Judea v. 37. The same with us all must needs have heard of and he that believeth it shall be saved that is coeteris paribus other things alike answering John 3.36 And he that believeth not shall perish Joh. 8.24 Who by him do belive in God 1 Pet. 1.21 This Narrative of his unto Cornelius and the rest met together with him begins v. 36. and ends v. 43. And the same containeth a summary collection of their credenda or chief Articles of the Christian Belief contained in our Creed the like whereof we have again ch 13.23 to v. 39. Let me but mention the Heads 1. He declareth unto them the Unction of Christ or his anointing to his sacred Offices both of Priest Prophet and King v. 38. the execution of his Sacerdotal Office he chiefly designeth to open he is also Lord of all v. 36. by him peace was preached by him it was obtained and he was anointed thereunto Luk. 4.18 2. How he was Crucified Whom they slew and hanged on a Tree v. 39. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2.24 in our Room ch 3.18 3. That he was raised up by God from the dead the Third day v. 40. Who was delivered for our Offences and was raised again for our Justification Rom. 4.25 And he shewed himself openly to witnesses chosen before of God even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead v. 41. Who therefore could not be mistaken Acts 1.3 4. That it is he that is ordained of God to be the Judg of quick and dead v. 42. The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment unto the Son John 5.22 This saith he we are commanded to testifie and then he concludeth with the suffrage of all the Prophets That through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive Remission of sins v. 43. that is who assents unto what he had dellvered to them as a faithful saying and embraces it as worthy of all acceptation 1 Tim. 1.15 Termed a believing in him or receiving of Christ Jesus the Lord Col. 2.6 for faith is in the will also John 5.40 These were the words or the sum of them which Peter delivered in that Assembly God was now manifested in the flesh 1 Tim. 3.16 And it was the design of God the Father that he should have the Honour of his Redemption of man and that every Knee should bow to him Phil. 2.10 Therefore as God ordered it that by Aquila and Priscilla Apollos should be instructed in the way of the Gospel more perfectly Acts 18.26 So by his special Dispensation was Cornelius directed unto Peter to give him light into the former rudimental Principles of the Doctrine of Christ that he might know the way of Salvation more fully and his present obligation in order to it In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the Word of Truth the Gospel of your Salvation Eph. 1.13 So they While Peter spake these words the Holy-Ghost fell on them v. 44. and they were baptized in the name of the Lord v. 48. Now was the Character of Cornelins compleated and his acceptance with God confirmed to him Mark 16.16 Nor can any one with us now be termed a true fearer of God but the Faith of Christ must be presupposed unto it to which add the fear of God and working Righteousness and it makes up the full Character of a Person accepted with him Which two Branches having cleared our way we shall now proceed to the more distinct opening of them each in particular 1. To begin with the former But in every Nation he that feareth him that is God he alone is the Object of all religious fear and the fear of him here imports the very essence of true Piety This do and live saith Joseph for I fear God Hast thou considered my servant Job a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil ch 1.8 It matriculateth or initiateth into the power of Religion The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom and the knowledg of the holy is understanding Prov. 9.10 A devout man Cornelius is termed v. 2. still we must have an eye to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is a pious godly man the same Character with that of Annanias who opened Paul's Eyes Acts 22.12 Devoted to Godliness as the Word is Translated 2 Pet. 3.11 The same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Word peculiar to the Scriptures which becometh Women professing Godliness 1 Tim. 2.10 And one that feareth God is but exegetical of the former it imports the same thing More particularly 1. The Fear of God imports the whole of his Worship and is ordinarily put for it The children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God and had seared other Gods 2 Kings 17.7 That is had worshipped or serv'd them and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men i. e. their Worship Isa 29.13 So shall your Children make our Children cease from fearing the Lord Josh 22 25. The worship of the true God and that according to his own Prescription enters the Character of a fearer of him And Jacob sware by the fear of his Father Isaac Gen. 31.53 That is the Eternal God whom his Father worshipped v. 42. And this act of his was an Instance of his own Fear of the same God He sware by the Lord only not by the Gods of Laban or by the Lord and by Malcham Zeph. 1.5 Him only shalt thou fear Thou shalt fear the Lord by God him shalt thou serve and to him thou shalt cleave and swear by his name Deut. 10.20 Him shall ye fear worship and do Sacrifice to 2 Kings 17.36 VVhat is the basis or foundation of this fear or VVorship which God requireth de novo from lapsed man to be paid unto him the Psalmist gives us an account of But there is forgiveness that thou mayest be feared Psal 130.4 It lies in the discovery of

