Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	faith_n	holy_a	remission_n	4,483	5	9.4888	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20943	A treatise of the knovvledge of God, as excellently as compendiously handled by the famous and learned divine, Peter Du Moulin, late minister of the Reformed Church in Paris, and professor of theologie in the Vniversitie of Sedan. Faithfully translated out of the originall by Robert Codrington, Master of Arts; De cognitione Dei. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1634 (1634)	STC 7321; ESTC S118646	41,950	94

the Trinity two Sonnes one by eternall Generation and another by Generation in Time Neither was there any thing more agreeable than that hee who was the Middle in the persons of the Trinity should also be the Middle betwixt God and Man and bee the linke and tye of all affinity betwixt heaven and earth And what could bee more apt and sutable to the Wisedome of God than that we should be restored into the Right and Degree of sonnes by him who is the onely Sonne of God and that God should renew Man by the same Word by which he created him and that God should speake unto us by him who is the Eternall Word of God and by him should teach us true wisedome who is himselfe the wisedome of the Father This is that Doctrine which is called the Gospell which God hath left as a pledge in his Church that by this prerogatiue it should bee distinguished from the rest of mankind which doctrine he hath commanded to bee published throughout all the world by his Apostles and their Successors prescribing that those who joyne themselues to the Church should bee baptized In the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost and that the people should bee instructed in the faith of Christ by the preaching of the Gospell by which to the Penitent and Beleeving Remission of sinnes and everlasting life is promised and that the faithfull should attend the second comming of Christ in which hee shall raise up the dead and taking into his knowledge an Account of all Mans actions shall render unto every one according to his workes By the Church I understand not onely the Church under the new Testament which is called the Christian Church but also the whole Church in all Ages whose beginning is deduced from Adam and which shall last unto the End of the World for the Scripture testifieth that the Fathers before Christ were saved by faith in Christ Abraham rejoyced to see my day and hee saw it Iohn 8. And Moses preferred the reproach of Christ to the treasures of Egypt Heb. 11. And it pleased the Father to reconcile all things by the blood of the Crosse whether they were things in Heaven or things in Earth Col. 1. And there is no man of sober understanding that ever yet made doubt but that these words of Things in heaven did comprehend the Patriarchs and the Prophets to which purpose some of the Ancients haue not unaptly applyed an Allegory of a Branch laden with Grapes which hanging on a staffe was carried on two mens shoulders by him that went formost they understood the Church of the old Testament by him that came after the Church of the new Testament and by the branch of Grapes Christ himselfe for the old Church saw not the comming of Christ because it went before in order of Time but this latter hath Christ ever before her eyes and beholds him come Neverthelesse the Branch of Grapes is as much the food of one as of the other for Christ equally unto both Churches conveigheth life and foode spirituall These are those instructions in which the true and saving knowledge of God consisteth a knowledge which farre transcends all other Arts and Sciences The Sciences are all either contemplatiue or practicke the excellence of the Contemplatiue consists in these three things the Dignity of the Subject the Certainty of the Demonstrations and the Perspicuity of the Instructions the excellence of the Practicke consists in these the Excellence of the End the Aptnesse of the Meanes and the Rules to attaine that End In Divinity that part is contemplatiue which treateth of the nature of God and of the workes of Creation Gubernation and Redemption but that part which treateth of the offices of Piety towards God and Charity towards our Neighbour is practicall for although in this there bee great need of Contemplation yet all this Contemplation is directed to the Practicke in one as in the other Divinity doth infinitely excell all Sciences The Subject of the Part contemplatiue is God himselfe betwixt whom and the body of Man or twixt Lands and Chattles the Subiects of Law and Phisicke there is no comparison but in certainty it wonderfully transcends them all For whatsoever the Philosophers doe dispute concerning the chiefe or principall good are so different among themselues so contrary one unto another that their chiefe good seemes rather to bee grounded on opinion then on nature Augustine in the nineteenth booke of the Citty of God reckons up out of Marcus Varro a hundred and fourescore disagreeing opinions of Philosophers concerning their Summum Bonum or Chiefest Good and Physicians doe rather suspect then see the inward affections of the bodies and the causes of diseases and hereupon it often comes to passe that in pretence of curing the diseased officiously they kill them But how great the uncertainty of humane Law is the infinite diversity of customes and countries the endlesse discord of municipal Rights and of the Roman and Barbarian Lawes doth plainely testifie but the foundations of Divinity stand sure and unshaken being laid by the hand of God himselfe and are more firme then Heaven or Earth The Heaven and Earth shall passe away but my words shall not passe saith God himselfe Neither doth it any thing derogate from this certainety that Men in the busines of Religion are divided into so many Sects and dispute with such contentious heate concerning the interpretation of the Scripture for this doth not arise from the uncertainety of Gods Word but from the pravity of Man who wilfully doth blind his owne eyes and takes delight to stumble in so faire a way subjecting Religion to his belly and by depravation of the most certaine things with full Sailes doth fly to Avarice or Ambition For whosoever will not destine himselfe to a peculiar and set opinion shall find in the Holy Scripture many cleare and evident sentences wanting no Interpreter which abundantly wil suffice him both for faith maners I confesse in the Scriptures there are many things full of obscurity but if the pious student shall weigh them well hee shall find them either prophecies or figures and not foundations of faith or of the nature of those things which are necessary to Salvation for God by plaine and easie things doth instruct us to Salvation and by obscure ones doth exercise us in prayer or workes in us sobriety or pulling the wings of our curiositie doth retaine us in the bounds of modesty And this must bee a received Maxim that the least knowledge derived from the word of God is more excellent then the exactest knowledge of earthly things For a little of the knowledge of God faithfully received doth abundantly suffice to inflame our minds with the loue of God and to leade our liues both well and happily The End Remaines by which Divinity whatsoever there is of Arts or Sciences by a transcendent Distance doth excell For the Politicks onely ininforme a