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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67750	An experimental index of the heart in which (as in a looking-glass) both profane and civil men may see enough, to make them in love with religion, being a most happie and providential conference between two friends (after the ones heart was changed) the which may both provoke and incourage all sorts of sinners to read the same, that (in the least) love themselves : drawn up and published for the good of all / by R. Younge ... ; add this as a second part to those three fundamental principles of Christian religion, intituled, A short and sure way to grace and salvation.	Younge, Richard.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y154; ESTC R7768	18,705	18

worst of men Wherefore if you are truly sensible of your wretchedness it is a good sign that you are in some forwardness to be recovered and really to become so good as formerly you but dream'd or imagined your self to bee And indeed the very first step to grace is to feel the want of grace and the next way to receive mercy is to see your self miserable Therefore our constant and most diligent search should be to find out the naughtiness of our own hearts and to get strenght from God against our prevailing corruptions Sect. XXXVII Loose Libertine But is there any hope for one so wicked as I who have turned the grace of God into wantonesse applying Christs passion as a warrant for my licenciousness not as a remedy and taking his death as a licence to sin his ●ross as a Letters pattent to do mischief As if a man should head his d●um of rebellion with his pardon For I have most spi●efu●ly and maliciously taken up arms against my Maker and fought against my Redeemer all my daies Convert Do but unfainedly repent you of your sins and forsake your former evill wayes and lay held upon Christ by a true● and lively ●aith my soul for yours God i● very ●eady to forgive them bee they neve● so many and innumerable for multitude never so ha●nous for qualitie mag●itude Yea I can shew you your pardon from the great King of Heaven for al that is past the which you may read at large Isai. 55 7. Ezek. 18. 21. to 29. and 33. 11. Jo l. 2. 12 13 14. Yea read 1 Cor. 6. 10 11. together with the story of Man●sses Mary M●gdelen the Thief and the prodigall Son you shal see presidents thereof Yea the very murtherers of the Son of God upon their serious and unfained repentance and stedfast believing in him received pardon and salvation And indeed dispai● is a sin which never kn●w Jesus True every sin deserves damnation but no sin shall condemn but the ●●ing and conti●uing in it True Repentance is ever blest with forgiveness And know this that Gods mercy is greater then thy sin what ever it bee you cannot be so infi●ite in sinning as he is infinite in pardoning if you repent yea sins upon repentance are so remitted as if they had never been committed I will put away thy transgressions as a cloud and thy sins as a m●●t Isay. 44. 22. And what by corruption hath been done by repentance is undone As the former examples witness Come and let us reason tog●ther saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow Isai 1. 18. Yea whiter then snow For the Prophet David laying open his blood guil●in●ss and his Originall impurity useth these words Pu●geme with Hysop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter then snow Psal. 51. 7. And in reason did Christ come to call sinners to repentance and shall he not shew mercy to the penitent O who would not cast his burthen upon him that desires to give ease As I live saith the Lord I would not the death of a sinner Ezek. 18. 32. and 33. 11. Onely apply not this s●lve before the ulcer be searcbed to the bottom Lay not hold upon mercy untill you be throughly humbled The onely way to become good is first to believe that you are evill and by accusing our selvs wee prevent Satan By judging our selvs wee prevent God Are wee as sick of sorrow as wee are of sin then may wee hopefully go to the Physitian of our souls who came into the world onely to cure the sick and to give light to them onely who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death God does not power the oyl of grace but into a broken and contrite heart Wouldest thou get out of the miserable estate of nature into the blessed estate if grace and of Satan's bondslave become the childe of God and a member of Christ Wouldest thou truly k●ow thine own heart and he very sensible how evil and wicked it is that so thou maist have a more humble conceit of thy self lay to heart these three particulars 1. The corruption of our nature by reason of Original Sin 2 Our manifold breach of God's righteous Law by actual sin 3. The guilt and punishment due to us for them both This being done thou wilt see and find thy necessity of a Redeemer And it is thirst onely that makes us relish our drink hunger our meat The full stomach of a Pharisee surcharged with the superfluities of his own merits will loath the hony-comb of Christ's righteousness This was it which made the young Prodig●l to relish even servants fare though before wanton when full fed at home No more rellish feels the Pharisaicall heart in Christs blood then in a chip But O how acceptable is the fountain of living waters to the chased hart panting braying The blood of Christ to the wearie and tyred soul to the thirsty conscience scorched with the sence of Gods wrath hee that presents him with it how welcome is hee even as a speciall choise man one of a thousand And the deeper the sence of misery is the sweeter the sence of mercy is Sect. XXXVIII Then if you would be satisfied for time to come whether your Repentance and conversion be true and sound these particulars will infallibly informe you If you shall persevere when this trouble for sin is over in doing that which now you purpose it is an infallible sign your repentance is found otherwise not If thou dost call to minde the Vow which thou madest in baptisme and dost thy indeavour to perform that which then thou didst promise If thou dost square thy life according to the rule of Gods word and not after the rudements of the world If thou art willing to forsake all sin without reserving one for otherwise that one sin may prove the bane of all thy graces even as Gidion had Seventy sons and but one Bastard and yet that bastard destroyed all the rest that were Legitimate Judg. 9. 5. Sin is like the Ivie in the wall cut off bow branch body stump yet some strings or other will sprout out again Till the root be pluck't up or the wall be pulled down and ruined it will never utterly die Regeneration or new birth is a creation of new qualities in the soul as being by nature onely evil disposed God's children are known by this mark they walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 1. If Christ have called you to his service your life will appear more spirituall and excellent then others As for your fails 't is a sign that sin hath not gained your consent but committed a rape upon your soul when you crie out to God If the ravished Virgin under the Law cried out she was pronounced guiltlesse A sheep may fall into the mire but a swine delights to wallow in the mire Great difference between a