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A57545	The good Samaritan; or an exposition on that parable Luke X. ver. XXX----XXXVIII. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell amongst theeves, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, preacher of the gospel.; Mirrour of mercy, and that on Gods part and mans. Part II	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1823A; ESTC R222130	165,186	261

Christian p. 121. It is to be measured more by the mind than purse page 122. The Charitie of some affoards no good words page 119. And of most no good works ibid. It well becomes Ministers pa. 53. It is the Sum of all their Sermons p. 54. Christ our salvation is from him p. 157. He is to be come unto for help p. 129. He preferred our good before his own ease p. 142. He came where we were and how p. 102. Few give him entertainment p. 104. How we should Come to him p. 105. We must be content with his worst as well as best page 116. Church it is like unto an Inne in many respects page 146. Whence it is called Catholike p. 147. None saved out of it p. 148. Christ reigneth there p. 149. The good of it must be sought by those who receive the goods of it p. 168. True members of it how known p. 150. It is the house of Perfumes and the gate of Heaven page 151. Comfort none to be had but in Christ p. 95. Communion of Saints is to be loved p. 27. Company good to be desired p. 25. Companions there will be in sin p. 65. Compassion Christ was touched with p. 117. It mooved him to seek our Salvation page 118. Conformity in evill dangerous p. 68. Conscience what it is pag. 204. It binds not but where the Word binds first page 205. It must be hearkned unto pag. 206. It is sometimes speechlesse but than it writes p. 207. The use of a good Conscience p. 208. The Priviledges of it p. 209. Conversation it should be in Heaven p. 161. Conventicles by some prefer'd to publik meetings p. 148. Cover our sins Christ doth and how p. 129. Cruelty to be abhorred page 59. Cursing how lawfull p. 90. Creatures given both for necessity and delight p. 137. Creatures not to be over-burthened ibid. Customes defraud Ministers p. 178. D Death frees the godly from the sight of much evill p. 108. Dead how far man by nature is p. 47. Debt of man double p. 155. Degrees God proceedeth by in curing our diseases p. 131. Descention for us by Christ p. 102. Diseases of all sorts cured by Christ p. 190. Diseases infections we are not bound to visit p 62. Divels they are thieves in many respects p. 34. There are more in the aire than men on Earth at one time p. 38. There is a chief amongst them p. 38. Doing required of a Christian p. 218. The power of Christianity consists in that p. 219. Doore Christ enters in by that not by the window p. 9. Duties belonging to a Christian are to be personally performed p. 220. Some Duties concern not all p. 221. E Election not universall p 149. Event not alike to all p. 51. Examples of all sorts in Scripture for our learning page 222. They no further bind than they are backed with a precept p 224. Best Examples are to be follow ed p. 67. Good Examples very profitable p. 225. Examples of Saints how farre they may be followed p. 225. Contempt of Examples laies us open to wrath p. 223. Bad Examples take heed of p. 66. The Examples of Superiours if bad very dangerous p. 67. Excommunication a fearfull sentence p. 149. If unjust then not to be feared p. 150. Eye a great help or hinderance to the soul p. 106. It is quick in apprehension and sure ibid. Most sins begin there p. 107. We should cast them on good objects p. 107. On whom God casts his Eye he settles his affection p. 109. F Fall sin is in divers respects p. 39. Faith is a weapon offensive and defensive p. 24. It is a good staffe p. 25. Feare of God where it is not ther no good can be expected 82 Flesh of man is the flesh of God p. 144. Our Flesh sits at Gods right hand in all our suits ibid. Filling all that Christ did or suffered was to fill up p. 155. Fortune how taken p. 49. Whither any thing come to passe by it ibid. The name was first brought in through ignorance and blindnes p 49. G Garment Gods Image is and that in many respects page 40. It is a Garment to be respected p. 41. Gifts of two sorts God hath betrusted his Ministers withall p. ●66 Giving unadvisedly is the worst kind of loosing p. 91. What we are to give and how much p. 122. Rules to be observed in Giving p. 119 What order is to be observed in Giving p. 42. Godlinesse hath both a form and power p. 218. Goods of the Church belong onely to Church-men page 168. Gospell is very pretious page 85. It is like Oyle p. 133. H Hand God stands at our right hand to blesse us p. 99. Healing it is from Christ page 130. He Heales upwards p. 132. Signes of one foundly Healed p. 133. Why men are not Healed p. 132. Heaven the fairest prospect p. 18. It is a place of peace