Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	body_n	death_n	separation_n	3,748	5	10.7337	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05829	Certain select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings. / By Thomas Shephard, sometimes of Emanuel College in Cambridge; now preacher of Gods word in New-England.	Shephard, Thomas, 1605-1649.	1695 (1695)	Wing S3105A; ESTC R227738	42,314	125

Conversation whereby he upholdeth things in their being and power of working Act. 17. 28. Psal 104. 29 30. Nehem. 9. 6. Secondly in Gubernation whereby he guides directs brings all creatures to their ends Psal 29. 10. Psal 33. 11. Q. Doth God govern all creatures alike A. No but some he governs by a common providence and others by a special providence to wit Angels and Men to an eternal estate of happiness in pleasing him or of misery in displeasing him Deut. 30. 15 16. Q. What of Gods Providence appears in his special government of man A. Two things 1. Mans Apostacy or fall 2. His Recovery or rising again Q. Concerning mans fall what are you to observe therein A. Two things 1. His transgression in eating the forbidden fruit Gen. 2. 17. 2. The propagation of this unto all Adam's posterity Q. Was this so great a sin to eat of the forbidden fruit A. Yes exceeding great this Tree being a Sacrament of the Covenant also he had a special charge not to eat of it and in it the whole man did strike against the whole law even when God had so highly advanced him Q. what are the causes of this transgression A. The blameless cause was the law of God Rom. 5. 13. And hence as the Law did it so God did it holy justly and blamelesly Rom. 7. 10 11 12. Q. What are the blameable causes A. Two principally 1. The devil abusing the serpent to deceive the woman Gen. 3. 1. 2. Man himself in abusing his own free-will in receiving the temptation which he might have resisted Eph. 7 29. Q. What is the Devil A. That great number of apostate rebellious Angels which through pride and blasphemy against God and malice against man becamely ars and murtherers of man by bringing him into that sin Luk. 11. 18. 1 Tim. 3. 6. 1 loh. 3. 12. loh. 8. 44. Q. What are the effects and fruits of this transgression A. They are two 1. Guilt wherby they are tied to undergo due punishment for the fault Rom. 3. 19. 2. Punishment which is the just anger of God upon them for the filth of sin Rom. 1. 18. Q. What are the particular punishments inflicted on the causes of this sin A. Besides the fearful punishment of the devils mentioned Iude 6. and that of the Serpent the Woman Gen. 3. 14 16 the punishment of man was first Sin Original Actual Secondly death Gen. 5. 5. Q. What is sin A. The transgression of Gods law Io. 3. 4. Q. What is Original and Actual sin A. First Original sin is the contrariety of the whole nature of man to the law of God whereby it being averse from all good is enclined to all evil Eccles 8. 11. Gen. 6. 5. Rom. 6. 20. Secondly Actual sin is the continual jarring of the actions of man from the law of God by reason of original sin and so man hath no free will to any spiritual good Esa 65. 2 3. Jam. 1. 14 15. Esa 1. 11. Q. What death is that God inflicts on man for sin A. A double death 1. The first death of the body together with the beginnings of it in this world as grief shame losles sicknesses Deut. 28. 21 22. 35. 2. The Second death of the Soul which is the eternal separation and ejection of the Soul after death and Soul and body after judgment from God into everlasting torments in hell Q. Is there no beginning of this death as there is of the other in this life A. Yes as first Security and hardness of heart which cannot feel sin its greatest evil 2. Terrors of conscience Heb. 2. 15. 3. Bondage of Satan Eph. 2. 2. 4. The curse of God in all blessings whereby they are fitted for destruction Rom. 9. 22. Q. What of Gods attributs shine forth here 1. His holiness whereby he being pure from all sin cannot away with the least sin in the best of his creatures Heb. 1. 13. 2. His Justice whereby he being most just in himself cannot but punish man for sin as well as reward him for well doing 2. Thes 1. 6. 3. His Patience whereby he useth pity Patience and Bounty to his creatures offending Rom. 2. 3. Q. Is this sin and the punishment of it derived to all mens posterity A. Yes Ioh. 3. 3. Eph. 2. 3. Q. How is it propagated A. By the imputation of Adams sin unto us and so the punishment must needs follow upon it Rom. 5. 13. Q. Why should Adams sin be imputed to all his posterity A. Because we were in him as the members in the head as children in his loyns as debtors in their surety as branches in their roots it being just that as if he standing al had stood by imputation of his righteousness so he falling al should fall by the imputation of his sin Q. Thus have you seen mans apostacy from God what is his recovery A. It is the return of man to the favour of God again meerly out of favour and the exceeding riches of his free grace Eph. 2. 12 13. Rom. 5. 8. Q. How are we brought into favour and what are the parts of this recovery A. Two wayes First by Redemption 2 Cor. 5. 19 20. 2dly by Application hereof Tit. 3. 6. Q. What is Redemption A. The satisfaction made or the price payed to the justice of God for the life and deliverance of man out of the captivity of sin Satan and death by a Redeemer according to the Covenant made between him and the Father 1 Cor. 6. 20. Luk. 1. 74. Esa 55. 10 11. Q. Who is this Redeemer A. Jesus Christ God and Man Mat. 1. 23. Ioh. 1. 14. Col. 2. 19. Q. VVhy is he God Man A. Tha t so he might be a fit Mediator to transact all businessess between God and man in the execution of his three Offices whereunto he was anointed of the Father 1 Tim. 2. 5. Esa 42. 12. Q. What are those three Offices of Christ A. 1. His Prophetical Office whereby he doth reveal the will of the Father Act. 3. 22. Col. 2. 3. 2. His Priestly Office whereby he makes full atonement with the Father for us Col. 1. 20. 3. His Kingly Office whereby he governs his people whom he had taught and reconciled subduing their enemies and procuring their eternal peace Psal 2. 6. Esa 9. 6. Q. How hath Christ Iesus made satisfaction A. By his humiliation whereby he was made subject throughout his whole life and death to the strict Justice of God to perform what ever the same might require for the redemption of man Gal. 4. 4 5. Q. What did Gods Justice require of man A. 1. Death for the breach of the Law and that Christ tasted in his bitter sufferings both of body and Soul by being made sin and so abolishing sin and this is called his Passive Obedience Heb. 2. 9. Eph. 1. 7. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 13. 2. Perfect Obedience in fulfilling the Law perfectly both in his Nature and Actions