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A14992	A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to aduise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to beare them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 25299; ESTC S107622	140,887	282

some inward or outward occasions so neither is there likely terror amazement disquietment in the conscience till the lusts of the soule haue disordered it for want of holding them vnder so that as warre abroad is found to be a present remedie against ciuill dissentions of subiects so warre with sinne is the cause of our tranquillitie with our selues When clouds are dispelled the beames of the Sunne will shine comfortably vpon the earth and then the earth is richly garnished with pleasant and profitable herbes so when sinne is chased away the warme beames of Gods fauour doe sweetely refresh the conscience and the conscience so refreshed doth bring forth the sweet and wholesome flowres of vnspeakable consolatiō The Spirit of God wil tell our spirits and our spirits will tell vs that God is our Friend and Father that he loues vs and delights in vs so long as we be haue our selues to sinne as to an enemy hating loathing and resisting it Thus are we most friends to our selues when wee bee most foes with our corruptions And this fighting with sinne will make vs liue quietly also with our neighbours Hee that is busie in finding out and subduing his home-bred corruptions shall haue little or no leasure to take causelesse vnkindnesses to picke needlesse quarrels and to prouoke others against him by iniurious behauiour so shall hee shun the greatest company of iarres and brawles that vse to set men together by the eares Saint Iames saith Iames 4.1 That warres and fightings amongst men doe come from their lusts which war in their members We may if we will deceiue our selues and attribute things to false causes but the Spirit of God that vnderstandeth all things aright and cannot be deceiued points to lust fighting in the members as the most true proper and immediate cause of contentions stirres betwixt man and man Therefore the more any man doth quell subdue vanquish weaken and beate downe these lusts the more calmely shal he passe thorow the sea of the world and the fewer stormes of discord and enmitie shall hee meete withall When souldiers lye idle and are not imployed in marching against the common foe then they mutinie and fall out with each other so when men set not their griefe and hatred and other affections ou worke to make war vpon sin then they quickly take occasion to grieue at each other to sigh one against another to hate one another and to vexe and gawle each other and trouble themselues most of all But souldiers agree among themselues whilest they lend their powers against a common foe so when we haue strongest and hottest warre with the deuill and sinne then doe we nourish most concord with one another Thus shall the soule enioy vnutterable quietnesse euery way within and without from God and from man and one weekes life led in such comfortable and happie concord and amitie with a mans owne soule and all about him is more worth then the lasting of a whole twelue-moneth torne and rent asunder with the ciuill broyles and commotions of a grudging froward and distempered heart Who would not doe that that will make his soule to dwell at rest 3. Againe the studie of mortification Patience and loy in affliction wil inable a man with inconceiueable patience yea and chearefulnesse to beare any affliction that God shal lay vpon him yea to look death it self in the face though it come clothed in neuer so terrible attire and with neuer so terrible weapons for the sting of death and consequently of all crosses is sinne now pull the sting from out of the Serpents mouth or tayle and then there is little feare or danger in incountring her What was the cause that the Apostle Paul was so exceeding quiet and ioyfull in all his calamities but because he had in great measure subdued and was more and more busie in subduing the corrupt lusts of his body knocking it downe 1. Cor. 9. last and bringing it in subiection as himselfe speaketh Hee that holdeth strong fight against the euils of his owne heart out of that peace with God and his owne soule which we said before that he should enioy hath freedome of Spirit to pray vnto God in his afflictions hee can runne boldly to the Throne of grace as hauing allowed nothing within him that should grieue the Spirit of Grace hee can flie to the towre of Gods name as hauing kept himselfe in the pathes of righteousnesse whic those that do know themselues to haue all good allowance to come thither and when a man can freely powre forth his hart before God in crosses then doth he also comfortably enioy God and then the sharpenes of the crosse is gone The thing that makes crosses intolerably bitter so that the soule cannot endure the bitternesse of them is the admixture of the gawle of Gods displeasure so farre as wee are intire and resolute in fighting against sinne our crosses are pure from this admixture and so they be not to himselfe that beares them howsoeuer they may seeme to the lookers on by the hundreth part so tedious and troublesome as that composition would make them So the mortified man gaines this by his trouble in mortification that the Lord will suffer him to escape many troubles and those that he must for his owne good suffer he shall be able to goe vnder with ten times more quietnesse and gladnesse and contentednesse as an whole shoulder beares the same burden with more ease then a sore or swolne shoulder It is therefore a very profitable labour that wee bestow in mortifying the members on earth that is to say in healing the sores and diseases of our soules 4. Thirdly Certaine freedome from grosse sinnes the man that applies the worke of mortification aright shall attaine certaine freedome from foule grosse and scandalous sinnes A sanctified man may assuredly promise to himselfe vpon his constant and diligent endeauours to abate and hold vnder his sinfull affections and dispositions to bee for his whole life long so kept and sustained by God that hee shall not rush into any lothsome palpable disgracefull soule-wasting wickednesse Wee are neuer ouertaken with those kind of euils but vpon our very palpable carelesnesse of mortifying the deeds of our flesh Whilest we do that that God bidsvs to slay sin he holds it vnder according to his promise and it hath not dominion ouer vs neither doth raigne in our mortall bodies so that we are sure enough that sinne shall not bring forth the fruits of shame and reproach vnto vs vntill we begin to be remisse in following Gods directions to purge out the old leauen And Oh what a benefit is this to escape those blemishes and staines wherewith many of Gods children perhaps also of greater strength then ones selfe doe defile and disgrace themselues What a priuiledge is it to be so supported that neuer in all his life he shall runne into any witting enormous presumptuous crime after God hath

