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Axdjou {with he qnirkned, who were dead in tr:/]m[e:
ttitdfittttet, . . ‘ f '
t Wherei» in time: pafi]: walked according to the cattrfe of
thzk world, according to the prince of the power. of the ‘
a}ér:1,. the flzirit that new warketh in the children of dz];
0 e tence,  
 Among whom alfo we 3” had our t'on?2e'rfi¢tion\ in time:
plfl,ifi 196’ 114/7‘: of Mrfie/h, fa’/{fifiing the cl;/ire: of the '
1 fie/h, and of the min .4’, and were hj nature the children

of wrath;-ven 44 others.

'-  He fcope of the Apome in the former
7: .' part ofthis Chapter, is,_ to {titre up the
  EP59fi4m' to an hlghefiamation of their
..:,*~ ¢  ,3-;. redemption by Chrifl; and thathe

“A; mightthe better do this, hefhewcth
them their eflate without Chrifl ;

The" fcotae of
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‘That the] were children ofwretth, and dead in jimzet and
erefizafléx : and that they were deadjxt fin, he prcnfeth,
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_ Three falfe
§ guides among;
g the Ephefiannl
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Dofirine.

The Doflrine

. proved firli by

Reafon,

Secondly, by
Scriptures.

lbs Spiritual! death iizfinlm,-.       *

Fccaurc ciicy riélhrd am»: .- That they walked in 572,
he proveth, Becaufe they had amongl} them fame falfe

- guidcswvhich here he reckons up,and declares them to ' I

be the {c three :

‘ rifing out of the words, is this, to ,

Firfi, the World ; (‘They walked accerdivg to the .
carer/E of world.) " 
Secondly,’ the Divell 5 ( According to the prim‘: ofzhe 
power afthe ejre.  9

we «.2/[had our cozzverfletiomin time: pa/f," in the laafl: 
of our fie/h,&c.' i 
r The firflrpointthat We will obferve, as naturally a- {
That 2;]! mm h} nguurcfare dmdin tre;/]mj]E.r and/im_ 
This point is to’ be cionfidcred of all men’boch thofcl
which arealive, and quickned out of this Lethargy 3;

and thofe which are yet dead in their trefpalles and

ifins. That We are thus dead in (in, it plainly ap-i

I

peares bythis reafon ; All mankind were reprefcnted
in our firfi Parent efldam, ofwhofe Fall this death of l
(in, audio? nature, was made a part of’ the pum'{h-
men: : now he being the root of us all, and that being
dead, allthe branches mull needs be dead alfo. It is
alfo plaine by places of Scripture : as, M2, 5.2;, The
dead /ha./I hecire the voice of the Son»: of God, and the]
. that hem/54/1/im: So again,Ephcf5' I4. Awake tho»:

thatfleepcff, andjhmdztpfrrom the dead, and Chm/i/54/I
i give theelight. Alfo in the Gofpell, our Saviour Chrili .
{aith.Let the dead go hm] the dead : that is, let_ inch
as are dead in trefpalfes and fins‘. goe bury thofe
that are deaal through fin. By all which places it '
plainly appcares, that all men by nature‘ are deadin
fin. This men conlider not : You would thifllic it
agallly Gglmt to fee Churches, Greets, and houfes for
to lye full of dead corpes : but for to fee places full of
men fpiritually dead, which is farre the worfe, is a

[.~ more gaflly fight; and yet who amongfi us is

there, 
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In this death in trefpafles and fins, for our fuller’
underftanding of it , Iwiil thew you, thcfe fivc
things : A ' ‘

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7'15: kind.‘ 0ff})1;5 death.   _ - . 7 L‘ I I "
. T/)e_/igne: aftlzés‘ déatls. e . '
. The degree: of this dent/J.
5'. 7/7: 3/6 to he made ofit.
Fifi}, Whattéédeatkd. ;, What this
\ To know this, wemusi. underfland that as a cor- death is.

porall death, foafpiritualls de.-2.th*hat.ht two things in TW°‘hing3:a
it: « ‘ - . natssall and a_

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Firfl, as in the naturalldeath there is a privation of
life when the ionic is fepatated from the body ; {o in
the fpiritualldeath there is a privation of the life of
the foule; namely . the extinfiion of orjginall
righteoufneffe ; by reafon of which, a man s can nei.
ther {ct hand not foot forward; in the Wayes of good- . ’
nefle ; as Paulconfeffeth of himfelfe: for as the fepa.
ration ofthe {oule makes the body to dye; to the ex-
tinfiion oforiginall tighteouinefle makes the foul: to
d e. A u -
&ySecond1y, as in the death of the bodythtre is a
{linking catkz{Te left, when the foul: is departed
thence ; {o in the death ofthcsfoule there is a pofitive
corrupted quality left, called the flefh, wherbyatnan '

lcd deadworkg: : T/yérefare leaving the printfiplet of the why (0 gamed,
‘D,5},»,',,g afChrifl, lét mgoe5an'ur;tape“rfi£?iox 37 not lay ‘  
ing again: t/Jefaimdmion of repentance fiom dead warkes, 1 » 
&¢_Heb,6. I. And fotagain tn the 9. Chapter of the
fame Epifile, and I 5. vcrfe; where it is faid, How L
  nmc/9 more/Imfl the Hood of C/yrifljvbo through the "eter-
; mil Spirit oflbred bimfelfe m":-ladmfirat to God,V;$urge}our
f crmfcicnce from dead worlqgs, to farm the Living Goa’.
Now it feemes a econtradiétion that they fhould be

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‘P 4 l The Spiritual) death in jinne.

’ The "6’! °‘ Now For the chief: feat ofthisdeath ; It is chiefly

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~!works»,and yet dead-,but yet it is fo becaufe belides the
privation of good,there is a pofitive evill, and flirting

s quality,which is a&ive,and bringeth forth thefe evill
and dead works.

‘h-T-°’d"*’”" feated in the mind and underflancling, and not
.in the will. The underflanding is prirmm: 'w"vcn.r

3 {iv marina: primmn; the firfl living, and firfl dead: o

for although the will be corrupted, yet whatfoever
is in it, is carried through the undetllanding. And this
death of the undcrflandlng is fuch a darknefle of

judgement, as thetby a man efleenis not, but diflikes
the wayes of God and goodnefle, and approoves the
wayes offin and<Wiékedne{l‘e. And in this ficulty
ofman, the underfianding, is this death of {in chief?» f
ly {eatcd ; thetfore it is faid. [ohm L4.,;. 1» him my
light, and that light was the life of man. So alfo,€phe/'.

/lee/zefi‘, and /land tip from the dead, and C hri/I/haflgiw
thee /tght-' where he faycs, notlife, but light; for if
there be light, life will certainly Follow: So againc.
A8‘: 26.18. To open theirqes, that the} ma} mm:
from 4-«révdfe to light. One would thinke, that in
thefe places it fhould be life and not light; but it is
fo put to thew, that the cbiefeft feat of this death is in
the underflanding.'l”herefore alfo is it faid, Be renewed
in the /firs’: ‘afjattr minder, , Rom, 1 z.,_ And to the
flame purpofc alfo faith Iames, lama,‘ 3_ The Wordof
Trmh hegatjort : now Truth bath a reference to the
undtrllanding. And thus briefly have I given youa '
talte what this death is, and the place wherein it is
a Q   ‘ fcated. % ‘4 '_
1; ’“"I‘i‘~°‘ 2. Now it follows that we {peak of the kinds of this
° ‘ " °°“' dcath;which forthe better handling,and benefit ofyour
memories,I will range into thcfe three forts : ~
  I .' The death ofguilt,by which we are bound over
to ctetnall damnation , and fo in the lime man-

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The Spiritual? death infinne.

net ufually we fay, a man condemned is a dead
man. 7 i o
2; The death which is oppofed to the life of grace,
which is the ieparationl of grace from our foule.
3. The deathwhich is oppoled to the life of joy
and comfort, which is a thoufand times more
terrible then all deaths,il it were_truly,and as it is
indeed apprehended .  
Which latter death,that you may
of,l will open ita little toyou. a
God 1' oynes with every mans foule, and gives to the
molt wicked ma :1 fome feeming life‘ofgrace,and lome

the better conceive-

colourable life of comfort ;for els theywould indute an

hell here upon earth a \

For the firl‘t ; although the wicked haveno true
grace,‘ yet they have a fhadow of it, as IS manifell in
their morall vertues; So for the iecond, for comfort,
they have fome. although no true comfort : for Go°d
is the Authour of comfort, as the Sunne isof light;
which all both good and bad, doe more or lelle par.
ticipate of, or els they could not lubfifi :’ A3 may ap-
peare by the contrary; for when he doth but once
withdraw his comfort from us, it is the terriblefl
thing in the world : An example of this we may 11 e in
Chtill ; when this comfort was with-drawne from
him but in {enle and feeling only, it made him‘ try out,
L/”Vi'} God,m_7 G5!d_,nél2_y lmfl tbouforfalqen me .7 flint!/7.

c 27.45. “N here Gods prefence is taken away, thereis

nothing but horror and trembling: and I have known
fuch, that in his abfence. when his prefence hath bin
taken away, have had their foules Io prefled with
horrour, that they have laid, That if ata thoufand
yeares end they might enjoy the comlortable pre-
fence of God,they would thinlte themlelves the hap-

piell men in the world. The abfence..of_this, made;

Lather to lay, That if all the treaturesin Heaven and
Hell lhould fet totorment him, they could not do it
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3. The fignes
of this death.

Foure {ignes c f
bodily death.

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I. Privation of
frcafon.

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A dtflerence
betvvcene
knowing fpi.
tituall things,
and knowing
them in a right

V manner.

1 not-feparated from you, you feele not the torment of

. reafonand underfianding, fo do thofe that are {piti-

  ti Ziifirimha dmtb in mil

to much aéthet with-drawing of Gods comfort did. _
Alas poore creatures‘, now in this world God 18

this death, but npwryou en;'oy'the crepufmlmn, and
clay-lightcf this comfort; and therfore although it

be now lleightly efleemed, and little regarded, yet
when that day {hall come that the Lord {hall totally ;
feparate .them from his prefence, they {hall by lamen-
table experience learne how terrible a thing it is.Thus
much for the fecontl point,the kinds of this death.
3 . For the fignes of this death.
a The (ignes of it may be taken from them of the ho-
dily death;the fignes of that are thefe Foure .-
1 . The underflanding faileth.
2. There is want offenfe.
t 3. Want of motion. _
4.. There is a deadneflei n the face. .
"fhefe Eoure things you {hall find in a fpirituall
death: Firli, As thofe that are corporally dead, Want

tually dead ; they cannot unc_ier[lancl' the things of
Sand, no more then men can Judge of colours in the

ark. -     t
I but fame man will oh 1' e& and fay, the carnall man

knows many things, he hatha generall notion of the .

God-head, and cantalke of the creation of man, and
his redemption by Chrili, he can difeourfe of Faith,
Repentance, 6:.   '

. There is a great difference betweene knowing (pi.
rituallthings, and knowing them after a right man-
ner; a carnallman knoweth them, but not in a right
manner. And hence isthat of the Apofile, Tit. I . I 6 .
Tl»; profirffe that they know God, hit in works: the} den}
/923,595» aéamingéle, and dt'/béedient, and auto war}
goadmorie reproéhte : T116 Word which there is tranll l
latcd nepro6a£e,isc5J‘31“{~‘°’5 fignifying 33451: tv juafge,

Indeed in the general! they may underliand and lilée
. _ . _ t e‘

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. a-uI-%j.——‘‘é‘*‘‘,

; l-iraétthey love holinefle, but not as it is applyed to‘

ups

_g The Sfiritnall min in flime.   5

the things that are of God, but come to particulafii}.
cumllances, that crolfeth them; they, as a Diving
{ayes of them, love mritatem lucentem, mmirednrga-
mtem ; they wholy diflike particulars, becaufe they
bring them to bic (6 mac, to particulars. In the ab-

rticulars, as it convinces them of their particular
linnes. Hence it is that godly men are molt hated of
them that come nearelt to them in fhew, becaufe they
bring light home to them, and difcover their acerri- '%
ma proximamm odia, theirinward and bofome l hatred 1
of their neighbours: Iris as much as if one ihould 
bring a Torch to one that is doing tome unlawfufl 

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further off : their lives fhine as lights, and therfore
giving good examples by a lhmlng and godly convert

and hypocriticall ones, they cannot chufe but hate
them : and as all wicked men hate them, fo efpecially
thofe that are nighelt unto them in fhew 5 hecaufe that
their life doth not only lhine unto them, and lay open
their vilenelTe,but {catch them alfo ; and therfore tl: ey
being occupied about the works ofdarknes,wifl1 them
as far offas they can: So that hence we fee,with an ap-
proving Judgement. not any, {ave thofe which are
quickned,can underliand fpirrtuall things.

2.The {econd thing wherma naturall death coaliti-
eth,was in a privation of fenl'e;fo alio is it in the Spi-
rituall death ; for their hearts are Pcrong and cannot be
moved : although Iadeny not but fometime they may
have a little gri-ping of confcience, and fen Fe of Gods
1'udgement,,which naturally arxfeth from confcience 5.
but they never have any real] and true feeling ofit.

3. In a naturall death they are without motion .; fo
; likewife it is in a Spiritnall death ; for the wicked can
 no more move themfelves unto any good worl<,than a
:_ dead man can move himfelfout of his grave. _
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thing, fome deed of darkneile, he would wifh him 1

fation, ywhich is contrary to the life of the ungodly  

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t   4. In anaturall death there is a want of vig-oroufnes»
beauty and vi. and beauty,as well in the face as in all other parts of-the
gout. body ;fo alfothere is in the Spirituall dcath thC10fFt‘ 05
that vigorous beauty which follows the life of grate ;
they may be {em to have death in the face ; if a ltvmg
man beholds them, he knows how to difcerne It ; al-
though I deny not but that they may have__hyp0criticall
p-ainted_virtues,whieh may to weak eyes for a great
while feem true ones; as men may have painted faces
that have bintaken for living ones,but they are not true
graces,fuch as proceed from the life of grace indeed.
I but fome may heregobjerft and fay, have not fome
‘; men many excellent morall vertues, fuch as even the.
I godly themfelves have not 2 i

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A”JrW' ‘ Indeed it’s true that they have, and thefe -are Geds,

How wicked‘
 a dead mans ncckpr as Pearls in a Swines fnout:There

I _ * may [)3 many good things in them, but they make them
not good men;fot as the evill arfhons efgood men re-
dound not to their perfons to make them evtll,lo thefe
good aétions in evill men,redound not to their perfons
tomake them good;they may have good in them, , but
i are not good.And thus much for this third point, ". the

iagnes ofthis death.
4 The degrees

F h. . 4.. T qcome to the degrees of this death:
 ‘S filth fP11‘l}, For the death of guilt,that hath degrees; fome.
guilt; ° ' °  men are more bound over than others,as the Heathen

. men that were guided only by the light ofnature,they
’ indeed were guilty 3 but the Jews which had a more
l perfefl lmowledge,they were more guilty then they ;
and ‘now we that live under the Tropick of the Gofpel,
and have Sermon upon Sermomline upon line, and 6-
veryday are in[lru&ed,are more guilty then the]ews 
and amongfll us_,they. that have moll means, and profit.
The dc th V lealhare molt guilty of all;and therfore are mofi bound
Fame :0.  over untothts death.
Secondly. for the death that is oppofite to the life of

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gifts alfo, but yet they are but as chains of gdld about 1

grit‘

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T/ye Sfirimnll deoizt/2' ii: /inns.  

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rg;aee_~and fané’_c~ification,that alfo admits degrees : ‘

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  life, yet is truly and indeed no better than a death:

“thing to leavethemgas in the fins of uncleannefle.  

‘the Gate of Heaven then others, yetythey are as tl‘-u-_..

I ter how neare they are to

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I . For theifirll part, the deprivation, of life, indeed v
there is no degree ;but all thatare dead,inregard ofthe
privation and abfence of or iginall righteoufneflc,are all
dead alike. " i

z: But for the fecond, «-to wit, the pofi.tiv£e corrupt  

quality,whieh is called:-befiejly, that admits degrees;
ll-orone may be mad and drunk: both alike, but the l
one may have lome'afparks of reafon more then the

i other. The degrees therfore of thisdeatbs ‘ are thefe

three that follow: . \ .

gainft a holy liFe,although it be elofely and covertly un- 
der other names,For againlt them direélly the Divell '
willnot fpcak,b/eeaufe he knoweth It will not be re-
gardedgbut hefpeaks againft them under names of re-y
proach,whit’h he himfelt hath mvented.The{e men a re
oglcrgfthe h.ot',1to’m§?c3.l{S Ic{>_fbt1he~ehau1il_i1er jg death; a'}ad
t e ore lti-S a mo tmpo 1/ e trey you ever ri e;
but mull needs temainiri] a pnttifull eafe, although it
may bethey think far ot erwi e. _ » l

y 3. When men are givenup to voluptuoufneffe and
{enfuality ;. as Paul lpeaketh of the Wanton Widdow, .
I Tir:.s6.{6.;]h:;t/geeauigel Ila; lived {in vciluptuoufnes, {he
was ea 1: se a we : ven 0 t t‘. moreamanrst
funke i_nto voluptuous eourfes,the more he isdead, and
as it were buried in his corrupti0n§,i_o that he is alto-
gethereunable to (tit out oftbfim ;‘ It 1s a very. diffieult

3. When we are indifferent, and care not how
things go; and this is when a man is-addrfted unto
the death of civill men, which 18 a degree nearer to

fuch as have much refiraining grace. thefe are nearer

ly {but out as they that are furthelt til; it is no mat-
Heaven, fince they are all
B 2 out

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Three degrees
f I. When men do oppofe and let themfelves a- §‘°f ‘ms d°~‘-‘h-

he firfl. ,

The fecond.

The third.

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LIVELESLIFQ
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Mans Splrituall death In Sinnc.
Wberein is both lmmedly izndprqfitfzély hma’/ed tkefifiure

Tho Spirituall Death in Sinne.
The Doétrinc of H umiliation.
Mercy to be found in Chrifl.

, Continuanccoin finne, dangerous.
Being the fin fiance of fierumzllsermons upon

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Amljau bath /:2: qm cIQ2ed,w/.10 were dead in treffajféx 4mlfim',&:c,

- Whcrcunto is annexed a profitable Sermon at
o LIN<:oLNEs.INNs,On
G! N. XXI I. XIV.

Doffrines

worth y I nfirumcnt of Gods glory,
IOHN P RESTON,

D*;.in Di.Vifli!y$Chaplainc in Ordinary to his Majcfiy, ‘ ,

Mailer 0fEmmmel Colledgc in Cambridge, and fomctimcs

Preacher ot L I N,C0 L N n 3 1 pun»; '-

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The death op.
polite to the

l M The S pzrztuall death in finne.
loot of Heaven alike ; they {hall be (um, if ncver any
more _qutckned,to go to Hell as well as others.

A Th1rdly,the death that is oppofed to thelife of joy
and comfornthat hath alfo degrees : God fometimes
with-draws his comfort from fome more than others,
and fo fig) ers fome to have leffe horrour than others :
Thus I have briefly explained this death, in which all
nien naturally are. I will now anfwer an objcaion of
36/larmine agamlt that which hath bin (aid, and fo
come to the fifth thing.

Some there be that lay, If all men are dead in fin,as
you fay they are,then to What end is all our preaching,
and your hearing?for the dead are without life,and can.
, not bemoved with any of thefe things, and therefore

| they are all in vain.

To this I anfwer ; firPc,that although every man by
nature be dead unto gr-ace,yet he bath the life ofreafon
in fin,wherby he is able to perceive two things :

I. To fee that they are dead, and_ without this life of
grace,their confcience telling thern fo.

2.B y the fight and feeling ofthclr dcatljathty are able
to bring the mfelves to the rneanes of life, as to the
Word and Sacraments.

’ Secondly,I anfwer;that though allgmen be dead, yet
 there is an end and eflr':é’c ofour fp zakingand their hea-
§ ring : for the Word that we {peake may put life into
1 the m,as the word that Chrilt fpake unto Laz,arm,.w3s
‘ able to raife him fiam the dead. .

Thirdly, we muft know that there IS a great difl}-
irence betweene this ipirituall death,and the Corporal}

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bCtW€i°“€ the death;for this death confilleth in the underflanding and
{pimuall and, will, and is a free willing-death; in it they freely fly

corporaldca

i oFdeath,and therfore are {aid to be already de4r3:as,fup.

pole a man is refolved to commit murtherxor treafon, ‘

5 and a friend come to him, and perfwadea him from it,
 and cannot prevai1e,that man maybe {and to be dead,

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f ,___ ._. .v__ .

-s good and imbrace evill; they freely choofe the wayes ‘

1   becaufe

The .Sjpz'rz’tu;fl death in finne.

becaufe he will do that that will coll: him his liFe :Even
Y0 we may affirm that that man is dead already ,becaufe
he wil do that that wil bring death after the doing of it.
5.Now for the lift t‘hing,the ufes of this point, That
All men by nature are dead in finmzr.

The firfl [He then that we may make of this point,
is,IF all men are dead in (in, then let us be exhorted not
to defer-re our repentance-,faying we will repent after-
war'd.This is a fault ufuall amongll young men,and fuch
as prefume of their Ctrength and ability of nature _to

live a great while,they find nature Ptrong in them, and
therfore put off repentance till they be ficke, and age
bring them to tbinke of death : but let fuch confider
that they are dead already, and repentance is a putting
of a new life into them ; Doli thou thinke it is in thy

A power to create a new life in thee when thou art dead .?

Surely, no more is it in thy power to repent when thou
Wouldell. _ Hereby the Dwell entrappeth many, in
putting this concert into them, that they may repent
making them to millalte repentance,in conceiving of it

pole to live well_aFrerward,, and leave all {i n : he ne-
vcrtels them, not they never thinke that it is the circa»

more: but they are deceived:this is not to repent, for
thou mayell do all this ,and yet when thou hall done, he

forrow for thy an that is pail; and a l purpofe For the

a ti me to come to endeavour to leave all {imarifing out of

3 love to God : for all repentance arifeth either our of

I , a Iovc of God,or els from felfe-love : if it be out of a v
 1m}¢ Ofgod, thou wilt prefently give thy felfe unto

;l~,ig fervioc, and forfake thy finne: ifit be not out of

l  love to God, butout of felFe-love, that thou putpofelt

{to forfake thylinne, then it is not true repentance‘,
llaut Falfe,an.dr1leth fromlbgy-refpeéls. ~ Repentance 13
5- x 3 I

go‘. .

It
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to be nothing els but a forrow for {in pail, , and a pur- ~

. repentance.

when they will‘; and this he bringeth them unto, by th

tion ofa newlife in them ;-For then they would fay ,

damned. But fuch repentance as will fave thy foulc,is a ‘

hard

so.

§.The Vfes of‘
this point.

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Simile;

An example of
Spire.

, The Spiritual} deatbin Me.

hard -to be had,itis not in thine‘ owne powcrt; 63166.?‘
‘I God breath at new life into-thee, thou canfi not re-

pent ;, thou art as the red clod ofearth before God, of
which he made Adam ; it had no life, untill be fin-.z~
tked into it : 10 while the fpirit breatheth in u?’ We 3“
dead. A Beall may defire his owne life, Io may a man
his owne falvation, but he can doe nothing without
the fpirit blowes; VV hy‘ wilt thou be fo ioolifh as to

deferre thy repentance unto another time? If a man

upon paine of death were within twenty daye-s to be
beyondthe Seas, if the wind l_hould blow well for
his purpofe thefirlhfecond or third day, would he be

‘for Foolifh as to negleél it, and deferre his 1' ourny, and

fay, it may be it will blowagain ten clayes hence, and
thcnfwmge 3 No,hew1ll not belo foollfh, for he
knowes, the wind 6/owe:/.1 where and when it /tflct/.7;
and therefore he will takeit when it blowes,left it

blow there no more. In thefe earthly things men are i,
not fo fooliih, why therfore are they .{o ignorant in i

this point offpirituall wifdomei‘ Let every one of us
then hereby be iperfwad ed to learnewrfdome ; when
thes pirit bloweth,negle& it not :certam it is, that ex-

. cept it doth:b1o,w in thy heart,"thou art damned ; thcr-

fiorewhen-itdoth blow, fuppofe it be at I7.or 18.

ycares ofage,negle& it not ,omit it not,neither deferre '

1t,it may be itwill never blow again,and thou canlt not
"make it blow when thou wouldelhfor it is free. ,
There are none which live under the Gofpell,but at
fome time or other have had fo‘me blalts of the Spirit,
but in fome it vanifheth as bubbles in the water :but let
us take heed of that,and unlelle we could have them a-
gain when we would,let us not letthem pa{Te : when

thou halt but the leaft fparke,let it not go out, leave it

not till it is become a flame to purifie thy heart.
J~‘r4ncz'4 Spin: negleéting thefe comfortable hlalls, at

l

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the lall: wilhed that he might have had but one drop ll

ofthatcomfott which once he defpifed; and fo tilll

his

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his [all breath,etyed oat,I am damned./Go not therfore7
Gill on in thy fins, fallly perfwading thy felfe, laying,
Thou {halt be faved: Remember what God threatneth
unto {uch men,‘Dmt. 2 9. I 9. ‘He that heezrihg the word:
of this our/e, /hall hleffe himfielfe,fa}ing,I/hall hot we peace

an-xv

though I follow m]_/in: 3 the Lord will not he merczfitfl to
that mom. Sit downtherfore but one 'halfe‘“houre, and
confider wizh thy felf, that thou art but a dead man ,and
thatthou canll not quicken thy felfe,but it is God only
that is able toequitken thee ;' and he quickneth whom
h 2 will ,and thofe whom he quicknethare butv cry few,
as the gleaming after the Harvelt, or the Grapes after
the V'mtage,and-thou knowell not whether thou art in
that {mall number:eonfider,:I fay,butthis with thy felf,
and-furely thislwill make thee never-to give thy felfe
tell, untill thou findell life in thee, and never be quiet
untill thou art fure thou art quickned. y ' «
  ‘ Another life which we will "make of this point,is,If Up 2
naturally all men are dead in trefpafles and I-ins; this HOW tgefieem
fhould teach us how to elieeme ofcivill men, and {ash emu men,
likeswe fhould elieem of {uch men as of dead menzand
therfore, ‘ ~.   »
I . We fhould not over—value them..
_ 2. W ee {hould not make them our compani.
OHS. . 4 A
Firfhwe {hould not over-value them.

For their beauty, they have none that is true E35211?
cy ; what beauty have dead men in them P they are
dead  us not regard their feeming beauty. Elleeme .
the poore Saints ; for they, thou h never fo meane,
aré better then thofe, though never fo brave.-_ eGrant
Your civilly men be as Lions. ( then which no irratio-
nan q-cature is better) and that your Saints are but as_

_ Ilife to elleeme nocarnall excellency ;-fo faith Poul, _
! 2 Co;-5,1 6,17. Wherefore henceforth /Qsow we no memo
l i |

Dogs (then which no creature is worfer) yet a living _
Dog is better thana dead Lion. It’s a ligne of a new

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s.''’
O_‘I‘4

:4 The Spirituzfl death in finnei

‘after the fie/h; _yea,though we have /grown: Chm]? after
' the fie/h, Jet mm henceforth know we him no more. Ther-
fore any mam he in ('hrifl,he I}: ainew creaturemld thing:
I are pafl emm];heheld all thing: are hecmee nemhe, that is
a new creature,will not regard thefe things, but they
will be dead in his account. They account as but dead
memtherfore let us account them fo alfo. 1
l Secondly,Make them not your companions.  

