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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30567	The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs at Cripple Gate.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1668 (1668)	Wing B6061; ESTC R20303	59,310	123

of God Lord thou knowest that I have not wickedly departed from thee For all thy judgments are before me and I do not ●ut away thy statutes from me O Lord thou ●nowest there is none of thy statutes that I would put away from me Thirdly And then a Third symptom of ●●fe in the worst condition is this That though 〈◊〉 man be fallen into great sins himself yet ●or all this he will have his heart prising other godly men that are not fallen into such great sins when did you ever know any one godly man fall to be such an Apostate as to hate the Saints and yet to turn again to God for thereby you may know whether he were godly or no if it were a temptation in one that is godly though he doth Apostatise very far yet he will return back again But for my part I never knew it nor heard of any man that was a professor of Religion and fell fo far as to hate the Saints to hate other godly men and to persecute them I never knew any example that came again But now you shall have many godly men that fall foully I but yet their hearts are towards the Saints and they think that they are in a blessed condition Though I have a wicked and vile heart and I cannot prevail against such and such corruptions yet there are those that are able to prevail against their corruptions there are those that are godly O! they are in a happy condition O! happy is such a man such a woman they are not overcome with such corruptions as I am overcome with So that though they be overcome with sin yet they will still have their heart towards the Saints and prising those that are not overcome with such corruptions as they are But now it is not so with the wicked Fourthly The last symptom of spiritual life that is in the Saints is this Though they be overcome with much corruptions yet you shall find this ever in them They do not lose the savour and relish of the most spiritual Ministry and the Word as others do Wicked men they are so defil'd with their corruptions that that takes away all their relish and tast of spiritual things They cannot relish a spiritual Ministry more than a filthy one but now take one that ever had any true godliness in him though he be very foully fallen perhaps into some gross sins yet he is able to taste the word in some degree he can taste a difference between Ministry and Ministry yea between Company and Company between the spirit of one Man and the spirit of another I say he doth not wholly lose his savour but still he hath some kind of savour to taste a difference between that that is spiritual and carnal and especially in the Ministry of the word he finds some savour in that for if ever he was converted it was a spiritual work of the word that did convert him and there is some seed of it doth remain in his heart hence is that of the Holy Ghost by the Apostle Saint Peter 1 Epist C 1. ver last The word of the Lord endureth for ever and ●his is the word which by the Gospel is preached ●o you Now this word of the Lord he doth not mean here the very Book and Letter of the word of God but he means the word of God upon the hearts of the godly for so you shall find he speaks of it in the 23. v. Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever For all flesh is as Grass and all the glory that is all works of nature and common gifts they vanish but the word of God endureth forever that is the word of God upon the hearts ●f the Saints There is a spiritual seed and efficacy of the word of God that first did beget the soul that doth abide for ever There is none falls off so but hath some seed of the Spiritualness of Gods Word that doth abide in their hearts that doth enable them to savour Gods Word Thus you see their spot is not deadly O! that if any of you that have godliness and have fallen foully from God that you would but consider of these things Are there such seeds of life remaining in you you are those that do yet belong to him therefore do not you fall off more and more if you be one that do belong to God you will not abuse this that I am speaking to you but your souls will prise it and it will draw your hearts more to God But now the sickness of the wicked that 's a death as in John 11. 4. saith Christ concerning Lazarus This sickness is not unto death Two men are sick one man he dies of it the other is recovered so you have your sins and the godly man hath his sins and outwardly the godly mans sin appears as much as yours doth I but yours may be to death for all that As now according to this similitude of a spot sometimes a man hath some kind of grievous spot upon his slesh caused by some distemper well but yet this is not so now as in the time of the Plague when you see those blew tokens on you which they call Gods Tokens though perhaps you have no other spots nor sores So many men and women may seem to live very strictly and not break out into such scandalous sins as others do and their spots seem not to be so full of corruption as other mens are I but there ●●e the blew spots of a Plague upon them ●●at be unto death And you know a Father ●●d Mother would rather a great deal see the ●odies of their Children to be all blistered and ●potted and run with filth then to see but one ●f those blew spots upon them though their ●kin should be never so whole You will say now What sign may we give ●f the sickness of a soul to be unto death see●ng that godly men may by their sin be sick as ●ell as others I will give you these First As in the distemper of the body if be constant though it be small it may prove deadly As if a man hath a Cough yet if it continues constant it may prove deadly Take heed of constant sins though they be small sins for if thou goest on in a constant way of sin it may prove deadly And then Secondly If the disease reach to the heart it proves deadly In time of infection if you can keep it from the heart you are well enough Physicians though they give Medicines to keep the infection from the heart yet they have never a Medicine to cure the heart if once the disease get into it They can keep it out of the heart but not get it out of the heart Jer. 4. v. 1. O! thy sin 〈◊〉 evil and bitter for it reaches unto thy heart saith the Text O! that 's an evil and bitter