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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14608	[Summarie and short meditations touching sundry poynts of Christian religion] [gathered by T.VV. and now published for the education and profit of Gods saints].	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1610 (1610)	STC 24919.5; ESTC S4955	21,971	56

SVMMARIE AND SHORT MEDITATIONS touching sundry poynts of Christian Religion gath●●●● by T. VV. and now publi●h●d for the ed●●●cation an● profit of Go●s Saints Lord Iesus begin and make an end TO cloake sin seeing it runneth vp and downe in eu●ry mans mouth that we are all sinfull is dangerous and damnable Dangerous because the holie Ghost saith he that hideth his sin shall ●ot prosper And damnable because it caus●●h men to lie weltring and wallowing in iniquitie without repentance But humblie and vnfainedlie to conf●sse it is a readie way to obtaine pa●don and forgiuenes of the same at the hands of Almightie God because the Scripture telleth vs that if wee acknowledge and forsake our sinnes wee shall finde fauour And againe If wee confesse our sinnes God is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and the blood of Iesu● Christ shall purge vs from all iniquitie We haue sundrie true and vnpartiall witnesses both within vs and without vs against our selues to proue this truth vnto vs that we are miserable sinners First the stinging testimonie of our own conscience which though we many times bleere and blot out yet doth it sundrie times tell vs yea almost euery day when wee rise vp and euery night when we lie downe wee haue done many things that wee ought not to haue done and haue omitted many things which we ought to haue done Secondly God himselfe who beside that in his infinite knowledge he is able to charge vs with a thousand transgress●ons for euery one that wee know by our selues or others is also greater than our heart and conscience to condemn● vs because he knoweth all things Yea this eternall God doth by his iudgements conuince vs to bee sinners whether they be generall or particular By the generall his wrath being made manifest from heauen against all vngodlinesse and vnrighteousnesse of all men and against all the creatures themselues And by the particular whilest he manifesteth them either against some Nations as Israel Iuda c. or some Cities as Sodom Gomorrah Ierusalem c. or els priuate persons as Cain Ham Iudas and such like Beside these iudgements the Lord our God hath his blessed word which is pure and holy as himselfe to conuince vs of sinne which straightly chargeth vs first with the sinne and fall of our first parents Adam and Euah as guiltie therof vnto euerlasting condemnation Secondly with the sinne wherein we are conceiued and borne which we call originall sin which if we had no more vpon vs and in vs but that maketh vs the children of Gods wrath and displeasure Thirdly with the fruites of that originall sin which are all manner of disobediences inward and outward against Almightie God and our neighbours By al this we may see that al mouthes and hearts are iustly stopped and shut vp frō cleering themselues by thought word or otherwise and that all men are made subiect vnto the condemnation of God which that wee may the better feele it shall be good for vs first rightly to compare the horrible filthinesse that is in vs both outward and inward of bodie and soule with the wonderfull holinesse that is in God himselfe and he requireth of vs in his law Then to consider the greatnesse and notoriousnesse of our offences which may bee iustly aggrauated by looking into the qualities of the parties offending as Magistrates Ministers c. and the parties offended as Gods most excellent Maiesty and our deare brethren together with sundrie other circumstances of time place manner of doing● c. Thirdly to thinke vpon the multitude of our iniquities whic● are more in number than the haires of our head and being as the sand of the Sea both for multitude and weight are become as a burthen ouer heauie for vs to beare Lastly to weigh Gods fearfull iudgements both temporall and eternall which our sinnes haue deserued to bee powred forth vpon vs and for our terrifying are set down in his word and manifested in the world which are many indeed but chiefly these First his heauie hand lying sore vpon his creatures for our transgressions which should so much the more terrifie vs and humble vs indeed by how much themselues are subiect thereto not for any sinne of their own which they haue not but for our ini●uities Secondly the aduersities and afflictions of our life which are either bodily as sicknesses or spirituall as anguish of soule and torment of conscience which also the more heauily they are inflicted vpon vs the more mightily they s●ould cast vs downe and work vnderstanding in vs least otherwise God should haue iust cause to complaine that hee hath stricken vs in vaine Thirdly naturall death it selfe which is the parting asunder of the soule and the bodie for a time and was laid vpon our first parents and in them vpon vs as a part of that iust deserued punishment that they and we procured to our selues because we are all standing and falling together with them and in them And lastly the curse of the eternall God pronounced in his law vnto euerlasting condemnation both of bodie and soule without vnfained repentance and heartie turning to the Lord this most fitly sorting both for infinitnes and weight with our infinite and innumerable transgressions Whosoeuer fe●leth himselfe in such a miserable case must of necessitie as other good men heretofore haue done vnl●sse hee will wittingly refuse comfort and willingly cast away himselfe seeke some both sure and spe●die remedie least continuing in that lamen●able estate they bee swallowed vp of despaire and ouer much heauinesse If wee seeke to Angels and would worship them as some haue done heretofore they cannot stand vs in steed for howsoeuer they be excellent creatures yet they haue not that of themselues yea God should finde imperfection in thē if they were not maintained by his power and besides as they were not ordeined or created for such a purpose so they are iustly our enemies for sinne as whose nature is so pure that they cannot abide it and the armed souldiours of the Lord by his special appointment to our destruction for our vngodlines If we would looke to dead Saints as in time of superstition and Popery wee were taught and did as I feare me many men yet doe they cannot fitte vs any whit at all as well because the dead know nothing at all as also for that they themselues haue continually confessed of and against themselues that they haue alwaies stood in need of a Sauiour and if th●y could not saue themselues much lesse others If we cast our eies vpon men vnregenerated and yet liuing the scripture telleth vs there is none that doth good no not one nay th●y are all by nature the children of wrath and firebrands of condemnation not only vnapt and vnable to good workes for themselues but most fitte to all

