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
A63071	Theologia theologiæ, the true treasure, or, A treasury of holy truths, touching Gods word, and God the word digg'd up, and drawn out of that incomparable mine of unsearchable mystery, Heb. I. 1, 2, 3 : wherein the divinity of the holy Scriptures is asserted, and applied / by John Trappe ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing T2047; ESTC R23471	163,104	402

Word is his arme to gather his Saints about him out of the world his power of salvation to as many as beleeve his mighty weapon of warre to cast downe strong holds his charriot of state whereon the King of glory rides triumphantly into the hearts of his chosen Upon those white horses his holy Apostles the Lord Christ rode with a crowne on his head Britannorum inaccessa Romanis loca Christo vero subdita Advers Iudaeos cap. 7. and another in his hand conquering and to conquer Tertullian tells the Jewes that those places among the Britaines that the Romanes could never come at were soone subdued by Christ De nat door Britanni hospitibus feri Hor. carm l. 3. od 3. Hospi●es mactabunt pro hostia Acron Vt à sole longè distabant c. Bond in loc Tully tells us that the Britaine 's in his time were every whit as barbarous and bruitish as the Scythians S. Hierome makes frequent mention of this our Island but so as he ever opposeth it to some other well-ordered country Wilde our forefathers were and wicked above measure fierce and inhospitall not further remote from the Sun than from the Sun of righteousnesse yea from all civility and humanity little better than those poore people of Brasil who are said to be sine fide sine lege sine rege without religion law or good government till Christ the King came with his bow in his hand to wit his mighty Gospel wherewith he wounds his elect to conversion his enemies to confusion But as wee were of the first that received the Gospel so likewise among the first that fell from the purity thereof putting our neckes under the yoke of Antichristian tyranny and bondage Among all those authentique Records of the Popes usurpations Hist of Trent by Laugh pres It was truly and trimly said by Pope Innocent 4. Ve● è enim hertus deliciatum Papis fu●● tum Anglia put●us mexhaustus none more wofull tragedies are found of his cruelty than such as were acted upon our stage no higher trophies erected to his ambition than here no more rare examples of a devout abused patience than ours England was called the Popes Asse for bearing his intolerable burdens and became at length his feudatary so leaving Gods blessing for the warme Sunne Posiquam Deo ut dixi reconciliatus me ac mea regna prob dolor Romanae subjeci Eccl●siae nulla mihi prospera sed omnia adversa evenerunt ●ex Io●●n as King John found it to his cost and complained but without remedy Neverthelesse this we retaine still to the glory of our Nation that as wee were the first of those ten Kingdomes Rev. 17. in defection so were we first in reformation and that such as the former age had despaired of the present admires and the future shall be amazed at The establishing of this reformation wrought amongst ●s by the mighty Word of Gods grace to be done by so weake and simple meanes yea by casuall and crosse meanes Sands Relation as one speaketh against the force of so potent and politike an adversary the beast whom all the world wondred after this is that miracle that wee are in these last times to looke for As Joshuah subdued Jericho by Rams-hornes Gideon the Midianites by lamps and trumpets Jehosaphat the Ethiopians by musicall instruments so Christ by the onely sound of his word without drawing weapon subdued us to the faith Those Angels the first Reformers were set and sent to flye in the midst of heaven with the everlasting Gospel and to cry Feare God and give glory to him by abdicating and abrenoun●ing those your hereticall tenets and doctrines of devils that you may receive the truth in love and be saved Rev. 14.7 And this is somewhat to prove the point in hand But there is yet a further mighty worke of the word whereby it well appeares and approves it self to be the very word of God and that is the effectuall conversion of a sinner from the errour of his way Not from the errour of his minde onely but of his manners also For the minde may be throughly convinced and yet the man not truly converted A pagan or papagan for instance must give two turnes ere he turne indeed As corn must not onely be threshed out of the straw but afterwards winnowed out of the chaffe so must a Papist turne not onely from his popery but from his prophanenesse Pacian in epist ad Sempton he must have Catholike for his name and Christian for his sirname not onely be no Papist but a zealous Protestant he must bee of those valiant ones in Esay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 11.12 Arripiunt vel diripiunt ut citatur ab Hilar. Metaph. A castris aut arce quapiam quae irrumpentibus host●bus diripitur and of those violent ones in the Gospel that take Gods kingdome by maine force as those doe that take a strong castle or a defenced city or as the people of Israel invaded and surprized the promised land There are that rest in a carelesse indifferency or a negative goodnesse at the best as it is said of Ithacius that the hatred of Priscillianisme so now adayes of Popery was all the vertue that he had * Hooker ex Sulpitio But the Scripture gives more grace saith Saint James Iames 4. more than conviction of the judgement Acts 20.32 it gives inheritance among them that are sanctified saith Paul It converts the soule saith David Psal 19.7 It quickens those that were dead in sinnes and trespasses Eph. 2.1 as a savour of life for it is heare Isai 55.3 and your soules shall live And when the spirit feeles it selfe dead and decayed as in a relapse into some foule sin this good Word revives it as the breath of God did those dry bones in Ezechiel Ruth 4.15 as Boaz is said to be a restorer of the old age of Naomi The words that I speake unto you Iohn 6.63 they are spirit and life saith Jesus Non cum Iesu itis quippe itis cum Iesuitis Heidfeld E societate Iesu suit qui illum nefariè prodidit Psal 119.68 not a brute and dead thing as the Jesuites basely slander it but quicke and powerfull as our Authour hath it The Word both hath life gives life as David saith of God the Authour of it Thou art good and dost good as the Sunne both hath light and diffuseth light And as the beams of the Sunne beating upon a fitly disposed matter beget life and make a living creature so doth this Word of God applyed to the consciences make a new-creature Mannah was but a small thing but of great vertue so is the word I can speak it by experiēce saith Erasmus Expertus sum in meipso patum esse fructus ex Evangelia siquis oscitanter persunctoriè legat c. Praefat in Lucam that there is little good