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A33462	Capel's remains being an useful appendix to his excellent Treatise of tentations, concerning the translations of the Holy Scriptures : left written with his own hand / by that incomparably learned and jucicious divine, Mr. Richard Capel, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford ; with a preface prefixed, wherein is contained an abridgement of the authors life, by his friend Valentine Marshall.	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Marshall, Valentine.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656. Tentations.	1658 (1658)	Wing C471; ESTC R5922	60,793	168

let in sin but rather this is against sin So Paul I do that I would not I do not do what I would there is no question but there is some ignorance some not knowing of him when any sinne is sinned Master Anthony Burges speech I think is in the right All sins saith he are called because all sinners are ignorant of something they should know there being no sinne which doth not proceed from some errour in the practical judgement For although a man sin wilfully and advisedly so that there is no other cause of the malice but the malice it self as Austine speaks of some of his sins yet even then there is an errour in that mans conscience Thus he and to this I subscribe So that it is not faith nor knowledge which dwelleth in us is the cause why we sin but as Paul speaks of himself it is sin which dwelleth in us Not I as I but sinne that dwelleth in me So then a man borne of God when he treads beside the line he may say it is not I but sinne that dwells in me so in this sense it is a truth that he that is borne of God as born of God doth not sin nor cannot sin This is pious and truth but under correction I do not think it to be the square meaning of this text What then some think it to be this He that is borne of God sinneth not that is sinneth not as the devil did who ve se 8. of this chapter sinneth not sinned but sinneth from the beginning And this is like to be the mind of this text for that it is said in the same verse before He that committeth sinne is of the Devill That I think is too short which some say that the proper sense of this Text is he that is born of God sinneth not that sinne of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost In a word then the full meaning is that he that is borne of God doth not commit sinne that is he doth not make it his practice his occupation his work he doth it when he doth it besides his minde and when he doth it he is besides himself in that particular as the Prodigal was It is long of some fits in his disease when he doth it not onely as his act but as his work who give themselves over to be sould and servants to sin So Paul so Christ Matth. 7 23 Depart from me all ye that work iniquity Therefore Saint John speaks of such who are not regenerate whose desire is to sin and are afire to commit it For otherwise all the regenerate do sin so this our Apostle If we say we say we have no sin we seduce our selves Nor do they sin onely of infirmity but sometimes they fall into greater sins even into some of the greatest sins but this is not unto death as our Apostle saith So that such as are born of God sin they may sin they do and sometimes great sins but to go on in a course of finning to the death this they do not that they cannot do because they are born of God The onely shew of exception that can be taken is that Adam who is called they say Luke 3. ult. the son of God did sin and might as the state stood with him unto death And the Angels called the sons of God Job 2. 1. did a many of them sin unto death But we read not that these were said to be borne of God or that they had this seed remaining in them They were called the sons of God in respect of that that holinesse wherein they were created but the regenerate that are said to be borne of God are so said not onely in respect of the image of God but of Christ and the grace of regeneration which is rooted in Christ which as it cannot die in Christ the roote so it cannot wither away in Christians the branches The sap which is still alive and fresh in Christ is by the Spirit of Christ kept so alive in them that albeit it do not keep them from sinning yet it doth so preserve them that they cannot sin unto death they are so the members of Christ that he will not suffer any of his true members to sin all their spiritual life away Quest N. 2. How can a regenerate man sin since grace is predominant and the infused Theological habits of faith hope and charity are stronger then their sins Answ 'T is true they are so and should always shew themselves to be so And Divines make this difference between moral vertues acquired and spiritual habits and graces that for habits moral we may use them as we will that they are under the free Power of our wills but for habits and graces infused into our wills the seat of them our wills are rather under them and their power Then thus under the power and determination of God that there is a force in them to rule and over-rule all In this the string is in the hand of God and therefore it is said in the Word of God that he it is that doth make us walk in his wayes and keep his Lawes Had we a fulnesse of created graces as the Angels had yet if God stand by and leave us to them and our selves and do not uphold us we may fall for all them though there be nothing from without or from within to push us down the mutability only of our own free will might do it in us as it did in the lapsed Angels But those habits or divine qualities being lost in Adam in whom we all sinned such as are regenerated and born againe have supernatural graces of redemption which albeit they be not so full yet are more firme then those of creation were Those of God as Creator were lost those of God in Christ our Redeemer can never be so lost but as the same St. John saith There is a seed remaining in them which doth so keep spiritual force up in them that they cannot sin unto death Quest But how then is the spirit stronger then the flesh and the infused habit of grace may be said to have a ruling hand over our will Answ It hath such a rule many ways but in this one thing the power of the Spirit appeares above the power of the flesh for that the Spirit doth ever bring us first or last one way or other to repent of the works of the flesh but the flesh is never able to make us sorry for and repent of the fruits and acts of the Spirit No man is sorry for his vertues all good men are for their vices FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for John Bartlet and to be sold at the Gill-Cup on the south side of Pauls over against the Drapers A Volume of Dr. Tho. Taylors in Fol. Dr. Harris works in fol. A supplement to the former Edition in 4. His threefold state of man 12. Sibs excellency of the Gospel 12. Christs Exaltation in 12. The

