Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	believe_v	justify_v	remission_n	4,306	5	10.0145	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54378	The redemption of mankind, by the passion of our Lord A sermon, preached on Palm-Sunday, at Kintbury, in the county of Berks. By Jos. Perkins, late vicar of Hill, in Gloucester-Shire.	Perkins, Joseph, b. 1658.	1692 (1692)	Wing P1558; ESTC R221441	13,606	33

Christ we can never do any thing faithfully for whatsoever is done doubtfully is not of Faith and whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin It is our Comfort and our Wisdom we care for no Knowledge in the World but this that Man hath sinned and God hath suffered That God hath made himself the Son of Man and that Men is made the Righteousness of God God Poureth his Wrath upon all as long as he reputeth them Sinners Behold the Lord's Hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither is the Ear heavy that it cannot hear But your Iniquities have separated between you and God and your Sins have hid his Face from you that he will not hear Isa 59.1 2. Here we see Sin to be the Division between God and Man and Man is Enemy to God till he be reconciled in Christ Now God was in Christ and reconciled the World to himself not imputing their Sins unto them and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5.19 Redemption taken for the Remission of Sins is all one with Justification For St. Paul expounds it in his Sermon Acts 13. ver 28. Through Christ is Preached Remission of Sins and from all things by which he could not be justified by the Law of Moses by him every one that believeth is justified we are justified not by any inherent or infused Righteousness but by imputed Justice and by Remission and Forgiveness of our own injustice God looks on his Servants as they are the Members of Christ cloathed with his Righteousness For as Jacob did not deserve the Birth-right in himself and in his own right but received the Blessing and Inheritance in the Garments and Apparrel of Esau his Eldest Brother to whom the same did properly belong so we receive the Blessing of God and are accepted to Eternal Life in the Garment of the Righteousness of Christ for whose sake and sufferings God looks upon our Sins with a discerning not a revenging Eye Howsoever our Sins cleave to our Souls let us hate them as we hate Hell for thence they are and the Devil worketh them Yet though they are many in Number and grievous in their Nature our hopes are not in our own Persons but in the Body of Christ into which we are Grafted and in which there is no spot nor blemish but perfect Righteousness By this Perfection he hath delivered us out of a more than an Aegyptian Thraldom for we were lyable to that Servitude and Punishment where Hell should be our Prison the Devil our Jaylor Sin our Crime our own Conscience our Accuser and perpetual Torments our Punishment Thanks be to God who hath given us Victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. If Christ have paid a Ransom for all it followeth that all without Exception even Mary Christ's Mother were Captives all Sinful none absolutely Righteous in themselves but were absolutely Righteous in Christ. If one have died for all then all were dead in Sins We are not to rejoyce that we are Just but that we are Redeemed Not that we are without Sin but that our Sins are forgiven us For the first Man that was made the first Man that was born he sinned Death which is the Punishment of Sin seizeth upon all therefore all are Sinners And if we were not all Captives and Sinners we should need no Redemption at so high a rate as through his Blood which Blood tho' it wash and purge us yet it doth not take away the stain and infection of Sin but only the Guilt thereof It maketh us not to fulfil all the Law but causeth that which is not done to be pardoned When thou hast done all that thou canst nay all that thou wouldest nay all that Men can or will say Thou art an unprofitable Servant and hast need to be washed with his Blood 4. Blood is taken for the Effusion of his Blood and it is spoken by a Synechdoche implying the Sacrifice and Oblation of his Body and besides all this all the Sufferings which he endured in his aboad upon Earth which Expiation was finished upon the Cross when he said Consumatum est This Sacrifice was paid unto God For He it was whom we offended and He it was who had the Power to condemn us therefore his Justice was to be satisfied But he paid nothing as was said before to the Prince of Darkness who held us Captive but only broke his Power and triumphed over his Kingdom with a mighty and streached-out Arm. As soon as we were absolved and reconciled to God the Tyrant was compelled being but the Jaylor to restore us God's Justice could not be satisfied without the Effusion of this Blood For Debts which do not wrong the Majesty of the Owner may be remitted without any Recompence or Satisfaction but those Debts which do detract from the Dignity of the Creditor as Sins are repugnant to the Majesty of God cannot be released without a Mediator Now as Adam makes us Sinners in his Seed so Christ justifieth us in his Blood The Israelites were instructed of Necessity to seek a Mediator by the Priests Office for they could not come to offer their Prayers Vows or Gifts but by the Mediation of the Priest for whom it was unlawful to enter into the Temple with empty Hands but he must needs offer up Blood or other Sacrifice all which Sacrifices were ended in Christ whom they did prefigure being Types and Shaddows of the true Body It is not possible that the Sacrificers should think their Salvation might be wrought by the Blood of Sheep or Goats but expected a Lamb sent from God to be slain for the People Christ alone worketh in them the Work of Man's Salvation Our own Works are rather the Fruits than Causes of Redemption For Men are not therefore the Sons of God because they do good Works but they have the Grace of God fructifying to good Works because they are the Sons of God As a Princess invested with Kingly Ornaments and thereby distinguished from Vulgar Women is not therefore the King's Spouse because she is adorned with gorgeous Apparel but she is cloathed with soft Raiment because she is the King's Spouse We exclude good Works from Meriting not from Being Our own Merits and Satisfactory Actions are excluded from free Remission of Sins For he is said to remit who expungeth the Debtors Name without any Payment And this is God's own Testimony that of meer Favour he remits our Offences Isaiah 43. Ver. 25. I even I am he that putteth out thine Iniquity for mine own Sake and will not remember thy Sins And let every Man's Conscience be at Peace with God when he is perswaded of that We read Isaiah 53.6 All we like Sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own Way and the Lord hath laid upon him the Iniquity of us all What Peace of Conscience where Man's Satisfaction is required The least Satisfaction that can be imagined requireth a Days Labour wherein it