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A12190	The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is shewed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorne and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his owne permission before his death.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22500; ESTC S117394	275,564	592

an honest Papist The Aegyptians worshipped living creatures but we are worse then they for we worship stocks and stones and a peece of bread in the Sacrament And to this purpose one of their Jesuites confesseth this and yeeldeth the question for granted That if there be not a Transubstantiation of the bread turned into the body and blood of Christ wee are worse Idolaters then these and these nations because we worship a peece of bread which is a dead thing But we assume according to the Scriptures The Judgement of our Church of Antiquity and of the Truth it selfe the bread is not Transubstantiated at least it is a doubtfull matter for if it be not the intention of the Priest it is not see here upon what hazard they put the soules of people Object But they have many shifts for themselves as among the rest this is one that they doe not worship the image but God or Christ before the Image Answ To which the answer is Popish shifts for worshipping of Images answered That the Fathers who wrote against the Heathens meet with this pretence The Pagans had this excuse we worship not this statue of Iupiter but Iupiter himselfe Thus they have no Allegation for themselves but the Heathen had the same which the Ancient Fathers confuted They are guilty of Idolatry in both the forenamed kindes For first They worship things that they should not as appeares by their Invocation of Saints vows to them their Temples Altars and the like full of their Images giving them honour due unto God And then They worship the true God in a false manner before their Images there is no kinde of Idolatry but they are grossely guilty of it Whereof let this be the Use Vse 1 First of all of Thankefullnesse that God hath brought us into Goshen into a Kingdome of light that we are borne in a time and place of knowledge of the true God wherein is the true worship of the true God It is a matter that wee cannot be too thankfull to God for Quest How shall wee shew our selves thankfull Answ In keeping fast the true worship of God we have and keeping out Idolatry in reviving lawes in that kinde if not making new What if there were liberty given for men to goe about the countrie to poyson people would wee endure such persons and not lay hold upon them so in that wee are freed from Jesuites who goe about to poyson the soules of Gods people let us shew our thankefullnesse for this and shun Idolatry of all sorts whatsoever Vse 2 Secondly see from hence that there can bee no tolleration of that Religion no more as was said then to suffer and tollerate poysoners as they said of Colloquintida in their pottage so there is death in the pot of Romish Religion 2 King 4.40 Therfore it were good to compell them to come in and serve the Lord their God as it is said good Iosiah compelled those in his time to serve the Lord 2 Chron. 34.33 so it were good such courses were taken to reforme and reclaime them As Saint Augustine said of himselfe in his time being a Donatist hee altered his judgement by force in which case it would be with them as with children who when they are young must be forced to schoole but afterwards they thanke them who forced them So it is in Religion though it cannot be forced yet such might afterwards blesse God for them who brought them to the meanes who insteed of their blindnesse trained them up in more knowledge by forcing them to use the meanes for which when God should open their eyes they might blesse God another day But this point of grosse Idolatry so largely handled in bookes is onely touched by the way that wee may hate Idolatry the more which could not be left out the words leading to say somewhat of it seeing how these Converts heere hate it and out of that hatred make this profession neither will we say any more to the workes of our hands ye are our gods c. But this is not all wee must know that there be other Idols then the Idols which wee make with our hands besides these Religious Idols there be Secular Idols in the world such as men set up to themselves in their own hearts Whatsoever takes up the heart most which they attribute more to then to God that is their Idoll their god A mans love a mans feare is his god If a man feare greatnesse rather then God that he had rather displease God then any great person they are his Idols for the time Pro. 29.25 The feare of man brings a snare saith the Wiseman and those who to get the favour of any in place sacrifice therefore their Credit Profession Religion and soules it is grosse Idolatry dangerous to the partie and dangerous to themselves It was the ruine of Herod to have that applause given him and taken by him Act. 12.22 The voice of God and not of man So for any to bee blowen up with flatterers that lift them up above their due measure it is an exceeding wrong to them prejudiceth their comfort and will proove ill in the conclusion indeed treason against their soules So there is a baser sort of Idolaters who sacrifice their credit and state whatsoever is good within them their whole powers to their base and filthy pleasures Thus man is degenerate since his fall that he makes that his god which is meaner then himselfe Man that was ordained for everlasting happinesse and Communion with God is now brought to place his happinesse and contentment in base pleasures Wheras it is with the soule of man for good or ill as it applies it selfe to that which is greater or meaner then it selfe If it apply it selfe to confidence and affiance in God then it is better for it is the happinesse of the soule to have Communion with the spring of goodnesse as David speakes It is good for me to draw neere to God Psal 73.28 c. when we suffer the soule to cleave in affiance to earthly things it growes in some measure to the nature of the things adhered to when wee love the world and earthly things wee are earthly Till the Spirit of God touch the soule as the loadstone doth the heavie iron drawing it up as it were it will cleave to the creature to baser things then it selfe and so makes the creature an Idoll which is the common Idolatry of these times Some make Favour as the ambitious person some their Pleasures as baser persons of meaner condition and some Riches every man as their temper and as their temptations are Now it is not enough to be found in Religion one way in the maine but we must bee sound every way without any touch of Idolatry In a speciall manner the Apostle calls the Covetous man an Idolater Ephes 5.5 because he makes his riches his Castle thinking to carrie any thing with his