p. 19. It will pay for all our pains about it p. 196. Honour of Christ to be prefer'd p. 142. Hope there is whilst there is life p. 47. Humility to be learned from Christs Example p. 105. Hypocrites respect Ceremoies above the substance p. 64. I IESVS a sweet name p. 96. Image of God is mans clothing p. 41. How far it is lost in man ibid. Imitation our nature is apt to it p. 66. One sin Imitates another p. 66. Imprecations how used in Scripture p. 91. Impropriations the Judgments of Divines and some Lawyers concerning them page 169. Impropriators are hard Masters p. 173. Their Pleas answered ibid. Speciall considerations for them p. 176. Inns two wont to be in every Town p. 145. The Church resembled to an Inne vide Church Inns are of good use p. 145. There mony bears the Mastery p. 162. Inferiours follow Superiours Examples p. 66. Intercession Christ not wanting in it p. 156. Iournies in them commend our selves to God p. 21. Christ took a Iourney to us so should we to him p 104. Iustification 3. things required to it p 70. Iericho a figure of this world 20 Ierusalem a type of heaven pag. 17. K Kings have both temporall and Ecclesiasticall authority p. 175. Kingly office of Christ he carefully discharged p. 156. Knowledge without practise leaves us inexcusable p. 220. L Lawes of 3. sorts p. 74. How some that good gave may be said not to be good p. 69. Law is like wine and how page 133. It is not the proper cause of death p. 69. How it is the ministration of death p. 70. How it is said to be weak ibid. It is impossible to be kept how p. 71. It discovers sin p 72 73. Why the Law was first given p 73. How far abrogated p. 74. Law Judiciall and Ceremoniall what p. 74. The Law a Schoole-master pag. 76. Why God suffers his to be long under the lash of it page 136. Law of man not to be pressed too far in case of Ministers maintenance p. 57. Libertie not to be abused page 78. Liberalitie

supple nor wine to cleanse The first Conclusion we lay down is this Doct. Man was not wounded by the Law The Priest and Levite did not wound this man They were not the Theeves though they did neither helpe nor heale him The Law than is not the proper cause of death to any it doth not properly as a working cause wound the soule of man nor make him lyable to damnation There was you know condemnation enough in the world between Adam and Moses before the Law was published anew and however it be true that the Law shall proove a Condemning and a Judging Law to all impenitent ones and unbelievers yet this was not the primary intention of it no more than it was of the Gospell to condemne men by it which yet will be a savour of death unto death to all that despise it Deut. 30.15 Lev. 18.5 Eze. 20.11 Rom. 10.7 18. Object But Ezek. 20.25 I gave them Lawes that were not good and Iudgements whereby they shall not live There be three sorts of Lawes or Precepts 1. Mala as Mich. 6.16 the Statutes of Omri 2. Non bona as the Ceremoniall Law 3. Bona. So the Morall Law Now those Lawes there spoken of were the Laws of Ceremonies which the Lord calls not good because they could bring nothing to perfection being but shadows of things to come Heb. 10.1 But the morall Precepts are just and holy and the man that doth them shall live by them Gal. 3.12 Object 2. 2 Cor. 3. ● It is the ministration of death Resp So it is accidently as we shall shew anon not because there is any imperfection in the Law but from the weaknesse of the flesh which is not able to keepe the Law whence it propounding a curse to all that do not keepe it and shewing withall no meanes to avoid it man is affected to it as to an enemy that seeks his destruction and ruin so that this ariseth not from the Law but the infirmity of the flesh Vse Such then as thinke it is the proper work and effect of the Law to wound the soule and disquiet the heart are much deceived the proper cause of that is our own guiltinesse The Physitian that shewes me a disease is not the proper cause of the disease So judge we of the Law Secondly in that neither Priest nor Levite did help this man Observe we Doct. There is no Salvation by the Law Though death properly be not by it yet it cannot cure nor save See Gal. 3.21 Rom. 8.3 Act. 13.25 Heb. 7.19 10.1 Reason The Reason the Apostle gives Rom. 8.3 the Law by sinne is become weake and unprofitable to the purpose of Salvation and Justification It is not weak either in Precept or in Doctrine but only in justifying of man and this not in it selfe but by accident because we are naught and not conformable unto it for if we could perfectly keep it it were as able to justifie us now as ever There are three things required to the justifying of us before God all which are impossible for the Law to doe 1. To offer us forgivenesse of those things we do against the Law Now the Law accuseth but absolveth not 2. To work Faith in us to lay hold upon forgivenes