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A96951	The only sovereign salve for the wounded spirit: approved by the author in himself Delivered by him in several sermons after his recovery: and now, published for the glory of his most gracious restorer, and for the comfort and settlement of any afflicted soul, that doth, or may labour under that weighty burden. By Richard Wortley, minister of Christ in his church, in Edworth in Bedfordshire.	Wortley, Richard, d. 1680.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3642A; ESTC R231974	144,585	300

God himself So St. Paul aggravates his sins calling himself the chief of sinners That he that had been so bred and knew so much that he should be such a cruel Persecuter and Blasphemer O I have sinned against knowledge Mercies Patience Chastisements Vows Promises Means Motions Checks after this manner doth the soul aggravate its sinful Follies in its Confession 5. In true Confession there will be shame A Saint will blush in secret to think that his soul which Christ hath married to himself in righteousness should be so polluted and defiled What fruit had you then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed Rom. 6. 21. Sin is alwaies attended with shame either with a reproachful shame from others or a penitent shame in secret or a confounding shame in the end Some indeed are so hardned that as Jeremy speaks Jer. 3. 3. They have Whores Forheads and refuse to be ashamed But the truly penitent soul in its Confession acknowledgeth with Daniel Dan. 9. 7. That righteousness belongeth unto God but unto us Confusion of Face because we have sinned against him 6. Lastly In true Confession there will be an acknowledgment of our unworthiness Jacobs Language is I am not worthy of the least of all thy Mercies Gen. 32. 10. The Prodigals I am not worthy to be called thy Son Luke 15. 21. St. Pauls I am not meet to be called an Apostle 1 Cor. 15. 9. The soul casts it self low at the Foot-stool of God with humble thoughts of it self The confessing Penitent calling himself dust and ashes with Abraham a worm with David a dog with the Syro-Phenician thinking that he never keeps distance enough or is low enough in his Acknowledgments Act 2. The second Act of true Repentance is sorrow for sin This with the next of hatred of sin is included in the word rending which the Prophet Joel useth alluding therein to the practise of the Jews who did use to rend their Garments upon the sight or hearing of any sad or loathsom thing as Jacob did for the loss of his Son Joseph Gen. 37. 34. and the High Priest at the supposed Blasphemy of Christ when he said he was the Son of God Mat. 27. 65. Wouldst thou then have thy wounded soul recovered and thy lost Peace restored rend thine heart in unfaigned sorrow for thy sinful Follies Sorrow in it self is a grief of the mind arising fro● a mans suffering by that which he abhors as hurtful to him In relation to sin it is twofold V●cious Sorrow And Godly Sorrow The first hath only respect to that punishment which sin hath deserved Such was that in Cain in Judas and is in many wicked men who have somtimes a kind of sorrow and remorse but it is not so much for the sin it self or indeed not at all for ●hat but in respect of that punishment whereunto by sin they have made themselves liable Such doubtless is in the Damned in Hell who are grieved for the punishment which they feel but not for the s●n ●hat d●served it The second namely Godly ●orrow is such as is in the Lords people upon their Repentance after their Falls Which may have a subordinate respect unto the punishment unto the wrath of God who is a consuming fire as St. Pauls exhortation thereupon makes it clear Heb. 12. ult And so likewise his perswading of men upon his knowledge of the Terrors of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 11. But the principal Object which godly sorrow hath a prime and special respect unto is the offence against God as it is a violation of and transgression against his most holy Will O the Saint of the Lord grieves and mourns in his soul that by his Follies he hath offended his good God his loving Father so gentle so merciful so gracious so patient so slow to anger so ready to pardon This goes near him this doth exceedingly afflict him Though it may be the temper of his Body is such that not a Tear fals from his eye yet he would willingly if he could that his heart should weep tears of Bloud for those his sinful Follies whereby he hath provoked such a God such a tender and loving Father This Sorrow is known to be true and unfaigned by those six effects of Godly Sorrow which the Apostle sets down 2 Cor. 7. 