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A02266 A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle on Munday in Easter weeke the fourteenth day of Aprill, anno Dom. 1623. By Walter Bancanqual ... Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645. 1623 (1623) STC 1240; ESTC S100541 40,503 108

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you haue cried for your owne sinnes spare some of your teares for the sinnes of the time for vnlesse they be mourned for Gods plague will bee powred out vpō the place aswell as their persons and if you doe not mourne and crie for the sinnes of the time no body else will for the sinners themselues will not weepe When the Sea for Jonas his sinne raged the men of the ship were crying hard and throwing their-things into the Sea when Ionas for whom all this tempest was raised had got himselfe downe to the bottome of the ship and there was laid fast asleepe Christs Disciples sleepe when he is in an Agony for their sins Wicked men for whose sins all the tempests wherewith the Church is tossed arise neuer shed one teare in the storme but stretch themselues along vpon beds of Yuorie and short aloud vpon the pillowes of securitie it is onely the godly in the meane time who must pleade and pray and cry and shed teares for the sinnes of the time like Daniel who in the time of his peoples captiuitie in fasting and teares was confessing his owne sinnes and the sinnes of his people onely such mourners are fit to stand in the breach with their payles of water in their hand I meane with their teares and strong cryings like Moses to quench the flames of wrath which goe out from the Lord to consume vs for our sinnes Now concerning these teares which we are to shed both for our owne and other mens sinnes you shall doe well to take notice of these two things first the necessitie of them and secondly the vertue of them The necessitie of them appeareth first by precept secondly by practice By precept of God in the old Testament continually calling vnto his people by his Prophets Ioel Ieremie and the rest Turne you vnto me with weeping fasting and mourning And in the ninth of Ezechiel marking out all those for life who did weepe for their owne sinnes and the sinnes of the people In the new Testament by the precept of Christ who forbade the daughters of Ierusalem to weepe for him who was no sinner but commanded them to weepe for themselues who were sinners and by the precept of his Apostle Saint Paul who commanded the Corinthians to weepe for the vncleannesse of the incestuous person 1. Cor 5. 2. The necessitie of them appeareth by the practice of all the Saints who haue been chiefe mourners for their own and other mens sinnes In the old Testament Dauid deserueth to haue the place of the chiefe mourner since he vsed his teares for sinne not onely for Physick and a Bath as it is in the sixth Psalme I washed my bed euery night with my teares but for food for my teares were my meate day and night If he who was a man according to Gods owne heart did thus weepe for his sinnes how should we who walke according to the lusts of our owne hearts mourne for our sinnes In this traine of mourners you shall see Lot whose righteous soule was grieued and vexed for the filthinesse of the Sodomites You shal see Ezra Josiah Jsaiah Joel Ieremy especially calling for fountaines of teares for teares day and night for powring out their soules like water before the Lord writing whole bookes of Lamentations for their owne sins and the sins of their times In the new Testament wee haue a new traine of mourners and weepers in which traine you shall see Christ the chiefe mourner weeping for the sinnes of Ierusalem so prone vnto teares as that the solemnitie of the time the ioy of the people the shoutings and acclamations of Hosanna could neither drowne his voyce but that he lifted it vp nor dry his eyes but that hee wept after him commeth Peter weeping bitterly for his deniall Mary Magdalen wiping Christs feete with teares for her sinnes and then Saint Paul crying out by reason of his sinnes but O miserable man that I am who shall deliuer mee out of this body of death You haue seene sufficiently the necessity of these teares for sinne see a little the vertue and efficacy of them First these teares and sighes for our sinnes make vs the better to know our sinnes both for their colour and weight Alas so long as we take ioy and delight in sinne so long sinne seemeth little light easie and sweete vnto vs but he that here increaseth his sorrow increaseth his knowledge when we once come to smart to grieue and groane vnder sinnes then we will confesse that the remembrance of them is grieuous vnto vs and that the burthen of them is intolerable As a penny in the bottome of a bason of water sheweth as bigge as a shilling so our sinnes which to vs seeme but little steept once in the water of our teares shew themselues in their iust quantity and proportion Secondly as our teares for sins make vs know them so they wash and doe our sins away so as we shall neuer see them nor need to know them any more I dare say the teares wherewith Mary Magdalen washed Christs feete did not more wash away the dust from Christs feet then they did the sinne from her owne soule for immediatly after her teares did she heare that happy sentence Thy sins are forgiuen thee therefore are these teares called by the Fathers Our second Baptisme by which our sinnes are washed away compared by them to the waters of the red Sea in which Pharaoh and his hoast that is to say Satan and our sinnes are drowned To the waters of Jordan in which if like Naman we wash our selues seuen times that is to say often we shall be cured of the leprosie of sinne to the waters of the poole of Siloam because if wee bathe our selues in them we shall be cured of all spirituall diseases and infirmities so that if you vse to extoll and magnifie some waters which you distill from hearbs and flowers because they are good against sore eyes burnings and heats what doe you then say of these teares which if you can but distill from your owne eyes they will cure the lust of the eyes the pride of life and all carnall heates and desires Thirdly these teares for sinne doe not only wash away sinne for the present but wipe them out of all bookes of account so as they discharge vs of our sins for euer for you must know that euery sinne we do commit we write as it were in the booke of our owne conscience a bill of our hand against our selues wherby we acknowledge our selues debters to Gōd lyable to his Iustice. Now vnlesse this debt bee discharged and the bond cancelled we must be cast in prison for it and there lye til we pay the vtmost farthing which God knoweth will bee long enough for we our selues are not worth one farthing This bond is principally cancelled by Christ who as
