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cause_n	believe_v	effect_n	faith_n	2,579	5	5.8586	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01281	Englands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho: Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1615 (1615)	STC 114; ESTC S100411	68,934	100

health and he now stands surer by his first fall Such is the greatnesse and goodnesse of God such his power and mercy concurring that it workes health out of sicknesse good out of euill There is an infinite Good but not an infinite euill For the Good cannot by any meanes be diuerted into euill but the euill may be converted to good By the conspiracie of Iewes Gentiles Iudas Deuils against Christ is our saluation wrought From the horridst and most vnnaturall treasons God hath aduanced his owne glory aduantaged his childrens security We labour of three diseases birth life death all these are cured by those three answerable in Christ. Our vncleane birth is sanctified by His so pure from the least spot of sinne Our transgressing life is reformed by the vertue enformed by the example of His. That tyrannizing wounding Serpent Death hath the sting pulled out by His death that we may embrace him in our secured armes The Conquerour of vs all is conquered for vs all by Him that foiled the Gyant in his owne denne the Graue Thankes be to God which giueth vs the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ. Oh death where is thy sting Oh graue where is thy victory This is our insultation and holy triumph Prouided euer that He be beleeued of vs that hath thus relieued vs. Beleeue and feare not A good conscience is neuer faild of a good confidence of a good consequence Hence ariseth the soules sanity What can indanger in dammage this health no losses to the estate no crosses to the flesh The spiritually-sounde man values all the fortunes of the world lesse then the freedome and health of the mind Hee that wants this armour is wounded by euery blow of affliction Other security is but a shield of waxe against a sword of power They cannot chuse but feare euen where no feare is and testifie their inward guilt and sicknesse by their pale and trembling lookes Timida nequitia dat testimonium condemnations semper praesumit saeua perturbata conscientia Fearefull wickednesse giues testimony of it owne damnation and the troubled conscience imposeth and presumes to itselfe terrible things but the health of faith is health indeed yea this health is life a life Angelical a life Euangelical whether for obedience or peace inspired spirited sealed assured by the word of Truth Which is life to all that find it and health to all their flesh No feare shall inuade him no troubles inuolue him so that he cannot be extricated For the feare of the Lord tendeth to life and he that hath it shall not be visited with euill His innocency may speed in the world as deserts in a lottery be rewarded with a blank But he in whom he affies shall put the marrow of health into his bones distill the sap of grace inio his spirit Low in the world lowly in himselfe in his estimation who sees not that the clambring goates get vpon rockes and promontory places whiles the humble sheepe feed in the bottomes and deiected vallies Onely one day the Sheepe shall bee aduanced aboue the Sunne and starres and set in heauen with Christ when the goates shall be cast downe to the depth of depthes Rich Diues was well enough knowne to the world yet nameles in the sacred Records So we brand our sheepe let the Goates goe vnmarked God sets his seale on his chosen Nouit qu● sui sunt lets the wicked run without his cognisance Thus different is the state of Gods seruants and the worlds slaues They thinke none sicke but wee wee know none sicke but they If equall crosses befall vs both our estate is soone descried Wee differ as the Cammell and the Camomell the one is stunted the other thriues by his burthen Afflictions that so scatter them and loosen the ioyntes of their vaine hopes doe more knit and consolidate our healthes As soone as they take themselues it is as easie to proue as to reproue their diseases Though I confesse in the dayes of their Iouialty hee hath greate wisdom that can make them sensible of their sicknes Were Solon nay Salomon aliue to declare it they see t not ' they will not feele it If the want of health were perceiued how amiable admirable would the benefit appear Gratior est saint as redita quā retenta vix aliter quā perdendocognoscimus Returning health is more welcome then if it had not beene lost We scarse know what health is but by the want Let others spend their times wits treasures to procure health to their bodies which I embrace when it is offered and would not loose by my owne errors giue mee a sound and cleare conscience and let mee not want this health till I enuy theirs 2. Thus hauing enquired what health is leauing a while the consideration therof as it is in it selfe let vs descend into it as respectiuely casting an oblique eye vnto that which is diuers from it or aduerse to it There is a significant and lightfull demonstration or commentarie which one contrary nature giues to another when they are diametrally opposed The day would not seeme so cleare if the departing Sunne should not leaue night to follow it The foile addes grace to the Iewell It no lesse then glorifies learning that the malitious tong of ignorance barkes at it He knowes the benefite of heate that hath felt the sharpenes of a freezing colde If there were no sicknesse to trouble vs health it selfe would be thought sicknesse The very enmity of these repugnances helpe the beholders iudgement eyther to embrace or reiect them Euen their opposition is an exposition of their natures deformity darknes sicknesse sinne all those priuatiue corruptiue destructiue things which as they had no creation from God so giue no direction to the good yeeld by a sober meditation an vnwilling lustre to those vertues graces and happy habites against which they vaunt their contrariety That if any lewde vaine ill iudging worse affecting mind shall still loue the desolation of sinne rather then the consolation of spirituall health it may appeare to bee not because this obiect is not wretched but because hee is blind and bewitched There is a twofolde Sicknesse incident to man 1. in sinne 2. for sinne The former of these is only spiritual the latter is not onely corporall but sometimes spirituall also and of all the Vials of Gods wrath holden to the mouth of miserable men by the hand of iustice it is the forest when sinne shall bee punished with sinne and the destitution of grace shall permitte a lapse to impenitency 1 The Sicknesse in sinne is double according to the cause which is a defect either of right belieuing or straight liuing a debility of confidence a sterility of good works lacke of faith wracke of charity These effects or rather defects are produced by two errors in our Soules diet the one excessiue the other deficient 1. By Fasting too much from Christ 2. By feeding too much on

