Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	year_n	young_a	youthful_a	69	3	10.9832	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52303	David's harp strung and tuned, or, An easie analysis of the whole book of Psalms cast into such a method, that the summe of every Psalm may quickly be collected and remembred : with a devout meditation or prayer at the end of each psalm, framed for the most part out of the words of the psalm, and fitted for several occasions / by the Reverend Father in God, William ... Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1662 (1662)	Wing N1111; ESTC R18470	729,580	564

being this I will be thy God and the God of thy seed upon which follows Walk before me and be thou perfect 4. Upon the confidence of which Promise and Covenant David repeats his prayer Upon which he repeats his prayer For thy Name sake O Lord pardon my iniquity for it is great Multa magna And yet David proceeds in the consideration of Gods Nature his Goodness his Truth and Mercy to those that keep his Covenant And admires the happiness of him that trusts in God and by way of admiration asks Quis i. e. Quantus qualis O how happy how blessed is the man that fears the Lord worships God loves his Word and casts not away his hope and faith in the day of trouble and tentation Ver. 12 which happiness he sets forth by the fruits that follow his piety 1. The first fruit and benefit that he shall reap is instruction and direction in his Vocation and private life For God shall direct him Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 2. Ver. 13 The second is that his happiness shall not be momentary but firm and lasting 2 He shall dwell at ease not molested but quiet His soul shall dwell at ease 3. 3 Happy in his seed A third is that he shall be happy in his children and posterity His seed shall inherit the land 4. The fourth is that Redemption of Mankind by the blood of Christ and all the effects of it Remission Reconciliation c. which is a secret unknown to flesh and blood shall be revealed and applied to him Ver. 14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him 4 Gods Covenant applied to him and he will shew them his Covenant Being confirmed with these promises and cheered with these fruits he The fourth part 1. Testifies his acquiescence and faith in God for deliverance My eye● are ever towards the Lord he shall pluck my feet out of the Net In this he acquiesceth 2. And then returns to his Prayer again being in effect the very self-same that he began with which he offereth in several Clauses 1. Turn thee unto me He renews his former prayer 2. Have mercy upon me 3. O bring thou me out of my distresses 4. Look upon my affliction and trouble and forgive me all my sins 5. Consider mine enemies 6. O keep my soul and deliver me 7. Let me not be ashamed 8. Let integrity and uprightness wait upon me Petitioners and men in misery think that they can never say enough this makes him so earnest and so often repeat the same thing in which longing there is yet an incrementum The sum is That God would hear and grant him defence and deliverance in his dangers remission of sins which caused them and protect direct and govern him in his troubles Now that he might prevail in his Suit as an excellent Orator And useth many Arguments that God be propitious to him he useth many Arguments to induce God to be propitious to him 1. His faith and trust in his promises Min● eyes are ever towards the Lord. 2. The danger he was now in His feet were in the Net Ver. 15 3. He was oppressed and alone had none to help him I am desolate and afflicted Ver. 16 4. His inward afflictions and pain was grievous Ver. 17. 18. The troubles of my heart are enlarged by which he was distressed in pain in sorrow 5. And without his enemies powerful many merciless cruel Ver. 19 My enemies are many and they hate me with cruel hatred Ver. 21 6. And yet I am an Innocent and desire to be so thy servant Let integrity and uprightness preserve me for I wait upon thee And thus David having through the whole Psalm pray'd for himself He prayes for the Church The fifth part at last in the close he offers up a short but earnest Petition for all the People and for the whole Church which proceeded from that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ver. 22 which ought to be among the Saints Redeem Israel O God out of all their troubles The Prayer collected out of the twenty fifth Psalm UNTO thée O Lord I do lift up not only my eyes and hands Ver. 1 but my very soul and heart early in the Morning will I direct my prayer unto thée and will look up O Lord I am not ignorant how uncapable I have made my self of thy favour by my transgressions multiplied against thée but O Lord Ver. 6 declare thy self mindful of thy pity and mercy which thou hast shewed to Mankind from the beginning of the World and according to the multitude of thy mercies deal with me My sin is very great more in number than the sand heavier in weight than the greatest burden O pardon my iniquity for thy Name sake The offences of my younger years are over-many Ver. 11 into which the boyling of concupiscence inconsideration and my youthful heat and imprudence hath cast me head-long but O good God I beséech thée Remember not the sins of my youth nor the transgressions of my unruly and unbrideled Age but according to thy mercy think thou upon me blot out of thy remembrance my abominations and remit my crying exorbitances for thy goodness sake O Lord. O Lord Ver. 8 Thou art good and upright all thy paths are Mercy and Truth Thy Goodness and Mercy is shewed in admitting sinners to Repentance and thy Vprightness and Truth in pardoning them and making good thy Promises admit me then among the number of thy Penitents and seal my pardon as thou hast promised to penitent and believing sinners Thou art the God of my salvation Ver. 5 on thee do I wait all my life long from thy Mercy I look for my Instruction Ver. 4 from thée my Direction Shew me thy wayes and reach me thy paths and lead me in thy Truth I am a man of a broken and contrite spirit guide me in the day of Iudgment and suffer me not to be tempted above my strength and whatever way I choose be thou my Teacher and Monitor that I slip not and fall not in it I desire O Lord to kéep thy Covenant and Testimonies let therefore that great secret of Mans Redemption by the blood of thy dear Son be made known to me and the mercies of thy Covenant assur'd to my soul by which alone my heart shall dwell at ease and my Conscience be quieted from the guilt of sinne and sense of thy wrath These my sins have procured me many enemies and thou hast justly raised up these Rebels to revenge my Rebellions against thée with these I am so compassed that I know not what to do But mine eyes are toward thee O Lord and except thou pluck my séet out of the Net I must néeds perish in the snares that they have privily laid for me Turn thee then unto me and have mercy upon me for I am destitute of all humane help left

