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cause_n	death_n	life_n	sin_n	9,880	5	5.5192	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60385	Ergon pseudous kai misthos alētheias, or, The wicked mans sad disappointment and the righteous mans sure recompence being a sermon preached the 17th day of October, 1661, at the solemn funerals of the Right Worshipful Sir Abraham Raynardson, Knight, late alderman of London / by George Smalwood.	Smalwood, George, 1604-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4006; ESTC R10143	27,597	40

serve as a foil for the latter He whose Funeral hath ministred the occasion of this discourse was one blessed be God whose heart was made of a better Ex meliore luto sinxit praecordia mould therefore I shall handle the first part more briefly 1. And first let us consider the quality or nature of the person He is a wicked man A wicked man is one that liveth as he was born according to the principles of corrupt nature without any real change of his state and condition one that yet hath never received any true life of Grace from Jesus Christ the Fountain of life but lieth still in his natural unbelief and hardness of heart and is altogether dead in trespasses and sins that is 1. He is deprived of Spiritual life per peccatum by sin as the means or instrument sin in the first Adam wounded him to death 2. Propter peccatum for sin as the meritorious or impulsive cause for which God most justly depriveth him of life 3. He is dead in sin that is he is so devoted addicted and wholly given over to all ungodly unrighteous and sinful ways and practices that a dead man may as soon return to life as he can be diverted and turned away from his impiety and iniquity He lieth in sin like a dead man in a grave turning more and more daily to rottenness and putrefaction and so walketh according to the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes 2. 2. making provision for the fl●sh to fulfil the lusts thereof giving neither God nor man his due but behaving himself irreligiously and profanely towards God unjustly and uncharitably towards his neighbor unholily and impurely towards himself runing into all excess of riot He that liveth in the constant practice of any or all these evils is truly denominated a wicked man an ungodly unrighteous unclean liver 2. Consider his action he worketh wickedness is an operative principle and the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Turbulentus seditiosus inquietus Turbulent in the Common-wealth unsetled in all things Leigh Crit Sacra turbulent seditious unquiet and restless as well as wicked For wicked men are of unquiet troublesome spirits like the troubled Sea that cannot rest whose waters cast forth mire and dirt they are without peace in themselves therefore they seek to molest and disturb others like fire they are still breaking out into one combustion or other Saint Jude calleth wicked men raging waves of the Sea foaming out their own shame Now nothing is more restless then the waves of the Sea they cannot forbear tumbling and tossi●g if there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jud. v 14. be any wind stirring He calleth them wandring Stars Planets not properly so called for no Starwander less then they do The Planets in themselves have certain stated motions and do keep the just points of their Compass The Sun knoweth his going down Psal 104. and the Moon is a faithful witness in Heaven keeping its constant course from one sign of the Zodiak to another and they have the name of Planets not from their own nature but from the judgement of sence because they are not carried about the whole circuit of the Heavens but in a shorter Orb and course But now improperly there are other wandring Stars which are not Stars indeed but onely dry exhalations inflamed which glare much and deceive the eye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle with appearance of light but soon vanish and are quenched These Aristotle calleth running and gliding Stars which are nothing else but fiery meteors glancing and shooting Such Stars are wicked men they have sometimes an appearance of light as if they were true Stars but they are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things which appear what they are not fiery meteors and as they are various and uncertain in their motions sometimes moving this way and sometimes that so they are restless in their motions till they are quite extinguished and put out For such is the nature of wicked men that they will be working though it be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fruitless work to no purpose The corruption of their heart is a restless evil still breaking out upon every occasion making men commit sin with both hands greedily drinking in iniquity like water and drawing on sin with cords of vanity as the Prophets phrase is Not suffering men to sleep but causing them to devise in quity and work evil upon their beds and put it in practice when the morning is light because it is in the power of their hands to do it Mich. 2. 1. so Prov. 4. 16. it is said of wicked men They sleep not except they have done mischief and their sl●ep is taken away unless they cause Et si non aliqua nocuisses mortuus esses Virgil. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch some to fall nay it is a kinde of death to them not to do evil Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease to sin 2 Pet. 2. 14. the very sight of their eyes is turned as it were into adulterious glances as Plutarch wittily expresseth it this is the genius and natural disposition of wicked men like Satan the god of the world they are circumambulators they are going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it compassing Sea and Land to make one proselyte as Christ saith of the Pharisees and it is most true of the Jesuits those busie Factors of A●tichrist who are like Flies buzzing in every corner and seeking to bring in their erroneous opinions and superstitious practices Thus the wicked man is still working so the Hebrew word being a participle of the present Tense notes a continued act without any or not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with much interruption 3 Let us examine the vanity and folly of his work God knoweth he is doing to very little or no purpose as to his own good for it is a lying or deceitful work and that in divers respects 1 In respect of Satan the principal efficient cause of it who is the father of lyes the grand impostor that deceives the whole world that hath his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his sophistical reasonings and crafty devices his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wiles methods and stratagems his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 depths that are unsearchable whereby he gulls and deceiveth the poor souls of men that like silly birds are caught in his snares or like brute beasts are carried captive by him at his will 2 The wicked worketh a deceitful work in respect of the fountain from whence it floweth namely the heart of man which is deceitful above measure and desperately wicked a meer supplanter propounding evil under the appearance of good full of deceitful reasonings and carnal policies The Apostle calleth the lusts of the heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lusts of