Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	distinction_n	mortal_a	venial_a	4,934	5	12.1153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81485	A sincere believer, comforted, and encouraged. Or; a practical treatise, discovering the goodness of God to a sinful soul, in the enjoyment of Christ With the great benefit and comfort he hath thereby. Whereby as through a prospective, a true Christian may plainly see how to fit and prepare himself in such a manner, as his endeavours may not be in vaine. By R.D.M.A. and minister of the gospel in the Isle of Wight. Recommended to the serious perusal of all true Christians. By Thomas Goodwin, D.D. and Will Strong, M.A. deceased.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1500; ESTC R230249	203,361	369

are Physicians of no value Remember this there is a Time of healing see Eccles 3.3 Beware of dallying with God and letting it slip Be not so cruelly injurious to your precious soules as to let it slip unimproved for then e Qui aegrotāt animo quo gravius aegrotant hoc magis abhorrent á quiete et à medico Plutarch I tremble to utter it you 'l be judicially blinded and hardned of God least or for feare you should be converted and Christ should heale you Joh. 12.40 A sad place And a f Plorante medico ridet phreneticus plorantibus amicis August sad case to be past healing and yet on this side Hell To laugh at the Physician that shews you your danger and weeps over you To spit out divine Physick and fling away those Plaisters that are spread with the goare bloud of Christ how can they escape that neglect so great salvation 3. Here is marvellous comfort Vse 3 and glad tidings for poore sicke sinners that long to be healed for all pained and afflicted consciences that see * Dolores animae sunt animae dolorum and a wounded spirit who can beare no meanes of helpe in themselves but looke after Christ for ease Many doubts and Tentations are ready to perplex your hearts I would faine stifle your objections 1. Object Object 1 O but my sinnes are no ordinary sinnes my diseases are grievous my sins are heightned and aggravated sinnes as being committed against light and against love against meanes and against mercies c. Can or will Christ cure such evills I answer Solutio Surely yea for all sinners without exception are invited to come unto him and he undertakes to cure them Mat. 11.28 Come unto mee I le give you ease and rest saith Christ See Psal 103.3 He forgives all thine Iniquities great and small and heales all thy diseases g Verbum Dei Panacea vocatur à sanandis Omnibus Morbis It is a wicked distinction of Rome that divides sinnes into veniall and mortall because though some sinnes comparatively are greater then others yet no h Non leve quo Deus laeditur Salvian de Provid lib. 2. sinne is truely little or triviall because committed against a righteous Law and Infinite Justice nor any sinne mortall if by Faith and Repentance you close in with Christ Banish therefore all despaire say not with Cain My sinne is greater then I can beare my disease too dangerous to be cured Thou lyest Cain saith i Gen. 4.13 Mentir●s Cam. August Austin Where sinne abounds his Grace will much more abound The more dangerous thy disease the more glorious the Cure Now Christ will get him a name The sinne against the Holy Ghost is not too hard for Christ to heale but t is ever accompanied with malicious willfulnesse and all such will not be healed Suppose that sinne capable of Repentance and you must needs say 't is also capable of pardon k Sanantur nullo vulnera cordis ope not true in Divinitie God ean make Scarlet and Crimson sinnes whiter then Snow 2. Green wounds may be cured Object 2 but mine are old sores I have lived thirty fourty yeares in my sins is there any help for me I feare not Yes For God hath said it Sol. Ezek. 18.22 Isai 65.20 at what time soever you come hee will cure you The sinner of an hundred yeares old shall be accursed that is if hee continue in his sinne l Let not the oldest sinner despaire of mercy yet beware of customary sinning Consuetudo peccandi tollit sensum peccati Aug. Repent with the Thiefe in thy last houre and thou art safe when death is killing thy body Christ may bee healing thy soule however presume not remember that common but true saying True repentance is never too late but late repentance is seldome true and know the purchasing of heaven is like the buying the Sybils prophesie the longer we stand off the dearer 't will cost us the more teares harder