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conscience_n	sin_n	soul_n	spirit_n	4,946	5	5.0083	4	true

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A79511	Nathans parable. Sins discovery, with it's [sic] filthy secret lurking in the brest of men. Or, some few discoveries what the sinfulness of sin is, and spoile it hath made on man, in nine particulars. With the sad experience of it on the author: written, if it may be, to warn all men, especially, the saints, to take heed and to beware of sin. With a letter written to his excellency the Lord General Cromwell. By Edmund Chillenden.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3877; Thomason E723_3; ESTC R207232	24,570	27

50.16.17 and admit of no reproof but harden their necks against it Pro. 29.1 Now the godly whose hearts are upright and who have kept their garments clean and have not been led aside to run in their pernicious wayes 2 Pet. 2.2 that have not known the depths of Satan they cannot indure such things but must testifie and bear their witness against them and avoid them having no fellowship with the works of darkness but to reprove them † But still according to rule in love and pity Mat. 18.16.17.18 1 Cor. 16.14 Ephes 5.11 Rev. 2.24 and now by this means the peace quiet and sweet Communion of the Church cometh to be broken † This my sin also hath caused for there cannot be any fellowship with light and darkness Christ and Belial the believer and the Infidel or unbeliever 2 Cor. 6.15 Sin wounds the heart soul and conscience it makes great spoyl there 2 Sam. 24.10 David he had committed sin in numbring the people and as soon as he had done his soul was wounded his heart smote him and he crieth out Lord I have sinned greatly in this that I have done for I have done very foolishly 1 Chro. 21.9 That upon this there cometh a great cloud and dismal darkness is drawn over the soul Psalm 38.6 great trouble bowing down and crushing that so all the day long there is nothing but sadness and gloominess heaviness and mourning Psalm 35.14 bowing down heavily Now the arrows of the Almighty take hold and they stick fast Job 6.4 the terrors of God do now set themselves in array and drink up the very spirit and make it like a parched and dried Heath and the face of God now cometh to be withdrawn and he hides his loving kindness Psalm 88.14 compared with Jer. 16.5 that maketh them cry out Lord where are thy loving kindnesses Psalm 89.49 the horror of the Lords wrath possesses them and is as fire in their bones that consumes them that they have no rest for their iniquities do daily go over their heads Psalm 38 4. they are heavier then they are able to bear the curses of the Law they now begin to terrifie Dan. 9.11 because of transgression and not obeying his voice now they cry for grief of heart their soul is sad we look for Judgment yea for Salvation but it is far from us because our sins are many and our transgressions are without number Psalm 32.4 Isay 59.11.12 so we become a burthen to our selves and we speak in the anguish of our spirit Job 7.11 and complain in the bitterness of our souls left comfortless desolate and cast down our salvation passed away and clean gone Job 30.15.16 the daies of affliction have ceased and taken hold on us we become a reproach to the wicked and ungodly because of our wickedness they laugh and blaspheme the Divel he triumphs and doth insult 2 Sam. 12.14 Rev. 18.10 ceases not to accuse us night and day before God in heaven our former acquaintance our familiar friends yea our natural kindred and our brethren they withdraw and are ashamed of us this spoyl doth sin make on a soul Psalm 38.11 I have here said somewhat of sin and the spoyl it maketh and hath made on man yet not the hundredth part that might be said I shall now shew you what spoyl it hath made on my self For what hath been said sin hath wrath in me and much more for as the Apostle saith I have been carnal and sold under sin Rom. 7.14 that as the wise man saith In the daies of my vanity I have not withheld the desire of mine eys nor my heart from any joy Eccles 2.10 And I have been compassed about with the iniquities of my heels Psalm 49.5 For in me that is in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing Rom. 7.18 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I bless God I can say with our good Apostle ver 25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord that by him and through the riches of Gods love I had gotten in some measure the victory