item: #1 of 6
          id: A26806
      author: Bates, William, 1625-1699.
       title: Sermons upon Psalm CXXX, ver. 4 but there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayst be feared / by William Bates.
        date: 1696
       words: 26246
      flesch: 65
     summary: Sins of Ignorance and Infirmity , Sins of sudden Surreption , that steal upon us without observing , Sins by surprise of the Passions , when there is no time to deliberate , have extenuating Circumstances : but Sins against Light , wherein there is more of the Nature of Sin ; Sins against Mercies , which in the Language of the Apostle , are a despising of God's Goodness ; Sins against solemn Vows , wherein Men break double Bands , the Law of God and their sacred Ingagements ; Sins committed habitually and presumptuously , as if God were ignorant , or indifferent and unconcern'd , or impotent and without Power to punish Offenders : These Sins derive a greater Guilt , and expose to a more terrible Punishment . This was typical of the precious Blood of the Son of God that purges the Conscience from dead Works ; from the deadly Guilt of Sin that cleaves to the Conscience of the Sinner .
    keywords: christ; conscience; faith; fear; god; grace; guilt; heaven; justice; law; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; nature; pardon; power; repentance; sin; sinner; sins
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A29204
      author: Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.
       title: The right way to safety after ship-wrack in a sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons, in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin : at their solemn receiving of the blessed sacrament / by John, Lord Bishop of Armagh.
        date: 1661
       words: 7642
      flesch: 66
     summary: Indeed Innocence ( if t●● Herb of Grace were to be found ) is better than C●●fession : but there is more joy in heaven over one sin●●● that repenteth , than ninety nine just Persons that need●● repentance , among the Holy Angels : Da Pater 〈◊〉 per eis gaudere de nobis , &c. Grant , O Father , t●●● they may always rejoyce over us , that Thou ma●● always be glorified by them for us , that we and th●● together may praise thy Holy Name , O Thou t●●● art the Creator of Men and Angels . The Lord sanctifie our sufferings to us ; until then , we cannot prosper in our Affai●s .
    keywords: cover; god; grace; john; lord; man; mercie; mercy; sins; soul; tcp; text; world; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A42736
      author: Gilbert, Thomas, 1613-1694.
       title: A learned and accurate discource concerning the guilt of sin, pardon of that guilt, and prayer for that pardon written many years ago by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gilbert ; now published from his own manuscript left by him some years before his death with a friend in London.
        date: 1695
       words: 7624
      flesch: 60
     summary: Those in Christ are to pray to God to remove that Sin from them , whose Desert of Punishment cannot be removed from it ; and to spread their Sins before the Lord in the highest sense of the deepest Demerit of all Legal Punishment ; that so they may put the higher , both Accent upon the Free Grace of God , and Estimate upon the full Satisfaction of Christ , whereby their Persons are so fully freed from all Actual Obligation to any of that Legal Punishment , the whole and utmost whereof their Sins so deeply Deserve . But Ans. 2 To whose Persons the Legal Guilt of Sin is thus Pardon'd , in their Natures the Reigning Power of Sin is so Dethron'd and broken down , as thenceforward they can only be Guilty of Sins of Child-like Infirmity ; as to which God stands in Christ engaged , upon their Gospel-Repentance , to walk with them in a Covenant of Fatherly Pardoning Grace and Mercy : Insomuch , that whereas Rom. 6. 12. the Percept makes it their Duty , that Sin should not reign in their mortal bodies ; the Promise ver .
    keywords: believers; christ; gospel; guilt; law; legal; pardon; punishment; sins
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A44687
      author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
       title: The reconcileableness of God's prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and sincerity of his counsels, exhortations, and whatsoever other means he uses to prevent them / in a letter to the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.
        date: 1677
       words: 21967
      flesch: 62
     summary: It is fit the mention of this be prefac't with an obvious remark ; That the misapprehension of the state of things between God and Man doth , in great part , owe it self , to our aptnes to compare unduly , the Divine Government with that of Secular Rulers ; and our expectation to find them in all things agreeing with each other . For tho , when God urges and incites men , by exhortations , promises , and threats , to the doing of their own part ( which it is most agreeable to his holy gracious Nature to do ) he foresee , many will not be moved thereby ; but persist in wilful neglect , and rebellions till they perish : He , at the same time , sees that they might do otherwise , and that , if they would comply with his methods , things would otherwise issue with them .
    keywords: actions; course; doth; end; god; government; hath; man; matter; men; nature; power; sect; self; things; tho; way; wisdom
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A67000
      author: H. W.
       title: The freeness of Gods grace in the forgiveness of sins by Jesus Christ, vindicated. Against the doctrine of Mr. Fergusson, in his sermon preached at the morning lecture, the fifth of August 1668. in a letter to a friend. By H. W. a lover of the truth that is according to Godliness.
        date: 1668
       words: 8636
      flesch: 72
     summary: But secondly , How doth it arise from this Text , That Christ made full satisfaction to the Justice of God ? As if for God to make Christ perfect through sufferings , and for Christ to make satisfaction to the Justice of God were all one .
    keywords: christ; doctrine; god; grace; justice; punishment; saith; satisfaction; sins; text
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: A85434
      author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.
       title: Encouragements to faith Drawn from severall engagements both of Gods Christs heart to receive pardon sinners. By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.
        date: 1645
       words: 12457
      flesch: 74
     summary: And therefore it is , that Grace and Peace ( which are the object of Faiths inquest ) are still wisht from God the Father , and God the Son ; so generally in all Epistles , excepting that of the Revelation , given immediately by word of mouth from Christ himselfe . Hence , because the Scriptures were written for our comfort , and so , fitted to , and for the workings of faith ; therefore they were so written , as especially to bring down and lay before us the Heart of God and of Christ : and so the maine thing they hold forth , is , the full intent and purpose both of God and of Christ to pardon and receive sinners : This is a faithfull saying , ( sayes Paul with open mouth ) that Christ came into the world to save sinners ; and this Christ himself every where indigitates ; and to hold forth this , is the scope of these words uttered by Christ himself .
    keywords: christ; death; father; god; gods; hath; heart; men; pardon; sayes; sinners; world
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