Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	3,167	5	11.1087	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78979	An indictment against England because of her selfe-murdering divisions: together vvith an exhortation to an England-preserving vnity and concord. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby church at Westminster; at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastour of Aldermanbury in London.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1645 (1645)	Wing C256; Thomason E23_5; ESTC R21745	38,703	51

is shortly to begin you would make Religion your Iewell and Peace as your golden ring on which it may be put To make Peace your boxe of Alablaster And Reformation the precious oyntment within it To make Peace as the gold and Religion as the Temple that sanctifieth the Gold Happy is the people that is in such a case Happy England if once it comes to sing the Angels Song Glory be to God on high in earth Peace And yet let me forewarne you also not to trust too much to Treaties and overtures of Peace David had a sonne whose name he called Absolom which in Hebrew signifieth a Father of Peace David promised to himselfe great felicitie in that childe But he proved a Father of warre and misery to his Father Say not This Treatie will be an Absolom for feare it prove an Absolom in a contrary sense as Absolom himselfe did It is very fatall that in the midst of our Treaties there have alwayes been great Plots to destroy us as we see verified at this day Secondly But that which I especially ayme at this day is to perswade you that are here present to be at peace and unitie amongst your selves and to ioyne together against the Common enemy But most of all you that are Earles Lords and Gentlemen of ranke and qualitie For the greater the persons are that disagree the more is the hurt that is done by their disagreement As in a House if the Master and Mistresse agree the house will stand and subsist though the inferiour servants fall out one with the other So if the Lords and Commons unite together the Citie and Kingdome will stand though there should be many divisions amongst the Common people And therefore it is your dutie above others Right Honourable to follow after those things that make for * Peace Vnitie and Concord to be ambitious of Peace as you are exhorted 1 Thess. 4. 11. to speake the truth in love * Eph. 4. 15. and to love in the truth * 2 Epist. of Iohn vers 2. Now that your hearts and affections may be fully wrought up to make it your chiefe designe to practise this dutie I shall use these ensuing Motives and Arguments First Consider how Pathetically and Emphatically the holy Apostle perswades all Gods people to the practise of this dutie I will name but two Texts 1 Cor. 1. 10. Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Iesus Christ that ye all speake the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly ioyned together in the same minde and in the same iudgement Phil. 2. 1 2. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfill ye my ioy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one minde c. Secondly Consider what excellent Arguments the Apostle useth Ephes. 4. 3 4 5 6. Endevouring to keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace There is one body and one spirit even as you are called in one hope of your calling One Lord one faith one baptisme one God c. These are omnipotent Arguments If one God and one Lord and one body c. Shall not his children be one And afterwards vers. 11 12 13. the Apostle tels us That when Christ ascended up to Heaven he gave some to be Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints c. Till we all come to the unitie of the faith c. Christs intendment in appointing a Ministery in his Church was not onely to bring his people to veritie but also to the unitie of the faith This is the great worke of a Minister to bring his people to unitie as well as veritie Thirdly Consider what a horrible sinne it is to divide one from another and to be at hatred and variance one with another This is a worke of the flesh Gal. 5. 19 20 21. where it is observable that the Apostle reckons up seven synonymicall expressions to set out the greatnesse of this sin The works of the flesh are hatred variance emulation wrath strife sedition envyings of the which I told you before as I have also told you in time past that they which doe such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God This sin alone unrepented on will shut a man out of heaven Therefore it is said Revel. 22. 15. without are dogs This sinne alone makes thee unsit to come to the Sacrament Mat. 5. 23. This sinne alone makes God abhorre our Fasting-dayes Isa. 58. 4. Behold ye fast for strife and debate c. This sinne alone turnes our prayers into curses For when thou prayest unto God Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespas against us if thou beest in malice and hatred with thy brother thou prayest unto God not to forgive thee thy trespasses Notable is the speech of Cyprian Peius est seindere Ecclesiam quam sacrificare Idolo Schisme in the Church is a greater sinne then Idolatry Austin saith it is a greater sinne then heresie And this saith he God himselfe declared when he punished Corah and his company that were Schismatiques with a greater punishment then ever he punished Idolaters or Heretiques Quis iam dubitaverit hoc esse scelaratius commissum quod est gravius vindicatum Fourthly Consider the wofull mischiefes that are brought into Church and State by these our divisions If all the Iesuites in the Christian world If all the Devils in hell should joyne together to devise a way to undoe the Parliament and the good Cause they manage they could not invent a readier way then by dividing you one from another at this time This makes you to fight against your selves to murder your selves your Cause your Religion and to murder all that adhere unto you Hereby God is dishonoured Reformation hindered Religion discredited the good Cause disliked the Enemie strengthened You are weakened your Counsels disturbed the Warre prolonged the Power of godlinesse abated c. as hath beene formerly mentioned Hereby we are all tantum non destroyed and destroyed we must be if our breaches be not made up For if we bite and devoure one another we shall be consumed one of another Gal. 5. 15. Famous is the Story of Menenius Agrippa who when the people of Rome had divided themselver from the Senate of Rome came to the people and told them an Apologue of the members of the body how they did once conspire together against the belly because that the belly did live idlely devoure all the meat that the hands did work forand feet walke for c. And therefore they agreed together to starve the belly The hands refused to work for to feed it the mouth refused to take in meat the feet refused to goe to fetch it c. But within a very