the Apostle speaketh nayled vnto his Crosse the hand-writing of ordinances which was against vs who by his blood did wipe out the letters of this black bill which was against vs Now what Christ did with the blood of his body that we in some sort doe with the blood of our soules that is our teares for so they are called by the Fathers and they doe indeede wipe and eate out that which we haue written against our selues by our sinnes and stand where those letters did as one colour laid vpon another doth away the former and remaineth it selfe iust so when the booke of our conscience shall come to be opened if we haue shed teares for our sinnes there is no score nor register of our sinnes to be found in the Booke Whensoeuer a sinner shall repent himselfe say some translations Ingemuerit bemoane himselfe for his sinnes J will put away his iniquities out of my remembrance saith the Lord. Then our sighes and teares put them out of Gods remembrance dash them out of his Register and now our teares doe come in place of them for saith the Psalmist Are not all my teares in thy register Psalme 56. 8 Our teares then are registred as our discharge and acquittance for our sinnes for when hee findeth our teares registred hee lets vs goe as those who were marked for mourners in the ninth of Ezechiel who by their teares were acquitted from destruction Fourthly without these teares neither first can we dye vnto sinne secondly nor liue vnto God first not dye vnto sinne Can one thinke to bee deliuered of so huge a burthen as sinne without griefe and teares to haue his shoulder when it is burst set right without paine to haue a tooth pulled out of his head or a thorne out of his foote and not crie No woman looketh to bee deliuered of the Childe which shee hath carried in her wombe but nine moneths without paine and crying and can you expect to be deliuered of a man the old man a man of sinne without crying and teares Secondly and as no dying vnto sinne so no liuing vnto God without crying and teares for sinne for as in diseased bodies when any member by a violent hurt is benummed and dead a token that it is dead is this If the member feele no paine nor smart when it is pricked pinched lanched and cut but if the Physician by plying of it can bring it to that passe that he complaineth and crieth out at the dressing of it the Physician himselfe and his friends are glad because it is a sure argument that the member is aliue and vpon the recouery Iust so it is here If that after we haue been dead in our sinnes and trespasses so past sense and feeling of them that we did not sorrow nor shead teares for them wee can bee brought to haue a sense of them to weepe and mourne for them sure we are yet aliue and vpon our spirituall recouery Though I might yet now I will say no more of the vertue of those teares for sinne to which holy men haue attributed so much as some of the Fathers thinke that God did indue man with this deaw of teares for no other end but that by them he might wipe away and extinguish his sinne Chrysost. hom 7. ad pop Antioch saith it is plaine by experience for when we weepe and grieue for the losse of friends money for sicknesse or any other temporall calamitie we are so far from diminishing our griefe by our teares as we doe rather increase it onely if wee weepe for our sinnes we diminish our griefe and them and many times quite wipe them away And it is very true which Chrysostome saith for though by our teares we are not able to raise our Parents and Friends from death yet by teares wee are able to raise our soules from the death of sinne I haue staid the longer at this Well because it is deepe and the fire to be quenched by it is very great a huge mas●e and body of sinne in regard whereof we must doe that indeed which Bonauenture how true I know not reporteth of S. Francis who because hee did see that he could not follow agnum immaculatum sine macula operā dedit vt copiosis quotidianis lachrymarum imbribus animam purgaret The Lambe of God which was without spots himselfe vnspotted hee did what lay in him by his daily showres of teares to wash away these spots from his soule NOw the second Wel from whence we draw this precious seed of reares is the consideration of the miseries which attend vpon vs in this life for sinne which being rightly considered are able to draw teares from the stoniest heart That is it I called Jacobs Well because he digged it and in one sentence comprehended the miseries of mans life for which we must shed these teares so fully as nothing can bee more The sentence you haue in Genes 47. 9. For being asked of Pharaoh how old he was his answer was Few and euill haue my dayes been Mourne and weepe then for these two because our dayes are few we must die and because they are euill that is to say all the while till we die we are sicke wee haue no good dayes nor feele nothing but miserie so that this Well differeth from the former in this that was the consideration of sinne this the consideration of the miserie which attendeth vs in this life as a punishment of sinne and though I know that many men thinke they need not goe to this Well because they haue none but good dayes and hope they shall liue many yeeres yet I may aske them that question which the woman of Samaria in the fourth Chapter of Saint Iohn and the twelfth verse asked of Christ Art thou greater then our Father Iacob who did drinke of this Well Though hee had euill dayes yet I dare say if thou liuest in these dayes thou hast and seest more and though thou thinkest to liue long yet you will hardly liue the dayes which he had seene when he said so for hee was then one hundred and thirty yeeres old I haue not time now to say any thing of the ●ewnesse of our dayes I wil onely speake of the badnesse of them I doe not meane the badnesse or euill of sinne in them for that we drew teares from the first Well but the euil vanitie which attendeth vpon vs in this life for sinne The consideration of which miserie deserueth so many teares as that our life in regard of them is truly termed a valley of teares into which valley one no sooner entreth when he is borne but as Job hath it hee beginneth with teares and crieth so that being in this World wee are like Noah in the Arke or like Ilanders who from no point of their Iland can see any thing but waters so looke any where in this life there is nothing but occasion of teares and