11. Which are Marks 1. Carefulness 2. Indignation 3. Fear 4. Zeal 5. Desire 6. Revenge The Apostle there adds a Seventh Effect of the godly Sorrow in the Corinthians which he cals defending or clearing of themselves in the Greek it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies defence which I conceive was an act p●oper only unto them in reference to the inc●stuous persons sin which they by way of defence cleared themselves of as not being guilty of approving thereof much less of glorying therein as they are charged and so cannot be taken in as a constant Mark of true godly sorrow in whomsoever 1. Then True sorrow for sin makes a man careful to shun all sin for the time to come especially that or those late Follies wherewith he was overtaken He will with all wariness shun the occasions which may draw him again into it He that hath once fallen into a dangerous Pit and is escaped out of it will take heed how he comes near the Brink of it again The sorrowful Soul will not only be shy of known sins which he knows to be such but he will abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thes 5. ●2 If he hath but the least suspition of it he carefully declines and avoyds it 2. The Second Effect is Indignation which in it self is a grief at the prosperity of those whom we think unworthy of it In reference to sin it is a mixture of grief and anger against a mans own Corruption that it should so prevail over him and enslave him that he should be compassed about with such a body of death from which he knows not which way to be delivered Such a mixture of Passion was doubtless in St. Paul stirring against his cross Flesh or Corruption that warred against the Law of his mind and was still at his Elbow and present with h●m to hinder him in doing good and to put him on to do that which he hated his indignation was ●o stirred against it that he cries out O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death What a wretched condition am I in Is there no way for me to be freed from it Rom. 7. 24. 3. True sorrow for sin is fearful of falling again The Saint of God upon his Follies which he now bewayles is made sensi●le of his own weakness he hath fallen and may again and therefore he walks in continual fear He knows his carnal part is as treacherous as ever and the Devil as malicious against him as ever and his Assaults as violent and he knows not how soon the Lord may leave him to himself and then in what case he shall

His Affectionss are perverted Being turned from God Slighting his Word 2 Tim. 4. 3. 4. Never praying unto him Psal 14. 4. Hating his Children Prov 29. 27. Being set on the world That is his Treasure Mat. 6. 21. That he minds Phil. 3. 19. To this corrupt frame of his soul his life is answe●able Mat. 7. 17. He is a worker of Iniquity Mat 7. 23. He walks in the waies of sin Prov. 1. 15. He accustometh himself unto it Jer. 13. 23. The Anointing of the head or hair was wont to set forth the chearfulness of the heart Mat. 6. 17. And was used by them who spent their time in voluptuous living Amos 6. 6. By my Apprehenders I understand all affected vanities whatsoever but especially as to my self that of worldly Pleasures By his being bare-headed a sinners boldness in sin By his deformed countenance a sinners loathsomness in the sight of God The heart of him in whom sin reigns being set upon the world it hath three Cords of vanity Is 5. 18. By which wicked men are taken and holden by them Pro. 5. 22. These are Honour Wealth Pleasure with the sins attending upon them 1 John 2. 16. Among all these vanities whatsoever is in the world is such Eccles 1. 2. None is so alluring and prevailing as Pleasure in which snare of Satan I was held and taken captive at his will 2 Tim. 2. 26. Voluptuousness hath a strong power over the soul and binds a sinner fast The Ambitious and Covetous when invited to the great Supper desired fairly to be excused but the voluptuous man answered flatly that he could not come Luke 14. 20. To let pass those temporal wants which it prepares the way unto Prov. 21. 17. with that brutish lowness in the spirit to which by sensuality the sinner is brought down Psal 32. 9. It discovers the mind to be wholly camal Tit. 3. 3. It choaks the seed of the Word Luke 8. 14. It takes off the heart from Goodness Hos 4. 