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A79511	Nathans parable. Sins discovery, with it's [sic] filthy secret lurking in the brest of men. Or, some few discoveries what the sinfulness of sin is, and spoile it hath made on man, in nine particulars. With the sad experience of it on the author: written, if it may be, to warn all men, especially, the saints, to take heed and to beware of sin. With a letter written to his excellency the Lord General Cromwell. By Edmund Chillenden.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3877; Thomason E723_3; ESTC R207232	24,570	27

50.16.17 and admit of no reproof but harden their necks against it Pro. 29.1 Now the godly whose hearts are upright and who have kept their garments clean and have not been led aside to run in their pernicious wayes 2 Pet. 2.2 that have not known the depths of Satan they cannot indure such things but must testifie and bear their witness against them and avoid them having no fellowship with the works of darkness but to reprove them † But still according to rule in love and pity Mat. 18.16.17.18 1 Cor. 16.14 Ephes 5.11 Rev. 2.24 and now by this means the peace quiet and sweet Communion of the Church cometh to be broken † This my sin also hath caused for there cannot be any fellowship with light and darkness Christ and Belial the believer and the Infidel or unbeliever 2 Cor. 6.15 Sin wounds the heart soul and conscience it makes great spoyl there 2 Sam. 24.10 David he had committed sin in numbring the people and as soon as he had done his soul was wounded his heart smote him and he crieth out Lord I have sinned greatly in this that I have done for I have done very foolishly 1 Chro. 21.9 That upon this there cometh a great cloud and dismal darkness is drawn over the soul Psalm 38.6 great trouble bowing down and crushing that so all the day long there is nothing but sadness and gloominess heaviness and mourning Psalm 35.14 bowing down heavily Now the arrows of the Almighty take hold and they stick fast Job 6.4 the terrors of God do now set themselves in array and drink up the very spirit and make it like a parched and dried Heath and the face of God now cometh to be withdrawn and he hides his loving kindness Psalm 88.14 compared with Jer. 16.5 that maketh them cry out Lord where are thy loving kindnesses Psalm 89.49 the horror of the Lords wrath possesses them and is as fire in their bones that consumes them that they have no rest for their iniquities do daily go over their heads Psalm 38 4. they are heavier then they are able to bear the curses of the Law they now begin to terrifie Dan. 9.11 because of transgression and not obeying his voice now they cry for grief of heart their soul is sad we look for Judgment yea for Salvation but it is far from us because our sins are many and our transgressions are without number Psalm 32.4 Isay 59.11.12 so we become a burthen to our selves and we speak in the anguish of our spirit Job 7.11 and complain in the bitterness of our souls left comfortless desolate and cast down our salvation passed away and clean gone Job 30.15.16 the daies of affliction have ceased and taken hold on us we become a reproach to the wicked and ungodly because of our wickedness they laugh and blaspheme the Divel he triumphs and doth insult 2 Sam. 12.14 Rev. 18.10 ceases not to accuse us night and day before God in heaven our former acquaintance our familiar friends yea our natural kindred and our brethren they withdraw and are ashamed of us this spoyl doth sin make on a soul Psalm 38.11 I have here said somewhat of sin and the spoyl it maketh and hath made on man yet not the hundredth part that might be said I shall now shew you what spoyl it hath made on my self For what hath been said sin hath wrath in me and much more for as the Apostle saith I have been carnal and sold under sin Rom. 7.14 that as the wise man saith In the daies of my vanity I have not withheld the desire of mine eys nor my heart from any joy Eccles 2.10 And I have been compassed about with the iniquities of my heels Psalm 49.5 For in me that is in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing Rom. 7.18 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I bless God I can say with our good Apostle ver 25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord that by him and through the riches of Gods love I had gotten in some measure the victory of the sins of my youth Ephes 2.4.5 Rom. 8.37 Psalm 25.7 and with all my might endeavour'd after the wayes of God but happily I looked in the first place too soon to the outward holiness and like Jehu pursued it very eagerly so that in my heart I said Come see my zeal for God for Christ his wayes and people 2 Kings 10.16 and had not quite mortified those inbred lusts and evil concupiscense which sin had wrought in me Rom. 8. according to the Apostles counsel Col. 3.5 I should have then known