Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	adam_n	body_n	death_n	5,454	5	5.9970	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09403	Hepieíkeia: or, a treatise of Christian equitie and moderation. Deliuered publikely in lectures by M. W. Perkins, and now published by the consent of his assignes in Cambridge by a preacher of the word	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1604 (1604)	STC 19699; ESTC S106090	38,157	104

couer our shame let vs remember that not Extremitie but Equitie becomes a christian and let euery man take heed of this as he would be knowne to be a Christian for the knowne badge of Christianitie is mercifullnes the more mercifull the better Christian. For he hath tasted deeper of Gods mercies to himselfe and therefore he is mercifull to his brother and the worse Christian the lesse mercifull for he neuer felt Gods mercies to himselfe therefore he cannot be mercifull to his brother Now to go to law for euery trifle or to steale lawe vpon thy brother or to sue him before thou offer him peace it argueth a hard hart and vnmerciful and farr from this dutie of forgiuing but to be loath to go to lawe and to put it of as long as may be and first to giue warning and to offer peace and not to doe it but in matters of weight it argueth a mercifull heart and such a one as is readie to forgiue and such a one in whome the spirit of God doth dwell And thus I hope I haue opened this dutie of forgiuing and forbearing in such sort as a Christian may see how to practise it with comfort to his conscience also without any great losse in this world or hurt to his estate And thus much for the foure seuerall duduties and degrees of Priuate Equitie Now hauing opened the nature kinds of Christian Equitie let vs proceede further in the text Let your Equitie saith the Apostle be knowne to all men The words import that it is our dutie not onely to knowe this vertue and the nature of it and to be able to talke of it but in all our affaires publike and priuate and in all our dealings with men so to put it in practise that men may see it and that it may be knowne to other men and that they may be able to auouch for vs that our dealing is vpright equall and indifferent ioyned with equitie and moderation and free from extremitie and oppression this is the meaning of that which we are here cōmanded by the Apostle And the reason why the Apostle vrgeth vs to make it known is because there is a priuie hypocrisie in our natures whereby we are giuen to make shew of more then is in vs. Against which vice we doe truely labour when we labour to make our vertues manifest and knowne to the world that so the tree may be knowne by his fruites he is a holy and religious man not who knoweth and can talke well but he whose religion and holinesse is knowne in the world and seene of men he is a mercifull man of whose mercie men doe taste So he is an equal vpright mā whose Equitie is felt found by thē who deale with him Let therefore our actions with men testifie the vertues of our heart that mē who liue with vs and deale with vs may be able to say for vs that we are possessed with those vertues for this is to be truly good not when a man can speake well or tell of his owne goodnes but when other men see it feele it and speake of it Hitherto of the meaning of the words Nowe that which was Pauls exhortation to the Philippians shall be mine to all true Christians Let your equitie be knowne to all men You haue learned what it is and howe it is to be practised it nowe remaines that we content not our selues with the bare knowledge but take notice of it as of a doctrine belonging to vs and put it in practise all our dealings publike and priuate yea and make it manifest to the consciences of all men good and bad so that euery man with whome we deale may taste and feele of our equitie and be able to testifie of vs that equitie beares rule in all our actions thus if we doe we are Christians not in name and profession onely but in deed and truth And to perswade vs all to this holy duty let vs vse some fewe reasons to inforce it and amongst all the reasons that might be brought there is none better then this here vsed in the text The Lord is at hand But before we come to speake of it let vs consider of one other which doth most naturally enforce this exhortation and it is this God sheweth most admirable Equitie and moderation towards vs therefore ought we to shew it one towards another It is the reason of the holy Ghost Be yee mercifull as your heauenly father is mercifull Wonderfull is the moderation that God sheweth to man it appears especially in foure things whereof two belong to all men and the other two concerne his Church The first Action of God wherein he sheweth great moderation towards all men is this A lawe was giuen to our first parents Eate not of this tree if you doe you die for it and that a double death both of body and soule But they ate and so brake the lawe and thereby did vndergoe the penaltie annexed by force and vertue whereof they should haue died presently the death both of bodie and soule and this had beene no Extremitie but Iustice for this was due vnto them by the Iustice of that lawe which was giuen them But nowe behold Gods Equitie and moderation of the Iustice of that lawe he strooke them not presently as the tenour of the lawe and their desert required neither with the first nor second death but deferres the full execution laying vpon them for the present a lesse punishment namely a subiection to the first death and a guiltinesse of the second that is of damnation Beholde a marueilous mitigation by the tenour of that law their bodies and soules should both haue presently died and beene cast into hell but God in mercie suspends and deferres the execution of it and onely strikes Adams body with mortalitie whereby he was subiect to the first death and his soule with guiltinesse whereby he was subiect to the second death by which mitigation it came to passe that as Adam by his repentance afterward quite escaped the second death so he tasted not of the first death till nine hundred yeares after If a prisoner counts it a mercifull fauour of the Prince or the Iudge when after his iudgement to die he is repriued but one yeare then what a mercifull mitigation was this in God to repriue our first parents for so many hundred yeares This was the first action of Gods mercie to man and this concernes all mankinde generally but especially Adam and Eve But the second doeth more neerely concerne all men So soone as man commits any sinne euen then is he guiltie of eternall damnation because he hath broken the law for the curse of the lawe is not onely a guiltinesse but a subiection to the wrath of god presently to be inflicted vpon the sinne committed without any intermission so that so oft as a man sinneth so oft doth he deserue to be plunged soule and body into hel without beeing