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conscience_n	david_n	heart_n	smite_v	1,341	5	9.6931	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66073	Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the Word of God by Hen. Wilkinson.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing W2229; ESTC R27587	61,872	145

14. complains that he was sold under sin He discover'd great renitency reluctancy and antipathies against every sin For saith he that which I do I allow not for what I would do that do I not but Rom. 7. 15. what I hate that do I. O how did this holy Apostle fight and struggle and exercise continual Combats and Conflicts fighting against Sin and Satan And thereupon he breaks forth into a doleful complaint But I see another Law in Verse 23. my members warring against the Law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the Law of sin which is in my members And it 's observable that all this while and amidst all those sad complaints Paul was a regenerate man and a pregnant demonstration we have of our assertion because he delighted in the Law of God For saith he I delight in the Law of God Verse 22. Totus homo mento ratione regitur ab ca itaque Apostolo homo totus appellatur Bucer after the inward man And to delight in the Law of God in the inward man cannot be appropriated to any but to such only who are in the state of Regeneracy And that the words of the Apostle are not by a figure called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it 's evident that he speaks in his own and not in another person because he saith I my self And that the Apostle Rom. 7. 25. gives no allowance to himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idem ego vel ipse ego quod à Paulo emphaticè dictum est ad designandum seipsum ne quis eum sub alienâ personâ hactenus fuisse locutum suspicaretur Estius in Loc. Accipiamus hoc in suâ ipsius personâ protulisse Apostolum Zegerus Hac exceptione fatetur se it a esse Deo addictum ut reptans in terra mu●tis sordibus inquinetur Calr in any sin is clear because he professeth For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I would not that I do And the Apostle was apprehensive of his own impotency and insufficiency to extricate himself out of those straits and difficulties wherein he was involved and therefore he cries out for a deliverer as appears in that pathetical exclamation O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the Body of Sin By the Body o● Sin he understands all sorts of Sin both Original and Actual both the Roor and Fruit the corrupt Fountain and the corrupt Streams And none but God ca● deliver and set him free from them H● alone can deliver him who delivers u● from the wrath to come 1 Thes 1. 10. Sect. 3 Moreover we are farther to consider● that there is a vast and a wide difference between the howling of Dogs and the crying of Children and there is as muc● difference between the roaring of Gally slaves and the crying of godly Mourners Wicked men Slaves an● such as feel the present smart of the lash cry out bitterly by reason of the great pain which they feel and thos● smarting blows which they groan under * Poe lit eat te quod tot tantis flagitiis involutus in luto faecis miseriae diutius jacuisti poenite●tiam agens corpus tuum conteras furibunde carnis asello iacentivorum semina subtrahens c. Bern. p. 331. But as for all those who are true and unfeigned Mourners in Zion they are deeply affected with godly sorrow fo● sin and therefore they grieve and mourn because they have been so hard-hearted as to kick a tender Father upon his Bowels and have been so unthankful as to sin against riches of mercy and loving kindness Hence comes thei● Heart-piercing Heart-breaking and Soul-melting Sorrows because they have been such undutiful Children as to re● bel against a gracious and merciful God the Father of all mercies and the God of all consolations No massie great Mountain no not the burthen of Aetna as the Proverb is no weight imaginable or expressible can be so heavy as is the burthen of sin to a Child of God And no manner of sorrow can be so bitter to a godly man as is the sense of Sin and sorrow for it Nothing in the World can be so grievous vexing torturing and every way afflictive to a good Christian as Sin is for Sin to him is like a Dagger sticking in his Heart and continually tormenting and putting him to pain Hereupon we read of David watering his Couch with his Tears For Psal 6. 6 7. saith he I am weary with my groaning I make my Bed to swim I water my Couch with my Tears Mine eye is consumed because of grief Further he expresseth an addition to his mourning because his Psal 42. 3. tears was his meat day and night To eat the bread of affliction and to drink the water of affliction is a sad calamity but to feed on tears must needs be much sadder but this is not all for the Psalmist confesseth further There is no Psal 38. 3. soundness in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin Diseases aches pains and broken bones are very grievous Omnium est utilissimum dolorem corporis ex morbo vel ulcere loco peccati habere peceati etiam vocabulo appellare ita vel hoc pacto ad detestationem peccatorum horrorem induceremur Musc in Loc. but sin is or should be more grievou● to us than all David was of a sanguin● complexion and such naturally are more chearful David was a great and potent King and an excellent Musician● yet the sense of his sins caused great sorrows to him and made him go● mourning all the day long If then the● thorow sense of sin and the guilt thereof be set home upon the Conscience there will be weeping and mourning The eye will affect the heart and cause inward compunction and godly sorrow Thus we read of Ephraim smiting upon his thigh Of Ephraim's Conversion and Repentance which is the Fruit of Conversion the Prophet Jeremy makes mention I have surely heard Ephraim Jer. 31. 18 19. bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke Turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thing I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth We shall likewise find the Prophet Ezekiel ●zek 21. 6. sighing to the breaking of his loyns And Job 42. 6. Job abhorring himself and repenting in dust and ashes Many mourn for worldly losses and shed many a tear for any loss which befals them in their temporal estate but few there are which mourn for sin which produceth the greatest loss even the loss of God's favor Many have cause to repent for their worldly mournings and to mourn for their mournings