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A17514	Saint Paules agonie A sermon preached at Leicester, at the ordinary monthly lecture: specially touching the motions of sinne, remaining in the regenerate. By A. Cade, Bacheler in Diuinity, and of Bilsdon in Leycester-shire.	Cade, Anthony, 1564?-1641.	1618 (1618)	STC 4328; ESTC S107370	25,820	46

he feeles his owne corruption But to proceed where this true feeling of sin is there will follow true greeuing for it which is my fourth point The doctrine is Doc. 4 Sinne is the onely thing that grieues the Regenerate We neuer find in the history of the Acts nor in all Saint Paules Epistles that euer any thing drawes him into such a pang as sinne doth here to cry out O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me All the euils in the world are sorted into two rankes Malum culpae and Malum paenae sinne and paine as Tertullian cals them Malum delicti and Malum supplicii as Austen Peccatum paena peccati Malum quod facit homo malum quod patitur homo Now the euill that man committeth against God grieues the childe of God much more then the evil or punishment which God inflicts vpon man Reason 1 And the reason is good for sin is the cause of all boyle of paine but not contra evill of paine is not alwayes cause of sin Surely wee had neuer knowne nor felt this euill of paine if sinne had not brought it into the world Reason 2 Againe Paine though euill in our feeling and against our will yet is good in Gods decreeing and neuer against his will Reason 3 Againe of paine in asmuch as it is paine and a chastisement or punishment of sinne God is the author but of sinne in as much as it is sinne God is not the author Sinne is exceeding offensiue to him affliction is not being but eyther a punishment for sinne committed by his iustice or a good meanes to preuent it by his mercy so sinne is our sicknesse paine is our physicke and though the physicke bee bitter as much wholesome physicke is yet euery wise man will endure it rather then the disease These are Zanchius his reasons to which I adde Hieron Zanc. Tom 4. Lib 1. De Malo cap. 2. Thesi 9. that though there were no paine nor punishment for sin yet would Gods children hate and abhorre it because it offendeth their good Father whome they heartily loue and would euer please and because it spotteth and defileth their soules with filthinesse which they would keepe clean as the Temples of the holy Ghost And therefore S. Augustine concludes with mee The wicked men hate paine more then sinne but the godly hate sinne more then paine Aug. lib. 3. de Civitate Dei cap. 1. Mala paenae magis odio haberi a malis quam mala culpae contra mala culpae magis odisse bonos quam mala paenae Saint Paules righteousnes A true difference betwixt godly and profaine men the vngodly will aduenture vpon any sinne to enioy pleasure auoid paine the godly will aduenture vpon any pain euen death it selfe to auoyde sinne as wee see in many blessed Martyrs and all godly men that will take vp their Crosse to follow Christ Surely Saint Pauls sinne was little and his paine much yet he neuer complaines of his afflictions but eryes out most bitterly of his sin O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me Philip. 3.6 He sayth touching the righteousnesse of the Law he liued vnrebukeably even before hee was conuerted mans eye could spie no fault in him and 1. Cor. 4.4 he sayth he knew nothing by himselfe And Act. 24.14 avoweth to the face of his most quicke sighted aduersaries that hee truely worshipped the God of his Fathers beleeuing all things in the law and the Prophets had hope in the resurrection of the dead and laboured to haue a cleare conscience towards God man Act. 20. he protesteth to the Elders of Ephesus whom hee had sent for to Miletum and taketh them to witnesse after what maner he had liued with them at all seasons seruing the Lord with all humility and with many teares and tentations and how he passed not for bonds and afflictions neyther was his life deare vnto him so that he might fulfill his course with ioy and the ministration which hee had receiued of the Lord Iesus to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God 2. Tim. 4.6 When hee was now ready to be offered and the time of his departing was at hand his conscience could giue him this testimony I haue fought a good fight and haue finished my course I haue kept the faith From henceforth is layde vp for me the crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord that righteous Iudge shall giue mee at that day and not to me onely but vnto them also that loue his appearing such was his righteousnesse and will you view his afflictions Saint Paules afflictions To omit all those slaunders raylings imprisonments and scourges in other Chapters before of the Acts of the Apostles we haue eight whole chapters at the end of nothing but his troubles and persecutions how he was violently taken by his owne nation out of the holy Temple what an vprore was there about him that he hardly escaped tearing in peeces of them how more then forty of the Iewes sware his death and lay in wayte for him how hec was posted from one prison to another from one ruler to another kept in bands and ward like an euill doer and when the magistrate had openly pronounced him guiltlesse yet could he haue no right but was still kept in bands eyther for fauour of the Iews or in hope to wring some money out of him for his deliuerance and therefore hee was examined and reexamined and for all his Innocency must eyther bee deliuered into the hands of his bloody enemies vnder pretence to be iudged at Ierusalem but indeed to be murdred by the way or else must appeale vnto Caesar the highest monarch of the world to defend him and so preferre a troublesome and a dangerous iourney before a trayterous and a murderous death And this iourney to Rome is described through the dangerous seas amongst the Islands in the depth of winter where the winds tempests seas and souldiers stroue which should be the cruellest so that when the ship brake by the fury of the winds and tempests the souldiers would haue killed the prisoners least they might scape by swimming more barbarous then the a So the Italian cals the sea barbarous Element Which of vs should not haue cried out in such extremity of our great daungers rather then at our sinnes O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death Yet all these troubles are easie to that great throng of evils which hee reckoneth vp of himselfe 2. Cor. 11.23 In Labours aboundant in stripes aboue measure in prisons frequent in death often 24. of the Iewes 5. times receyued I40 stripes saue one 25. Thrice was I beaten with rods Once was I stoned thrice I suffered shipwracke a night and a day haue I bin in the deepe 26. In iourneying often in perils of waters in perils of Robbers in perils by my owne Countrymen in perils by the heathen in perils in