how to have possessed my vessel in sanctification and honor but because of this the Lord hath been pleased to write many bitter things against me and hath made me to possess the iniquities of my youth Job 13.26 to lye down in shame and confusion to cover me because I have sinned against the Lord Jer. 3.25 the dregs of the old man were still alive and not put off there was the remainder of sin kept and spared which have been like as the Philistines were to Israel pricks in my eyes and thorns in my side to be a continual plague to me Numb 33.55 1 Sam. 15.19.20 which if the old man concerning my former conversation which was corrupt according to the deceiptful lust Ephes 4.22 had been quite subdued and all destroyed they had not now scourged me like the pricking brier and grieving thorn Ezec. 28.24 compared with Josh 23.13 There were spots that were left in my garments which wanted washing out which some labour would have soon dispatched but they being but spots they were not minded and my false heart flattering me all was well so long as it was secret and unknown though with my heart I utter'd perverse things Pro. 23.33 I was stricken and yet not sick they beat me and I felt it not I lay very secure in the midst of my great danger and have been drawn away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity and yet it hath spoken peace to me as to its neighbour but it brought forth mischief Psalm 48.3 For as with a dart it hath stricken me through the liver casting me down wounded and have been slaine Prov. 7.23.26 and knew not that it was for my life by which I have gotten a wound and a dishonor yea a reproach that cannot be wiped away Pro. 6.33 knowing not whither to cause my shame to go for I have been as one of the fools in Israel 2 Sam. 13.13 Thus sin compassed me about and got my feet intangled in its net after I was thus wounded and cast down then I did endeavour to get out of the jawes of death and to ascend from the chambers of the dead that I might take hold on the paths of life Pro. 2.18.19 and to this I made some good progress and set my self to the work in good earnest and some years

Nathans Parable SINS DISCOVERY With it's Filthy Secret Lurking in the brest of Men. OR Some few Discoveries what the sinfulness of Sin is and spoile it hath made on man in nine particulars With The Sad experience of it on the Author written if it may be to warn all men especially the Saints to take heed and to beware of Sin WITH A Letter written to his Excellency the Lord General CROMWELL By Edmund Chillenden Lam. 3.1 I am the man that have sinned and for that have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath Heb. 4.12 13. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of Sin Printed at London 1653 To all the Congregations of Saints walking in the faith and Order of the Gospel in England Ireland and Scotland Precious hearts I Have a sad theam to present you with it is of sin and the sad effects it hath produced in the world especially on man and in particular on my self so that I may say in the words of the Prophet Lam. 5.16 The Crown is faln from my head wo unto me that I have sinned for nothing but mischief hath attended me yea destruction and ruine in all things that can be thought of here below and were it not but that God who I have so offended had appeared to me indeed as the Apostle saith Eph. 2.4 Rich in mercy and in great love infinite and beyond all expression I had for ever perished and been punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power Thess 1.5 for I deserved no less so that truly I have experienced that good saying of the Apostle That where sin hath abounded grace hath much more yea exceeding much more abounded Rom. 5.20 Oh rich grace rich grace and great mercies and loving kindness they are past finding out they cannot be fathomed they are high they are deep they are long and they are broad so that I cannot but stand and admire what manner of love it is that he hath bestowed on me 1 Joh. 2.1 I have therefore sent to you these few lines that you may take heed and beware of sin for it is a most deceitful yea a most deadly cruel enemy for it maketh such spoile on a man where it gets footing that if mercy yea rich mercy and love from God do not step in to help it destroyeth soul and body good name relations and all that is neer and dear therefore take heed and beware of sin and take that good counsel of the Apostle 1 Cor. 16.13 Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Eph. 6.10 for if you do not sin will break in upon you and make grievous spoile and havocke For want of keeping this guard it hath broken in on me like an inundation of water and yet I thought once my mountain was so set and so strongly founded that it was not possible it could be moved Psal 30.7 when I was in my Tranquility and the candle of the Lord shone upon my head I said I would dye in my