repentance deeper sorrow the sooner thy bones are set the lesse pain c. m Qui promi sit poenitenti veniam non promisit peccon●● crastinum Aug. He that promised mercy to the penitent never promised a morrow to the sinner saith Austin 3. The next objection is this Object 3 Mine are relapses and of all diseases those are the most dangerous I have recovered out of sin and have fallen again and again into the same sinne This I confesse is sad Sol. ve●y sad but yet Christ can heale you and cure you Hosea 14.4 I will heale your back slidings and love you freely n Quoties ce cidit peccando toties resurgit poenitendo Solomon saith The righteous man falleth seven times a day if that bee spoken of sin and the same sin yet it includes his repentance o Peccasti poenitere Millies peccasti Millies poenitere Chrysostom Homil. 2. in Psal 50. for how could he fall seven times unlesse he had euen six Only sin not that grace may abound try not experiments with your poore souls 4. Object 4 Oh if Christ were but sensible of my spirituall diseases I make no question but he would heale me I answer Christ was a man of p Christ was Homo doloris say to him Non ignare mali miseris succurrito Christe sorrows Sol. and was in all points tempted as we are yet without sinne Hee is touch't withe feeling of our infirmities and in all our afflictions he also as our head and husband is offlicted he condoles and sympathizes with us Christ beares our sicknes saith Isaiah God hath fitted him as with a Body to be a Saviour so with a heart to be a pitifull Physician q Amarum peculum prius ●ivit M●dicus 〈◊〉 vib●● e●●er●t 〈◊〉 rotus Ita Christus c. Augustin in Psal 98. he hath tasted every bitter cup before us and his very bowels yearn over us 5. Oh but if Christ were at hand Object 5 it were somewhat but he is gone into Heaven 'T is true his Body is there Sol. but his Divinity is every where John 14.18 Heb. 13.5 I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come unto you saith Christ Psalm 34.18 He is neere unto the afflicted in spirit their eye-lids may be glewed up that they cannot see him yet hee it neer them even at hand and his presence is a little Heaven 6. But others neglect me Object 6 few pity me why should I thinke CHRIST regards me You all remember the Parable Sol. Luke 10.34 Christ was that good Samaritan Hee therefore heales thee and helps thee because no heart will pitie thee no hand can help thee but his Hee wants neither love nor power to doe thee good Ezek. 16.5 6. When thou layest rotting in thy sinnes none eye pitied thee nor had compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy person in that day r

nisi sanctius vixeris Chrys ask what worth hee saw in that poore piece answered Couldst thou see with my eyes thou wouldst wish thy self all eye and be ravished with it And so could carnally minded men but see truths with a beleevers eyes and in Gods light Oh how would they love Jesus Christ and prize holinesse Well these with all their knowledge are as tinkling Cymbals in the eares of God which make sorry musicke without any distinction of notes They say wee see and therefore their sinne remaines but John saith they are downright lyars 1 John 2.4 He that saith I know him and keepes not his commandements is a lyar and the truth is not in him He that saith I k One day God will require of men non quid legerint sed quid egerint nec quid dixerint sed quomodo vixerint know God and yet takes no delight nor joy in God is the loudest lyar under heaven for he knowes not God at all as he ought to know him and as the truth is in Jesus And surely the lowest and hottest place in hell is kept for these they shall bee beaten with many stripes and lasht with whips of Scorpions that knew their masters wil and did it not Sapientes sapienter descendunt in infernum saith Bernard Bernard Rom. 1.21.24 they shall be damned with a witnesse and curse the time that ever they heard of Christ or knew his wil for this wil add unto their plagues 3. Vse 3 The main thing will be to search and enquire whether we so see as withall to taste Gods goodnesse viz. whether our visions are of the right complexion yea or no. First Character 1 doe you thirst after l Such as had lived long without making progresse in knowledge were called by Philo very properly Longaevi pueri B. Cowper on Psa 119.9 more knowledge and lye panting for clearer visions of God This you could not doe but that you have tasted Gods goodnesse and so long to see and know and enjoy more of it Psal 119.97 Oh