Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	devil_n	satan_n	tempt_v	3,131	5	9.3033	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21065	The Christian schoole-maister, or A dialogue betweene the maister and the scholler. By G.E. minister of Gods word	G. E., minister of Gods word.	1613 (1613)	STC 7433; ESTC S120491	22,781	63

great comfort of my body I most entirely beséech thee O most mercifull father to shew the like kindnes towards me this day in preseruing my body and soule that as mine enemies may haue no power ouer me so I likewise may neither thinke breathe speake or doe any thing that may be displeasant to thy fatherly goodnesse dangerous to my selfe or hurtfull to my neighbour but that all my enterprises may be agréeable to thy most blessed will which is alway good and godly doing that that may aduance thy glorie answere to my vocation and profite of my neighbour whom I ought to loue as my selfe that whensoeuer thou callest me from this vale of miserie I may be found the childe not of darknes but of light and so for euer raigne with thée in glorie which art the true and euerlasting light to whom with thy dearely beloued Sonne Iesus Christ our alone Sauiour and the holy Ghost that most swéete comforter be all honour and glorie Amen ¶ A prayer for the night O Lord God and my heauenly father for as much as by thy diuine ordinance the night approacheth and darkenes beginneth to ouerwhelme the earth and time requireth that we giue our selues to bodily rest and quietnes I render vnto thee most hartie thanks for thy louing kindnesse which hast vouchsafed to preserue me this day from the danger of mine enemies to giue me my health to féede me and to send me all things necessarie for the comfort of this my poore néedie life I most humbly beseech thée for Iesu Christs sake that thou wilt mercifully forgiue me all that I haue this day committed against thy Fatherly goodnes either in word deede or thought and that thou wilt vouchsafe to shadowe me this night vnder the comfortable wings of thy almightie power and defend me from Sathan and from all his craftie assaults that neither he nor any of his ministers haue power ouer either my body or my soule but that although my body through thy benefite enioyeth swéet and pleasant sléepe yet my soule may continually watch vnto thée thinke of thée delight in thée and euermore praise thée that when the ioyfull light of the day returneth according to thy godly appointment I may rise againe with a faithfull soule and vndefiled body and so afterward behaue my selfe all the time of my life according to thy blessed will and commandement by costing away the workes of darknesse and putting on the armour of light that men séeing my good workes may thereby be prouoked to glorifie thée our heauenly Father which with thy onely begotten Sonne Iesu Christ our alone Sauiour and the holy Ghost thy most sweet comforter liuest and raignest one true and euerlasting God world without ende Amen A prayer to be said for all such as lye at the poynt of death O Most louing Sauiour and gentle redeemer which camest into this world to call sinners vnto repentance and to seeke that which was lost thou seest in what case this our brother lyeth here visited with thy mercifull hand all weake feeble sicke and readie to yeeld vp his soule into thy holy hands O looke vpon him most gentle Sauiour with thy mercifull eye pittie him and be fauourable vnto him He is thy workemanship despise not therefore the worke of thine owne hands Thou sufferedst thy blessed bodie and thy precious blood to be shed for his sinnes and to bring him vnto the glorie of thy heauenly Father let it not therefore come to passe that thou shouldest suffer so great paines for him in vaine He was baptised in thy name and gaue himselfe wholy to be thy seruant forsaking the Diuell the World and the Flesh confesse him therefore before thy heauenly Father and his blessed Angels to be thy seruant His sinnes we confesse to be great for who is able to say my heart is cleane and I am free from sinne but thy mercies O Lord are much greater and thou camest not to call the righteous but sinners vnto repentance To them that are diseased and ouerladen with the burden of sinne doest thou promise ease Thou art that God which willest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turne and liue Thou art that Sauiour which willest all men to be saued to come to the knowledge of thy truth Withdrawe not therefore thy mercie from him because of his sinnes but rather laie vpon him thy sauing health that thou mayest shew thy selfe towards him to be a Sauiour What greater praise can there be to a Phisition then to heale the sicke Neither can there be a greater glorie to thee being a Sauiour then to saue sinners Saue him therefore O Lord for thy names sake Againe let the Law be no corsiue to his conscience but rather giue him grace euen in this extreame agony and conflict of death to be fully perswaded that thou by thy death hast taken away all his sinnes fulfilled the Lawe for him