We may,and ought to love them with the love of
pitty,but not with the love of delight and complacency:
i F thou love them and delight In them,1t is a {igne thou

art dead alfogyet in this we are too blame,'_that we do

not more pitty them,and fccke their falvation, but we
omit not delight in them, and make them our familiar
acquaintance,for we can never thrive in grace till wc
leave them : for although they be dead. yet thcy have
a leaven which will infect thee, although thou percei-
velt it not.We ufe to fay,we wil make ufe to our {elves ”
of the good in them,but let the hurt go : but we cannot
do fo; for we are infenfibly hurr,when we thinke we
are furthefi from it:Even as a man is tanned when he

is working in the Sun,and he never perceives itgfo doth
their company infect us infenfibly,when we think leaf}
of it : Ir’s therefore but a folly to purpofe to {erve
God,and not to break off their company ;yea it is a plain
,5~,',,,;[,. contradi&ion.Every man is compared to a coale, he is
either living or dead;if he be a living coaI¢,he will kin-
dle him that is next him ; but if he be a dead coale, he
then will black and fully thee : Even {'0 it is with com-
pany,ifit be good and zealous,it will kindle our affect-
tons ;—but if bad,it will be fure to infect us : thcrfore I

*l- from fuch company thou mull either gaine good or 5

l The third ufe we wi 1 make ofthis point, is this,

harmflbut fol‘ g00d.cettain it is that thou canihcceive
n0|1€.and therfore thou mull receive harmc : If than
""4[k€ with the m'fi',tho#/halt he more my} ;  with the t
fi”1¢’a¢bwI_/halt lurue fall ’P‘_)‘0,] 3 .20,

Simi/e.

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Seeing f

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I 171:: Spirimall dear}: in  ,5“ f

‘ _Seeing that by nature all of us are children of tvra;b,¢:,4 ‘Of: 3.

7 mutt put Inke into them ifever theybe, cfiéauan;

L are quickned to be thanklull to God therfote. Abovc
L all,we ever laboutto be molt thankfull to him that hath
’faved‘out lives; and this God hath done for us, let us
therfote Ptirre up our felves to thantkfullne{Te.‘7>m4l, as
we may read,Itam.7.24,z 5 ~. ioyns thefe two together,
his deliverance and his tbankfullneffe ; 0 wretc/Jed man.
that I am!IVba‘/Zuzll delwer me fiam this éad] of death ,? 1
thank; Godghraug/2 Iefm Clmfl our Lord, I conifeffe
the World ellcerns not this,but if they have riches, that.
in they reioyce; and lo like the Dunghiil-Cock, lo,-
unsrkilfull Lapidaties, preferrc vain things bcfofc
i this precious Jewell ; but they that have once found
the fweetnefle of it, will not loofe it for a world:Fot 4
if we have but this,what though we loofe ‘W ile,Chil..
drcn, goods,credit andigood. name? they are all too
light abeinghityd in the Bailance with this, Do yea 1
every one therfore confidet who it Was; that gave
thee this, and to him yecld‘ all tliankfinlntfle. Let us
love much, becaufe as much [is fotégi-ven, tic much ,is
iven as : Paul was much irre uh wi this confi-
? get-ation, thinking * that he could nevler -do enough for l
Glhrilhwho had done fo muchefor him .; as appears in
many places of his Epillles. “ . i
The fourth llfe we willmt ke of this point, is, If ,0
we are all dead in ttefpaffes and fins, thanthis tcacheth ‘ Hf; tfcfleem
us how we lhould efleem of the means of grace: if of the mam
we are dead, thantit mufi be an Omnipotent power of grace.
which mull quicken us. ikhll the means, as the Word
reached, the reccivin t e Sacraments, ¢»;~c. are but,
gead letters, they are bugas Pens without Inke, . God

to thanl<full.¥
mile for being
quickned.

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and therfore as we mull not give too little to the
means, fo we mull not sgivettoo much,.not tell in
‘them. ‘Nhen we come to heart: the \/Vord preachtd, o
gitis not the hearing the Minilier, but Chriil in the

' ‘ V C Word

den +123; treflmfl}: andfz‘n:,This fhould (litre up thofe that T0 Rlrfe Upl  

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T/‘fa 5.

To examine

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civiil men.

'7 ' Tbaspzrituaill deaztlviitzyflnrifl , ‘-

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. ~ lW'ordpreached",tivvl1ichmaltesuslive. It is good to
‘ heare the Miniller, butextept we heare another voyce -

{peaking to the heart, as his dothto. the eare.,.we {hall
nevcrbe thewbetter : it is Chtills voyce in the Word
which doth quicken and lputlife in our foul-esfiut here

pipe from the Fountaine 4;  thou heareil and profi:ePc
not, kuowthat it is hecaule Chrill fpeaketh not to the

ward cares. . ‘ t     r
v The fifth and hail llferwe will make of this point.
lfhall be, If that naturally all men are dead in (in, this

 

°“" {¢l"’~‘5 ml" fl-nuld teachus totry our (elves, and fee whether»'w.e_. '

ther wee have

life in us or no.

aredead or alive. Confider the fhortneiie and uncer-
tainty of thy life here: Manse life is like an,H0ure-

{hart while. to live ‘here, according to the courfe of

Nature, and yet perhaps that courfe may: not run out
. 1'00, it may hebroken off before we‘ are/~aware ;, and
’ then for ever, either in Heaven or Hell, we mull: abide

How. the D,-_A'ahereafier : Othen never be quiet untill you lee whi-e
yvell deccivcs i that you mailings, to etetnallghlifie,-or cverlailing woe.

iH~ere the Divels trickeiis to put it into ‘menslheadst
l'-tllstacivill life will ferve the turne : l but he dealeth

, 3, withthetn as“thofe‘that‘take Gold from Infants, and

1 give them-Countereand Rattles : and thus he would

 keep them from this confideration, perfwacling thém

« g of the latitude-of religion yéallti tel-ling thcm that $176)’

; are well enough, feeing they aI’€»'tI'_OL1l;-lfid for "fame
 15118. Land‘ do fome duties, perhaps, in private ;. but
i’ this you may do, and yet be dead‘ (till. If he 030"“
1 prevaile this way, than he willlabout to hindclj thfim
9 bydrawingtthein oninavoluptuouscourfe of life, 01’

l with worldly cares; and fo draw‘eth«th€m~fi‘Om them-

g felves, and fo” makes them never to confider What..th¢Ya “

 are deing,n’or whither. they are going .-. , and thcr.F0i‘C

I

let me warne you. to take heed ofhreaking the Conduit ‘

ear-esof the heart, as well as the M inifier i to out out-  

glafle; if it runneshis courfe it is but an houre, lanidrit ‘
' _ maybe brokenbefore it-is, run out; yee.,hav¢*bUt 3

ls‘

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A  that in the ‘G‘ofpe41lot'"sS;Em”]e_é;C béprio, {the ._.pmd‘i,

_again,orthe Sons of Thunder’-fl3ould'fpeak, yet except

men ferioufly to confider their e{iates_.; It big;-.1;¢ hardcfl
thing in the world to make men fenfible of life. and

, death.I.et us therfore be moved in particular to confi-
i der whither we aredeadn or alive. _ ' 
If thou art quleknedgthou {halt find,one«tin:»e or other;
theie two things inthee .:  ’ .«_  5: ,e   ' .; t _
Firll, Thou once is (lit a deep sanclrfenfible cgonlidera;

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'3 tion of thine eliate by nature-gthoti wert deeply ea Eieflted -1

W.-ithit, fo that thou faiw_e&-what neefl thou had& of
Chtilligtill thou‘ hall had this rconfideration, thou art . a
dead ‘man.-I know God canfave thee -without this, he

not,neither ever doth,bccaufe it is irnpofiible For a;m‘an.
highly"to’ePceem of ChTiii‘..Eiii'hCiS‘thUSéhLl.1IlbiCd;3 for

take himwith all crofles.and lo{i'c.s,till be fully fee; what
‘humbled.  

what thou formerly wergneither is it aflcighmchangc
that will fervehbut it malt be both mnliantt and ‘gene-

new foule in another body {Thy change email be fo
great that thou mayli fay, Eganon [am ego, I am not
myfelfe’, .Lar_n ‘quite another man ; There mun: be as

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gall‘ Son is faid‘,t'afcame laome ‘to;é2im.[e:lf¢‘, 'when;h_e;,onc¢ :
began to confrderihis e&atee:A-llthouglt. t31eir'.€Qn.l-tience ;
tellthern all is wrong,yet the Tabrets ofrlulljs and plea. *
. fut-es make fuch a deane where they ate,that they hcarc
it notgand to never confider:nay,if.thgt Chrilt himfelfc e

Gods'S oirit (bond sinwlardl-yr.work,it would not make 

_ % conldicosnc withoutthe terrible voyce,as Chrifi, could ;
have eome -without I aim B-gijitifl’ beesfore,him,butrh¢5;W,ill?

he neverwill prefetre him in particular. ’aé,tions,} and '
need fnehath of him,which he cannot" untill .-he. is thus.» A

Secondly, confidet if thotrwert eve’rvchen.geci=tfrorn‘ : l

I tall ; it mull notbe For a moneth‘, 'or\a yeare, ‘but daie ~
‘ly and continually,  It s mul’c._be17.ftich .a;.change tbatgll »
Where-thou liven may‘. fee ;ite;' thou x"nulir~bec9i’nel'a 1

egreatachange in thee, ajs-there.is.:in‘ la;-whit: cloth
7 -* -   ‘when t‘

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An applicati.
onto examine
our {elves be-
fore we receive

l the Sactamennl
l

' xghen it is dyed black.Such' achangc was in Paul, he
' was conv erted from aPetfecutot to aPreachcr :So thou
, mull of a Lion be made a Lamb: : there mufl; as much ,

s fufliciently e{leet_nit,and conceive not what right we

 
 

T be Spzrituall death in finne. ‘W:

difference be in us,as is between Winter and Sumxneu

Andnow feeing the time ofthe Sacrament is at hand, a

let us all examine our {elves zwc mull notmake cxcufes
to keepe from the Sacramennbut as all,Nehem.9.were
tocome-to the Paiieover, els they were to be cut‘ eff
from their people,< xcept they could ll1CW fame good

For the Sacrament. But again, on the other (ids, if we
do come,and are dead menpw game unworz‘/Ji/J, and mt
and drinke our mama pdammztian ininat dz:/2'erm'x_g the dad}
ofClm'jZ,t C'or.I 1.2 9 which we do when we do not

have to it,w hichfwas the (‘arintlaiazm fin ;for they knew
Well enough that that did rcptefent his body. Let us

The nature of
dead men.

fpititually dead

“men. -

therfore take heed We come preparedly ; for as God
lltooke 'Uz.zab for touching the Arke with polluted

fo if thou come unprepatedly to the Sacrament,he will
(trike thee. ' l

But to return« to the point which was even now
handled,Tbat all men are dead in treflmffe: and firm, be-

Two kindes of{ V

~ Deadtnen are either, i '
l I. Such as arefiarkedead in fin, and do make no-

caufe;fo I know no reaionwhy it fhould not be fo (‘till i

l1an_ds,-and Nada!» andAl2ibn For ofiering of Grange fire, ,

Caufe it is a point‘ which concerns all forts of men, we ,
will ailittle further confide!‘ it, and in the next place
{ {peak of the nature of d cad men. A '

thew at all oflife;as are all 0
notorioufly wicked men. - . .:

,2 ..Such as are dead indeed and intruth,but yetmake a
fhew of lifc,outward1y feeme to have it ; like the
Angels,that have appeared many times in aflumed

and flxbflantiall ;, and thefe are chiefly dillembling

hypocrites,ot.men meetly civill. 4
~ - ' ‘ Flffizi

pen ptophane, _and- E

bodies,but yet have none of their own that is true .

Tbs Spiritmfl death infimae.

Fir[t,this llarke deadnefl'e,without any {hew at all
  of life, of which for: we have every where too too
many gconfifls chiefly. I n
I . In the privation of life.
-2. In an active pofitive principle.

Now there are certaine (ignes arifing from both

thefe and they are
I . Pofitive.
2. Privative.

1.The Pofitive fignes of a dead man ,ate thefe three :

Iiirfhall thofe which live any life,what1oever it be,
{eck fuch things as are agreeable to preferve that life,

” and hate the contrary : as a man that liveth a natural] life,

looketh for feod,rayment,é-c. fo in the life of grace,
there is an aptneile to cleave to goodneife, and unto
Chrifi, as Iron doth to the Loadflone :, So a man that
lives the life of grace.his delight is in praying, hearing,
reading,@vc.but his lufts,they are aegritldines Minna, the
foules ficknelfesgthey are as thornes to his tides, and
{make to his eyes,and he is never well or at quiet, une
till they are removed and gone : but a Wicked man,one
that is dead in fin,he is fick of goodneiie (as the other
is of wickedne{le)and weary of in he is too {irair-laced

an inward aptnefie and inclination to ferve God,as fire
naturally inclines to go upward: indeed he may fame-
times contract impurity, and have fome corruptions.
yet they are but as mud in a cleare and living Fountain,
they are foon waihed away ; but wicked men are like
ditches which are full of mud at their bet}, and there it
lyes and continues.

Secondly, another pofitive {igne of this deadneife,
is, When a man lies in any living luit, or knowne {in :~
for as a mortall difeafe and life cannot (land together,
no more can a living run and the life of grace. That is
a living loft, when although fometimes he may have

{its of “fining, yet he alwayes gives ‘over, and llill:
[ V 3 yeelds

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in it,and therfore cannot brooke it. A godly man hath -

 

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Firfi, flatkc
deadneffe.

Three pofitivc
lights of dead
men.
‘ I.

A careleffe
negleét of
goodnefie.

2.
A lying flillin
any luff.
A living luff,
what it is.

3.
.An antipathy
;to God and

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20

godliiicllé.

L are C/arifls, have crucified the 

yfomeiins,but that will notfetve; for if. they lye in any
known {in,they are dead. \

’f¢lf€,th0ugh they pretend fome canfe. I call it an An- ?

itfclfc, although they pretend fome caufc for which

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T/ye Spirituzll death in fine. l

yeclds to thatluft, laying, It is their nature . and they
cannotchoofe but c,om:nit'it, they lmow not how to

refift it; twhere as it there was tome prefent Judge-
mentthreatned thee, upon the eommiilion of it, then

thoucouldeftforbeare: This I call a livinglufl, and

although it be butone, yetif other luPcs tempted thee l
{I8 much as that, thou wouldeil commit them alfo :“

If thou Forfakelt other fins, becaufe they are (ins,
why forfakelt thou not this alfo ? gal, 5 .24. The] that
with the afl;,“Hz'o;y_;
4%’/"fix. Thereis in every manabody oflufl; if any
member of that body-be unmottified, he is yet a dead
man, .I~Tim.5 6. She which livet/7 in plcafare, isdead
“M16/56:1? aliw,fome may.ke’ep themfelves ‘clean from

.Th' dly, a third politive figne is, When a man hath
a.fecret_Antipathy againft God and godlineffe. Some
balls naturally hate fome colours; Io fome men, out 1
of a naturall inclination, cannot endure goodneffe it

tipathy when amans llomack tifeth againft a thing, I
and he knoweth not whetfote : fo they hate good-
“flmf. mcerly out of a naturall abhorring of the thing

Ehcy hateita They diftafte holinelle oflife,_-anslsfor 11,0
Jullcaufe; if it be you diilalle fuch menlas pt"of’efl“'c
an holy and pure convetfation, only becaufc they
do not conform: (as fome pretend) why do_ you
dillaftethofe alfo thatdo coniorme? IF you dxflxke
the Profeifours ofan holy 1ife,becaufe of the hypocri-
{ie they have found in. them, as fome have not 3005
‘O fay, why do you alfo diflike thofe that you are A
fure are no hypocrites? They cannotdefiné the holy
man they hate, but have a fectet naturall hatred to =
them they cannot tell why : but we know thctcafofl l
Well enough 5. it is bccaufe they 1iveaicontr6;“'¥1‘£C W is
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yfbeg blairituafl death inflrzize.

them ,and thetfore c'an’ngo.t agree no more than fire and
‘WatCI‘:_lndGCd‘ lite and water may agreein remille de-
grees,-but notin intenie ;fo theie men tanifuffcr thofe
which are indifferently holy, but if they come to any
pert} éléion and height of holine {fe,then they Eannot en-4
durgf: them.No_w the A pofile faies exprefly,t fob, 3. I 4.

‘B7 t/9:3 we égéow wefgre tmnjlated fiom ‘death to life, be-

té’ef;45id¢?19in‘d:4t.’a, So thatit is aninfalliblc ligne of
deaclxiclle not to love‘ the Brethren : if thou hatefi
the Saints;tfay,iF thou lovefl them not according to the
meafu‘r€'oFgr'ce that is in them‘, and if thou art not
griex7e’<l:foi“any oftheir fins, by which they may -canfe
fcandall,or be dilgraced,thou~art yet a dead man.. ‘And
(0 much For the politive Ggnes. 4  
~~z.The Privative lignes ofdeadnellc" follow," which

arethefefive": _  ~  t ‘ u ‘ l a

s « Theifisfii? priva'tive~{igne yo‘f?deadne{l‘e, is want of
fp-etch: He: that is ‘dead, is fpeechlefle, and breath-
lifle; fo he that is dead in (in, in all holy things is
fpeechlefie; Show of the fiémsdaznce of the heart the

e _m;0flt/9 /fzeakezb, a faith Chriffc in the Gofpell, Mattb.t 2.

I 4. iWhen¥-’thc~mouth is fpeechlefle, the heart is
empty. * ‘Some that are dead in trefpafies and fins
may fpeake well fometimes; but there is no living
man but doth l"peal«: well fometimes ; I[a.I 9.1 8.7"baf:
t/mt éelong to fanggn, willfiamfie in the r/omgmtge. of C4-

1Mvm:ThCil‘ language will lhew whithefthey are Ga- y

It/mm~,'or not ’:‘ every "man delights in operations a-
grecable to their habits.Herc y): u may learne to Judge

.ofyour felves, by yourwordss; not by {ome words.’

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ii’ that are fpoken by fits, butby thy uluall and gculloma-t
jryfpeech, thatisafigne of that that is »1nyou_. The
godly fometimts cannot fpeake godlily and hol1ly:as a .A

Fountaine fometimes is [.toppe'dlup, fo that it C flnnot

{end forth ‘pure fireams, yet take away the rubbilh '

tthatwfiopped it,and then it willrun clcare again; evil;

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{o it is with the godly ;and therfore confider your ordi-
' nary fpeeches,if they be not holy and good, it is a figne
that you are a dead man.   . t ’

The fecond privative figne is" Coldneffegwhen a man
is dead in fin;they may pray,but it is coldly ;and fo in all
other holy duties they are very cold.

i But fome man will be ready to obieét and fay, You
tell us ofcoldnefie, but for any thing I can fee, there is
as much coldneilie in the befi men ; for your tgodliefi
men are fometimes cold in their ‘prayers. L

It is trite; but there is this ydifference betweene the
coldnes ofa godly man,and adead man;I f the means be -
ufed to a godly man,it doth bring life to him again ; if
he be rubbed and chafed with admonitions,or bath the
aqua 7/ita: of theWord,he will ‘recover his heat,becaufe

\ be a certain tryall, if after all ad monitions you llill re-

the inward principle of heat (‘till remains within him.
But to a wicked man ufe never fo many reprooies, or
8dmonitions,he will llill remain cold: Let this therfore

main cold,you are dead. _ .
The third privagivc figne is Sltlfiiinfiflb-3 a dead man

grows Riffs, and in what pofition his body is in when
it is dcadjn the; fame, in will remaimyou cannot bend it;
fo is it with men fpirituallydead,what courfe they take,
What opinions they hold, what Company they keep,
they will not be changed from them: R8‘?!-2;. I I . He
that z»3'filtb},let him be filthy f}ill:that is,he will be filthy
fiiIl,they will not bechanged ; If that they hold to be
Gods willibe Gods,wi1l,fo it is,th<=n they are righrsbut
it is not becaufe it is Gods will, but becaufe his plea- 
fure fellion what they held.As aruliy hand ofa clock,it 
turns not with the day,bnt (lands llill; but if the time 
of the day chance robe futh as it [lands at,it is true; not 3
becaufe it moveth with theday (as it fhould) but be- Q
caufe the day hath fell jttmpe with it ; fo theie men, if l
Gods will hit with theirs, they will do it; if not they 

‘y will croffe it:This is a figne ofa dead man. _ l

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The Spiritual! dent}; in flmze.

The fourth privative fignc is fenileinesghe that is dead 1-
fenfe in it,-they can neither iee,heare,nor tails. fme‘ s i
Lbut fome man will objeél: and iay,that itisnot true —0g]',,3;_
alwaies;For even the wicked fometimes know matters
of f'aith;nay,-and fometimes they relifh them too. _
To this I anfwer, As it is {aid of the dead "wall, [0 ; A,,f,_ ’

fie noneares, and /scare not. . .

‘ Firihfor feeing,they fee not aright : Gods children
fee experimentally,the wicked only by contemplation; , —
and there is a great difierence between them; for as we 
fee there is a great difference betwixt knowing fire to 9
be hot, and the feeling of it ; fo betweene notional! l
knowledge of Gods will, and a knowledge that doth
like and approve it.     r

Secondly,for ta[t,they find no taftin Gods Word; or -

1' opened.

ifthey find any, likca vitiated pallanthey account that

which is moll fweet to be very bitter. .

Thirdly, for fmelling, they fmell no fweetnefle in‘
Chrifisname, wheras to his Saints it is a fweet oynt-
ment poured out,that perfumcth all the roome.

Fourthly,for feeling,they feele not whither the Law
or Gofpell be applied to them,rnb over their skars,and
make them run down with bloud, they are, notwitl1- l
{landing all that fenflefle Ptilhthey may have a counter-
feit feeling from anaturall confcie-nce,but to have fuch
a feeling as may drive the mto Chrifhthey cannot ; and
therfore (till they are but dead men.

Thefifth figne is this, A living member, if the bo- _ 5
dy be in danger , will have a {y mpathizing and Fee-‘ No Iympatbi-

is {enflelTc:ioit is withthe fpirituall death, there is no p"3V3fi9i1 Off

mayit be {aid of them ; Mat.1 3~.13.E]e: t/9:} have and ‘amt’, 3.33, ' :

ling of the danger; as the handwill lift it felfe up to zing inathe 1
fave the headiognow ifyve hearing the ‘cafe of Gods ’:1;'f°:I€3 0‘ 0',‘
Church in what danger it 15, if we take it not to heart, “ ' .

or be notafliefle-d with it(efpecially new we are put .
in mind therof) it is a certain: (igne we are dead-

men : We {hould have the fpgits that Mofe: and Péificli
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had, who even wifhedto be llroyed, fo they might
fave the Church. Mofes, rather than that fhould pc-
rllh, would have his name raced out of the books’ oflzfe :
Paul, for the Churches take would be anathema. It
I a isatrue figne ofa living member to be touched with
l others mileries ; this was an extafie of love, in which
‘ ,_ out of love to the Church, they forgate themfelves.
{This here wemull know, that if the creature could

, ldellroy it felie for God, itcould not but be well, be.
‘caufe the good of the creature is more contained in
God, than in it Ielfe ; as the beame of the Same is

more contained in the Sunne than in it felfe. Now is
‘C ‘ the time ofconfiderirg tl'1is,no\_v is the time of more
than extraordinary fa["ting;now if you have any. feeling
you will {he w it ; if you are living men, now you will

Ihew your felves; now the Church lies in tents, and
wall-aws in blood,now the Foundations theror' are {ha-
ken;never was the face oFChriPtendome in inch dan-
get as now it is.Do We think to _fland,now others fall?
If the fire be at one end of the building,{hal1 we be fafe
which are at the other end .3 (for all Gods houfe is but
one building.) Are they not our brethren, and ions of
the fame father?have they not the fame fpirit?are they
5 not of the fame profefiion ? {hall we not then be ready
! to helpe thern?we cannot fend armes over to them,but

vi ans arefironger than Politicians, and their prayers arc
} Armies. Let us therfore do what We can,the {lot me is
I not yet quite over. a

Two th has to r - ‘
amoovcg ‘u; to: g Nowthere are two things that may moove us to

‘confider the =’ this '° . .
ychurchesmhl 1. Thegreatnefle of the Iudgemcnt. .

(cry. 2, Our ability to helpethem-.

‘ 1- FirPc,the greatnelle of the Judgement.

C It will proove the extinguifhing of Gods Church,
and the Gofpell, and when that is once gone, what are ‘

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all other thingsilt wasa good faying of that S~aint,That
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browne bread and the Gofpell was good cheare; what i
are all our houfes,lands,&c. if this Spirituall food bc
wanting E‘
. Secondly,Confidcr our ability to help them. _

VVe may do much by our prayers; he that ‘know-
ethnot his {lrength,ufeth it not : Did not one Cfifafii,
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‘ prayers as foon as he didtheirs.

r ' able to do much himielf alone.

“i and acknowledge it,when we fee him granting our de- I

things as they were extraordinary men, but as they 1
were Gods children : We may by our prayers doe as 
muchgthough one child may have better gifts than ano. 
ther,yetcommonly the father loves all ‘alike; [0 God }
(although they had better gifts than .we)will grant our 
Butfome man will here be ready-to make a queQ§- 

on,and aske mc,what I would have him doe for the ’
Church now?he is but a tingle man,and -therfore is »un- i

I anfWer,Though thou canfi not do much, yet thcfe
things thou mayeftdo ; and therefore,

t.Pray for it:God delights to be called upon,For els
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E fires. So that the llrength of a Land lyes in Chrillians,
,4’ andtfheir llrength lyes in their prayers, as Smnpfom
E Ptrength did in his haire. Oftentimes -prayer is more a-
} vailable than fighting: Mafl’: prayer in the mountane,
‘ did more than Iofézm/at fight in the vallies.IfNa4/a,‘Z)a.
nieland Ioé;ffoodbc;foremc(faith God, Beck. 14' 20.)
t/2:}/éould not preitmi/e:which iheweth that iiiany thirg
could have prt vailcd,their prayer would:So alfoLs::.lm»
’ attributes all to prayer,as may be feene in divers of this
Treatifes.Now this praytr which I urge ttntoeyommult
p 1. Not ‘only by {mall expreflion’sof- the-mind, but‘
now God looks for Ptrong cryes,and long continuance

in prayer.t<2/Iafe: praied all days: (thrift which had lefle

Deed than We have,praied al night; Dam°c1th|‘€€W'ccl<S=

3'.

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Pray for it.

Our prayers
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2 Our prayers mufl: be Spirituallmot out offelf-love;
‘ as to defirethe fafety of the €hnrch,that fo under it we
may lead a fate and quiet lif‘e;burout of metre refpeft
to Godgmd love to his.Church.

