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A62118	Two treatises The first is, A plain platform for preaching: whereby the word of truth may be rightly divided; and he that speaketh, speak as the oracles of God. Digested into 20. propositions. The second is, The destruction of in-bred corruption. Or, An antidote against fleshly lust. By A. Symson minister of Gods word.	Simson, Alexander, 1570?-1639.; Simson, Alexander, 1570?-1639. Destruction of inbred-corruption.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6369; ESTC R221898	80,628	321

time shall reape if we faint nor Had wee but grace thus to lay the matter to heart that if wee fight not we shall live in slavery under the divell the world and the flesh of all others the greatest or rather the onely slaves but if we fight manfully and persevere therein wee shall bee conquerors over all those and as victorious Kings trample Sathan under our feete we would seeke to prevent our own misery and get an assured possession of glory gather courage in our decayed spirits and lustily goe on Did we but call to mind how often the Lord hath beene pleased heretofore to help the same 1 Sam. 7 1● would be as Ebenezer unto the Israelites to encourage us against our spirituall Philistims As the Israelites in after ages reading how Joshua had once before discomfited Amalek Exo. 17.15 and of the Altar which Moses did then build calling it by the name of Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord is my banner could not but be encouraged hereby to have warres with them Simil. so is it with Gods children calling to mind their former spirituall victories of whom it may be more truely said then David did it of Saul and Ionathan 2 Sam. 1.22 From the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bow of Ionathan turned not back and the sword of Saul returned not empty Note They have greater joy and gladnes with more pleasure and contentment in striving against their corruption of nature which by degrees they still lessen and weaken then the greatest souldier hath to glut his sword with the blood of his enemie Strive wee against these beasts our beastly lusts as Paul fought with the Beasts of Ephesus 1 Cor. 15.32 Beastly men either or both those were outward but these are inward beasts If those had prevailed they would only have killed the body if these should they would destroy both body and soule those might have beene overcome with bodily weapons these no otherwise but by the whole Armour of GOD Faith Hope Repentance the Word Prayer with the other pieces yea in fighting against these Gods power is after an especiall manner manifested Quit we our selves then like men Iudg. 16.39 so dealing with our lusts as Samson with the Philistims even by slaying moe of them hereafter then heretofore wee have done as hee moe at his death then in his life yea i Sam. 15.3 as Saul should not have spared any one Amalekite but utterly destroyed them all so doe we destroy the whole brood of our sinfull and fleshly lusts not sparing any one of these cursed Amalekits Thus of the Caveats to be observed in this our Warfare and so of the 8. Particular CHAP. V. How to discerne when we prevaile against the Flesh with its inordinate Lusts and Affections AN enemie is not alwayes vanquished when he seemeth so to be Iosh 8.15 Ioshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before the men of Ai and fled by the way of the wildernesse yet was it meerely out of Policie to draw them out of their Citie Iudg. 20.39 as afterward the Israelites to the same end used the same Stratagem when they discomfited the Benjamites It is thus with our Lusts they may seeme to bee mortified when indeed they are not but only wait their fittest opportunitie to doe us mischiefe Signes whereby to discern whether our lusts be mortified How then we should judge of them many or few great or small strong or weak violent or peaceable conquerers or conquered discerne wee by these signes 1. Gal. 5 24. They are Christs They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and they that are in him walke not after the flesh Rom. 8.1 but after the Spirit How to know whether we be in Christ Art thou in Christ then thou art a mortified creature else not Q. How shall I know whether or not I am in Christ A. If thou walkest in the light 1 Ioh. 1 6. if thou walkest as Christ walked 1 Ioh. 2.6 if thou keepest his commandements 1 Ioh 3.24 and hast his Spirit in thee if thou