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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10015	The saints submission and Sathans overthrow. Or, Sermons on James 4.7. By that faithfull and reverend divine, Iohn Preston, Doctor in divinitie, Chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie, Master of Emmanuel Colledge, sometime preacher of Lincolnes-Inne	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1638 (1638)	STC 20266; ESTC S110465	38,733	336

omission of some good is rebellion although there concurre not an act of the will at the same time for the omission first because the will at the same time doth concurre with the doing of some thing which should not then be done that the doing of evill is rebellion against God as the committing of Murder or Adultery none will deny Next it followes in the description that the whole man must be subject to the law of God viz. the Law of righteousnesse not the Law of sinne which reignes in our mortal members and that in all things and in all estates as well prosperitie as adversitie There are two sorts of professors sometimes the true professor the upright man when he grows fat strikes with the heele whereas before in adversity he subjected himselfe to the Lord like an horse which being kept low will easily be ruled by his rider but being pampered and kept very lusty and fatte lifts up the heele against him and will not suffer the bit Contrarily others so long as they continue in an even and pleasant course will subject themselves to God and his service but when afflictions come when God leadeth them through craggie and thornie wayes then they will goe no further the reason is because their feete are not shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace they have not that peace of conscience which will make them willing to passe through all estates which is like shoes to the travellers feet We know he that is well shod will easily passe through Craggy and thorny wayes whereas hee that is not so shod dares not Thus much for explication of the point in the second place follow the reasons to enforce the exhortation from every word a reason may be gathered First seeing every sinne is a rebellion against God let this the rather move us to submit our selves unto him that we may not be so great offenders as traitors The Second may be taken from the person of God to whom we are exhorted to submit our selves first in respect of his greatnesse over us this reason the Prophet Malachy useth Chap. 1. 6 14. Secondly in respect of his goodnesse towards us who is so mercifull a father to us this we may see urged Isa. 2. 2 3. Isa. 5. 23 4. The third may be taken from our selves who are exhorted to this duty First consider that we are all his Creatures we hold our being and all that we have continually from him therfore it concernes us to yeeld all homage to him the more a man holdeth of his Lord the more homage he oweth him Secondly we are all his servants therefore we are not to fulfill our owne lusts or to obey Sathan but only to doe our Lords worke yea we are not his servants only but besides bought with a deare price even the precious blood of his onely Sonne 1 Cor. 6. 20. when a man hath bought a servant and that at an high rate he expectes the more and better service to be done by him Thirdly we are all his children therfore we must yeeld all duty obedience to him this reason the Apostle useth 1 Pet. 1. 14 15. As obedient children fashion not your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance but as hee which hath called you is holy so be yee holy in all manner of conversation Lastly we are all the Temple of the holy Ghost a Temple that is consecrated to holy uses must not be profaned by putting it to common uses this is sacriledge so when we are temples consecrated to the holy Ghost it's sacriledge to profane these temples to put them to base uses this reason the Apostle useth 1 Cor. 6. 19. What know yee not that your ●ody is the temple of the holy Ghost which is in you which yee have of God and yee are not your owne c. We now come to the uses of that which hath beene delivered This serves to cleare the justice of God who punisheth sinne with eternall death both of body and soule Obj. Sinne being a rebellion deserveth indeed punishment but death seemes to be too severe a punishment Ans. When we heare that a rebellious childe is put to death we judge him worthy of it to have deserved it of his father because the child received life from the father his father is so farre above him and deserved well at his hands By the same reason may God in an higher degree punish every sin with death Obj. But it seemes much that God should punish one sin with eternall death Ans. The reason hereof is because the rebellions of the wicked are continuall If they would cease to rebell and submit themselves to God he would cease to punish Againe it 's just because God set before Adam life and death eternal for him and his posterity as by justice for his obedience he should have had eternall life so for transgression he and all his deserved eternall death This may also serve to humble us for our sinnes seeing the least of them is a rebellion against God The reason why many goe on quietly in their course of sinning is because they consider not that God is highly provoked to anger by the same For the better working of this humiliation in us let us consider a few meanes The first is to make catalogues of our sinnes to set them in order before the light of our countenance for otherwise God will surely set them in order before the light of his countenance By setting them in order before us is meant that we should set the greatest in the first ranke and so accordingly in order untill we come to the least so that it is needfull to know the greatnesse heinousnesse of every one of them For the better understanding of the greatnesse of every one of them let us consider but this a traitour if after his treason committed the King sends out his Proclamation to take him and he after a third or fourth Proclamation will not yet come in it doth much more aggravate the offence so often as we have despised the word not hearkned to the reprehension for our rebellions committed so often have we refused to be called in when the King of Heaven hath sent out his Proclamations for us therefore we cannot but conceive our former rebellion to be much more aggravated therby therfore our soules should be humbled for it for the multitude of our rebellions it will be objected that we cannot possibly number them yet a speciall meanes to discover them unto us will be to examine our selves by the word For although a man have never so many spots about him yet if he have not a glasse to looke in how will he espie them If a man come into an house in the darke though it be all besmeared with slime and dirt he cannot discerne it without bringing a light with him the word is this light which wil discover to us the foulenes corruption of out