Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	death_n	life_n	wage_n	10,497	5	10.9120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03351	The penitent sinners entertainement. Set foorth by Mr. Iohn Hill, Student in Diuinitie, and now Preacher of Gods Word at Dublin in Ireland	Hill, John, preacher of Gods word at Dublin.	1614 (1614)	STC 13471; ESTC S114518	31,323	88

we will labour to afflict our soules for our sinnes and sorrow for it we shall quickly be rid of it Vse 1 Sith it is so that they that haue truely repented will not onely haue good purposes and motions but also good endeauours and good actions It serues first for reproofe of such persons as would haue Gods children to thinke that they haue repented because they purpose to leaue their sinnes they will say they haue a purpose to forsake their couetousnesse to leaue their swearing Sabboth breaking their drunkennesse and such like sinnes and will proceede no further but aske them wherefore you would haue vs conceaue so well of you that you haue repented because we purpose well It is true good motions are to bee respected but if they doe not bring forth good actions they are no better then quaulmes and passions that may be in verie wicked men and hypocrites for if there be good desires in the heart there will follow certainely good endeauours and actions in the whole man Saul in a passion would confesse to Dauid O my sonne Dauid thou art more righteous then I and why did he presently fall to persecute Dauid againe was it not because the spirit of God neuer conuinced his conscience of the sinne and he neuer came to godly sorrow for the same and therefore these were but passions which died before they brought forth good actions Iudas also could come to this I haue sinned in betraying innocent blood so farre he went well but hee could not come to repentance to craue pardon for had he repented hee might haue beene pardoned and if he could haue beleeued he should haue beene saued but doing neither he was damned Such passions and quaulmes had they which in all the hast would goe and build vpon Christ they did not consider beforehand what charges it would amount vnto and whether they were able to vndertake so great a building Luk. 14.28.29 and therefore hauing begunne they could not proceede but left off and were not able to finish it So manie haue sudden flashings and passions come into their mindes to doe good things but not considering the danger nor charges that one must be at if they purpose to build vpon Christ they let their sute fall and their purposes are quickly extinct and quenched before they come foorth to action But these passions the Prophet Hosea compares to the morning dewe Hos 6.9 O Ephraim what shall I doe vnto thee O Iudah how shall I intreate thee for your goodnesse is like the morning cloude and as the Morning dewe it goeth away that is as soone as the sunne ariseth and shewes forth his beames of light it lickes vp the dewe vpon the grasse so soone passeth your goodnesse and it is of no continuance Of such a nature are all these passions and sudden quaulmes that many may haue and yet be verie sinnefull and wicked manie haue these flashings when they come to the Sacrament and will haue these purposes to leaue their couetousnesse their swearing Sabboth breaking and all their knowne and notorious sinnes and they will also purpose to pray more frequent the exercises of religion more and they will amend many disorders which are amisse if it might be all remedied with thoughts and purposes but after the Sacrament they are as prophane and sinnefull as euer they were before and are neuer a whit the better in practise and conuersation Oh before they goe to the Sacrament they will purpose to make satisfaction to such whom they haue wronged and to liue as friends with them which in times past they haue much grieued but let the Sacrament be past there is no more hearing of satisfaction nor acknowledgement of iniuries and wrongs offered yet we shall haue these vnconstant men perswade themselues they haue repented would haue others so to thinke and reckon of them but such must know that they haue not yet repented till these motions and purposes conceiued bring forth good actions in life to be practised Secondly it serues for instruction that seeing true repentance stands in resoluing and doing therefore if euer we will haue anie sound comfort to our soules and consciences whensoeuer the spirit of God hath put into our hearts good motions and good affections let vs follow them hard to bring them to perfection and then wee shall be blessed in the worke as the Apostle Iames speaketh let vs labour to doe that which Barnabas exhorts the faithfull brethren at Antiochia That with purpose of heart they should continue in the Lord. So let vs with all purpose of heart resolue to leaue our sinnes and to practise holy and good dueties let vs be like vnto this prodigall childe which did purpose and practise and so we shall haue a good testimonie to our hearts that wee haue repented Oh but I can no sooner haue a good motion come into my heart but Satan is readie to steale it out and mine owne corruption to extinguish it before I can bring it forth to action but labour to put in practize these rules which by Gods grace may helpe thee to cherish good motions further them that they come out to practise in thy life and conuersation First if wee would haue our good desires to come to good deedes wee must labour to come to sound and thorough sorrow of heart for sinnes past and let vs pluck the roots of sinne vp by the weeding hooke of godly sorrow and then wee shall bring forth good actions and therefore the Apostle Iames in the place before alleadged exhorts his hearers to purge their hearts by godly sorrow for it will breake the cords of sinne and kill it by degrees And to the intent that wee may sorrow for sinne let vs bee frequent in meditating of what sinne would haue done to vs namely haue killed vs for the wages of sinne is death and exposed vs to the euerlasting wrath of God Also consider that our sins killed Iesus Christ the Lord of life they were the murtherers and betrayers of this iust one And whatsoeuer woe or miserie hath or can befall vs in this present life is the effect of these our sinnes Thus seriously pondering of these things it will procure godly sorrow for sinne which godly sorrow will produce good actions from good motions Secondly wee must bring good reasons and arguments against our corruptions and Satans temptations for if wee fall out with the diuell and wee haue not better arguments to stand for good duties then hee hath against them wee shall not bee able to hould out For if Saul could haue had good arguments and reasons when he pursued and fought against Dauid if hee could haue considered suerly in fighting against Dauid I fight against my best friend and my faithfullest subiect yea in so doing I shall fight against God and mine owne saluation c. then hee would neuer haue followed him with such a deadly malice Iob that faithfull seruant of God hee had