It is a pittifull thing to see the desperate condition of many now who though they live under the tyrannie of sinne yet flatter their owne disease and account them their greatest enemies who any way oppose their sicke humour What doe they most cordially hate The sound preaching of the Word the very sight of such a one whose calling hath beene to put us in minde of our sinnes evill courses and vanities of the world is loathsome and offensive to carnall men in whom corruption is growne up to such a tyrannie that it swayes the whole soule to devise how to satisfie it Man is so diseased that those lusts in him which he should labour to subdue and mortifie by the power of the Spirit doe so over-sway him that all his life is nothing else but a disease and backsliding into sinne And as if we were not corrupt enough our selves how many are there who feed their corruptions when they frequent ill places and company whom they cannot bee without and are as fish in the water feeding the old man in them So that such are not onely sick but defend maintaine and feed their sicknesse their whole life being spent this way which they laugh at and make Pride their chaine and ornament as the Prophet speakes This is spoken that we may take up a lamentation for the vilenesse of mans nature and to teach us how to judge aright of men when they devise how to have their liberty strengthened to goe to Hell as it were with an high hand having their will so fortified that no man is able to deale with them thwart them or teach them any thing If it were offered to most men to have what estate they would in this world what are their wishes and desires O that I might live as I list that I m ght have what would content my pleasures without controule that I might have no crosses but goe smoothly on yet this which is the desire of most men is the most cursed estate of all and most to be lamented Thus it appeareth Sinne is a wound and a disease what Use may we make of it Vse 1 If this be so then in the first place let us know and consider That no man who lives in sinnes unrepented of and uncured is to be envied be they never so great Who will envie a man that hath a rotten body covered over with glorious attire when every man knowes that he carries a rotten disease about him either some disease in the vitall parts or from the rottennesse of sin which puts a kind of shame and scorne Can we pittie a man thus in glorious attire having a filthy body under it thus covering their nakednesse in whose case we would not for any thing be and are they not much more to be pittied who have ulcerous soules galled and pierced through with many sinnes when we see men that are blasphemers swearers men guiltie of much blood and filthinesse and of many sinnes hanging upon them to envie such a mans greatnesse is extreame folly O he carries his deaths wound about him as we say he is striken already in his side with a deadly dart without the healing mercy of God there is but a step betwixt him and eternall death wherefore no man is to be envied for his sinfull greatnesse Vse 2 Againe if this be so that sinne is a disease and wound of the soule let us therefore labour to cure it presently It is desperate folly in men to neglect their bodies when they know that they are prone to such and such diseases which are growing upon them every day how carefull are men perceiving this much to prevent diseases by timely physick all sinnes are diseases and growing like diseases run from ill to worse and worse 2 Tim. 3.13 Wicked men saith the Apostle grow worse and worse Therefore if sin be a disease prevent it presently for as we see Hereticks and others the like are hardly found but at the first and then are hardly cured so if we neglect the diseases of our soules they will breed a consumption of grace or such an ill temper of soule as that it cannot well desire to repent Nay when a man lives in wicked rebellious courses long God will give him up to such terrors of conscience that it will not be pacified but upbraid it selfe I have beene a sinnefull wretched creature mercy hath beene offered me againe and againe but now it is too late having outstood all the meanes of grace and rejected them When they have considered that their lives have for a long time beene a meere rebellion and that they have put off the checks of conscience the admonitions of the Word and Spirit with the motions thereof it is long in this case before a man can have peace for answerable to the continuance in sinne is the hardnesse of the cure if it be cured at all Therefore there is no dallying with sinne That there is no dallying with sin to delay repentance I shall repent at length but not now yet a while I will continue these and these courses I shall doe well enough c. as if a man who were sicke or desperately wounded should say I shall doe well and yet neglect to send for the Physitian None are so desperately foolish in case of the body why should wee for our soules is not that in much more hazard then the body if we had spirituall eyes to consider of it That want of conviction of the sinfullnesse of sinne makes us so sinnefull and carelesse The truth is people are not convinced of this that sin is such a sicknesse which is the reason they are so carelesse of it But when the conscience is awaked as it will bee one day heere or in Hell then they will be of another minde Nay in this world when friends nor riches nor any thing can comfort then they cry out O that they had not beene so foolish they would give a world if they had it for peace of conscience this will be the best of it for men that goe on in sinne Therefore before hardnesse of heart grow upon us that disease following the disease of sinne let us take heed and labour to have our soules healed in time Thus wee have found That sinne is a sicknesse for so much is implied when he saith I will heale their backsliding Whence the direct Observation is That God is the great Physitian of the Soule For he saith here I will heale their backsliding so that healing implies the taking away of 1. The Guilt of sinne which is the venome of it by Iustification 2. The Rage of sinne which is the spreading of it by Sanctification 3. The Remooving the judgement upon our estate For unlesse God bee the more mercifull these things follow where there is sinne and breaking of his law there is a state binding over to damnation and guilt when there is a sinnefull disposition raging and bringing us from one