3 It mutt bea prayer of Faith; fo the Apoflle faith,
Iam¢.5 . I 5, i 6.7’/ye pmyr offma/9/lm/{fat/.6 t/aefickg, are‘.
And a little aFter,7"be efi%fz‘:m/lfirvent prayer of a rig!»-
team mm: availed; mac/'9 : Now there is no man righte-
l ous without Faith :.fo according to their faith Chriit [till

yeelded to them.

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Of Fahhn‘

‘With conflan-E

T be Spzmzmll death in me. "7

4. Pray with confiancy and fervency : it is not For a t

‘Y° jlfnatch and away,that is pfeafing to God ; but a corflant.
. performance of duty which he accepreth. ’

OE righteoul- , 5.1 t mufl be the prayer of a righteous man ;.Thet-fore
-nefle. Mam. 2.the Prep/am fought unto God ia the time of
' troub1e,.bL_1t- prevailed nor,becaufe they were not ugh. ‘
teous;for it is faid there,72er.7.‘TDa not my mom’: _a/agaad ‘

; ' _ n to him that walketb upright/J ?.
With humility] 6. It mutt be with humility ; and that confiFts,Firfi,

in confcfling how unworthily we are to obtaine any

J thing at the hands of God.

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2- Secondly,bow unable to helpe our felves,and there-

; fore to have our eyes only towards God. '
Be more may Another way to do good to-Gods Qhutch, is, to be
Ions. ‘ more zealous :~feek unto God extraordinarily :The caufe
of the dt‘-flzruétion of a Land, is chiefly the {ins of the
1 godly.When they grow cold and dead, and loofe their
‘ love, then God, as Re?/e/. 2.m'1l remove the ( andle/iicke
fiom among]? tlmmand take away his Gofpell. Indeed‘
the carnalneffe of dead.men,their prophanene {Te in con «
i T temning of Gods Saints and his Gofpel,c*§~c.haPten"Gods
‘ fl Judgementsuon a Land,but chiefly the luke-warmnefie

  

ofProFefl"ors do it:-when Ifivte/,asHofEzz faith,is as a(‘a@

3 l /M/fc baked. Let us therfore rer.°tifie our livtsmenew our
e,els {hall we be guilty of E

repentancequicken our zeal
the defiruaion of Gods Ch

 

.1 urch by our fins.

gstir up Otl‘1€I‘$.l

3. A third meanes to do good to Gods Church, 
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4—gdF‘9

e that! kreofl lgnowno, e'Uen‘tb0&x in this téy day, thing: which

The bpzritmfl death in flow. ‘ ’ J 27

is to Hit up others to take to heart the miferies of the
Chute-h,to pray.to renew their repentance. It Would
a be good,if Minillers would be as beacons to give War-
ningto others,and to fer them on fire. Thus the old
J Chriflians did, as it were, make an army (m~anofaé?a) a
againll God;by joyning together in p'ray€I'- A T his 193
tlefled aétion to [kit up others :thuS they did in the Pro-
phet Malorcbio: time,/We/.3.I 6 ;T/-W1 $55)’ 154? f¢’47'm'
e the Lord,[}m:’{e often one unto another, _ (fee the iflhe of
yall) anditbe Lard /Je.szrk_neol anolheard it, and 4 éooke of
Vfimemérance mo: written before bimfor I/my tlmt. feared
the Lord, and rlaoozght upon. his Name, So,Zorc/9, 8.2!. l V
there they did f0;1vj*73d the Inbozéitantr of the C it} [$411. i
go one to anatheréfajing, Lot to: goo fi7eed£!7 to pm} éefoa-‘e
_ the Lord,omd tofieke the Lord of/Jon’./$5,! rviflgo alfo. Let?
n m tlm-fare,as the Apollle exhorts, Hefr. I 0. 24. confidcr a
one another to proroohe oztrfllve: to this good Worke of .
falling and prayer forthe Churchglet us marker who is V
a likely man to ioyne with us,and not let him pafle.

4, A fourth meanes to do goodtothe Church,is to
do it indue time :]erufalem had a time to feeke God ; ms in due
if then [he Wouldrhave fought, {he might have beene time,
faved: And Chrifl complaints, Levhr 9. 4 t ‘4,2.faying,If

 

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éelorég mzto thy pence ! but mm: they are kid flame I/yino
ey.»:.And fo before Chrilhthe Prophets of old complai-
ned of the peop1e;as Ier.8.7. Te4,tI7: Starfis in the /om;
7,9,, 53¢ owetla /m’ appointed I§m<?J',¢¢fid the Turtie, and the
C‘;-¢fie’(l7¢§l' the 5.22m/[ow 06/err/.3 the time of t./ac}? camming,»
5”; m] people know not 1-hejmlgemont oft/we Lord, The
rim: to feeke unto the Lord is now : Some Judge-
ments are fu:lden,and have no fore-runners,as theGun-.
powderatreafonjn fuch God looks hot that we fhoulde
meet him by repentanee,becaufe we know them not :
Others are li«ngring,{uch as {end feare and rutnours be-
fore them, as are thofe mentionede by the Brophet,
Ezeé, 32. go, 31. there God expeéls wee fhould  
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The Divels
cunning to de-
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doing good
Dhltlch

ilnakeup the hed:gE,’and Rand in the gap before h-im,and‘

news alteteth,and fometimes it happens to be goodfind

Rant in this duty,to the very uttermoit end of all ; there

, falem, let tbajépra/fer that love Iver peace, ‘Pffi/. I 2 2.6. K

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{o meet him with repentance to flop the judgement;

5 . ‘The fifth means to do good to the Church is this,
Let us do it with continuance:It maybe while the news
is frelh,We willbe Fervent in prayer ; but often the

then‘ we leave off: But this mull not be;we mull be con- 1

may be ebbs and flowings,but it is the lait i{Tue which
brings all : thetFore let us continue in this duty of fall-
ing and praying,that we may try that laii: iffite of al1.It
is the common iafhion to make the alflifiions of the
Church only a Wonder of nine daies.This was thejews
fault{}:r,3 ,}_ 1 o, I I .When they heard of their enemies,
For a while they would pray.But although the news be
good ,_yet [lill continue as the importunate wlddow
did to the Judge, and your importunity will m00Ve ,
God.Set therfore to it,and continue in it; Pmyfar Iem- 

Moume apart, every family apart: It is not enough

to heare this, and to let the Miniliers voyce be to you .
as one t/aatfingetb with at plea/ant vojce : Thus were the 1
I€WS,Ez.ek,3 3,‘; zi.Wbobeard/9&3‘ wordy, éut did not do:
2/aem:and therfore God tels them that they {hall be dc» .
llroyedtin the 1' udgement.The Divell will fuffer you to

P’~“'P0f€, and ‘purpofe to doe this duty, but keeges

you from the execution of it, and prefent praéhce 
which is that only which may do the deed. Confi- 3
der it therefore, and deferre not the prefent doing of 
this duty: what can ycu do better than to deliver 
Gods Church, and you may do it, although you be 
poore and defpifed, yet being Gods Saints, your;
prayevs are in force before God;as in Etc/eflg. 14,15. 5
the poore man delivered the Cityby his wifdome ; 1
he was poore and defpifed, yet it was he that de1ive- 5

' red it. Others may feerneto do much,and l‘tand,vaun- {
“ ting on the hatches, but it is the Saints that do it- I F l

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1 The Spiritual! am}; irzfimve. — 1'
ii there be any confideration of 'Chfi[;*'" You» ifa‘"y,l°‘i°’
E any gracc,any well-wifliing to the Churcli,pray for It:
3 this is that I tcare, you will fvurtofe to do If, but W“

I We,ti'hen We read how much /1loxa:~;a'er, C «I3,-‘fa’: ‘find

the like cid,we admire themiwhy we may ‘do fl‘«01‘° {BY
'4 Cur prayers,perf'ormed in a right manner: if you d0 its
either the Church {hall have comfort ; or els you {hall
fave your own: fou1es.Without you thus prayaycu 3‘?
guilty of the Churches deftruéiion : The horfemen, if
they Hand fiili, although they fight not againft their
own Army,yet are guilty of their deflruétion, becaufe
they {hould have fought For them. The P; xtor,ithe let
the enemies in at the gate,he is the deflroyer of the Ci-
ty,becau{e.he {houid havekept them outzfo the Saints,
which fhould {rand in the breac'h,if they pray not, they ’
defiroy the Land :50 God (ayes, Sacha 2. 3 0,; I . \'And
I f avg/at for 4 mm: among them, tlmtflyozzld make up the

 

I /lzofl/oz’ 7101‘ deflro} it : out I found none : tberfore have
Ipowred out ajgain indignation upon them, [have confu-

w-.-p—'

badge, yandflnnd in t./aegappe before mefor the Land, that y

medt/rem wit/9 tlaefire of my wrath : I/acir own rm} loam’
1 recompencedupon their heads, /az'tl9_tlJe Lord Goa’; Be-
caufe he could not find a man to hand in the gap, ther-

e. fore he powrtd forth his indignation on the Land,

A holy Prophets, arethe Chariots ardhcrfe-men of If-
mel; ifthen they hand (till, they do what in them.
lyesto deflroy the whole Nation: theyeate not only
the Chariots, ‘but the horfe-menalfo ; they are the K

Their not praying dtfiroics the Land: The Saints and 

whole defence of Ifmel ; and therfore ifatthefe times
they be idle, they are guiity ofthe deflruftion of the
Whole Church. Hence Salomon (aid, .424 idle mm is
térotker to-/9t'm1fh4t_I35:tgreat mg/?er,' As‘ a Pilot, who ,
for want of attention fuffers a Ship to be overthrown
' or fplit againfi the rocks, is guilty of the lcffe there-
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The Spiritual! death in fiiinc.

Signes ofcivill
men that {earn
to have life,
but have none
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‘They do not
grow. ‘

fl. Plaid finned a great fin in Fotfaking God to be their‘
lKing.faith,t Sm.I 2,2_3.Godforé£dt/mt I /Iyoald/in 4.-

gainfl the Lard,z'n peafing to pmyforjou : and therfore
it is a great {in not to pray for Gods Church.Thc]eWs
in the captivity were commanded to pray For the peace
of Na6uclma7nez.zar,who was a Heathen Prince 5 how
much more then ought we to pray for Chrillian Prin-
ces?And futely,if God [honld take away from you this
'Prince,and give you fuch an one aS~,2vȣeene Mar}, you

would then know what it is to enjoy fuch a Prince,
as now by Gods mercy we do. Therfore [lit up your
{elves to the duty by tailing and praying,muth may you
do this'way.E/Haer deliveredal thejews by this means:
it was not éflhers Words that did it; for W hat made the
King not to {leepe that night 9 how came he to call for
the booke of the Chronicle .9‘ how light he on that

{and prayer,and then he thus prepared the King for 1:" fl-
lier to fpeak.Thus then,and by thefe means we may te- p

place ofMordeca}? They had firfi turned God by fafiing

lieve the Churchin dil’treffe:And then-fore ifwe be true
living members, let us mznifefi our endeavour to re.
have them by thefe means. And thus much for the
Ggnes of men which are [larke dead.

Now Follow fignes of diflinétion betweene fuch as

feemetolive, and fuch aslive indeed: and thefc may

be refembled to {uch fpitits as affume bodies to " them.
felves, and feeme to informe them ; and they arg

chiefly all Civill men. Now they are difcetned by

thefe and the like fignes :

The firlt ligne is this; As the Angels in their allu-
med bodies feemed to eat and drinke, but manife.
-[led not any e.ffec°: ofit. for they did not grow by it ,
fo thefe men, they feeme to heare the Word, but they
makeno ptogtelle in it .: they may feeme to fcedon

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the Sacraments, but they grow by none of thefe
meanes, they Bzill‘ go onintheirold traét. They an-,§
lnot unlilce‘-"fome men which eat as much, or more 

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 than others, but are never the tattcrpbut as ie__ane;.a_s<
 ever they were : even 10 the Minifiers of the Gofpell
 now deliver the Sprrituall food ofsthe Word, in as,
i great abundance as ever, yet where 18 the fruit ? who
rowcs any fatter, any better liking than before? Vveg
; (Beloved) defire not to have againothe fruitjof .’Qur‘;
3 teaching in your underllanding only _( although that,
l be good ) but in your praéiice: Like fhepheards 4
l which would not have their hay again of their lheepe
i in hay, but in the milke and wooll-.  And _,l3‘e_r§ce,,it.,1_is§, _ 

that the A.pollle Petr-r_ exhorts them, "it; Pe~,t,2,.z._e/$1.. 
new éorne éaéeslto defire t/.16’ /itucerc: milk; of _t£2g_ jWazd.,,, A '
and Why .7“ that the] ma) grow 'the,rcI7].A  .]§hough,tl.;Qu.,‘
beefl never fo wfiakfi. at I116 fill}, yet if thou, vgrowelt *
Ptronger,it is a figneoflifc 5 but if thou halt-gotten not
Pcrcri th in 3'3“: fi°'n°r'V~it‘l°'Yt°VEt Yaurlufisa non?
l with andingrall the incaites ofgraceyeuhgvg ,
whadfqevév Y9“fi’§*Y3aY°11 306 {fill but deadtmcn, 5;   A,

 ~'fhe‘fecond {ig0¢_lS';i As the ‘Angels,  y. 2,
were mooved, yet it was from no isnward, but ii-om’ , a They are mo.
an cutward principle; fol thefe -Civill men, and "ed by 311 Out-
all hyp‘otrit.es.m,ay .b-e moove.L.’and;do, alL_;.hat good, "Md P‘l“CiP1¢
men can doe, bu_tit_ isnot from an i.nwapd_ 

bntfrom fome outward and v.by._.rcfp¢a_g;f .t}f:h¢'y.% 5“, s
l. like Cloclées ‘ar’rd‘VV'atcbes', which are‘m§ogx¢d-bg,” '_
fome fpring, and therefore when the weights or’
fprfn; is downe, they move no longer‘; when that... e

falfc end which made thetntake --in .ha=nd.;thc fhfllv  . .
Religion is gone,’ then they will beno motiojfieligi,-3
ous. A Thus loaf/2 was‘Religious__but forfome by-«end ;;
viz. while le/aaiadn lived; and therefore after his a
death, loaf/2 forfool-1eGod. Thus many will be good
whilell theyare in good families, under good gover-
nours ;. but being‘ remooved from ,th.C!l‘i,thC_7,,tl1l§!_‘lc
with the Swine to the tumblingin the mire. e,Som€:-ag-_ r -
gairggood exhortarions and counfelle will make, thorn
live well, and they will continue fo, while they Rein‘
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that good mood ; Others will be good, while a ftormfi
poffi-ckneffe indures, but when the Sun» fhine of prof-
perity {hall begin to appeare,they return to their old
courfesz they are like a Buil-rufh,which hangs downe
his head,ti'll the ftormfe is over, it, but as foonc as the
‘Sun {hinesit lifts it up a?gain.Some may hold out longer
than others,yet at the lait all will give over, becaufe
they are not mooved from fome inward principle.
. The third is this ; As the Angels affumed thofe bo-
Tl‘-CY 4°C it dies butiforcertain times and places, and occafions,
and aFterw’ard§ laid them alide again-;{o will your Hy-
pocrits doin fotne places and companies at fome times;
they will take onthem the bodies of living men , and {to
have a name to live,but indeed are dead:But come they
- in other places or companies they will lay afide their

places and
company.

godly man may be myrie and dirty,hut. yetthey (‘till re-
main {h_é:ep:'as ta pibble &a pearle foyled with the fame
_ mire can icarce be diftinguilhedgtill they be wafhed;fo
the g‘odlyi,do but waih them,and then you {hall difcern
them to be pearles ; but thefc VV olves, the wicked,
which sonely take {hecpes cloathing on the m,com-
ming amongft Wolves,ca[l of’r"t’nat cloathing, and be-
come asmuch Wolves as any. A
The fourth figne is this : As Angels or Divels

A They rpcake which affume bodies, cannot fpeake heartily as living.

fromthf-‘teeth: men, but have an artificiall framed voyce, which 18

tliottfrom the from the teeth outward, not heart; {o where there,

M‘ ' is no true grace but feeming, it may be difcerned
from the fpeeches,not in the matter,but in the manner:

iboiie-s,and then will be as prophane as any-.1 confefieia ‘

an hypocrite may often babble more than the true ‘

'ChriPtian, as ablazing Starre fhines as bright, if not
bT1ght¢l‘ then the true Starre ; but there is a broad
difference betwixt them ; the one fpeakes but, from
the head. and the other from the heart : "fora true li-
Vlfig man doth fpeake heartily and feelingly. That
the manner offpeaking doth much affeét others, it is
, t , plain:

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e The Spiritualldeat/1 m /time. 33 
plaingl-lence is that that Imsim reports ofhimfelP,that; Iunia: converri
" he lighting into a -Country mans houfe, which was‘ red bya Coun-5’

wholly illiterate and unlearned, heiconfcflieth that his, tryrmaxgs hear.i
hearty {peaking of faith and repentanee,&c.didfomo\_7e» ‘Y P“ ‘“Si
hi m,that he thought that there was Iomething more in

by Gods grace it converted him;{o that the manner of
fpeaking doth often affefi where the matter doth not ;   l
which an hypocrite cannot have. And thus much for
l the fig; es offeeming living, but indeed dead men. A
i Now having fhewed that all are dead, it follows 
that we fhould fhew the meanes of getting ilfCaWbiCh t
are alfo comprehended in my text, and-they are thefe
EWO:-.. ' 4 . ‘
I. To labour to fee that ye are dead, (Tm that were Two mews
dead in tr€{])dffc!.andfin5,(’fi“6.)raS all men are by nature. to get léfea
2. Togo to Chrilt for life, he it is only that can
give it; fo faith my Text (He hath quit‘/{ned)rou) It is.
‘the property of God alone to give life. Now we can-
notgoe to him but by Chrifl, and we mull go to
Chrifi by faith. therfore is faith called aliving faith,
becaufe itunit-es Chr-ill and. the foule together. Now
the difficulty is in this ,. that men will» not come to
Chrilt and take hi-.n : fome come not to him at all, 0-
{hC1fS Iakc him, but not in good earneft ; as grafts put
,1 into a liocke, but not fo ingrafted as to grow therhy :
but whenla man is once foundly humbled, then will
he co1net.0;Chril , and not before; for till. then he
doth not hungerand thirll after him :. but the ex-
treame hungry willbe fatisfied with nought but meat:
as Scmfon {aid,Give me drinkc or elfe I die. Now life
confifis in the union betwixt Chrift and thy foule:
This union is by Luther compared to fire and iron uni-K
T€d,which mules the iron to have all the propertits Of
fire,as hurn,icorch,.Stc. fo an humble Saint, united to
' Chrilhhath allhis properties, though not in the fame
rmeafure and degree.   «    .,   1 v
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' Now thefel mull be handledndilfiinflzly-;   and therforc
.-the firlt means toflife,~: is to fee our {elves children or
=..wrath,and that we are dead in trefpafles and fins : The

No ttan{hti-

‘ on to life,

without appre.
oi
Gods wrath

‘ point that hence arifeth,is;

i That whofiaever waxcld be tmnfliztedffam death to life,
nwflfir/f apprehend /aimfl’{fe to the erkila’ of wrath : that
is, he mull fee the face of God, as of an angry judge,
lfofarre forth as it may drive him to Chrilt. ‘So that

Chit‘. to fin.

 

V Law is faid to be a Sclaoolema/fer to drive new to C/Jrifl:
_ that is,fir&,there mull be the Law before Chi-ii} can be '

1 be, and it mull be : he might come in a Pcill voyce

‘a than cannot be faved untill he hath not only atouch
or two,but a true fenfe oflin,a deep apprehenfion ofhis
fins,of'death,and ofdamnstion ; For only to fuch are all
the promifes made, Chrifi is only lent to bind up the
broken hearted; Chrilt came to call all that were heavy
' 1aden,and thofe only,thofe he will cafe : Peace mnltbe
l preached to none but thofe thatmonrnein Sion; Ther-
fore the A poftle faith, 641.4. 2 I . T all n1e,}e elm: are sm-
} der 2/» Law,da}e net defire to bare the Law ? Yea,tthe

had;f'or*els,although we lhonld preach the Gofpell, it
wouldbe comcmncdgchcrfore Chtift in his ti me gained
only thepp0ore;Tbe pear: receive the Go/l2:lI:that is, the
. poore in fpirit. God will have his Jewels of life and
{alvation to be elteemed, which we will never do
until! we fee our mifcry, how that we are in the ellate
of death. Asthe deliverance out ofzfigypt would ne-
ver have bin fo Iweet, had they not bin in ex-
rtrea me {lavery and bondage firll. God deales with us

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as Princes doe with their Malefaétors; firll, they
bring their necks to the block, and then give them
apardon, for then they apprehending death, the par-
don is the fweeter‘, and more welcome and accepta-
ble tothetn. Indeed if the queflion were made,- what ‘
Godcould do in his abfolute power; I know that
God might convert us and not humble us, if 113
Wohld; he inight fay as he did in the Creation, Let it

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The D otftrme of y'eHmniliation.

 

s t ‘ ly,Without fending beforea voyee tending the rocks. =

e he might ufelightning and no thunder,but we I peak of
hisordinary coutfe, Wherin he will not; for none are

apprehenfion of their (ins. . .

For the better undetfianding of this point, we mull;
conlider thefe things : ,

I . That there are three things which keepe a man
from C-brill. .    

Ilirlhlflnbelieie :w hen men will not believe that be
which was borne of the Virgin Mary was Chrtll and
Godxherfore about the proving of this,the Apafl/t’.r_dld

, ..,{P€nd moll«time,becaufe then it was hard to believe. '
Sccondlymot caring for Chrill: as thofe that came W

notto the Kings fealt, they believed that there was a

Qxen. &c. e  
Thi’rclIy,not W illingneile no part with all for Chrili ;
they will not take him upon all conditions : they fee

they will forfake fome things for him;'but not allzthey.
are loth to part with their mailer-fin ; like the young
manin the Gofpell, he had done a great deale, yet he

l would not part with his polleflions. But to thefe three

things mull be oppofed three other things to bring us
to Chrlli .: i
I . Faith to beleive he is God. i
2. A {leight humiliation to bringus in love with
Chrill. T " e ‘ o i

for his fake. s
The firll is received amongll all Chriflians , although

it is to be feared that many doe believe it but confu-

g fore we can be faved) to be

ding of Chrilhand that a little forrow will do, a little
humiliation. But the third (which we mull have be-

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,;-o

ifaved but {rich as have not only a fight,but alio aideepe .

feali, but cared not for it, they regarded more their  

  fome need they have of Chrifi, but not much ; and fo

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3. Sound humiliation, to be willing to part with all '

fledly. The fecond is a-fleighter manner of apprehen- W

willing to forfakeall, to i
leaveg

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Three things
Reepe a man
from Chtiil:
I. llnbelcefe.

z. Neglefi of

him.

3 . 11nvvil_l.ing.i -

nelle to part “ ;
with other 

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Three things

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to bring us [(3

Chrill,

 

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. miliation.

Chriit.

, ,i¥ay with him.

The Daéiritnee of Humiliation.

The neceili-ry
of a deepe hu-

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Without

ation weewill
not come to

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‘Wee will not

"Humiliation
compared to

the {cure forts

lound humili- .

a man ; to him only whom the revengerof blood purfu.

i therby.,then, Ifay, and never till then is Chrilt well-

of ground,
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leave every {in for Chrill his fake:and that we will not‘:
1 do untill webe thorowly humbled ,and are fully broken

hear.ted:therfore firfi a deepe humiliation is neceflary
for.-falvat‘ion. - 

Secondly, if’ we have not fuch an humiliation, then
either : '

I . We will not come to Chrifl.

2. Or we willnotliay with him.
3. Or els we will not do or luff-‘er any thing for
him. ’ e

And ifwe want any. of thefe we cannot be iaved.

Firli,if we be not truly humbIed,we can never come e
to Chri[l,nor regard him : we may preach Clzriil long
enough, and no body will regard him, except they be
foundly humbled for their fins:as in the Law no body
did care for the City of refuge, but he that had Gain: a

et~h,is the City ofrefuge fweetzwben the fiery Serpent
had [lung a man, than he looked to the Brazen-ferpcnt.
and never till themfo when we £ee~our {ins and mifery

come. The ProdigalleSon never thought of returning

home to his Patheruntill he [aw that he muf-‘t else flarve,»
when he fawfhe could no longer fublill, then he retur-

ned.So, when we are fo humbled for our fins that we

fee we {hall indeed be damned without Chrill, than,
and never untill then we carcfon himo.

Secondly, although wedoe come to Chrill, yet
without we be truly humbled, we will never {lay
with him. although we may rejoyce in hislight for
a feaion. And for the better underllanding of this,

confiderthe foure forts of grounds which reprefen-
ted foure forts olhearers, M4ttb,13_. The firllwcrc
not humbled at all, (ltfe//:5] the mtJ7e:_,’z'al:'.ama"o7‘:/tn:-.

1} the Earp/5*: of the tzire ale'z2or4rea'it,mr/4 )The {econd l

was humbled a little, but not 10 much as toiuffer yforl

him, (T/ae. Sim parched them for lac/{e ofrootingflm’. 6;) 
. . ,_.,

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The D«0£frzne Eff Hamzilz'atz'on. i

ifhe third fort were fofarre humbled for ilinne, that
they afuflered fome perfecutions, but would not part
with all For Chri{i,the world they elieemed more (The
theme; c/90:2 (:ed,t}2em,72tr. 7.)But the fourth ground was
, fully humbled ;r.hat is, they were fo humbled in a -light

Chrili, than of any thing in the world, and fo would
part with all for him,and lufitr any thing; and therfore
they are {aid to ériiggfwtk fivzit wizia patience. Others

  may (taya whiie with Chriil, but when that comes

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that they preferre before Chri{l,then they leave Chrifl;
For untill a man can bring his heart to that palle,‘ that

~ he can prize Chrilt above all things, undergo all perfe-

cntions For his fake, he is not foundly humbled, but is
like the fecond and third ground.

3. IFwe (lay thus with Chrilhyet except We be thus
humbled. we {hall neither fufllr norpdo any thing for
Chrifhlf Chrilt had hidden Paul (before he was hum-
bled)to have done {o much for him as he did, he would
never have done it ; but when he was humbled,then,
Lard, what woaldfl than have me do ?

Andthe realon of this is apparent, if we confider
thfife things : e y ‘

Fir“: There are many lufts that do encumber us
whilcf-l our hearts are unbroken; fothatthere-is fuch
.8 bafenelle on the outfide of Religion, that except we
be humbled we will never like it , but-{hall be clien-
ded at it 3 and like proud fervants, fay our wages arc
too little, out Fellow-fervants too bafe : but 0" th‘
contrary, he that hath once bin foundly humblfida
thinks all too good For him. '

' Secondly. There he fuch firong lulis to be mortified,

 

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care not for Chrift : out luils indeed may 101’ ta While
fleep,but when once they are awal<ed,like Samfomthcy
crack a-two all the bonds of good txpurpofes and vow s;
& they are never [lain untill we be foundly humblfid.

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of their (in, that they {aw that they had more need of’

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which cannot be done without humiliation, that we .

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The Dofirine

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‘ mathat we can never frame our nature unto, untill we

.3 fromfo many Ifcmckuwhich every man at fonte time -e
or. other will be called upon to offer up the which if he '

ii The Dofirine of Humiliation.

