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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15495	Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation Collected for the direction and comfort of such Christians as trauayling and being heauie loaden in their consciences, with the burthen of their sinnes, stand in danger either in time of their sicknesse to fall away from their God, through deepe despaire, or else in time of their health, to yeelde to one desparate end, or other, to the ruine and vtter confusion of both bodyes and soules for euer. By W.W.	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1605 (1605)	STC 25762; ESTC S102526	47,571	122

S. Peter sayth Iesus Christ hath commaunded vs to preach vnto the pe●p●e and to test●fie th●t it is hee that is ordayned of God a Iudge of the quicke and the dead and that to him al the Prophets giue witnesse that through his name all that beleeue should receiue remission of sinnes Moreouer S. Paul sayth 2 Cor. 5.21 God hath made him which knew no sinne sinne for vs to the ende that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him And heere is to be noted What maner of righteousnesse God requireth at our handes what Righteousnesse or Iustice and Goodnesse that is which God requireth and esteemeth which is no other but that onely which dwelleth and holdeth vpon the Iustice Goodnesse and Merite of Iesus Christ being vtterly ignoraunt of the Iustice or R ghteousnesse and Goodnesse which many do seek in their owne good works But yet when I stande so much vppon this poynt to prooue that our sinnes should be no cause of Desperation a thing which the Diuell greatly vrgeth obiecteth against the conscience of an ignorant man for that our sinnes are taken away by the innocent Lambe Christ Iesus that he hath sufficiently pai●e the ransome therof that we are become righteous by the righteousnes of I sus Chri●t it is not here my meaning neither would I haue any man so to mistake mee and misvnderstande mee that I thinke or would haue any other men to thinke hereby that there is no more sinne in vs or that sinne dwelleth not in these our mortall bodyes Sinne dwelleth euen in the beleeuers and in the most righteous men in the world but yet raigneth not in them for I confesse it plainelye and it is too true that sinne indeede dwelleth in vs but yet to the great comfort of an afflicted conscience against Desperation I affirme it hauing the holy Scriptures for my teachers herein that although the roote of sinne the naughtie disposition and inclination to sinne remayneth alwayes strong in a Christian and neuer can be wholly vanquished before we put off by death this sinfull flesh of ours although I say it do dwell in vs yet it doth not raigne in any Christian beleeuer yet it is not able to damne a true faythfull beleeuer It can not I say damne vs for as much as we are in Iesus Christ and that we do fight and striue against the remanent of sinne albeit we stagger and wauer sometimes and do feele and perceiue our selues to be assayled sometimes by the strong temptations of the Diuell and the flesh This is it that S. Paule writeth of when he sayth There is now no dampnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. ● which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit The remaynent roote of sinne dwelleth alwayes in vs but wee like vnto licentious worldlinges giue it not the bridle and suffer it not to range too farre and to take too deepe a roote but wee breake it tame it and make it subiect vnto vs by walking after the spirit c. and then nothing more sure then that there shal be no condemnation at all vnto vs thereby neither any cause of Desperation thereby for that we are iustified by our Fayth and deliuered from sinne to wit these sinnes which might condemne vs the roote originall and mother of sinne yet notwithstanding still abyding remayning and dwelling in vs against which we warre and striue as long as we continue in this life but the victorie remayneth to our Chieftaine head-Captaine Iesus Christ by the law of his spirit which maketh vs to liue in him and hath set vs free from the right of sinne and death in such sort that we may no more feare sinne nor death by Iesus Christ who hath ouercome all for our wealth and hath reconciled vs eternally to his Father who as our deare Father from hence-foorth will shew fauour vnto vs for the loue of Ies s Christ his deare Sonne and so will take from vs all our sinnes as though we had neuer committed them Euen so doth he promise saying Mich. 7.18.19 God is one God willing to