perseverest in the knowledge and obedience of the Cospel 1 Ioh. 2.24 if thou art fruitfull in good workes Ioh. 15.2 2 Cor. 5.17 if thou art a new creature teh art thou in Christ 2. Rom 8.1 They that walke after the Spirit walke not after the Flesh They walk after the Spirit Walkest thou after the Spirit then walkest not thou after the Flesh but art a mortified creature Q. How to know whether wee walk after the Spirit How shall I know whether or not I walke after the Spirit A. If thou walkest after the Spirit then livest thou not according to the motion and guidance of the corruption of nature but according to the motion and guidance of the Spirit of grace and sanctification Thou earnestly desitest both to know and walk in the good way Thou doest in every thing runne unto God by prayer that he would guide and direct thee Thou resolvest in every thing to please God Thou preferrest his will unto all things else profits pleasures preferments yea and thine owne life too Thou walkest carefully warily and circumspectly alwayes ordering thy steps with discretion lest thou shouldst in any sort tempt vexe grieve or quench the Spirit 3. Rom. 6 1● They are alive unto God They that are indeed dead unto sinne are alive unto God through Iesus Christ our Lord. They doe really and truely partake as well of the vertue and efficacie of Christs death unto Mortification as of his Resurrection unto newnes of life Being on the one part mortified persons in whom the death of Christ hath broken the force of sinne that it cannot reigne in whom the vigor and force of sin which is the life thereof is crushed and extinct in whom sinne cannot bring forth such bitter fruits as it was wont to do before sanctification Simil. who therefore even as men who have so lost their bodily strength as it cannot be recovered are said to be dead while they live how soever sinne doth still remaine in them are truly said to be dead thereunto because the power and strength of sinne is sore abated and dayly lessened and weakened so on the other part are they quickned and moved by the holy Spirit to doe what is pleasing and acceptable in Gods sight A difference betweene nature and grace It 's so in nature I confesse as it is in grace hee that is corporally dead doth not corporally live but hee that is spiritually dead doth spiritally live he is dead indeed unto sinne but alive unto God yea his being dead unto sinne Note doth argue that hee is alive unto God as his being alive unto God that he is dead unto sinne 4. They that are dead are freed from sinne Rom. 6.7 They that are spiritually dead

his owne lust and entised saith Saint Iames. Entising as well endevoreth no lesse to intrap us then Dalilah did Samson Thamar Iudah fishers and fowlers by their baits fishes and fowles It s ayme and end Names from its ayme and end Rom. 1.23 so is it termed The law of sinne in our members as which would as a law domineere over us So also The body of death as which would bring upon us death both the first and the second death corporall spirituall and eternall This our naturall corruption those our inordinate lusts and affections under what forme soever by what name soever warring against us are wee valiantly to encounter Conclusions drawn from the names whereby this our enemy is decyphered yea those very names ascribed thereunto do not a little further us in the discovery of the same as by our reviewing of them may thus appeare 1. Rom. 8.7 If it bee enmitie against God Rom. 7.24 and the body of death then it is one of the three great enemies of God and mans salvation 2. Rom. 7.17 Rom. 7.23 If it bee sinne that dwelleth in one and the law of sinne in our members then it is a domesticall and so a more dangerous enemie 3. Psa 19.12 Rom. 8.21 Psal 51.5 Col. 3.9 Rom. 7.8 If it be a secret sinne the evill imagination of mans heart from his youth the sinne wherein wee are conceived and borne the Old man sin out of measure sinfull then as there is no small skill to be used to finde it out so in like manner is not the same to be slighted 4. Gal. 5.24 Ro. 13.14 Col. 3.5 Ro. 8.13 Eph. 2.3 If it be the flesh the lusts of the flesh Earthly members The deeds of the body The desires of the flesh and of the mind Then is the same pleasing unto flesh and blood after an especiall manner delightfull unto mans corrupt nature 5. If it be strong holds 2 Cor. 10.4 Heb. 12.1 Rom. 7.24 the sinne that doth so easily beset us a warring law in our members then it is