Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	dead_a	death_n	quicken_v	3,267	5	10.4250	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88600	The watchmans watchword. A sermon preached at White-Hall upon the 30 of March last, being the fifth Wednesday in Lent, and the day of the monethly fast: by Richard Love D.D. Master of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge, and chaplain in ordinary to his Majestie. Published by command.	Love, Richard, 1596-1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing L3193; Thomason E145_4; ESTC R19765	34,052	46

passe that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain 45. When we first imploy our souls in this businesse of inquiry how things stand betwixt God and us whether no cloud of known sinne do intercept his favour what with self-flattery what with negligent inquiry we have no other answer but all is well Non est quicquam There is nothing How many here present be there that never as yet made so much as a scruple of their salvation no they think themselves as sure of heaven and the blessed life to come as of this present life they count themselves as deep in Gods favour as they are in their own I pray God you have cause But hast thou inquired man hast thou inquired throughly hast thou inquired again and again seven times If thou hast I dare say thou wilt discry a cloud Shall I say a little cloud of the bignesse of a mans hand Nubes sicut vola hominis yes all our clouds all our sinnes are measured by our own hands they are the works of our fingers perhaps little at the first appearance but soon after when the conscience is well awakened the whole heaven is black with clouds and wind Like S. Paul and his companions in the storm neither sunne nor starres in many dayes appear and no small tempest lieth on us all hope that we shall be saved is taken away Acts 27.20 Behold I am overshadowed saith one with a cloud of ignorance how negligent have I been all my life in the reading and meditating of Gods word how have I profaned his day and despised his ordinances Is there any hope that I should be saved Behold I saith another have been hurried with a tempest of wrath envy and maliciousnesse I have imbrued my hands in my brothers bloud for which Christ shed his own Is there any hope that I should be saved Alas saith a third how have I been benighted in a cloud of lust and smothered my conscience for how long together in the unlawfull bed Is there any hope that I should be saved And I saith a fourth have been puffed up with a proud and ambitious wind as though in despight of God I would climbe up to heaven by the same way that Lucifer fell down What hope is there for us that we should be saved Yes poore souls there is good hope nay more hope of these that have thus upon inquiry found their state then of a thousand carelesse wretches or proud justiciaries that either do not search or will not find What though the heavens be black with clouds and wind Remember what follows in the Text And there was a great rain 1. Kings 18.44 Let that rain follow upon thy inquirie Showre down thy tears and they will spend the cloud alay the storm and clear the skie I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sinnes return unto me for I have redeemed thee Isaiah 44.22 If thou upon this inquiry wilt cry peccavi God will cry veni Do thou return and God crieth Come and therefore If thou wilt inquire inquire Return Come It is impossible to Return unlesse we first Inquire and it is unprofitable to Inquire unlesse we also Turn And therefore Let us search and try our wayes and Turn saith the Prophet Jeremy Lam. 3.40 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Convertimini so S. Hierome reads the Text Revertimini saith Junius Be ye Turned or Turnye or Return The truth is there is all in the Text We must be Turned we must Turn we must Return There is a turning wherein we are onely passive Et hîc cardo salutis vertitur This is the main hinge of all God must first turn us by breathing a new spirit into us the Spirit of Regeneration and that is gratia praeveniens or gratia operans saith S. Augustine August Turn thou me and I shall be turned saith the Prophet Jeremie Jer. 31.8 Being thus turned by God we together with him must act and turn our selves by the imployment of Gods grace in us and that is gratia cooperans or gratia subsequens Now by the assistance of this grace we must so Turn that we Return even from our sinnes and towards God All this is included in our Conversion The first of the three is here supposed God doth not stirre us up to do his peculiar part to work the first act of our conversion that were mere Pelagianisme No man hath quickened his own soul Psal 22.30 But you hath God quickened who were dead in trespasses and sinnes Ephes 2.1 But being by him quickned and turned from death to life by the assistance and cooperation of his grace he calls upon us to do the parts of living men actually to turn And a happy turn it is though not so easie a matter as the world thinks Most think to Repent with the turning of a hand It is not the turning of our habits the changing of our clothes from colours into blacks if that were all we had store of converts here this day no not from silks to sackcloth Rend your hearts and not your garments saith the Prophet Joel 2.13 It is not the turning of our diets from flesh to fish The kingdome of heaven consists not of meats and drinks saith the Apostle Rom. 14.17 It is not the change of our countenance the turning up of our eyes Philostratus tells us of a Rhetorician who committed a solecisme spake false Latine with his finger he cryed out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O heavens and pointed to the earth Philostratus Huc alludit Quintil lib. Instit 11. Many too many look demurely but live wickedly Curios simulant Bacchanalia vivunt No it is not the bare turning or lifting up of our hands the doing of some seeming charitable good works None of all these turnings will serve our turn the reason is because all these turnings may be and yet we not Turn If you will have it in a word it is the turning of our heart even of all our heart Therefore also now saith the Lord Turn ye unto me with all your heart Joel 2.12 With the heart and therefore sincerely without hypocrisie with all the heart and therefore intirely without partiality A man is said to turn that way his face turns The heart is the face of the inward man that is his visage toward God Man looketh upon the outward appearance but God looketh upon the heart 1. Sam. 16.7 If thy heart do not turn that is the resolution and inclination of thy understanding will and affections whatsoever thy outward actions be thou dost not turn But if thy heart detest the sinnes thou hast committed formerly If thou seest their foulnesse If thou abhorrest their vilenesse If what was wont to be a pleasure to thee be now a pain and grief to think on If thou canst resolve for ever hereafter not onely to forsake