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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65074	Sermons preached upon several publike and eminent occasions by ... Richard Vines, collected into one volume.; Sermons. Selections	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing V569; ESTC R21878	447,514	832

as wee easilyer take cold when we are warm so its naturall to man to be puft up with successe I shall offer to you this humbling consideration when Israel was in the act of leading two hundred thousand of Judah in triumph having gotten a mighty victory over them there was a Prophet that prest upon the Conquerours a seasonable argument that tooke very much with them and wrought them into a more equall temper and it was this 2 Chron. 28. 10. but are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God So say I to you are there not sins with you even with you reflect upon and examine your selves There are very many hard cases in the Kingdom I am not so out of my self as to lay them at your doore as you are a body because indeed I cannot and yet if I could I durst doe it but I most humbly give caution to you who are the shields the healers There are many forlorne and desolate persons that follow you with cryes for the price of their husbands and fathers lives or limbes It is not charity but justice to refresh their bowels many have given down their milk freely and yet after all have their breasts bitten untill they bleed by unlawful plundering spoyl and violence many instruments imployed are very sharp bitten and prey for themselves The intention of the Physician and of the Leech is not the same He intends to draw out the bloud in due proportion as his patient can beare Shee hath no other gage of her sucking then till shee be full as shee can hold It were justice to squeeze these Spunges that have suckt themselves full and to leave them as dry as they were at first Let difference be made of mens faults in their punishments there is no reason that Peter who denied his Master of infirmity and Judas that betrayed him deliberately should be both in one praedicament Let not justice be byassed by partiality A Judge ought to look with no other eye but the eye of the Law which looks at things and is blinde to persons Let justice be speeded that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Ethic. lib. 5. c. 7. expenses and attendance eat not out the principall in question Amos 5. 24. Let judgment run down like water and righteousnesse like a mighty stream and above all shake your hands from bribes whether bribes by presents or by kinred friendship favour one puts out the eye as well as another and there may be quid pro quo bribes when a man will lend his vote to one to have it paid him again in a cause when he will call for it and opinion-opinion-bribes as I may call them when a man will endeavour to carry another thorow because he is of his opinion and judgment in other things Oh let justice dwell in your Tents and in your hands And if in this ataxie or confusion of things it be impossible to prevent or remedy many miscarriages as I think it is considering that many who run in to the common scathe-fire doe not intend the quenching of it but the seeking of an opportunity in that confusion to rob them that are in misery and to fish for themselves then my prayer shall be that of Hezekiah 2 Chron. 30. 18 19 The good Lord pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek God though he be not clensed according to the purification of the Sanctuary And so I passe on to the second paricular in the Text Purifie your hearts ye double minded whence I take up these two points 1 Double minded men have corrupt hearts 2 This double mindednesse hinders both our drawing nigh to God and his drawing nigh to us Doct. 1 Double minded men have corrupt hearts for it s said purifie your hearts ye double minded Doublemindednes is a division of heart between God and some other preponderating lust or self-interest and so where there should be no division but singlenesse and integrity there is division For all the heart all the minde all the soul and all the strength is that which God calls for There are some that have no heart they have no thoughts of God no rellish of him no byasse towards him it was an ill omen in sacrifices quando cor defecisset when there wanted a heart there can be no expectation of any returne of heartles Prayer heartles performance of duties and this is the common posture of spirit of the ignorant and secure worldlings There are some that have double hearts they pretend to have a zeale of God and they professe the Name of Christ and hang out the Christian colours but through hypocrisie and partiality to their own ends and self-respects they halt between God and Baal or endevour to comply with two masters or they part friendship and love between God and the World as Verse 4. Ye adulerers and adultresses know ye not that the friendship of the World is enmity with God There are some that have one heart and this is that which God promiseth to his Covenant people and wherein he delights when the heart is totum homogeneum whole and undivided from him then is it a perfect heart and of a happy temper or constitution being of chast love affection and faithfulnes to God not vitiated or deflowred by carnal copulation with other base lusts or ends do but observe our Saviour in that saying of his Matth. 6. 22 23. how he opposeth unto a single eye an evill one If saith he Thine eye be single and then when you would have expected that double should have bin opposed to single he saith But if thy eye be evill thereby signifying that if it be not fingle it is naught and evill and wheras one might think that a double eie hath more light then a single our Saviour tels us the plain contrary that a single eye makes the body full of light but a double eye fils it full of darknes It s true there is in a double minded man some eye to God that is so as to use his name to serve self-ends or to colour and cover his sinister ayms and intentions As a harlot whose heart goes after unchast loves will yet have a husband too that is to colour and hide her lewdnesse such are these which are double-hearted they have a Sabbath for God and six days for their lusts they retain to God and wear his cloth and somtimes wait and attend but they are their own men for the most part and work for themselves Religion unto them is but the stalking horse under the sides whereof they creep to get a shoot at their own game how often doth God in Scripture finde fault with this kinde of Professours When ye fasted saith he Zech. 7. 5. did ye at all fast unto me even unto me and againe when they howled upon their beds they have not cryed unto me with their heart they assemble themselves for Corn and Wine and they rebell against me Hos 7.