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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57546	The rich fool set forth in an exposition on that parable : Luke 12, 16-22 ... / by Nehemiah Rogers ...	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1824; ESTC R5063	109,384	135

Doctrine of the Church of Rome is in this Point very unsound they have this Conceit of Thoughts that they are but Venial Inward Lust and Concupiscence is either no Sin with them or so small that it needs no Reproof and yet themselvs confess it is the Cause of mortal Sin St. Paul as Chemnitius in his Examen observs in that sixth Chapter to the Romans calls it five times Sin in the seventh six times in the eighth thrice Hierom in 1 Amos thus distinguisheth of Pin the first degree is in Thought to think it the second is to yield to it the third to perform it in Act the fourth not to repent of it And upon the fifth of Matthew he distinguisheth betwixt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pathos is Passion with Consent Propatheia is a tickling of Lust without Consent Yet saith Tollet Bellarmin and others They all speak unproperly yet Tollet confesseth plainly that it is not only St. Austin's Word but his perpetual Doctrine albeit the Papists now wholly depart from it Vide Cade Serm. on Roman 7.24 p. 7. Nor doth St. Paul all it only Sin but deadly Sin the Body of Death All Sin with him was mortal he knew not these venial trivial peccadilia trivial Sins with Papists to mince and make sleight of But I shall spend no more time with these having none to spare Vse 2 We have amongst our selves very many who are possessed with this Atheistical Opinion That Thoughts are free and that they pay no Tribute and that we shall never be called to any Account for them and from hence it is That so many play the Hypocrites in the Worship and Service of God thinking it sufficient that their Bodies are present but their Thoughts are suffered to run after Covetousness Ezek. 33.32 And others who forbear to act Sin and speak lewdly yet they give Liberty to Imagination to play with the Devil at what Game he will at Murther Theft Adultery c. And when the Mark is out of their mouths I mean they are out of date in respect of the act of some Sin yet they have still an unsatiable desire to it and can please themselvs in contemplative Wickedness calling to mind their former brutish and lustful practices with great delight making their own hearts to be their Brothel-house a House of Bawdery and Uncleanness and all upon this Delusion that their Thoughts are free and what is not lawful to act nor fit to speak is lawful so think without Controul Which Atheistical and damnable Opinion ariseth from these Grounds First Ignorance of the Law of God and the Spiritualness thereof which commands the Soul with the motions of it as well as the Body with the Actions thereof Heb. 4.12 It pierceth even to the dividing asunder of Soul and Spirit and is a Discerner of the Thoughts and Intents of the heart saith the Apostle Now they being carnall and the Law spiritual it is no marvel if they cannot understand it for it must be spiritually understood They have a Veil over their eyes 2 Cor. 3.15 and which is yet more the god of this World hath further blinded them 2 Cor. 4.4 that they shall not discern the Spirituality of if So were the Pharisees blinded in their time and St. Paul all the while he was a Pharisee Rom 7.7 They rested only in the outward Rinde or Bark of the Law but discerned not the pith and marrow of it Secondly From the Defectiveness and Imperfection of Man's Law which although it binds the Hands and stops the Mouth yet it punisheth not for Thoughts Cogitationis poenam nemo patiatur The Projects of the Heart lye not within the walk of Humane Justice they are not liable to earthly Courts they pay no Tribute to Man's Custom-House where they cannot be searched but as they bewray themselvs by some outward Sign either by Word or Deed forgetting that God seeth not as Man seeth He hath an eye into our most secret Thoughts Psal 139.12 He sets our Thoughts in the Light of his Countenance Psal 90.8 And if men call so account and punish Words and Deeds because they see and know them Why then shall not God call to account and punish too our Thoughts which he knows far better than any man can our Actions That Man's Law punisheth not for our Thoughts proves rather a Defectiveness in Man's Law than this Diabolical and Atheistical Opinion that Thoughts are free A third Ground for this graceless Opinion is That they do no hurt to any by their thinking Why then may they not think what they please But indeed they do the greatest mischief they fight against the Soul yea thy own Soul as St. Peter shews 1 Pet. 2.11 they tend to the Destruction of it And from the Motions of thy mind proceeds all other Mischiefs which are wrought if the Prophet Michah is worthy to be believed Mich. 2.1 or the Apostle St. James to be credited James 4.1 or if Christ himself may be believed of us Math. 15.16 17. Indeed alwayes the Lusts of the Heart are not actually prejudicial to our Neighbour for here a man may be an Adulteret and the Woman chaste with whom Adultery is committed a man may be a Murtherer and yet the man alive whom he is the Murtherer of c. But many times these Thoughts come into Act What Wickedness is committed in Act that was not first in the Thought A fourth Ground for this Devilish and Hellish conceipt ariseth from the suddenness and unexpectedness of their coming and impossibility to avoid them No Reason many times can be given of them Therefore there is no Reason say some and more think why they should be called to any Account for them But all the Thoughts that are in the hearts of Sinners are either Suggestions by Inspiration from Satan or Vapours that fume out of corrupt Nature and from our sinful hearts How can it be otherwise then but that they should be offensive unto God Besides their suddenness and exorbitancy proves them evil All Good is from knowledg deliberation and direction Did they come in God's Name they would come a slower pace as they find by sad experience who set their minds so think of matters serious and spiritual And what though we cannot avoid those wandring and sinful Thoughts altogether Must we therefore set open the door and give them free liberty of Ingress Egress and Regress No man can keep the Birds from flying over his head but I hope he may keep them from making their Nests on that Tuft of haire which he wears Lastly Men imagine Thoughts to be free because of the common Opinion of the World and general Estimate of Religion which is not by the Heart and Thoughts but by our outward Performances wherein if we approve our selves before men it is all that is sought after forgetting what our Saviour saith You are they which approve your selves to men Luke 1● 11 but they

