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A80832	God's arraignment of Adam: declared in a sermon preach'd at St Pauls, Septemb 5. 1658. before the right honorable the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Council. By Thomas Cartwright, M.A. of Queens Coll. Oxon. and now vicar of Walthamstow in Essex.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1658 (1658)	Wing C698; Thomason E960_1; ESTC R207676	18,353	29

Yet that his judgment might appear ro be just he proceeds legally against him and asks him that which he knew wel enough before that he might leave Judges a president to ask the prisoner such things which they presum'd to know but might possibly be ignorant of and so by an over-hasty judgment might condemn or punish them before they heard them God was willing to try whether Adam could clear himself of the whole or excuse himself in part of the crime so that he chose rather to conceal his knowledge of the fault then to sentence the Delinquent before he had given him leave to make his defence The Divel that old Serpent was sentenc'd indeed without any summons because 't was impossible that he should either clear his innocence or make out his repentance But God deals not so with us that we might not deal so with one another for before Adam is sentenced he is summond to answer for himself Adam where art thou From whence we may draw these two conclusions viz. 1 That it is a rash and over-hasty judgment to pass sentence upon an arraigned person before we hear what it is that he can reply to his accusation 2 That judgment treads upon the heels of a sinner Conclu 1 That it is a rash over-hasty judgment to c. Qui statuit aliquid parta inanditâ alterâ aquum fecisset si nunquam statuisset It were better not to judg at all then to do it before you lend an equal care to both parties A judg had need know that man well to whom he trusts both his eares nor can there be a greater blemish charged upon him than that he will believe the probable argument of a friend before the demonstration of an enemy or that he cannot read any cause but thorow the false spectacles of a favourite by which means he can never clearly see what it is that the plaintiffe or the prisoner can plead for themselves Though the tempest were so great that the Ship was likely to be broken and Jonah declared to be the cause of the danger by the infallible oracle of heaven yet the Mariners who are usually in a greater rage then the Sea it self would Jonah 1. 8. not cast him over board till they had put these questions to him For whose cause is this evil come upon us What is thing occupation whence comest thou what is thy country why hast thou done this what shall we do unto thee Quem sors judicaverat cogunt propria voce confiteri as t is in the interlineary Gloss though the lot had judged him yet they asked him some questions as forc't him to confess it himself before they put the judgment in execution Rei inauditi indefensi tanquam innocentes pereunt It is as justifiable to condemn an innocent person as one that is guilty before you have heard what defence he is able to make for himself Vse Be not so over-hasty therefore as to judg any man or his cause before you have heard ot examined it Take heed of being over-curious in observing or over-critical in judging a mote in your brethrens eyes lest they turn again to your greater shame reprove you for a beam in your own Consider that charity will never make her conclusions like those of the Syllogisme to follow the worser part but the better nor will she judg men by a few actions lest the sentence should fall too heavy upon the righteous but by all and as near as she can square her judgment according to that straight rule of the Schools In judicandis aliis eorum bona certa meliora certa mala minora bona dubia certa dubia mala nulla judicemus In the judging of others let us reckon their certain good works to be better than they are their certain miscarriages to be lesser if their good deeds be doubtful let us look upon them as if they were certain if their offences be doubtful let us judg them none at all A doctrine that could never be more seasonably prest than in this age of ours in which the multitude like flyes that stick only upon sores are apt to make even the precious oyntment of a good name unsavory and such are those who will not be induced to believe that any good thing can come out of Nazareth I mean that any piety can lodg in such mens breasts as are not of their party and so being rapt with the pang of a furious and misordered zeal do judg censure and condemn them before ever they hear what evidence they are able to produce of a power of godliness working effectually in them beyond the bare form of which they are perhaps accused They presume too much of themselves who think they are as well acquainted with their brothers transgressions as God was with Adam's and yet he was pleased to hear him before he judged him to summon him before he sentenc'd him saying Adam where art thou And thus much for the first inference the second followes viz. 2. That judgment treads upon a sinners heels No sooner had Adam tasted of the forbidden fruit but God called him to an account for his transgression saying Adam where art thou Sin is not less old than Adam and punishment is altogether as old as sin so that after his work is done a sinner seldome tarries long for his wages which is death God is said to ride upon the wings of the wind to intimate that it will not be long before he overtake his enemies The gall of bitterness does immediately succeed the honey of sin nor do those rivers of unlawful pleasures ever leave running till they are buried in the salt sea of miseries Sin is like Gunpowder no sooner toucht with an hot appetite but it immediately flyes in our faces so that it is ill fighting for the Divel as a sinner does since the presse-money that he gives them is no small punishment and it will not be long before he pay them to the full nay the more service his Souldiers do him the worse it fares with them for he studies nothing more then how to torment them most because their Tragedy shall never have an Epilogue he takes care that where old go off new scenes of miseries shall be ready to take their Cut's So that sin and suffering are relatives near akin one to the other they are but like the two neighbouring links of that chain in which a sinner is bound the one hangs or borders upon the other so that he who bears one must bear both Credas individuo nexu sceleri illigatam poenam aut inhaerentem calcaneo illius tanquam viperam Suffering is so firmly entailed upon sinning that nothing but Gods mercy upon our repentance can cut off the entail For otherwise what Solomon sayes of one holds true of every sin ori Acts 28. 5. novissimo mordebit and he that would suffer no harm by it must with St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shake this

