Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	condemn_v	flesh_n	likeness_n	3,708	5	10.8945	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67108	The great duty of self-resignation to the divine will by the pious and learned John Worthington ...	Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1675 (1675)	Wing W3623; ESTC R21641	103,865	261

to us viz. the Jewish Law the Mosaical Rites and took it out of the way nailing it to his Cross so should a Christian do with the law in his members or the law of sin and death The nailing it to the Cross of Christ is a most effectual means to take it out of the way The Cross of Christ I say is a proper instrument for the crucifying the old man and the body of sin and the consideration of Christ crucified a powerful Engine mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds to the beating down of all those fortifications sin hath raised in the Soul all imaginations all carnal reasonings and affections every high thing that would exalt it self against the knowledge of God and the obedience of Christ. St. Paul speaks his own experience of the success he found in the serious consideration of Christ crucified Gal. vi 14. God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Iesus Christ whereby the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world That is the vanities and hurtful allurements of the world whether they be those of its riches honours or pleasures are become liveless and untempting to me have no energy or force to perswade me to an eager pursuit or fond embracement of them I am so little affected towards them so mortified to them as to place no part of my happiness in such things Now then the meditation on Christ crucified is a means greatly available to the subduing our Self-will and irregular appetites in that 1. His dying on the Cross as the Scripture declares that it was to make atonement and expiation for sin so it affirms that it was also designed to root out and destroy it This is asserted in many Texts Particularly in 1 Pet. ii 24. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed 2 Cor. v. 14 15. For the Love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if one died for all then were all dead And that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live to themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again 1 Pet. i. 18 19. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation c. but with the precious bloud of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot Gal. i. 4. Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father Titus ii 14. Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Rom. viii 3 4. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit 2. Christ's dying on the Cross was designed to be an exemplary pattern of our crucifying the body of sin As his Resurrection is a figure of the Spiritual Resurrection of Christians their rising up to a life holy heavenly and divine so his Death on the Cross is a figure and representation of that Spiritual Death that is to pass upon the old man And because this is a necessary important truth as well as pertinent to the point in hand I shall observe three passages of Scripture to this purpose and a little discant upon them First that in 1 Pet. iv 1. For asmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm your selves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin The suffering in the flesh which the Apostle here tells us we are to imitate our Saviour in is not to be meerly understood of suffering afflictions in the body but of resembling the suffering and dying of Christ in dying unto sin This appears from what next follows he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin Some Greek Copies leave out the Particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that hath suffered or died to the flesh the same with that phrase Rom. vi 2. dead to sin He that hath suffered or died to the flesh or he that hath suffered pain and smart in the flesh in the mortifying of his sinful life and the deeds of the body hath ceased from sin as he that is dead ceaseth from the actions that belong to the natural life This also appears from Ver. 2. That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of God not live any longer in the gratification of those fleshly appetites that captivate and inslave the greater part of mankind but on the contrary live a life of entire obedience and conformity to the Will of God A second passage to the like purpose is that in Philippians iii. 10. That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death Which last words are a key to the foregoing and this conformity to the death of Christ implies that it hath in it something of Pattern and exemplary Consideration to be spiritually resembled and imitated by a Christian. There is a knowing of the power of Christ's Resurrection and Sufferings without us as they refer to God the Father in purchasing his favour procuring the Pardon of our sins and Reconciliation with him For Christ was delivered to death for our offences and rose again for our justification Rom. iv 5. And besides there is the knowing of the power of Christ's Death and Resurrection within us there is something to be done and transacted in us that is answerable and bears conformity thereunto There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a partaking of his Sufferings in a spiritual sense when we are enabled by the power of God to suffer the pain and agonies that accompany the crucifying of the flesh or body of sin and to die unto sin as he died for it And there is a partaking of Christ's Resurrection in a spiritual sense when we are enabled to rise to a new and heavenly life when we seek and savour those things which are above where Christ sits at the right hand of God Col. iii. 1. This is that excellent knowledge of Christ for which the Apostle counted all things but loss and dung ver 8. Had he rested in a mere speculative historical knowledge of the Death and Resurrection of Christ without him and been impatient of the energy and power of both within him had he not so known Christ dying and raised again to life as to be spiritually crucified with him