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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29204	The right way to safety after ship-wrack in a sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons, in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin : at their solemn receiving of the blessed sacrament / by John, Lord Bishop of Armagh.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4231; ESTC R35340	13,261	27

Ignorance or to Surprize or to the violence of Temptation Charity delights not in carrying about fardles of Tales and Calumnies as Pedlars do their Packs from House to House nor to divulge the Faults of Men as cursed Cham did the Nakedness of his Father but to conceal them and to suppress them as Joseph was not willing to make Mary a publique example Charity is not vindictive to write Injuries in Marble but buries them in oblivion He that wants this cover is an unclean Vessel He that hath not this wedding Garment is sure to be cast into outer darkness but he that hath it is blessed he shall prosper Judge not and you shall not be judged The second good Cover is Conversion Jam. 5. 20. He that converteth a sinner shall save a soul and hide a multitude of sins Just as he converts a Sinner and saves a Soul so he hides sins not primitively but derivatively not principally but subordinately not sovereignly but ministerially He converts morally but Grace Physically he by perswading but Grace by renewing Now Conversion being an infallible way to Remission he that helps to convert helps to cover sin that 's one way 2. He that converts a man helps to amend him and after amendment the shame of former sins is covered the memory of them is rather a Badge of Honour than a note of Ignominy like the scar of a Souldiers wound after it is healed Thus he hides the sins of his Convert But he hides his own sin likewise that is dispositively he renders himself more capable of Gods pardon Blessed are the merciful for they shall finde mercy But those busie Bodies whose Affections are stronger than their Judgements who labour with tooth and nail to spread abroad their erroneous Dreams must expect no share in this Blessing VVo be to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you compass sea and and land to make a Proselyte and make him two-fold more a child of Hell than your selves The third kinde of covering of sin is the forgiving of it Psal. 85. 2. Thou hast forgiven their iniquity and covered all their sins that is covered them from the eye of thy Justice as a Wound is covered with a Plaister to cure it as a dead Body is covered in the Grave to avoid the stench of it as the Doors of the Israelites were covered with the Blood of the Paschal Lamb to cause the destroying Angel to pass by them In the same regard elsewhere the Remission of sins is called a forgetting of them a casting of them behinde the back a burying them in the bottom of the sea of all Covers this is the best Psal. 32. 1. Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is covered But these are not the Covers intended in my Text the first of which is down-right Denial as Gehezi thought to have out-faced his Master and Ananias and Sapphira St. Peter Prov. 30. The harlot eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith What have I done Men are too apt to forget the all-seeing Eye of GOD like Woodcocks which thrust their Heads in a Bush and think no man sees them because they see no man Let the leprosie of Gehezi let the sudden death of Ananias Sapphira warn us to take heed how we seek to cover our faults with lyes well may it advantage a man a little for the present as a lye got St. Peter his admission into the high Priests hall but it hath ever a foul ending and within a while forfeits the whole stock of a mans credit and reputation Therefore the Scripture saith That a lying Tongue is but for a moment and to God it is a very abomination Prov. 12. 22. Then tell the Truth and shame the Devil When a Fault is ingenuously discovered the Amends is half made The second Cover is mincing or extenuating of our sins as the Sluggard Yet a little sleep a little slumber and Jonathan did but taste a little Honey upon his Rods end But a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump a few dead flies cause the oyntment of the Apothecarie to stink Eccl. 11. He that clippeth a little of the Kings Coyn is guilty of Treason every little Sand hath his weight and it is all one whether a man be pressed to death with an heap of Sand or a Mass of Lead whether a Ship be overwhelmed with one great wave or drowned with many small Leaks More perish by the daily habitual presumptuous practice of lesser sins than by one foul act of some greater sin We detest that horrid Paradox That all sins are equal That he is as great a Transgressor that kills a Cock-Chicken without a cause as he that murthers a Prince But he that makes light of any sin when he comes to make up his account with God destroys himself yet this is often our Condition A mote in our neighbours eye shews greater than a beam in our own The third Cover is that of Excuses Saul pleads for a Sacrifice to the Lord to excuse his own Disobedience Gehezi pleads the necessity of the Sons of the Prophets for his Bribery Judas alleageth the poor to palliate his Covetousness When the King of heaven invites Men to his great Supper one hath married a Wife another purchased a Farm the third must go to prove some Oxen many frame Excuses to themselves with as much ease as the Spider weaves her Webs Every Sin hath its Cloak Malice and Revenge pretends zeal of Justice Willful Murther I mean in our Duellists which cries to Heaven for Revenge muffles it self up in the Cloak of Honour and Reputation These Fig-tree Leaves may serve to cover our Sins well enough whilst it is Vacation but take heed of the Term-time when it comes When Conscience begins to spit Fire and Brimstone in our Face when the Devil pulls off the Hood wherewith he hath blinded us then all these painted Excuses vanish away we hear nothing but Hues and Cries we see nothing but evident Destruction The fourth Cover is Transferring of our sins upon others as Adam upon the Woman the Israelites upon their Fathers The Fathers have eaten sowre grapes and the Childrens teeth are set on edge as if the multitude of Delinquents did lessen the Offence nay rather the more the Transgressors the nearer are the Judgements of God Others accuse the Times and evil Company of their Faults How should one stick say it remained unscorch'd in the midst of a flaming Bundle 'T is true As fire begets fire so doth sin evil manners corrupt good though the operation be not always present Poyson must have a time of working The more our familiarity grows with sin the less the deformity thereof appears After the Musick is ended the Tune still remains in our Ears He that makes Conscience of his Ways must avoid evil Company as he would do Poyson or an house infected with the Plague and write Lord have mercy upon us on the one Door as well as on the other