this mans patterne together with brave a Cranmers be pasted up before our faces T is not for us to fill the Houses Congregations places where we come with combustion nor to cast them into broiles by bitternesse When we have the repute of Lambs abroad we must not be lions at home God hath called us to peace The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle to all men The words of the wise will be heard in quiet more then the cry of him that rules among fooles 'T is better to be of an humble spirit with the lowly then to divide the spoile with the proud All our things are to be done in charity and none thorough strife nor vain-glory This prudent man b mindes us more then once or twice in the ensuing Tract that there 's no such power in the Church as some look after seeing all the power the Church hath as Church is rather Ministerial then authoritative 'T was once lookt upon as an hateful crime to be Lording it over Gods heritage We may not come nigh that that hath such an ill resent By soaring too high we have lost our selves too much already We are brought to the dust and laid full low and must all of us now learn to beare the shame of it Holy Bradfords old medicine is the best hope that 's left us c Repent repent It will strike the stroke if we repent in deed and repent in truth and repent of that that hath let in the storme upon us But there 's little of that in sight yet Hezekiah humbled himself and found it a fit salve for such a disease as ours is If we can hit it right to humble our selves under the mighty hand of God we shall be exalted in the true and due time 1 Pet. 5. 6. Here 's a taste and but a little taste in this that is thus set forth of the precious liquor that was poured into this earthen vessel If I should mention the quicknesse of his apprehension the strength of his memory His sense of the publick evils his passing by offences his special regard to such as loved their wives and Ministers and the like where should I end that have exceeded already These and his other eminencies would be laid in oyle and lime by him that hath a better pencil I have collected some scattered fragments onely for mine owne and some others use and have assayed to shew those that be more remote that we had more in his life then they had in his writings Towards his latter end he met with some pinching griefs which he bare with invincible fortitude he would submit because it was Gods will to have him so exercised All of us must look to drink of the self-same cup our last dayes commonly be our worst dayes a as Mollerus observes the clouds will be returning then after the rain We must be taught to speak it out that we be but pilgrims We must be more truely taken off from the World more ripen'd and mellowed and season'd for God and be made more serious in all our undertakings Melanchthon would say a if he had no cares he would have no prayers The comfort is the time is but short the most and best of our treasure is gone before our hope is laid up in Heaven Get we more communion with God more faith more patience and put on the whole Armour of God and we shall be able to stand and withstand in the evill day This knowing man lookt upon storms impending r●joycing he should be in his grave before their fall whether he came according to the b ascending of a shock of corne in his season The Sabbath day was the last day of his life The strict observation whereof I have heard him presse He would say we should go to sleepe that night with meat in our mouths as it were That same c Lords day he preached twice taking his leave of the world with pressing faith in God He repeated both his Sermons that night in his Familie somewhat more largely then usually He read his Chapter also went to prayer and to bedd and died immediately by that time the words were well out of his mouth None of us must choose his own death but who can desire to die better then calling upon God as Stephen did He would often say if God saw it fit one had better die of a quick then of a lingring death suiting to Caesars speech The suddennesse of the stroke was great trouble to some of us at the first but since we have collected our thoughts We must needs say Gods way is the best If he had had time he would have been apt to dispute and so to have been too hard for us all Justus Jonas Luthers great friend had much adoe at his death to fasten upon any manner of comfort It hath beene the case of many a choice man God prevented it here This present Tract is his last and best I am sure of most use 'T is but a piece of what was intended as appears by the paper that was last tackt up for it whereof the fourth part is not written But he had the justest excuse as Vrsine for his inchoate Comment upon Isaiah being taken off by death If he had lived to review it it would have beene more polite But blessed be the Lord we have it as it is Who can sufficiently admire the wisdome of God in setting of this able penne to work upon such an useful subject for the laying a firm foundation for a trembling heart to ground it selfe upon when it may see it clearly made good that it may safely pitch upon that Translation of the holy Scripture that 's set before it in its native tongue God stirred up the Spirit of this great Disputer to put in a seasonable and a substantial barre in a needful time when some curious and quaint heads opened the door so dangerously against all Translations Other opinions overthrow the faith of some few but this strikes at the root and endeavours to destroy the faith of all that are not skill'd in the Original Tongues * Dr. Sibbs that worthy Divine mine ancient acquaintance and loving friend hath a pretty observation God hath raised up men saith he and gifted them proportionably to the times to fence his truth when it hath been opposed by men of stronger wits as the ancient Fathers to deal with the Pagans and proud Hereticks and Austin to vindicate Gods Predestination and free Grace out of the hands of the enemies of Grace and Flatterers of Nature So here he moved the heart of this man of sublime parts that could ●rapple with the strongest and argue with the subtillest to clear this point about Translations so fully that there 's no colour of scruple left now for the poor soul that 's willing to close with the eternal Truth of God set before it in its own Mothers Tongue So that I