of the sins of my youth Ephes 2.4.5 Rom. 8.37 Psalm 25.7 and with all my might endeavour'd after the wayes of God but happily I looked in the first place too soon to the outward holiness and like Jehu pursued it very eagerly so that in my heart I said Come see my zeal for God for Christ his wayes and people 2 Kings 10.16 and had not quite mortified those inbred lusts and evil concupiscense which sin had wrought in me Rom. 8. according to the Apostles counsel Col. 3.5 I should have then known how to have possessed my vessel in sanctification and honor but because of this the Lord hath been pleased to write many bitter things against me and hath made me to possess the iniquities of my youth Job 13.26 to lye down in shame and confusion to cover me because I have sinned against the Lord Jer. 3.25 the dregs of the old man were still alive and not put off there was the remainder of sin kept and spared which have been like as the Philistines were to Israel pricks in my eyes and thorns in my side to be a continual plague to me Numb 33.55 1 Sam. 15.19.20 which if the old man concerning my former conversation which was corrupt according to the deceiptful lust Ephes 4.22 had been quite subdued and all destroyed they had not now scourged me like the pricking brier and grieving thorn Ezec. 28.24 compared with Josh 23.13 There were spots that were left in my garments which wanted washing out which some labour would have soon dispatched but they being but spots they were not minded and my false heart flattering me all was well so long as it was secret and unknown though with my heart I utter'd perverse things Pro. 23.33 I was stricken and yet not sick they beat me and I felt it not I lay very secure in the midst of my great danger and have been drawn away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity and yet it hath spoken peace to me as to its neighbour but it brought forth mischief Psalm 48.3 For as with a dart it hath stricken me through the liver casting me down wounded and have been slaine Prov. 7.23.26 and knew not that it was for my life by which I have gotten a wound and a dishonor yea a reproach that cannot be wiped away Pro. 6.33 knowing not whither to cause my shame to go for I have been as one of the fools in Israel 2 Sam. 13.13 Thus sin compassed me about and got my feet intangled in its net after I was thus wounded and cast down then I did endeavour to get out of the jawes of death and to ascend from the chambers of the dead that I might take hold on the paths of life Pro. 2.18.19 and to this I made some good progress and set my self to the work in good earnest and some years

spoileth a man of God Isa 59.2 Your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you This people in the 58 Chapter had been a fasting and humbling their souls Isa 58.3 and they aske a reason why God was not found of them and that he did not answer them they expostulate the case with God Wherefore have we afflicted our souls and thou takest no knowledge wherefare have we fasted and thou seest not God giveth them the reason in the fourth verse it was their sins and their iniquities that had robbed and deprived them of the good things that they might have enjoyed so saith the Lord by the Prophet Jer. 5.25 Your iniquities have turned away put by robbed deprived you of these things and your sins have withholden by force and violence as a company of robbers do good things from you for behold you fast for strife and debate to smite with the fist of wickedness to adde drunkenness to thirst Deut. 29.19 it was to feed support and to make provision for sin to spend it on their lust therefore they asked and did not receive because they asked amiss Jam. 4.3 it was to take care for the Arch-rebell and traiterous enemy to God and while sin is nigh and is nourished succoured and harbored God he will be far off for God is far from the wicked and ungodly sinners Eph. 2.12 13. who are said to be without God in the world far off being enemies aliens or strangers to God and by sins made to be at enmity in their mindes by wicked works Col. 1.21 quite robbed and spoiled of God and all that was God-like and filled full of all deadly poison so that his heart is so swoln with it that he saith there is no god Psal 14.1 He is not once in all their thoughts Psal 10.4 but abound in all villany and mischiefes Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murther debate deceit malignity backbiters haters of good without understanding Rom. 1.29 30 31. compared with