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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	day_n	holy_a	keep_v	7,331	5	6.2245	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77379	A Catechisme for communicants. Set forth for the benefit of the willing to be well prepared for the receiving of that great mystery of the Lords Supper. / By A wel-willer [sic] unto all the children and servants in this great citie, and the suburbs, but most especially those of the parish of Dunstans East, London.	Bridges, Walter.	1645 (1645)	Wing B4483C; ESTC R173262	50,770	119

Thirdly the devils subtiltie may here bee observed and his prevaylings over a poore soule hee shewes us the Apple but not the curse the bait but not the hooke the seeming gaine but not the certaine losse the beginning but not the end of sinne Fourthly the nature of sinne Satan and all our spirituall adversaries is hence most plainely discerned what a craft sinne catcheth us with what a curse it curseth us with a spreading curse we read Psal 109.9 Propagation Imitation And out of the third part which is the visibilitie of the fearefulnesse of the fall in the severall characters thereof there may be seene A rule for tryall and examination of every one of us whether wee be yet in our fallen estate and no further Wee must doe in the understanding of the fruites of the fall of man even as men doe when they see filthy water run downe the kennell the question that men aske is from whence comes this So will wee Qu. Whence comes all this infidelitie desperation rebellion and the like in man An. From the losse of Gods image in the soule wherein man was created for as from the Image of God while man bare the same and the character of the Creator was lively stamped on him flowed all the testimonies of a full and free communion with God in Scripture expressed thus Thou hast made him a little lower then God and crowned him with glory and worship Psal 8.5 So from the losse of that Image comes a similitude and likenesse unto sinne Satan and all such deformitie the liker God wee are the more good the liker Satan the more evill wee must needs bee Qu. But is all this Image of God lost An. No A picture of some beautifull man is suppose in some of your houses but all blotted blemished and defaced yet so as that wee can tell whose picture it is so is the Image of God in our soules something left but so defaced and blemished with our sinne that we can scarcely discerne it like the ruines of some stately palace or a dead child wherein though you may espie the likenesse of the father yet it is but a vile and rotten carcasse Qu. What are those reliques which are yet left An. 1. Something in the body 2. More in the mind Qu. Whence else come these sad effects upon the soule after the fall An. The mind is sinfull depraved and corrupt in captivity and thraldome to every lust Qu. Wherein doth this appeare An. Thus positively there is neither actuall nor potentiall knowledge of God See Ephes 4. without knowledge the mind cannot bee good Comparatively thus tell them a tale and they will understand rejoyce assent and beleeve yea and remember too but in things of God no tast no savour at all And the reason is as plainly rendred by God also 1. That within them Jer. 2.13 they have rejected the word of God and what wisedome is therein them 2. That which is in the word it selfe which the naturall man doth not savour neither can hee for they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.13 Qu. But whence comes this mischiefe to man else after the fall An. His conscience is corrupted hee carries about with him continually a false witnessse which gives him an ill and indirect testimony on all occasions Qu. Wherein doth this appeare An. By a due consideration of the offices of conscience on this manner 1. It falsely excuses when it informe that to bee no sinne which is a sinne and it may bee a very great one too See Luke 18.20 21. hee is not ashamed to say no more are many of our ignorant people that hee had kept the commandements ever since hee could remember See another John 16.2 they that kill you will thinke their conscience so informing that they doe God good service 2. It falsely accuses when it informes that to bee a sinne which is not as in the things indifferent many dare eate no flesh in Lent dare not but keep such a holy day and the like Some other things might bee observed but I omit them See Matth. 6.7 they thinke to bee heard conscience tels them so for their much babling Some thinke they fulfill the Law of God because they keepe the Lawes of men For gesture at Sacrament Oh how fearefull are some people whether kneeling sitting c. eating such meat or the like a brother or a sister is not in bondage in such a case Qu. Is there then nothing left in the conscience now after the fall An. Yes there is something left in all the faculties and in conscience too as wee may see in Rom. 2.15 where God speakes of naturall conscience and of naturall men whose consciences yet doe accuse or excuse and when God will make it his scourge wee see how it can open his mouth and speake how it can terrifie torment and become intolerable Matth. 27.3 Judas for example Qu. Whence moreover comes this to man after the fall An. From the sinfulnesse of his memory For let a man come to Church constantly sit under the meanes of grace heare and understand many things yea and seeme to bee affected with them at the time of hearing and yet of all this hee remembers nothing nothing becomes profitable Qu. What is the reason An. 1. The mind doth not fully conceive of things 2. They doe not remember because they doe not regard wicked men are not perswaded how excellent it is to bee as Scribes instructed for the kingdome of God and to bring out of our treasury things new and old Matth. 13.52 Qu. Whence else is this great misery An. Mans will is sinfull and if the blind lead the blind that is to say a blind understanding lead a more blind will both must fall into a ditch as deep as damnation The will is more sinfull then all the rest of the practicall faculties yea the cause of all sinfulnesse in them There is in the will an actuall and potentiall inclination of it onely to evill See Gen. 6.5 2 Cor. 3.5 John 6.44 Qu. How shall this appeare An. By art and labour and industry men attaine to the knowledge and practise of other skils and knowledge but never to the knowledge and practise of Christianitie it is God there that workes the will and the deed 2 Phil. 12.13 See Psal 51.10 Qu. Whence else comes this great misery to fallen mankind An. Mans affections since the fall are all out of order and those if not guided are like strong and unruly horses without a bridle or like a ship without an anchor in the storme without a cable c. Thus wee read of haters of God Rom. 1.30 lovers of pleasures more then God 2 Tim. 3.4 rejoycing in a calfe Exod. 32.6 grieving at c. Qu. What are the uses of this point also An. I will declare them in order and so there are two generall uses Qu. What are they An. First that if all bee thus out of frame in man hee should repent For the