shew vs grace and mercie hee will ●u●●e to vs and will be fauourable and hee will t ke away our iniquitus and cast our sinnes into the deapth of the Sea And againe it is sayd of Gods wonderfull mercies The Lord is full of compassion and mercie 〈◊〉 10● 8 ● 10 c. long suffering and of great goodnes Hee will not alwayes be chyding neither keepeth he his anger for euer He hath not dealt with vs after our sinnes nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities For looke how ●igh the Heauen is in compa iso● of the Earth so great is his mercie also towards them that feare him Looke how wide a●so the Fast is from the West so farre hath he set our sinnes from vs. Yea lik● as a Father pittieth his owne children euen so is th● Lord mercifull vnto them that ●●●●e him For he knoweth whereof we be m●●e he remembreth that we are but dust c. Of the great mercies of God towardes sinners read more in Psal 145 8.9 and 147.8.10 in Ioel. 2.13 Math. 18 11. 2. Cor. 1 3. Places of holy Scriptures setting foorth gods great mercies Ephes 2.4 1. Tim. 1.13 vnto the 18. verse Surely these places are wordes of most rare and singular comfort and they be certaine sinne sure and vnchangeable spoken and pronounced by the eternall veritie it selfe and therfore not to be mistrusted or despaired of But yet let vs take heed least that verse be verified in vs Stulti dum vitant vitia in contraria currunt Let vs not abuse Gods mercies making a cloake thereof to couer our sinnes Let vs not presume too farre and say as in Ecclesiasticus 5.6 The mercie of God is great hee will forgiue my manifolde sinnes for mercie and wrath commeth from him c. CHAP. IIII. The fourth Chapter concerning the Remedies to be vsed against the Fourth cause of Desperation arysing of the doubts suggested by the Diuell vnto many men to bring them into despaire of their saluation by meanes of the small number of those that shal be saued in comparison of the great number of the reprobate GReat in deed is the power and manifold and marueilous are the pollicies deuices wyles subtilties assaultes and suggestions wherewith and whereby that wylie Foxe A catalogue or rehearsall of many thinges ●hereby the Diuell craf●ily temp●eth men to sinne des●eration that old bitten Dogge that subtill Sathan the Diuell dayly and howerly practiseth to entice allure and euen as it were to force multitudes of men heere on earth into one sinne or other wherevnto he findeth and prooueth them to be naturally enclyned and last of all vpon one occasion or other into Desperation How the di●●l tempteth by riches If he espieth a man to he rich and to haue worldly blessinges through the gift of God

fayth hope patience against Desperation who were so h●at in contention one against an other that they forsooke one anothers companie in high displeasure and heate of their stomackes the one taking with him Luke the other Iohn What though we haue yeelded vnto practised and followed Oppression Extortion polling pilling and wresting what we can by hooke or crooke from our brethren Luke 19.2 So did Zacheus yet notwithstanding after his repentance his forsaking and ceassing from bad getting his restitution and almes giuing receiued that most chearefull and comfortable saying of Christ Luke 19. ● This day is saluation entred into thine house What though we haue been Theeues robbers and stealers of our neighbours goodes so was the Theefe that was crucified with Christ and yet vpon his humble contrite and sorrowfull confession of his sinnes he heard this most sweete word from Christ This day shalt thou be with mee in Paradise What though we haue murthered and shead the blood or caused the blood to be shed of some of our brethren so did Dauid to Vrias and yet vppon his zealous inward true vnfained sorrowfulnes and repentance he was not taken away in his sinne but found pardon And so did the Iewes which put to death the Lord of life King Manasses was an Idolater he defi●ed the Temple of God he withstood and did beat downe the trueth he set vp Idolatrie 2. Kin. 21. he was a Coniurer and a Southsayer he shed a boundance of Innocent blood so that the streetes flowed therewith he committed more abhominations then the Cananites or Amorites whom for their filthinest the Lord cut off out of the land of the liuing he sacrificed his sonnes and daughters to Diuels and yet vpon his true returning to the Lord from the bottome of his heart he found fauoure and mercie 2. Chro. 33. If our sinnes then or the sinnes of any one of vs were as greeuous as euer were the sinnes of Manasses yet vpon our true and vnfaigned