respect of persons If sin not only rebels but proceeds for any time or in any single instance thereof that is properly against the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Reign or to Lord it Rom. 6.12 sus-spending the government of Grace conscience it may be reniting but served as the Prophet was by Asa 2 Chr. 16.10 put in prison for reproving him acceptance with God as hath been said is that while suspended be it in any one whomsoever The Law of God as it belongs to the first Covenant condemns for every the least transgression of it as well as the greatest and the greatest is as pardonaable with respect thereunto as the least is by the Gospel Acts 13.39 But the Gospel relieves none whilst they remain uncleansed from wickednesses Ps 119.133 1 Cor. 6.9 11. or that violate its own proper obligation This new Law of God is immutable as stable as the Pillars of the Heavens and of the Earth What it once saith it always saith to any one whosoever It 's a most dangerous in let to prophaness to suggest or harbour such a notion that a believer or convert let me add is from under the threat of the Gospel in case of disobedience to its commands I mean the threat of eternal destruction binding over the person immediately to it or rather leaving him to the Law not relieving him tho it be not peremptory save in the case of its finallity The proper penalty of the Gospel abides indeed only on the finally impenitent and disobedient and then it is remediless Non est distinguendum ubi lex non distinguit Either the Gospel threats no man with Exclusion out of the Kingdom of God and of Christ for such acts of sin as those Eph. 5.5 or it doth all men Either it never did or still it doth after believing as well as before The Law is not changed nor hath any man a patent of Exemption from under the Gospel Sanction or if any have who is there but will put in for it Believers are as often cautioned in the case of Sin to fear and take heed of ruin as others are as hath been before instanced in Scripture To look to themselves that they lose not those things they have wrought 2 Joh. 8. and to hold that fast which they have that no man take their crown Rev. 3.11 21. to fear not the way of sin only but themselves if they start aside into it Mat. 10.22 28. 1 Cor. 3.16 17. as belonging to the true fear of God Neither doth all this at all interfere with the Doctrine of perseverance duely stated which has its rise and foundation only in Gods decree the Execution whereof is regulated by his standing Law or according to it Gods purpose of bestowing his favour in or continuing of it to any one is so far forth and no further than as the subject shall according to his Law be found meet or competent for it Every unconverted person is condemned notwithstanding Gods secret purpose to convert or call some that they may be justified So his purpose to recover his elect from Apostacy or lying in Sin in order to their recovery to his favour secureth none from forfeiture thereof in the mean while Nor has he decreed that no elect person shall ever so fall as to forfeit it and it were well that some mens heads were exercised less about the Decrees and that they attended more to the Law The Leper under the law Lev. 14. upon his cleansing atonement being made was in statu quo restored to his rights but not before Nor was Peter upon his denial of Christ till his particular repentance or his new conversion Luke 22.32 the threat took place to put a bar in his way unto life if Christ may be believed who expresly had told him that it would Mat. 10.33 and had he died without a change which yet the seed of God remaining did propend towards he had been undone Whom God elects to the end he does to the means which may fully serve to remove that part of the objection out of the way respecting the Saints perseverance And for what is further insinuated touching believers obligation only to fear the hiding of Gods face or loss of former peace in case they relapse into conscience-wasting sins It 's obviated before in the doctrinal part What the word of God threats in such a case that is it they are called to fear and that we have proved to be eternal destruction the fear whereof is twofold Either 1 Suppositive which is antecedent to any sin and is required only to awe them from it or prevent it Such was Jobs chap. 31.23 and Pauls 1 Cor. 9.27 and such ought to have been Davids fear and Peters when no other motive or inducement of the Gospel unto holiness could or did hold them fast to their duty A manifold cord is not so soon broken Love to God and Christ is indeed the most genuine spring of obedience but it may also well consist with this fear Nay it 's an essential ingredient into the whole of that fear of God all along insisted on love I say in sincerity is so Eph 6.24 Yea and it must under the same penalty of an Anathama Maranatha 1 Cor. 16.22 For God will not leave his goverment precarious He knows our frame and what is necessary to us we are not yet perfect as Adam nay much less confirmed 2. Or Positive this is only under such relapses as intrench on sincerity and is necessary in order to a recovery from under them and imports the sense of present actual danger of destruction upon the fall into and lying in such sin And to admit the former to be a duty but not this is to grant the premisses and then to deny the conclusion to oblige a man to fear that which when it comes can't hurt him nor touch him It is indeed the Prerogative of God to create Peace in any Soul Is 57.19 2 Thes 3.16 and he may possibly for some time vail the light of his countenance from an upright walker with him that he may wrongfully conclude against himself Job 33.23 24. Is 50.10 which yet is not ordinary neither Is 33.17 whilst God in and by his Gospel speaks Life and Peace to him And clear evidence and strong consolation is another thing accompanying not alway the being and sincerity of Grace but its growth and gradual perfection rendring it discernable Ps 92.14 It 's not the portion of the negligent unthrifty Christian however But our inquiry is not only about Consolation but safety not touching Gods arbitrary withdrawings whilst his word speaks peace all that while if the Soul could read it but of what the Gospel speaketh not of what the Soul will lose but of what it ought not to keep and of that active fear which is necessary in the point of duty to it in case of notorious decays or relapses Shall we think that David for instance not to name many