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A04986	Ten sermons upon several occasions, preached at Saint Pauls Crosse, and elsewhere. By the Right Reverend Father in God Arthur Lake late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells	Lake, Arthur, 1569-1626.	1640 (1640)	STC 15135; ESTC S108204	119,344	184

but when the commandement came sinne revived and I dyed Not that before he was alive and then gave up the ghost but he then perceived himselfe to be but dead whereas before in his imagination he was alive Psa 69 28. King David praying against the wicked Let them saith he be put out of the booke of life and let them not be written with the righteous contradictory speeches but that many thinke themselves entred whose names were never in that booke Iude 8. Wherefore Saint Jude cals wicked Christians by the name of dreamers and not unfitly for what the Prophet Esay saith of corporall food is true also ●f spirituall Too many are like to hangry men that ●reame Behold they eat but when they awake ●say 2● 8 their soule 〈◊〉 empty or like a thirsty man that dreameth Behold he drinketh but when he awaketh behold he is faint and his ●●ule longeth Quià est hypocritae vita saith Gregory the Great nisi visio quaedam phant asmatis quae hoc estendit in imagine quod non habet in veritate Pro. 30 12. Hypocrites are Solomons generation that are pure in their owne conceit and yet are not washed from their filthinesse All their state 〈◊〉 like a dreame as the Psalmist speaketh when one waketh yea when God waketh then he makes this their image or rather their imagination to be vile and that in their owne eyes Wisd 5.4 as the booke of Wisdome brings them in confessing with their own mouthes We fooles thought a good mans life to be madnesse and his end without honour but how is he counted among the children of God and hath his portion among the Saints But we contrary to our forther thought have erred from the way of truth the light of righteousnesse hath not shined unto us and the sun of Righteousnesse never rose upon us When the Good-man of the house 〈◊〉 up and hath shut the doore many saith Christ shall begin to knocke at the doore saying Lord open to us but he shall answer I know you not Strange newes they had a better thought for they shall begin to say We have caren and drunken in thy presence and thou hast taught in our streets But he shall answer I tell you I know you not whence ye are Depart from me ye workers of iniquitie Then they shall begin to weepe never before they mistooke their state when they shall see Abraham Isaac and Tacob whom they tooke to be their Fathers and all the prophets whom they boasted of as of their teachers they shall see both in the kingdome of God and themselves thrust out of doores See then how a man may be deceived and flat downe when he thinketh himselfe bolt upright This the Divines call a negative fall because opposed to a seeming but not a true standing There is another fall which is privative opposed to standing indeed Pro. 30.19 20. The way of a righteous man should be like the light shining more and more untill the perfect day But many goe backe making shipwracke of their faith and forsake their first love When God offered a signe to Hezekiah assuring him of his recovery wilt thou saith he that the shadow of Ahaz dyall goe forward tenne degrees 〈◊〉 backeward His answere was It is a light thing for the shadow to passe forward ten degrees not so then but let the shadow goe backeward ten degrees In the dyall of our soule over which mooveth the Sonne of righteousnesse wee may see the cleane contrary A light matter for the shadow for our vertues are but shadowes of Christ to go backeward not so to goe forward The cause is not in the sunne but in the dyall for here Copernicus Theoricks prove very true The sunne stands still but the earth doth move God forsakes not man but man God Which the Scripture implies when it so often useth that phrase Abierunt retro they have gone backe they have declined they have forsaken mee and such like So the Galatians went so farre backe that of one that were able to runne you did runne well they became babes yea lest Little Children with whom I am in travaile againe till les● Christ be formed in you He. 5.12 13. So did the Hebrewes Where as concerning time yee ought to bee Preachers yet have ye● need againe that wee teach you what are the first Principle of the word of God and are become such as have need of milk not of strong meat Neither may they goe backe onely knowledge and in faith but in love and workes too Write saith the Angell to the Church of Ephesus I h●● something to say against thee because thou hast forsaken 〈◊〉 first love Remember from whence thou art fallen and 〈◊〉 first workes And to the Angel of Sardis I know it workes thou hast a name that thou livest but art dead● wake and strengthen the thinges which remaine and are ready to die No doubt then but he that stands indeed 〈◊〉 fall the whole Church fall they fall in faith they 〈◊〉 ●n love But this talking age is much troubled with two ●questions how a righteous man doth fall and how far ●he may fall whether with full consent and whether as deep as hell But my text leadeth mee to remember you not to fall rather then to dispute of the manner and measure of their fa●l Therefore desirous to dismisse you rather religious then judicious though indeed he is most judicious that is most religious for the Scripture counts ●ll sinners fooles I forbeare to exceed the limits of my text adding to the first point onely this Nemo repente suit turpissimus God forsakes not altogether at first as appeares by Ezekiels vision chap. 9. totum that the more consent we give to sinne the greater fall wee take and the greater our fall the neerer we draw to hell The best men will yield too much and the least frowne of God goeth to a good mans heart so that our best care must be so to bridle our will that we may be ever gracious in the eyes of God And so I passe from our mutability to our Vigilaney Whereupon I need not to stand long If our mutability be apprehended well wee need not much bidding to take heed of it The difficulty is to resolve men that sinne is ill to resolve the heart not the wit many are wise enough to vouch it but their lives doe prove they never believed it for can a man unfeignedly acknowledge that to be ill wherein he takes delight as in his soweraigne good But that our mutability may make the stronger impression I will adde something of Vigilancy the second thing that I noted in the Apostles exhortation Let him that stands take heed lest he fall Though a man standing be mutable Psal 1.3 yet if he be Vigilant he may be immutable It was an heresie condemned in unchast Marcian to hold after he was excomunicated for Incontinency non voluntate sed necessitate