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	quicken_v	trespass_n	3,621	5	10.4863	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25887	A great wonder in heaven, or, A lively picture of the militant church drawn by a divine pencill : Revel. 12, 1, 2 : discoursed on in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at Margarets, Westminster, on the last monethly fast-day, January 27, 1646/7 / by John Arrowsmith ...	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1647 (1647)	Wing A3776; ESTC R441	30,018	49

head and feet yet but into a way of formality namely that wherewith they are enlightened who have a forme of godlinesse but deny the power of it whereas this we are speaking of doth not only shine but guide not the head only but the feet and that not into the way of formality but of faith which is the only way of peace both with God and with conscience 3. Cheering Eccles. 11. 7. truly light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun How sweet are the discoveries made by Christ to beleeving souls what a pleasant thing is it for spirituall eyes to behold the Sun of righteousnesse moving and shining in the spirit of a convert as in its own proper Spheare Such as are darke are accounted melancholy rooms well may they be melancholy souls that want the cheering light of Christ But blessed is the people Psal. 89. 15. that know the joyfull sound they shall walke O Lord in the light of thy countenance We may invert it and say Blessed are the people O Lord that walke in the light of thy countenance they shall know the joyfull sound they shall enjoy a continuall jubilee in their hearts 4 Growing It increaseth more and more from breake of day and is in this respect a fit emblem of that grace which Christ communicates to his members the nature whereof is to be growing till it come to arrive at perfection That in Esay 8. 20. To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this Word it is because there is no light no morning in them intimates a remarkable difference between the knowledge of Saints and Hypocrites the former is like the morning light that shines more and more to the perfect day Prov. 4. 18. But evill men and seducers as Paul foretold waxe worse and worse whereby it appears that theirs was but an evening light which shines lesse and lesse till it end in the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Iude 13. In the second place the sun imparts Heat a melting inflaming quickning heat 1 Melting When the surface of the water is glaz'd with ice the Sun-beams dissolve it The grace of Christ hath a like operation upon frozen hearts which are never truly melted into contrition but by Evangelicall beams The Law like a hammer may breake ice in peeces but what remaynes is ice still the Gospell dissolves it into water 't is no longer ice then They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn Zech. 12. 10. No such kindly mourners as they that have hearts melted with Christs heat and heated with sense of Christs love Shee in Luke 7th the end who had much forgiven her loved much and wept much 2 Inflaming The Sun-beams falling upon a burning-glasse create a fire So doth the Spirit of Christ who is therefore called a spirit of burning Isa. 4. 4. when hee falls upon the spirit of man Did not our hearts burn within us while hee talked with us by the way and while hee opened to us the Scriptures Luke last 32. The burnt child wee use to say dreads the fire but there is a fire which whosoever hath truly felt will long to be so burnt again Bernard having been well warmed with the consideration of that passage Psal. 32. 1. Blessed is hee whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered professeth hee was seized upon with unspeakable joy and assurance of his own share in that blessednes after the feeling whereof he cryes out O●s● durasset I would to God it had been continued Lord do thou visit me so again and again with thy salvation 3 Quickning Some creatures have no other father but the sun nor other mother but the slime This perhaps is one reason why the sun is compared to a bridegroom Psal. 19. because his beams are prolificall The grace of Christ is so much more the last Adam was made a quickning spirit 1 Cor. 15. 45. hee that hath the son hath life 1 John 5. 12. yea a double life for no lesse will serve his turn the one of righteousnesse all being naturally dead in law by reason of guilt the other of holinesse all being dead in sins and trespasses till quickned by him the end of whose comming was that we might have life that we might have it more abundantly Joh. 10. 10. A third thing which the Sun communicates is its influence the strength and universality whereof are considerable here we have an intimation of both Psal. 19 4 5 6. In the heavens hath God set a tabernacle for the Sun which is as a bridegroom comming out of his chamber and rejoyces as a strong man to run his race His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof 1. It is a strong influence as may be evidenced by the Suns concocting of such solid bodies as gold and precious stones are in places that are so remote from his owne spheare Were not the influence of Christ exceeding forcible how could it possibly rectifie crooked purifie filthy soften hard and rayse dead souls as it useth to do all on the sodain 'T is true indeed that the operations of his grace are incomparably sweet but it is no lesse true that they are withall incomparably strong To make use of the Psalmists Metaphores Our Lord Jesus in respect of the former may be said to come as a bridegroom out of his chamber clothing himself with all sweetnesse of cariage on his wedding day of the latter to rejoyce as a strong man to run a race bearing down whatever opposeth him in the way 2 'T is universall No visible creature but shares more or lesse in the benefits of this influence So Christ being the light that lightneth every one that t●nes into the world John 1. there is no man but partakes of his goodnesse in one kind or other though with much variety in the successe For as the sun hath different operations upon different objects e. g. wax and clay softning the one hardning the other a chicken and a toad increasing the wholsomnesse of the one the poison of the other so upon severall men within the pale of a visible Church Christ preached to all hath severall works Some are made softer some harder the spirits of fome are sweetned by the Ministery of the Gospell of others imbittered One with the Amalekites servant refreshed by David becomes instrumentall against the enemies of his refresher Another with the snake in the fable warmed by the husbandmans care and compassion becomes an enemy to the authour of that warmth turns apostate and falls to stinging Christ in his members so much the more by how much he was the more enlightned with common grace You have had enough and I hope not too much of this metaphoricall sun in the text see now in what regard the woman is sayd