a member mortified and deadned as if he were to wound and mangle his owne flesh and with the right hand to chop off the left Lastly they are called members because they doe as it were dwel and worke in our members shewing their wicked force and strength in them and striuing by them to breake forth into act carrying them captiues as weapons of vnrighteousnesse For example Fleshly lust shewes it selfe in the eye in the hand in the foote in the tongue stiuing to come to that strength till it may driue a man to speake or worke something in the parts of his body that maketh for the expressing feeding pleasing satisfying of the same Because our corruptions haue their residence and operation in our members therefore haue they iustly borrowed their name Iames 4.1 as being the lusts which warre in our members and that other law in our members which fights against the law of our mind and leadeth vs captiue to the law of sinne Rom. 7.23 which is in our members as elsewhere the scripture speaketh 4. Moreouer Why members vpon earth they are termed our mēbers vpon earth because they are exercised vpon things of this earth as their proper obiect drawing and carrying our minds to these matters that are here below base trifling vaine and terrene but hindring and diuerting vs from raysing vp our soules to the pursuit of the things that are high heauenly celestial excellent aboue with Christ our head there where he sitteth in glorie All or in a manner all the disordered inclinations that are in vs tend to the making of vs earthly-minded eager to attaine these mirie dirtie things that may bee had in this lower region of the world as pleasure profit credit ease and the like fitly therefore are they named earthly And in another regard is this title duly giuē to them because they will continue with vs during our naturall life and abode vpon the earth nor euer shall they be quite separated from vs till wee be translated to a more noble and glorious habitation in the Heauens The vices that are in vs all the while that we are in this world will hang like Lead or some other weightie thing vpon vs and with a kind of violence pull and hale vs downeward to the sensuall and corporall good of this present short and momentany being which the Apostle well knowing called them our members vpon earth And this is the obiect of the action The persons that are enioyned to performe this action 3. The persons that must performe the action vpon this obiect are the Colossians men alreadie called to the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ and to the beliefe of his glorious Gospell and men already sanctified and regenerate in part yet had they neede and therfore so haue all Christians also to continue wounding and thrusting thorow these lusts which haue as the Prouerbe speaketh nine liues and will not bee killed with one blow or with one dart So the meaning of Saint Paul is as if he had without all figure taken vp a larger exhortation in this wise O yee Colosians Professours of the true Religion of our Lord know yee that it is your dutie whereof I enioyne you to bee mindfull and carefull not alone to make some slight and slender opposition to those corrupt and vicious inclinations of your hearts which you shall find still stirring in your members and alwaies thrusting you forwards to the seeking of the transitorie and momentany things of this life but also with all your might and power to striue to ouercome them vtterly with a mind and purpose to continue so striuing till you haue totally freed your selues from their loathed and troublesome working Doct. 6. You see then that these words do require at our hands the practice of a most needfull dutie All Saints must studie mortification All the Saints of God must with all earnestnes studie their mortification Those that professe the Gospell of Christ Iesus must take vncessant and vnweariable paines with constant and perpetuall endeauours more and more to subdue beate downe and vanquish al and euery of these wicked sinfull and vnlawfull affections lusts inclinations and habits which are in them drawing them to things terrene and earthly till they haue euen pulled them vp by the rootes and cast them quite out of their hearts Scarce any point is more plainely and frequently required not an Epistle almost wherein it is not commended to the Saints Rom. 8.13 If yee mortifie the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit yee shall liue saith the Apostle in one place Loe without it there is no liuing it is a necessarie condition required to the attainement of saluation And againe They that are Christs Gal 5.24 haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Hee takes it as a thing granted that all true Christians haue in part performed this worke and therefore will goe forward to bring it to more perfection Ephes 1.22 And in another place he saith Put off the old man which is corrupt according to the deceiueable lusts These lusts are like to vncleane and filthy rags which the children of God must fling from them It is for Rogues and Vagrants to wrap vp themselues in rotten and foule clouts the Sonnes and Daughters of Nobles and Kings must array themselues with costly cleane and sightly garments befitting the honour of their birth and place A beggers dirty patched cloake doth no more beseeme a Princes backe then the practice of sinfull lusts doth become a Christian Wee must not shame our selues with such vile and base things but cast them farre away from vs. 1. Pet 2.11 Another Apostle also willeth vs to abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against our soules As men that are wise will not conuerse with their mortall enemies specially strangers trauelling in a farre countrie wil not willingly associate themselues with those that hate them and conspire their death so the people of God must haue nothing to doe with sinfull lusts of any sort for these do nothing else but seeke the ruine of their soules what euer flattering shew they may make CHAP. II. Declaring some reasons of the point from the necessitie of the dutie BVt what should I heape vp Texts of Scripture to confirme a most confessed truth reasons of the point onely for the better prouoking of your soules to the practice of the duty let it not seeme amisse that I stād somwhat largely to acquaint you with store of sound reasons why you should doe it Know then that this worke of mortification is a worke needfull profitable equall and successefull Need compelleth profit allureth equitie conuinceth and successe encourageth You must doe it or doe worse you shall be gainers by doing it it is most righteous that you doe it and in labouring about it you shall not lose your labour therefore about it with all speed and with all diligence 2. First 1. Fromthe necessitie