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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	death_n	sin_n	sin_v	14,462	5	10.3751	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91367	The vvay to heaven discovered: and, the stumbling-blocks (cast therein by the world, flesh, and devill) removed. Or, The ready way to true happines: leading to the gate of full assurance. With a word of reproof to the scattered, discontented Members of the late Parliament. And a word of advise to the present supreme authority of England. / By Robert Purnell.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing P4243; Thomason E1489_2	94,272	222

hast in thee many good things thou wantest but that one thing needfull and thou shalt be perfect make Christ thy portion and sell thy own portion and follow him Mat. 19. 21. Thou hast almost perswaded me to be a Christian Act. 26. 28. Object But what shall we that are in the state of nature do that so we might if not get immediately out of that state into a state of grace yet that we might be continually waiting upon God in the use of those means appointed by him to change us c Answ The way with the wise man in Mat. 7. 24. to build our house upon the Rock is as followeth 1. Be throughly convinced that thou hast hitherto built upon the sand which will easily appear if thou consider 1. What thou art by nature 2. What thou art by practise 1. What thou art by nature not only born in sin but left in a condition unable to recover thy self Job 14. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one Job 25. 4. How can he be clean that is born of a woman Psal 51. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Mic. 7. 2. There is none upright amongst men Rom. 5. 12. Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin so that death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 3. 9 10. Both Jew and Gentile they be all under sin as it is written there is none righteous no not one Rom. 3. 12. They be all and altogether become unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one Psal 14. 3. We are all gone out of the way we are all become unprofitable and filthy none righteous not one Now if all this be too little to compleat our condemnation wo go astray as soon as ever we are born Ps 58. 3. Gen. 6. 5. Every imagination of the thoughts of our hearts was only evill and that continually Yea all the Saints themselves before conviction conversion and regeneration were guilty of originall and actuall transgression Ephes 2. 3. and were by nature the children of wrath as well as others 1 Cor. 6. 9 10 11. Neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves nor theeves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdome of God and such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Tit. 3. 3. For we our selves were sometimes foolish disobedient serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envie hatefull and hating one another 1 Tim. 1. 13. I was before a blasphemer and a persecutor Eccles 7. 20. So that there is not a just man upon earth according to creation and practise that doth good and sinneth not and thus man which at the beginning was created happy is become of all creatures most miserable viz. a slave to the Devill a childe of wrath and an enemy to good and an heir to eternall damnation Eph. 2. 3. Now we cannot come out of this miserable estate untill we come to him who is the fountain of life and brought to him we can never be but by faith Heb. 11. 6. For as God is the life of the soul and the soul is the life of the body so faith is the life of our enjoyments and the promises are the life of faith now when a man or woman comes to be throughly and powerfully and effectually convinced that he or she was born in sin and have ever since lived in sin and that all the plagues and judgements threatned in the whole Bible are due to them for their sins as appears by these Scriptures Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sin is death Rev. 14. 10. These shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is powred forth without mixture in the cup of his indignation Psal 9. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell and all they that forget God Rom. 2. 9. Tribulation and anguish indignation and wrath upon every soul of man that doth evill of the Jew first and also of the Gentile see Deut. 27. 26. Deut. 28. 16 17 18 19 20. But besides all this the sinfulnesse of man by nature will further appear if we examine every faculty of the soul viz. the understanding is full of vanity see Psal 94. 11. nay it is full of blindnesse 1 Cor. 2. 24. unteachablenesse and incredulity 2 Cor. 4. 4. So the will of man is wholly depraved 1. It is contrary to God his word and Spirit in all things 2. It will not depend nor wait on God 3. it is unconstant in good resolutions 4. it disobeyes the will of God as we may see in Adams eating the fruit and Sauls sparing the Amalekites King and Cattle Then for the memory that also is full of corruption 1. That will forget the things that it is commanded to remember 2. It will remember the things that we are commanded to forget it will hold trifles and let go matters of moment So the conscience that is wholly corrupted 1. it is without feeling it is neither clear to see things that are amisse nor sensible of sins committed 2. Whereas it should excuse or accuse it doth abuse and pervert the light it hath by making great sins small c. Then for our affections they are also corrupt they come as a tempest and carry us away either to make us over-love over-grieve over-joy c. we hate our brother which we should love love our lusts whom we should hate by all which we may see that our nature is full of unrighteousnesse and ungodlinesse 2. If thou and I consider what we are by practise we may quickly finde our sins to be more then the hairs of our heads or sands on the sea shore Examine first thy actuall sins of thought word and deed in our thoughts there is much corruption they being idle vain wicked and so foolish as Dr. Preston saith If a man should write his thoughts of one day and read them at night he would think he was half out of his wits now thoughts are the first born and blossome of the soul and are the first plotters and contrivers of good or evill with them we entertain good in the temple of our hearts Then for our words the tongue being very slippery we offend easily St. James compares the tongue to a bit which keeps in the wildest horse and to a rudder which turnes the greatest ship and to a fire which inflames the whole course of nature Jam. 3. 3 4 5. Yet most men think it nothing to let their tongues walk up and down at randome from morning till night from week to week from moneth to moneth from year to year Then see it again by most mens actions their sins of commission their number greatnesse frequency and thou wilt soon say as in the Psal 19. 12. Who can