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	life_n	quicken_v	4,758	5	10.5324	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92861	Justice upon the armie remonstrance. Or A rebuke of that evill spirit that leads them in their counsels and actions. With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their waies, to the good spirit and minde of God. Dedicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2385; Thomason E475_34; ESTC R204449	51,573	59

they are filly men that fear cunning narrow pated men that cannot secure themselves from policy Have they multitudes a large and numerous party we have more and they can have none but ours all are ours we have Legions ten thousand times ten thousand They that are with us are more then they that are against us yea all are for us if they knew us and what they would have we having with us the desire of all nations Would they have a King they are in the darke but wee know they truly can desire none but our King c. and if you doubt and fear you are solitary and alone a widow not married to God and his innumerable hosts Of all things we would not fear men because they are wicked false breakers of Covenant perfidious c. This is to set up wickednesse by a Law to accuse God that the wicked goe unpunished that 't is in vain to serve him that he is not just 't is to offer the highest honour to the basest creatures men in wickednes We know they worke in that fire that will destroy them if men be evil they can't hurt me but as they hurt themselves they are hastening to their own destruction they carry their ruine with them besides we know such men are in hel and there chaine them though Kings we can by the power of God binde them in chains of Iron have power to binde the devil and cast him into the bottomlesse pit We assure you that the devil shal not appear in any form or persons be they never so great never so gifted never so glorious in religion or power be it in you or any other but we will deal with him cast loads of wrath upon him and fil him with torment cast him from his heaven of outward religion or power and secure him within his own bounds that he shall no longer destroy the earth We doe and wil dissolve his works be they never so wisely contrived Set our feet upon him and tread upon this Lyon and Adder and he shall not hurt us Therefore you while you tel us or your great fears and demonstrate certain certain insecurity and travel to bring forth your sense of danger you and the godly party are in you think you are wise men must act as rational men for your safety and judge us fools mad men that if you should doe as wee the whole Christian cause would fall to the ground and all would be lost We wil lay this upon you Rev 21.8 The fearfull and unbelieving c have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death you are in a lake of sire worke in the fire and this is of the Lord it is the just judgement of God upon you not of men but of and by the Lord you are beyond the reach of men but are reserved to be punisht from the presence of the Lord This is your second death you were dead in sinnes are quickned by repentance but are gone back the life of grace and Religion is dead in you and you that escaped the first are fallen into a second death But one word more answering to this Revelations 22.15 Without are dogges you are acting all along without the City yea professedly setting up a power that is in the world at distance from and out of God which you cal highest power on earth created standing power on earth and for that power that divinity hath design'd you laugh at it you know your wholl trade is now driven in the world as distinct from heavenly things though you would cover it too with a sheeps skin and cry t is the Lord the Lord with us but you are cast out and gone out and live out of the blessed and glorious presence of God and so are dogs rated by God into a filthy kennel of base things and are fearful as dogs God hath beaten you by the King and kept you under and you are fearful of the same hand stil and thinke 't will be worse yet we shall suffer again and that sets you a barking out your wrathful angry and feirce stuffe If you were with your Father in his presence as Sonnes these clamours would cease and you would be above all and doe good to all and blesse all as your Father doth This is a main ground-worke of your whole busines that law of nature which teaches men to save themselves and therefore wee have taken the more paines to discover the rottennesse of it and how you decline God and grace to flye to depraved and corrupt nature to be your guid and God and to the poore and basest principle of nature self-preservation which must lead to the unworthiest things and for professed Christians to act so low is great wickednes and a curse You doe in this discourse meet with two objections First Your own former declaring for the King which seems a little to trouble you but you with some difficulty scramble over it and I thinke in that spirit that you are in will stand at nothing we will only say this that by breaking those Proposals you justify all the breach of promise in the King or any others and doe not onely break the command but teach men to doe so for upon the principles of your apology for your selves every man is free from all engagements whatsoever As first you say page 43. concerning your complyance with the King Partly necessitating us for the present prevention of that mischiefe to the publike they were runing into in that kinde as we apprehended we were drawn into c. if men for necessity and to avoid publique danger say a thing though hee performe it not there is no great evil in it Secondly That moderation was but Hypotheticall That is no such engagements are absolute but conditionall nor to be observed but saving the Publique interest Now we being judges of what is safe for the publique interest can deliver our selves when we please which is the Pharisees law If a man say it is Corban it s a gift shall be free Thirdly We aimd not at the strengthening our selves to the ruin of any persons but to prevent c. So that there be honest intentions we may steppe over these outward bonds and wisely to prevent mischief breake all relations trample upon all authority And afterward you repent and say 'T was errour frailty unbeliefe and carnall counsels pag. 44. And pag. 52. you fall upon it againe and there you say were led to it by the Parliaments course and now God hath opened your eyes and let you see beyond what you did before How excellently doe you teach men to goe from what they have said if they see further and can repent it they are free See how abhominable religion is when once corrupted There 's no kinde of men can be such compleat and neat knaves as a Jesuite a Pharisee an old well studied professour of Religion when once mens consciences