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A10800 An exposition vpon the hundred and thirtie Psalme Gathered out of some of the ancient fathers and later writers. / By Alexander Roberts Bachelour in Diuinity, and preacher of the word of God at Kings Linne in Norfolke.. Roberts, Alexander, d. 1620. 1610 (1610) STC 21073; ESTC S112040 93,874 109

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and vnworthinesse as Iacob Gen. 32. 11. I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies and all the truth which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant c. then I pray thee deliuer me from the hand of my brother from the hand of Esau for I feare him And Daniel the 9. 5. we haue sinned we haue committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly yea we haue rebelled and departed from thy precepts and from thy iudgements And Vers 8. O Lord vnto vs appertaineth open shame to our Kings to our Princes and to our Fathers because we haue sinned against thee Then afterward Ver. 16. 17. the request O Lord according to all thy righteousnesse I beseech thee let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away and now heare the prayer of thy seruant and his supplication and cause thy face to shine vpon the sanctuarie that lyeth waste for the Lordes sake c. And Ezra in most passionate manner expressed in action and speech rent his garments fell vpon his knees and spred his hands vnto the Lord and said O my God I am confounded and ashamed to lift vp mine eyes to thee for our iniquities are increased on our head and our trespasse is growen vp vnto the heauens Ezra 9. 5. 6. Therefore let vs draw neare vnto God with true hearts Vse in assurance of faith sprinckled in our hearts from an euill conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water Hebr. 10. 22. Now there be as we heard two hinderances of our prayers no light no feeling hardnesse and to 〈◊〉 light ouer great tendernesse both dangerous therefore the best application of this doctrine is to know the remedie of them Wherefore against hardnesse and insensiblenesse as most r Bernardus de 〈◊〉 duobus Discipulis euntibus in Emaus effectuall First instance and earnestnesse in prayer so the Disciples constrained Christ Abide with vs for it is towardes night and the day is farre spent and he went in to tarrie with them Luc. 24. 29. Thus Dauid after ſ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dydimus his fall Create in me a cleane hart renew a right spirit restore to me the ioy of thy saluation Psal 51. 10. 11. 12. Secondly readie obedience to the first motions of God in thee of which the Apostle Quench not the spirit 1. Thes 5. 19. Thirdly the reading of the Scriptures and in this exercise adde an often lifting vp of the eyes of thy bodie and minde with a humble sight vnto God desiring his inlightning grace which kind of praiers the fathers t Eiaculationes de his Augustinꝰ in Epistola 121. ad Probam called dartings for being sent from a religious soule they flie swiftly and pierce Gods heart that he may shew mercie as in Iostah 2. Chron. 34. 27. Fourthly the reuerent attendance to the publike ministerie for this is Gods ordinance to bring men from darkenesse to light and from the power of Sathan vnto himselfe Acts 26. 18. and his power to saluation Rom. 1. 16. So at Iohns sermons the Publicans the People the Souldiers three sorts at once hardest to be conuerted when they heard of the Axe laid to the roote of the trees and of hewing downe and casting into the fire they cryed out What shall we doe then Luc. 3. 10. and while Peter preached the hearts of those Iewes were wounded who before were so hard that they crucified the Lord of life and three thousand of them were added u Nunquam caret suo fructu verbi predicatio vis cōpunctionis poros cordis aperit pēnas virtutū fundit cumque se studiosa meus de pigra vetustate redarguit alacri mouitate iuuenescit Gregor Mor. l. 31. c. 18. to the Church Acts 2. 37. 41. Fiftly the meditation of the sweetnesse of Gods mercies and the sharpenesse of his iudgements for as the yellowest waxe by lying long in the Sunne and the Aire is turned white so that soule which is euer set as in the sight of God can not but be altered This effect had it in Dauid 1. Chron. 17. 16. and with Ezra 9. 2. And Nazianzene x Orat. de Pace reporteth that when he found himselfe carryed away with the delight of the world then he tooke into his hands and red the dolefull and heauie mournings of Ieremie and protesteth that his eyes did gush out with teares his tongue was staied from speech he lamented with the distressed Iewes and beheld their calamities as present before his eyes and so became setled to his former estate againe Sixtly adde to all these repentant teares let thy eyes be as the fish ponds of Hesbon euer full with water this inforceth God to mercie and it is that violence which he wel liketh So the Father in the Gospell weeping obtayned Mar. 9. 24. 25. 27. And at Ezechias teares when the sobs of his heart brake off the words of his mouth and left his prayers vnperfect the sentence of death was reuersed certaine life and number of yeares graunted and more bestowed then was demanded Esay 58. 5. For our God is faithfull and will neuer suffer vs to be tempted aboue that it will please him to make vs able to beare and with the temptation graunt a comfortable issue 1. Cor. 10. 13. Against the second nimia lux which is discouragement and despaire if the greatnesse of thy sinnes doe affright thee know where sinne aboundeth grace superaboundeth Rom. 5. 20. If they be as red as crimson and like vnto bloud they shall be made as white as wooll and snow Esay 1. 18. If thou fearest the multitude thereof oppose the number of Gods mercies to the number of thy transgressions hast you wickednesse sinnes and iniquities he hath forgiuenesse couering and not imputing Psal 32. 1. 2. And the bloud of Christ his Sonne doth purge vs from all sinne 1. Iohn 1. 7. And therefore it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell to reconcile to himselfe and set at peace by the bloud of his Crosse the things in heauen and the things in earth Coloss 1. 19. What wound is there that the Almightie cannot heale Sic misericors est bonus Deus vt omnipotens infinitus God is y Fulgentius Epist 7. ad Venantiam so good and mercifull as he is Almightie and infinite but the mercie of the Almighty cannot be ouercome and the goodnesse of the infinite hath no end Doest thou stand in doubt of his gracious will towards thee why his wil is that all men might come to the knowledge of the truth that so they might be saued 1. Tim. 2. 4. neither will he the death of a sinner but rather that they should returne and so liue and this hath he assured by his oath Ezech. 33. 11. And when he is inforced and striketh yet doth hee not deale with vs according to our sinnes neither reward vs according to our offences but as a father doth pittie his children so doth he vs. Psal 103. 10.