nest and multiply dayes as the sand I would spread my root by the waters I should flourish Job 29.3 18 19 20. all went well I had attained to some good progress in the knowledge of God and the practice of the things of God and I was now safe and my heart spoke a great deal of peace but behold when I thus slept the enemy sin came and stole in upon me and I will tell you how 1. First I grew a little cold and careless in the matters of God in those cold mad and distempered yeers 1647. and 1648. and then sin took occasion and by my base heart deceived me presently runs and layeth hold on me tempteth me and draweth me away Jon. 1.14 15 compare Rom. 7.11 and so hath slaine wounded and destroyed me 2. After that I was thus inticed my heart being by sin deceived then I became it's slave to serve it and this will be the case of every one that sin layeth hold of Now I must provide to lay alwayes for the carrying of it close and secret and here cometh vows oaths wishes execrations and all to save cover and hide this ugly companion sin 3. Then sin will seem very fair and smile on you flatter your heart and if he cometh once to be touched to be discovered and feareth he shall be dislodged he now will come with the help of his first-born the divel and belay you on every side First on the right hand and on the left under pretence of good towards God towards his wayes to thy self and relations For so have I found it that when I had some yeers since abandoned all the thoughts of any such thing and in July 1650. had earnestly besought the Lord for his favour and peace for my former evils and that he would now pardon and pass by my sin and hide his face from my sin the which he did and spoke much peace to me and did deliver my soul from the jaws of destruction when death had surrounded me I then did vow to the Lord to honour him and serve him all my dayes but there was more snares beset me For when in the yeer 1652. I was charged with evil by Master Thomas Halhead and his wife now behold how sin beset me and what alurements it layed before me to hide it keep it close and secret 1. Saith my base heart You are known to be a great professor of religion and if you make it known you are utterly lost in the hearts of all that are godly for a brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City Prov. 18.19 you shall never be in their affections againe 2. The name of God will be much dishonoured you must n t tell it in Gath nor publish it in Askelon lest the uncircumcised blaspheme you need not do it it is enough you have done it to God 3. The wayes of God that you profess which every man especially the Clergy which are great enemies to it and of you in particular watcheth to have somewhat to speak against it and dishonour it 4. Your own honour reputation and good name will utterly be lost and gone which as the wise man saith Eccl. 7.1 Is better then a precious ointment better then gold and silver Prov. 15.15 5. You are now in a capacity to do the poor people of God some good but that will utterly spoile you for ever 6. You will lose your place which is your lively-hood These and many more was my soul beset with and I was taken captive and so insnared consulting onely with my base heart that now I set my self with all my might to pursue these instructions that sin my base heart the divel and the world had layed before me but they

sithence abandoned the thoughts of any such wickedness and did reform some things that were amiss as to a more close walking with God in publike and private in the Congregation and in my family where I had been a little yea too too much remiss and careless I laboured to make my peace within for the terrors of the Lord had taken hold on me Job 6.4 and had set themselves in array against me and the arrows of the Almighty stuck fast in me the wrathful fire from above was within me I could have no rest Psalm 38.2.3.4 for when I said I would forget my complaint I would leave off my heaviness and comfort my self I knew that the Lord would not hold me innocent and I was afraid of all my sorrows Job 9.27.28 compared with Exod. 34.7 Exod. 20.5 for he would I was sure visit for all my sins and iniquities to the third and fourth generation of them that did hate him The consideration of this made me in secret weep bitterly and I powred out my complaint to the Lord John 242.2 I laid before him my trouble my spirit was overwhelmed within me I could not tell what to do I was now to look death in the face the Sword now might put an end to my daies Scotland July 1650. I looked on my right hand and beheld but refuge failed me and my hope was as the giving up the Ghost Psalm 142.4 compared with Joh. 11.20 and then I cried unto the Lord I powred out my soul before him I confessed my sins in his sight and acknowledg I had done evil and desired he would purge me and cleanse me from mine iniquities throughly and make me to