Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	sin_n	word_n	7,355	5	3.9910	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45703	The Christians blessed choice, or, The godly mans resolution to cleave fast to God and his truth, notwithstanding trials, troubles, and persecutions very seasonable for these times / by J.H.	Hart, John, D.D.	1668 (1668)	Wing H932; ESTC R40135	15,783	46

rather than they would sin against God by worshipping of Nebuchadnezzars golden Image would undergo the furious flames of his burning fiery furnace So the blessed Apostles as you heard before rathen than they would obey the wicked commands of men in not preaching the Gospel willingly rejoyced in suffering affliction for so doing Many more examples I might give you but these I hope may suffice and if there had been no other example than what is set down in the words of the Text this heavenly truth had been sufficiently confirmed In the fourth place I come to prove the vanity of all sinful pleasures and that may appear first from the shortness of them and secondly from the bitternesse of their end They are but for a season they come to an end nay they shall end in endless woe and misery Though sin be sweet for the present yet its bitter yea bitternesse it self in the latter end Though sin may be pleasant for a season yet remember I beseech you it will be painful to eternity The pleasures of sin they have an end but the pains and torments which sin procures they have no end When sinners have undergone the wrath of God ten thousand times ten thousand millions of years yet then are their torments as far off from having an end as they were at first The torments for sin are eternal and I beseech you remember enternity hath no end what pleasure then can there be in that which brings eternal pains with it Sinners even when they delight themselves in their sins even then are they pulling destruction upon themselves even eternal destruction Every step in sin how sweet how delightful soever it be in the eyes of the sinner is a stop to misery enternal misery They that hasten to sin hasten to sorrow yea they run to hell As Solomon saith They love death he doth not mean that sinners love death as death there is no beauty or amiableness at all in death simply considered in it self but yet they may be truly said to love death who love sin and delight in sin and live in sin The wages of sin ye know is death Rom. 6.23 Delight in sin is a hasting into the armes of death Sinners by their delight in sin do as it were woe death and invite death and the grave even hell and destruction so that even sinners themselves though now for a while Satan blindes their eyes yet at last when it is too too late they shall be forced to confess and say that there is neither pleasure nor profit in sin The Devil makes the sinner believe that there is a great deal of pleasure and profit in sin you shall get by it saith the Devil but let sinners once truly cast up their accounts how that eternal damnation will be their wages and then let them see what they have gotten by sin It is possible I confess that some may say they have gotten hundreds and thousands by it they have gotten Houses and Lands Honour Esteem among men pleasure and profit in the world but what a miserable gain is that which is gotten with the loss of the soul Read that dreadful Scripture in St. Matthews Gospel Mat. 16.26 and then see if there be any thing gotten by sin What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Will thy Riches which thou hast gotten by sin by oppressing the poor and defrauding thy neighbour redeem thy soul from death surely no. Thou mayest delight thy self in enlarging thy barns as that rich Fool did But thou Fool this night shall thy Soul be required of thee then whose shall they be There is no loss like the loss of the soul There is nothing to be gotten by sin thou mayest lose thy soul by sin and lose heaven by thy sin and lose the love and favour of God by sin Sin may pretend pleasure and profit but surely it brings ruine and destruction Those rich men which Saint James speaks of James 5.1 2 3 4 5. Versses they thought that gain which they got by defrauding their labourers of their wages to be very sweet they lived in pleasures they inriched themselves by the sweat of other mens labours but what have they any cause to rejoyce in this No saith the Apostle Go too now ye rich men weep and howl for your misery which shall come upon you They thought to heap up riches by their injustice and cruelty but they heaped up onely a little fuel for the eternal fire Dives he thought himself altogether happy when he enjoyed the world at will when he fared deliciously every day but what did this profit Dives death robs him of all and he himself is taken away from his sinful pleasures and thrown headlong into eternal torments he would enjoy the pleasure of sin while he lived and now he must undergo the torments of sin for ever O consider this you that delight in sin canst thou endure to dwell for ever in the everlasting burning if thou canst endure the wrath of God for ever if thou art able to stand before the Lord in the day of his fierce anger then take pleasure in sin if thou canst prevent God from bringing thee to judgement then let thy heat rejoyce in sin but if after all thou must come to judgement then take heed of sin Do not conceit that sin to be pleasant whose pains will be eternal in vain do men flatter themselves that they may sin and not suffer did ever any man rebel and enjoy peace can any offend God and have his blessing surely no sin shall not go unpunished if men will sin they shall suffer The soul that sinneth shall dye Sin destroyed the Angels those holy Spirits sin made them unholy devils Sin cast Adam out of Paradice Sin destroyed the old World Sin consumed Sodome and Gomorrah Sin brings Wars Plagues Famine Destruction upon Nations Sin ruins our names sears our Consciences and in a word it destroys body and soul for ever And then fifthly I observed That the reproaches of Christ are greater riches than all the honours of the world The best of Gods Saints have been reproached as holy Job and David was not onely reproached but was a reproach both to his enemies and to his neighbours He was made the song of the Drunkards The Apostles they were also reproached but here is that which sweetens all Christ hath born the brunt of all Christ accounts all our reproaches to be his The greatest part of Christs suffering for us was to bear our reproach so the greatest part of our sufferings is to bear the reproach of Christ Hence the Apostle in his Epistle to the Hebrews exhorts us to go forth unto him bearing his reproach Heb. 13.13 And Indeed reproach in it self is so great a burthen that were it not for his that Christ accounts it his we should never be able to bear it Hence Moses looked on his reproach as the reproach of Christ