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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16325	Helpes to humiliation	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.	1630 (1630)	STC 3234.5; ESTC S210	18,834	160

Record and now lye as so many sleeping Lyons gathering strength and vigor against such time as the Lord shall awake the conscience and then they will appeare and rent thy soule in pieces I say let naturall men consider of this point and they shall see themselues miserable for there are some for small sinne put to such frights as they could not bee comforted in a long space as some who hauing an adulterous proiect without any actuall pollution and others who hauing found a trifle and made no conscience to restore it by light of naturall conscience knowing they did not as they would be done by was put into vnspeakable horror and some who hauing an vnworthy thought of God these were put into such amazement that they wisht they had neuer beene If these for such small things in mens account haue come to such a passe that they tooke no delight in any earthly thing but are put to their wits end ready to make away themselues wishing themselues annihilated then what tearing of haire what horror of conscience will seize vpon thee on thy bed of death with what a gashly countenance wilt thou looke vpon that blacke and hellish Catalogue of all thy sinnes as lies oathes railings scoffings at Gods people rotten speeches bedlam passions goods ill gotten time ill spent prophanation of Sabbaths and killing Christ at euery Sacrament as all naturall men doe These shall be summoned before thee and charged vpon thy conscience by the iust God then consider in proportion what horror will bee in thine heart no heart can conceiue it nor tongue of men and Angels vtter it Now then attend and let none blesse themselues and say I neuer felt this misery therefore it shall neuer hurt mee I tell thee it is the perfection of thy misery that thou art insensible of it to be soule-sicke and feele it not is the complement of misery and the reasons why thou canst not see it are these seuen The diuell while thou art his will not trouble thee hee is a Politician of almost sixe thousand yeeres experience knowes if once thou see thy sinnes hee shall loose thee therefore hee blindes thee Thy conscience is lull'd asleepe with carnall pleasure and worldly contentmēts A bucket of water is heauy on earth but in its owne place it is not so When men are meerely naturall sinne is in its owne place and the weight is not felt The conscience of a naturall man is like a wolfe in a mans body while it s fed with carnall friends good fellowship some great busines of the world c. it s quiet but take this away and then it s felt A naturall man is spiritually dead and a dead man feeles no weight you know He lookes on sinne through false glasses as vpon couetousnesse and vsury through the glasses of good husbandry so prodigality through the glasse of liberality For want of consideration If we would by our selues consider when the Minister presseth Sabbath breaking or any other sin and say this is my case but now by the mercy of God I will be humbled this would much helpe vs to see our misery Thou hast had thy hand in murthering many a soule all thy drunken companions thy brethren in iniquity many peraduenture with whom thou hast cōuersed are dead and in hell long agoe thou art guilty of the damnation of their soules Cain was a cursed man and had a brand vpon him for killing but a man then how will the murthering of so many soules affright thee if thou hast beene a meanes to set them to hell as 1. For thy wife thou shouldst haue liued with her as a man of knowledge For thy Children thou shouldst haue catechized them and brought them vp in religion For thy seruants it may bee thy example hath made them swear lye c. How will this soule curse thee in the pitt of hell and curse that time that euer they first saw thee but no carnall man will beleeue this till they feele it Thou hast beene the slaue of Sathan worse then a Turkish Gally-slaue all thy life for when thou mightest haue bene Gods Freeman wouldest not the diuill hath bid thee lye sweare breake Gods sabbaths c. and thou hast obeyed him and beene the diuels drudge The Turkish fetters are but cold yron at the worst but thine bee inuisible chaines of eternall damnation He scourgeth thy naked soule with inuisible scorpions feeds thee euery day with fire brimstone When thou art out of the Turkish slauery thou mayest bee a man againe but here Sathan scourgeth thee and thou seest it not hee feedeth thee with poyson and thou tastest it not And shortly hee will locke thee vp in perpetuall torments where thou shalt neuer bee freede from diuels First now thou art in health thou thinkest all is well but know to the contrary whilst thou art but naturall and vnconuerted Thou dishonorest God in a high degree thou prouokest the glory of his pure eye euery day by euery sinne thou committest Thou tramplest vnder foote the blood of Christ in euery Sacrament if thou beest not a conuert The Spirit puts good motions into thy heart as at this time it may be thou resoluest by the mercy of God to leaue all thy former waies and bee Gods seruant but presently thou triflest it away by worldly talke and thy old companions The Angells offer to guarde thee but thou refusest their attendance and denyest to be vnder their protection while thou wandrest out of thy wayes To Gods children thou art as a goade in their sides Thou drawest wife and children neighbors and all thou canst to hell by thy ill example c The creatures thou art mercilesse vnto for thy sinne adds to their misery which they groane vnder and thou yet addest to their burden by thy siune Thou art liable to all the ill that a man vnconuerted may indure or to any sinne that a man destitute of diuine grace may commit as To spirituall hardnesse of heart blindnesse of minde slauery vnder thy lusts searednesse of conscience or committing the sin against the Holy Ghost To temporall any thing that may befall any man as to be possessed of the diuell c. I wish euery naturall man seriously to consider this for thou dying in thy naturall estate art certainly damned and for any thing thou knowest thou mayest dye the next moment and then all things are thine enemies death which is certaine but how when or where thou knowest not Caluin saith A man may dye a thousand wayes in one houre Some Physitians say there are three hundred diseases in the body all mortall Besides new sinnes haue begotten new diseases and thou mayest dye suddenly by an impostume thy house may be fiered thou consumed by it thy horse may stumble and so destroy thee a tile may fall as thou art walking and so kill thee an Adder vnder the grasse or hearbes may sting thee