Gal. 5.21 Tit. 3.3 Eph. 2.2 3. So that we may see by this what spoile sin hath made quite robbed and spoiled us of God what spoile did it make on our parents as is partly before minded How did the Lord rejoyce in the works be had made Gen. 1.31 compare vers 4. both with Psal 104.31 Prov. 8.31 seeing the order comliness and beauty that was in all his works they were good agreeable to his will they pleased him 1 Tim. 4.4 for every creature of God is good pleasant sweet profitable causing joy Song 1.2 4.10 Deut. 6.11 1 Sam. 9.2 Gen. 24.16 compare Mark 9.42 Luk. 17.2 And the Lord did rejoyce in the habitable part of his earth Prov. 8.31 great peace was between God and man yea and all the creatures all the works that God had made they did praise him and gave him honor Psal 45.10 When the morning stars sang togather and all the sons of God shouted for joy Psal 148.3 Job 1.6 there was no division or variance no hateful spirits against God or man to work or do him any mischief no death or diseases no fear of guilt to torment and afflict the soul of man nor any noisome poisonous lust to rebell in their bodies But now cometh sin and robs us of all this and fills the whole creation with mischief strife and debate layeth or turneth the whole world into or in wickedness 1 Joh. 5.19 6. Sin causeth sorrow in God and it grieveth his spirit Gen. 6.3 5. The wickedness of man was great in the earth and the very imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were wholly evil every or all the day that they carefully minded their hearts for evil alwayes therefore It repented God that he had made man and it grieved him at the very heart To see that man that he had made so goodly and comely a creature created him after his own Image or likeness Gen. 1.27 15.1 should so sin against him and provoke him not onely at the first in Edens garden for which he might for ever have left them in misery and utterly have cast them off Psal 75.3 was pleased now in the midst of Judgement to remember mercy Hab. 3.2 and to provide a Saviour for them and to lay their help upon one that was mighty Psal 89.19 Yea then when they were all turned aside and gone out of the way Psal 14.2 3 4. compare Isa 59.15 16 17. 63.5 He then looked down from heaven to see if any understood God if there were any judgement but he saw no intercessor there was none to uphold therefore his own arme of righteousness that upheld and wrought salvation and put all things in a right and orderly frame bringing us back to Christ the Shepherd and keeper of our souls 1 Pet. 2.25 this now doth grieve God that after so much love and mercy man that he had so done by taken so much paines withall that had spared no cost no not his own Son Rom. 8 32. but gave him to dye and shed his blood to redeem them from their vaine conversations they had received from the tradition of their fathers Gen. 3.15 compare 1 Pet. 1.18 19. and all that man might become obedient and subject to God to do his will as he hath commanded us 1 Ioh. 3.23 To this end he gave them his word and oracles Psal 147.19 20. Psal 2.7 Exo. 21.1 Rom. 9.4 5. to instruct them how they should walk towards him In all well-pleasingness Heb. 13.21 he gave them right judgements and true Laws good Statutes and Commandments he had so great a desire after their good that he himself cometh down upon the mount and speaks to them from heaven Nehe. 9.13 Psal 68.11 Nevertheless such prevalency had sin in them That they disobyed him and rebelled against him and cast all his good Laws behinde their backs 1 King 9.10 hated God and to be reformed Psal 50.17 Ezek. 23.35 shew his prophets that testified against them to return wrought great provocation Neh. 9.26 Jer. 32.31 32. compare 1 Kings 23.26 though he gave them his good spirit to instruct them guide and lead them Gen. 6.3 compare Nehem. 9.20 Num. 11.17 in the good old and holy way wherein they should finde rest for their souls wooing and contending with them disputing and convincing them by the mouths of his Prophets and servants in and by the word of his grace also by inward motions and checks of conscience Yet nothing would do for the strong man kept the house sin had got possession Luk. 11.21 22. Mat. 12.29 Mark 3.37 that they rebelled against him and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and fought against them Exod. 15.24 Numb 14.11 Acts 7.15 Job 30.21 Jer. 30.14 Judges 14.15 compare Eph. 4.29 30. 5.11 12. 7. Sin hinders and cloggs prayer though they be never so long and be uttered never