11. It extingiusheth Charity Amos 6. 6. It blinds the mind 1 Kings 11. 3. It keeps out the Love of God 2 Tim. 3. 4. It puts the soul into a condition of spiritual death 1 Tim. 5. 6. To these add its shamelesseness at which height I was arrived And what can be expected but that he who is of purer eyes than to behold evil Hab. 1. 13. should with loathing as he doth from every one by any other vanity whatsoever yet enslaved to his Corruption turn away his face from that soul that is over-run with it Isa 59. 2. Obs Reigning Corruption renders a sinner vain bold in sin and loathsom in the eyes of God Vain Texts 2 Tim. 3 4. Lovers of Pleasures more than lovers of God 1 Pet. 1. 18. Redeemed from your vain Conversation Inst Solomons Wives turned away his heart 1 Kings 3. 12. The Gentises walked in the vanity of their minds Eph. 4 17. Bold in sin Texts Jer. 3. 3. Thou hadst an Whores Forhead thou refusedst to be ashamed 2 Pet. 2. 10. 13. They that walk after the flesh shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time I●st Jerusalem and Judah their countenance witnessed against them they declared their sin as Sodom and did not hide it Isa 3. 9. The Harlot caught the young man and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him I have decked my Bed c. Prov. 7. 13. 16. Loathsom Texts Ezek. 16. 6 c. I saw thee polluted in thine own Blood and I said unto thee when thou wast in thy Blood live Rev. 3. 18. I counsel thee to buy of me white rayment that thou maist be cloathed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear Inst Adam was afraid because he was naked and hid himself Gen 3. 10. Aaron by the Golden Calf had made the Israelites naked to their shame Exod. 32. 25. Reas The mind is in or set upon wicked works Col. 1. 21. Use 1. The slavish and loathsom condition of man while in the state of nature Rom. 1. 28 c. 2. Let not sin reign in thy mortal body that thou shouldst obey it in the lusts thereof Rom. 6. 12. 3. Beware of Voluptuousness it is a strong enflaver of the soul Luke 14. 20. 4. Thank God that thou art free from sin and become the Servant of Righteousness Rom. 6. 18. Resol Being dead unto sin and alive unto God I will yield my self unto God and my Members as Instruments of Righteousness unto him Rom. 6. 11 13. Ejac. O wre●ced man that I am Who shall deliver me from the body of this death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 24 25. Paral. II. Circ My Apprehender led me on I knew not whither until we came unto a Prison Obs Natural men are by their Corruption led on insensibly unto Hell TO the receiving of the things of God is required A due esteem of them Col. 1. 27. A spiritual eye to discern them Eph. 1. 18. The Natural man counts them foolishness and wanting this eye doth not cannot know them 1 Cor. 2. 14. By this ignorance that is in him he is alienated from the life of God Eph. 4. 18. And while he so continues He is a child of disobedience He is dead in sins and Trespasses He walks according to the Prince of the power of the Air. He hath his conversation in the lusts of the Flesh He fulfils the desires thereof being led on thereunto by that power by which he is blinded 2 Cor. 4. 4. Which ruleth and worketh in him Eph. 2 1 2 3. If St. Paul though freed from the dominion of sin yet bewailed his wretched estate in that he found it often rebelling and warring against the Law of his mind Rom. 7. 23 24. How deplorable is their condition in whom it still reigns In him there was a reluctancy against it Rom. 7. 15. These are led by it He was sensible of its rebellion and his own wretchedness Rom. 7. 24. These are not sensible of its Tyranny and their own Slavery 2 Tim. 2. 26. Slavery they are so far from esteeming it to be such that They readily obey it Rom. 6. 12. They delight in it Rom. 1. 36. They live after it Rom. 8. 13. They walk in it Col. 3. 7. Which deals with them at length as Men-stealers whom we call Spirits do with those poor deluded wretches that fall into their hands They promise them great matters but in the end ship them over for slaves Or as Soul-stealers those worser Spirits among us do by their seduced Proselytes either by good words and fair speeches deceiving the hearts of the simple Rom. 16. 18. Or by swelling words of vanity and promises of liberty alluring them through the lusts of the flesh through much wantonness to the embracing of those errours or worse from which they were escaped 2 Pet. 2. 18 19. So beguiling them of their reward Col. 2.