_ fiirdlyahere are {ucb contrary laws to be delighttd

hunger and thirlt after .Chri{‘r;,and then his Laws W ill he
336311 and dliinke unto us ;~ for before we delighted in
r the Law of the fleth, but now if we be truiy humbkd»
wemuil delight in the Law of the Spirit.’

FORT tblynhere are fo many ilrong lufis to be patted l

doth not do,he W-illdamnc his own {oul-,yet untill he is

buy falvation to deare. - *
F01’ fhefecaufes is.Humiliation neceliary in the firfi:
place :- Therefore in the Scripture this method is al-

yof humjliati:
‘.rr.ru_{i gobefort‘
Wahéiification.

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  was Chrifis order,astyou-may fee,~Z;r:k4.Thus did Ne

\ y ccpteyou beall>:ncw,not-patched up; asz Cans. EX-

Wayes uied, by the Prophets, Apoilles, and Chfifir
himfeife, theye preached ever Repentance and Hfumi-‘

lration‘ before Sanfiificationand Juflifitation : This"
than with ‘fDa2w'a’, he laboured to bumble him, beforfi

fort] a’5zye.r,amd N inctxela /5411 the dtfliojedglon. 3 .Tii us al-
fo God dealtwith Aidam in Patrad?ife,he intended tore-

thefitft he Ptriltes him downe with terror that made

all neveales the Gofpell unto him, T be Seed aft/9: war
when /6411 éredfie tbe Serpents /aeaoi,Gcn; 3 . Thus dealt P:-A
N? with his Auditors, A612. 3 8,3 9. Repmt amide éape
tzlced ever} ofym, é»;-,

t Thus you fee that Humiliation is (0 neceiiary. that

1 next place to make fome life of it. E

? Tb€l”f0T¢( my brethren)leeing this. is fo,content not
YOUI‘ felVCS with morality and civility, except you
have more in youthan nature can give you; nay,ex- r

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thumblechand {hewnewhat damnation is,- he willnot a

he told him God had Forgiven him.Thus did form: ;~Tet 1  

veale unto him the promifes of the Gofpell, and yet at .

him-hide hirnfelfitheir he told him of his fins, and after  

Without itthere is no falvation: Let us come in the

cept you be wholly changed and caft into
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’mould,being firll   broken. by humiii;ition,‘.:' you ca nneots
-be ifaved. Try therfore whetheir.now you doe-that thaxce
l othersiswill not doggwhertinzelsdoth thepower of Relis
gion confi[i?Try whether you have denied your felves,
andthroughly mortified your deareft luihatsd whatfoe-. a
ver the flefh defireth?and Whether you be;ii~: ks: of {in 8  
‘regard not what the world -prizeth. labour: you..£.0 have
your hearts broken,e1s you ~Tn§__l_y pray s.,,be~eh§1*r-itah~le and
loving to others,and with Hei'od,mal(e a confeience of
many things,yer. all will Prand you in no (tcad,bec~2.ul'e it
cornmeth not from an humble heart : for « be it never
fo holy a duty, -.never {'0 eonptantly p¢t'.iQ,l§§fi'l€_d, ex-
cept it comes from a broken heart, God acéepts it not:
So the Prophet David faith, Pfizl. 5: .16, a 7. God i
careth not l’or‘Sacrifices, (and yet they were his,_Qrs.~
dinances,as well as our prayers) only a broken heart
was pleafing unto him ; and therefore whatfoever you

But here Satan~ deceivcs menswith guilded. things;
name1y,;iormall performance ():i;h0iy1iuticsi, which
when:they‘ncedthem (as in the dayof death or trofu-.
ble) {tend themin no (lead; As often he couzeneth
Wxtc»hes,' in giving them many to do fome murders,
theylaying up the ‘.IIlOl1:'y,,’aDd swheuthey have need of
it,going to fe-:chir—,h'ave found nothing but dry leaves;
Even thus will allthei holy duties we hsve.perfor-
med from an unbroltenheart faileus. They are like Simile.

— Gloe-wormes, they glifter greatly in the darke, but

when once the Same comes, their light is nothing.
.S0':Pém/5;‘ before he washumbled, be accounted him-
felfe a godly man, and none‘b::tter. than he ; but after-
wardss, be was not warthy as he {aid} to ée counted an
Apafilc. Therfore deceive not your {elves any longer,
for nothing is more dangerousethan an unfound heart,

’ therforenike heed it deceive you not: if you never

have been: humbled, now labour robe humbled ; for

it was that that made the sPu'nlican..to be ultified ra-
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True humilia.

ther than thePharifee,i,becau.:fehe ulas humbled,and thc.
Pharifec was not:and indeed none‘ 3.“ fufthcr from fal-

Ward formalities.

of-it,I will explain thefe three quefiions.
  I. Wherin Humiliation doth confift.

i miliation. . 1
3. How we {hall know whither our forrowest
are true or not.
The firll qucllionis, Wberin c.0nliPcs this true Hur-
miliation P '
]’anfwer,In.three things .-a
1. In feeing your life to about.

Io

lives abound
in fin.

22
In confidering
that there. is
nothing good
in thee.

Can good fruit procced from an ill tree P »

corrupted, and the root of all evil], and where your
corruption is [lrongelhas fire in the root. Many labour.-

Eo excufe their {ins from their nature, becaufe that that a

is. prone unto it,-,but that makes their-. caufc thc; worfc.
it~increafeth their vilenefle ; for Why halt thou {uch 7a
nature,and doli not curb it?.Befides, their natures are 0-.-
dious to,God,though they never lhould brea kc out; as
*3 Serpentis odious unto us, though he never hurt us.
Fu/rther,confider,hafi thou not made thy nature worle?>
{Every (in thou hafi committed makes it worfcgfor 2&-

' uall {in doth more increafe the cuflome andhabit of fin;-,~;

fo that befides Adam: fin,.thou thy felfe art guilty of
corrupting thine owne nature. i i

_ 2; In confidering that there is nothing in thee that
lsgood at all; To the Apalllc faith, Row‘ 7.1 8. For I
know!/not in we dweller/9 nagaod t/7:32 ~:t and gal. 3,2-2.
The Scrzpmre /Mtb concluded all (not only men, V but
Ehlngs)m1dcr.jinn:. ‘Men thznke wellof themfelves»,
becauie they have much good in them; but cénfideri
witbthy felfe, thou haft nothing. good in theéat all :
In

2.-1-vl .

Now. in Humiliation, For our fuller underliandingy

3.
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vation then thofe that content themfelves with out- a

2. What kind of lorrogv is required in this Hu-. ii

p drwitha&uall"fins',than-.
in looking into your heart and nature, which is wholly»

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3. -In fmiting thy heart with an apprehenfion of
;death, hell, andmiiery, due to thy finne; then wilt
thou find thy tfelfe in a -miferahle eftate, and canli not
chufe but be humbled, when in confideration of thefe
things, thyheart {mites thee, as Beljbazzar: did him.
And fo much for 'thC-fifflqtléiiion. .  

l The fecond quefiion is, Whatckind of forrow is re-
“quired in this I-lumiliation ?    
I anfwer;Not thofe violétflafhings of~forrow.which
for a while amaze like a land-flood.but it mulls-“be this i:

e a When thyjudgement is enlightned to fee thy —el‘tate,

and the judgements of God hanging over thee; and af-

mourn for thy fin.If the in igement be fullyfconvinced,
‘the aflE’e€cions will followuherfore in Scripture, when
any is {aid to be humbled,in thofe places is {hewed that
their afieétions were fiirred;as we may 'fee,eA&.1.6. in
the Jaylor : and of Peter, in is [aid ofhigconvcrfion,
-He went am and wept éitterl]:S0 alfo ofthofe, (151.2. ‘it
is faid,T/we} were prie/{ed in their heart: : forthe ground
of their forrow is the convincing of the judgement,
which works upon the a?fi‘c€tions;therfore Chrill faith,
The S pirit/774/1 come to convince the world of firms’, CW.
lab. 1 6. 8.The other forrow not arifing from this con-
vincing of the judgement, is but a pafiion, and for 

~l‘treight gone; this is an afleflion, and Io is more per-
manent although itis PtiIler,as the deepeli waters are e-
s ver fiille&’.A,nd [0 much for the fecond queflion. _
The third queflion is,How {hall we know whlthfif
thefe forrows of his betrue or no ?

To thisI an{wer,There is an Humiliation not deepe
icngugltnia fleight Humiliation ; and there is another
(go dccpc, which fo drownes us in forrow that It
takes away all hope of ialvation, and brings defpatre,
inch was the forrow of Imieze and Acbitoplxel: but thfi
third and true, is an indifferent betwe ene both : {ome-

‘times there may bean humiliation and no.grace,- as
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ter this convincing. then thy afiiétions are liiirred to

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In {mmng the
heart with an
apprehcnfion
of Gods curfe.

rflttfi‘-2.

Anfv.
What [orrovv
isrequired to :
true humilia-
tion.

Anfw.
How to know
true forrow.

' rniljaaion dif: _ _ _ _ 3 g . . ,
. fcrsfgom Qthcr mtltatton differs from other forrowsthus .-

i In thorifcé condl.y,delire freedome from hell; but into the godly,

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there rnaybea plowing andlno  But true Hu-
yforrowa Firll,* in the rice ofic : both a godly man and an by-
. I. - ' ‘pocrite may; fit[l,be wounded with Gods wrath ; fc- «

i God doth inllillgratiou§fe.eds,wl1etby he is humbled
' ‘ , ” forfin as: well as hell,and defires grace aswcll as mercy:
But the hypocrite onely defires mercy and freedome
from the-fe torments, and therfore when the‘tctrc=ur
cealethhis holinefle and defire of gootinelle ceafeth, .
rand fo being eafed from the tormentsa he cares for no
yfll7(5l‘C‘,“-ll)‘lll.',!:l‘ll': godflly, hct,_d£e£:-[es to,;:be Joyned to._Chr1{l,,
an to   ave -islu smottil .  t '   ; A 
  ¢,_ . ’<Seoondly,in the continuance of itthypocriticali humi-t
In the conti. liation maybe longer or fhorter, but it is ne.v.er ;.cot5--
ftant,it doth vanifh ; but the true humiliation doth lalt
all theltFelonge.The humiliation of hypocrites is like 1‘-
ron,w‘hicb while it. is hot in the fire,you may fafhion It so
  iwbich way y'<5u5v.rill,but when it is once out, it is pre-
-‘{ently.{H¥e again:-fo P/Jaraogbas long as Gods hand was
  on him,he would let the people go, but as foon as the
fire of affliétion was re moved,his heart was hardned;fo
was Aéaé and Saul. But in the true bumiliation,God
t’a’t‘es» away the iron heat-r,and givesan heart of.fl.elh,fo~
-that altltoughit may be brawny a.l1tle,yet llil it ts.fle»{h.-
hypocrites fo long onely as they are uncle: the_ }uJge-
mentare foft,but the heart ofthe godly IS alwates (oft.

Thirdly,by the {ignes ofbrokcnnefle of heart:Now
brokenne lie of he-ar't,i or

I.Healcs-ourlins. Firll,the-belovechthc mall?!‘ fin;
‘and then .allthe?~r¢ll 5 other humiliation skins over, but
‘cures not;it [tops the llreame for a while, lbutit breaks
out again: itmaycaufe you to make many purpoies ‘
to leave the fin;yca,and to leaveit a whilc,but you wifl
-‘-remmé to s it - againe ;_ wheras if one be truly hum- g
bled he is’flron‘ger againll that beloved {in than againll ;’
any other ; not but‘ that he hath {trot g inclinations 
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"By. theg’ fignes
and effefts. ’

’ Conttition Of
heart;

’ 1 Heales, our
fins.

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42.  The Do£lriae.ofHumilz'4th:n. ’  

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The Doftrme af Hmnz’lz‘m’on.a
to that lin,but he is more fhye oFit,and fhuns the occa-t
fions of that fin:-1c,becau{e he hath fully felt the {mart
of it. and hath by his humiliation feenc that fin more
than any other. Now after thebeloved fin is once hea-
led ,then the other (ins will foone be healed ;as in a cloth, .5
by walhing out a deeper Raine, the fame labour doth
wafh outtlefler (rains. e s ' e e . n s
2*. It caufeth love of Chrifi : So Mary Magdalen,
becaufc {he was humbled much, and {aw that Chrifi

  had forgiven her much, therefore {he loved much.
i 30 P181, who was much humbled, ever expreiied a

ffirvént love to Chriii, as we may fee, A62‘. 21} I 3.
Where.he faith, having bin perfwadeds by his friends

. not toigo to Jcruialcm, I am ready aorta do "éatmd, ém y s
' 4/3 to djefor the name the Lord . Ie_/m:as who flaould 5

fay, I feare nothing, becaufe I care for nothing but
Chrift.So_alfo, 2 6'4:-.5 .r4.he faith, The law of Clmfl
bénflraiked we .- and therfore when by humiliation we
tee what ;C,hrifl hath done for us,we think: we can ne-
very do enough for him. , ‘
Now you may know if you
thefe fignes : ; ‘
The Ed} figne to know the love of Chrifi, is obe-

love Chrift or not, by

A dience;He that iloveth .Chrill,'keepeth his Comman»

’d.ernents,and they are not grievous unto him.

'1 he fecond figne is this glf you love him you {hall find
in your heart that you love him,your heart will be car-
ried towards him;as I can tell if I love a man, forthen
my heart is carried towards him.  as v ‘

The third figne to know the loveioFChr_iG,is this; It.
caufeth me to efieeme offpirituall things,to prize them
atan high rate,and other things little worth : for when
a man is foundly humbled, aske him then what he de-
fires mo[i,he will anfwer Chrift and Grace,and that his
corruptions may ceafe in him a; as for outward things,

; he pafleth not for them : as a man that fees he malt die, .
l he cares for no outward wealth,take you that,give him i

The

5 only the pardon of his fins.
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2 It cauleth
love to Chrifi.

Signs "to know
whether wee

10‘/C ‘iltrifl or
n

0,
I Obedience.

3 Aflefiion’
towards him.

; The high

prizzng of fpi-
rituali things

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4. Contented-

ncfic with the

meanefl: Con
dition .

5 Feare of of-

fending God.

  dements; fuch an one Feares to breake any Comman-

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?be Daélrine ofHumili;;z'on.

'-'i‘he fourth ligne of the love of Chrifi, is n this ; It
maketh him content with the meancli condition. The
Prodigal] Sonne, when he was humbled, fo he might:
be in his Fathers houfc he was content; he liked the
meaneit condition, even to be a Servant ; I am, zmwr.
:12} to 56 tb] Same, matég we 44 one of t/2} /aired Scrwmtx,
Luk,1 g.2 I. So Pan], after he was humbled, thought
himfelfe unworthy for the Saints company, and that
not for a {it only, but even ever after he Gill cries out,
I am unworthy robe an Ape/51¢‘. Thus N aomgreturning
home to her Country,iaid,/be went omful2',and ye‘: had
nothing but her fejlfe,Sons and Husband ;fhe accounted
any thing too much for her. IF a man once come to be
verily periwaded that he is worthy to be de{iroyed,he I

can with patience beare any loffes and cro{i'es;For thefe o ‘

are nothing to death,which he kndws hehath dcferved; t
therfote what impatience foever thouhafhfo much art
thou ihort of true humiliation. i
The fifth {igne to know we love Chrifi, is this; it
makes us fearful! of oflending God : tendernefle of
confcience is ever according to the meafure of true
humiliatiomfor by how much the more we are hum-
bIed,by fo much do we feare to offend (€’3od,and labour
to walke obediently unto him,If4 66 .2. the Lord faith,
To him will I lock: that is poor: and of 4 contrite/}n'rit,
i and trembled; at 714} Word:I F thou art of a con trite heart,
thou wilt tremble at his words ;that is,<at his Comman-

dement,he is fenfible of the lcafi fin : .1-iencc itis, that
Pra42.28. 1 4.. feare is oppofed to hardnefie of heart,
Happy 5: the man tbatfearetb alum], éut be that /Mrdzeetb

his heart [ball fall into mifi.‘/#4} : NOW theoppofitc to
hatdne fi'e,is brokennelie of heart,but feare is oppofed
3? it,bec‘auic-it is a ligne of brokenneffe of heart. Now
t- is fearfullneiie-{lands in two things :

Lin a facility to be convicted of any {in ; for he that l
is not thus broken in heart, iiands out with God, and
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~/-l6iiiD0ftrzne of Humiliation.-

2. In a feare to ofifend God ; For when he is once
convinced, he labours to» do according to his know-
ledgegand then is afraid to difpleafe God,either :

I . In comtmitting the leaf} {in ;- as Mofi: would
not leave the lealt hoof: behind him ; and as Iaé
feared left his Soamesflyauld/Jamflnmed in beart,Io£v
1 .4_.I-le was {'0 truly humbled, that he would not
facrifice for his owne {ins only, but even for his
Sonnes al{o,and that the leafi,the"thoughtsoftheir
hearts.

2. In omitting the leaf}: good duty, 01‘ doingit~For-
mall y ; which thing the_bypocrite cannot doe,
becaufe he hath not this tenderneffe ofconfcience.

The {ixth figne of the love of Chrifi. is this ;, It
makes Gods Word fweet unto us ;as it- was t0~Da-via/,
Siwaetar then: the ban} or the ban} comic : Crummes are
fweet to an hungry man ,. fo if a man hunger after the
Gofpcll it Will éefweet mfta /Jim. Indeed,if the Word
be fweetned with humane Eloquence,it may be fweet
to one that is carnall (For fo it is pleafing to nature ). but
ifthe purer it is,and the more it is feparated from thofe
gawdy flowers ;if' the more piercing it is, the fweeter
it is to us,then it is a {igne ofa. broken heart ; for it is a
reproach to thofe that have not a broken heart, and for
it cannot be fweet:as we may fee,Ier.6. I o. where thc
Lord fail:h,Be}Jo/d,t/Jeir ear: is atncircumct:/ed, and the}
ammo: émr-ém:ée/yold,tlae Word oftlae Lord is unto them-
d..rep,roac/7,t/.ve]rb4t1e no delight in it. And again ,the.Pro-
phet~faith,,Ier. I 5, t 6.772] Ward: mrcfom2d,4>zd I did eat
tbem,amalth} Word mu mm me tbejo] and rejojcing of
mine /.2edrt:I t is 1' 0y and re joycing to thofe that ha\_ze_ a
broken heart,as the Prophet had may, the {harper It IS:
the more they delight in it. .
The feventh figne ofonr love to (-3

mm, is this; 1:

1

i ycauffth meeknelfe of fpirit, The Spirit‘ that dmllezb

in as (before We are humbled) la/fetla after mu}, I47».

4 5. now every naturall man is Io; but he that is of a.
- broken

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6 The Ending
of fvveetnelic,
in the Word of
God.

7 Meekneffe
oflpirit.

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Oéjefl.
dnfw. 3 .
Humilia non
changetlr our
nature.

fllfjfion 4.

Anfw.

The difference
of humiliation

ducated and a
grofle Iinner.
I o

~ and meek flneep,Lu~@ 3 .4, {aim cries in the Wildernes,

it

The Doéirine offiamiliation.

broken heart envieth rt.ot,he I pends his anger on him-
felflandilooks to his own offences fo much, i that he re-
gards not others.  V   t l - t l
But fome man will here be ready to obieét and fay,
My nature is hally,and I cannot fupprelie it.
v To this I anfwer, It is -true,every one by nature is a
Lioni;but grace when that comesjt turns us into lambs

Prepare the may of the Lard,€5-c.but how ? by -humility:
Ever} /Jig/9 Lil/[armtaine and Hill /laud ée _a'iggea' dawne,
and the trachea!/ball 6: madejirazglat, ama/the rang/2 rmic:

jzallée madefmaofla: Humility, Whichrprepareth for’

Chrilhdiggeth downe thofe high Moun-taines,and ma-
keth plain tbofe rough waies.I deny not butthat forme-
times Gods Child may have a paflion ofange r; yet the
peace of God rules in his heart, although that fame-
times brcaksout as arrbell,but it dwels not in him :
Chriftis meeke and {o areaIl~his.And Io much for the
thirdqaeflion._  . at ‘l
Now ‘to proceed farther in the explication of humi-
lit;~t_t.ion,, and cometo the fourth queflion, which is
t is. ,  
Whether this humiliation mull-be in all men,as wel
in thofe wlaichare well educated, and have fallen into.
no frolic fins,’-‘as in others?’ » ‘ ‘ '
’ -anfwer, yes; it mull be in all, even this great Hu-
miliationhere fpoken ‘ofiels let them go never. fo farre,
they will in the end fall away : and that is the very
reafon why [0 manyProfeflors,that have given up their
name to follow C.hrill,fall away,becat1fe they were ne-
ver humbled foundly for fin. '3 ‘ ’ _ _
Yet there is this difiérence betwixt the humiliation
of one brought up wel1,and a groffe finner.

I .The filth of En is not [0 fuddenly revealed to thofe
that have bin well ‘brought up, and have fo me know-
ledge, and therfore they are not ifo fuddenly fmitten, ’
as to thofe that lived in ignorance all their life long : l

  thofe 

lpany to go with him, and {o efcapeth the danger. And»

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3 The Doftrine of Humiliation.

1.}

  thofe that have a light on the {u iden, it prefently .31. - .-

zeth them ; even fo God Rril-(es down fuddenly the
grolfe {inner and amazes him with a more violent {or-
row ant}humiliation,than he doth the other.

2. The jay is not fo iudden,no_r filafhingmor fenfible in
him that hath-more knowledge ;the medicine is known

, our offered up for all that are wounded (‘or fin, and fo
' as foon as he Feels the W0nnd,he applies the medicine ;
{'0 is not his trouble fo irkiome, neither being delive-I
red bath he fuchfenfible joy ; For inftance, Suppofe a
man be in the way wounded among thceves, and al-
mofl killed, fo that he {aw no mcanes of life ; if‘ one,
a friend of his, on the fudd en {hould Rep forth and help
him,he would be more feniible of it, than {uch an one
as knowingbefore he fhall be robbed. getteth com.

{o much for the fourth qneftion. .  

The fifth quefiion is this-,What is the leafl degree of
Humiliation that Inuit be in one thatwillbe faved P

I anfwtr, it is to much as will bring us home to;
Chrifi 3 that is, fo much as will make us apprehend
fin to beithe greateft evill in the world, and Chrifif
to be the greatefl good : {'0 much as will enable us to
make fin our chiefeft forrow. and Chrifi our chiefefl:
joy ;when we do fo,then whatfoever is tffred we neg-
left for Chrift,and preferre him. Thence is it that the
Churches are {aid to rejajce 1.72\CilJ7’ij% wizlajqy an/fiealgaéle
andg/orio:a,i Pet.I .8.}3or when we apprehemi {in to
be the gteatelt evil1,and by Chrilt to be freed from it,
we mnfi needs rejoyce unfpeakably.~ For we are to
know that our cenverfation confilis in three things:

I .In being foundly hu'mb_led,fo that we fee {into be
the grcatcfl; ev ill in the world. _

2. In (led laiily laying hold_oFCh‘?iii and beleeving
in him,fo that we will not part withhim for any. thing
* in the world. G

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3. In

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‘Qty:/lion 

Anfw, ;
The leafl db.’
gtee of humi-
liation will
makfi Us count
[in the gteateft
evill , Chrifl:
the greatefi
good.

A mans con-3
verfation con.-§_
filtsin three Q
things. 3
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; 3. In a—newnefl7e of life, walking in obedience to
all his Commandements : and th€ff0TC Chflfi faith:
job, 16 ,He m‘/1/{mdn'ge Camfarterto convince the world
offimee mm’. rigiateaufncfi? : Hill, to humble for fin ;
and iii this alfothdre are degrees; for here one may
be humbled more then another, and fo thull after
Chrill more ;_ but the more we are humbled, the bet.»

worke to doby us, when we are thus humbled : It
is a great Fault in us that we are prone to thieke that;
' we are humbled enough, and that our humiliation at
e our firll converfion was enough ; No (beloved) out
i. ‘,humiliation mull not be llkC a Land flood that runs
3 but For a little time, but like a {pritg running comm-
tallv; for all degrees in grace, depending on God, mor-
; tification of our l«ufl:s,@"c.d€p€nd3 OD thcdegrees ofoure
lhumiliation;and he that is the moll humbIed,would be
‘much more if he {aw himielf to be the better. And fo
. i ‘much for’ the fifth quellion. . ’
92!}!/a‘.6. The fixth queilion is this,HoW {hall we come to be

I thus humbled ? -
J An/‘w. i . , ]anfwer,b’y the Law ; for though the W hole a&of

‘The Law the» our humiliation iswtought bythe Law and the G01‘.

 pcll,Rom.6. yettha_tl.)um1ltat.10tn whtchj now urge,

. ‘ ~ ~ ~t8 that legall hutmhatton vthxth is wrought by the
Law : by the Law, I meane-1 not only the ten Com..t
mandements, but the refiitude oftur pcrfons to the
whole Scripture,which is the expofition of tl~:em:Fir{l.,
confider therfote how much per.fct°c.xon Gods Word

ter we are humbled 3 it is a fignc God bath a greater‘ t

requireth,then how fhort you comeiottlaat perfe étion
this is one means. . '

Oéjefl; ; ~ I,but {ome man Will’,bC ready to faylhave. doncwhat
Lccu1d,and yet ] am not-i‘humbIed.

humble us‘, but it troll be foyned with the fpirit of
bondage ; for as to make the Gofpell ‘c fF:&ua‘:l,,. there
is required the {pirit of confola;ion, and a faith to be-
‘   lievel

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}/In/iv. To this I an{wer,it is not the Law alor e that Inuit l

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lieve it ; {o to make the Law cfl'e&uall,there is requia
red the fpirit of bondage, and faith proportio-nable,
The fpiritot bondage is thatwhich cnlightneth us to
fee thebondage wherin we are by reafoa of our fins,
and then is required a faith to} believe the threats a-

gain& rhofe fins; for Faith is required to believe»

Gods threats as ‘well ‘as his promiies; faith in the
generall being nothing but a lifting us up to fee what
nature cannot : for when the unclean perfon is threat-
ned,he is not'moved}becaufe he believes not. .

But here fome man wili be readyto object and lay,
Afiiiéiiorrs often humble us, therfore it is not the Law
t—'nat.doth it.   ' ‘

Toythis] anfwer,AFfli&ions,as,the Plow,make way,
but it isthe feed of the Law {own in our hearts that
mutt humble us : indeed thofe notions which they had
before are in afflictions made to fecm otherwife thau
beforegbut we mutt‘ takeheed that affliftions caufe not
worldly forrowfor that is the applying of_the corroa
live to a whole place; i A f ‘

Now you mnlt know that there is an extraordinary
humiliation which God at {ome times Works in fame
mengweurge not to that,“( God works that in whom
he plje'afeth,and i ntendeth to make extraordinary) we
urgeto the ordinary humiliation. Now the means to
attain that,arethefe five : i   s " e

The firll means to attain humiliation,is,Ioenter jin-,

to a ierious confideration of our eftate,as the Prodigail
Son did;he is faid,Lu. 15'.ta came to k.imfi»Zfe,and confi—
der that his father had enough and he {tatved
one of us fhsuld dogconfider, L y j  

-13ir{},chc gr-eatnes of thy {ins in particular, and make

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_ Catalogues of them.