and by this meanes deliuered him from the curse of the Law and payed his ransome that he thus being fully perswaded may haue a quiet heart a free conscience and a glad will to forsake this wretched world and to goe vnto his Lord GOD. Moreouer thou hast conquered him that had rule ouer death euen Sathan Suffer him not therfore to exercise his tyrannie vpon this our sicke brother nor to disquiet his conscience with the terrors of sinne and paines of Hel. Let not Sathan nor his infernal armie tempt him further then he is able to beare but euermore giue him grace euen vnto his last breath valiantly to fight against the diuell with a strong faith in thy pretious blood that he may fight a good fight and finish his course with ioy vnto the glorie of thy name and the health of his soule O Lord so worke in him by thy holy spirit that he with all his heart may contemne and despise all worldly things and set his minde wholy vpon heauenly things hoping for them with a strong and vndoubted faith Againe let it not grieue him O sweet Sauiour to be losened from this vile and wretched carcasse which is now so full of sorrowe trouble and anguish sicknesse and paine but rather let him haue a bent and readie will through thy goodnesse to put it off yea and that with this faith that he at the last day shall receiue it againe in a much better state then it is now or euer was from the day of his birth euen as a body vncorruptible immortall and like to thy glorious body Let his whole heart and minde be set onely vpon thee Let the remembrance of the ioyes of heauen bee so seruent in his brest that he may both patiently and thankfully take his death and euer wish to bee with thee in glorie And when the time commeth that he shall giue ouer to nature and depart from this miserable world● vouchsafe we most humbly beseech thee O Lord Iesu to take his soule into thy hands and to place it among the glorions companie of thy holie Angels and blessed Saints and to keepe it vnto that ioyfull day of the generall Resurrection that both his body and soule through thine Almightie power being knitie againe together at that day hee may for euer and euer enioy that glorious kingdome and sing perpetuall praises to thy blessed Name Amen A Grace before meate WEe beseethe thee O heauenly Father to blesse vs and these thy meates and drinkes that we shall receiue from thée and make vs thankfull for all thy heauenly Creatures which wée daily receiue from thée through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen A Grace after meate FOr this thy bountifull goodnes in féeding vs at this time wée hartily thanke thee O most mercifull Father desiring thée so to feede our Soules likewise with that meate and drinke which perisheth not but abideth in Euerlasting life that we being fed both in bodie and soule at thy mercifull hands may alwayes doe that which is acceptable in thy sight through Iesus Christ Amen Grace before meate HEauenly Father graunt that our bodies being fed with these thy Creatures wee may serue thée in feare and reioyce before thée with trembling and in all things stand in awe of thy Maiestie lest thou be angrie and wee perish For the feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisedome and blessed are they that walke therein through Iesus Christ our onely Lorde and Sauiour Amen Grace after meate FOr that wée haue receiued at thy hands O God thy most holie and euerlasting Name be blessed and praised from this time foorth and for euermore Amen

I doe owe vnto God for that deliuerance Ma How doest thou know thine owne miserie Scho By the law of God Ma What doth the law of God require of vs Schol That doth our Sauiour teach vs in the 2● of Matt Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy minde This is the first and greatest commandement and the second is like vnto this Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe On these two commandements hangeth the whole law and the prophets Ma. Art thou able to ●●epe all tehse things perfectly Schol. In no wise for by nature I am prone to the hatred of God and my neighbour Ma Did God then make man so bad and corrupt Schol No truely God created him good and according to his owne Image that is endewed him with true righteousnes and holines that he might rightly know God his Creator loue him with all his heart and liue in blessednes with him for euer Ma From whence then ariseth this corruption of mans nature Schol From the fall and disobedience of our first parents Adam and Eue in Paradice where our nature was so corrupted that we are all conceiued and borne in sinne Ma But are we so corrupt that we are not at all fit to doe well but apt vnto all euill Schol Yea truely vnlesse we be regenerate by the holy Ghost Ma Doth not God then deale Iniuriously with man when he requireth that of him in his law which he is not able to performe Schol Not at all for God so created man that he was able to performe it but man inticed by the diuell by his owne disobedience depriued himselfe and all his posteritie of those gifts of God Ma