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Cor humiliatum & contritum a sermon preached at S. Pauls Church London, Nov. 29, 1663 / by Richard Lee ... ; wherein was delivered the profession of his judgement against the Solemn league and covenant, the late King's death, &c.
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Lee, Richard, 1611-1684.
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contrition There is that holy Candor and Ingenuity in a broken heart that it will not keep in it sin to save its credit and so come under the curse 28. Prov. 13. He that hides his sin shall not prosper Nimis perversè se amat qui alios vult errare ut error suus lateat He loves himself too perversly that had rather that others should still wander then his own strayings should be observed The Saints of God have ever been of another mind Hence Moses Unbelief Davids Blood-guiltiness Jeremies Impatience Jonahs Pettishness Pauls Persecutions are impartially recorded by their own Pens Take holy Job for an instance who about to make a solemn Protestation of his integrity 31. Job which is inseparable from contrition He doth it by recanting retracting his error and sins 33. v. If I have covered my transgression as Adam by hiding my iniquity in my Bosom c. First he would not hide his sins ut Adam ut homines so the Arab. version ut homo so Arias Montanus He would not hide them as Adam who sought a covering for his transgression Non quia nudus sed quia lapsas not because he was naked but because he was faln Nor as man or as men who use Palliations Expositions Evasions Non quia nudi sed quia lapsi not because they are innocent but because they are guilty He sits on the Dunghil opens his Ulcers and Sores freely and fully makes his confession strongly imagine you heard him Job 40.4 5. Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth Once I have spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I will proceed no further chap. 42. at the 3. v. I uttered what I understood not at the 6. v. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ideirco reprobabo quod male dixi so Vatab. translates the Text. Wherefore I abhor my self Or I will reprobate what I have sinfully spoken Et rescipiscam I will repent or I will return to my self into the way whence I wandred In this sense resipiscere is frequently used by Tertul. and Lactantius for Repentance Yea I will repent saith Job in dust and ashes For prisco more in pulvere cinere sedebat paenitens so Drusius of old the penitent so Sate now Dicat unusquique quod velit let every man speak his pleasure I shall rather choose with Adam Moses and Job David Solomon who hath by his Book of Ecclesiastes testified his retractations to all the World and Manasses with Jer. and Jonas with Matthew Magdalene Peter Paul August Jerom. Anselm and Bernard I say I shall rather choose with all these blessed Saints and broken vessels of Election Confundi coram peccatoribus super terram Quam confundi coram Sanctis Angelis in coelo vel ubicunque Dominus voluerit judicium suum demonstrare by Confession to be shamed before Sinners on Earth then to be confounded before all the holy Angels in Heaven or before all the world at the day of Judgement For be we well assured that our iniquity will find us out yea and the punishment too 32. Numbers 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inveniet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuagint apprehendet Our iniquity will discover us and judgement will take hold on us Dabitis paenas pro eo But you will object Such as thus retract Object and recant their Errors and sin build again what they have destroyed and so make themselves Transgressors as S. Paul speaks 2 Gal. 18. I answer with S. Aug. In ipsum Paulum primitus hoc diceretur Answ This should first have been objected against S. Paul himself for Gal. 1. ult it is said He which persecuted us in time past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed And they glorified God in him Indeed Cum erubescit quisquam de proprie iniquitate poenitendo in melius commutatur When any shall take shame to themselves for their own sin repent and reform Ista confusio adducet gratiam gloriam This honest shame shall bring them both grace and glory For as he that hides his sin shall not prosper so he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy I was an obstinate Papist as any in England said B. Latimer in so much as when I commenced Batchelor in Divinity my whole position ran against Melancthon's Opinions To conclude then Irrideant nos fortes potentes saith St. Aug. Let the 99 just persons that need no repentance laugh and scorn us Nos inopes infirmi consitebimur tibi c. We the poor of the flock of contrite spirits will confess our sins to thee O Lord. Once more Irridiant nos arrogantes nondum salubriter prostrati ego tamen confitebor tibi dedecora mea Let the arrogant and such as never had the grace of a broken and contrite heart let such deride me saith Aug. I will with Lazarus full of sores lie at the beautifull gate of that God who is rich in mercy and confess my foulest iniquities to thee O my God Lastly A broken contrite spirit will be deeply affected as with the act of sin the guilt and the stain so with the scandal of it A scandal is a stone in the way at which a man stumbles fals and receives hurt in his body Scandalous sins are such as others stumble at fall and receive hurt by in their souls Sins are scandalous in respect of their Manner and Matter In respect of the Manner when committed deliberately and presumptuously In respect of the Matter when they are committed in materia gravi For all deliberate presumptuous sins are in their Matter and Nature hainous In sin there are four things considerable 1. The Act. 2. The Guilt 3. The Stain 4. The Scandal The Act is quickly over but the rest have long lives The Guilt that remains for ever if not taken away by Repentance and Faith in Christs bloud The Stain that continues when the guilt is pardoned Sanato vulnere manet cicatrix Though the wound be healed yet the scar abides as the infamy upon Jeroboam's name That he made Israel to sin Lastly Though the Persons of scandalous Sinners be gone long since yet not the hurt daily done by their example It is a Question in the Schools Whether the damned have their greatest punishment at first Some have determined it negatively and their Reason is Because they have not at their death finish'd all the mischief they will do For when their bodies are in their graves and their souls in Hell their sins are above ground and live in the memory of men and do daily mischief and will to the worlds end Therefore as the hurt of their bad example encreaseth so doth their punishment Whether the pain of the damned be thus encreased I know not but sure I am mens sins and ill examples may be above ground and do hurt when they themselves are under ground and turn'd to ashes Wo then to the World because of