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cause_n	punishment_n	sin_n	sin_v	1,923	5	9.5821	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13872	Gods love-tokens, and the afflicted mans lessons brought to light, and layd before him in two fruitfull and seasonable discourses upon Revel. 3. 19. Comforting under, and directing unto a right use of our personall, and publike crosses and calamities. By John Trapp, M.A. and preacher of Gods Word at Luddington in Warwick-shire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1637 (1637)	STC 24175; ESTC S118538	85,385	294

condemned with the World l 1 Cor. 11.32 Vse 1 Now for Application See hence first whither to refer what to thanke for all your crosses Sin is the great Make-bate Hell-hag Cut-throat Trouble-towne that Pandora like brought at first a curse upon the Creatures and hath made them ever since unusefull and unserviceable nay pernicious and destructory many of them to Man their first master The very visible heaven and earth is defiled with our Sins and must therefore partly be dissolved and partly purged by the fire of the last day as the Vessels of the Sanctuary were that held the Sin-offering Hence our so many diseases distresses miseries maladies Troubles without terrours within they issue onely from our defilements It is this thiefe in the candle that wastes us this Fly in the box that corrupts us this traitour in the heart that betrayes and exposeth us to armies and changes of trials and afflictions In which regard it was a sound and savory reply of an English Captaine at the losse of Callice When a proud French-man tauntingly demanded When will yee fetch Callice againe Pressely and ponderously he was answered Quando peccata vestra erunt nostris graviora When your Sinnes shall vveigh downe ours Vse 2 Secondly in all evill of punishment take occasion to set upon the evill of Sin as the cause and revenge upon that complaine of it to God and men murmur and grudge at nothing else When God strikes us for Sin saith one Satan deales with us as the Iewes did with Christ blind-fold him and then bad prophesie vvho smote him so in afflictions wee commonly grope as blind men guessing at this cause and that but seldome fasten on the right Here then the method is first to find out the Traytour secondly to bring him to condigne punishment thirdly to banish him the borders of our hearts and to have no more to doe with him that hath done us so much seath and caused us so much heart-breaking First learne whensoever ye smart to gather your wits m Zeph. 2.1 to summon your senses to sift canvasse and unbowell as it were your owne hearts to turne short againe upon your selves and make privie search for the Sin God smites at to find out the plague of thine owne Soule n 1 Kin. 8.38 the ground of that other stroke what ever it be thou gronest under Doth man suffer for his Sin let him thanke himselfe saith the Prophet But for helpe let him search and try his waies and turne againe to the Lord o Lam. 3.39 40. Let no man say with the Philistines It is a chance p 1 Sam. 6.9 a thing that comes by course had a time to grow in and must have a time to goe in c. This is to be worse than ox and asse who as they know their masters crib so the wild colt knowes when the damme striketh it 'T is sure as there 's no winde but may blow raine if God will so there is ever something in the winde when it blowes in a crosse-point to our comfort Sinfull men strike not their dogs much lesse their children without a cause The iust God never smites but he hath some iust reason his iudgments are sometimes secret saith a Father Aug. alwayes iust Wherefore liest thou on thy face said God to Ioshua Israel hath sinned Vp search diligently c q Iosh 7.10 11. What evill hast thou done said the Marriners to the distressed Prophet that this evill is come upon us r Ion. 1.8 Let every such Ionas reflect upon himselfe and say what evill have I done ſ Ier. 8.6 What sinne have I committed or admitted what good have I omitted or intermitted No rod but hath a voice in it Heare ye the rod and who hath appointed it t Mich. 6.9 Something surely there is a●●isse that God would have amended Search therefore and follow your worke close And that ye may worke by rule First set thy selfe in Gods presence and there lay a charge upon thy conscience to deale truly with thee in the discovery of the traitor to shew thee where his haunt is for I tell thee he will deale subtily u 1 〈◊〉 23. ●2 as Saul told the Ziphites concerning David his supposed enemy Our consciences saith one are like looking-glasses which being ore-spred with dust shew nothing but if cleane wip'd represent things clearely And as lines that are written with the juyce of limmons when they are held to the fire are made legible but not otherwise so conscience set before those everlasting burnings so God is called Esay 33.14 will bring us out our sinnes we shall be able to say of it as she said of our Saviour Come see a man that told me all that ever I did x Iohn 4.29 It will bespeake us in the language of that Prophet Hast thou not procured this unto thy selfe in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God when he led thee by the way y Iere. 2 17. Secondly single out and set a jealous eye upon thy beloved sin that bosom-devill what ever it be and suspect that above other for the sinne God strikes at For as in every man there is some one element humour passion predominant so likewise some speciall sinne that playes Rex in his soule turnes him about as the rudder doth the ship hath him at a becke as the Centurion had his servants is to him as a right hand for profit or a right eye for pleasure This the Devill studiously hides from us as being his chiefe hold his castle his throne out of which if he be ejected he looseth his kingdome he falls as lightning from the heaven of mens hearts z Luk. 10.18 As therefore he set Adam to a contrary tree that he might not eate of the tree of life so he would turne our thoughts from this to some other sinne make us mistake as the Syrians did the King of Iudah for the King of Israel that he may sit as sole King in our hearts to our utter overthrow You may easily know it 'T is that among other notes which thou art lothest and wouldst least be a knowne of or if it be laid open before thee by God in his word or thine owne selfe-accusing conscience that domesticall chaplaine thou art ready to colour and cloke it to pleade and contend for it to say of it as Lot of Zoar Is it not a little one or as David of Absalom handle it gently for my sake a 2 Sam. 18.5 or as Iacob of Benjamin If he dye I cannot live In this the Lord be mercifull unto me c b 2 Kin. 5 18 Micah 6.7 Oh that he would accept of rivers of oyle for a dispensation Or if he will not thou departest sorry with the rich young Pharisee that Christ should call for that sin which thou art not willing to part with The true Mother such was her love could not yeeld to see the