that are baptised into Christ haue put on Christ euen to this end that so they might become sonnes yea heires of God and fellow heires with our Sauiour himselfe It teacheth vs also that we should indeuour to keepe the vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace hauing the same loue being of one accord and of one iudgement no man seeking his owne but euery man one anothers wealth seeing that we are one bodie in Christ and euerie one one anothers members as we are all by one sacrament of baptisme coupled vnto one head which is Christ and ioyned together too in one ●ody which is his Church It representeth vnto vs also thus much that we being baptised into Christs death shall by the power thereof die vnto sinne and that by the vertue of his rising againe we should walke in newnes of life Lastly that wee shall be raysed vp at the last day out of the dust of the earth and meete the Lord in the ayre and dwell with him for euer and euer The Lords supper sealeth vnto our consciences that Christ is that liuing bread which came downe from heauen of which whosoeuer truely eateth shall liue for euer because he doth not nourish vs to death for that is contrarie to his nature nor for a time because he liueth for euer and cannot die and such are the effects that flowe from him but vnto euerlasting life Also it setteth out vnto vs Christs death and passion with the benefits we reape therby and namely the remission and forgiuenes of our sinnes because as he neuer did any thing in vaine so much lesse died fruitlessely but that hee might purchase for vs eternal peace with God through the worke of our reconciliation with him Further it preacheth vnto vs that Iesus Christ himselfe God and man with all his spirituall and heauenly treasures is fully and wholie giuen vs by the Father that in him and through him taken hold of by faith we may bee fully nourished in the inward and outward man to the hope of euerlasting life It doth also confirme vnto vs the mystical vnion which is betwixt Christ and his Church hee dwelling in our hearts by faith and we thereby made members of his bodie of his flesh and of his bones Lastly it teacheth vs what vnitie and loue ought to be amongst vs because that thereby wee that are many are one bread and one bodie in as much as wee are all partakers of one bread To the worthy receiuing of this sacrament there is necessarilie required an earnest examination and true tryall of our selues which chiefely consisteth as I take it in effectuall stedfast faith and hartie repentance towards God and vnfained loue towards men Faith is a certaine perswasion and stedfast assurance which euery true christian man ought to haue that God the Father loueth him for Iesus Christ his Sonnes sake hee by the meanes of that faith particularly applying vnto himselfe all Gods promises specially those that concerne forgiuenes of sinnes and eternall saluation made vnto vs in the same his sonne Iesus Christ in whom all his promises are yea and amen Repentance is an earnest hatred of all manner of sinne inward outward past present or to come all proceeding from a right and reuerent feare of Gods eternall Maiestie which worketh so farre in vs that it maketh vs to forsake our selues and to striue to the mortification of our corruption to the ende wee may wholy giue ouer our selues to bee altogether gouerned by the holy Spirit of God in the seruice of his Maiestie Loue containeth in it not onely a sound affection to our brethren and friends but also the vnfained reconciliation of our selues vnto those whom wee haue offended and a readie forgiuing of others the offences they haue cōmitted against vs euen as willingly gladly freely as we would the Lord should forgiue vs for his Christs sake That faith that is outwardly wrought in vs by Gods word and confirmed by the partaking of the holy Sacraments is not an idle vaine or dead faith but stedfast vnfained and working by loue yeelding foorth the fruites of blessed obedience not according to the darknesse and corruption of our owne will lusts and affections for they euermore rebell against God Neither according to mens manners and examples because they are no sufficient warrants for our conuersation nor yet after the customes and fashions of this present euill world for we are forbidden to fashion our selues thereby but according to that good perfect and acceptable will of God set foorth and commaunded vnto vs in his law which is and must be alwaies a light vnto our feete and a lanterne vnto our paths and is indeed the onely true sufficient a●d right rule of all righteousnesse and well doing This large volume of Gods will plentifully and plainly reuealed in the Canonicall Scriptures of the old and new Testament God the Father hath in great mercie for our weaknesse sake abridged into two tables containing ten Commandements Wherein wee are specially to marke these two things First that it is the minde of the Law-giuer in commanding good things to forbid the contrarie euils and in forbidding euill things to commaund the contrarie good the Almightie therein meeting with mans corruption and the frowardnes of his heart who supposeth that if hee doe no euill though he lead an idle and vnprofitable life from goodnesse thinketh notwithstanding that hee hath performed his dutie Secondly that the Lord by his law mindeth to teach vs to bridle and subdue not onely the act of sinne as the Pharisies imagined nor the consent to the same in our hearts and affections alone as the Sorbonists and Popish schoole Diuines dreame a● this day but also the least lust and motion that may prick vs thereto or rise vp in our minde against the same We must know further that this law of God is obserued and broken inwardly and outwardly for the inward breaking or obseruing thereof because ●o man knoweth what is within man but ●he spirit of God and the spirit of man him●elfe euery man must be left vnto him●elfe and yet all are bound both by the ●ertue of Gods holy Commandement ●nd also by that excellent profession ●●ter which they are named not onely ●eeply to enter into the consideration of themselues but also to know that they walke in his presence before whose eyes all things are naked and plaine Touching the outward breaking o● obseruing thereof wee must know that the breach of it is then done when any thing forbidden by that law is committed or any thing commanded by that law is left vndone and on the other side that obedience is then yeelded when any thing commanded by that law is performed or any thing forbidden by that law is left vnaccomplished For good reason is it whatsoeuer mans witte can cunningly dispute or