And than fecondly,i:t our aéluall {ins lead us to our
corrupt heart, which is the root ofall, “So God dealt
with the children of Ifrml, Dem. 8.2. ‘where ‘ it is
IZ1id,G and [:1 them fourt] jean hath: wilderneflé, to Imm-

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The fpirit of
bondagevvhat,
and why re:
quired to hu-
miliation. .

0éje£?,y

Anfw.

How aHliL°ii-
ons and the
Law concutrc
to humiliation

Five means to;
hutniliation.
1 Meanes, to
conlicler our
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beart.c,&c. He himfelf knew it We1lenough,bu_t by
their Has he would make it known to themielves and N;
others. So alfo God dealt with H€Za9C,7id5,2[‘ bro. 3 2 .3 1-

Wherc it is f3id,G'od left him, to tr] him, and to éiww 4/1 ;
that was in lazl: IJn:rt.Hez.eclaia»’a hai a proud heart. and 
:God left him to himfelf, not that God might know i
%what was in his heart,but that he himfzlf might know.
So God rels the Ifraelites,Ez.ck. 3 6. 3 I . Te /541! remerm

Lgaaééandflmfl loath your/elves in your awxe /2’ gig: far Jaur
. tin:'q_m‘z},¥&c,
3' L l Thirdly, Having thus confidered your fine, con,-
e e {idcr Gods Wratb,and the certainty ofiz ;t'ne wrathofa.
King isthe meifenger ofdcath, what then is the wrath
of Almighty God? Evenas the power of God is more
than the po wcr ofmamfo is his wrath alto: as lovg as
he lives,1o long, will he  thee inhell.The cordidc-
iration ofthis made Mam break 0ul:,Pfa/.90-.. and fay,

:vi.nefl'e for the Iews, Rom. 9. Andas God: {bewed his

almighty power inmaking of man, fo will he in de-
wliztoyingand puniihjéng. And this wrathof his {hall fill
u.p_c’m.the mall {e,nfible part oFman,,-mz. the fonkwhich
’_aS-it {Sc   able ottbe gteatefi meafitreeof io.y,£'o-is.it: ca.-
‘ pable 0:3): greateli meafure of grief.W hat: is God‘ but
infinite 2 whatisihis.wr.ath but.infiaiite ? under it than
{halt moi’: wizfh for dca.th,which now thou moi} fcarclh

2" g4e.3“°‘; ‘O ' 'I'he fec.o.x1d meants to obtaine Humiliation, is to,

t: a;idc[‘:f;°u": fifty agteat whileon this eon.fiderati.on, ta fnficf far-
« ' e ' row to abide on our hearts ; for it. is theoft and ffifiofls
eonfidcration that. efF;_£‘i&tl3is« :; and thetfore we may

The Daffrme of Hmmiliat/flan. . ‘I’

élé tbcmymd to pram tévem,4nci to /(now w/mt mu in their

féer your owne evifl main, an.-1_;our'dc£:eg:, that were mt ’

1W/an know: the pawn‘ aflazis wm:/9 .’ Paulisin great hea- ,

learne fome thing frpm Satan, when he would drive at e

man taydfi-fp3iL’C,. heoft puts thou ghts of Gods wrath»
<' gun: unto our finnesinta om: minchc, B¢_‘holsd8 the: ob-
ieéf clofe unto.-our minds , and fo le’tteth;us think of

 

nothing eis .11; isthe frequent. and fetious confideration .

314-?  ff.‘

  1 fin,where he fhews it was for fin that the Angels were

Tbs Dofirirxe oféumiliaim.  51

; oftbefe things that humblcth us: {This was that that
) humbled Dae=éd,Pfal.5 I 5174'}  was always éefaw me‘: "
. . S0/am.s4.,8, Clamfe jaw baxds J-e flnxen‘, and pimfie
_ycrm- /mmxyee drmble—mim2’ed: HOW is that done .3 mr.
9.36’ aflifiedand maume : all Wavetingnefle and infi-2- _
bility comes from the corruption of the hcamand thew "
fore deanfc that;and the way to efleanfie that is to be e
humbled; andthe way to be humbled, isto feqaefler
your iclf from ail carnal} mirth(though eIs I&w{u1~l)and
Bay on thefe con fiderations. e  3 Mean,” {cc
The ‘third means is this;If'you cannot fee fin init felf, e an in j_;§¢flE¢}5
labour to fecit in hiseeflléfs. All mitfeties swhrich you feel e   t ’
inyour felf,or know in othersmethee fruits of it ;; and o
this will make you fay,'.ix: is a bitter thing to fin-;fo Peter 
‘ in his z.Epi{Heand 2.Cb‘aprer,by this crffcéi aggravates  1

« ‘.1

{ thrown down’ into Ezek1,Trbatthe ofidewerld was drew-  ,
7 ne&,that.S’ada4w and‘§omrrab wfléfdéfirdyfcfg’ _ 4iMean¢s, to
The fourth memes to attarine hm-nrifi.-.eio=n%,» rs to ;m4‘k¢‘t1wf€*'=*J

Opticke gleaifce, thofe thingswbiehe are a fa'rr’e'*o'_fl/ wzxfl
feeme near: to thofe that took inif 3 % f0fh¢T€e&bY fmh Q
mould {cm at the verydoore : it may be the  c037- f
fidsring themes prefcm, makes them not affefl you;

 make thefe evils ptefent. before  Esy faith : 25 3’ 313 §:i13f’°{‘“° by 31;

for yvhat is a firm ofl‘, atthough it bein‘ itef»e!1iff’carbfu1I, ‘
yet xs not Fearec},as'death, ave: tberfcare fer heii before s
7 Y 01”’ €Y€S',andfte it as pcefeuc before you.
Makeprefcm: unto you t.hefecwc7thi:sg9 : ' j 7 v
I . All fins pafi :a thing that is pafl us Will? feemfmafl -‘ought to ‘be;
V l1nto'uS<,th0ugb?'n: bc,a’5;gg¢a:as;g{rc_1'ifW‘3S before, and ads 
K» {o doour finsato us : we usfluaitgz do as men that leave ’ "-
\

fomethfng bebi‘nd.them,when=they are farre g‘on€,they o
thiamk it is but 2! 1ir1le,and fl.-re1A.'fore‘they wifl not return
For it; fo we beitrgfat-rc.offhrom outfinss, they fc‘C_’d’fC
Hztle unto~us,but we mufttcmember the cfay ‘of our‘1nt.-
quity. Let us "thcrcf.g[_'e:. make our fumes opt‘c'_- ‘
fent, God becflcemes dram‘ as great as cV‘_€|'17"‘-‘Y1
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q Meancs, .
Fo takeheed
of lllifts.

' whereby men
think to l-tecpe
affyudgements

I 2 Fofmzll
nevformance’
df holy duties.

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3 light on us the next day.

The Doéirine ofHumilz'atizm.

were,let us d-o.fo'therFore,let them feem ahhominablc

unto us:thus didlaé poflfefie the fins of his youth.

,2 Things future, as Gods Judgements, which are—«

neare at hand, and lye at the cloore, as God {ages to
Ceix, although they feeme to us a farre off: But this IS
Satans cunning to deceive us ; he is as a Painter, who

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by thecollufionof colours, makes things feem Far. off i

whichyare nigh; fo he makes Gods wrath which lyes
at out doore,feem a Farre olf, when as it may be i-t will

A The fifth meanes to attain: humiliation, is, To take
heed of all luch falfe fhifts, wherb y you may f. em to

; {keep offghe blow of Gods Law from lighting on you:
9' we are never moved with thefe confideratious untill
: all {hifts are rernoved;fo that we fee nothing but death,

Eight fhifts 

and-then we tremble.

of Gods , judgements, and fo with~hold themfelves
. from being humbled,are thefe eight:
. It Civility; this Glo-worm ofcivility lo glittereth
in therdarlgthati we think it to be a true {park of grace,
but where the fpirit {hines we {hall find it falfe: and as

_tzheDive,ll_deludcth W itches, in giving them leaves in r

llead offilver and gold ;fo doth he deale with thee here,

‘for; except there be a lupernaturall frame of th y "heart,

.thcreis_ noteaufe of comfort no-twithiianding all thy
civilityund therforc thou mull be fure to have fome-
thing in thee more than nature, for
bring to Heav-:n._s .
gr  Formall performance of holy duties; as praying,

read'ing,&o.\that4pufF; men up,and keeps them from hu-

miliation.I E you either omitted them altogether, than

your confcience gwouldcheck you ;or performed them '

we1l,then your heart would be bettered,and youw-1 uld
be humbleyi-bunt-thrgs Formall doing of them, keeps the

i heart dead and.{enl1es.Rememhcrtherfore that no Sa- ls

Crificc is acceptable to God,but that that comes from a
Brogan /:Ie4rt,I’fl5 I’. r '

 

The fhifts by which men think to keep off the blow“

civility will not

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' a mug right in the ji ‘g/at of t£g¢Lo_rd for ya long time, émnat

  were without God, Rom.2. but there is no Example

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I 1736 Dofirimé of’HumiIi4tion. i

3. The badnefie of your naiure; you would -do bet-
ter, but your nature is 10 bad,that you cannot. But re-
member, firfl, That that agoravates your fin, and

God i:i{CS you the worfe for that,_l and will the hat d-
lier pardon you ; even as we our ielves, are readieil to

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pardon an ofl’ence in a good nature. Secondly, your _;

feliisothe caufe of the badnes ofyour nature_:God gave
you in’ Adama good nature,but you have loPt*it,and {ince
by manyfins have made it worie by far. ,

4 Go is mercythe is mercifull ther fore you willnot
feare:tut what it he be mercifuIl,he cals not,’the_e thou‘;
art not burdened with thy (ins,he ca's only. fu”c‘b, .6'ome;i
unto the all 7: that are lmw] laden, and I wile.’ eézfi you.

What hall thou to do with mercy, which feeft not‘-

thytmifcry 2 thou hall no part in it, as
56/. . y ‘L . * a - t i

._ '5 The maltirngictonfeie,nc?€ of many things, : .fo Herod
did niranyithings after Iobm preaching; fo the Gentile:
did by nature the things contained intthe Law, . yet

[elm laid to feed-

like unto that of Ahmzz:'a,2 G/zro. 25.2.56 didtbat which

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  3. Badnefle of

nature.
Two cautions
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2.

4.Gods mercy «

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iffrihemakingi

confcience of
many _-t hangs .

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with T4 perfefl beart.One may makezconfciencetofpray-.
ing in privatetand of doing many good éitltlfs,‘ and yet
’havc’no true grace,hut do all cut of a_ nat.urallcon'1henc-eT
for fear: of pnniihtnent. t ' a

6 Becaufe Judgements come not fwiitly, arid‘ are
not fpeedily executed , Minillers threaten but they
feele nothing: But we mull knoW,tbat the lcfl'eaFfli--
éiions we have had,the more are behind ;r:a‘ni I know‘
not a more mi ferable condition than this is; it is a moi}
dangerous figne thou art ordained to death, when thou"
art thug let alone unpuniih-t : As we ufe to fay-, when
men are frequently lick there is no dangenofdearhgbut
when-they neverhave bin fick, and at lehigth fall in-
to it, it is very dangerous ;— foitis to be feared, that
whm once God begins with thee,he will make an end,
as

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6.The delay"
of executing
of pidgexncnt.

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2336 threatned to %Hoplm].and Pbimu ;he will {'0 Hrikej
I that 111; gill xfzot flf;‘_.ll(c twice‘ : fo  nothinglcan be 'e
. wot c. 31} or: anger to go on W1 out troub 6.
7A ‘ff; ?_P1- 7. _Men wdge their elhtes e1nd_fins in a falfe ballance 'L
‘f‘i’;’:;3" ‘ °" "' ofop1mon:none({ay they)th}n'k ill ofthem, but a few
1~h,e;¢au,;0,,‘, that are more prccafe than w1fc.But conlidcr ;

L L  1. That Minillers are only the men by whom yee l
I beleevc,not whom ye lhould beleeve: take our wogds
; but fo far Forth asthey are prooved unto you by Scrxp -
3 ' I } tufcgand 1')f they be £rL1e,tbh<?_1 (altllmugh few be of that

mm yet yououg - cto- c xeve r em. . g
* .2.Confider whither the latitude ofrcligion wich thou

2.

gas. 2...‘

  on thy death-bcd,and at the day of fudgement:
3. l 3. Confider that iris the part of holy men, and of
 none‘el{e, todifccrnc which are the wayesoof God:
every dnegfis to be believed “in his owne at t, therfore
believe them.
. 8 An opinion Men thinke that itconcerncs only form: to be 110- o
‘W “me , ly, as~Minifier~s,é«c.and not all.I will anfwer fuel) with
i’;?l“3.i.b§1‘I?‘’ 1*“ Wins ofmflwea W7 W7 aw/’WJf‘ is ".0 W
fir af'oa!e;.i: If thou Wcrt ewxfe, thou wouldcfi thmke 1:
concern: eth  T _
l 7/? Now I .bet€::§l?:ou (Bretbrcnfiwumble your fclves,
and {'0 much the ratlaer, becaufe now the time and
neccflicy of the Church requires it, now while {he is
V thus in her Mourning-gown leek not after your profits
and pleafi:n'cs,drinl< not Wine in Bowles, ufe not new
.tl2el1'bcrties that otherwife lawfully you might ; Re~ l
E men&r that faying of'ZJrz'ala,2 Sam. I I . I I . The Arae 5
5- 4”‘! 17*!!!’ «ind Iadleb 4654/: in Temx, mm’ my Lordlaaé, f
5 am/tbv Serzrmm afm} Lard are encamped in the open 
fit/4!,/51/1 I tire» gee into my Iaoafe to eat and drink’, and 
to 1]: with my Wfe, @-c.And do as’ ‘Daniel did, Clmp. 9.
Now praflife all the parts of Hurniiiation, now Gods 2.‘
Church needed) it ; although you your {elves were 2
% Free, yet humble your {elves for the {ins of others; 

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Mere} to is fimmi in c/mt}:

continually pray to God for them. Remember What

  God thrcatneth to thofe I faz.22. t z.that whe-n he called

to mourning,they followed their pleafure; he faith,
He will not forget it to the death : fo Ifa.66.4. God is
angry with all that negleét this duty, and will not be
fiirred up to pcrforme it ; but thofe that do call on
himhe will heare. The anrigbteom«}udge,Luk. I 8.was
overcome by importunity, and then much more will
God : if we humble our fclves as M'om’eea},£jler 4.. :4.
concluded excellcntly,7‘ heir deliverance //ml! mi/e fi-om
ematlm-place; fo may we; then certainly the Church
{hall (land, and Antichrill; {hall fall, as a Millflone in-
to the Sea, never to rife up again. W I grant he may rage
Very farre, he hath raged farre already, and how, farre
more he {hall rage, God only knows ; yet in the end,
certain it is he {hali fall, and the Church {hall lland.Let
us all therfore be humE1ed,you which have not yet he-
gun this humiliation,now begin;and ye which have he-

gun,lge Ptedfall therin, knowing that your labour {hall
not be in vain in the Lord. 4 A

The next thing to be {hewed after this doctrine, that
we are dead injim2e,is the means of recovering our life,
and that is by Chrill,as it is in the Text’ jun bath he

qmc lined’ that were deadxé-c.) He, that is, Chrill hath  
"done it.Hence learn this doélrin ofcornfort, as a refre-
I

{hing corcliall next after thebitter potion. of humilia-'
tion. That :

Whofaer/er will come to C brifl, may come an.c1mer-
c},Rez2 2 2. r 7 Wboflever m'l1,l¢t him tnjleof-tl:,e mater:
of/tfe fieelyl-Iere I will lhcw:   i ‘ . ~

I . What is meant by wifl (whofoezver will) that is, he
that Will receive Chili with all his conditions, to be?
his Log-d,and his Ruler,&c.‘ W hofoever will this take
Chrifl he may-.if we would takeChrill before we Weft?
humlglcd we might,butti1l we be humbled we will not
rs.-kc him; It is Chrill that gives life, but till we be

hungry we will not take him and eat him ; The »Sunne'
‘- H enlightneth,

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fDoElrine 3.
3 Thingsin
the dofirine.

1 Taking of
Chrifi.

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,$im'le,, - enlightneth,but the window letsfilfllhrifi gives life,

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but our hungring afier him makes us eat him,which we
will not do uutill we be humbled.
2. M4} come to Clan‘/2] that is, receive him, and

' 11 1d . . . , , . .
2 Liymg O believe in him; it IS but laying hold of him when he

ofhtm.

anidfinkg: /as that éelee?/et/2 in me, as faith the Scrip-.
ture,‘ but of /2:2: ée/Z} flmll flaw Living Water:.: and 3-
gain,Iob.3; 16. Goal game 1:135» 072/} begotten Some, that
wbofaemr éeleevetb in him, /Iyauld mat peri/72, but have
everlnfling life. As the old Adam was a common rootv
offin and damnatiomfo is Chriil the fecond e/3”d4?7'7;.0f
~ grace and falvation : as at the year of Iué£Iae,when the
trumpet founded,whofoever would might go freabut
if any would he fo flavifh as to ferve. they might ; fo»
now to Chriihnow he calleth,w hofoever will, may go
Freeandhe delivered ;hut if there be any fo flavifra min-
ded as to l‘tay,they may.
The grounds ‘ The grounds of this Doctrine Why I‘ thus gentraleiy
cf the Doéh-in deliver it,arethcfe. 9
‘5°“°f3”$‘- , I . Becaufe els there were no ground or’ our faith ;A
 Faith mull have a ground of'Scripture , and the
out Faith. .3Ci2lpture. makes no particular promife to any man ;I
It faith not, thou Thomas, or thou; Io/m ihaltibe
ifilved, but it faith, Wkafac'z;.3r will, let him come, and
s lkdrinér fled)»-_of the water of life : Then we fay, but
lliwill ; thcrfore. on this ground is thellrength OF
faith,that whofoever willmay come.-.
2. Becaufe: faith is about things thatare ; faith pre-.

2. Faith is..a.
bout things
that arc.

similey, fees he mull perilh,as a man that is falling into the Sea,

t calls himfelf on a Rock,and there will lye and rell ; fo. ?
we feeingwe mull perifh withouthim; we clap hold
on him,and will not leave him. for any perfecutionaor‘

s pleafure. A ‘

3 A” may 3. Wbafoewr‘ wifl] It is generally~prcpou«nded ;» for
come and takel . ,- - -\ ~ v 0 _
hm Chi ill 18 a common 1~ounta.me,he that will may com- ;-

i As Io/9.7.37. If any nmntt/ciirff, let /aim. come unto me i

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Marc)’ to be fauna’ in C/mfi. 

fuppoleth his objeéh: God gives the generall pros.
‘ * i 1'1‘.-ifes.

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mife,wbofi7e'ver Twill Iaelieveflmll ée[aved,This is the ob.
* feet of faith, this premifed the faith followeth; and is
» the caufe of all the confequences, as that Chrifl is mine,
1., I am fanétified, tjufiified, &c. thefe follow faith, but
l the objeét is before, viz. that whofoevet will :come
2 to Chrifi, may : as, ifl beleeve the world is created;
) then it man firfi be createdgfo ifl beleeve, J {hall be fa-=
ved,iF I go to Chrifi, then I mufi firli have this, for to
believe, that whofiwmr will come to C/27% may -come;

.....;s

- To exhort fo many as are {tumbled for fin, and fee
l What need they have ofChri{l, to come to him to be
gquickned-; the Fountaine is opened. fo that, be thy
‘finstnever fo many, or great, however committed,

sofl<nowledge,after many vowes or covenants, ‘yet if t A

lthou art fo touched and humbled for thy fins, that
lthou truly thirltelt after Chrilt, if thou wilt take
lihi m, thou maifi, Tc; thefe only thatdare humthled is
this wide Doore o ' comfort opene ; art t on but
' humbled, let thy fin he never fo great, fuppofe it be
gofmurther, uncleanne{ie,8-cc. let them be aggravated
y with all the circumftances, yetif thou cant} be but
humbled, and then lay hold on Chrifl, thou mayeit.
Reade, 1 ('or,6.9. See what great fins thole were,
how can you name greater? Neither Form'caztar,nor Ida.
leter, nor pzdm’térer,nor effémimm, nor abufer: of them-
lfiloe: with mazafindgeor tlaeeves, i nor cowtom, nor dmn-
:1/Qardx, nor rat/ilarx, nor rxtortioners, fba/1 inherit the
Kingdom: ofG0d. c/{ndfuc/J werefome of )0»: : éutjee i
are ‘aw:/79rd, ézttye are f amfiifizd, buytye are ju}?tified,@-c.

godly iorrow,yet do but take Chrifl», and he is thine.
Tolooke for fotrow and holinefie before thou takefi
Chrift, is to looke forlife hetore. the foul. Therfore
do but take him and he is thine: for,-

Nay,(i:1ppofe you have not one jot ofholineffe, nor of *

A I The pro mife is free without any condition ;If god-

ly {orrow and grace were required! it were not free;  
, I godly fotrow and grace follows faith, but are not tea

quired before it. H 2 2.The ‘

  

 

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. Every one

would take
Chrifi as a
Saviour-,'but
not as a Lord._

L Simile;

Chriil gives
whom hee
quickneth a

three-fold life.

Merv} to be found in Cbrifl.
~ s z. The promife is generall,A4‘nrl.:ila.16.16.60: ye firm

 

' all the world,‘ andprmc/rz the Go/]7:l1 to ever} creature: If

therfore there be any poore foul touched with his fins,
fo as he will do or fuffer any thing for Chrill, to him I
{peak comlorr,to him Chriit doth belong, thou maiefl
have Chrifl ifithou wilt. . I t
i   But fome man will here be ready to obieét and fay,
Thenevery one‘ will take him. _

To this J anfwer, Every one would take him For a

Saviour, but there be conditions following after,
though not going before faith: if you beleeve he is
your3Saviour,youmul‘c heleeve he is your Lord, you
mull ferve him in all his commandis, and leave all
your finnes, which none will do, untill they fee that
without him they cannot but perifh : and none but
they will takehim, whom, when they have taken
him, he defcendeth into them and qu:'ckneth.them,and
animates them, and makes them like himfzlfe. As fire
dothiron,‘ to have the fame qualities which fire hath,al-
though not the fame degrees. Thus when a man,hum-
bled for G0,. longeth after Chrilt, and receives him,
Chrill enters into him. and gives him a threefold life ;,

‘ I. Thelifeof guilzlefnelle, by which we are freefrom

the guilt offin. 2.The life of grace. g.The life of joy.

Thus /7: qhickget/7 t/safe which are dead in Ire/fiaffer and

/fab-A."-dHitl1erto of the firfi verfe, we come now to the-
cco t . '

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dirt’, A theffiirit that now mleth in the c-hildrenhqf dgfa-
éedieme, é-c. ’

"  Ftet the Apofile had prooved thefe E}
,2 .{ phtflomi, to whom he writes, to he dead

I  verfe, he proceeds to confirme his Do-
’ ’ Ehtine, by prooving them to be dead
men from the fignes of death, which are three : That
they walhed : . V A J
1. According to theeicourfie of the world:
2. zfccorc/mg to the prince ofthe air: .-
3. In the luff: cf thefle,/7;. ‘ ‘
1 hefe are the guides, by whom they wcreied, the
world, the flefh and the Divell: Vk-hétc fuchguides
lead a m:m,he is like to run a good cottrfe.   v
Now the point of Dofirine that arifeth from the
zfirfi ofthefe, is :
} That whofoever walkgth in any cattrfe of _[;'nne,£5 of dead
5 mmgandthe childe of wrath: that is, if there be any
f ruling luft in a man, fo that he followes it,-and itcomo
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proved by
. Scripture.

"'.[‘—l—1—is is plain, Rom. 8.1. There is no condemnation to
‘ fhofe thatore inflarifl Io/m, who walk; not after that
flefb bar after tlaefjzirir. Ifthtre be no condemnation
to thole which walke after the Spirit; then certain-
ly there is condemnation to thofe which walk after
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a mo»: overjzm, for you are not under the Law, [mt under
grace ; that is, if {in hath but dominion over you,
‘ thentwere you in the eliate ofdeatht if but any luli

hath dominion over you, fol that you mull yeeld o':.e-'
dience to it, you are notin the eltate of grace, but of
damnation: and the reafon hereof'is,z-er/c 18. became
‘you are:/Jeferzmnts offim.ve,_ ( for 19:24 fcfrgmntr you are
~ whom you ooey) Suppofe you have but any one predo-
, at minant fin, it is enough to damne thee- T here are
fome that can ‘deny the {in ofluli, but for to leave a
their company, that they cannot do; Again, fome
can leave their company, but by no meanes will part
with the fin of luft; fame can part with both ; but
for their riches, they will not part with apenny;and
[0 for other particulars, many will be content to part -
withfomc of their fins, but one is {o fweet, that
they will not part with it. But let all fitch know,that 
L if they have but any one {in to rule and reigns {o in 3

them, that they muli needs obey it; if it_be fo fweet
" unto them,‘ that they cannot leave it, they are in the
I efiate of condemnation : yea, if they continue ‘but in
  any one knowne fin, for there is but one way to
, Heaven, but by-wayes athoufand : now ifrh-3-u takell
but one hy—way, it will lead thee from Heaven as ‘
wellas if twenty; for the right way to hit the mark, »
is but one, but there are many byuwaycs where we 5
may mifie. . . A
Jadded,w/aofbever nvalleet/2 in any known: fin. In-
deed, a man may fometimes by chance flip out of the
‘ way into fome (in; but I mean not fuch a ma-n,but him
E  that maketh iome {in his continuall walk.

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But every one will be ready to fay ; This is a hard
faying, and who clanindufc it 9 I will therfore fhew
you iome reafons For it.