how I love thy Law it is my meditation all the day And at the 99. v. I have more understanding then my Teachers How came David to bee continually meditating of the Word and getting more and more knowledge of God Why he loved the Lord so as could not be expressed Oh how I love him Hee had tasted divine goodnesse and so came to see so much of God But see 1 Pet. 2.2 3. As new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that you may grow thereby if so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious q.d. Else I shal in vain presse you to labour for more knowledge for wicked ones m Job 21.14 desire not the knowledge of God or his wayes They love Darknesse rather then Light saith Christ Secondly is thy knowledge experimentall Character 2 Then hast thou tasted God Brethren the knowledge of a formall professor or nominall Christian is much like the speculative knowledge of a Geographer that sits in his dry chamber warm gown looking on a Map of the world or turning his Globe where he beholds the Rockes and Streights without any danger or feare with his finger and nimble wit he flies over the most boysterous and tempestuous Seas and now is in pleasant Countries rich Mines spicy Gardens but all this in fancy not fruition n Quam multi sun● qui sermone valent loquuntur non tamen sale coelesti conditi sūt recēsentque multa de mensa regiâ quorum nulium adepti sunt gustum Macar ho. 16. So it is with a formall Professor he gathers all his knowledge out of bookes discourses and Sermons nothing by experience Whereas a true beleever as hee can discourse of the joyes of heaven so hee clearly sees them with Stephen by the eye of Faith and sensibly feedes on them by the power of hope he stands not on the shore observing the tempestuous seas and temptations in which others toyle but himselfe is miserably tossed too fro and turmoyled in the tempest and by the grace of God he gets through all and is more then conquerour He doth not onely read of Crystal fountains spicy Islands and rocks of Diamonds but he himself is inriched invested with them and his soule is filled with spirituall sweetnesse Is thy knowledge thus experimentall as Jobs was o Titelman restrains it to a bodily sight of God appearing then in a visible shape but others say it describes celestiall visions appearances of Christ to the soule Job 42.5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the eare but now mine eye seeth thee i. e. Most of thee Job had knowledge afore but now in his trials and afflictions he was taken off from the world and tasted communion with God more then ever and now he sees God by a clearer light Ah now mine eyes see thee q. d. My soule was in a mist till now but now I have clearer visions of thy glory and splendor Thirdly Charact. 3 is thy knowledge diffusive Art thou informing others and doing all the good thou art able that ignorance may be cudgel'd out of mens mindes and that some chink may be opened to let in the light of the Gospell Is this thy designe endeavour and delight Then surely thou hast tasted and seen God in his goodnesse p Vide Thom. Cartwright Dr Jermin on Pro. 10.21 Prov. 10.21 The lippes of the Righteous will feed many Others monopolize knowledge to themselves lest others should outstrip and darken them but mark the lips of the righteous will feed many 'T is a table furnished not with earthly but heavenly dainties and 't is a free table such as come are welcome David saith Gregory prayes for a Dore not a Barre Keep O Lord the Dore of my lips Now a dore q Ostium non obstaculū quia ostium clauditur aperitur Greg. saith the Father is both shut and opened and therefore though the lips of the righteous be shut that no hurtfull thing come forth yet they will open also in a free hospitality whereby to feed many Philip having tasted communion with Christ was not contented to see Christ himself unlesse he call Nathanael saying r John 1.45 Come and see and the ſ 4.28 woman of Samaria calleth her kindred to see the worlds Saviour This is the nature of spirituall knowledge that is accompanied with tastes of Gods goodnesse t Latum discrimen inter corporalia spiritualia bona nam si quis reperiret in agro aliquo thesaurum co solus uti vellet nec cuipiam patefaceret Musculus in John 4.28 At verae Christi cognitionis natura est ut qui eam nactus fuerit nihil habeat prius qu am plurimis eam communicare Martin Bucerus Neque enim sepulta otiosa jacere potest in fidelium cordibus Dei cognit io quin se apud homines proferat Calvinus They