Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	eternal_a	life_n	wage_n	5,908	5	10.8463	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69532	A learned, vsefull and seasonable discovrse concerning the Chvrch of England, and the Chvrch of Rome addressed by way of letter to M. St. Iohn, a Romish priest / by that eminent author and worthy patriot, Dr. John Bastwick, now prisoner under the popish tyranny at Yorke.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1643 (1643)	Wing B1066; ESTC R18862	10,786	12

and protector in Adversity and his sole patron in prosperity shall this man thinke you on his death-bed need to feare any Doome for his premention'd ignorance I know you are not so harshly opinionate Againe if any man that knowes there is a Pope shall confidently beleeve that Christ hath no Vicar on earth that the Pope is very like Antichrist that Rome is Heriticall that we must rather obey Christs Lawes then Decrees of Fathers and Councells that no mortall man is inerrable Multitude Antiquity Vnity and worldly Felicity have bin oft found In a false Malignant Church will you take from this man so beleeving and dying in this beleif all hope of Heaven Far be such Immanity from your Humanity For wherein hath he offended what crime is he guilty of that so beleev'd This I would faine know what Law by that Faith he hath broken For without transgression of a Law no man is a Delinquent I suppose therefore most learned Sir you will grant me that the Pope and his Gew-gawes may either be unknowne or unacknowledg'd without losse of Salvation The Reformed Church beleeves that Christ only is the sole Mediator betwixt God and men that he only hath made satisfaction to God fulfil'd the Law paid our Ransom offer'd himselfe in Sacrifice that he alone is our intercessor to God the Father opens the passage for our prayers to the throne of grace and emboldens us with confidence to addresse our supplications to God and therefore that he alone is Mediator both of Redemption and Intercession whence it followes that we ought not to pray to the Saints departed nor to the Angels as being ignorant of our present State of calamity or infirmity and not able to penetrate the secrets af our hearts as also that this Mediator-ship is impiously assign'd to the Virgin Mary who though she were indeed of all Women the most blessed yet had she need her selfe of this Mediator That this our Priest offer'd himselfe a Victime for his chosen flock and people not promiscuously for all men whatsoever That he is the Sacrificing Priest of the New Testament and that there are on Earth no other Priests to offer daily a propitiatory sacrifice for the sinnes of quick and dead That this Priests Sacrifice being of infinite vertue and value is applied to the Faithfull by the operation of the Holy Spirit the preaching of the Gospell and administration of the Sacraments which Sacrifice having bin once consummate on the Crosse by himselfe is not to be reiterated by any man on Earth That wee are clad with the Righteousnesse of this Priest and by vertue thereof absolvd from guilt and punishment That beside his blood there it no Purgatory that can cleanse the spots and blots of our soules That there are no torments or tortures by the suffering whereof any man can satisfie divine Justice much lesse can there be any workes of super-erogation which being laid up in the Granary or Treasury of the Church may by the sale of Indulgences be dispens'd to others of lesse desert or merit That our workes being far from perfection cannot purchase eternall life That remission of sinnes is concredited and consign'd to Ministers as Preachers or Proclaimers of it not as Iudges But your Churches Creed runs thus viz. That Christ is indeed Mediator of Redemption yet Saints and Angels act likewise their parts in mediating but most of all the Virgin Mary the Gate of Paradise and Queene of Heaven and that therefore Wee ought to addresse our Vowes Prayers Petitions to them that so well knowe our Wants That there must be on Earth other Priests after the order of Melchizedek to offer Christ daily as a Sacrifice propitiatory for dead and living That the Righteousnesse of this Sacrificing Priest is not imputed to us That by his Merits we are indeed delivered from the guilt of Sin not from the punishment to which we are still liable That the soules departed are purg'd and cleans'd by the Fire of Purgatory That by our owne sufferings wee may make satisfaction to God That there are works of supererogation in the Churches Magazine which the Pope may sel to lewd and loose persons That life eternall is due to our workes as wages are to a labourer That to the goodnesse of a worke t is sufficient if the mind and intendment of the worker be good Lastly that Ecclesiasticall ministers have Iudiciall power and authority to forgive Sinns Is not this most worthy Sir a grosse Collusion to acknowledge Christ to be a Priest in word but to deny him indeed To leave a shew only and evacuate the vertue and substance of his Priest-hood This mighty masse of Blasphemous contumelies against Christ may it not be unknowne without detriment to our faith Can it hurt or prejudice a Christian to disbeleeve such fainged devices Admit there be a good man and carefull of his Salvation which reposes his confidence in Christs only Mediation offers his prayers in his only Name to God seekes for righteousnesse by his bloody Sacrifice alone being utterly ignorant of other sacrificing Priests of any other Mediator Sacrifice Merit or Purgatory thinke you that this his ignorance shall be any impeachment or prejudice to him at Gods Tribunall I trow you are not so unwise to thinke so Imagine now there is one that is rooted and strongly grounded in this belief That beside Christ there is no Mediator or Sacrificer that the Dignity of Mediation is not to be communicated to Angels Saints or the Virgin Mary That our affaires are to them unknowne and vnregranted That to them we are neither to make Vowes nor Prayers That soule tormenting Purgatory is no where to be found but in the crackt braines of Lunaticks or the jugling knavery of cozening Priests That the Saints of God are freed both from guilt and penalty That Christs Righteousnesse is imputed to the Faithfull That our sufferings can effect nothing towards satisfaction nor our doings conduce ought to salvation by way of merit That supererogation is a Bravado and Braggardisme and a device of Avarice to draw on filthy lucre That good intents are not sufficient for good works That the minister hath no judiciall Authority to remit Sinns What doe wee thinke this man in danger for this his confident persuasion this belief breakes no Law nor Commandement What danger then can there be where is no Delinquency The Reformed Church beleeves That Christ is constituted by God a Prophet Pastor Doctor and Preacher of Peace that he promulgated Gods secret and cabinet-counsell of the redemption of mankind that he publikly preached this good tydings and gospell confirming and strengthning it by his spirit in the use of the Sacraments that this Prophet declares to us all that God commanded him That in him God was well pleas'd and that we were to heare him Mat. 17.5 That from this Prophet Gods perfect will was manifested to the World and the same by his Order written in the Old and new