powerfull not easie to be overcome 6. If it be the motions of sin Iam. 1.14 and entising lust then will not it let us alone though wee would peaceably entertaine the same 7. Eph. 4.17 Heb. 3.13 If it be the vanitie of the minde the deceitfulnesse of sin deceitfull lusts Eph. 4.22 then how pleasing soever for the present will it in the end prove treacherous unto us 8. If it be an uncleane thing Iob. 14.4 Ro. 6.6 a monstrous mis-shapen body of sinne then is it that whereof wee are to bee ashamed and which is of us both to be abhorred and loathed 9. Heb. 12 i5 If it be a roote of bitternesse then as there is no true pleasure to be found therein and it selfe is the ground of all actuall transgressions whether in word or deed which are daily stirred up thereby so if it be not daily wrought upon and the branches therof lopt off by the axe of Gods word the same will prove so hard and the branches thereof so many so great and so wreathed together that our after-labour will be but labour in vaine Thus of the enemie to bee encountred with the names of treachery tyranny crueltie sensualitie and guile so plainly as it were in capitall letters written on its forehead that hee that runneth may reade them and accordingly avoid the danger And so of the first particular CHAP. II. That the Flesh with the lusts and affections therof is to be encountred NO smal difference there is betweene our temporall and spirituall adversaries Differences betweene our temporall and spirituall enemies with those wee both may and must be reconciled with these to admit of reconciliation is no lesse impossible then unlawfull Those may love us and how soever we must love them These will alwaies hate us and we must alwaies hate them with those we may for a long time live in peace howsoever carry our selves peaceably towards them with these wee both are and must be daily at deadly feud yea though wee would let them alone yet will not they let us alone and by our not encountring them doe we encourage them the more eagerly and fiercely to set upon us Such is the flesh a deadly daily trecherous tyrannicall domesticall guilfull enemy it daily and by severall waies would destroy us accordingly must we daily and duly desire and seek its ruine 2 Cor. i0 5 casting downe imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivitie every thought to the obedience of Christ A dutie which is in the Scripture both commanded and commended the true nature thereof being both largely and significantly pourtrayed therein as also the constant practise thereof under most Exhortations unto Repentance renovation regeneration mortification and the like implicitely urged This is To deny our selves Mat. i6 24 To make our selves spiritually Eunuchs for the Kingdome of Heavens sake Mat. 19.12 To forsake all that a man hath u. 14.33 To be dead to sinne Rom. 6.2 To be baptised into Christs death Ro. 6.3.4 and buried with him by baptisme into death To be circumcised Col. 2 11. with the circumcision made without hands To hate our life in this world Ioh. i2 25 To enter in at the strait gate Mat. 7.13 To make a covenant with our eyes Iob. 31.1 set a watch about the dore of our lips Psal i4i 3 rule our spirit Pro. 16.32 and take heede to our wayes To be turned from darknes to light Psal 39.1 and from the power of Sathan unto God Act. 26.18 To arise from the dead Eph. 5.14 To break up our fallow ground Ier. 4.3 To circumcise our selves to the Lord Ier. 4.4 and take away the foreskinne of our heart To wash our heart from wickednesse Ier. 4.14 To loath our selves for the evils which wee have committed in all our abominations Ezek. 6.9 To rent our hearts Ioel. 2.13 and turne unto the Lord our God To deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts Tit. 2.12 To keepe under our body i Cor. 9.27 and bring it into subjection To suffer in the flesh and cease from sinne 1 Pet. 4.1 To sell all that we have Mat. i3 44 and buy the field with the treasure therein To forget our owne people Psal 45 i0 and our fathers house Yea such is the goodnesse of God towards us that under what name soever after what manner soever this our enemy commeth against us we are instructed how to deale with the same and avoid the foile Behold it commeth against us with its name written on its fore-head How readest thou The evill imagination of mans heart from his youth Gen. 8.21 Wee must not walke any more after the imagination of our evill heart Ier. 3.17 Ier. 4.14 vaine thoughts