Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	great_a	mortal_a	venial_a	3,197	5	11.4523	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07397	The vickers challenge claiming a maintainance as due by proofes out of the gospell : wherein is manifested, that there is a competencie due unto them / by Ios. Meene, vicker.	Meene, Joshua.	1640 (1640)	STC 17780.5; ESTC S2818	46,566	86

fruits were few c. the times are hard their charge is great their meanes be small c. But this I say hee that soweth sparingly shall reape sparingly and hee which soweth bounlifully shall reape bountifully 2 Corinthians 3. These covetous Idolaters carry themselves cleane contrary to the Apostles precept behold hee pleadeth for liberality but they practise parsimony he is for sincerity but they for subtilty he desireth plain-dealing but they delight in impostures Let not then men thus impiously erre in this enjoyned communicatiō of their goods It is best for every one to take heede of deceitfull excuses in this kind Anselmus admonisheth because although humane creatures may be often deluded yet the alseeing Lord the searcher of the heart and the reynes is never gone beyond These cunning pretexts may coozen many men but the Lord doth easily discerne through the closest mist of thei Sacrilegious falshood Saint Hierome sheweth This sinne is much greater then you suppose saith Aretius God is not mocked there will follow a doomesday booke a reckoning season when as such base minded Earthwormes shall reape as they have sowne namely for their corrupt and unconscionable dealing the proper wages thereof that is to say eternal death and damnation These Church-robbing sinnes which now not seldome minister matter of laughter to profane worldlings and seeme but veniall in their seduced imaginations will then shew forth a scarlet colour a crimson dy of a mournefull and mortall nature amongst the greatest and most grievous offences Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth c. Thirdly wee are to expresse the nature of our proposition from the nature and exigency of the place of the Ministery It is the complaint of learned and religious Bishop Davenant Imperita plebecula feriari nos arbitratur totos dies nec aliquid negotii habere postquam Templo pedem extulerimus The ignorant Common people imagineth that wee make many holi-dayes and that wee have nothing to doe but onely at Church Neverthelesse our case is cleane otherwise for besides the outward exercise of our Pastorall function behold there is of not a perpetuall yet a daily burden of prayer meditation study c. Imposed upō our shoulders so that the truth is wee never loyter lesse then when wee are thought to be most at leasure It is impossible to sustaine these sundry other painefull incumbencies proper to our places without sufficiencie and affluence of competent maintenance The want of this may well occasion the Clergy to impute the fault of fayling in these duties unto the iniquity of the times and the penuriousnesse of the people euen as victorious Annibal cryed out negando supplementum vos retraxistis how he was perforce drawn out of almost Conquered Jtaly by the Carthaginians pernicious parsimony If ver erat aeternum per se dabat omnia t●llus the golden age were still in esse with a free will offering of all delights and necessaries If bread and fish rained voluntarily downe from Heaven as is reported to have fallen in the dayes of the Emperour Otho the third Were the doctrine of the Iewish Talmud verified for the present in this Iland touching the free and ready preparednesse of all manner of Victuals Could wee attaine to have the Angels our Caters with the Heremite Or in the desert of Thebaies or with another fabulous bird of the same feather Saint Alpias to live a longer space here on earth without hunger and thirst Were wee able to walke as farre with bread and water as the Prophet Elijah went 1 Kings 19. Or might our poore and small measure of provision miraculously multiply like the Widdows little cruse of oyle and handfull of meale into many indeficient vessels 1 Kings 17. and 2 Kings 4. Or would a few loaves and fishes suffice to feed thousands and increase into sundry basketfuls of fragments Matthew 14. Could our cloathes like the Israelites in their forty yeares travaile through the deserts continue without waxing old upon us and our shooes hold good without wast and decay on our feete Deuteronomy 29. If a Manna honey-dew could still bee gathered during the terme of our mortall pilgrimage or such a sweete showre did mellifluously drop upon our drowping spirits as Antoninus affirmeth to have descended upon the Christian Host marching out of Antioch against the cruell Turke Corbonach whereby a cheerefull vigour of minde and body confirmed them in all the occurrences of that dangerous expedition Were wee Chameleon complexion'd to feed on the ayre or mouthlesse like the Indian Astomi to live by odour Then should Sacrilegious depredation and spoile bee borne with more patience and not bring so much harme and prejudice Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth c. Moreover whereas contrary to Anabaptists humours who abide no Books but the Bible some of them not so much as that a good Library is the most necessary Magazin storehouse for to make meete provision of Sacred food for mens soules Yea also to discover and discomfit the wilde Boares of the wood the ravenous Wolues and crafty Foxes namely Tyrants Machiavellians Infidels Heretiques Hypocrites Profanistes Schismatiques which continually watch occasion to surprize worry and devoure the Flocke Were now as easie and cheape a way at our wishes to get this same needfull company of meete Bookes as we reade how once a Ship came floating into Alexandria of the owne accord full fraught with Armour to furnish their wants Or were not the expensive precepts of Hospitality and almes deeds of necessity to bee performed for discharge of dutie and example to the flocke Or would the Almighty and most glorious God the bountifull giver of all Majestie riches and honour the benigne bestower of all pretious blessings well please and take it that even not seldome in an ordinary mans house there appeares a stately structure a faire Cupboard of plate a sumptuous furniture a costly table a seemly attendance a stable of good Geldings c. And yet will hee bee contented that his divine house shall remaine in as bad condition many times as a ruinous sordid and confused cottage with a course carpet a home spunne cloath to cover his holy-board with a poore Parsonage a beggarly Vicaridge a thred-bare coate a hungry table c. With the worst and most refuse tith for his tenthes with poverty neglect and basenesse for his Service and Ministers Doe ye thus requite the Lord oh foolish people and unwise Deuteronomie 32 Is this unworthy and blind partialty agreeable to the due of his glory to the dignity of Christian soules to the direction of Ecclesiasticall decency to the excellency of the Clergies profession to the credit of our Religion Or were these and the like particulars impropriate upon our owne private respects and not chiefely concerning the honour of God the propagation of the Gospell the welfare of the people Then Barbarus has segetes we could the better suffer with wronged Mephibosheth the Sacrilegious Ziba to take all Then tithes