decide it 2. His Reason why he was wiser is For they are ever with me thy Commandments alwayes by me and at hand to be my Counsellors Again Ver. 3 secondly I have more understanding than all my Teachers for thy Testimonies are my meditation 2 Than his Teachers Which though it may seem to be arrogantly spoken yet it is not for it is no new thing for him that was sometimes a Scholar to out-go and excel his Master yea and there be many that will take upon them to be Masters to teach others that which they never learned themselves It is of practical knowledge David speaks and in this it was no hard thing to exceed his Teachers And yet again thirdly I understand more than the Ancients Ver. 4 He means not Adam Noah Abraham c. or any of those Ancient Worthies 3 Than the Ancients but those old men with whom he lived who were but grandaevi pueri being grown in years but not in knowledge and piety He was wiser than their gray hairs because he kept Gods precepts meditated in them and daily practised them 3. Another Encomium he gives to Gods Word is 2 The second Encomium of Gods Word That it is of power to keep from sin and for that he gives an instance in himself also 1. I have refrained my feet Ver. 5 Davids wisdom consisted not in a bare speculation but in practice he refrained from evil It keeps from sin he took no delight in walking in wicked wayes 2. I have refrained from every evil way He knowes not what it is to resist sin that resists not every sin that is fights not against and do his utmost endeavour to refrain it and take heed of it and subdue it if possible 3. And this resistance makes us stronger and more able to keep Gods Word whereas transgression diminisheth our spiritual light and strength whence David saith I have refrained from every evil way that I might keep thy Word Which he ascribes to Gods grace Now lest that any man should think that David ascribed this praise of godliness to himself or that it came from any goodness in him that he did refrain he gives all the glory to God in the next verse protesting because God did teach and enable him therefore he declined not I have not declined or departed from thy judgments Ver. 6 for thou hast taught me 4. A third Encomium of Gods Law is 3 The third Encomium of Gods Word That it brings great pleasure to those that keep it of which David having experience cries out O how sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter than honey unto my mouth Ver. 9 I have a feeling of them I desire to speak of them to others From the pleasure it brings to the The words of God written in the heart are more tasteful and pleasant to the conscience because they quiet it than honey can be to the palate And in the last verse he proves what he said 1 Conscience by two excellent benefits he reaped by it the one was understanding in his mind 2 Understanding the other sanctification of his affections 1. Through thy precepts I get understanding I am by them become learned Ver. 8 wise prudent he was of good understanding of himself 3 Sanctification of the affections but he prefers this light 2. Therefore because I love thy Law I hate every false way whether it be a false Religion or evil manners his affections were sanctified by it which begot in him a strong confidence from which did arise in his soul joy peace and tranquility which is to be preferr'd before all treasures and pleasures The Prayer O Gracious God Ver. 1 I want words to express that love which I bear unto thy Law O how sweet are thy words unto my taste yea Ver. 7 they are sweeter than honey unto my mouth Ver. 1 and this is the reason that those houres of the day which others mispend upon banities and pleasures Ver. 3 I spend in the meditation of thy Commandments Ver. 2 Through thy precepts it is that I get understanding Ver. 8 by thy Commandments I am become wiser than my enemies of more understanding than my Teachers more prudent than the Ancients who are full of years but not of wisdom because they know not what to practise or will not practise what they know Be thou O Lord my Master and perfect thy work give me more knowledge Ver. 6 and teach me still so I shall not depart from thy judgments Let thy Commandments be ever with me alwayes in my memory alwayes in my heart Ver. 2 and so I shall not only refrain my féet which I desire from any one but from every evil way Ver. 5 so shall I carry a perfect hatred to every false way Grant O Lord that I may bestow that little remainder of my time I have to live in vertuous and religious actions to the glory of thy Name Ver. 8 and the salvation of my own soul by thy mercy and the merits of my Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ 14. NUN IN this Octonary The Contents The commendation of Gods Word David gives a commendation of Gods Law 2. Obliges himself and resolves to keep it notwithstanding all opposition 1. The commendation he gives Gods Word is That it is a lamp Ver. 1 and a light Thy Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my wayes For the Law of the flesh and sin darkens the understanding that which is the true good is not discerned from bad till the Word of God is called for to be the light to which if men have an eye and follow it they will avoid all precipices and arrive safely at the determinate end 2. Of this David was assured and therefore upon it he makes a protestation and binds it with an Oath Ver. 2 I have sworn Ver. 2 and will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments 1. I have sworn David tyes himself by oath to keep it 'T is not sufficient to begin well except we end well and David knew our humane frailty and that we are apt to slip from our Duty and therefore he binds himself to it by a solemn Oath or Vow viz. To follow the lamp or light of Gods Word 2. Which he retracts not And secondly It never repented him of it he did not retract his Vow I have sworn and I will perform it 3. And I will keep yea but this was beyond Davids power True legally it is so but to co-operate with Gods grace and do his best it is not and that is it which Davd vowes 4. I will keep thy righteous judgments for so they are in themselves Rules of the greatest equity and David therefore resolves to keep them 3. Not would though discouraged by afflictions Yea but calamities afflictions and many dangers accompany the profession of Religion and study of piety for they that will live