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
A90263	The branch of the Lord, the beauty of Sion: or, The glory of the Church, in it's relation unto Christ· Opened in two sermons; one preached at Berwick, the other at Edinburgh. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1650 (1650)	Wing O715; Thomason E618_2; ESTC R203084	26,947	47

of the Type 2. Spiritually for the Church of Christ to be gathered to him out of all Nations the House wherein Juge sacrificium a continuall spirituall sacrifice is to be offered to him This is peculiarly intended so then observe 1. Christs Church of Saints of believers is God's House 2. The Church of Christ under the Gospel is to be gathered out of all Nations 3. There are established Ordinances and appointed Worship for the Church of Christ under the Gospell It is the first that I shall speak unto Christs Church of Saints of believers is God's House That his Church is of Saints and Believers will appear in the issue By the Church of Christ I understand trimarily the whole Multitude of them who antecedently are chosen of his Father and given unto him Consequently are redeemed called and justified in his blood The Church which he loved and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word That he might present it unto himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish Ephes. 5. 25 26. And secondarily also every holy Assembly of mount Sion whereunto the Lord Christ is made beauty and glory every particular Church of his Saints inasmuch as they partake the nature of the whole being redeemed by his blood Acts 20. 28. That this Church belongs unto God I shall onely leave evidenced under the claim whereby he here appropriates it to himself he calls it His My House That it is his House I shall further demonstrate Three things are required to making of a House 1. A Foundation 2. Materialls for a superstruction 3. An orderly framing of both into an usefull building And all these concurre to the Church of Christ 1. It hath a Foundation I have laid the Foundation faith Paul 1. Cor. 3. 10. and other Foundation can no man lay save that which is laid which is Jesus Christ V. II. That Which Paul laid ministerially God himself laid primarily and efficiently Thus saith the Lord God Behold I lay in Sion for a Foundation a stone a tried stone a precious Corner stone a sure Foundation Isa. 28. 16. Now this Foundation is no other but the Rock upon which the Church is built Math. 16. 18. which makes it impregnable to the Gates of hell communicating strength and permanency continually to every part of the building 2. A Foundation onely will not make a House there must also be Materials for a superstrustion Those you have 1. Pet. 2. 5. you are saith he lively stones All Gods Elect are stones in due time to be hewed and fitted for this building For 3. Materials themselves will not serve they must be fitly framed and wisely disposed or they will be an Heap not an House This then is not wanting Ye are built upon the Foundation of the Prophets and the Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone in whom the whole building fitly framed together groweth into an holy Temple in the Lord in whom also ye are builded together for an habitation to God by the spirit Ephes. 2. 20 21 22. There is much spirituall and heavenly Architecture in these 3. verses I shall onely touch on some particulars 1. The Foundation of this House this Temple is laid and that is Jesus Christ other Foundation can no man lay He is here called the chief corner stone and the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles It is not which they were but which they laid It is Genetivus efficiculis not materiae That expression holds out the persons working not the thing wrought 2. The Materials of this Building Elect believers said in the former verse to be fellow citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God they alone are built on Christ and thereby have union with him not one dead rotten stone in all this Building as shall be declared 3. The Architects or builders are of two sorts 1. Principall the Spirit we are framed to an habitation for God by the Spirit He is the principall Workman in this Fabrick without him is not one stone laid therein 2. Secundary and Instrumentall the Prophets and Apostles and this they were two wayes 1. Personally in their severall Generations this was their work their labour to lay the Foundation and carry on the building of this House 2. Doctrinally so they labour in it to this very day Their Doctrine in the Scripture holds out the onely Foundation and the onely way of building thereon 4. The manner of the building it is fitly framed together {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} closely joynted and knit in together sweetly closed together with Christ the head from which all the Body by joynts and hands having nourishment ministred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Col 2. 19. 5. What kind a House it is It receiveth here a twofold Title 1. an holy Temple 2. an habitation or a Tabernacle because of it's allusion to both those holy places of the worship of God fulfilling the Types of them both Hence it is most evident that this Church of Christ is a House and being appropriated unto God God's House To make this the more evident I shall do these two things 1. Shew you what are the chief Properties of this House 2. Declare what is the Relation wherein Jesus Christ stands to this House having called it all along the Church of Christ 1. For the Properties or chief qualities of this House they are three 1. It is a living House 2. it is strong 3. it is glorious 1 It is a living House Unto whom coming as unto a living stone yee also as lively stones are built up a spirituall House 1 Pet 2 4 5. Christ the foundation is a living Stone and they that are built upon him are living stones Hence they are said to grow together into an House Growth is a signe of life Growing from an inward Principle such as the Growth of any thing is such is its life the Groweth of this House is spirituall so therefore also is its life it lives with a spirituall life a life whose fulnesse is in its foundation he hath life in himself Joh 5. 26 and from him in them I am crucified with Christ neverthelesse I live Gal 2 22 yea it is himself in them yet not I but Christ liveth in me It is true those stones are dead in the Rock as well as others by nature Children of wrath as well as they Ephes. 2 3 being dead in Trespasses and sins v 1. He who Hews them our gives them life He quickens them when dead in trespasses and sin There is not one rotten dead stone in all this building However some such may by the advantage of their outward appearance croud in yet they are not of the House it self 2. It is a strong House the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against it Mat. 1. 6 18. though the