being offered which the Law cannot ingender 3. To put strength and power into us that we may be able to keep the Commandements of the Law to the ends of our lives All which are impossible to the Law It instructeth what to do but ministreth no strength to do what it bids Praecipit non adjuvat Lex offert affert Evangelium that is the office of the Gospell For these purposes the Law is weak uneffectual and feeble but that commeth not from the Law but from our Flesh and corrupt nature A carver cannot cut the Image of his Prince on a rotten logg but that is no fault of the Carvers The Law hath skill to justifie but cannot do that feat on our rotten nature Vse Vain is the hope of those who look for Salvation from the Law whither Ceremoniall or Morall many please themselves in Ceremonies other with their good deeds These will be found too weak to effect it Papists in a speciall manner might do well to see their errour who suppose the Law even since the fall to be propounded as a means of Justification at the least in the sight of God Object But it is improbable that God would give a Law that none can keep Promise life under an impossible condition and damne for that which man hath not ability to observe Resp 1. When God first gave the Law it was possible to be kept by man he had strength by Creation given him proportionable to the duties in his Law injoyned Shall not the Land-lord challenge his rent of his tenant What doth God more 2. That the Law is impossible to be kept is not Gods fault but ours as I shewed Rom. 8.3 3. God by such exaction aimes at this to bring us to an acknowledgment of our misery that so in Christ he may have mercy on us Rom. 11.32 A third Conclusion is Doct. Sinne is seene and discovered by the Law As this Priest and Levite came and looked on the man and so discovered him So doth the Law See Rom. 3.20 5.20 7.7 And in this respect it is said to be a Glasse Iam. 1. Given to the disobedient 1 Tim. 1.5 This it doth 1. In discovering the depth and foulenesse of sinne the guile and deceit of the heart by nature giving some evidence to the soule of the horrid vengeance due therto 2. Rom. 3.19 Gal. 3.10 By applying wrath to the soule in particular pronouncing him to be a cursed Creature in respect of it and exposed to all that wrath which sin hath deserved 3. By awaking the Conscience begetting in a man the spirit of bondage and feare so as that a man knows not what to do Act. 2.37 nor which way to turne And this the work of the Morall Law in respect of sins discovery As for the Ceremoniall part of Moses Law that likewise was a help this way the Iewish washings Sacrifices Rites c. Did no other then discover our misery and the penalty due unto transgression and so send us unto Christ that by him our wounds might be healed Vse Hence we may see the Reason why so few are sensible of their naturall condition The Law hath not yet looked on them Hagar cried in her affliction and was heard So he who is under the Law and hath his conscience awakened by it will so cry as to be heard Acts 2.37 16. It is truly said Our hearts are all of sin but our eares are all of Mercy He that will please us with a Song must set it to the Tune of the Gospell We can heare nothing but Pax vobis and see nothing but Ecce agnus As if the Law were of no further use like an old Almanack out of date

best bed c. when he is told for certain that he meanes to spoyle him And yet this ontertainment hath Satan from us when no Theefe so mischievous as he What Theefe but leaves something behind him Some gleaning grapes shall remaine as the Prophet shews Ier. 49.9 They steale but till they have enough but this Theefe carries all away that good is Not a member of the body not a power of the soul not a good instruction in the head not a good motion in the heart but he steales away Mat. 13.4 Other theeves may be melted with teares and overcome with perswasions and intreaties but Satan will not he derides us when we mourne laughes at us when we have lost all Mat. 27 4. Other theeves do not ever kill when they spoyle though they take the goods yet they often spare the life But this Theefe hunts after the life yea the pretious soule of man that is it hee seeketh to devoure 1 Pet. 5.8 Other theeves do many times restore what they have taken But what this Theefe steales is irrecoverable never doth he restore any part of his booty unlesse it be rescued by an high hand Indeed if we follow with Hue and Cry go to God desire his assistance confesse their losses raise the country desire all to send their helpe in Prayer there is than no doubt but we shall recover what is lost else not Next observe there was not one alone but many of them they were the hands of Theeves this man fell into So than conclude we Doct. The number of Divels are many Ephes 6.12 Luk 8.2 30 Revel 12.7 Object But in Scripture mention is often made but of one as 1 Pet. 