hear joy and gladness and that he would hide his face from my sins Psalm 51.23.7.8.9 and deliver me and not to take me away in his wrath Psalm 16.1 but to be merciful to me and heal my soul for I had sinned against him 2 Chro. 30.20 Psalm 41.5 and the Lord heard the voice of my supplication and gave me my hearts desire he delivered me and saved me Psalm 6.8 and healed the bones that were broken and gave peace to the troubled spirit Psalm 30.2 and upon this it came into my heart what I should now do for God and that saying of that good man Daniel came to my remembrance Dan. 42. Wherefore O King let my counsel be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sins by righteousness and thy iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor if it may be a lengthning to thy tranquility This Scripture did I confess much affect my heart and I did vow to the Lord solemnly I would lay out my self for his glory obey every truth and break off every yoke For the former the seeking Gods glory and obeying every truth in pursuance of my vow I appeal to the Saints and faithful brethren that are in that Troop that was not long sithence mine and to all the Congregations where I have been conversant and in particular to the Congregation that now meeteth in Stone-chappel in Pauls London where my most constant residency hath been Yet for all this there were some of the Idols in the high places left standing still 2 Chro. 33.17 untaken away which I should have been as careful to have lain aside and have broken off from as any else and have known this to have been my duty to have Ephes 4.31 Col. 3.8 had a grave sober and an humble carriage in the things of the Gospel that thereby I might have adorned the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in all things Tit. 2.10 and thus my spots continued when I thought I had washed my self clean as with snow water and had made my hands very clean now the Lord * Suffered me to fall thus that I might make a clear and thorough work and wash and make all clean to do away the small spot as well as the great he took me and threw me into the ditch and my own cloaths they abhorred me Job 9.30.31 and my spot hath not been the spot of his sons or people but of one that hath been perverse Deut. 32.5 consulting only with my own heart which as the Prophets saith Is desperately wicked and who can know it Jer. 17.9 it being some years past Thus was my soul deceived and my heart did plead and hug me with peace and like Lot I thought in my self that to deny it being so long sithence it was but a little one Gen. 19.20 but this now I have found that on no one sin goeth alone but may well be called as that evil Spirit was which our Saviour cast out of that man who said being asked his name was Legion because many divels Mark 5.9.15 Luke 8 30. so I may say of this my sin it was Legion that is it was a sin that brought many sins with it for after I had once denied it then I was fast bound and ingaged to stand to and confirm my denial that it was true Now do but see how foolish and vain a thing it is to forsake our own mercies and to chuse lying vanities Jonah 2.8 to speak wickedly for God or to talk deceiptfully for him Job 13.7 as if the truth of God the glory and honor of his name and wayes stood in need of my lye so to sin that grace might abound that good might come thereof Rom. 3.7.8 this now hath been my sin and this hath been my iniquity in denying truth and speaking falsly not sparing horrible wishes bitter cursings and execrations on my self nor any means for the confirmation of what I had affirmed for which the Congregation did deal with me though I did manifest by a large Declaration my sorrow true and hearty repentance and that with tears but the case was in their judgments difficult because I had so greatly sinned whether my repentance was true or no which I say was so that after a large debate they were pleased by the greater number to declare me excluded that truly I stand and tremble with the very thoughts of it that God should spare and should exercise any forbearance toward me but might and I admire at his grace he did not strike me dead or shew some visible judgment on me to make me an example But here is the great riches of his grace to be admired that where sin hath abounded yea superabounded there grace hath much more abounded Rom. 5.20 21. that he did give me grace and time for repentance yea hath also given repentance it self and blessed and for ever blessed be his great name though I must say with the Prophet Lam 3.1 I am the man that have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath he hath builded against me and compassed me with gall and gravell Lam. 3.4 his loving kindnesse that could not prevaile with me to break off my iniquities therefore his correcting hand that hath taught me though it hath been very sore yet I can say with the Prophet Jeremiah