Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	gift_n	life_n	wage_n	3,267	5	10.5376	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64835	Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made publick: together with a sermon entituled The beauty of holines / by Ralph Venning ...	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing V227; ESTC R38004	77,776	241

99 Many a man needs no more to undo him than his own desires they are so bad that no enemy could wi●● them worse than to be themselves a Covetous Midas's being alwaye desiring and labouring for that which they resolve never to use and which will be to their hurt and ruin Eccl. 4.8 and 5.13 and 6.2 100 'T is a marvellous stupidity and illogical that the more continual experience men have of the Vanity o● the World the more greedy experiments they make to find if they could find out solidity in it Alas fond Child What hath thee so beguil'd To seek for Hony in a nest of Wasps Thou maist as well find ease in Hell And sprightly Nectar from the mouth of Asps Shall the World always make fools of us or rather we of our selves Shall we never take warning by others nor our own harms Let the time past suffice c. 1 Pet. 4.3 THE Third Century 1 VVHat good man had not rather want the thing he most desires than obtain it by unlawful and irreligious means but means passions and Gods directions seldome agree such as too much attend their own ends seldome confine themselves to Gods means Rom. 3.8 1 Tim. 6.9 10. 2 They confess their own weakness as to Truth and Justice who chuse rather to contend and conquer by force than by Argument Acts 4.14 17. 3 'T is a sin against Hospitality to open your doors and shut up your Countenance be sweet gracious and free let your looks be the Chrystal to your Disposition Though a churl may bid all Welcome yet he thinks none so though he may say Eat and drink yet his heart is not with thee and his courtesie seldome comes but for gain or falshood as Solomon tells us Prov. 23.3 6 7 8. And on the other hand how generously soever you entertain never compel him to surfet whom you invited to feast nor to be drunk and lose his own by anothers health Hest 1.7 8. 4. 'T is better to be above than but even with an enemy He that revengeth is but even with him as the phrase is but he that pardoneth is above him for so much as a man is better than another so much he is above him Matth. 5.44 48. And on the other hand let no man offend on the presumption of a pardon for he seems to be in love with a fault like Shimei who had rather be forgiven than be innocent It 's better not to need than to have a pardon 5 All humane Reason is so intermixt with wit and fancy that many times a man can hardly tell which is which Reason hath so many shapes colours and forms that we know not which to take hold of experience and events have as many What shall we do then To the Law and to the Testimony Isa 8.20 Search the Scripture 2 Tim. 3.14 17. Eph. 4.14 6 As 't is impertinent yea meer vanity and very folly to make a profession of love to God and yet to express none to our Neighbour 1 John 3.17 and 4.20 So 't is in vain to pretend love to mens souls while we shew no love to their bodies Surely no man will thank another for killing him though he should tell him 't were in kindness 'T is worse than he that as a mad man casteth Fire-brands Arrows and Death and saith Am not I in sport Prov. 26.18 19. No man cares for such biting Jests and hurtful Sports much less for injurious Courtesies and killing Kindnesses Persons may complement and say they will do this and that and I know not what for your service and welfare but who can look for service where he sinds unfaithfulness and violence 1 Sam. 18.25 7 That the evil of sin is the greatest evil appears by this as well as many other arguments that though other evils may be complain'd of and lamented yet there 's none to be repented of but this of sin 8 A man cannot do himself a greater kindness nor better service than to serve God with his best his all and to his utmost For as wicked men by the evil of sin bring an evil reward or reward of evil viz. the wages of sin upon their own Souls Isa 3.9 11. So they who serve God will find that in keeping his commands there 's great reward Psal 19. no less than eternal Life by the gift of God Rom. 6.23 and therefore say to the Righteous it shall be well with them for they shall yea they shall eat the fruit of their doings Isa 3.10 9. The good man's best and the bad mans worst lyes in shall be 's Isa 3.10 11. in reversion Here Dives had nothing but his good things but hereafter he had no good thing Here Lazarus had his evil things but afterward no evil thing The good man when he dies takes his leave of and departs from all evil and the evil man when he dies takes his leave of and departs from all his goods which was all the good he had Now he is comforted but thou art tormented Luke 16.25 Oh 't is a sad thing to have ones portion of good only in this life Psal 17.14 10. The things of this World viz. the lusts of the Eye the lusts of the Flesh and the Pride of Life which some call The Worlds Trinity the God which Worldlings worship have many charms and are bewitching Many have been inchanted by the god of this World to make this World their God and there 's no conquering no nor avoyding the influence and force of its Philters which work on the sense but by Faith and being strong in Faith Heb. 11.25 1 John 5.4 5. 11 Our great desire and endeavour should be to be men of truth true to God and his Glory true to our souls and their happiness true to men and all the offices of Love we owe to them and we should owe no man any thing but love Eph. 4.15 Rom. 13.8 Falshood and Hypocrisie is ungodly unmanly and unfriendly 't is odious to God and all men that discover it and must needs be hurtful to them that act it for Matth. 23.33 12 'T is to be our Prayer and Care not only to receive mercy from God but to improve it for God and return the praise to God Psal 116.12 yea and that according to the benefits which we receive Psal 116.12 2 Chron. 32.25 and then 't will be a more blessed thing to give than to receive Acts 29.35 For thankfulness and giving God the praise is the compleating and crowning of all our mercies without which they are scarce to be called blessings Psal 40.1 2 3. There are six degrees of mercy and the New Song is the sweet close and glorious Crown of all 13 A good man would gladly be preserved not only from miscarriages but mistakes for they occasion miscarriages not only from presumption but ignorance not only from the known evil of his ways but the unknown and undiscerned secrets of his heart and is impatient till he be