The firli reafonis, becaufe, that whofoever wal-
lseth in any known fin, is overcome of fin, and

 whofoever is overcome offin cannot be faved.» In-

<_1€cd a godly man may oftentimes be foyled. but r;ev'er
is overcome and at the lali _gCttCt'n the viétory : But
when a man aflitnuiatesehimhfelf to (in, and with-
out any relnéiation is overcome of it, liriving no
more a-gainll it, as fire when it is overcome by water,
that man is certainly in the eliate of conclemnation.
This is the meaning ofthe Apolile Peter, 2 Pet. 2. 9..
VVM/e they promfi z/Loam Ziéergutljej tbrmfeloes are the

(cr wmt: ofcarmption, for of whom at man 23:: owrcome,0f

t/Jefame be éséraugbt in éonakgge : If any fin overcome ‘

thee,thon artin the eiiate of damnation. It i will not
ferve our turn,to ule thofe weak excules, which com-
monly is our plea ;to fay,we cannot leave thern,becaufe
weare fielhand bl.oud,and they are naturally in us.
The fecond reafon is,becaule,whofoever walketh ifl
3“? known 1’in,in him {in is predominant, and bath the
ehicfc command, and where that hath the chiefe com-
mand and rules,God hath no place;ior the motion Fol-
lows the predominant element;if godlineffe be predo-
minant,that moves us, and rules us ; if {in be predo-r.
minant l.l’l.u-S,tl12tI'i1l«i‘SlIS. As a man fpeaketh out of
the abonnciance that is in his heart, fo alfo he workerh
ontof the aboundanee that is in heart. This is plainfor
when Chrili would fhew their hearts to be bad,he bid-
tlleth them confider their fpeech;and if he could gather
the naughtinefie of their hearts by their fpeeth, then:
certainly tnuehznore by their aétions and works. a
I;t,,but fome may fay, I“have a fecret (in in my heart,
yet it breaketh not forth; J“ keep it in,and will not {tif-
fer it to come out, and lo long it is not predominant,
neither doth it beare t=u1e,neithet doth he walk after: it,

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i Walke after them, yet they are not the better For tiat,‘

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i-fanfwer, they have fo, and though they do not

for God iuigeth according to the inward heart, he
fudgeth according to the heaven we aime at in our own
hearts,he feeth the fecret bent of the heart, which way
itis;it may feem contrary to the eyes of men, but he
judgeth not according to the outward appearance, but
he 1' udgeth with righteous iudgemcnt. i
The third reafonis, becauie that whofoever lyeth"

in any knowne finne, is an hypocrite, and no hypo-
erite can be faved, though he doth other things fie-
vet {o well ; for fuch an one hangeth not like the fprig,
butlike a bough that is almoit rent cfl" the olive tree,
which can never profper. Ifhc did but 8 littlczand yet
did it in (incerity, it would be accepted, wheras,
whilethe doth much, yet in bypocrifies God regar-
dezh knot, This ] find by comparingythefe two pia-

ces together,2 Cbron.25.2.And 2 Ci7'077.I 5-17-III thfi _

firit place it is faid, that Armzzia did that which am:

and therfore God rejefled him: the meaning is, that he
was not throughout perieéttbut had fome iecret fin in
him,therfore Gad re feéled him. ’

Now, in the other place, It is {a_id,7“be heart of Aia
mu perfefl afl la}: daycr ; yet as we may read, he had
many infirmities : as, 1 .He put not away the high pla-
ces : 2 He relied upon the King of Egypt: 3.H¢ trflficd
on the Phyfitians : 4.1-Ie put the Prophet into ptiion.
Yet snotwithllanding all thefe infirmities, it is iaid,
/ualaeart mu perfefl,’ hecaufe that thefe did not rule in

him: Fonwhere there is found humiliation wrought in
3I_1y ma-1,136, though theie through infirmity may he in ,
h1m,yet he walketh not after them;and then only humi-

  liation is good, when a man is defirons to be rid ofhis

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fins;ancithis the hypocrite wanteth, hecaufe there is i
rottenneiie at the c'or:,and his heart is not truly found. I
The fourth reafon is, becaufe that he that walketh i
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j manner ofmendnetheir mofi ufixa-l“l and ordinary." carria-

i where liesnot his journy, that way is‘no't“ofhis c_hoo-’-‘

‘ idid Wholly confider what 1' ourny to take, than he fen

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but in any one knowne fin, if he had but tentation

unto other (ins,he would run into them allo. Thence is A
that of the Apo&le,I4m.2. I o, 1 I . Wloofiwoer/boll keeper ‘
A t/so w/oolo Law, Ana'7et ofiimd in one point, 13‘ guilt} ofafl;

his meaning is, that if {nth a man had but as (trong ten-~ ;
tations unto other fins, he would commit them alfo ; j   
for if a man doth any duty out offincerity,he would do Ly . I
" al1,becaufe that God commandeth all, as it followeth in t
the fame place : F or /2: that f aid, 90: not commit nodal. 
ter],f4id alfo, Do: not kill .: Now, t/am commit not al-

 

dalrery, Jet tft/you kill, thou art become 4 tranfigreffor of ' 3'.
the Lam.‘ For, look what {in {oever thou art tempted i
unto,the fame thou Wilt commit, and if a hundred ten- I ‘
cations fhould as much befet thee,thou Wouldefi yeeld e .”
to them all as well as to one: s '

For the better meaning of the point, here it may be ‘Qgefi. 
demanded ,what this Walking is? ' What thiswal-t,

To this I anfwer, I.tis.aMetaphot' taken from the kingisi
Anfw.

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age ofthemfclvcs;and thcrfore It needs fome cxplana- isfnggge. '"

tion,becaufe it is a figurative fpecch. Now,it is difcer- I_ By the
ned by thefe fourethings. o   ‘_ choice of :1, o

Firfl, See what way a man cbufcth to walk in ; I F a way. ‘
man by accident shapneth to fall into fame by.-path,

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fing,he is not {aid to walk in that way : Pfi 1'1 9. 3o.there
fl)4z1z'd{airh, I have ciao/on t/oe wa]0ftrat/2,té1}judge-
mom: /Jane I laid More me. His meaning is, when he

into Gods path.and went in his W2y€\S=;til'll'S' was his ree-
folutiomlfvthen after confideration thou-ha{}« a full'pur-  
pofe and inward rcfolution to go in the paths of righ-
teoufnefTe,thou walkefi right. * :
2. See ‘what ‘,way thou gocfi forward in , that 1- BY the_ Pro-
way than walkeltin ;. if a mangthoofe a way, and go. Sfeffc thwa-

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not on in that Way,it is nothing 1': «D4'vid,Pfal, 1 1 9, 3 2; ;
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V -they think they have chofen the awaye's‘of1God, and yet
0 on m the wales of {In ;':1f they ‘ would walk arioht, k
fixey mull hold on the paths ofgoodnes. :3 _
3 By companij  3.. _See whatcompanions and guides you ehoofe for t
ons and guides’ your journ" y ;tf thou profelfe thouhall cihofcn the wa ies
i 1 of Go.§l.a.nd yetdofl delight in the 1ame.finfu‘ll pleafures
thou‘ <_1’lddC_Q'd€fir€,-tl1ou mailt lay what thou w’ilt,*but' ‘
certain it.1s, that thou art the fame man thou wert :;
 [For Dawds refolution , when he walked in this path,
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l G0d.And this is laid down in the Text : iftl1erfore"‘13ve
llfollotyv the fame guides, the world,the flefl: and divell, .

we Pull go wrong,and are not yet in the right way-

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 for what country thc-u.bringe_[l exchange for ; if thou

lailt out all here forheaven, 1t,is a figne   thcuart tra-

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4 good eonfcience, ; and allrour care is to gain here, it is

1 apilainf figgnee-we walltnot ‘ aright ;‘ and that we--mind

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walks in the Igvoésujstégf Wfibf?~\1“:'"S}‘l““gY¢ Wk; .9t;d§:{t_»vei
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called corn from the more worthy part,and that right-
l_y;,yet there is more chaffe than come in the heap, and

cannot be a good man.

there is needofthe fan alfo,to winnow the good corn
€rom the chaffe. ‘Let ment-htrfore by thefe two rules

examine themfelve: .> t 1

the fiel'h,bu"t after the7 Spirit.This is a. lure place ofltfiéliai 1
anda true Touch-Tllonie. Andthis ttyall is very nec€«H3:'-. 
a dry -for ursgbecaufe that men live in the Church: as ecornea, :

lies in the Barne,aftet it is threfht in the floor-e.~ It is i

ther Fore it is nece {Ta-ry that the fame fhould come. and I
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41'Sec ifitrbe a known fin.

2‘ See->iFy0u continue in any fin. '

   1 Seeifitbea 1('l'lOVtUfiU.7.".A e  _
e A good man may continue in fin; and yetbee perfe&
before God, if he know it not tobe afin ;as the Patri-
anks lay in,poIygamy, ._ yetit was not accounted othe-
fore Godgbecauife they 'kne,_wfit notto be. a {in :; Thcret
weremany, good Kings continued in it-,but if they; had ;
knownit to be a fimthey would have forfaken‘it,+ and 5

e>Zample,a good {abject may be {aid to be obedient, to
his Prince,when it may be he doth not that which /at
that time is his Princes will; becaufe thatif he knew
what were his Princes will,he would dotrait, : : but if a
l a faithfullfubjeét; [0 he that (ins againil knowledge,
2 Seeifthyfinbe continued in. - _ t

It isthe continuance in finthat makes“ thee. in the
eftate of condemnation : if it bea knowrefin “a: man 
fals into, yet if he continuenot thesin, this is ‘no. at-
gumcm agamfi him, for the godliefl man upon occa-
fion may fail, lut {nth a man 18 not hiinlelfe; A Hence
is that laying, He mu not htmfelfe when he did it : But
as for thofe that make a common trade of.finning., ~
{they cannot fay, but that they arelsthtmfelves in the
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s_ A'nfiy.‘- i y  Tothis] anfwetuthc {parks of confci.ence‘«wil‘l glow

iiommitting therofilnithe gocEly,asPaulfaid,1i'am,7,1 7_
iNow/t12en,§'t is no’ more I that dc’ igéut fin that -dwefle:/a in
gage/Itia notthey, but (in thatifiiil temaineth in them :
yet the-fin,though it be in them after their -regenerati- -
on,yet it hath no poifeflion as it had before. Take heed
ther€ore,that although thou hall the fa me occafions of.
,_ "feted thee as before thou haddelhyet thou don not con.
Etinue in it, but totally a5fia:inithere-froim, For a wicked
~ man may a great while, even, a whole“ yeare, abfiain
from tome fin, and yet be {aid to lye in it, becau-fe that
,if he had the fame occafions offered as before he had,

ll   and confider with himfelf, whither he is not the fame

examine now your felves, and fee whither thou dofi
not delight in the fame things flill ; fee if thou doPc not
continue fiill in them,and commit them u{u~a1«ly, and fo
fudge of it accordingly. < I

iBuc here men’ may make many evafions, and End
many doubts, that it is" no known fin, that they lye
notin it, ‘and the like. Therfore to the end I may
makerit plain,I will reduce all to thefefi-vc heads. ,
‘Qt’!/eflion I ,     T;h€—firfl* quefiion flna=ll.be this,when it is a known (in, a
When fin is a for thenhypoctite will be ready to findan evafion about  
pknowm 50- this;as fotthe breaking of the Sabbath,for covetoufnes
i and the like,they will fay they are no fins, how {hall
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iEvery mans inzthc-midftof this datknelie, that Will grudge at that
a¢0IW€I‘_€"C’~' Will fimand then  fore it is a known fin , though it do but
3°“ khY‘;“W:1"l;:‘ w.laifpcr_aga1n{} it. thetfote thy confcience tels thee,
,1” 3 “ ‘ ' that {ugh and fuck things are naught and to be avoided
(although it may be for a timeathou maiefi keep down?
thy conicieneqand fizfferefi it not to ifpeak out for the

66 ‘J Continuance infinne dangcrhs. V,

he would have committed the fame fin,as before he did. i
Let every man therfore look back unto his own heart, ‘

» man hewas; fomc had their delight in covetoufncile, '
Ibme in pleafute, fame in pteferment,l'ome in credit, '

noy feithy lufis: make): yet,w hen thou {halt come‘ to lye
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— Continuance in fimce dangerous‘.

upon thy death-bed,and at‘ the lat} day.When than {halt
appeare before God in judgement, then for certaine
{halt thou find. theie to be fins, and that to thy coll:
Thou now wilt be ready to lay fomething, and put
away thy {in from thee, but that will not ferve the

turne ; harken therfore now to thy confciencmand fee a

wlgitlluer that doth not tell thee, {uch and {nth things are
{in 111 .

Here it may be demanded ;Agodly man {ometimes
may have a fcruple in confcience, Whither he is to do
fuch or inch things ; now thetfore wherin lies the dif-
ference between the {cruple of godly and ignorance of
the Wicked.

To this I anfwer, Indeed there is agreat difierence
betweene the fcruple of the godly, and the ignorance

that is inthe wicked,and the murmuring and accufing,

ofa guilty conicience. There are three fignes Wherby
they may be difcerned ; _

I. For the guilty confcience ; when he lies in a
known fin, and his confcience tels him it isa fin, he
makes no inquiry- after it, but he finds fucha {wet-etnes
in it,that his heart is ingaged to it, became: {peak a-
gainfi it,nay,he refolves to fin,yea,and Whenfoever he
is reproved for it,he isvery angry. But on the contra-
ry (isle, for him that hath alcruple in conference might
he but be informed of it that it were a fin, he would
faine know it,and with all his heart leave it. Therfore
he doth but inquire andlabour by all meanes to know
if it be a fin,and no foonet doth helcnow it to be a fin,
but he forfaketh it. _ _ . . t . «_

3. Thou maielt dnfcerne ofit by the fub;e.& matter,
ofihcir fcyuple: If it be a hard knotand:quell_xon,
gm, it may be in a good man, and fuch an one lhould.
gather the fonndeft and bell reafonsaafld {fie What M6
is mofl probable, and that he mull follow. But, on

the contrary fide, if it be an eafie rnatter of morality :
{hm thou art the more to be fufpefled, for the morall-. ,
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3. D.fl'erences'
betvvecne the
accnling of a
guilty confer?-
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lcruples of the
godly.
Dzflera.
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Differ. 3.
In the tell of
their afiions.

. IThey agree

Afifwo
Wlterin a god‘
ly man and a
wicked may be
laid to agree
and differ.

in the way, 8:
dither in theft‘;
end ofthcit

journy.

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. thefirll quellioni i

Continuance in firme ddngerom‘.  

EL; is‘ ingratted into our hearts. For an inllance, it
It be about the negleét of the S‘abbath,or about compa-
ny+keeping-,and the like,the confcience that is a Virgin,-

thou maiell have a feared confcience, pail feeling, and
then when once thy confcience hath done tellin
— thee then thou art in a pittifitll cafe. g

‘3.Thou tnaiell difcern of them by the 1': ll of their a~

bled about that,and the rellof their life will be good ;
but thou maiell quickly gather whither it be a raigning

Gale. and one known (in dz aws on another,and the fal{~¢
nes of their hearts will be difcerned in other things al-

fo;for one raigning fin is like to a difeafc that iweak-.
neth all the faculties of the body -. for even fo that
weakneth all the faculties of the foul.And Io much of

' The‘ iecond qttefliofliis this; he thatis a carnal] man
may fay,’I do many good things as well as others, and
althoughl do fomti mes {in,yet Iallow not my felt the ra
in ;and what can a godly man do or fay more P

To this] anfwerggodly men and wicked may go far
toget:her,but in themfelves they difi‘:r much, Therfore
fiI'PcJ willlhew how far tl'cy may be faid to agreeand
difl?;r,and fecondly,how they may he difcerned;

I. In the fe things they agree and difier. _ . .

Pirll, both may agree in the way, and yet differ In
the end, their fournies end may be two feverall. pla-
ces :_ for the.’ end of all that a godly man doth; “lhc

and never willbe corrupted, that will tell thee thefe ~
thingsorperlwade thee ofthemt Indeed fometimes  

g of E
élions ;iF they have a good confcience,they wil be trou- -

fin or no,for then they will do all things on the other i

glory of a God; but the good which a Wicked man
cloth, is either our offome prefent feare, or hop?) 0!‘
flalhes ofconfcience, or for tome s-by-rcfpeéls, 10 that l
in all he aimes molt at his owne profit , it iprocficdcth ‘s
not from the inward man, a new regenerated heart,as 

Po

lit doth in the godly : fortxamplefuppofe a

man tra . l
veiling, 

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I l"‘9-c..—oce

C0I1tz'nzmnce in fimze dangeromf.

iizreliingfinid by ehancefall into. Lo;2\don_ Road ibecanfeilit

: IS coincident with_.his way, and; 110$tb¢c.aufefihis.icurny
l lies to L.o;m’an,but only for that it is his readieft, and

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‘i delight in gaknefters : for he never comes to ‘the

‘doth it not -withthe whole bent of his fpirit,.tbutit‘

K perhaps cleanel} way: now we cannot fay, that man

tends to London For all that,heeauie here the denomi-
nation is taken from the utmcli end of his -journy.

2.Trey~both agreeand differ for the clilapproving of
_ evil]. I know that this may be in the wicl<ed,a diiap-4
proving oFevill,9s well as in the godly : whet fore we

. are to know that
evill. . ' _ L
 That that ariktth from a principle of nature in
. _cor_if;ienc;e. , t i
i  . From a true principle of regeneration. .
1 If thy diiallowjng of fin doth but arife from a naturall
confcience,that is nothing.But if itbe from a principle

there isa twofold dilapprooving of

’ of regeneration. thatis, from a new diffiolition that is A

Wrought in us,if’f'rotn. it we difallow lin,l.o’eur‘c’éJe “is

But now the {ignes wherby we {hall difcern between
thefe two,are three :

The firli figne is this

3

in .{in from a new principle of regeneration, thou wilt l

%abfiainl"ro%m fin-with delight,aud fettle, upon goodnes,
as” a Gone-,1or anynother heavy thing refls in "its; ;ee_ntrc :

Torworking with a h27bit,e is working with delight, gahii:ai11it:g ma,
Wh. n a man fets hiemfelfe againfl fin wizh all might and Im.

maine,then it is a true figne. But now for the naturall
confcie_nce,let him hebut outot his old company, he is
out of his elementgwhatfoever good tl1In3‘*hC? doth» 17¢

feems tedious uutohim- ~ d
The fecond figuc whereby you may. 631116?-11¢ lb‘?
naturall confcience, is fin; if he lovethr thoie that
continue in fiichlins as he doth ;: if he be. a C.iTul'|l{3rdJ=
he doth delight in drunltards; ira gamencr, he doth
con-
tra-

- if thou dofldi-fallowethy felfej

)9?‘ them. 1

2 They both
Clifagtce and
difler in the
dzfapproving
of evill,

Difap-proving
ofevtll tWo- ,
fold. l

Three Ggnes‘
d_ifiinguifl1 be

tween :1 na-i.u-
ralltfiflilte 0;?
evill and a rt
tgcnerate.

EA clelxgltpfui

2. A change 8
tifing of the
heart both av

gaitifi old iinw

and the doets :\

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i Simileg
ll

1, Ffitefl. 31

; Continuance in,/inne dcmg;;m/3.

 

; 3.A change of
‘ thevvholemata

te'r”airyigrace,bu: hath pleafure in them that commit the

l . ‘I fame fins.But the regenerate man,he that ‘hath a heart

changed,hi.s heart rifeth againlt fuch men. Therlore,
Ram. L 3 hit is laid, Who knowing thejudgemmt of God

i (that the} which commit / nth thing agar: worth] ofdmth)

not on!) do the fame, hut have pleafure in them that do:
ethemll’ this is reckoned as one of the {ins of the Gen-
ti!e:,not only to commit fins themfelves, but alfo to
take pleafute in thofe that commit the fame fins.When
therfore a- man hates them that love goodnes,and favo-
reth and delighteth in thofe that are evill, its a great
(igne the heart is not changed, for the Scripture makes
that a le (Te figne of a dead man,to do evill,than to favor
them thatdo it.On the contrary fide,for a man to favor
good men and goodnes.and hate fin,i_tisa great figne of
a regenerated man ;when as the wife man faitl'),Pro.26.,
I o.The mzju/i man A‘ an ahomimction ta thieju/f, i‘
The third (igne whetby you may difcerne it is this,if'

_ thy difallowance offin arife from a true principle of

,regenetation,it will ttansforme the whole man 3 as a
fprig being once ingrafted into the Rock, Will change
the Whole nature of the flock. ‘For look what the will
is let upon, that will change the whole man,and draw ,
that after it; fee therfore now what thy fpecches and
delights are. if thy difallowance of {in arife from a
good ptyineiple, theyare true. On the contrary Ede,-
thc naturall confcience that doth not transforme the
whole man, but only in fome few things ; though it
difallow of fin,yet it will go on in fin; and {uch men
hold,or as the word in the origina1lis(Rom.1 . I 8.)t/acy
imprifonthe truth in unriglzteonfnex, l Their confcicnces
being inlight‘ned,they keep it, and imprifon it in that fa-
culty ; The conlcience that telleth us what to do, and
yet there is no generall amendment in us. And this is a

great figne we are not inwardly changed.An,d (0 much
for the fecond ‘quellion. ’

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ti

The third quellion is this 3 godly men oftentimesl

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Continuance in finne dangerous.

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relapfe and go back again and again, and often fall inio

’ the iame~{in,and they know it toebe a (in -. how therfore

fhal I dillinguifh between this relapling 8»: lying in fin?
To this I anfwer:You {hall dillinguiih it by thefe 3.
lignes‘. t   T-
'l'hc fit-II figne is this,a godly man never relapfes into
purpofes of{inning,he doth not before hand premedi-
tate and think of the pleafantnes and iweetnes therof :.
and after this manet it is faid,Iae that 2'4 born of God can-
nozfirnfor he is overcome offin but upon fome occa(i-
on. But the wicked man after he hath committed (in,
doth purpofe to do it again ; Io that he cannot be pro-
perly {aid to fall into {in again, becaufe in purpofe he
never leftit.      _ T  
The fecord figne is ti1iS;i0Ok what {in a carnall man
lieth in,that is his beloved fin,he favoureth it molt, and
would not be croiied in it, he cannot ahid e to be told
and admonifhed of that (in. Now it is otherwife with
the godly man,he favoureth not himfelf herein,l:-ut that

(in whichhe is molt ready to fall into, he is gladdell to .
‘ heare that condemned, he is very willing to heare the

Preacher {peak againlt that.As for the wicked man he
mufi not be touched,‘-we is like a lame man which ‘can-
not_indure to be ilirred,fo he cannot abide that his be-
loved fin fhould be fpoken againft.

3. There is a great difference in rhefe two things.

I . The godly man his not into it fo often as he did
before. ,

2. “H e fals not into it after the fame manner.

' 1, He fals nut fo often as he did before.

He doth greatly refill it,the being and efience oflin is
not (till in him,though itmay be in part,if the fame oc-
cafionsbe {at before him, yet he is not drawn away’ as
he was before. As For the wicked man,he is the fame he
was,and upon every fleight occafion he=avil1 be drawn
away;he cannot abliain from finnin'g,becaufe that fin is
not weakned,but is Full {till in him. '

K e ’ 2. For

we

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Aflfwo
Diliinéiion '

betwixt a god.
iy mans relap.
iing and lying
In fin,
In He hath no

purpofe to fin. —

2.1-ie favorethi
not his fin,

1

i
3-H6 his not

(in.

I So often as
before.

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C entimlmce in finne dmtgtrow.

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i¢..Alter the f 3- For the manner 3 i ' - /
éfame manner. . Although he d0:h {omtimes flip, yet it is with great

grief: andreluflation, he is more ferry for it alwaies
andevtry time gets ground of it, ea: (3 I-ttength agamfl
it. But as for the wicked man it is nothing l‘o,h€ d0’¢h
. a t it with as much idy ‘as ever he did,he flnderb as much
,j  » {weetneffe in it as ever he did before. So ‘tl‘;en'W€ fcfi
‘Z. _ there is a plain difference between the relapfes of the
< t ' godly,and the Wickeds 1) ing in fin.And Io much for the-
third quellion. i . t s _
éQ‘f'fl-4- The fourth qu':Peion,or ratheran objeétion is thismo-s
body can do all things,the heft of us are finners, we are
bufficfh and b10u§,Wi}lCh is fraile, the be-P; have fome
imperfefiions ; and thetfore who. is it that finneth
not ? ‘ d

To this I anfwer, It is true that all men are finners,

I

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Anfw.

rence betwctng

WHY and the ferencebetween the ioficnces of tlie Godly and the
Svicked.  . _ . . ‘
Ilnthevvicked I The hypocrite hath alwayes fome predominant
rome fin iseverland ruling {in in him, wherin he favoureth himfclfe,
yP“d°m‘"3"“' ffo that all he doth ‘muff have relpeélto it, and where
Religion crofles that, it mull give place, and_’the_re
mull bea bawlking oftgoodduties, ifit be agamll it.
Bntas For the Codly, ih thetntherc is no predotni‘nar.t
{in,it may he now one infirmity {tarts np.th.¢n another.
hut down they goaagaimnone can get the vsétory over
him. The hypocrite hath fome domineering 159,10

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*5 he delires none to f pare him. 4 ,
:aThe wicked] t 2 There is a great dzffcrcncc in the manner ;a WIC-
‘°mm?* 59‘ asgkcd man doth it as his prcper work, his delight and
3 P‘°P"‘ “’°’k- ‘ his Glory,
he arfls not himlelfe in committing {uch a 511, it i3 “O:

S be that fins, but Ibtnethin-g that isuin-him, and he is ve-
T try forty alterwards that he was fo foolifhly ovetta~

‘ en

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A double 5i3'~’-~ §the godly-offend as well as the wicket’, yea, the Godly ‘
the fin of Mo&’:nd ofte-n,and much; but yet there is a double dif'- i

; which he will be Favoured, but as for the GOC‘i1Ytm?”>v'

he arfls himfelfe in it. But tlxc G061)’ many.‘

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a tin i .3 a but-then unto him,and he would be. very glad to

« bathe rejoyceth in it,he accounteth it all his pleafime,

' godly,bccaufe that oft times both ieetnitot be good ;, and-

‘ furtherhis intent, by falling and prayer, and all
ifiother good duties. Again, a godly man, if he hatha
‘ lull in fin,he will refift it with all his. might, andrnever
i give over though hedoth {]£p,yet-hetprefently rifeth a-

 ’ 2:--1"

  Continuance in finne dang-erazw.  

‘ken therwith. (9ne than may weave a chain £0!‘ all-
omament, another fora fetter, and would with all
his heart be rial of it ; {o it l$.Wltl‘ltl1C_ Godly than; his

be rid of it, but to the wicked man it is no burthen,

the reckons it a loile to be hindred in his way,or to leave
i"-Th‘? G0dly man he tlleemeth it as very hurtful], he
knows it hinders him, fo that he cannot do that he
’ W0uld.The godly man,he entertains fin asa Theif, but
the wicked man as ‘a welcome gue{l.And fo much for
the fourth; quelfion; i   .

_ ‘ The fifth,and lall quefiian is this ,How {hall we diff-
mgtlilh between the purpofes of the wicked and of the

4

there be man
very little. t H

To this I an.fwer,the purpofe-sol the hyspocr-ite, are
W«€3k;afld£’0rinlg nothing to palles. but as they ri£e,«1o.
they prefently vanifh again; But the godly mans,
they are well rooted-inythe foul, andbring the thingi
‘O P355 that they labour to clftflz. A good man will
ufe all the means he: can to abilain frotr.ifin,,-he will
fhun all theo esfions : butlthe. wicked’ man, he will
not abllain from the occafions, he know-so his nature
twill be ready toitake hold of fin, aadiyet he willnot
avoid the oceafions and allurements therto ; futeiy
therfore this man hath no. putpofe to, leave (inner ;
for if his lpurpofe be not put in praétice —,, he
had as good‘ never parpofe, For it hath no tffefl.
The Godly man; he will ufe all figood meants to

y men. that have good pm pofesand» do but

l‘

gain,and never ceafeth, and therforegit {hall not be im-

t puted to him; but if a man hath flitting purpofcs.
l _ K 2 brain

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in his .-

Sims’/efl._i'

£1»;/fie» 5.

Aafw,

The purpofes
of the vvicked
are weake and

fruitlcfie, but
ofthe godly
fltong and 7
effefiuall.

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To comfort

do not conti.
nuein fin.