THE PENITENT SINNERS ENTERTAINEMENT Set foorth by Mr. IOHN HILL Student in Diuinitie and now Preacher of Gods Word at Dublin in IRELAND AT LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for IONAS MAN 1614. TO THE VVORshipfull and vertuous Gentlewomen M is TEMPERANCE CREW wife to Mr. Thomas Crew and M is Mary Blinco wife to Mr. Iohn Blinco I. H. desireth all grace and peace vnfainedly to bee multiplied c. GOdly and christian gentlewomen whom I loue in the truth 2. Ioh. 1. I hope I may speake of you as did that worthy Apostle of the elect lady who by the fruits of her piety and godlines manifested her election so you by the loue you beare towards God his ordinances and seruants doe declare euidently 1. Ioh. 3.14 your translation from death to life and by your vertuous and holie liues you demonstrate freedome from sin which are of euerlasting life I haue made bolde Christian Gentlewomen to patronize this small worke vnder your fauours in token of thankefulnes for your many fauours I haue receiued from you not doubting but small things of this nature will bee much respected and willingly receiued both in respect of your owne priuate gaine as also the profit benefit which the whole Church of God may reap gather frō it Now if you or the rest of the body of Christ shall receiue any benefit by it for the furthering of that worke of repentanee and sanctification of life giue God the glory and praise And so J humbly take my leaue commending you to the prouidence of God and the word of his grace Act. 20.32 which is able to build further and to giue you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified Steane this 20. of Aprill 1612. Yours in all christian duties to commaund IOHN HILL THE PENITENT SINNERS ENTERTAINEMENT LVKE 15.20 21 22 c. So he arose and came to his Father and when he was yet a great way off his Father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his necke c. IN all this parable of a godly and religious father and a stubborne and impious sonne is prefigured and set downe the vnspeakeable loue and compassion of God our heauenly father to all his children in Iesus Christ which haue beene rebellious and disobedient before their calling In these words are set down two things viz. First the duties of a penitent sinner Secondly the promotion that the penitent person comes vnto In the dueties of the penitent person there are two things to be considered First a perswasion of mercy sure confidence of obteining compassion if he did returne implied in the word Father as if he should haue said truth it is O Father as my life works haue beene toward thee I doe not deserue to be thy son as in the words following may appeare but yet neuer the lesse I am perswaded that though I haue failed of my duty towards thee yet thou wilt not faile of thy loue to me although there be no desert of mercy in me yet I know there is cōpassion for seeking for with thee and this is the first ground the penitent person laies to obtaine mercie Secondly the penitent person confesseth his sinne whereby he had offended his father for there must be a confession that as the childe is to be well perswaded of the loue of his father so hee must be ill perswaded of himselfe in respect of his sinne and therefore he saith I haue sinned against heauen and before thee that is against the God of heauen and against thee my naturall father and so I haue broken both the tables of the commandements And he confesseth also he was not worthie to be called a sonne to so godly a father or to receiue mercie that was so full of impietie making himselfe vile and base in his owne eyes that he might be highly esteemed in his Fathers eies which is the first part Now for the second part of this text which is the promotion the penitent sinner shall be exalted vnto set downe in the 22. 23. verses rendering a reason wherfore the father did thus promote him The promotion set downe is this the father seeing his riotous and vnthriftie sonne returne home with a broken and humble heart and with a resolution to become a new man and rather desiring his fathers loue then his goods he presently offers himselfe to his childe before he could aske for his needs he commaunds his seruants to bring forth such things as his penitent sonne wanted and to giue it before he did craue it for the father seeing his sonne so well clothed with humilitie and with godly remorse for his former life within he wil not reiect him though he came poore and ragged outward but cals for the best robe to couer him The comparison is taken from a King and a princelike childe whose manner was to weare robes and before the sonne could aske for apparrell which he stoode in neede of the father giues him a robe to put on for seeing he had made himselfe base in his owne eyes he would cloath him royally that hee might seeme precious in his fathers eyes And put a ring on his hand that is hee would not only giue him things for necessity but also to adorne beautifie him as the Apostle saith vpon our vncomely parts he will put more comelinesse on And shooes on his feete And whereas he came barefooted to his father he commaunds shooes to be put on his feete to keepe and preserue them from thornes and stones that might annoy hurt thē And bring the fatte calfe c And whereas he came with a languishing stomacke for want of meate for before he had beene feeding amongst swine now he will refresh him with a tender calfe with pleasant and comfortable meate And let vs eat be merie Here is cause of mirth reioycing on both sides First on the fathers side that had lost an vntowardly sonne and now had found an obedient sonne that went from him dead in his sinnes and returned quickned vnto the life of grace that departed impenitent and returned humbled in all which there was cause of mirth and this cause the father renders himselfe to his eldest sonne for my sonne was dead and is now aliue he was lost but is now found c. Secondly there was cause of reioycing in the sonne because he went from his father a dead man and now he comes to his father a liuing man he went from him stubborne proude disobedient he returnes meeke penitent and obedient in truth he departed from him a childe of Belia● and returnes to him the childe of God in all which there was great cause of ioy on both sides And so much for the somme and order of these words The drift of the parable is that if a godly father had a stubborne and vngodly sonne that had departed from him and spent his portion amongst ryotous and lewd companions yet if