Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	ghost_n	holy_a	pardon_v	7,325	5	9.0319	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93743	Jeremiah VI.4. Wo unto us for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5121A; ESTC R184558	19,699	26

Wo pronounced against or doth belong to every Sin Iniquity Transgression Disobedience or any manner of evil As appears both from the old Testament and the New In both which we find this word Wo spoken forth against them and where it is not spoken forth in express words Nevertheless it may be understood that it doth appertain thereunto For the word of God spoken or written is stedfast and every disobedience and transgression receiveth a just recompence of reward As aforesaid that all trouble grief or such like dot● hence arise because our life goeth away So likewis● our sorrow may be reduced and brought back to thi● original cause Because we have sinned Both thes● observations agree and meet together in one The matter truly is this We are sorrowful because we hav● sinned and we are sorrowful because our Life goet● away For we are afraid that a Punishment which wi●● make miserable will be inflicted on us for the sam● sin after this present Life which is now going away shall be ended Now the Decree Justice and Will of God stands on th●● wise Sin committed must have its Punishment to b● inflicted unless the same sin is pardoned Hence th● Soul is in continued fear and doubt until she hath th● Reconciliation of God Until she hath his Voice an● Spirit witnessing from within her self Son or Daughter be of good chear Thy sins are forgiven thee Again seeing that we have all sinned and are worth● of punishment after this life shall be ended here w● should cry mightily unto God and offer up strong cryin● with tears in these days of our flesh that we may be hear● in that we fear before him And like our Father Jaco● wrestle with God in effectual fervent and continue● Prayer until the breaking of the day of immortality And be yet more earnest and importunate with God by how much the nearer it is to the day breaking 〈◊〉 as the Soul is yet nearer breaking forth out of the shel● of the Body into the World to come the place of ●ternal and unchangeable light And we will not let Go● go except he Bless us with the Blessing which the Lor● hath commanded even life for evermore Immediatel● after this life which is as a vapour and continuet not shall be ended Saith Job to God I have sinned What shall I do to th●● O thou preserver of Men Why hast thou set me as ● mark against thee so that I am a burden to my self Cha● 7. v. 20. This last confirms the truth of what wa● just now spoken That sorrow is because of sin an● as a consequent thereunto for therefore it was because Job had sinned he was a burden to himself The verse immediately following doth shew and intimate that there is sorrow and fear in the Soul for want of forgiveness of sins as appears from this Pathetical and earnestly desired question or rather it is a kind of expostulation in Prayer And why dost thou not pardon my Transgression and take away mine Iniquity For now shall I sleep in the dust and thou shalt seek me in the morning and I shall not be If we were sure that God would do thus we could as contentedly and without fear lye down in the Grave as in a bed of Roses or Violets or as we take our common rest by Night which the Holy Ghost doth give us here to understand by this phrase I shall sleep in the dust Now there is nothing of dreadfulness or evil in sleep The Scripture is all along consonant and agreeable to it self in every thing especially in this truth how that the sting of Death is sin So that it would be neither dreadful nor evil if this same sting was plucked out or what is equivalenta and tantamount thereunto if this same sin was pardoned and taken away Comfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem In the margent there it is speak to the heart And cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned Isa 40. 1 2. In these words again the word of consolation is contained her iniquity is pardoned For I do hereby appeal to the conscience of all those who shall hear or read these words whither this is not speaking comfortably to ye or speaking to your heart that is what answers to your hearts desire and wish to have assurance that now thine and my warfare here on Earth doth draw so very nigh to be accomplished that here we have our iniquity pardoned If the Lord grant me this my request as the same is my daily Prayer I would I could truly say my constant endeavour was so likewise as is hereafter explained I know not what I could desire better on this side of Heaven For if my iniquity is pardoned then that thing is taken away which only hinders any ones entrance into Heaven As touching whither our iniquity be pardoned or not is the chiefest fear and trouble to knowing people and believers which they have when they do walk softly all the residue of their years in the bitterness of their Soul The Scripture token and evidence whereby we may know vvhither our past iniquity is pardoned or not is according as vve are cleansed from all unrighteouness for the time to come If he that giveth strength and power unto his people Psal 68. 35. Doth give Strength and Povver to abstain from the like for the future Thus much is gathered from that of the Apostle If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 John 1. 9. This Scripture is not to be taken piece meal but all together So that according as any one is cleansed srom all unrighteousness That is cleansed from every thing vvhich is contrary unto or different from that great and compleat Rule of Righteousness This is a sure token that thy sins are forgiven thee And also when the Prophet Isaiah saith That the iniquity of Jerusalem is pardoned for she hath received of the Lord's hands double for all her sins Hence it may be reasoned and concluded in the like manner We are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the World 1 Cor. 11. 32. When we have afflictions and troubles hereby God doth punish us in this World for our sins that we may be spared in the World to come This also is some comfortable euidence that our iniquity is pardoned For as the Apostle saith Some Men's sins are open before hand going before to Judgment and some Men's sins follow after 1 Tin 5. 24. So the sins of some people are punished in this World that they may not be punished after the day of Judgment So the punishment of the sins of other people is respited and forborn in this Life but deferred until and to be executed after the day of Judgment If we endure more chastening and trouble than others who are greater sinners than