God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the Fathers hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his Son In the old time God revealed his mind to our Fore-Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 u● si dicas mul●ipartuè Estins D● Jones Comment in loc multis vicibus as Beza renders the words at many or sundry times as our Translation hath it's It was divided into many parts and given them by piece-meal how a part and then a part it was parcelled out unto them as the Capacity of People in sundry times did require One part they had in Adam's time another in Noah's one in Abraham's time another in Moses time one part in David's time another in the Prophets Isay had one part of it revealed concerning Christ's Conception and Birth Jonah another concerning his Resurrection Daniel another of his coming to Judgment But we have the Doctrine of Salvation at one Lump propounded to us in one whole and entire Sum St. Jude speaking of the Christian Faith saith that it was once given to the Saints once for all so perfectly that we need not another Gospel The whole Magazine of God Almighty is now opened unto us which was not unto them the Lord was in the way only of revealing his whole mind to them before Christ came letting forth Light by little and little before the Sun of Righteousness Jesus Christ arose with Healing under his Wings And as he spake to them at sundry times so in divers manners or forms either by Angels as he spake to Abraham 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multiformiter or by Vision as he made known his mind to Ezekiel or by Dreams as to Samuel or by Urim and Thummim as to the Priest or by Signs from Heaven by Types and shadowing Ceremonies and such like But the Doctrine of Salvation is taught after one sort even by the Preaching of the Gospel which is the Power of Salvation to every one that believeth which one manner of speaking far surpasseth all those manners of speaking whereby God spake to them and worketh more powerfully and pierceth into the heart of Man more deeply than any other manner of Perswasion yea though one should rise from the dead and speak to us Then he spake only to the Fathers Abraham Isaac Jacob and their Posterity to some few and but one Nation He shewed his word unto Jacob his Statutes and his Judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any Nation saith the Psalmist Psal 147.19 20. and as for his Judgments they have not known them But now in these last dayes God by his Son hath spoken to all indefinitely to Jew and Gentile to Male and Female to bond and free all being one in Christ Gal. 3.28 and through Faith hath one entrance unto the Throne of Grace So that as one speaketh upon that Text We need not say Now O Lord remember David and the Covenant made with Abraham but O Lord remember me and the Covenant which thou hast made with my Father's House For unto all both those that are nigh and those that are far off there is but one Covenant in Christ Jesus Ephes 2.13 17. Lastly Then God spake to the Fathers by the Patriarchs and Prophets that is the continual Succession of the Prophets in all Ages not by one alone but by all from the beginning God used the Ministry of the Patriarchs to instruct their Families but that did not satisfy him By the Ministry of Moses he instructed his People under the Law yet that did not content him He used the Ministry of Priests and Prophets yea of one greater than a Prophet John the Baptist to teach and instruct his Church yet he rested not therewith satisfied But last of all he sent his Son that eternall Word which is God whom he hath made Heir of all things by whom also he made the World Rare and singular men were those by whom God instructed and taught his Church in elder times yet not worthy so be named with Christ by whom he speaketh unto us They were men Christ is God and Man they had excellent Gifts of Wisdom and Knowledge yet all their Wisdom and Knowledge was but borrowed Christ was wise of himself the Fountain of all Wisdom and Knowledg and of his fulness we receive Grace for Grace They were mortal and saw Corruption nor was any Prophet when he was taken away by Death able to give Grace to others that should come after or of his fulness to make other learned in the Mysteries of Salvation but Christ abideth for ever he still liveth to appoint us Teachers and of his fulness he giveth all others their continual encrease of Grace By all which you see how wonderfully God hath honoured us above those who lived in the time of the Law Many Prophets and Kings have desired to see those things which we see and have not seen them and to hear those things which we hear and have not heard them Luke 10.24 The Gospel is a Mystery and a great Mystery too which was hidden in the secret Closet of God's own Breast not possible to enter into the heart of Man till Christ brought it out of the Bosom of his Father and discovered it unto Man-kind Nor could Men or Angels do that he only had Power to open the Book who was both God and Man in Union by vertue of which Union those divine Truths and heavenly Mysteries which were Joh. 1 18. Mat. 1● 27 and could live no where but in the Divine Nature were drawn out of the depth of it into the Humane and in that Nature discovered unto us No spiritual Discovery of those high Mysteries could be or can be but in Christ and by Christ because in him alone is the Divine and Humane Nature united Now the greater Love that God hath shewed us Mat. 21.33 41. the soarer Vengeance in case of Contempt and Disobedience See then that you despise not him that speaks from Heaven saith the Apostle Heb. 12.25 For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on Earth much more shall not we escape if we turn from him that speaks from Heaven to us He that despised Moses Law dyed without Mercy under two or three Witnesses that is being Legally convicted Heb. 10.28 now of how much soarer Punishment shall he be worthy who despiseth the Gospel whereof the Son of God is the Minister Christ is far greater than Moses in despising him they did but despise the Servant in despising Christ you despise the Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Look to it therefore saith the Apostle that you do it not for it is as much as your Souls are worth And yet how little is God's Speaking to us by this his Son regarded Many of the Pharisees knew him to be the Son of God This is the Heir say they come let us kill him Mat. 21.38 They were not altogether ignorant that he was the Lord of Life whom