Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	mortal_a	nature_n	venial_a	6,243	5	12.3225	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65453	A sermon preached in St. Maries church at Gates-head in the county-Palatine of Durham at the funeral of George Johnson, Gent., deceased, May 29, Anno Dom 1683 / by Richard Werge ... ; whereunto is added, Anelegy by a friend.	Werge, Richard, 1624 or 5-1687.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1366; ESTC R8026	12,157	36

A SERMON PREACHED IN St. MARIES-Church at Gates-head in the County-Palatine of Durham AT THE FUNERAL OF George Johnson GENT. Deceased May 29. Anno Dom. 1683. By RICHARD WERGE A. M. Rector of that Church WHEREUNTO IS ADDED An ELEGY by a Friend Of whom the World was not worthy Heb. 11. 38. LONDON Printed by Henry Clark for Joseph Hall Book-Seller and Book-Binder upon Tyne-Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne and Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1683. A SERMON PREACHED In St. Mary's-Church of Gateshead in the County-Palatine of Durham at the Funeral of George Johnson Gentleman deceased May the 29th Anno Domini 1683. Heb. IX Part of the 27th Verse It is appointed for men once to die THE first Adam the Protoplast of all mankind was made upright his Righteousness was not the Righteousness of his Person only but it was the righteousness of Humane Nature It was a Connatural Endowment it was given to man with his Nature so that if Adam had continued in that his estate according to his first Creation He had with all his posterity been free from death But being created mutable and yielding to the Temptation of Eve who was inticed by the Devil in the shape of a Serpent He by his transgression fell nay his disobedience remains ours by imputation yea further the sin imputed makes us liable to the punishment to be inflicted and that is death threatened upon sin in those words In the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die All Saints are mortal though not equal The greatest sins through Christ upon Faith and Repentance are venial and the least sin in its Nature without Faith and Repentance is mortal and makes men liable to death temporal spiritual and eternal Now The death that I shall here speak of is a temporal death the Consequent of sin We see in the Text that it is a statute-Law it is appointed for Men once to die It is a statute-Law that hath been in force in all ages and will be to the end of the world The Law of the Medes and Persians which was not to be altered is not so sure and firm as this Neither riches nor honour nor beauty nor strength nor any outward priviledge can free men from death The Prophets do they live for ever Ministers Magistrates Masters Servants the deformed the beautiful high and low rich and poor they are all subject to death Abraham the Father of the faithful Isaac the Patriarch Aaron the Priest Josiah the Prince these all died All flesh is grass Death is the end of all flesh it is the way of all the Earth When Zerxes upon an hill beheld his great Army both by sea and land he wept considering that within one hundred years there should not be one of that great company left alive The World is a Theatre the earth is as a Stage placed in the midst Here high and low all sorts of people act their parts as in a Tragedy the cryes of new born children are as the Prologue our false hopes our vain joys our fierce distractions are as the Musich that divides the Acts Time holds the glass and when the last sand is fallen death strikes the Epilogue and the Play is done Man's life is like a winters day when the Sun is then strongest it is but weak when it is at the highest it is but low and when it shines longest it is but short Every thing hath its spring growth and decay and all men have their dates however eminent in degree and the shank of their Compass is so set in a Centre that the Circle of their lives is oftentimes abrupt before it be drawn to a full round Some whose bodies have been strong fitted for war have by spears and glittering sword been laid upon the ground purpled with the broken and bloody carcases one of another mixt as in an horible winepress others by the distemperature of diet continually labour contagiousness of air and afflictions by sickness have been weakned and have yielded up the ghost There are some Scriptures affirmative testifying that all men are liable to death There are other Scriptures negative testifying that there are none exempt from death The cause of death is universal and that is sin Sin is the true and proper cause Death entred into the world by sin Rom. 5. 12. Death is the wages of sin now all have sinned and therefore all are liable to death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Death is a propriety inseparable from man said Nazianzen Nothing can bear off fatal blows when Death-strikes with its Ragged-staff When the rich Cardinal of Winchester was struck with an uncurable disease and was told by his Physician that he could not live said he will not Death be hired will money do nothing must I die who have so great riches If the whole Realm would save my life I am able either by policy to get or by riches to buy it but all would not prevail but that he died of the same disease Caesar and Pompey who got such famous victories and were exalted to so great honour Marcellus and Belisarius those succesful Commanders Saladine the Conqueror of the East and Alexander the great who got so many victories and had Ambassadours sent to him from all Countries to congratulate his conquests and to do him homage and bring him presents these all died Though men live a long time yet they die All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years and he died All the days of Methusalem were nine hundred sixty and nine years and he died Joshua's Sun had a time to set and they who live a long time die at last which way ever you look you may see something that may mind you of mortality When you behold the dust of the Earth you may then remember that you are dust that to dust you must return When you look upon the flowers of the field you may then remember that man comes forth like a flower and is cut down When you look upon the clouds you may then remember that man going to the grave is as a cloud that is consumed and vanisheth away When you behold the fowls of the air you may then consider that Man's days are as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey When you look upon the water you may then remember that man dying is as the fome upon the water and as water spilt upon the ground When you come to Church you see the Sepulchers of others and some of you can scarcely go from the places where you stand but you will tread upon the dormitories of some of your progenitors When you travail abroad you hear of the death of others and when you come home upon your tables you see the carcases of creatures slain for your use All which things should put you in mind of that mortality to which you are all liable Objection The Apostle saith 1. Cor. 15. ver 51. We shall not all sleep Answer