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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07208	Hearing and doing the ready way to blessednesse with an appendix containing rules of right hearing Gods word. By Henry Mason, parson of S. Andrews Vnder-shaft London.	Mason, Henry, 1573?-1647.	1635 (1635)	STC 17609; ESTC S102307	184,084	830

of a mans repentance after any the most hainous sin cōmitted I. It granteth a pardon to some sinnes For though it allow or approve no sin yet it pronounceth not damnation against every sin as namely not against any sins of infirmitie such as are sins of ignorance which had we knowen wee would not have committed and sinnes of subreption which escape without observing of them and which if we had noted and observed we would not have done them and sinnes of violent tentation which by reason of some sudden assault do sway our passions against the right rule and sometimes by feare and sometimes by joy sometimes by hopes do carie us away before wee have leisure to bethink our selves and in coole blood to consider what wee are a doing Such sins as these Divines call sinnes of infirmitie because they arise not out of an evill purpose of the minde but out of humane frailtie from which wee shall never be free as long as we live in this body of corruption And if men committ such sinnes as these the Gospell condemneth the sinnes as evill repugnant to Gods Law but it condemneth not the sinner for them so long as he disliketh and detesteth them in his sober thoughts and resolution Thus Saint Paul did when speaking of such like sinnes hee cried out as a man undone Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 7.24 For such sinnes as these the Gospell condemneth us not it onely condemneth men for deliberat content when they yeeld obedience to knowen sinne and against conscience transgresse the Law From hence it is that the Apostle delivering unto us the rule of the Gospel saith Let not sinne therefore reigne in your mortall bodies that yee should obey it in the lusts thereof Rom. 6.12 In this passage when he saith Let not sin by this word he meaneth the inbred corruption of nature which wee brought with us into the world and that habit of sinfulnesse which wee have since contracted by our custome in sinning and by which we are every day sollicited to the practice of actuall sin And because this sinfulnesse doth tempt and sway men to sin therefore the Apostle saith of it Let not sin reigne c. 2. when he saith of this sinfulnes Let it not reigne in your mortall bodies he meaneth that it should not beare sway and carie away our consent to act what it suggesteth and to do what it commandeth So S. Augustin expounds this word Non dixit Non sit sed Non regnet Inest peccatum quum delectaris regnat si consenseris The The Apostle said not saith hee Let not sin bee in your mortall bodies but let it not reigne It is in thee when it tickleth with delight but it reigneth in thee if it draw thee to consent August in Psal 50. pag. 175. B. Yea and so the Apostle expoundeth his own meaning when hee addeth in the next words Let not sin reigne that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof noting hereby as a learned (a) D. Abbot true Catholik cap. 11. pag. 281. Prelat of our Church hath observed that then sin is said to reigne in us when we give obedience to it to fulfill the lusts thereof 3. In that the Apostle saith not Let not sin be within you or Let it not tempt you or Let it not please and tickle you with delight but Let it not reigne in you by drawing you to obey it this giveth us to understād that though it be a miserie to be tempted by our lusts and a sin to bee tickled and delighted with them when we are tempted by them yet the Apostle now delivering the precepts of the Gospell and the rules by which Christians according to the new Covenant of grace are to bee regulated doth not charge men so deepely as to forbid them all tickling delights he only requireth that sinne do not reigne and that men do not obey it by consenting unto it This is the rule prescribed by the Gospell and here commended to us by our Apostle and as many as walke according to this rule peace shall be upon them as upon the Israel of God Other sinnes such as I called sins of infirmitie or humane frailtie to which we do not give deliberat consent these are pardoned in the blood of the Lamb. But if any man sin against this rule by consenting to sin or acting it and so suffer sin to reigne in him the Apostles sentence will take holde on him Bee not deceived Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminat nor abusers of themselves with mankinde nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdome of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. This explication of this point was for the substance of it long since delivered by the learned Father S. Augustin (b) Aug. de verb. Domini Serm. 5. cap. 6 pag. 91. Aliud est non concupiscere aliud post concupiscentias non ire It is one thing saith hee not to lust which the Law commandeth when it saith Non concupisces Thou shalt not lust and an other thing not to follow after our lusts which an other Scripture commandeth when it saith Go not after thy lusts Ecclus 18.30 For as that learned Father further explaineth the point Non concupiscere perfecti est Not to lust or not to covet that which is unjust is the propertie of a perfect Saint whose habitation is in the Church Triumphant in Heaven But post concupiscentias suas non ire pugnantis est luctantis est laborantis est Not to go after a mans lusts by obeying their command and by doing what they do prescribe is the propertie of a man that striveth and fighteth against sin and laboureth under the burden of corruption such as they are who live in the Church Militant here upon earth (c) De Temp. Ser. 45. cap. 3. pag. 215. In an other place he speaketh to the same purpose For whereas the Apostle had said Fulfill not the lusts of the flesh Gal. 5.16 he descanteth on those words in this maner Melius quidem erat implere quod Lex dixit Ne concupiscas It were better saith he to fulfill that which the Law saith Thou shalt not lust for this is the perfection of righteousnes but because we cannot now fulfill this let us at least fulfill that which is elswhere said Post concupiscentias tuas ne eas Go not after thy lusts This then is one thing wherein the Gospell doth moderat the rigour of the Law that whereas the Law requireth perfect obedience in every point for every breach pronounceth a curse and a damnatory sentence the Gospell beareth with the sinner and pardoneth him his sinnes of infirmitie and humane frailtie if so be he giveth not approbation or assent thereto in his coole blood and deliberat thoughts 2. Secondly the Gospell doth herein mitigat the rigour of the Law because the Law for