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l. all tbofe that

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y roughly, -fetteth not the Bonearight. but puts in the

H

Continuance in fimze dangcrou . y

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brain,that is nothing, a though h:eVfal1eth not into the

The fecond ‘Llfe ferveth for comfort. For if this be a .
fin ofdeadnefie’, to walk in fin; Then it isa matter
of comfort to all thofe, who,althgugh they oftentimes
flip into fin, yet they are fincere hearted, and do net
continue in known fins. You had therlore no need
to cry out againfl us, that our words are crnell words,
for this is a doétrine full fweet ;. you mull at the firlt
give us leave to open the wound, though it be pain- a
full, yet after you {hall findtthe cafe and Iweetnes. ‘
The Bone-fetter, that bccaufe he woufd not deale

T find the {e foute comforts.

fore joynt only a little, and doth not let it throughly;
it may be at {irll thou {halt be called a good bone-fet-
ter, becaufe the perfon ill atfeéted, for the prefem-,,
Feels no pain, yet afterwards when the joynt is not
£eated,will be railed againfi : or the Surgeon that will
not {catch the— wound to the bottom, for paining
the patient,at the firh‘: may be pleafing; but afterwards
in the end he {hall have l.ittle/thank for his labour :-
in like manner fhould the doélrin be harfh at firfl,
becaufe it fearcheth the {ore to the quick,yet the end of
it is-comfortffhe end.of Chrifis {peaking to the people
in Saint 105”! Gaffe//,Was at the lall comfort and joy.
Labour the rfore all of you to make this ufe of this do-
&rin;you that have fincere hcarts,take it home to your
felves,iF you do walk in no known fins : but if ye have
walked Formerly in any known fins, now begin to re-
fiific your lives,that fo you may have caufe to take this
Doélrin unto your own fouls.B-teak the bands ofSatan,
and Forget all his fair allurements, you ~mu{‘t part with
all your fweeteft {ins for it, and give all you have to
purchafe this Jewell. Comfort you may have,and all
our defir-en is, to make your hearts perfeét, that {O you
may find co mFort.If your hearts be perleélt, you {hall

I .Yoj_1__

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fame {in fo often. Thus much for the fi’rlFufeof\ tryall.  

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Continuance infimze dangerous. l

I .You {hall find more comfortin eafines and conten-
tednes to forbeare that lull we moft delighted in, than
ever we did, in yeelding to it. p s

2. You {hall find your felves able to reft, to pray, ‘to

‘ heareand to fanétifie the Sabbath ; make yourhearts 1”“

good,ands you {hall do thefe things with delight; for-,as
when a mans hand is outol ioynt he cannot work gfo if
the foul be out of frame it cannot pray,é"c'-

3. You {hall find your felves able to beare affli&i-
ons ; before you can beare nothing, but every thing is
as a burthen unto you : A man having a Ihoulder that
is out ofjoynt, cannot beare any thing 3 fo, if {in he
mingled with affli&ion,it makes that bitter : but after
you have purged your {elves from fimyou {hall be able

to beare them ; but when there is no flrength within,
how {hall we bear: them I‘

4.Whcn your hearts are perfeéhthe wound will pre-
femly be healed and grow well. The peace of the
wicked is but like a wound that is skinned over, at
the laft it will break out again, he may make a {how
for a while, but there is a ferret difeafc in him ; and
the latter end orthat man will be worfe than the -be-'
ginning; their pain will be worfe hereafter, the pain
that he {hall indure when death comes,w hen Gods in-
fupportabltfwrath begins to charge his {in upon his
confcience, that will/be worfe than allhe indured be-
fore- And thus you fee this Doflrine is molt fweet to
all thofe that have perft it hearts ,but to the -other,‘ that
remain Hill in their fins,mo{l: dangerous; '

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4 Comforts in
a perfcfi heart.
n Contented-
ncs to forfake

2. Ahility to
prayer. "
Similea

I
3 Ability to
hear afliiéiicns

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4 Sound peace
and 

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of the words.

. Oéferv.
I

1'udg.3.
Deut.; 1. I9.

The occafion "I29

i ‘ membrance of the Lords

ON? PR EACHED A T
LINCOLNESJNNE, on

j ‘GEN. XXII. XIV.  
Afit-irfiiié/to this day, Int/so mount eqf 16:. L 0 R D
it/lafléofcene. ‘

A   —  HE otccafionofthefe Words, was that
"   famous Hifiory of Abraham: ofl’:ring
‘ 4,!-;= biS.SOD'If&I4.€k¢:3 Nowithatt fo greata

 

 ,»‘ .   pavffagc of Gods Providence, and fo
" A v*vr56«.7st.‘* gteatatryall oFA6rab¢m Faith might
‘pad: away-. but be re-membred,the- Lord delivere h

‘ itin aProverbe, ad/f: it 5: faid uma tlaia da}; btfcaufe

werare apt to forget,and Proverbs are {here and pithy,

= and fothebctterremembted. and therfore the Lord

fetteth this marke upon it;whence by the way we ob-
f¢l‘V¢.That fpeciaall paffages of Gods providence fllould

not be forgotten.

And thcrfore it is the mariner of the Lord in {uch
patfages of his providence,to make fongs of them: and

fo hath it bin lékewife the praftice of the Lords people I
to turn fuch things into longs, wh‘ch they would "05 ;
forget,a9 we fee at the red Sca,and in the time of ‘Dc- 5
Earn!) 3 and (0 did 2440/2135 when he would have fame Q
things to he re membred ofthc children of Ifi4el,he left Q
them a Tong : fo tdid David !ikewife,who For the re-- 3
goodncs,madc many Pfalmctr \

. N ow.’

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ofthankfgiving.

.1

)1 sermon.

« Now a Proverbeis muchtof the famefuaturegbutit is

  lhort,—and makes a greater impref;li*on,and therfarethis

us

great matter here iet forth by ibis the difpcniation of
the Lords providence.   i

7 W herin note we in the firfi plaee,That the Lardmlll
éefeen':why,Whatfi”range thing is thatPthe Lord is {ecu

ble untopus. I ,bnt this is another kind ‘of fight,which is
not in a gene:-all mannerto he beheld but in his fpeciall
providence to his {ervants in their affiiftions.

The fecond thing is,The time when he will be feen;

hopeythat is the time when the Lord will be fefent.
Now the {cope of this place is, to help us againfl:

difcouragements, when we fee it go hard with the

Church that there is no hope for them, for thank we

ire fame, in difirefli: will the Lord ihew hirhfelf; and
therfore you are to take heed of difcouragetiiéhts

indeavour, and fo Gods caufes fall to the ground, and
therby the Lord is forfaken of us; for it is our
hope that fets all a WOli(?, and the want of hope
makes us turn our backs; yea, Foyle and give" lover
the Lords Battels; and therfore we lhould Bill
maintain our hope in all extremities whatloever; for
when the Lord {ends any affliétieons on the Church or
our felves, we ought not to defpife or make light of
them, becaufe they are the MelTer«gers'cfthe' Lord, to

we are not to defpile the challening of the Lord, {o
are we not to faint when ‘ we are rebuked of him; for
1 in the Man»: will the Lordbefeene ; tha‘tis,itis a-thing
i that the Lord will ufually do, not at this time when
l thou Wouldlt have him,but evenvwhen Mérabam was

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fetch— ' .

._.. "" .. _&, h ,g

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v_

~ every where ofus, and makes himfelf continually viti-

that is,In the momat.-that is, when "things are brought to _
an extremity,when We think there IS no more help not “

are not to difitufl, Becaufe in the Mann: wit! the, Lord

that you leave not your hope. for then you takeaway:

humble us : So we mull not on the other fide have V
the finnews of our fouls loofened by them ;;For as‘

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Two things
oblervable in
the Text,

The fcope of
the place a-

gainiidilcow i
ragements. ‘

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78 . I A S€rm0”a

fetching the blow,rhan to (lay his hand; And it is his u-
‘! In-all comic to to do; and therfore it is turned intoa
Proverb,becaufe it is ordinary. ,
For ordinary , Secondly, we have ordinary ale ofir, and therfore

mi‘ likewife it is put into a Proverb ; for the Lord ufually
brings us into extremities ;and that it might be the bet-  
ter rcmemhred oFus,it is put into a Provcrbfor that is 1 ,
l the rule of {hurt {enrenees to be eafily carried in the me-
S_ 7 _ morygand therfore theLord hath "thus turned it: As men
I0” 3,

do by their C1lver,they change it into gold that it may
‘with the more cafe be carried.

. Now to come to the words ; out of which we may
‘.'Doé?rm€ I. learn,Tbat it 23' god: nfuzzfl manner to éring /213 children
to extmm'tie:.T'he examples are fo many in Scriptures,
and in our daily experience of this .that we need not in-
GE Onfthe proofeof irfut proceed to fhew thc r€3f0US,
t ero .

R540” '_-   And the firlt caufe why the Lord doth fo ufnally do it,
Ta‘“?‘ke “ ‘m is. when he brings affliétions on his children, he lets it .
t al ‘8“°"’ run along till they may think there is no moregheflpmor
a hope.that fo it may be anafflifiion to’ them;-yforp it
would not be an afflifiion. except it did run on to the a
, uttermofl point; for if there were any doore for us to
get out,wc were not compafled abour;but when a man
hath no gap to go out at,that is it that makes the fpirit
5;,,,,'[,._‘ of a man to linke.If a man were in a fmoky, houfe, and
. had a doore open,it were no difficulty For him to fhift
himlelf out of it ; but when we are {hut nip. that is it
W i which imakesit dilficult ; and that it might be» Is, the
~ Lord fuffcrs it to come to an extremity.  
Reafon 2. Secondly, the Lord brings us to an extremity he»
, Becaulie the caufe the Lord might be foughtto; for {o long as the
Lord might be Creatures can do us any good, we will go no fur-
§’,“?»lI;““‘° ther; but when they faile us, we are ready to look
””‘ "° up to the Lord : As it is with men which are on the
5538. when they are in an extremity, thole that will I
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ready to fay with thefe in the Prophet Hafea 6, I . Come
and let :14 return: unto the Lord; for he hath tome, and
he will heal: w 3 he hath fmittm, and he will hind #6
up : And the reafion is,becaufe where the creature ends
the Lord mull begin ; other wife there can be no help
at all. And hence is it that at the time of death, when a
man once fees that,and hath no deliverance, it quaileth
the iicutell {pirits that are : As Saul when he could fee
nothing but death before him,then he fank down to the
ground,and till then the Lord is not fought to ; but in

is brought to lay, vain is the help‘of man, then he will i

1 look to the Lord for his help ; but till than, man is fub- 3

{eff to look round on every fide to fee if there be any 

unto the Lord and is delivered.
Thirdly, the Lord doth it, becaaie that hereby it

comes to pafle that the Lord may be known to be
the helper; that when we are delivered, he may have
all the ptaife: for otherwife if there be but a little
help in the Creature, we are ready many times to
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therfore the Lord {aid to 9zdeon, fludg, 7.2. The peo-
ple that are with thee, are too mam} : though indeed

which they were to go againft. yet they were too
many for gidm, to have acknowledged the handof
the Lord in it, if he ihould have had the victory with
them.But the Lord will not divide his glory with ano-
ther,and therforc he will bring a man to the Rreight,to
be without all hope,that to he may have all the praile ;
for when other means concur with his help, than it is
divided ;but without that,his armelies naked,as itwere,
and the}-fore that it might be known,he brings them to
extremity.

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hTave,we might have as a new gift: irherfore the Lord
fuflers us,as it were, to forfeit our Leafes, thaI~he;rr»ay.
renew themgotherwife we {bould thirk our {elves to

healeth',wealth,and creditto faile us, and. in that ex~tre-at
mity the Lord to give   it us, iris asa thing given on as

help of man 1eFt,then we take it wholly from thelord,
andthen we give it toshim again. . 4

R¢,,f0,, 5, ‘ Fifthly‘, fhc Lord doth:it,becaufe he may teaehesueby.
J Becaufe we Experience to. know him.

Gad is mm Perience is to no purpofe ;‘,for he hath no great experié

1 but by cxfeig cnce ofthe Lord:But..w~henia man is in tribul.2tion,that
cncefg brings experience; and experience,hope.; for it is ano-*

learned till it be learned by experience. And thcrfore I
[our Saviour Chrifi himfelf that had all knowiedge that 
could be had withot1tthis,weu1d have this alfo ofex-V
perxence l~ike_v«:i{e;For when a man is in extremity,then ..

is {aid Oi"?/14d,ndfl2’.f, when he was in alflifiioni and had

.. , praied to theLord,hnmbling himfelfiand was.reliored,.  

that be épewéthc Lard mu 054,2 Chm. 3-3 .3 3.W*hy?tdid
he-‘not know that before_?No,not as.now..il:e did ; for

be Free-holders.But when we cometo feeall gon;our~—. é a

new giftnand then we take our life‘ as given again of i
the Lord :and {o in any-other (height, when there xsno ,

may know the ‘ But here fomeman wiihbe»ready.to fay,why can- 1

Lord- note that bewithont thefe extremities P.» _
-»%'»'.fi' ~ T°t'h18 J anfw.er,you mull know when a man goes  
15”] ”’- on in a cour-.fe,without any troubles or changes, his exe; ‘

the!‘ kind of experience that is fo learned; I563? that »
whichcomes without it : ..And indeed nothingis well  

; (hall he have experience ofthe Lord : A-nd therfo-re. it 7 .

now he knew the Lordby. experiencetand the want of .

this is the cagufewhy inany feare not God 3 for bfcallff-’
  t the)’ h3V‘3n0 cha-nges,.tl<eyl know him not by €xP<l'i-
Gad mhnigéfiv ‘cnifisand therfore they.fear.hi-m n0t...A=nd for this caufe.
e{.ii>him[e,K_{e e;.‘,‘When the LOTd—C‘lid-CVCr'm3»n"if€i"t hitnlell. inany {pi ci:-e
lv-er upon ibrnei 3” manner to any of his people, ye {hall fee it alwaies

é_g1'€accl‘ia.-‘ige. to beupon fome.great.,c!2ange thanbefell them :  As
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when Jacob was a forced toleave hissliathers houle, at_0
fly from-his Brother Efim,then did the Lord in a {pect-
l all manner manileli hitnfelf unto him; and-fo litkewi-f3
at his returninghome again, when his Brother Efizfig
came againlt him with fonre hundred men to defiroy
him,whic‘n was a great change,then the Lord appeared
to him agaimfo (iill upon the great changes of his peo-

 

ple doth the'Lord appeare unto the-111;.’ and as he didto
them in former daies,{o he cloth to us‘ now;he doth ap-
peare-unto us fomtimes by experience of his goodnes;
which that he may do;he brings us to extremities. L
L+:l‘tly,the‘eLord doth it for proof and tryall,For {o it is Vfimfim r6_
{aid in the beginning pol this-Chapter,-God dial prom. /1.
émz/mm;and the-rfore laid unto l)im,Take now t/sine only .
50;; [f;mc‘é,WI’30m than love/ii, and offer him up on one of
the Mo'u'ntaine: which I flmll /‘ban? tkee:No~W feeing the \
Lords intent was to prove him whither he would part t
with his Son I/aaclzjor his {ake,therfore he lets  go
to the very place and utmofl period of offering his Son; .
for ifthe Lord had taken this tryall of him before heel
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l this do we deale with friends one towards another;for ‘

ed;but when the knife Was, _as it were, going to the .
throat ofhis Son,then was be fully trled:And-alike unto

when you will try how another will truli ,u”nto’you,
you will lethim alone till there be_none elsto help; for
if there be any other for him to go to,itis notriall .. but
ifit is come to this that you muff do it,or none will,then
have you tried him and-not before -: inlike.rnanner’did ‘
the Lord prove Abraham intbis place.
_ The Life of it is, That we might learn: never ‘to be _ vz;/5.

~difcom-aged; whatfoever-our cafe is, let us never iufl ‘ Not to be dill
Fer our l‘l€3_l‘tS t0 b6 caii d0‘:/V!) in -us; far ‘as wcare - couragtd what
very prone to let go our hold upon all occafions. fois 3"‘ °“‘   (856
its very great Fault to to do. We fee how 7)o1'z1_id  3' I
doth recolleéi himlelfe t0;1.2Cll1CI‘ when his —-foule was 13/“ '43 '3"
1difquieted within him-, aslfiing himiclfe why —-it -was '
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(0? which he would not have done,iF the other had not
  bin afault in him ;and therfore why do we fo call down
u out fouls?If we fay,it. is becaufe it will belong before
5. 5; the Lord will come and undertake our help : I _anfWCr,
l 0 7' ‘ no_.it will not,for as foon as he doth lee thee lit for help,
i A”/’”” he will give it; for when thingsate molt defperate,
than his help is nearell : for as he is able then to do it,fo‘
is he molt willing to do itthen. And to this purpofe
is that place, Haf. I 4- 4,5,5» 1 W171‘ 534/9 their hatche-
§0fl"’ 1:13‘ 4’7= fliding, I will love them fie:/y, for mine anger £4 turned
-°P‘“° ' lgwgj fiom them. I will heat: the dam to I/76¢’//, he fhg/3"”
ggrow M the Lilly, and cat]? forth hzéc root: aw Lehman :
tké hmncherfhallfirread, hi; heasrty /hall he 46 the Olive,
land hiafmell at Lehman. W’ hen Ifrael Was Falleen into

;and repented of their (ins, then the Lordhealed
fftheir back-lliding; which Wasthe caule of their mi-
‘fery ; and then though they were outwardly mifera-
  ble, ycthe will be as the dew unto them; that though
they be as the Lillies in Winter, which have neither
colour, fent, nor beauty, yet confider in the Spring
,time what I do untothem, and learnto know Me
lby the works of nature; for if Ido but fend alittle
dew, fuch as is in the time 0fSpr1'ng, it {hall grow 3-
gain, yea and bring forth fuch a Flower, Whofe beau-
ty {hall exceed Salomon in all his Royalty : and if the
Lord can do fo in nature to the hearbs of the I-ield,
do you not think he is able to do it to you in the
; ordinary pallages of his providence? If he lhallbut
fhine on you with the light of his countenance, yea
1 though you were as the Lilly in the Winter, yet {hall
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la very low condition, and had taken to him words, (

yi1's,y0u {hall Tprisg quickly.I but you will fay and quick-

ly wither again : No,faith the Lord, you {hail be con-
l firmed and eilablilhed in your ellatefor he will fallen
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g and fo their boughes might be mooved, yet the bodies"
of the trees hold their own, becaufe they were well
rooted : and in Lebanon they were fafler than in other
places,becaufe it was a firmer ground; fo that if the
Lord lift to plant you,you {hall be {me to remain firme.
I but what {hall I be good for? ,1 know not how to be i
ufefull neither for God not man, but to belaid afide as
a thing for which there is no more ufe. Nay, faith the

I;-OTCL I will not only make you beautifull as the Lil-
U68, and rooted as the Cedars. but J will make you as
the Olive trees which are {it for ufe. And put thecafe
thy name and credit be 1o(‘c,yet your fmell {hall be as
the fmell ofLeé472or2,that is,a<‘Leéamon had many fweet
blo{To ms,and fw‘ee._t fmels,fo {hall it be with you,what-
foever your condition be. .

. This place than is a place of comfort againft di{cou- £’x.ampZe.r.
ragements, which you mayfee exemplified in divers
examples: As in the example of Iaé:you know in what 105.
a cafe he was,he loll all he had,that he had not a friend
left him;no,not his wife not Iervants that would Hick
unto him,but was brought to the very Mount,to an ex-,.
tremity that could not go further,for he was at the ve-
ry brim of the hill : yet when 105 was fit for mercy,
when he had humbled himfelf,you-fee what a change
the Lord made,how his beauty did return again, and .
how all his health , profperity , and friends did
return unto him, infomuch as he was in all things
as before, yea, and beyond it. So in the Fourthzof ~ J

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Neéuc/mdnezear ever to have bin refiored. that had gm
ltn his Kingdom: and wits too, which is the only ,

meanes to bring a man in again; yea, he had lofi all
his beauty, for he wasa beaftof the field , yet the
; Lord made a change with him: now a man would
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’ 'HGugl1t unto him : for the difpoiition ofali people is to
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s blow was as it were in the givfingythe knife was in his
5 hand to cut\the throat ofrhe whole*Church ofthe lam,
yet when they had humbledthemfelves‘

» when there was achange in heaven,you fee'-how.quick-  
 '13’ the Church was changed,and brought even fromthe
; rloweit degree tothe hi ghell that could be, or ever was
".1|1_thr:_ time of their trials. And thcrlore let us never }
i give over our hopes, and deipair not, for becauie the

rWilling"y; but when ‘he isvfit for mercy, he is gladto

ito do it,and exceeding ablegi-‘or he is aPhy(itian that is
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liké you {hall fee in Mardece£e:ti1I1C,Whcntb: Church

was in extremity-for you fee how far H’-mmn Wenmbe

ha: fafiing and
prayer to the Lord, that ‘made work in ‘* seaven; and

Lord is ever ready to Fhew mercy,For mercy pleaftth
him : A man when he corrects his child, hedoth it un-

fhew thatgwhy {o it is with the Lord hesbeing willing

fl)CflidOl1btQf‘thg gccompiifiiment? It is a common
faultamongu us to mc3f.u,rc_ the Lord according to our
Ielves,& fo when we f re man cannotheilp us,we think
thatGod cannot; but he thatcan turn Winter -xintoa
Summer,can fpeedily turne our eflates when we arefit
"f0" in As a Phyrfitian that adminiiiers hard potions to
"his Patient it is not becaufc he cannot or will not give
"him pleafant things, but it is becaufe lis Patient is
‘not fitfor. it; for as foon as he is ‘fit for Cordials, the
-moi’: willinelygives them unto him: And asthe Huf-

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band-man, he is willing enough to low his feed in the
Eafthsand would be glad it the time were come ; I but [
he knoweth if he fowit on thewild walle ground it L
would be lolhand theribre he plowes it firfl, and again

.too,*»'ea thriceif it be ineedfull,and then having» Well fit--i

ml ted ir',he fo ws his-feed; Even fo‘it is with thelord, he i

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éfii plowes theground, he eep_ intosthe, hearts of.

l men if it bencectfull fa to do,tut if a littleplowing will;
  ferve,l.e never takes a deepcr;andt ifone will ieive, he

_”¢V€T gives a{econd;a_nd thetfote when we are fit to.
receive the I7ee»d,mercy {hall come in a: main aamongli
u3:¢V€n as that which goes with wind andtide ;c.t.yc5,it
{hall co/meas tall as out Vmifcry did,’ vthich though it
comes head-«long upon usas ittdid upon N:é;rcba_a‘mz.-

"%4*‘,y¢t how quickly did the Lord deliver him again ? l

and fo {hallit he with uslbecaufe the Lord is delighted
with mercy, thcrfore the Lord doth ufuzll-y lel p in
ext_remities,and nothefore ; for in 1/2: Mohfit mlttbe
Lprd éefiene. ' , / A 4 .
And 86. the firli D,oc‘l~rin is drawn naturdly from thefe
Words, _Tkat it I35.God.t ufzm/Z rmmmr to bring ktz3,c£-z'l-
dre”'i”t0‘.tk5»M0””t 3 {o in the fecond place, then, aid
, there will he be 1een:Therfore it follows, a  
‘ That in the time; of cxzremitie: will 1/.v¢Lcr;!:&? féemamd
not écfare:But,.then he will appearein hislprcial provi-

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dwc-°;.if<>F Ill? Comfort of his chile'ten,~ though not then,’ be M,“ L1 1 ex,

fore. a
, And why {o?Fir{?c,becaufe thelofdtknowsi this is the
hell: wayto draw forth the praélice of many graces,and
good duties,—w.hich otherwite would he ;without me .-
‘As for examplc;’When Jacob. had made his Brother E-.
‘fax: his enemy by his haily getting ofthe blcffing,w her-
as ifhe had Pcaid the Lords a time, he might have had it
Without any forrows with it 3 but beca ufecheztwill have
it 8 Wfong way.,it is accompanied with many:forro‘ws
both in him and‘ Reézcmlikelwiife-. Now if the Lord had
ptefently made reconciliation betwixt him. andlhis 7

Brothe:-,as he could have done, though le did not, but

, madeitlong firii, that made laced exceeding .ftuitl’ull.3

for he being caufed to fly,a.$ his Mother counlelled him
to doiitn,-his neceflity became acquainted with the Lord,
5 and kncwhi m better than ever otherwiie. be flitould

l"fTavckno,\'«vnh1m;,yea, he knew himfelif better too,
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that he had, and that the Lord ihould be his God for 
ever if he would give him Food and clothing, of which :

he felt the want at that time; and this brought his
heartto the Lord: So likewife when E fat: came againit

, him at his returning home again; ifat the firii it had
bin told M605 that his Brother had bin friends with

him, he had never wreliled with the Lord as he did“;
and fo {hould he have mified of‘ that great Blefliug

which he received in being called Iflael. And therfbre A

we fee the Lord by this doth draw many great Fruits
from them, of which otherwife the Lord {hould lofe
the glory,and we the beuefir,ifit were not to with us.
So likewife the Angell was lent to ‘Daniel when he
began to pray ; I but if the mefiage had then bin deli-
vered to him,his heart had not bin {o well moulded in
the frame of grace,thetfore the Lord lets him alone ;

though he had given the Angeli charge to deliver the  

mellage to him,yet till he had done his work, and was
made fit for it,the mellage of their full deliverance was
not made known unto him. i

A fecond reafon why the Lord deferrs, and will
{lay till the very extremity comes, is , becaule he
would give a time to men to repent and meet him in,
which is good for his children, otherwife we {hould
not feek unto the Lord: And for fuch as do not leek
him, it. is to leave them without excufe : As in
2 (bran. I 1,: 2.Chapters,you {hall find that Re/Joéanm

i fought the Lord for three yeers together, and then

departed from him, yet Slaifacke was not fent againlt
Whence this

Lord, who therfore had refolved to bring judgea
men: upon him, yet he gives him two yeers liberty’
to fee ifhc would return. So when Nemzmmmr

was like a flouriihing tree, when he had dreamed his ll
ldreame, and that made known unto him, that lnel
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l:ould be cut down to the very root, like the 1.ill¥ 
i W inter,nOthi'ng fhéouldo be left but the (3 nwP3s Y“ YW
fliall find it twelve months after before.-the Lord llflick

«z4r,the Lord was oftentimes offering to lltiltc it, yet
called back his hand again that they m‘ght hurnblc
l themfelves and leek his facezbut it is laid. of Iczaée/in
the 1.Re.'z2el¢:ion:,wr.Iaz./96’ gd‘?/6‘ 567‘ time 3’ ”7"P"”’: e-5”’
/55 repented not. ; 9. ' _ ’ e
Thirdly, the Lord doth not deliver till the time of Rm/an 3;

extremity, that we mayknow the vanity 0* thc 068- To let us
ture, and fee that theyarebut as Reeds that are empty: 1<I_1UWftl‘-he va-
as for example, when a man is brought to {otne great :’r'€‘;’t:’m‘ 3
B.raight,and fees that men will aforfalte, him in ll‘, as the e "
Lord will caule them todo when he will bTlҤ- 3 mm
to allraight‘ indeed, for ‘then he will {hevy him that
there is no help in mamas when a man that IS fick, and . ' , .  
fo farre gone tltat no Phyfick willclo him gG0da‘bW -311 -9‘W/¢_’- '
I‘hYGtians have left him 3 or when a -man. h3'th_ f0me- . i
great bufines‘ in hand,and nothing thathe hath 4.w_1l1: e-£9
fcét it;and fo likewilea man at Sea,when_he1sm filth
a tempefi that neither rowing nor. any thing els Will
do him good, then when-men are In fuch cafes, a they
come to fee the vanity of the creature, and that all mt. :
ward means will {tart aficle like ahrok£n«b‘oW;;-at fern’ a;
’ broken bow being dzrawn but a~1ittle,vv.ill hold ;ht1't’1.Fit§;
be drawn upto theilleadgthen it ‘breaks in the_f‘hand' of e
‘him that handles it :even fo,vvhen the cteatllte issputto , J
it,then the vanity ofthem is feen,& that theyafe bat asl
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that you mull make no doubt, becaufe the Ldt‘dVV"m ,;,€,,1,c Wm ,
make good his promiies aendbe .')t.1P(«, for he is'a‘h'oun.. (M1, 1,511,,

andthat in abundant-ce. x'Now if the?-Lord   willihelp'c=,-

dant inttuth, hevvill make good all thathe hathlfaid, e _

)and yet nottill “aman come to extremity. whythen he a 
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trull unto him; when as one man will not faile another
that trulleth him,f'or that were treachery {oro do.;why

on him. if thy heart can tell thee thou doll intirely tell
upon him,it is i mpoflible he ilaould faile thee.-And ther-
fore he mull help thee at the lafl: cafi,ot els not at a1l;and
untill thou art fo far gone, thou art not come unto the
Mount;for 15m/Mm was three daies in going the four-
ny, and the Lord might have revealed it before if he
would,but he did not till he came to the Mount : And
therfore do not fay,now is the extremity, and yet the
Lord doth not help me, when thou art but in the wa ,
for thou art not yet come to the brow of the hill, thou
art not at the utmofl part of the Mount.

wait upon the Lord. yea depend upon his Providence
when we feeme to be without help : If we look
uponthe Creature, yet then are we to depend upon
the Lord. foas never to fay there is no help; but on
the contrary,to fay, I will rm/f in him, though. /7: fill
me; for fo did Abraham here, he was to kill his Son,
and yet he had hope : So let us, though there were a
thing that would be our utter undoing if it fhould
come on us, yet if it do come thou Oughtell to hope,
becaufe it is the Lords manner to bring his people to
extremities, as here to Abraham: and the like he
did to Peter when he came to him on the Waters ; For
he might have holpen him before he began to {inke
lfhfi W0flld..-but hedid firfl let him finite a little’; 3”‘!
¢b¢“eb¢ llolpt him : — So when the people were at I56
Rcd 5%, and had no gap to go out at, then the L0l‘d
holpt them. by makinga way thorow the Sea: In
like manner he did to Iacab when he was returning
home frombis Father in law Laban, he fuflered Efow

too much hall

mnllhelp or not at all,and fo he lhould faile them that '

then muchleffe will the Lord faile thee,if' thou rely up~ ‘

to come out againll; him with foure hundred men, he-
‘ i i fore '

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Awsermon.

