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	lord_n	victory_n	8,186	5	9.2516	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59595	Eikōn basilikē, or, The princes royal being the sum of a sermon preached in the minister of York on the Lords-Day morning (in the Assize week) March 24, 1650 ... / by John Shavve.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1650 (1650)	Wing S3028; ESTC R30139	32,715	47

reproved for it by Jehu 2 Chron. 19. 2. yet he again makes friendship with Ahaziah 2 Chron. 20. 25. and marries his son to Ahabs daughter 2 Chro. 21. 6. and yet the Lord saith of him 1 King 22. 43. that he turned not aside from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. How should this melting patience cause you to bless and act for this gracious God and to chronicle his mercies to posterity How often have I wished that Your Honor who have had during almost these ten years so perfect information of all the wonders of our God to and for his People in this Nation had Psal 107. 43. kept a perfect Diary thereof or if You have so done that You would communicate the same to the world which would be one of the rarest pieces of humane stories How wonderful and various have been the goings of our God in this Nation these ten years and still are like His dealing with His People of the Jews after their return from Babylon Zech. 14. 6 7. It was for a long time neither day nor night clear nor dark a man could not guess what a day it would be by the eye of sense but presently after a Sun-shine a Cloud and all this to shake off such as live by sense and not by Faith and serve themselves of God and the Publique as Jehu and Judas did and to let the Saints see that things are carryed on not by might nor by power but by the Lord of hoasts his own Spirit Zech. 4. 6. nevertheless in the evening time it shall be light And I am in the midst of a cloudy day the more encouraged when I consider 1. That the work is in the hand of a good and wise Master-builder who ever the instruments be In all these turnings there is a Spirit in the Wheels and the Wheels are full of eyes Ezek. 1. Secondly God sees and aims further then the best Agents and Instruments that are used in the work The Apostles did not see in the work themselves were imployed in so far as Christ meant but he lets them see more and more by steps and degrees what he would have done Mark 4. 28. So Ezek. 47. 3 4. and God hath led us along with a Cloud and Fire and owned us in the Mount and midst of straits Thirdly The light of the Truth I mean not Satans delusions and mens phansies but true Light much spreads in America New-England in Wales in the North c. Poor Creatures flock like Doves to the windows and the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence And if it be said so do Profaneness and Heresies spread I answer it was always so in times of Reformation till things could be setled Satan more struggles and when God is giving physick the disease more breaks forth Hos 7. 1. When did cursed Doctrines and Practices more break forth in the Old Testament then in Malachi's time when the Jews were returned from Babylon to reform Church and State in Canaan Mal. 3. 14 15. See Israel through the Wilderness Fourthly Compare former times impartially with these we shall finde thirteen fourteen or twenty years ago traps of several kindes layd for consciencious Ministers and Christians men durst not meet together to seek Gods face humble their Souls Sermons on Lords days in the afternoon weekly Exercises c. restrained the very face of piety discountenanced and they that wrought wickedness and most zealous against Puritans were exalted dumb dogs non-residents sports on Lords day c. favoured But how are godly men and godliness countenanced in good measure what happy alteration in our Vniversities for advance of piety though still more is to be wished And though too many Errors in some Members of our Armies yet see heretofore every Town generally sent such out to be Souldiers who were of the basest sort for drunkenness and villany that knew nothing compare our Army now with those here formerly and then judge without prejudice Fifthly Though mens ●ims were but little and strait at first as Luther said that when he first began he meant no more but to withstand Popish a Occasione ●●●dinatio●●s indulgentiarum pretio numerato Lutherus initio fuit permotus ad hoc quod suscepit Reformationis opus c. Pardons and selling of Indulgences yet neither would God nor his Enemies let him alone till he resolved with Moses not to leave a hoof neither root nor branch of Popery So God and our Enemies heighten Your spirits Sixthly We hear what God is still working in bringing in many poor Natives in America whether they be the Posterity of the Jewish ten Tribes as Peter Martyr of old and b Mr Thorowgood others of late give very probable conjectures and if so Mr Brightman and others may well be owned for Prophets who above fourty years ago foretold the Calling of the Jews to begin about the year 1650. or whether they be Gentiles to embrace the Gospel with tears prayers marvelous zeal and Reformation And how have we seen the finger of God all along restraining the rage of men letting the Enemy vent onely so much fury as might conduce to Gods praise Psal 76. 10. He that stills the noise of the Seas stills the tumules of the People Psal 65. 7. The great God swaddles the mighty raging Ocean like a little Infant yea more easily then any Midwise can do the least childe in swadling bands Job 38. 9. and the Original word c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fraenum Capistrum used Mark 4. 39. for Christs stilling the winds and Sea signifies his putting a bridle in the mouth of the winds and Sea whereby he turns them about when most blustering and raging more easily then any man can do the nimblest horse He gathers the winds in his fist Pro. 30. 4. nods d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men to death Psal 80. 16. with a blast Job 4. 9. And how may all these experiments stir You up to trust God for the future and be sincerely active for God against Your own and the Nations sins and distempers as Henricus Auceps when he fought against the Hungarians made this Vow to God that if the Lord would give him a victory over his Enemies he would purge his Country from e Commonly so called else buying livings was not Simons sin Act. 8. 18 to 20. though usually called Simony Simony which then much raigned therein And I beseech you return the praise and glory of all not to Your selves or Armies but to the free mercy and goodness of God alone Pope Hadrian having built K. W. Rufus when two Monks came to him to buy an Abbots place each outvying other in great sums of money for it the K. asked a third Monk that stood by what he would give who answered never a peny for that it s against my Conscience said he to give any thing then said the King of all the