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A06388	Tvvo soveraigne salves for the soules sicknesse deliuered in certaine sermons at Hurst-church in the county of Berkes, neere Reading. By Robert Lovell, then minister and preacher of Gods word in the same parish.	Lovell, Robert, curate of Allhallows, Barking.	1621 (1621)	STC 16859; ESTC S102843	33,805	48

shamelesse mocking and prophane Children why so had Abraham an Ishmael d Gen. 16.15 Noah a Cham e Gen. 9.21 Isaack an Esau f Gen. 25.25 or it may be That cruell witnesses haue risen vp against thee and asked the things thou knewest not or they haue rewarded thee euill for good to haue spoyled thy soule why so had Dauid g Psal 35.11.12 yea and all the Worthies that euer were in the world haue drunk of this Cup of affliction yet feare not for they now Certainly haue what thou shalt assuredly possesse euen The Cup of Refection for they were punished here to be receiued hereafter and so shalt thou be if thou will goe and Sinne no more Vse 2 But in the second place let me demand Is Sinne and Punishment inseperable Then tremble at this all yee vngodly For what Shall the Righteous be recompenced on the Earth how much more the Wicked and sinnefull h Prou. 11.31 Will hee doe this to the Greene tree What shall be done to the Dry i Luke 23.31 Will he begin to plague the Cittie where his Name is called vpon and shall you goe free saith Ieremie k Ier. 25.29 No If iudgement begin at Vs saith Saint Peter l 1 Pet. 4.17.18 then Horrendam Vltionem ijs instare quorum nunc potior videtur conditio saith Mr. Caluin m Caluin Loc. they that obey not the Gospell yet seeme prosperous shall then be found in their condition most pittious This is granted That the Lord doth try the Righteous in his Furnace but the wicked and such as loue Iniquitie doth his soule hate yea and on Them will hee raine Snares Fire and Brimstone Storme and Tempest This shall be their portion to drinke n Psal 11.5.6.7 Indeed he lifteth vp his hands to strike the Faithfull but hee will crush his Aduersaries with a Scepter of Iron and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell o Psal 2.9 Hee will iudge the Iust for his sinnes in this life but hee will wound the Hairy scalpe of such an one as goeth on still in his wickednes p Psal 68.21 His little Finger shall be heauier on the Reprobate then his Loynes on his owne People Therefore I say tremble at this all ye wicked which walke inordinately and yet say Tush God seeth not or Tush God careth not for it q Psal 10.12 or Tush no harme shall happen vnto vs r v. 14. You Ignorant men and women whose cry is That t was neuer so bad a world as since there was so much Preaching and you whose howling is after the Oynions of Egypt the Masse of Rome the Pax of old the Crucifixe the Durges and Latine Prayers Yee that praise the plenty in time of Poperie you that say That you felt no euill when ye offered Cakes to the Queene of Heauen Oh King of Heauen forgiue your ingratitude What was it then a merry world when there was Monie and no Men Was it a merry world when the Crucifixe was kissed and Christ was Crucified anew Was it a merry world when Ignorance rid on horse-backe and Knowledge went on foote Mourne oh mourne ye for your Ingratitude and pray the Lord that your eyes may be opened to see your errour and your hearts may be enlarged to giue God the praise due vnto his name for that his Punishments haue not beene as our sinnes infinite vnmeasurable vnsupportable Againe tremble at this all ye Drunkards whose cry is like the former saying What though some Good-fellowes die with the Cup and Pipe at their mouthes What though others are stabbed in their Drunkennesse yet tush no such harme shall happen vnto vs. But oh ye foolish how long will ye loue foolishnesse And yee beasts how long will yee loue beastlinesse Tell me Is not Gods seate in heauen Is not his hand stretched out still Is not his Anger as hot and the fire of his indignation as fierie and fierce against sinners as euer it was Surely yes And why then should you yet heale your soules soares with the salue of Securitie Oh doe no more so foolishly for this sinne yea and all other like its Author the Deuill is but a Lyar Mentitur Peccatum vt fallat Vitam pollicetur vt perimat saith Saint Cyprian ſ Cyprianus l●b 1. epist 8. It lies that it may deceiue it promiseth life that it might