our selves The Judge of all the Earth will do right so that Most certainly we shall fare better than they in the World that is to come From the things that have been spoken it appears That the way whereby we may avoid the Wo denounced against us upon the account of the day of our life going away is to do these three things especially First Be sure to finish that Work which God sent thee on this Earth for to do Secondly Stand in aw and sin not and abstain from all appearance of evil Thirdly Pray without ceasing unto God and labour earnestly to get all thy past Sins Iniquities and Transgressions pardoned And take it for a general rule besides to be followed and observed That whatever Trouble sorrow Melancholy fear or such like doth arise in thy mind there endeavour to know the true cause thereof And then take away the cause and the effect ceaseth Be sure to answer all the requirings of God in thee Turn you at my reproof Prov 1. 23. That is at the reproof of God in thy Soul and Conscience whither the Lord be upon thee with a still voice in the gentle motions and dictates of his Spirit or if he doth Instruct thee with a strong hand that thou shouldst not walk in the way of this people That thou shouldst not do such a thing or such a thing In all these or alike cases Do not turn away thy Ear nor yet ' be Rebellious For this Life is the time of tryal and the day of Temptation in the Wilderness wherein God doth prove thee whither thou wilt keep his Commandments or not There is a Wo pronounced or else implyed if thou shouldest turn away the Ear or be Rebellious Which same Wo though it is now in word only yet after the day of this life is gone will fall down upon thee in Punishment and Misery The Wo or Threatning of God is of the like Nature with that flying roll or curse that goeth forth over the face of ●he whole Earth For every one that stealeth shall be cut off as ●n this side according to it and every one that sweareth shall ●e cut off as on that side according to it Zech. 5. 2 3. Here the flying roll and curse is said to go forth over the face of the whole Earth That is for the present little time between It doth hover somewhat above them and it doth not pitch But at length it will light upon the hairy scalp of the sinner and it shall be done unto him according to the same flying roll curse or threatning when God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his Trespasses If we did live in Righteousness and Holiness before him all the days of our life we might serve God without fear as may be understood from Luke 1 74. 75. But as long as there is Fear Trouble Sorrow and a certain forebode or fearful expectation of a Wo to come we should do well to take heed 2 Pet. 1. 19. unto these as they may be Perceivable in our hearts for all these do give notice and warning of some real future Evils to which they do relate Nay yet further As saith the Apostle I know nothing by my self yet I am not hereby justified So when we com● to know nothing of Trouble Fear or Misery as to futurity and our Heart upon the utmost search and examination and enquiring diligently as to these thing● to come doth not meditate terrour as very few do com● up to this state yet still even here we should not liv● securely nor over confidently but according to th● counsel of the Spirit of God who knoweth all things Pass the time of our sojourning here in fear And work o● our Salvation with fear and trembling But then here agai● is a great difference between a fear which excites caution and care and another fear which hath Torment an● gendreth bondage as is the case of those who ha●● not a well grounded hope It is the mind of the most high God that his Se●vants as long as they are on this Earth should be ke●● in a Low Trembling and Dependant state and co●dition Accordingly we Read in the Scriptures Th●● the best Saints have been most fearful and apprehensive partly of the Judgments Wrath and Indignation of Go● as also what is consequent to that of their own futu●● state and condition When I heard my Belly trembl● my lips quivered at the voice rottenness entred into my bones and I trembled in my self that I might have rest in the day of trouble when he cometh up unto the people he will invade me with his troups Hab. 3. 16. For if when the Lord appeared on mount Sinah by his Angel only so terrible was the sight that Moses one of his best Servants and favourites Said I exceedingly fear and quake Much more shall we exceedingly fear and quake just as our Soul is taking flight into the invisible World where we shall come nearer unto and have a much more sensible and lasting apprehension of the great God himself then ever the Israelites had of the presence of his Angel on Mount Sinah The Lord shall judge his people It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Which yet we must all do Unto thee shall all flesh come And when the Lord shall Judge his People even his own Saints and Servants by reason of the exceeding strictness thereof will have fears arising in their hearts also And enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no Man living be justified Psal 143. 2. A Wo being pronounced against us indefinitely in the Text for the day goeth away this reaches and extends to the House of God even his Children and Servants For the time is come that Judgment must begin at the House of God and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God And if the Righteous scarcely be saved wher shall the ungodly and sinner appear 1 Pet. 4. 17 18. The result of the whole is The Spirit of the Lord doth speak and his word is gone out indefinitely Wo unto us for the day goeth away Therefore all we dying Creatures should go softly all our years in the bitterness of our Soul We should be in a very low and trembling condition and wait all the days of our appointed time till our change come Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man Luke 21. 36. Do your utmost diligence that ye may be accounted worthy to escape that Wo which is pronounced For the day goeth away for the shadows of the evening are stretched out I shall now wind up the foregoing Discourse with these two practical uses and inferences The first use is of Warning The second