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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	son_n	13,863	5	5.3195	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38163	Great salvation by Jesus Christ tenderd to the greatest of sinners and in particular to such as have been refusers of it, if God shall now at last make them willing to receive it / by Richard Eedes ...	Eedes, Richard, d. 1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing E243; ESTC R17583	114,819	292

and rendered it more obscure to such whose eyes the God of this world hath blinded that the light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ should not shine unto them To conclude the point it is in the dispensation of the Gospel that the Lord Christ doth excercise all his offices Propheticall and Kingly as well as Priestly and those that are Refusers of the Gospel are such as slight Christ in all 2 Reason proving the sin of setting light by the Gospel to be great sin is Because it is an aggravated sin That is a sin monstrously great further greatned and made notoriously sinfull by circumstances It s enquired which sinns are most sinfull those that are committed against the first table or the second and it s agreed that sinns against the first are if other circumstances of weight concurre not to make the other the heaviest Scale But this sin of Gospel-refusing is greater than all because the administration of the Gospel doth excell in glory that of the Law as farr as Christ doth excell Moses I might here enumerate a multitude of circumstances to aggravate the guilt of this sin but because I intend as much brevity as a subject so momentous will well allow of I shall satisfy my selfe to enlarge a little upon three Circumstances The circumstances 1 Of Person 2. Of Time 3. Of Place 1. The Circumstance of the Person adds sinfullness to the sin otherwise Nathan had been deceived in pleading the greatness of Davids sin by the eminency of his person and Gods munificence towards him 2. Sam. 12.7 8 9. Thus saith the Lord God of Jsrael I anointed thee King over Jsrael and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul and I gave thee thy Masters house and thy Masters wives into thy bosome and gave thee the house of Jsrael and Judah and if that had been too little I would moreover have given thee such and such things Wherefore hast thou despised the commandement of the Lord to do evill in his sight Much like that of David to his false freind had it been mine Adversary that had magnified himselfe against me perhaps I could have borne it but it was thou my Companion and mine own familiar freind Joseph interposes this consideration betwixt him and sin Quomodo ego how can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39.9 And religious Nehemiah fortified himselfe against flying when Tobia and Sandballat were plotting his discouragment with the very like argument should such a man as I fly I will not go into the temple to save my life Nehem 6.11 Oh let the covenant-servants of the Lord and such as retaine to his Family consider this that those dishonours wound him most which he receives from his favorites and pretended freinds And as the abusers of grace given do sin with an high hand so the refusers of grace offered do sin with a hard heart and their sinns are also aggravated by the circumstance of the person None are capable of being guilty of this sin but such as live in the sound and sunshine of the Gospel those whom the day star from one high hath visited and to whom Christ is tendered in all his fullness The rebellious Jewes were guilty of it for it s said that Christ came to his own and his own received him not Iohn 1.11 And the Gentiles to whom the Gospel was sent upon their refusall they that receive it not are guilty of refusing it but Heathens and Infidels to whom the word of God is a stranger they cannot be guilty of this sin though sinning without Law they shall perish without Law Rom. 2.12 Yet sinning without Gospel they cannot be judged for contemning the Gospel Those Nations and people to whom the sound of the Gospel is gone out as it was into Jsrael of whom David said In Jury is God known his name is great in Jsrael c. He hath not dealt so with any Nation neither have the heathen such knowledge of his wayes and concerning whom Moses makes enquiry What Nation is so great to have the Lord nigh unto them as the Lord our God is nigh unto us in all that we call upon him for and the like may be said of England that it is a Land like Canaan the glory of all Lands a Land flowing not only with milk and hony but with better mercies the bread and water of life the wine and milk of consolation where the King that hath made a marriage for his Son keepes open house and the Lord of hoasts hath made for the faithfull of the Land a feast of fat things and wine upon the lees of fat things full of marrow and wines upon the lees well refined For such to be found here that shall undervalue the Lords bounty and run after their Oxen and Farmes and wives their profits and pleasures and lusts when they should thankfully embrace and rejoyce in the riches of Gods mercy and be meditating and studying some suitable returnes when they should be coveting better profits and solacing themselves with better pleasures and their hearts should be set upon better honours than the world can afford them what unthankfullness can be comparable to this what sinns or sinners can be more notorious 2. The circumstance of the time also doth aggravate the sin Paul said to the Athenians that were exceeding superstitious and given to idolatry Acts 17.30 The times of former ignorance God winked at but now saith he he commandeth all men every where to repent God did not require much from the darke times of heathenish superstitions nor so much from the duske glimmering or star-light of legall dispensations as he doth from us under the clear sunshine of the Gospel now life immortality is brought to light and brought neerer and made clearer than ever before Had we lived in the time of the old world neer unto the deluge when the world was overwhelm'd first with ignorance and licentiousness and then with water They were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marryage i.e. Wallowing in drunkenness and gluttony and lust making provisions for the flesh to fullfill the lusts of it so that Noah the preacher of righteousness could not be heard Or if we had lived in the time of that great revolt of the old Israelites when the Prophet complained and I only am left and they seek my life to take it away 1. Kings 19.10 Or had we lived near unto the time of Christs coming in the flesh when the Gentiles were no people Or in the rise and reign of Antichrist that grand Apostacy of the Gentiles then there might have been some excuse and we had had somewhat to say for our selves But to live in the last age of the World when the Lord is a destroying that man of sin with the breath of his mouth and the brightness of his coming when the fullness of the Gentiles is to come in and the Jewes to be reduc'd unto Christs fold I mean when these