Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n
Text snippets containing the quad
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
A03792
|
The troubled mans medicine verye profitable to be redde of al men wherein they may learne pacyently to suffer all kyndes of aduersitie made [and] wrytten by wyllyam Hughe to a frende of his.
|
Hugh, William, d. 1549.
|
1546
(1546)
|
STC 13910; ESTC S109482
|
59,726
|
236
|
for vs we thy redemed we thy bantshed men whome thou haste boughte agayne wyth thy precyouse bloude do crye Thou o lorde of healthe hope of all costes of the earthe a farre of and in the sea We do wauer in the troublous sourges thou mooste bountifull lorde beholde oure ieopardyes saue vs swete lord for thy names sake graunte vs that we maye so kepe a meane betwyxte Scylla and Charyboys that we maye eschewe both the daungets and happelyâ come to the porte oure shyppe and oure marchaââ dyse sate Let vs I say now and than all hate of death excluded muse some suche godly meditation earnestlye desyrynge of God not teporally to lyue but to dye not to continue here in banysshment among our enemies but to be delyuered and dwell in oure country with christ not to endure here in these dauÌgerouse warres but through death to come vnto peace moost pleasaunte yet pataduenture one scruple is lefte behynd that trobleth your coÌscience and suffereth not your mynde as yet to be quiet You wyll say vnto me Syr I remember that amonge many thynges I harde you say that the soules of iust me be in the handes of god and the tormente of death shall not touch theÌ I am not iust no not so much as a dreame or a shadow of a iust maÌ but rather a syuner most mise rable which haue accustomedeuâ from my yong age to heape vice vpon vice and with detestable transgression continually to exasperate my lorde god Wherfore the iudgemente of scripture and not without a cause troublethmy conscience feareth it condemneth it and pulleth it in peeces All offenses saith he shal be gathered to gether And all those that worke iniquitie Math. 1â they shall be sente into aforuace of fyer where shall be mourninge and gnasshinge of teath Math 23 Agayne they whiche haue done well shall go into euerlastinge lyfe they that haue done âuyll into euerlastynge fyer Nether aduouterers 1 cor 5. fornicatours tobbers conitous persons nor âorshyppers of ymages with suche others shall snheryte the kyngedome of god This is the sentence of Goddes worde this repellyth me from his kingdome and frome paradise whereof you made-mentyon thys maketh me afrayde and wyth shame vtterly puttethe me backe this confoun dethe me and chasy the me cleane awaye Doutelesse you doâ verye well in that you confesse youre owne vncleannes for yf that anye of vs shulde saye that we haue not offended Ion. 1 we shoulde deceyue our selues All men haue swarued and are made unprofuable neither is there any that doth good tom 3 no not one We haue wandered verelye all of vs as it were shepe euerye one after his owne waye Beynge seruauntes vnprofitable and by nature the chyldren of wroth âai 59. neyther is any mâ good god onely excepte Math 19 Wherefore in his sight no man shal be able to iuâtify him selfe nor yet to abyde hym yf he obserue our imquities for in his syghte the very starres be not cleane but what than shall we beynge broughte to this iârait cowardly dispaire God forbyd Well what shall we do Whether shall we flye Where is our refuge Let vs flye vnto chryste as vnto a suer sanctuary safe refuge and puissant defender Unto christe Howe dare we be so bolde Whose preceptes we haue neuer obeyed whose lawes we haue seldome or neuer kepte whome we haue disdayned to loue agayne not withstandynge that he hathe euer bene oure louer mooste faithfull and true He beynge full of mercye callethe vs vnto hym of hys owne accorde Come hyther to me saithe he all you that laboure and be loden with synne âath 11 and I shall refâesshe you Be we bolde therfore to sue to his mercy and of his holye oracles whiche are wrytten for our consolatione and learnyng let vs require comfort for they suche is the vertue of them can easely erecte mens mindestand quiet troubled consciences they as moost hoolesome medicines shall gyue vs presente health They shal pronounce mercye to the penitent synner and to the captyues pardon They shall declare vs to be no more vnder the rigor of the lawe but vnder grace and mercy They shal teach vs that god is pacyfyed and that oure syns be forgyuen vs for his sons sake You be frely iustified sayth Paule by grace throughe the redemption that is in Iesu Christ whome god hath set forth to be the optainer of mercy through faith in his bloude Rom. 3 to declare his righteousnes for the remission of synnes that are gone before in the suffraunce of god to declare his rightuousnes in this tyme that he maye be righteouse and the iustifier of hym whiche is of the faith of Iesus christ Ephe. 2. By grace as he saith to the Ephesians we be saued throughe faith and that not of oure selfes it is the gyft of god and that not of our workes lest any man shulde glory Wherfore seyng it is so that we be frely justified by faith in Christ Iesu we shall haue no iust cause to dispayre but rather to be at peace with god through christ by whome we haue entrauÌce into this grace wherin we do stande Rom. 5 yea and to glory in the hope of the sonnes of god Scrypture saith not happy are those that synne not but happy whose imquities are forgyuen Yea and to hym whiche worketh not yet beleuynge in him that iustyfyeth the wycked Rom â fayth is imputed to him for iustice according to the purpose of the grace of god Doutles yf that our iustificatid shulde depende of the innocencye of our owne lyues we shulde perish how many so euer we be But seynge that god whych is riche in mercy for the great loue the he hath loued vs with whaÌ me were dead by synne and hath quickened vs with christe and that not of oure deseruing Epâe 2. left any man shuld glotye but by the mere grace of god purchased by the bloude of christ whyche is made our redemption âure iusââyce our prudencye 1. Cor. 1 and anctificatyon why shuld we not peynge penytente and faythfull âayenge oure synnes vpon hys backe whiche hath taken awaye âure diseases and hathe caryed with hym oure infirmities Esal 53. and further puttynge him in remembraunce of his promyse made to synners both by hys prophetes and his apostles holdely callyng his mercye for his sonnes sake Specyally considering that he is moche more prone of his owne nature to forgyue than we be to aske forgeuenes Yea bycause that you do partelye mystruste him me thinke I shuld heatehun being somwhat angry swetely expostulate w e the after this sorte What nowe my âere chylde why ceaseth not thy spirite at the laste to be afflicted ãâã aâ teâ quod pulchrum Who doeste thou thynke that I ãâã Phalaris the tyraunt Manlius Saleuchê° or some cruel Sâith or elles of mercies the rather and of all consolation the god 1. Cor. 1. long sufferyng and of muche mercyeâ