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A67748	Englands unthankfulness striving with Gods goodness, for the victory as Abaslom [sic] strove with David, whether the father should be more kinde to the son; or the son more unkinde to the father. Or, enough (being wel weighed) to melt an heart of adamant. By R. Younge, florilegus. In reference to Leviticus 19.17 and Isaiah 58.1. In reading whereof, reflect upon your selves; hearken to conscience; and what concerns you, apply it to others, as David did Nathans parable, 2 Sam. 12.1, to 8. And Ahab the prophets, 1 King.20. 39, to 43. Want of application makes all means ineffectual; and therefore are we Christians in name only, because we think out selves Christians indeed, and already good enough.	Younge, Richard.	1643 (1643)	Wing Y152; ESTC R218135	77,968	74

sinners findest thy lelse in a lost condition And that thy sinnes even drive thee utterly to dispaire of all other helps as himselfe affirmes Mat. 9. 12. 13. Luke 1. 53. Gal. 5. 1. 107. And which I would have thee minde untill Christ is become thine by regeneration and a lively saith thou art bound to keepe the whole Law actually and spiritually with thy whole man thy whole life or else suffer eteruall death and destruction of body and soule for nor keeping it Whereas all that can truly claime a part in Christ are freed both from the rigor and penalty of it 1 Cor. 1. 30. Because Christ hath done and suffered satisfied and merited all for them Rom. 10 3. 4 5 9 10. a happy condition a blessed change Rom. 8. 1. to 〈◊〉 and 9. 30. to 34. 〈◊〉 Cor. 5. 1●… 21. which yet may soon become thy 〈◊〉 hadst thou the wit to renounce thine owne righteousnesse and seeke to be justified onely by the saith of Christ and his righteousnesse As Paul hath taught thee by his owne example Phil 3. 7 8 9. Gal 2. 16 19 20 21. Wherefore if thou hast an 〈◊〉 he are what I shall say unto thee out of 〈◊〉 For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 knowledge and application of this point is in effect al●…n all 7. The sole perfection of a Christian is the imputation of Christs righteousnesse and the not imputation of his owne unrighteousnesse Rom. 10. 4. And 〈◊〉 Christ 〈◊〉 ●…nner onely by the imputation of our sinnes so we are just one●… by the imputation of his righteousnesse Our g●… 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so many and rare cannot justifie us or 〈◊〉 any thin●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ds it is onely in Christ that they are accepted and 〈◊〉 for Christ that they are rewarded Yea the opinion of our own 〈◊〉 is so farre from saving us that it keeps us from all possibility of being saved and makes us as hatefull to God as the Devils themselves as is e●…dent by Ma●… 2. 17. Luke 1. 53. Nor can any soule he so dangerously 〈◊〉 at thou which art least sensible of thy being sick Yea it puts thee out of all possibility of being bettered for what we presume to have attained we seeke not after Whereas otherwise thou mightest become good if thou diddest not at present so thinke thy selfe And indeed this conceited righteousnesse or this opinion of being in case good enough is the chiefe and onely cause of all unrighteousnesse And many a man had proved good if he had not so thought himselfe A man must know himselfe sicke before he will seeke to the Physitian Untill Paul was humbled to the very ground even trembling and astonied he never asked Lord what wilt thou have me to do And the like of those converts that were pricked in their hearts at Peters searching Sermon upon their being convinced that they were the murderers of the Lord of life Acts 2. 36 37 38. He is no way fit for absolution who finds not himself worthy of condemnation We shall finde no sweetnesse in Christs blood till we feele the smart of our owne sinnes 8. But thou art so far from this that thou braggest of thy saith works and good meaning that thou never doubtedst in all thy life and that it were pitty thou shouldest live if thou didst not believe in Christ and hope to be saved by him The usuall expressions of formall and civill Iusticiaries who know not what saith means for that perswasion only which followes sound humiliation is faith that which goes before it is presumption And as Ambrose speakes none can repent of sinne but he that believes the pardon of sinne nor none can believe his sinnes are pardoned except he hath repented Besides how easie a matter soever thou thinkest it is to believe he that goes about it shall finde it as hard a worke to believe the Gospell as to keepe the Law and onely God must inable to both And yet so sarre as we come short of either so far sorth we have just cause to be humbled If we consider how God made us and how we have unmade our selves 9. But thine owne mouth condemnes thee in saying thou never doubtest in all thy life for who never yet doubted never yet believed Yea who never yet doubted of their salvation their salvation is not onely to be doubted of but even to be dispaired of untill they have that vaile or curtaine which is drawn over every natural mans heart 2 Cor. 3. 14. 15. 16. taken away by repentance whereby they shall see sinne in every thing they thinke or speake or doe And that their very righteousness is no better then a menstruous cloath Esay 64. 6. And untill thou findest it thus with thee know and take speciall notice of it that Satan hath none so sure as those whom he never yet assaulted That so long as thou remainest unregenerate thou art so blind and deafe and dead in sinne and in soule that thou canst no more see thy spirituall filthinesse then a blind Ethiopian can see his blacknesse or then a dead m●…n can feel the waight of a burden when it is laid upon him Mat. 13. 15. Acts 28. 27 Esay 6. 9. 10. 10. So that however thou applaudest and preferrest thy selfe before other men saying I am no dissember yea I hate the Hypocrisie of Professors I doe not justifie my selfe and dispise others like the Puritanes I am not factious Schismatical singular censorious c. I am not rebellious nor contentious like the Brounists and Anabaptists I love an honest man with my heart c. And as touching a good conscience I was never yet troubled in minde as many scrupulous fooles are and the like which to heare thee would amaze a man it is no other then if a Begger should dreame that he is a King or a Traytor that he should be crowned when he is to be Beheaded The case of Laodicea Revel. 3. 17. The young man in the Gospell Luke 18. 20. 21. And that cackling Pharisee Luke 18. 11 12. who had all the very same thoughts of themselves that thou hast And yet God abhorred them the most of any CHAP. XI 1. ANd the reason is the best actions services that can be performed as Preaching and Praying and Fasting and receiving and giving of Alme c. unlesse they flow from a pious and good heart sanctified by the Holy Ghost and be done in saith obedience to the Word humility saving knowledge and sincere love to God zeale of his lory and a desire to edifie and win others are no better in Gods account then staying of a man or cutting off a Dogs necke or offering swines blood or blessing an Idoll as himselfe affirmes Esay 66. 3. And many examples prove namely Caines sacrificing 1 John 3. 12. The Jews fasting Isci 58. 3. to 8. Those Reprobates preaching in Christs name and casting out Devils Mat. 7. 21. to 24. whose outward workes were the same which the godly performe But they springing from ignorance