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death_n	let_v	shake_v	unkindness_n	24	3	16.5997	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89585	The sinne of hardnesse of heart: the nature, danger, and remedy of it. Opened in a sermon, preached to the Honorable House of Commons, July 28. 1648. being the day of their solemne monethly fast. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1648 (1648)	Wing M783; Thomason E455_3; ESTC R204198	29,752	46

note of a harden'd heart I give onely for your memories sake because the matter of it will come in the things that follow And secondly another property of this harden'd heart that my Text speaks of is That it is an insensible heart Nabals heart is said to be like a stone sensible of nothing though all belonging to him was like to come to ruine Nabals heart had no sense of any thing so is this wretch this wretched creature I am speaking of let Gods wrath bee threatned to him though hee lie under it hee feeles it not let his owne unkindness be open'd he is not sensible of it let heaven shake over him let the earth shake under him let his estate shake let his house quake nothing moves him let death bee ready to shake him hell ready to devoure him hee apprehends nothing hee is like the drunkard that Solomon speakes of in the 23. of Proverbs that lies asleep upon the top of a mast they have beaten mee saith he but I did not feele it they have wounded me but I did not know it nothing that the Lord doth to them or that his word saith to them makes them sensible of any thing a harden'd heart is an insensible heart that is another property of it Thirdly this harden'd heart of my Text Is an impenitent heart indeed the hardness of heart is but an aggravation of impenitence but he is resolutely an impenitent person hee is one that goes on in the wayes of sinne and will not bee tooke off from the wayes of sinne A harden'd heart you may truely say of it it is a Rock to God but it is wax to the Devill it is inexorable to the requests of God but it is most yeelding to the allurements of the Devill Gods seed will not grow in this rock but the Devils seed growes best of all there they obey not the truth but willingly obey unrighteousness they are stones to God but wax to the Devill indeed to harden the heart and to goe on resolutely in a way of sinning against God is al one take it as the Apostle expresses it in the second of the Romans thus saith hee after thy hardnes and heart that cannot repent a resolute hearted man is like a Blackmore that cannot change his skin like a Leopard that cannot change her spots it is set and bent to goe on in the wayes of sinne that is another property Fourthly This harden'd heart doth not onely go● on in the wayes of sinne but goes on in them against all admonition and all helpes against and meanes to the contrary whatsoever dispensation there is from heaven appearing to take him off from his sinnes the harden'd heart hath a non abstante though preached against though threatned though allured by promises though terrified by judgements the harden'd heart is Sermon-proof is judgement-proofe Elies sonnes they were not only wicked but they hearkned not to the voyce of their Father when hee made them a good Sermon from God yet because God meant to destroy them hee had given them up to hardnesse of heart the counsell of their Father wrought not one whit upon them so Solomon saith of him in Proverbs 29. hee that having been often reproved hardens his heart Ieremy compares him to a wild Asse Ier. 2. all that seek to catch him labour in vaine Israel had loved strangers and after them hee would goe if God in his Word mourne to them they will not weep if the Word pipe to them they will not dance if he offer to draw them with cords of love they will not follow if by his judgements hee stand in their way as the Angel did against Balaam with a drawne Sword yet on they will like the Smiths Dog they can sleepe when the sparkes fly about their eares hee is like a man in iron an armed man strike him with a staffe cut him with a Sword all is one hee hath armour of proof keeps out both men who thus goe on are harden'd to destruction Fiftly Another property of this hardned wretch is that they make but a mocke and scorne either of the sinnes that they walke in or of any judgements or plagues that may betide them for their sinnes as it is said of Lots sonnes in law their father told them of their sinnes and told them of the judgement but saith the Text hee seemed to his sonnes in law as one that mock'd they jeered him and they thought hee jeered them they are like the Swine that our Saviour speakes of throw a pearle before them they will tread it under their feet they make a scorne of them tell them of their offences against God and of the ruine of their soules they are like Leviathan that the spirit of God speakes of in the 41. of Iob come upon him with speares and swords they are but as stubble to him and strawes hee laughs at them he saies Aha like the horse in the middle of the battle neighes and laughs at the danger so when a heart goes on in a hardened way it makes a jest and a scorne of all the evils you can threaten against him hee saith Tush I shall have peace though I adde drunkennesse to thirst these threatnings are nothing this wind shakes not my corne and I 'le adde but one more and that is When the heart goes on in this destructive way it doth oppose and set against all those as enemies who would stop them in their way and when once the soule is come to that passe then in truth is Satan set upon his throne then they are the Devils cushion or his pillow and this the harden'd heart ordinarily doth you may see it in Pharaoh when Moses still followed him from God and hee could not be rid of him then he gave him this answer come no more to mee I 'le hang you the next time you come see my face no more if ever thou commest to mee againe with these messages thou shalt die for it and so likewise Amaziah you may read of him in 2 Chron. 25. when he was fallen into the sinne of Idolatry God sent a Prophet to him to admonish him Forbeare saith the King to him who made you of the Kings Councell hold your tongue else you 'l be smitten then saith the Prophet by this I know that God meanes to destroy thee when they are like unto them our Lord speakes of in the seventh of Matthew not onely as swine that trample the pearle under their feet but like Dogs worry them that offer to bestow the pretious things upon them in one word David describes them excellently in the 23. Chap. of the second of Samuel about the sixth and seventh verses The sonnes of Belial that is the hard hearted men of my Text for a child of Belial is a child without a yoke that will not carry Gods yoke marke how hee describes them the sonnes