none indeed for he that hath God for his obeyed Master hath for his obeying Seruant the world yet is it but a vagrant and runnagate seruant It hath a madding mind and a gadding foote And though by the greatnesse of the stature and proportion it may promise able seruice yet it will bee gone when thou hast most neede of it Neither will it slippe away empty but robbe thee of thy best Iewels carry away thy peace content ioy happinesse soule with it Behold the Cosmopolite Luke 12. planting transplanting rebuilding s●udying for roome to lay vp his fruites Non in visceribus pauperum not in the bowels of the poore but in his enlarged Barnes if euer their capacity could answere his enlarged hart He buildes neither Church nor Hospitall eyther in cultum Christi or culturam Christiani to the seruice of Christ or comfort of any Christian but Barnes He minds onely Horreum suum Hordeum suum His barne and his Barley Behold at last he promiseth his Soule peace ease mirth security but when his Chickens were scarse hatch'd whereon he long ●ate thought to sit long brooding he heares a fatall voyce confiscating his goods and himselfe too Thou foole this night shall thy soule bee required of thee then whose shall those things bee which thou hast prouided No maruell then if the Soule be famished when she is onely fed with such fugitiue meat which vanisheth like Tantalus Apples or Ixions cloud in the Poet and like Medicines rather then food or like poysons rather then medicines wash away the good they finde and leaue the bad made yet worse by their accession behind them 2 They be not satisfactory and therefore conferre no true content to the mind no more then the dreamed bread of the Sluggard who walkes with an empty stomacke Thou shalt eate but not bee satisfied All things are full of labour man cannot vtter it the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare filled with hearing There is nothing but emptinesse vanity vacuity in them Simuloriuntur moriuntur they at once are borne and die as Plutarch said of the Lightning as Ionas found in his gourde Like the Mermaide Virgo formosa supernè Desinit in turpem piscem malesuada voluptas Face flattering Pleasure that so much deludes Like that Sea-monster with sad ruth concludes The motion of the minde following these wandring Planets of earthly delights is euer errant euer vncessant Ahab is sicke of his neighbors field though he haue a whole Kingdome to walke in And Alexander finding himselfe Lord of the whole world is discontent as if hee wanted elbow roome The poore man is not more perplex'd because he hath neither barne nor graine then the couetous wretch because hee hath not barne enough for his graine What Cosmopolite euer grasped so much wealth in his gripulous fist as to sing to himselfe a Sufficit He that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer nor hee that loueth abundance with encrease His cares fill vp as fast as his coffers He hath much in his keeping yet doth neither inioy it nor ioy in it It breedes a disease in the soule like that in the body which they call Caninum appetitum an immoderate desire of meate whereafter the body lookes thinne wan sickly as if it were starued The colde feculent viscous vicious humours of couetousnesse desire an vnreasonable quantity of worldly goods yet leaue the soule more weake warish sickly then if shee neither had nor had will to doe any thing This is the infallible effect of these coueted vanities vel sequendo labimur vel assequendo laedimur the soule eyther fals in the seeking or failes in the finding She is not the better nay shee is the worse for her longing after them Luxuriant animi rebus plerunq secundis The mind may riot and grow ranke for a while with these puffings vp but how soone doth a tabe and consumption take it down when the ioy answers not to the expectation of the heart The world may set such a man in high estimation The rich hath many friends but the poore is separated from his neighbours Aspicis vt veniant ad candidatecta Columbae Accipiet nullas sor dida turris aues But all this while others are more satisfied with the sight then hee with the possession of his owne Still his soule is hungry and he knowes not how to appease it I perswade not all abiuration of the world as if it could not bee vsed but it must be abused As the Philosopher of olde that threw his money into the sea purposing to drowne that least that should drowne him Or as the new found and fond Votaries that professe a voluntarie want as if all coyne were diseased and had for the circumscription à noli me tangere So the Empiricke to cure the feuer destroyes the patient so the wise man to burn the mise set on fire his barne Is there no remedy but a man must make his medicine his sicknesse I speake of things as they are not as they should bee Hee that feeds too hungerly on the world fals with much ease to neglect Christ. As hee that was once following him no sooner heard of his fathers death but presently left him thinking perhaps that hee should get more by his fathers Executorship then by his Sauiours Discipleshippe and therefore would leaue to minister in Christs seruice that he might administer on his Fathers goods Hence fall many soules into this spirituall sicknesse when they forsake the solide and substantiall nutriment of Iesus Christ to gape for the fugitiue and empty ayre of worldly riches which if they do carry to their deathes yet they must then leaue all exuendo expnendo donec nihil vel intus vel foris māserit by putting off by spuing vp whatsoeuer their couetousnes hath deuoured Nature shal turn thē out naked empty Thus the righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soule but the belly of the wicked shal want They are not satisfactory In a word that we may a little perpend the effects as wee haue perceiued the causes al spirituall sicknes is either in faith or conuersation 1. In Faith This is a generall dangerous sicknesse Generall AEgrotat sides iam proxima morti Faith is so sicke that it is ready to die These are those last and Apostate times wherein faith is become so litle that the scarsity giues expectation of the generall doome We sweare away our faith at euery trifle and then no maruell beeing so prodigall of such oathes if our stocke of faith be sworne and worne out Dangerous wee affie the world which wee haue vowed to defie and loosing that confidence we should liue by for the Iust liues by faith How can it bee but the Soule must become Sicke Whiles the shield of faith is lost wee lie naked to the fiery darts of Sathan and many wounds will let out the life