5.8 Respon That is 1. In regard of mind and will they are not divided amongst themselves for then they could not stand 2. There is one who is the head and principall amongst them but notwithstanding they are many in number though how many cannot be determined but we may piously thinke that there are more Divels in the Aire than there are men at one time upon the Earth for who is free from them at any time Some Divell or other is at hand to sollicit man to sin besides some one man may have a Legion of Divels that is six thousand six hundred sixty six in him at one time as we read in the Gospell Vse Seeing than that the world is so full of these Theeves let us not be carelesse Elisha●s servant when his eyes were opened saw tropes of spirituall Souldiers which before he discerned not If the eyes of our soules were once inlightened by supernaturall knowledge and the cleare beames of Faith we should as plainly discerne the invisible powers of wickednesse as now our bodily eyes see Earth or Heaven but carnall eyes cannot discern spirituall objects which is the reason why many being in the midst of these Theeves see no worse than themselves and think no danger neare Vse 2 And blesse we God for our daily preservation in the midst of our enemies Psal 23. For as he that hates Israell neither slumbers nor sleepes no more doth he that keepes Israell Plutarch tells us how that Philip King of Maced●n having slept soundly and awaking spying Antipater by him used these words No marvell I slept so soundly seeing Antipater was by and watched how much more cause have we to say this after every nights preservation and rest and give God the glory And fell among Theeves Text Doct. We might observe hence that Sin is a fall So we have taken up the true terme and call Adams sin his fall and that aptly For it fowles us like a fall it bruiseth us like a fall it brings us down like a fall But this I passe and observe further Doct. By falling into the hands of Satan wee became spoyled 2 Cor. 4.4 He was a murtherer from the beginning Ioh. 8.44 He seduced E●e 2 Cor. 11.3 He provoked David to number the people 1 Chron. 21.1 was alying spirit in the mouth of Ahabs Prophets to seduce him 1 King 22.21 Stirred up Iudas to betray his Master Luk. 22.3 Ananias and Saphira to lye to the Holy Ghost Act. 5.3 Elimas to hinder Sergius Paulus his conversion Acts. 13. Not any robbery but he is the Theefe Object But every man that is tempted is tempted of his own lust Iam. 1.14 Resp The Divell gives the first moove and rise to sin we perfect it He is the Father our hearts the mother he begets we conceive he strikes fire we bring tinder Did we not joyne with him nothing could be done he having no inforcing might though a perswading sleight in working on the will Still he hath a hand and no small one in the robbing and spoyling of us Vse Watch therefore and pray that ye enter not into temptation Math. 26.41 God hath an over-ruling hand He can put a hooke into this Senacheribs nose and a bridle unto his lips His power is a limited power 2 King 19.28 God knowes how to deliver us out of his temptations as also how to preserve and keep us from his wiles Should the Lord leave us into the hands of these spoylers 1 Pet. 2.9 our case were miserable Psal 124. Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us over as a prey unto their teeth the snare is broken and we are escaped The Particulars wherin this mans misery did consist were two First the evill of losse next the evill of sence For the first He was stripped of his rayment by these Theeves Doct. Mystically The Image of God consisting of Righteousnesse and true holinesse is the Garment So it is compared Iob. 29.14 Ps 45. Ezek. 16.10 Isay 61.10 Math. 22. Col. 3.12 Rev 69 12.1 For first it covered us as doth a Garment from top to toe no part was left naked Secondly it adorned us as doth a garment Mordecai did not shine more in his kingly roabes before the people than we before men and Angels in it Vse 1 Affect we cloathing See here is a Garment to be affected It is fit for all Seasons not too hot for Summer nor too cold for Winter as Dyonisius sometimes said scoffingly the rich garments of his gods were It is fit for all persons old young men women and children 1 Ioh. 2.11 12 13. It is a profitable Garment the longer you weare it the fresher and fairer it waxeth and every day more and more in fashion Lastly it is a comely Garment no garment adorns like this Other garments which we take up in Pride are nothing els but what the worme hath before in scorne egested And to valew ones selfe by these is as if the Daw should valew it selfe by its Coxcombe or a foole by his gaudie Coat But this Garment doth honour us and procure us esteeme both in the eyes of God and men 1. Pet. 3.4 O than get this Garment and as men are seene and knowne by their apparell so bee you by this and as they seeke to