inflict Death Therefore let the bitternesse of Punishment make vs all distaste the sweetnesse of Sinne. This Viper Sinne doth indeede like that Viperous Serpent yeeld a tickling delight to all our outward sences but as soone as the infected blood comes to the heart presently the body is in danger of death yea and so is our soule too if we doe not the sooner see to it and the more vigilantly watch ouer it Vbi Peccatum ibi Procella t Ci●rys hom 5. ad Populum Antioch Where sinne Raignes there the wrath of God will tempestuously beate on vs Say sinne therefore what it will beleeue thou the word of God which saith The wages of sinne is Death v Rom. 6.23 beleeue thou the well experienced in godlinesse which saith Dulce Peccatum Amara Mors x Author incognitus that no other fruit is to be pluckt from that Forbidden tree then pale blacke gastly and ghostly Death Hoc agitur Haec patitur this is committed that shall certainely be imposed Adam and Eue haue eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and euill and haue died the death y Gen. 2.17 And his posteritie that shall sinne yea securely sinne without feare of Iudgement past or to come may certainely expect and assuredly looke for worse things to happen to him And so much for the Certainty of the Punishment Secunda pars Secundae rationis Now followes the Extreamitie A worse thing The subiect that I am to speake of is Sickenesse still and therefore blame me not if I follow the Physitians as well in their Proportion as in their Potion in their Quantitie as in their Qualitie Physitians if they meete with a body hard to worke vpon they double their Dosses and vse more violent meanes So will the Lord deale with sinners when hee findes them obstinate If Pestilence that walketh in darkenesse will not affright them then let them look for Plagues destroying at Noone-day x Psal 91.6 If eight and thirty yeeres sicknesse will not admonish this man then let him looke for a longer or more loathsome disease A worse thing Where it is worth our noting that hee speakes not of a positiue punishment saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malum Euil● shall happen vnto him No nor yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Beza y Beza annotat in Mat. 12.45 saith is somewhat more but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aliquid deterius quám prius z Syrus graec in loc A thing farre worse then the former some hopelesse helpelesse remedilesse thing All

we Dwell not in it if we let it not raigne in our mortall bodies f Rom. 6.12 Sponte exequendo quod Peccatum imperat g Caluin in loc readily obeying whatsoeuer sinne commandeth wee neede not feare its Residencie Per Baptismum enim tollitur non vt Non sit sed ne Imputetur h Aug. de Nuptijs cap. 25. For by Baptisme it is taken away but how not So taken away as that it is not in them after Baptisme but So as that it is not accounted vnto them as sinne to whom all sinne is forgiuen And there are good reasons why Sinne should not haue this dominion Reason 1 First looke backe to our Baptisme in which being Baptised into Christ we haue put on Christ i Gal. 3.27 Proclaiming him to be our King and vowing our selues to be his Subiects and how can we then for feare or shame let sinne raigne in vs The Spirit hauing Deified vs by Baptisme saith Nazianzine k Nazian de bap orat 6. that is by Holinesse made vs Partakers of the Godly nature saith Saint Peter l 2 Pet. 1.4 yea being by It deliuered out of Prison discharged from the debt we owed It hauing deliuered vs also from Death regenerated the Soule gorgeously arrayed it and made passage for the Kingdome of heauen saith Basil m Basil 〈◊〉 ad P●p●… how shall we then suffer sinne to raigne Reason 2 Secondly see Sinne who or what it is Sinne is a Tyrant yea such a Tyrant as thrusteth himselfe by force and fraud into our best hold● so to shoulder our the right owners which who will if he know him entertaine in his house much lesse let raigne in his heart Sinne indeed is a Tyrant yea a Consuming Exacting Insatiable and Holding Tyrant For being dead in it we are holden saith the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n Rom. 7.6 De●eneb●ntur that is forcibly holden Holden in a miserable slauery and bondage both of the power of the law of the rigour of the law and of the curse of the law Sinne like a Tyrant ouerturneth all lawes