the Lord Therefore is wrath vpon thee from before the Lord. Or as Psal. 50. 18. When thou sawest a theese thou consentedst with him and hast beene partakers with adulteres Therefore as Moyses said to the people Separate your selues from the Tents of Corah least ye perish with them And Come out of Babylon my people haue no communion with that Whore least yee perish in her sinnes and be destroyed with her plagues Reu. 18. Dauid saith I haue not dwelt with vaine persons nor will I haue fellowship with the vngodly Odi Ecclesiam malignantiū And who would vouchsafe to let their loue runne on such in this life that must bee separated in the world to come But for workes of thy particular calling as buying selling salutations c. wee must haue these or we must out of this world as 1 Cor. 5. 10. 11. By participation Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues so Magistrates which execute not their office are guilty of all the sins which the people commit within the compasse of the time of their gouernment and they are all set on their score without repentance By silence when thou hearest a good man traduced and sayest nothing especially dumbe dogges euery Sabbath is a bloody day to them for their silence is cause of all the iniquity done that day all these things which they do amisse whether by swearing Ale-house haunting c. all are set on his score so all those that are faint and cowardly for Gods glory and truth By defending Woe to them that call darknesse light and light darknesse Therefore if any by quicknesse of wit will labour to maintaine vsury bribery c. they are guilty of those sins By counselling as Iesabell counselled her husband to kill Naboth Or as those say Come let vs crowne our selues with rose buds before they be withered let vs all bee partakers of our wantonnesse c. By commanding as Dauid commanded Vriah to be set in the fore front of the battell and therefore guilty of his death By commending as those that commended Herod for his oration saying It is the voyce of a God they were guilty of his sinne in taking honour from God By conniuency as Ely winked at his sons for which you may see what a fearefull iudgement fell vpon that house for forbearing them If we had no other sins in a day of humiliation it were able to breake the hardest heart but especially for maisters of Families who winke at their parents and seruants swearing sabbath breaking c. If these bee not guilty of the former sinnes yet they are guilty in not praying with them and bringing them to extraordinary exercises By consenting as Paul bewayled that he carried the cloathes of them that slew Stephen when he was stoned By not sorrowing for them Dauid shewes what Christians ought to doe By not praying against them for the suppressing of them Consider the sinnes of the times Dauids eyes gusht out with teares to see men transgresse the Law So Lots heart was vexed daily with the sinnes of the people amongst whom hee liued 2. Pet. 2 8. And blessed are they that mourne so Math. 5. 4. obserue these seuerall branches wel and thou shalt finde sinnes enow to mourne for Now for the 2. Act. viz. A right apprehension of Gods wrath and fiery indignation and the pure eye of God against sin Now the Christian oftentimes complaines that hee cannot apprehend Gods wrath sufficiently Let him take these helps The seuerity of Gods Iudgement against sin for which He threw downe the Angels from Heauen to be Diuels for euer which might haue done him abundance of glory and that as some thinke but for a thought For but eating an apple which some count a small fault hee cast Adam out of Paradice and sent a world of misery vpon him his posterity Hee drown'd the world which shewes the infinite purity in God not to abide sinne Hee burnt Sodom for those very sinnes now reigning amongst vs. Hee reiected the Iewes which were his most deare people for they so prouoked God that they are now no nation and his wrath hath so fiercely seized on them that they are most cursed vagabōds and so haue beene a thousand sixe hundred yeares Consider hee hath created horror of conscience which is a hell vpon earth for the punishment of sinne but aboue all the torments of hell that woefull place and state prepared for the wicked where the greater part of the world shall bee howling for euer Consider how hard a thing it is to get pardon for sinne in that the Iustice of God was hard to bee satisfied Imagine all the world were turned into a masse or lump of gold the stones of the streets into precious pearles and the Sea and Riuers all flowed with liquid streames of most pure gold they would not satisfie the wrath of God for the least sinne if all the Angels and creatures in heauen and earth had ioyney together made one feruent prayer for mans sinne nay if that they had offered them selues to bee annihilated it could neuer haue beene effected nay if the Sonne of God himselfe should haue supplicated his Father with most earnest intreaties could he haue beene heard vnlesse he had taken our flesh vpon him and suffered what diuels and men could imagine to inflict vpon him Which well considered there is infinite cause to bring vs to a sense of Gods wrath that hee should lay and suffer such infinite torments to bee on him that hee cryes out vnto God My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Though he loued him infinitely as himselfe yet he would haue his Iustice satisfied The vnresistable comming of God against sinners though he is wonderfull ready and easie to be intreated whilst hee vouchsafeth a day of visitation But if men will withstand the day then hee comes in deuouring rage and his wrath being once kindled shall burne to the bottome of hell then his Arrowes shall drinke blood and eate flesh Hosea 13. 8. then will he meete them as a Beare robbed of her whelpes and teare in pieces when there is none to helpe Psal. 7. 2. And Esay 66. 15. is set downe the manner of his comming with fire and Chariots like a whirlewinde Gods holinesse which opposeth sinne and is contrary to it that hee lookes not on the least sinne with the least allowance Get a sense of the vnspeakable misery thou art liable vnto by reason of sinne for which purpose consider all thy sinnes with their circumstances as of times past present and to come Looke backe vpon all thy sinnes past that euer thou committedst all thou hast beene guilty of euer since thou wast borne originall or actuall known or vnknown of thought word and deede They are written with a penne of iron and with the point of a diamond not to bee raced out they are all vpon