returne to the Lord shal● we despaire of his mercie shall we or may we or dare we thinke that the mercie and power of the Lod is shortened or that God is not the same God he was Is he not as readie to pardon and forgiue sinnes the sinnes of a man repenting returning and faythfully calling vpon him as euer he was the sinnes of Manasses All these examples and many more are written for our learning comfort and strengthening of our fayth hope and patience that we should in no wise despaire vpon our true repentance neither for the multitude nor greeuousnesse of our sinnes And likewise also it is written for the brusing and as it were euen for the breaking of the backe of all damnable Desperation and to hold the heartes and to restore the faynting and dullie sprites of all such as the seruitude and bondage of sinne this our third cause of Desperation doth vexe and presse downe It is I say written Luk. 9.56 that the Sonne of man is come to saue mens liues And he him selfe hath sayd I am come to call not the iust but sinners Math. 10. Math. 20. Ioh. 3. Wherefore Christ can into this world And againe Iesus Christ is come to giue his life a redemption for many Also God the Father hath not sent his S nne to iudge the Worlde but to the ende the Worlde may be saued by him Now what is it to saue not to iudge but to deliuer from death and damnation wherein we lay in the middest of the bondage of sinne for sinne is the death and damnation of the soule Now he can not saue vs except sinne be first taken from vs And therefore and for this cause came Iesus Christ the Sonne of God Ioh. 8. and he hath declared himselfe to the world to the end that he should take away sinnes and should destroy the workes of the Diuell If it be so that Iesus Christ be come into the world to take away sinnes and if the same were his intent and his message the purpose of Iesus Christ shall not fayle at all and his message remayneth stedfast and true he then without all doubt hath taken away this which the Diuell would perswade vs to be a cause of Desperation this great seruitude and bondage of sinne from all those that trust in him and do verily beleeue and perswade themselues in the bottome of their consciences that it is most true but yet how comes this to passe to wit by Iesus Christ onely by his owne free grace and mercie by the benefites and merites of himselfe who is our onely Sauiour Ioh. 1.29 without any other meane or merit for he is the only Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the worlde Act. 4.12 As also S. Peter sayd to the Iewes There is none other saluation but onely in Iesus Christ for among men there is giuen none other name vnder heauen whereby wee must be saued And so Christ himselfe sayd after he was rysen from the dead It must needes haue been that Christ must haue suffered death Luk 24.44 and that he must haue rysen the third day from the dead and that amendement of life and forgiuenesse of sinnes must be preached in his name to all people and to all nations O how sweete and comfortable are these wordes and sayinges of God which is the onely eternall trueth in deed O how worthy are they to be layde vp in the deapth of our hearts and to haue our whole confidence reposed freely vpon them Colloss 2. And to the Collossians it is sayd God hath quickened vs which were dead in sinnes with Iesus Christ forgiuing vs all our trespasses and hath put out the hand-writing that was against vs hee euen tooke it out of the way and fastened it on the Crosse What meaneth he by this but onely that Iesus Christ hath taken away the Obligation of our debt to wit that we did owe for our sinnes and hath taken it and tyde it with him selfe vpon the Crosse and hath in deed payde it full bitterly who also is for vs and will surely take away this great seruitude bondage of sinne which the Diuell would vse as an instrument of Desperation against vs in case we will beleeue his word and that we can settle out mindes and quiet our harts to account and esteeme his bitter passion and merites to be so great and of such value th●● they are able effect●all and of sufficient strength to obtaine these aforesayd thinges for vs. And Christes prayer to his heauenly Father is heard and remayneth heard continually when he prayed ●o 17 20. saying I p●●y not for these alone ●eaning his there present Disciples but for them al o which shall beleeue in mee through their worde Wherefore the same prayer includeth euery one of vs so farre foorth as we beleeue and place the same in our heartes and wholly repose our selues thereon ●ct 10.42.43 And