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A57545	The good Samaritan; or an exposition on that parable Luke X. ver. XXX----XXXVIII. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell amongst theeves, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, preacher of the gospel.; Mirrour of mercy, and that on Gods part and mans. Part II	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1823A; ESTC R222130	165,186	261

get credit by their Garments So doe you by it Pagans over guilded their blockes and stocks that they might be worshipped and many garnish their bodies for the same end But all such proud dresses are like Democritus his brazen shield set up against the Sun onely to dazle the eyes of the beholder in the meane time no care is taken for the obtaining of this Roabe so many dresses som have for the head so many suits for the back but not one grace for the heart how miserable is the condition of such As for those who have this garment on their soules let them honour it as the Philosopher did his borrowed courtly roabes which in the presence of the Emperour on a solemne day he often kissed telling them who asked him the reason Honoro honorantem I honour that which honoured mee Nam quod virtus non potuit vestitus obtinuit my vertu● could not procure me admittance into the Princeragged and beggarly of our selves to be let into the glorious Court of Heaven but being cloathed with this garment we shall be let in with ease But we come to the next point viz. Doct. Through mans fall hee lost his raiment The Image of God consisting of Righteousnesse and true holinesse he was stripped of Eccles 7.29 Rom. 3.23 24. Quest Is all gone then is there no ragge remaining on his backe Resp Not so much as will hide his nakednesse or keepe off weather Something remaines and is escaped like that one servant of Iob to bring the newes of his fall A dead child hath some little resemblance of the living Father such is that left in us Vse 1 Take we notice hence of our naturall misery For first being without this garment wee are naked as Israel is said to be Exod. 32.25 Not as Paul speakes of himselfe 2 Cor. 11.27 Corporally but spiritually Deut. 28.21 22 lying open to all GODS plagues Corporall Spirituall Eternall Secondly we are deformed and most uncomely See Ezek. 16.6 Revel 3.17 our deformity is not from without but from within especially that which comes from thence defiles a man You reade what a disgrace Hanun put upon Davids servants 2 Sam. 10.4 shaving of one halfe of their beards and cutting off their garments in the middle even to their buttocks A farre greater shame hath Satan put upon us O that it might worke on us as it did on them and that we would use this world as they did the boarders of that Iericho stay here but for necessity till our beards be growne and we have againe recovered our former honour Quest But is this all Resp If no more yet as Ester said unto the King concerning Haman the enemy cannot countervaile our dammage Ester 7.4 But this is not all for the Text shewes the Evill of sense was added to the Evill of losse He was sorely wounded So then Doct. Every naturall man is a wounded man Cast your eye upon what part you please you can see nothing but wounds and bruises Isay 1.5 6. His minde that is blinde Ier. 10.14 51.17 Ephes 5.8 Vaine Pro. 14.12 Ephes 4.17 1 Cor. 1.21 Foolish Tit. 3.3 Esay 29 13. Iob 11.12 His Will rebellious and averse Revel 8.7 7.14 6 19. Mat. 23.37 Ier. 18.12 44.16 17. His Memory marvellous weake and feeble Luke 24.6 7 8. Heb. 13.2 2 Pet. 3.5 His Conscience that is benummed Ephes 4.19 Heb. 9.14 Gen. 10 15. Turmoiled Iohn 8.9 1 Iohn 3.20 Acts 2.37 24.26 Impure Tit. 1.15 Heb. 10.22 Superstitious and erronious Marke 10.19.20 Luke 18.12 Mat. 15.2 3. Iohn 16.2 His Affections are unruly and disordered they stand quite crosse and contrary unto God Gal. 15.24 Rom. 10.2 1 King 22.8 21.4 Iames 4.12 His outward members are all instruments of sin Rom. 6.13 19. 3.13 Psal 52.4 2 Pet. 2.24 Totum est pro vulnere corpus Lucan In Noahs flood no part of the earth was uncovered so here no part nor power of soule nor body is unwounded Gen. 6.5 And as wounds send forth nothing but filth and corruption so man by nature the filth and foame of uncleanenesse Vse 1 We may well admire and bewaile the security of such as can sit downe and rest contented with so wretched a condition did we heare tell of one halfe wounded but in halfe so many parts as we are we could not but pitie him we would seek out to helpe him what lay in us Woe is mee saith Saint Austin wretch that I am so often wounded for that thou art the Salve and I am yet without thee woe is mee wretch so often dead for that thou art the life and I am without thee c. But a deceived heart hath beguiled us the corruption of our wounds breaks forth in divers places Mat. 15 19. Atheisme in one Adultery in an other c. yet who laies this to heart nay who boasts not before God and man of his owne soundesse Vse 2 Secondly if every naturall man be a wounded man then do but conceive what an Hospitall this world is wherein we live All of us are wounded and diseased the sent and savour that proceeds from our corrupted soares is most loathsome This might imbitter the love of this world unto us Vse 3 Seeke we out for helpe Ob. But every wound is mortall Resp True and yet not past Christs cure Quest What must be done Resp As the Israelites being stung with fiery Serpents looked up unto the brazen Serpent and were healed so should we Iohn 3.14 Come to Christ discover thy wounds be willing to make them naked cry out with David My wounds stinke and are corrupt And feare not but in due time thou shalt have health and helpe And departed Text. Doct. Satan having wounded and spoiled man so leaves him hee departs from him and lets him lie that is our Observation Vse 1 Expect we therefore no better dealing at his hands As he deales by witches so by every other sinner when he hath brought them to the gallowes then he runs away laughing at the sport God indeed casteth downe but withall hee raiseth up Hos 6.1 The divell hee casteth downe and leaves us in the sudds Mat. 27.4 Vse 2 Beware we of such dealing you that have drawne others into evill courses seeke to bring them out againe by true repentance otherwise as the divell doth so do you herein you are too like him But how leave they him The Text shewes halfe dead Rhem. in loc The Papists hence inferre Free-will and heavenly life left in man since his fall whereby he hath ability to dispose himselfe towards his owne conversion We may grant them thus much Doct. Man is not by his fall so wounded as that he is wholy dead there is still some portion of life remaining in him since his fall What it is and wherein it consists is now to be considered First consider man Philosophically in genere Entis in regard of his naturall abilities and endowments as