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death_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	4,018	5	9.9916	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03605	The soules humiliation	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1637 (1637)	STC 13728; ESTC S117849	136,029	230

and that suddenly Oh let us pitie them will you not yield now but you will stand it out to the last man The Lord comes out in battell aray against a proud person and singles him out from all the rest and when the vyalls of his wrath are poured out upon all wicked ones mee thinks the Lord saith Let that drunkard and that swearer alone a while but let mee destroy that proud heart for ever You shall submit in spite of your teeth when the great God of heaven and earth shall come to execute vengeance and doe not think to scarre God with your mocks you that wil sweare a man out of your company Consider that place in Iob and see how the Lord comes with all his full might against a proud man Iob 15.25.26 27. It is good to read this place often that God may pull downe our proud hearts For he stretcheth out his hands against the Almighty saith the text and strengtheneth himselfe against God and he saith I will do it though my life lie at the stake for it he strengthens himselfe and will doe it Surely God is afraid of him he comes so well mann'd the Lord must deale some way with him to overthrow him Mark what the text saith The Lord runnes upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his bucklers because hee covereth his face with his fatnesse and maketh collops of fat upon his flankes the Lord comes upon him not at the advantage but in the height of his pride and in the rage of his malice the Lord will come upon him and ruinate him for ever Those that now stand it out and cast off all carelesly throwing away the commandements of God I would have them at the day of their death to out-stand the curse of God The Lord God commands to sanctifie his Sabbaths and to love his truth and his children yet you will not but you will strive against all I would haue you to out-stand the curse of God in the day of judgement and when the Lord Iesus shall say Depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fire stand it out now and say I will not goe to hell Lord I will not be damned No no you broke the cords here but the Lord will binde you in chaines of darknesse for ever remove those chaines if you can No Esay 2.17 the haughtinesse of men shall be brought low and the loftinesse of men shall be abased and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day Vse 2 The second Use is for instruction to shew unto us that an humble Soule is mervailous teachable and tractable and is willing to yeeld unto and to be guided by any truth it submits and there is no quarrelling against the commandements of God one word of Gods mouth is enough If the Lord reproves it takes the same home to it selfe if the Lord promiseth it beleeves and if the Lord threatens it trembles It is easie to be convinced of whatsoever it is informed if it have no good reason to gaine-say it It is not of that wayward and pettish disposition that it will not be satisfied though all his reasons be answered and all objections taken away It is not led by his owne humours as many a man is though his conceits be against reason and opposite against God and his grace Nay it is content to yeeld to the authority of the truth and to take the impression of every truth it heares and yields Iob 34.32 and obeyes and frames it selfe answerably As Iob saith That which I know not teach thou mee and if I have done any iniquity I will doe so no more The humble Soule is content to confesse his ignorance and to submit to any truth that may enforme him and it is content to receive that mercy and grace that is offered by what meanes soever God seeth best to Communicate it Nay the heart that is truly submissive is as willing to take comfort when it is offered upon good grounds as it is to performe dutie enjoyned By a foolish pettishnesse the divell withdrawes the hearts of Gods owne people from much comfort that God hath dished out of purpose for their benefit For howsoever the Soule of a poore sinner be truly touched yet for want of this lowlinesse and this teachablenesse and submission it refuseth that sap and sweet that it should take and receive from the Lord. Take a poore sinner that hath many sinnes burthening of him and hee is crushed with them and that in truth he desires comfort but receives none Let the Minister of God come and answer all his arguments and satisfie all his quarrels that he can make and set him on a cleare boord and tell him that the work of grace is cleare and mercy is appointed for him Now marke how he flyes of through that sullennesse and untoward peevishnesse and pride of Spirit hee casts away the mercy and yields not to the comfort offered though he is content to yield to the duties enjoyned and so he deprives himselfe of that mercy and comfort that is offered and thus when all is done time after time the Soule saith I see it not and I perceive it not and all the world shall not perswade me of it Why what are you wiser then all the world what a pride of heart is this Oh saith he another man may be cozened and deceived but I know my owne heart better then any Minister doth But you tell the Minister what your condition is and so what you know hee knowes and hee hath more judgement to enforme you then you have of your selfe Then saith the Minister all your cavils and objections are answered and remooved and all that worke of grace that God hath wrought you have made it knowne and revealed and all this is made good by the Word of God now if all these quarrels be answered and if all the reasons and evidences of the worke of grace be made cleare that you cannot deny them then why may not you take comfort Downe with that proud heart of yours that will not beleeve whatsoever the Minister saith Oh the height of pride and haughtinesse of heart in this case I speake to you to whom comfort and mercy is impropriated downe with those proud spirits I say It is not because you cannot but because you will not It is said in Esay God prepares the garment of gladnesse for the spirit of heavinesse When the Lord seeth the soule prepared and humbled Esa 61.3 he takes measure of it and disheth out a comfort answerable he prepares a consolation as fit as may be and yet the Soule will not put it on nor be warned and refreshed with it as it is with some way-ward untoward childe who when his father hath prepared a suit of cloathes fitting for him because he hath not such and such a lace hee will not put it on but throwes all away Oh it is marvellous pride of spirit a rod

