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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	soul_n	16,341	5	5.1635	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52574	New-Englands duty and interest to be an habitation of justice and mountain of holiness containing doctrine, caution, & comfort : with something relating to the restaurations, reformations, and benedictions promised to the church and world in the latter dayes : with grounds of hope, that America in general & New-England in particular may may have a part therein : preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, at the anniversary election, May 25, 1698 / by Nicholas Noyes ...	Noyes, Nicholas, 1647-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing N1461; ESTC R16814	53,865	112

of the heavenly Courtiers that wait round the throne of God is their holiness and yet that is dim in comparison of the HOLY JESUS who is the Fountain of all the holiness righteousness the Saints on earth have There are some few Saints whose bodies as well as Souls are already glorifyed and the Spirits of just men made perfect who have received perfection of holiness Oh! what a holy place is heaven that is full of holiness yea so full that it doth as it were run over The skyes pour down holiness and righteousness there is none upon earth but what comes down from Heaven even from the God of all Grace and the God of Glory who is glorious in Holiness 2. To teach us what a wicked and woful estate man fell into in the primitive Apostasy He fell from a state of holiness and righteousness into a state of unholiness and unrighteousness If man had continued in the state wherein he was created every Man and Woman and Child had been a habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness Every Family every Society had been a habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness for God made man upright or right that is holy and righteous Eccles 7.29 Man was then a Vessel of honour sanctified and meet for the masters use Holiness and Righteousness were Concreated with and Connatural to him but alas it is far otherwise now Though it be our duty to be habitually and actually holy righteous yet we are stript of the moral Image o● God empty of G●a●e bent to act according to the corrupt Bials we have derived from the first Adam which warps us away from God and his holy ways and strongly inclines us to Unholiness and Unrighteousness Instead of being a habitation of righteousness the heart of man is become a cage of every impious unclean and hateful lust Mat. 15.19 Men ate by nature since the fall full of enmity against God inordinately and idolatrously in love with themselves and uncharitable and injurious unto others How miserably were our first Parents deceived Under a pretence of being like to God they lost his image and favour 3. To teach us That the grace and love of God towards fallen man is very wonderful in that God gave his only Son to recover poor lost sinners out of that wicked and woful estate of unholiness and unrighteousness that such as believe on him may be pardoned and justifyed freely through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus and that by the Grace of God bestowed on them in Regeneration and Sanctification they might be recovered to the Image of God again to put off the old man the corrupt nature derived from the first Adam to put on the new man the grace and holiness that is from Jesus Christ the second Adam whereby they become again after the Image of God in holiness and righteousness Eph. 4 22 23 24. There had never been among the Posterity of fallen man a habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness had it not been for this wonderful love of God in Christ Jesus for mankind was all gone aside they were altogether become filthy there is none that doeth good no not one Psa 14.3 If therefore any of the race do become holy and righteous and do good again we may conclude that they were created in Christ Jesus to good works for by nature they are dead in trespasses and sins 4. To teach us That it is a vile abuse of Christ and his Gospel and the doctrine of the free grace of God to make as if C●●●stians were thereby freed from the direction and authority of the Moral Law or that the motives to Obedience to it were abated by the Gospel It is certain that Christ did not Obey the law that we might have liberty to Break it nor did he suffer that we might have liberty to violate it with impunity but that we might be saved from the Curse of the law and from the dominion of sin and might be the Servants of God and have our fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Although the law was never given to fallen man as a Covenant whereby he could be justifyed yet doth it continue as a Rule of life And the Lord Jesus is so far from abolishing it that he puts it into the inward parts of believers and writes it in their hearts Jer. 31.33 It was the error of the Jews in the Apostles time to think the law was given as a Covenant of Works by the keeping of which they might be justifyed and have eternal life Against this the Apostle argues that the inheritance was by Promise and that God gave it to Abraham by promise and the law which was given at Sinai 430 years after could not disanul it and makes it an absurd thing for any to think that righteousness comes by the law and if so saith he then Christ is dead in vain Gal. 2.21 Gal. 3.17 18 21. The Jews took the law in that sence as when Luther calls it Moses Mosissimus a strict Covenant of works but had lost that sence of it wherein Luther calls it Moses Aaronicus A ●●arker dispensation of the Covenant of grace a Schoolmaster to bring them to Christ The Apostle knew now to urge Obedience to the moral law and to lay men under obligation to holiness and righteousness by its authority and motives without urging a necessity of perfect and personal Obedience to it in order to Justification and eternal life He could and did urge it as a Rule of life without making it a Covenant of life and rule whereby men could be justifyed Acts 13.38 39. Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins and by him all that belive are justifyed from all things from which you could not be justifyed by the law of Moses He could deny the law to justify and yet not make Christ the Minister of sin He could preach the free grace of God without casting any blemish upon the law or incouraging Sinners to continue in sin because grace had abounded Rom. 6.1 Compared with the foregoing Chapter and did maintain that the grace of God which bringeth Salvation agreeth with the law in this it teacheth men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Titus 2.11 12. 5. To teach us That Christians in the times of the Gospel may and ought to make use of the Scriptures of the Old Testament for their Instruction Example Comfort Although the Ceremonial law be totally abolisht as to its Practice yet forasmuch as it typed out or prefigured Christ his Graces Actions Sufferings and benefits and was some way instructive about moral duties the understanding of it is many ways useful to Christians as might be shewed in Apostolical argumentations So Heb. 9. throughout 1 Cor. 9.8 9 13 14. The judicial law so far as it was local and peculiar to the Jews binds not yet