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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97246	The cure of misprision or Selected notes, upon sundry questions in controversie (of main concernment) between the word, and the world. Tending to reconcile mens judgements, and unite their affections. Composed and published for the common good : as being a probable means to cure prejudice, and misprision in such as are not past cure. / by R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1646 (1646)	Wing Y149; Thomason E1144_1; ESTC R208480	108,291	199

it written in them Psal 37. 31. And to keep his commandements in their hearts Pro. 3. 1. 4. 21. To have contrite hearts Psal 34 18. Repenting hearts Rom 2. 5. Faithfull and beleeving hearts Rom. 10. 9. Willing hearts Exo. 35. 5. Meeke humble and lowly hearts Mat. 5. 3. to 6. and 11. 25. To have stedfast Isay 38. 3. stable Heb. 13. 9. Wise Pro. 18. 15. and understanding hearts 1 Kings 3. 12. To have single hearts Ephes 6. 5. Sincere hearts Gen. 20. 5. True hearts Heb. 10. 2● Honest and Good hearts Luke 8. 15. Pure hearts 1 Peter 1. 22. Mat. 5. 8. Cleane hearts Psal 51. 10 and Perfect hearts 1 Kings 8. 61. Psal 101. 2. Isay 38 3. And what can be further said whether in praise of the owne or in dispraise of the other But take another instance for our scoffing Adversaries will never be sufficiently convinc'd untill God gives them new hearts Sect. 13. Secondly As the regenerate and unregenerate beleevers and unbele●vers differ in their hearts so no l●sse in their sight and knowledge of spirituall things Whence all men in their naturall condition are said by the Holy Ghost to be blind and in darken●sse Psal 69. 23. John 12. 40. Matth. 4 ●●6 and 15. 14. Eph●s 4. 18. 19. and 5. 8. 1 Peter 2. 9. Whereby is meant the darkenesse of their understandings To bee Foolish Isa 56. 10. Rom. 1. 21 22. Jo. 3. 19. Ignorant Jer. 4. 22. Rev. 3. 17. Drunken and Asleepe not knowing what they doe Luke 23. 34. Mad Luke 15. 17. 2 Pet. 2. 16. No better then Beasts in their knowledge of spirituall things Jer. 51. 57. Psal 49. 12. As the Horse and Mule which perceive nothing Psal 32. 9. Acts 28. 26. And as if this were too little many of them blind their owne eyes with their wickednes Psa 2. 1. to 17. prejudice 1 Cor. 2. 8. Yea winke with their eyes that they may not see the truth Mat. 13. 15 Acts 28. 27. Whence God in judgement gives them the spirit of slumber eyes that they should not see and eares that they should not heare Rom. 11. 8. Yea shuts up their eyes Isay 6. 9. 10. and blinds their minds John 12. 40. And delivers them up to the prince of darkenesse to be further blinded Psal 69. 23. Ephes 6. 12. Whereas on the contrary God opens the eyes of beleevers Isay 42. 7. Acts 26. 18. To see the wonders of his law Psal 119. 18. Yea gives them the spirit of wisedome and revelation to teach them all needfull truths Ephes 1. 17. 1 Cor. 2. 10. Whence they are said in Scripture to have their eyes in their heads and open Eccle. 2. 14. And to have seeing and enlightned eyes Ephes 1. 18. and called children of the light of the day 1 Thes 5. 5. Counted a Sober Wise Knowing Vnderstanding people Deut. 4. 6. And that increase in knowledge daily pro. 4. 18. And many the like expressions mentioned in the word of God which I purposely omit Sect. 14. Which being so were the same but truly beleevrd rightly applyed and seriously considered As O that men would but beleeve the word of God to be Gods word it would soone put an end to all strife cure scoffers of their prejudice and misprision and make them love where they hate and hate where they love but this is the gift of God alone Wherefore I crave no more of thee but to minde what hath been spoken If it be thus that so long as wee remaine in our naturall condition we have eyes and see not cares and heare not hearts and understand not spirituall things as Christ himselfe plainely affirmes Mat ●13 15. and his Apostle Acts 28. 27. and before them both the Prophet Isay chap. 6. 9. 10. And that we are only bent to follow the way of our owne hearts Isay 57. 17. which are deceitfull above all things Jer. 17. 9. How is it possible the naturall man should be truly sensible of those swarmes those litters those legions of evill lusts and cogitations that lye lurking in his heart No this is only proper to the regenerate man who daily communes with his owne heart Psal 4. 4. brings it to the rule of the Law which is holy just and good Rom. 7. 12. hath the light of the Gospel Luke 1. 79. and the spirit of God to teach him all things 1 Cor. 2. 10. and who is in continuall combate betweene the flesh and the spirit Rom. 7. chap. Gal. 5. 17. For it requires thel ight of grace to see even the dust and cobwebs but to discern the smallest moats of evill in the houses of our hearts the Sonne of Righteousnesse must first arise in our soules Againe if their hearts be ●ncircumcised brawny hard c. they cannot feele sin If they are ignorant foolish no better then beasts in understanding If they be blind drunke and in the darke Yea if they be starke dead in sin and in soule they can no more see the spirituall corruption of their soules then a blind Aethiopian can see his blacknesse or then one in the darke can see his foulenes and deformity or then a dead man can feele the waight of a burthen when it is laid upon him Sect. 15. True it is that Korah and his company not for want of ignorance will compare themselves with Moses and Aaron and those shallow headed verbalists Acts 17. 18. will undervalue St. Paul not thinking him worthy to carrie their bookes after them for learning because he doth not in like pompous ostentation set forth himselfe but it is only in conceit wherein alone pride consisteth Secondly it cannot be denied but many naturall carnall yea vicious wicked men have inlightned heads and flueent tongues as had Balaam and Judas a●d Paul before his conversion and the Scribes a●d Pharisees but their hearts remaine darke and foolish as is plaine by Rom. 1. 21. 22. 25. 30. John 3. 10. whence even the wisest of them are called by our Saviour fooles and blind Mat. 23. 16. 17. 19. 24. 26. and 27. 3. 4 5. 2 Pet. 2. 16. And take this for a rule he that hath but a shew of holinesse hath but a shew of wisedome There is no knowledge to the knowledge of a mans selfe nor no knowledge of a mans selfe to the knowledge of his owne weakenesse Nor doe wee know that untill we can discerne sinne in every thing we thinke or speake or doe and still the more of either grace or wisedome we have the more wee know our sins and wants Thirdly I grant also that the most beefe brained Sensualist is wise enough to see small motes in others especially in the godly though they cannot discerne their owne beames as our Saviour shewes Mat. 7. 3. But this is no priviledge but a miserie springing from the deceitfulnesse of their hearts and which aggravates their offence so that it leavs them without excuse and will make them speechlesse as the great day of their