What then will God let goe this disobedience and backsliding of man without punishment Schol No surely but he is most grieuously angry both with our naturall sinnes and with those sinnes which we our selues do commit and doth punish the same in most iust iudgement both with temporall and Eternall punishments euen as himselfe prenounceth Cursed is euery one who continueth not in all things that are written in the booke of the law to do them Ma What is not God mercifull also Schol Yes truely he is mercifull but so also he is iust Therefore his iustice requireth to haue that punished with euerlasting punishment of soule and body whatsoeuer is committed against the maiestie of so soueraigne and almightie a God Ma Seeing then we are by the iust iudgment of God in danger of temporall and euerlasting punishment Is there any way or meanes left whereby we may be deliuered from these punishments and be reconciled to God Schol God will haue his Iustice satisfied wher●●ore we must néedes make satisfaction either by our selues or some other Ma Are we able to satisfie by our selues Schol Not one whit but rather daily do encrease our debt Ma Can any creature in heauen or in earth make satisfaction for vs Schol None at all for first God will not punish any other creature for that sinne that man hath committed Secondly that which is but an onely creature is not able to endure the wrath of God against sinne and to deliuer others from it Ma Then what manner of mediator and deliuerer must we seeke for Schol Such a one as is true man and perfectly iust and yet notwithstanding more mightie then al creatures that is one who is also true God Ma Wherefore must he needs be true man and perfectly iust Schol Because the iustice of God requireth that the same nature of man which sinned should also pay the punishment of sinne but he that were a sinner himselfe could not pay for other men Ma Wherefore ought he also to be true God Schol That by the power of his Godhead he might be able to sustaine the burthen of Gods wrath in his flesh and to recouer and restore vnto vs the righteousnes and life that we had lost Ma But who is that mediator which is both true God and true perfect man Schol Our Lord Iesus Christ who is made vnto vs of God wisedome righteousnes satisfaction and perfect redemption Ma Whereby knowest thou this Schol By the Gospell which God first reuealed in Paradice and afterwards did publish by the Patriarkes and Prophets shadowed out in Sacrifices and Ceremonies and last of all accomplished by his onely begotten sonne Ma Is saluation then restored by Christ to all men that perished in Adam Schol No not to all but onely to those who are ingrafted into him by true faith and do lay hold vpon all his benefites Ma What is true faith Schol It is not onely a knowledge by which I do stedfastly assent vnto all things which God hath reuealed vnto vs in his word but also an assured affiance and trust kindled in my heart by the holy Ghost through the Gospell by which I rest vpon God making sure account that forgiuenes of sinnes euerlasting righteousnes and life is bestowed not onely vpon others but also vpon me and that freely by the mercy of God for the merit and desert of Christ alone Maister What are those things which a Christian man must of necessitie beleeue Schol All those things which are promised vnto vs in the Gospell the sum whereof is briefly comprised in the Apostles Creeds or in the chiefs heads of the Catholike and vndoubted faith of all Christians Maist What is that Creed of the Apostles 1. I beleeue in God the father almightie maker of heauen and earth 2. And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord. 3. Which was conceiued of the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary 4. Suffered vnder Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried descended into Hell 5. Rose againe the third aay from the dead 6. And ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almightie 7. From thence he shall come to Iudge the quicke and the dead 8. I beleeue in the holy Ghost 9. I beleeue the holy Catholike Church the communion of Saints 10. I beleeue the forgiuenes of sinnes 11. The resurrection of the flesh 12. And the life Euerlasting Maist Into how many parts is the Creed diuided Schol Into thrée parts The first is of the euerlasting Father and of our Creation The second is of the Sonne and of our Redemption The third is of the holy Ghost and our Sanctification Maist Seeing there is but one onely substance of God why doest thou name those three the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Schol Because God hath so reuealed himselfe in his word that these thrée distinct persons are one true and euerliuing God Maist What beleeuest thou when thou saist I Beleeue in God the Father Almightie Schol I beléeue the euerlasting Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who created of nothing the heauen and the earth and all things that are therein and doth vphold and gouerne the same by his euerlasting counsell and prouidence to