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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	david_n	lord_n	nathan_n	4,238	5	12.7447	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50251	The summe of certain sermons upon Genes. 15.6 vvherein not only the doctrine of justification by faith is asserted and cleared, and sundry arguments for justification before faith, discussed and answered : but also the nature and the meanes of faith, with the imputation of our sins to Christ, and of Christs righteousness to us are briefly explained and confirmed / preached at Dorchester in New-England by Richard Mather ... ; and now by him published at the earnest request of sundry well-affected and Godly Christians.	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.	1652 (1652)	Wing M1276; ESTC W18271	50,747	60

then my self Hest. 6. 6. But they that are believers indeed have many times need to be comforted concerning their justification and therfore the Lord speaks so earnestly to his Prophets Isai 40. 1 2. Comfort ye comfort ye my people and say unto Ierusalem that her iniquity is pardoned intimating therby that his people have sometimes need yea much need to be cōforted cōcerning the pardon of their sins their justificatiō For though they be believers and their sinns pardoned and their persōs justified in Christ yet somtimes they can scarce believe themselves to be so happy as Job though he had called and God had answered him yet would scarcely believe that God had harkned to his voyce Job 9. 16. And David though Nathan had told him that the Lord had put away his sinn and ●…t hee should not dy 2 Sam 12. yet he is not so q●…ickly perswaded so easily satisfied touching this point but that after this he still prayes cryes for pardon Psal. 51. as if he had never heard those words of the Prophet And as the children of God have many times need to be comforted touching this point so the ministry of the word is a means of Gods ordayning for the comforting of them Isai 57. 29. 1 Thes. 3. 2. Isai 40. 1 2. and therfore to comfort them concerning their justification must not be looked at as a needless labour If God do give them faith and therby do justifie them and pardon their sins why do they not know it and how commeth it to pass that they are pardoned justified in heaven and not in their own consciences also This commeth to pass 1 To shew that not only faith forgivness but even comfort it self is the free gift of God and depends not necessarily infallibly so on faith repentance c but that these may be and yet there be little comfort joy at least for a time And therfore it is that God is called the God of comfort 2 Cor 1. 3. and his spirit the Comforter Iohn 14. 15. 16. and God is said to be hee that speaks peace unto his people Psal. 85. 8. all to shew that peace and comfort and joy are blessings the dispencing wherof the Lord hath reserved in his own hand According to that Job 34. 29. when hee giveth quietness who can make trouble and when he hideth his face who can behould him 2 It thus cōmeth to pass that the godly may feel the smart bitterness of sin the more and so be more deeply humbled in sence therof 3 That they may be more watchfull afterward If David like his broken bones and his roaring all the day long c then let him be bold to be tampering with sin again But by this meanes God keeps his children from turning again to folly they know what it hath cost them before and they will no more buy the pleasure of it so dear 4 That they may learn to be the more pittyfull to others in the like distresses as Christ must suffer be tempted that he might succour them that are tempted Heb 2. 17 18. 5 That they might afterwards more heartily and chearfully prayse and laud the Lord as they that have been in deep afflictions and are delivered out of the same Psal. 107 6 Lastly this commeth to pass through the difficulty and supernaturall way of believing Naturall conscience expects justification by works and therfore hath much adoe to close with mercy in a way of free grace Faith is not like other graces dutyes which have some though obscure footsteps in the naturall dictates of conscience as to worship God love God c Rom 2. 14. but faith is wholly supernatural Math 16. 17. so that Adam in his innocency knew not this way of believing in and trusting to the righteousness of a Redeemer mediator As Christ the object of faith is only by divine revelation no counsell of men or Angels could ever have devised such a way of justification so faith it self as the organ and instrument to apply this righteousness is not by humane light but wholly from above And faith being thus supernatural it is therfore the more difficult not only to be attained but also to be discerned How then may faith justification be known that one may have the comfort of the same It is good for a man to examine himself by the trialls before mentioned from the principall efficient the instrumental means the object the subject and the effects of faith But withall it is needfull to pray for the illumination of Gods spirit which is able to clear up our faith and our justification by faith but without this it will never be satisfyingly discerned known For it is the Spirit that sheddeth abroad the love of God into our hearts Rom 5. 5. witnesseth that we are the children of God Rom 8 16. sealeth believers to the day of redemption Ephe. 1. 13. 4. 30. and enables us to know the things that are freely given us of God 1 Cor 2. 12. Two things concerning justification have been spoken unto already viz the chief author or efficient of it which is the Lord and the instrumental cause or means of it which is faith In the next place wee are to consider of the third and last particular here expressed and that is the forme or manner of it and that is by imputing accounting or reckoning He counted it to him for righteousness VVhence the Doctrine is That As justification is from God as the Author of it and by faith as the instrument or means of it so for the forme or manner of it it is by accounting reckoning or imputing I name these three English words as our english tongue useth them all though they all import the same thing one the same word in the originall being somtimes englished by one of them and somtimes by another Now for the farther opening of this point it is to be observed that there are three things which are said to be imputed or not imputed in this matter of justification Sin Faith Righteousness First of all Sinn and of this the Scripture phrase is negative that sin is not imputed when a man is justified This expression of the not imputing of sin is found in such scriptures as these Rom 4. 8. Psal. 32. 2. 2 Cor 5. 19. in which places the Holy-Ghost speaks of justification In like sort is the word used 2 Sam 19. 19. and in that of Paul 2 Tim: 4. 16. where he prayeth that their sin that forsook him in his appearing before the Emperour might not be laid to their charge or not imputed unto them for it is the same word that is often englished imputed in Rom 4. So this phrase importeth that when the soul is justified his sin is not accounted imputed 〈◊〉 reckoned to him at all in the sight of God but he stands clear before him as if he had