and constitutions it maketh its owne will its law which when we haue entertained and obeyed and suffered to raigne what slauery is like ours Surely none No not the Israelites oppression in Egypt nor their vnmercifull entreatie in Babilon not the bloudy persecution of Antiochus nor the Turkes Gallie slauerie not the Popes fire nor Papists Gunpowder not the Spaniards Inquisition nor Amsterdam Brownists mercilessenes are not to be compared vnto it I remember a pretty question of the Orators and it is this Cicero Tarad 5 An ille liber sit cui mulier imperat cui leges imponat Whether he be a free man whom a woman may command and vnto whose lawes he must be obedient And he answereth Istum non solum seruum sed nequissimum seruum That such an one is not onely a Seruant but a Slaue yea an vnhappy bondslaue Etiamsian amplissima familia natus sit though he be both borne and bred and brought vp in neuer so ample neuer so honourable a familie I speake it not to approue the Orators speech I condem●e it rather but it will serue to inferre that the same may be s●ld of sinne For if any personall vice doth but obtaine its rege●cie what will it not make vs to doe Poscit et dandum est Vocat et veniendum Eijcit et abcundum Minatur et extimescendum It craues and we must giue it cals and wee must come it casts vs out and we must be gone it threatens and we 〈◊〉 f●are Nay and if this were all it were well but it is not ●f 〈◊〉 by as tyranny it makes the fruit of the wombe which is a Blessing to be a Curse it makes God of a tender Father to be a terrible Iudge it makes Christ which is a corner-stone to support to be a stone of offence to slumble at yea it makes the Gospell which is of it selfe glad tidings to be vnto vs heauie newes euen the sauour of Death vnto Death oh therefore let it not raigne in vs but rather let vs deale with Sinne as with a Tyrant and that on this wise 1. Take away its weapons 2. Banish its friends 3. Preuent its pollicies 4. Neuer offer conditions of peace with it for if we doe it will quickly encroach and get the chayre of estate and sit in our soules as King Therefore let it not Raigne c. Reason 3 Lastly consider sins wages when it hath made vs to take paines what will be our pay Surely in this life a galeing and wounded Conscience which shall continually suggest vnto vs our sinnes committed Gods law violated his Maiestie offended and punishment deserued This Worme shall gnaw this Scourge shall whip vs in this life Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum o I●menal sat 13 Yea the Tormentor shall shake an hidden whippe in the soule of the Tormented Nay neither is this all but Death shall also play its part for That indeed is sins proper pay as the Apostle witnesseth Rom. 6.23 saying The wages of sinne is death Mors vt debitum soluitur peccanti vti Militi stipendium suum ex pacto p Aretius in Rom. 6.23 Death is the Sinners due and shall be as surely paid him as the Souldier hath his presse money and the Seruant his couenant penny Therefore let not sinne raigne c. My application of which point shall be none other but this Vse namely to instruct vs Therefore to raigne ouer sinne Which if we will doe we must as warlike-kings fight lustily and with a good courage fearing none but God and yeelding to nothing but godlinesse which hath the promise of this life and that which is to come Both which if we will doe wee must follow the counsell of the Apostle who willeth vs To take the whole armour of God that wee may be able to withstand the assaults of the Deuill q Eph. 6.11 and to Resist in the euill day and to stand fast r v. 13. Know this oh thou Christian man whatsoeuer thou art that liuing here thou liuest in a Millitary world t 1 Cor. 7.31 and in a Church Millitant v 1 Tim. 2.15 Thou must therefore be a Souldier * 2 Tim. 2.3 and the course of thy life must be a fight x 1 Tim. 1.18 thou must expect the opposition of enemies y Luke 1.71 and annoyance with assaults z 1 Pet. 2.11 And therefore like a good Souldier thou must fight manfully that thou maist raigne Regally But before thou entrest combat with thy foes Put on thine armour be euery way in euery thing wel instructed as Mr Caluin expounds it a Quo signisicat debere omni ex parte instructor esse ne quod nobis desit But what Armour must thou put on Not Ionathans Bow nor Sampsons Iaw bone not Dauids Sling nor Peters Sword not