Fore he holpt him;and who would have thought that
€[aa’: mind ihould have bin fo fuddenly turned ? But
when Jacob was brought to a (trait, then the Lord tar-
ned all another way.,And the like he did with David in
’ the time of his diftrelle, he let him alone till the miter:
were like rage: over /7_z'm:ltut when his feet had almofi
flipt,in regard ofhis outward and inward trcubles, for
he was at the Verygoing down to t.éegr4'z2e,then'the Lord

and took him ou-t of the waters that he was not drow-
* ned:and therfore llill trult in the Lord, and labour that
thy Faith faile thee not whatfoever thy firaigbts bc ; for
that was Peter: fault when he was on the Watersfor» if
he had fuuke being he had the Lords word: he {hot-zld

and fo we lhould learn to do, in all our fireights {till to
believe ; which if we do, we {hall find the Lord very
Cxceeding ready to help beyond all that W6 can be able
to aske or think.

betwixt the cup and the lip, as it were, betwixt the

  very lifting up of the hand to the llroke; and as in the

Text, fo,_al{o when the Slmnamite had by the'com-
mandof the P-rophetleit her land, becaufe of the.Fa-

e mine that was to come" when the {even years were

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done ;- for {he trulted the Prophet, and thetfore did
not lay, Alas what {hall I do for my lands again?
but-did go ;; and when {he returned, and was gone to
the King lor her lands againe , at t-hatvery inltant
was the Kingtalking with Eli/7;4e:'-fervant about the
great Works of the Prophet, who then told the King
oF this woman and her tonne, econfirming that which
‘i Gclaezii had fa-id," and gelieai being prefent to helpe
‘t~0 fpeake For the woman ;. and then [he had not-only

  her lands rellored her, but the fruitsof it alfo Foe’ the

whole time ofher abicnce; So liltewife when Morde-
€d_7..t’! dcllruftion was plotted by -Harmm, and fo neare
s -M 2 * ‘brought

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have bin {afe enougb,and theriore had no caufe todoubt; ‘

See this in an example or two,how the Lord comes .

. brought his feet out of the NC’, and let him at iibfllty, I

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any Gcfe, yet then when /l/far.-dam} was a {leep in the

then that above allother bookstthtat flaould be brought
and inthat book‘that' very pliaceto be turned’ to of the
treafon againll the King, and Mardccaye: truth and
faithfalnes in difcoveting the fame;and that this {hould
be done at the very extrernity,When a day or twoeafrer
would have done him no good, it is worth the confide.
ring:therfor‘e«never cl'o't’1bt,featetnot, but trufi to the

there is the-like occafiomln like mannenwhen our Sat.
viottr Chrill‘ was brought tothe very browof the hill‘
 the people toibeecaéll éiowne from it, ‘ Why then be
A ‘went away thorow the mids of them; fois the Lord‘ 5;.
,able todo with bus, and will alfo if there be the like
{need ; and therfore letus learn to trtfl in the Lord,and
A ‘tin all thingsto depend upon him. One would have n
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could nat..fl:epe";then*he mull needs call for a book, and l

Lord in ally‘fll‘a-lgl3l1‘f;f0l"lhO.0ghl’lC doth not work r'ni- 
racles now,yet he works wonders and? is able to do as he
gteat things as ever he was,yea,and doth fo too when 

when fo many that were able enough. to dellrtoy a ,

the Lord? delivered him from that great (tteight; and
therforeletus wait allill upon the Lord, for it is but. the
Ptaying till the time betoult‘, and then l he that can fave,

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cond thing.

The lall point obfetvable from the{ e words, is-,
Lemcmifies   ‘-.47'£Ia:tgoa’.jmaen: extremma: are but aria/x,/en:-for thtir
arc; tryals, not goodsa-ad Wt pilm/7M1“? -Vgfefitfar their /mrt and rmine. _e
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them by it.And therfore when you feean af-fiicffion to‘
be to great as if it would undoe thofe on. whom it is,

Whom he lovcd,and' oflizr him in a Sacrifice to theI.—ord,

the gteateflz afflié-tions that can befal us in the‘ world,bc.
(‘ante they are but tryals-,!;hat dotbefall theetfrom God. ~

: lay any Lmteafonaxble cornmand upon us;
i oycegthough they beofdivers kindsgwhen we are riot.

i u-9,in whichwc might have fome cotnfottfloutfhealths
V and liberty might be in'}°oyéd.,ot if all theaoutwardimani
i were aifliétedn, .yet if the fpirit were whole it would
beate out infirmi.ty.I,but what ifthat be Wounded tot: ?t .
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yet you {hall fee in the ilfiue it was but like an evill; for
when odiéra/Jam Wasbid to take his only fonne Ifaaclg

and was fuffsred to be three daies in the tryall, yet the
Lord meant him no huI't;h€l'C was indeed a great ap-
prehenfion of evill,yet it was no evill ; but it might as

much work upon him as the evill it felt" : Even fol is it L
with us in out alf~ltr9cions,they are not evils, but meere -

trial.-s,& therfote we arenot muehto be diiffnaied for

I,but will fame fay,what fhalll get by it P Why, fo
much that there is to little canfe to be forry For it, that
thou halt caufe to rejoyce,i{' thou Wouideft be'lieve« ; ‘as
isfaid in the L0? 14224.2.‘/I/1')’ Brethren counts it gredfjgyj

when yaafall irxta diver: trial: : It is a very fit‘Textf ‘lo’: .

the purpofe,fot the Lord laid he would proove Aérm,
ham; and all is no more but to try us, and not to do us’
any hurtgand this is a good reafon why it is fo, in that

we are bid to rejoyce in it ? now we have no cattle to ~

re foycein that which willhurt us,neither‘will th'e_LAord

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onlyaffiiélced in thelofie ‘of g_oods,&out Friends Forfakc'

them all,and that of a fudclen too',as a fall of waves,one
Comming upon the neck of another,’ asithey did upon
[aé,vet we are bid to reioyce: ‘why one Wouldnthmkiit

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i(?§i?h the dpoflleyjou muff r-cjofce in itgea, want it ex-V

‘I reading joythat is,as your tryals are greater, fo let your

jpy be greater.

Why,that is aflrange command you will fay : I but
though you fee not the reafon of Gods Commande-
'ments,yt:t~ there is a great reafon in them, which if you
faw,youwould keep them moi} Wllllngly. A rd the reav
{on of this ‘Command is, the greater the tryall is, the
more will be the good,:md therforc the more cauie of
joy; For if the moPtpain‘ull be the molt gair.fu‘l, then
they that have them have the great it came to -re joyce in
tbem:~It was a tryall for Abraham to go from his own
Land,and to cafl out his {on I/Immel ; I,t'ut this was the
greatelhand this brought him the greatelt fruit that e‘-
ver he had-.

I.,but what is that good ?why this ;firll it lhallincreafe
grace in your hearts;for as the gold when it is tried lo-
feth nothing but dro{Te,and fo -ismade the better ther-

b}z_;fo.it is with our affliétions, for :17: trjall afourfaitb,

faith the Apofllefiringethforr/2 patience :. {O the greater
thy tryall is.,the more it [tr-engthens thy iaith,and {o in..
creaieth comfomfor when the affiiflions ofthe A po-
ftle abounded his confolation abound ed alfo And hence
it is, that our Saviour Chrilt faith, You/ball receive an

doth abound. the comfort {hall aboundt

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great thing for l~.im,why the greater the trouble was
which he,-did undergo: for him,the more will he be be-
holdingto him,and~the-greater»reward will he beflow
upon him ;even fo,the greater the tryals are from the
L0rds.d7C greater benefit will come to us by them ;and
therfore when you fee the gertatefi try-'als befall the
Church and people of God, be aifured by this which

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may. be it concerns fame of you now at this prefent; if
"OBI! may do, therfore lay it up before hand; and let
us not think of afflictions as ofthings that will undoe
us,but as tryals that will bringus profit.For as the Spies
that went to Canaan were of two forts,and~looked up-
on the Gyants th at’ were in it with a double eyegand 1'9
fome ofthem faid,0 the Land is a very good. Land,and
incouraged the people to go up into it; and others that
Were afraid, they faid, my, but the Land cats upthe
Inhabitants therol, anl elifcouraged the people to ‘
goe up into it :' Even In it is with many amongll us, 1

pie offiod, 0 they prefently are afraid, and therfore

fuch as be in profperity and have friends, and fome
that will provide for me = but what is the reafon of
this? why they (end Forth wrong fpies. and there-
fore they bring back a falfe report : but ifthou woul-
dell fend forth thy faith and fpirituall wifdome which 1
ought to be in thy heart,then thou {houldll fee it were l
no fu ch matter. And -therfore let this be our Practice’
conceruingthe eflate and condition of the Church at .1’
this time, and neediull it is we fhould {'0 do; for do 1
you not ice the dangers that they and we are in, and A 
the confulion that is almoll throughout all Europe .5’;
yet God hath not Forgotten us,neither willlhe leave us,
if we can but tell upon hint: what though there

lhould be a Iudden change, fo that all things were

with us as it was in He]!-er: time‘? yet could the Lord

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r“°°.“ the W3t31‘~°-a many beautiFu‘l creatures were

bring Foorth fome..good thing out of it, that fhould i
tend much to his glory and our ‘good’: Put the cafe ,9i,;;;-1.,-,‘

allwcrt? fumed uplizle downe, asit was in the confu-ll ‘
fid C5393: Wherein Heaven and Earth was mingled
together, and the waters overcomming all the rel},
yet as then when the Spirit ofthe Lord did but moove

they lay, Who would be as thefe men P let me be of V ‘ 1

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£l:ole.watersfl1at',fceh1zd then to -fpoyleall, fervcsl

I ngw to water all,’ and without it we (annotbe : Even
fo,Wcre‘thc Church innever fo contuled a condition,
yet the "Lord {hall 10 order the things that {eem to tm-
do.us,that they flmallbring forth fomething of ‘fpeciall

«ufe; that is, fomething to water and méke frnitfull

the houfe and people of Gad: andtherforc be not
out of hope wharfoever irelals thee, only be hum»
bled ;. for there is great taufe {o to be, and the Lgfd
calsthee to it by his Miniflers, and we are his Meflen-
gets to declare his willunto you; and as we muilibe
humbled, and take to heart the caule of the’Cl*u.rch,

ly :tfF..é’ce.d'therby-, for it was <‘.‘"/7l9r¢:arz‘r.*7:'{a1'.ll£Yn0‘:_ to

* hope in all conditions ‘whatfoevct-.'An,d_~for this end did

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bting thccinto the Mount; for it is not an extremity

  {imply that will caufe the Lord to help thee :i but i
 when thy tfoule‘ is plowed uptherwith, and then the  
a  W-fill célitin the feed and watcfit, tfo as thy fouls:
 {hall fpring again ;andetherforei‘ let us‘ flill maintainimr

‘I fall upon this Text ‘atthis'time,T.hat in the/Mount will

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k’'’’‘'’''° ‘ The Word may put life into him,

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2». How to efieemt eivifl 
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.. i¢,--:N0t"me¢é_e them our camp-a-
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grace.

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How the .*’.I)£‘m1I -deceive: civil!
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eflezte h] emmre. .
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, , 2. fleig/atq Httméliation.-lto

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I7}/lJ6’7'li¢—trl36' /mmiliittion toag/i_/Z: ?
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Ifltéreétéiiagst   L  .— 
1 _ I. In facing imr“li*ve:' aéomzal
  fpizéafiaa/lflma l

I/Jinggood in" 91;. ‘p.40.

VI//mt kind offorfow is required t o

5. _. trite Humiliation .3‘

Hum?/igztian lcomparrd to “

p.36}

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4/ [arrow convincing tlye judge. l

mini, and moving the cf?-
Elionf. " I
L  V ES '1'. 3. i

"Howfball wej. (yaw whether tl.I?3J'

1‘ (arrow be true or no ?

A N 5 VV.
Tm: Hiimiliztziw‘ difier: fiom a-

& ga«&eforéfanf2‘sfic4tion. ’&1b_id,}.

 1/fer forrow, , " . p.411‘.
I. Intlae rife. , ~
N, 2 2. I

2.; In carfidéring téere is no-J ~

3. ln [mixing attr./wart: with.

an .;appre/aenfion liof iG'aal.t'
carfe.§ l  ” '
i _ QV E s T. 2%.

,L‘  
‘a

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Ma- 3

mlit] and Civility; farjexcept '
‘ we have more than nature in W,’

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41 I. Hale: ourfinner.
 *2. ['¢nfeth._lo*ve to Chrifi.   L

A It muff he in ah’, or e/3 the} will

Signet of our love to Chri/f, are,
I. Ohedience. i ' ‘
2. Afefiion toward: him.
3. The high pricing offi>iritu-
aflthinge, » 43 .
4. Contentednefe with the men-
n L aiefl ‘eoniitien.  

o ‘ P-+4?‘
Tendernefle of Confcience

wherin eenji/ix. T

j the Word of God.
. 7. t/‘I/feeknejfi offléiri-t, pa.45

Humiliation cbangeth our na-
3137?.

l Q11 B S T. 4.
Whetherthie Humiliation he in all
men 5' "

ANSW.

fall away}.

5. Fear;  offending G 0 ‘D, T

6.The finding: of fweetnefieinithe  

V The: Cohtcnts.  

+ \
a.In the continuance. L  
3. B] thejignee of hrakennefl} of . AN 5 w_ V
heart. p.43 To count finne the greatef} evifi,
Centrieion of heart.  the great:-fl good. i

Chrifl,
3. Newneffle of lifi-,
(Lu E=tS T. 6.

Howfhnll we come to i.~¢;;...
h/ed? .. ‘ ’ -

A N 8 W1
miliatian,

eterre to humiliation.
he F5?/0 meant: to humiliation.
ft 1- To eonfie/er our eflater,

w.p.5o.

~  3.. To (ee finne in it: efihfie,
' 4. To moehg to./2» evil: prefent

h}. Faith.

:’The diferenee of humiliation in one ‘
well educated and a grofle 

5”: 13° 46»
A .".QuES1j;.
iWh4 tithe leeefi’ degree of Humi-
tv liflFi07l  K  ~ '

hefore 31!: b .
I. Alijinnee pezff.
2, Thingsfnmre,
5‘. To edge heed of fliftl.

Eighejhift: wherh} men think; 10' 

lgeepe offjndgementt.
I." Civilit].

A mow: eonvfrjion can/ifl: in
1. Being /btend/J lmmh/ed,
2. Stedfafl/I /njing hold of

wow
mm

The Lari? the onl] mean: to Hit-
. _ P33
The flare: of honofage what,
W5] feqfiiredta humiliation. o
(How Afilifliene and the Law con-

Twothing: ought toihe pref!”

h2..Ih"o>*. i

him-
I

4.8‘.

fiend

p.-19. .
2. 7' 0 fnffer forrow to ahide on i

5.1.

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The Contents;           

l .

2. Foramll peafonnanoe of hol} ’E*ver} one would tnkv;‘Chrifl an a

   

alntim . p.52. } .S'a*Uionr,hntnota:aLord. e
t 3. Badne]fe of nature. gizwetuhom he qnickneth, a
Two Cantion: therto. threefold life, M 13.5 8 -

4-. G ea’: mercy.
5.7'he making confcience of ma-

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so thin . e ‘
6. )7’ he £14] of the execution of D O C T R I  E IV.
"ad etnent, . . i h t
i 7_.j ,{;;¢l_(e opinion ofonr eflpttgti V Ho/oever walkethiin an]
Three [atttiom therto. V conrfe effinne, :3: a dead
8. An opinion that (otne jhonld man, and the ehi/do of
5, 1,017, and not ad. wrath, pa; 9.
The ‘Dofirine proved h} Scripture.
V S E. B} Reafono p.60.
To perfwade no to httnohle our '
felqm, . p.54, RE ASON; :2

He that walketh in _/inne, 12' over-
come of (bone. i
DOCTRINEIII.   K REASON 2; _.
In hirnjinne hath the chiefe/3 com-
  Hofower wifl come to wand, and God no place.
hrifl , ma} cone: and t A
find mere]. p.55. OBJEC T. 
Explication of the Doflrine. due Hjpocrite keep: hi: fin ,3,’
The ground: of the ‘Doflrine are and fnfor: it not to hreak ant,

thefe two : and therfore it :5: not predomi.
E. Other-wife no ground of faith nant, ’ P, 5 L
19-5 6-  
2.Faitho°: ahont thing: that are. 1 , A N 8 VV.
/tic‘ no matter for that, for God 

U S E. o 4 judgeth according to the inward 1

To exhort every one that :3: hmn- heart. - %   2

hled andfee: what need he hath o ‘i V N
ofChr:]f,,to come to-him to he e ~-R E A50 N 3,

1! qnickned, p. f 7. He z3:'an Hypocrite. ‘   

 

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e I. For trja//, to! five whither we % QV E S T. 2’. ' ’

walhin theright w‘ay*o;r na,p,64. A Carnal? man. cloth mam} good
  Iwa rale: to try whither we walh thiagy, and allow: not him/eif
aright, . I % U Q, , L ‘ in an} fin, and what doth aged!)
1. Tofie whither it 6:4 hnown - man do more? a ' A e
I /131.  t  ?" ~
. e 2.'To_/ecifth] ;/in he cétitintzeci a ‘ AN SW E R. X
 in. ~ ,  _ V‘ 'p,65.h Aged]; imm and-a wicked may he
, (Lu E S T, 1 _ ,» /aicl hath to agree am! a’ifl2=r.°
, VI/hetrzér ha a h_aown/in .5’ Q , a it . Theyagree in the wa}, ahddiffér
' . t ‘h I , V "in the end of their joarn], _ 1168,
- A N "S; W  R. . 2. T'he} agree an»? dfiér in the'a’zf—
Eatery mam‘ can/tience will te/{him apprc<uin‘g of e zti/1.
what £3‘ 4 known ‘/id. ' p.66 ‘Z)zf,s/;}ar0'z/z'ng'ofevill two-fol 1': ,
L ' P riaciple in N attire, 
- OB J E C T. - rfrz:/fag Confcieace. 
_ A Goa’/J man may have afrraple of fiortata ;TmeePrincip/he of A 3
"f coafciettw. ' ~ 1: Regeneration. o _ 
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goa’ hath rejjzeffwto /mail thing!’ V ANS W ER. ~
with jincerit}, more than may; Three maine dzfereacee‘ hetween
great thing: with hypamg/ie, the occajien of a gflilt} con/ci— T
eace and the [cm Pie: of the God!)

R E AS 0 N 4   - I. In the caatiaaiag it ‘; the wicked
‘ Heiareaciy to run into other fin: 4fi9*k”0W/edge lie in/Fa, hat the
1 _ agar: accafioa. pgg.6z, Godljforfalge it.  o . . l

- J A . L   T II. In. the fahjetfi _ietatter;_.”harci

Q1 E S '1‘, aoahtf he in the Goal], 'a:qaiafl

V17/J4! théc ewal{iag_:£c ? which they gather faamiefi‘ rea-

  b J‘ I fem, ; aael eajie matter to the
A N S W  R. i wicked wi/[corrupt their ca;%fEi—

Right walking  known, ‘ e;7cg_r_ _ _. . . . . v ..p_67
L 33} the chazfi: of the"'wa"], ' ' III./n the res‘? of their afliem ; a

1. :3] the progrejfe the;-in,p;6 3 good Canfcience ma] he troah/ea’

3. By the cawpaniom anagaide: ahoat one thiag, aadyet‘ the re]?

4. B} the’ provifioa we make. ; of the'a5zi0n.fg0od; lzaian evil!
.  f = ‘ ‘ coafi-ieacegrow: worfe attdworfe

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3 Signet to di/littguilflz-5.-twettttt 3‘ .   %
tmttmvll dzflikg of will, and tz E A A N S W.’ V . 5.
R¢'g¢’”¢°7'4¢f€'. \ , J; flll mm _/tn; out there it oz double;

t/.‘_A dc/igétfttll atéffktitting fiom  c.~’2firc~_r€:/§e' ojtzveeo 26:; fin: of

N1. ' M . 3 logo jidntezrztéo.
2. Atbmtge and riff»; 9}’ the ’ I. In Ibo wicked _/omefin in-1
A hetzrt éot/9 tzgainfloold fin: -2267 predominant.  ,. ll
_ ._msc'l tloo oloenaftlaem, pa.( 9; 2.— 766 rricfi-4’ commz't_fz'n at:
3;  cljttnge of the Wloole many T ‘a proper war/<9. p.72.
(L115 5 T. 3, P  E S T. 5'. .

Godly met: often ftldp/9 M we/loot» How /5511 we dtflingttifb éetntmt

, the wicked; therforo bow/lmfl 1 the purpofigf of tkegoa/1} tmdtzbe
1a'i/lt°r2gm:/77’ between thefi? " witégd ? ~ ‘

  ~ U . AN SW E R.  

T19: pttrpofet oftbe wicfid are
weak amt’ fi‘lI.1.tlc_{f6,‘ out of the
god!) flrottg imdejfeflfigll,  , '

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‘ A N S W E R.
Tbreefignet of dijfintfiion éétwecn
4 god!) mam‘ rylapjiztg and lying
z'nfitz.t .7      to
A  He hotly no pgtrpofié tofin.  N W u S E 2_. _l
2, He fatoottret/9,'f72ot /azév fin. ~To comfort all tlaof: that &o not
3. 'Heffll[I 7I0f_t.71!0t}.76/'il!}i€_/577. ‘ continue t'71_'f1‘fi,' p. 74

. I. So o_f'teémz/5 éefqrt’, pag.71, Four: comfortsigta ferfefl l2M7t' :1

l 2.’ Afior the [time mtmngr,  r.,Conte;'2tédnej]"etoforflz.{e lttfl, A N

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‘ % ' 3. déilit} toéeare qfilifiiont.
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providence /bottldtxot ée for. ,1. TIM: :h¢.L9;-d’ Wm beg-
A p.76.‘  fccnc.‘ A

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The Contents.

2} That he iztifl he feet: in the
‘Mount. : e

U S E.
To help again]? di/eottragemetm.

DOCT. I.

,fIt :2: God: ttfitall manner to hrittg

  ht? hildren to extremitiet.
T he Doffrbte, preoved eh} Reetfene.

R E A S O N I.
To make it em Afiifiion.‘ A
= REASON 2. he T
TBeeatefe the Lord might he fought
htmta, ' 1 ‘ P_72,
RE A S O N 3.

Beeetafe §od may he know» to he
h the helper. V t ‘
T REASON 4.1_ ,

Weed»)? we Lmight receive it 46‘ a
*W£*fi-  e   t P.79-

V REASONy; T;
Bemtt/e we met} kyow the Lord h]
experience. « .   -
God :35 never /0 wefl known‘ It hf

‘ experience.  ' ‘

tmfomegreat change,   , p.80.
R E A S O N 6. L

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N at to he dt:/-Cflflfdgfdhwbflf ever
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To git:/Q,/fime of Repeztmace, p.86

1  'hg_zflefar,del:'71eremee,

e and rttitte, 

CamfortahleExamp/ex of ]ob',Ne

buchadnczzar , the jcwcs in A

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r. -.4!

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*h'‘‘'

‘ Mordecaycs time,

againfl dif-
eearagemettte,  ‘ p. 85,849..
D O C T‘. 2.

In the time Q)’ Extremttfiee the
Lardzriil he/em and not hgfore.

And that for thefé eezehfet;
‘ .~REASONn

To exerci/e the grace‘: of God h_y,8§ 

'REhASON 2.

  REASON3.

To   /6'! W  the wait} of the

Creature;   V ‘ l ’ 
T hmgh gadl defivrre tifl extiemit},
yet then he wt’/lftltgrelj came, p.87
[ e u s , 

To teaéh me net to make too mtecb

_ P-
E xamplee of the .Lord: eemmixg in
I [Q-'ttem5tie:. " ’ ' ' . ‘  

?DOCm3L-’

Godfi men: extremitie: are htet

A trialtfetttfir theirgoad, dttd not ‘ h

; Apunijhmeatx  for their” hurt
.   . ,P,9°.
Trjale therfore‘ /haztld he eaufe of
rejajeittge ’7“3"5er than /arrow;
i , _ . '
We ottghtto rejoyee in trjale, he-
‘ mttfl the greatert the ttjafl :35,
theptere will he ‘t/eegaee/_.   h

Thegooe/that come: of trjale,
I ,7‘ he irtereaf e of gMce..
  2. The ittereafe of rezvemflp. 92.

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