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A10018	Sermons preached before his Maiestie; and vpon other speciall occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuels support of sorrowfull sinners. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1630 (1630)	STC 20270; ESTC S120145	80,456	162

iudgement as those things we apprehend to be euill them we feare too much and therefore labour to haue it enlightened Q. If you aske me how we shall doe that A. Bring it to the Word and see what that saies for the Word is as a glasse which represents things as they are I cannot stand to giue instances out of the Word how to direct euery affection as now take Pouerty which thou fearest so much the Word makes it nothing Reu. 2. 9. I know thy pouerty but thou art rich as if he had said it is a matter of nothing So likewise for your feare of men Feare not him that can kill the body but feare him that can cast both body and soule into hell fire first the Scriptures make nothing fearefull but Gods wrath and sinne and therefore now sticke to the Word and whatsoeuer thy phantasie is yet say sure I am thus God said and therefore I am sure it is so and this will rectifie the iudgement say it is but my fancy howsoeuer it may be greater or lesser yet the thing is the same as the Word said it As the garment may bee greater or lesser yet the body the same so take any thing else as the losse of credit or the like we thinke these something and feare them but the fault is in our phantasie men doe therefore well by fitting their hearts to what the Word saith to stay themselues Secondly againe if this will not preuaile then let vs pray our selues sober for inordinate affections make as much difference betweene a man and himselfe out of it as is betweene a drunken and a sober man Now Prayer composeth the heart much for it bringeth thee into Gods presence And as the Sun casts downe the mists and dispels them so Prayer doth an inordinate affection Againe thirdly adde to this communion of Saints and that is a good meanes for we are in such fits as men in a feauer whose mouthes being out of taste we should suffer our selues to be ruled by the iudgement and taste of others Fourthly after all this beseech God to conuince thy iudgement to perswade thy vnderstanding fully for that none can fully doe but hee The second Doctrine is that The greatnesse of our sinne is no impediment to forgiuenesse It is true saith Samuel yee haue done this great sinne I will not goe about to diminish it but the Lord will forgiue you not withstanding I will deliuer it in these termes because we are apt not to thinke so and when we haue sinned against the light of conscience relapsed often wee are afraid to come into Gods presence as we see it by experience and therefore now if any man hath committed any great sinne let him apply it to himselfe It is true I haue done such a great wickednesse why yet bee of good comfort humble your selfe continue to follow the Lord you shall finde God the same to you that here he was to this people Now the reason of this is First because the pardon of the Gospell which we preach makes no exception of any sinne Christ came to saue sinners to take away the sinnes of the world this is spoken indefinitely Secondly not of any person preach the Gospell to euery creature there is not any exception of any rebell or rebellion Thirdly besides the price that was paid answers for the greatest sinnes as well as the least he is ready to forgiue a thousand pound vpon satisfaction as well as ten groats and therefore if thou hast Christ for thy ransome it is no matter what thy sinnes haue beene great or small for the same price may as well stand for the one as for the other Againe fourthly the God which wee haue to deale with is a mighty God euen in this euen in pardoning Michah 7. 18. Who is like vnto our God that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of his heritage hee will subdue them and cast them all into the depth of the Sea that is herein the infinitenesse of God appeares in forgiuing transgressions he sheweth his might in it and being mercifull as God and not as man and therefore hee vseth that metaphor of casting their sinnes into the depth of the Sea that as the Sea drowneth mountaines as well as mole hils if they be cast into it so his Attributes are infinite and so are his mercies and therefore hee takes delight to forgiue great sins because we know him to be God and not man thereby because hee forgiues moe than a man is able or willing to forgiue But because examples are more preualent in this case I will giue you a few Adam was the cause of murthering the whole world he made all men not onely guilty of the first death but also of the second besides other aggrauations of his sinne beleeuing the Deuill rather than God c. yet we see that God found out a remedy and receiued him into mercy for he himselfe preached the Gospell to him and therefore not without profit So likewise Manasses sinnes exceeded so as indeed wee know not how a man should commit more almost yet when he humbled himselfe greatly for he had great sinnes God receiued him to mercy and restored him to his Kingdome so as when we read of his sinnes how he filled Ierusalem with bloud c. one of vs would haue beene ready to haue said What Lord wilt thou forgiue this man and set him in his Kingdome as if he had done nothing against thee To name no more than that in the 1 Cor. 6. 9. those monstrous and hainous sins there mentioned as greater there cannot be mentioned yet some of them that were guilty of them were receiued to mercy such were some of you but now are yee washed and iustified c. The vse shall be that you would take heed how you limit the holy One in regard of his mercy that he will goe so farre in pardoning and no further I dare boldly tell you it is as great a sinne to limit God in his mercy as in his power as that was the sinne of the Israelites when as they were to goe into the land of Canaan they limited God and thought hee could not bring them in because of so great walls and great Gyants c. and so take you heed lest you limit his mercy as that when your sinnes are such sinnes of so hainous a nature as that he will not forgiue you How did Dauid when he had committed the great sin with Bathseba c. and so Peter that stood in the same termes with Christ that hee did before and if you cannot bring your hearts to thinke this then goe beyond your owne iudgement by faith for this is it that hindreth vs from beleeuing that wee draw a scantling of the Lord by our owne phantasies whereas he sayes That his thoughts are aboue our thoughts in pardoning Isaiah 55. Another point that I will deliuer from