GOD's ARRAIGNMENT OF ADAM DECLARED In a Sermon preach'd at St PAULS Septemb. 5. 1658. before the right Honorable the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Council By Thomas Cartwright M. A. of Queens Coll. Oxon. and now Vicar of Walthamstow in Essex LONDON Printed for John Baker at the sign of the Peacock in S. Pauls Church-yard 1659. To the Right Worshipful and much Honored JOHN ROBINSON Esquire Alderman and then Sheriffe of the City of London SIR WHen your command gave life to this Sermon I did not imagine that it could have been expos'd to any such uncharitable censures as might force it to return to your name for shelter and protection by which means I doubt not but it will find better entertainment then it can deserve or I hope for For now unless they resolve to run the hazard of a publick disgrace they must needs blush to proclaim their dislike of that which a person of so much honour and judgment as yourself was pleas'd with many other good men in the hearing to approve of and therefore I presume will not now dislike of Sir I knew when I preach'd it that telling the truth was not the way to insinuate into many of my Auditors affections and if I am therefore become their enemy my case is in this no worse then Saint Pauls Gal. 4. ver 16. Nor indeed are they such Cato's as that it should be punishment enough to be condemned by them but they rather publish the clearness of the light in declaring how offensive it was to their e●es The honey is never the worse because it made their wounds to smart If Saint John Baptist had been onely a shining and not a burning Lamp he might possibly have kept his head upon his shoulders when the truth shews it self there is none can dislike it but when it shews them there are many that hate it because it gives Check-mate to their interest and such I hope will appear to be their displeasure whose stomachs could not digest this Sermon almost a quarter of a year after they receiv'd it Wholesom meat must not be kept from the table because some agu●sh stomachs nauseate it It was delivered in as general terms as I could think upon that so they who are angry might accuse themselvs Sir If there be any thing in it that may be worthy of your perusal be pleas'd to accept it as your due and a testimony of my gratitude for having run so long upon the score till the interest of your favours exceeds the principal of my abilities rather then I would put off so noble a Creditor with a Non sum solvendo I thought it more commendable with the bad borrowers of our times to begin the paiment of great debts by such a slender composition as this there is a power in your aceptance to make its meanness fashionable and to teach others to have a more charitable opinion of Sir Your Worships most obliged servant and Chaplain Tho. Cartwright GOD's ARRAIGNMENT OF ADAM Gen. 3. 9. And the Lord called unto Adam and said unto him Where art thou NO Sooner does a man step out of Gods high-way into the by-paths of wickedness but he is travelling in the ready road to misery Sin and punishment like Hypocrates his twins goe hand in hand together so that as soon as that unprofitable work of wickedness is done the wages of death is ready to be payd it for as mercy will permit no good deed to go unrewarded so justice will let no bad deed go unpunish't And if you trace these bitter streams you will find their fountain to be but a little above my text in which you h●ve the Judge of heaven and earth managing a legal 〈…〉 ss against our first parents for the first breach of his Law of which they were newly guilty and that he who is the rule of all justice and equity might appear most perfect in it himself before he sentences the Delinquents he summons them before him to plead to that Inditement which their own consciences had found against them which is summed up in my Text in which I might observe 1. The Judge the Lord. 2. The prisoner Adam 3. His Summons he was call'd as it were to the bar and by his inditement where art thou i. e. in what condition whether guilty or not But that my discourse may be the more methodical I shall rather divide the whole into two parts I. Magna vocantis benignitas the great benignity of the party calling which appears if you look upon the words in these six senses of which they are easily capable viz. As they are either 1. Verba Judicis reum citantis the words of a Judge to his arraigned prisoner 2. Verba patris filium increpantis the increpation of a father chiding his son 3. Verba medici conf●ssionem morbi extorquere conantis the words of a Physician inquiring into the condition of his patient 4. Verba creatoris creaturae suae sortem commiserantis the words of a Creator commiserating the condition of his lapsed creature 5. Verba Prophetae veritatem conditionis suae indicantis the prophetical words of the God of truth declaring to Adam the truth of his condition 6. Verba monitoris culpam suam in memoriam reducentis the words of a monitor putting the offender in mind of his offence II. Magna vocati malignitas the great malignity of the party called viz. of Adam who because he offended first must first be handled Now his offence was the eating of the forbidden fruit which was the cause of his fall from that state of integrity in which God had created him But perhaps you 'l desire that the Apostle Saint Paul may be admitted to plead for him and that I would take his words into consideration 1 Tim. 2 14. Adam was not seduced but the Woman being seduced was in the transgression and if so how coms it then to pass that he is charg'd here with delinquency in my text and that he himself confesses ver 12. That the woman gave him of the tree and he did eat For the better reconciliation of which two texts which are not so unlike but that they may both be father'd upon the God of truth consider 1. That Adam was not seduc'd as was the woman immediately nor strictly and externally by the fraud and discourse of the Serpent nor before as he was created but after her and by her 2. The Apostle does not treat so much of the seduction it self as of the manner and order of it so that the wmman who was created last ver 13. saies hee was seduced first ver 14 And this puts us in mind to consider why it then is that God laies this charge to him particularly by name and not rather to her for he does not say Eve but Adam w●e●e art thou which certainly was because hee was her Husband and so consequently her head and her superior from whence we may deduce these two conclusions viz. 1.