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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97215	Spiritual thrift. Or, Meditations wherein humble Christians (as in a mirrour) may view the verity of their saving graces, and may see how to make a spirituall improvement of all opportunities and advantages of a pious proficiencie (or a holy growth) in grace and goodnesse. And wherein is layd open many errours incident to these declining times, / by Elizabeth Warren, a lover of truth and peace. Imprimatur, James Cranford.	Warren, Elizabeth, of Woodbridge.	1647 (1647)	Wing W960; Thomason E373_7; ESTC R201328	87,311	89

may we read of their broken bones Psal 38.8 their roarings groanings wounded spirits their mournfull tears and passionate complaints poured out as expressions of their internall dolours Ezez 9.6 Their faces were covered with shame and confusion in the humble apprehension of the heinousnesse of sinne Hab. 1.13 well knowing that the Lord hath most pure eyes Peccatum est desectus vel indignatio vel actio pugnans cum lege Dei offendens Deum damnata à Deo faciens reos aeternae irae aeternarumpaenarum nisi sit facta remissios Chem. in loc and cannot endure to behold iniquity this causeth the soule to lie prostrate before him amazed at the view of its own deformity the loathsomnesse of sinne being so hatefull an object as cannot be set forth by any humane skill it being defective infective accursed shamefull a leprosie a gangrene a frenzie meere filthinesse and therefore we have cause to be humbled continually while we carry about us this body of death no marvell then though Gods dearest servants were deeply humbled at the sight or sence of sin when their brightest graces were often ecclipsed by the darke and dismall clouds of this contagion But some will suppose the similitude improper to parallel their state with our present condition they being under that yoake of the Law More fidelium quadruplex dicitur ad peccatum quae mortificatio vocatur ad legem quatenus est peccati virtus ad mundū quia mundus iis mortuus est denique mors naturale quae est initium vitae aeternae Heb. 10.14 Acts 26.18 from which we are graciously freed by the Gospel they living in darke and obscure days before the time of Christs reall exhibition we having the light to shine round about us in the plenall consummation of what they expected Why then should we say they be humbled for sin when the debt is discharged and the Bond also cancelled our Acquittance sealed and the worke fully finished which puts us in possession of a Quietus est We gratefully acknowledge all this is true for Christ Jesus hath compleated the worke of our redemption and by one offering hath perfected for ever all them that are sanctified by faith in his name Nemo recte possit poenitentiam agere nisi qui speraverit indulgentiam but from these premises to draw a conclusion that we ought not to grieve or be humbled for sin is no due inference or have we just warrant to omit the duty upon such ground for our cleerer light is the greater engagemen to oblige us by love to the practice of penitencie sith the mercy of God and the merit of our Saviour concurred to save even us that were lost None can deny that the godly of old were wrapt even as we are in the mantle of pollution for all mankind had sinned in Adam and were thereby deprived of originall righteousnesse Rom. 5.18 shall we then conclude that the second Adam was lesse powerfull to save then the first was to destroy or that the efficacie of justification was tyed to the time of Christs actuall suffering this were to deny them the saving benefit of that free grace which they truly possessed the Scripture styling Saints and righteous as being justified by faith in the promised Messiah Neither may we judge that all those which lived in such times as the ceremonies of the Law were in force were therefore under that curse or malediction which the Law denounceth against them that breake it Rom. 6.14 for all beleevers both then and now being under grace are freed from that yoake Gal. 3.9 and as Abraham was justified by faith in the promise even so are the faithfull in every age Iohn 8.56 he saw the day of Christ and rejoyced embracing the comfort revealed far off the Scripture averring of the godly fathers as their highest honour Heb. 11 39. that they dyed in the faith Their eminent graces were attended with humility and abnegation of themselves and their worth for Abraham calleth himselfe dust and ashes even presenting his Petition for sinfull Sodome Gen 18.27 Jacob confesseth he is lesse then the least of all Gods mercies extended unto him David is a worme in his own esteem and Heman accounts himselfe free amongst the dead Gen. 32.10 Psal 22.10 Psal 88.5 Io● 42.6 Ezra 9.6 Ier. 13.17 Dan. 9.3 Matth. 26 75. Rom. 7.24 so holy Job abhorreth himselfe humbly repenting in dust and ashes Ezra blusheth to lift up his face being ashamed of the sin which others committed Jeremy mourneth and weepeth in secret for the pride and pertinacie of a stubborne people Daniel addresseth himselfe to the Lord in prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth Peter weeps bitterly for his heinous offence and Paul is humbled for inhabitant corruption Nobis dormit Christ●s nos suscitet à somno Nemo Domine te quaere valet nisi te pejus invenerit All such narrations being written for our learning who have need of exemplary light to direct us sith we are to ready to embrace such tenents as shake off this practice as totally impertinent But were we acquainted with the odiousnesse of sinne and the deepe deficiencie of our best endowments it would make us more humble in our approaches to the Lord whose mercie it is that we are not quite lost Why should we thinke these Worthies incapable of the saving benefit of justification when the Lambe was slain from the foundation of the world Revel 13.8 in whose bloud they were washed from all their sins Revel 1.5 Christ Jesus being yesterday in the time past to day and for ever a compleat Saviour although the revelation of that sacred mystery Heb. 13 8. be now more amply and cleerly made manifest Ephes 1 9. These were a part of that glorious Church which hee purchased to himselfe with a price invaluable Ephes 5 27. the Saints being only that selected number which are living members of his mysticall body shall wee then divest them of those sacred priviledges wherein they were interested by the grace of adoption or our selves of the benefit of their godly example by a false supposition of a legall disparity for either we must contradict the Holy Ghost which Paul spake by in his fixed confidence Ephes 5.30 saying into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth Psal 31.5 Expiatio Christi viget in aeternum Heb. 11.1 or else we must confesse that by joy in believing they had plenary possession of the promised redemption faith being the ground of things that are hoped for and the evidence of things which are not seen The eleventh to the Hebrews is not only a catalogue Non credit in De● qui non in eo solo collocat totius foelicitatis suae fiduci●m but a specious Chronicle of the faith of the Fathers wherein the excellencie of their saving