all thy contempt and pride and all thy Stubbournes of Spirit at last God opens thine eyes and breakes thy heart and gives thee a fight of and sorrow for these sinnes wilt thou come before the Lord and say Lord I haue repented of my sinnes past and soe I hope thy Iustice is satisfied and all accounts made euen betweene thee and mee the Lord would answere it is true thou dost repent and reforme thy selfe the gospell requires it but who payes the od thousands and who satisfies for thy old drunkennes and for thy thousands of pride and Stubbornesse and all thy carelesnes and all thy contempt of God and his grace and who satisfies for all thy blasphemies and omissions of holy duties and the like the Lord may justly take the forfeit of thy Soule and proceede in Iudgement against thee to thy destruction for ever our repentance and amendment is a new dutie which the Lord requires of us from the gospell but it is not the paying of the old debt for if we do not repent we stand guiltie of the breach of the gospell and soe must satisfie for that sinne The breach of the Law is sinne and the wages of sin is death the wages of sinne is not repentance nor amendment but it is death then repentance will not satisfie for sinne noe noe the wages that must bee laid downe for a mans sinne is death As the Lord said In the day that thou eatest of the forbidden fruite Gen. 2.17 thou shalt dye the death And therefore the Apostle saith Gal. 3.10 cursed is every one that continues not in all things written in the Law to doe them Repentance is onely a worke of the gospell to bring our hearts in frame againe but the breach of the Law must be satisfied for soe that having sinned against the Lord and wronged his Iustice we must either dye our selves or have one to dye for us then there is noe laying downe of any satisfaction to God by any thing that we can doe in this case but we must have recourse to our Saviour who onely can satisfie gods wrath for our sinnes Fifthly As a sinner is utterly unable to bring himselfe into a good estate by all the meanes that he can use so he is unable to maintaine his lot and to keepe himselfe aforehand in a Christian course when he is brought unto it Therefore as it necessary to have a Saviour to pardon us So it is necessary to have a Saviour to continue that estate of grace to us for our good When the Lord in mercy had given to Adam in his innocency perfect holinesse and righteousnesse insomuch that hee was able to keepe the Law and to purchase favour for himselfe Adam then fell and spent all that stock of grace and if we had our stocke in our owne hands we should spend all and be ruinated for ever if God did leave us to our selves If Adam having no sinne could not keepe himselfe in that happy estate much lesse are we able that have much corruption in us therefore it is not onely required to goe to Christ for grace to pardon us but we must goe to Christ to maintaine our grace and to keepe our hearts in frame here and to bring us to a Kingdome for ever hereafter When Adam had spent all the stocke of grace and proved a bankrupt the Lord would raise him up againe but he would not put the stocke into his owne hands againe but he puts it into the hands of Christ As a man that gives his childe a portion and he spends it all now his father will raise him againe but will not put it into his owne hands but into the hands of some friend and will have his Sonne goe to that man for his allowance every day and for every meale So it is with the Lord our heavenly Father because we have mispent all that wisedome and holinesse and righteousnesse which God gave Adam and in him to all of us therefore the Lord would not put the stock of grace into our owne hands againe but he hath put it into the hands of Christ and will have us depend upon Christ for every crum of grace yea even for the will to doe any good and we must goe to him that he may preserve and maintaine the worke of grace in us and wonderfull happy are we that it is so For should the Lord set the divell and us together all were gone The Lord Iesus gives grace and continues it and helps us to persevere in grace and so makes us come to the end of our hopes even the salvation of our Soules Oh therefore looke up to the Lord Iesus Christ and say Oh it is a blessed mercy that when my heart is proud vaine loose and foolish that then I may goe to the Fountaine of grace 1 Peter 1 5. for humilitie and for grace We are kept saith Saint Peter By the power of God through faith unto salvation As if he had said all the powers of hell and darknesse are come about us and a world of wickednesse besets us and all the powers of the world and the corruptions of our owne hearts allure us Now we cannot stand by our own strength therefore we have need of a Christ that we may be kept by his power and be able to suffer and to doe any thing for his names sake and that hee may preserve us in that great day of accounts 1 John 4.4 And the Apostle Iohn saith Little children you are of God and have overcome the world for greater is hee that is in you then hee that is in the world Hee doth not say greater are you then he that is in the world but greater is he that is in you c. Hee doth not say greater is your humilitie then your pride greater is your patience then your impatience and greater is your love then your hatred but he saith The Lord Iesus is greater in us to succour and to helpe us then all the temptations of the divell and the corruptions of our hearts that can presse in upon us to doe us any hurt or to hinder us in a Christian course Doest thou thinke thy owne hearing and praying and duties will serve the turne and save thy Soule No no thou art an undone man if thou rest upon thy owne crazie bottomes Amend thou mayest and pray thou oughtest but these will not save thee these will not cause the acceptation of thy person with God nor justifie thy Soule before his Tribunall All these are poore weake and crazie meanes For if thou canst not doe what God requires and if thou doest not what thou art able and if in the best of thy services there is pride and stubbornnesse enough to condemne thee and when thou risest up from prayer thou hadst need pray againe for pardon of thy prayer Nay couldst thou doe all that thou shouldest after conversion in the most strictest and exactest manner yet that doth not