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
A30444	A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall on the 29th of May, 1694, being the anniversary of King Charles II, his birth and restauration by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5901; ESTC R4125	16,733	36

man must believe a blank and the Church has the filling up that blank and when the more implicit and blind men are in their Faith they are thereby esteemed the truer Sons of the Church which will have none enquire into what she dictates nor dispute her commands Whereas in ours the Officers of the Church are only considered as men appointed to minister in holy things to serve and instruct the people in the things of God without being the Masters of their Faith and Conscience we pretend to no other authority and leave to the people entire all the liberties of humane nature A 3 d. Consideration that did very particularly recommend the Mosaical Religion to the Iewes was its purity the justice and probity the freedom from luxury simplicity of Life the restraint of appetite and passion and the modesty of deportment that it enjoyned these were great and noble Characters of a Religion that came from God and that tended to make men in a good degree to resemble him for tho that was an imperfect Religion yet the Law of the Lord was pure and his commandments were clean But all this in a much higher degree concurs to recommend to us the Religion that by the blessing of God is received among us We own the Gospel in the same simplicity in which Christ and his Apostles delivered it we teach that men must deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly righteously and godly and that without holiness no man shall see the Lord we offer no other conditions or means of salvation but Faith Repentance and new Obedience we oblige all persons to the highest degrees of purity and warn them to avoid every sin the wages of which is death In a word the main part of our Doctrine is to convince the world of the indispensible necessity of an universal holiness which must first possess a mans thoughts and rectifie his intentions and then run through his whole life and govern all his Actions We flatter no men with hopes of the after-game of a Purgatory and a redemption out of it by Masses we make no sin to be slight or venial nor do we teach that any duty is only a council of perfection much less do we flatter Pride and Vanity by the Doctrines of Supererrogation we do not pretend to supersede the obligation of loving God or of being truly contrite for sin nor do we teach any methods of supplying imperfect acts of Contrition by the Sacraments as if acts of sorrow which of their own nature could not be accepted of God could be supplied by the Sacraments and so become the means of justifying those who are still in the habits of sin we pretend to no other power of Absolution but the absolving from the censures of the Church and the declaring men absolved according to the truth of their Repentance Thus it appears that we have much juster grounds for setting a high value on the purity of the Christian Religion among us than the Iews had for esteeming their Law far beyond the Idolatry of the Heathens If these are the most valuable things as indeed what can be valuable if they are not then how particular a reason have we to rejoyce in them now when we have so fair and likely a prospect of their being setled and secured to us of their being no more undermined among us by the practices of disguised Enemies by the engaging us into animosities and by subdividing us into parties and so weakening us by our own follies that we may become an easier prey to our Enemies and while all these things grow to be safer and firmer at home by the Protection that the Crown gives to those who profess the same faith abroad While we at home are feeling the tender hand of such a nursing Father and such a nursing Mother and while those abroad are not hoping to feel but actually feeling the happy effects of their Favour and Protection then it is that we may with peculiar accents of joy commemorate the blessing of this day When our almost withered Roses begin to look fresh and to open again while the Lillies grow pale and fade When England begins not only to recover the figure it once made but puts on a new lustre and has an interest in Europe beyond what former times can boast while our Church checks the pride of her that has so long made the earth drunk with her Sorceries and while she animates those other bodies that were either in their last Agonies or very near them then we have just reason according to the words with which this Psalm begins to say O give thanks unto the Lord call upon his name make known his deeds among the people sing unto him sing Psalms unto him talk ye of all his wondrous works Glory ye in his holy name and let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. Let us conclude all with our most earnest praises to God for those who do now fill the Throne with so peculiar a grace May they live and prosper ●ay their Reign be long and Glorious that we may still have more and more reason to remember the marvellous works that God has wrought for us by their means his wonders in them and the judgments of his mouth secured to us by them May we live so worthy of them that we may long long enjoy them with all the accessions of Plenty and Peace Amen Amen FINIS Books lately Published by the Lord Bishop of Sarum A Discourse of the Pastoral Care 8o. A Lent Sermon before the Queen March 11th 1693 4 On 1 Cor. 1. 16. Four Discourses delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum I. Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion II. The Divinity and Death of Christ. III. The Infallibility and authority of the Church IV. Obligations to continue in the Communion of the Church 8o. Judges 3. 30.