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A73885	Divers select sermons on severall texts Viz. 1. Of quenchiug [sic] the spirit. I Thessalon. 5.16. 2. Of the sinners suite for pardon. 2 Sam. 24.10. 3. Of eating and digesting the Word. Ier. 15.16. 4. Of buying and keeping the truth. Prov. 23.23. Preached by that reverend and faithfull minister of the word, Ier. Dyke, late preacher of Epping in Essex. Finished by his owne pen in his life time, and now published by his sonne Dan. Dyke Master of Arts.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.; Dyke, Daniel, 1617-1688.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Heart-smitten sinner's suite for pardon.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Of quenching, and not quenching of the spirit.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Purchase and possession of the truth.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Right eating and digesting of the Word.	1640 (1640)	STC 7414; ESTC S124520	150,541	441

have their feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace as it is Ephes 6.15 As therefore wee would doe God service and his Cause honour as wee would be able to be good Souldiers and resolute couragious Champions for Christ and his cause which is the greatest honour in the world so get that taken away that takes away all courage Take away the iniquity of thy servant for that will take away the courage and resolution of thy servant get that off which will cowe thy Spirit the guilt of thy sinne Get the pardon of thy sinne Get thy feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace If once thine heart have the peace of the Gospels working have peace from thy pardon it will make thee looke upon prisons scourges rackes strappadoes gibbets stakes fires as at so many flea-bitings It will make a man have an heart like David his heart was as the heart of a Lion Sixthly it is an excellent and speciall preparative for death There is no man but must die and there is nothing so much concernes a man as to be fit and prepared to dye It is appointed to all men once to dye and after death comes judgement Heb. 9. After death comes Judgement and as a mans death is so is his judgement As the tree falls so it lyes Such as a mans death is such is his doome If a man dye with his sinnes pardoned then hee is judged to life if a man dyes without pardon then his judgement is without mercy hee is judged to death and sentenced to Hell Inasmuch therefore as a man is never fit to dye comfortably and happily till death shall make way for him into Heaven and a man cannot looke for any entrance into Heaven till hee be pardoned his sinne therefore till a mans sinne be pardoned hee is never fit to dye See how Job speakes Iob 7.21 Why doest thou not pardon my sin and take away mine iniquity As if hee should say Oh Lord be not hard to be entreated let mee prevaile with thee for the pardon of my sinne But why is Iob so earnest for the pardon of his sinne See what followes for now shall I sleep in the dust As if he should say Now Lord I am upon the point of death and looke for no other but to dye and alas how sad will my condition be if I should dye without my pardon Since I must dye Lord fit and prepare me for a comfortable death by the pardon of my sinne Then is a man fit to dye when the time after death shall prove a time of refreshing Times of refreshing come after the pardon of sinne Act. 3.19 Repent saith Peter to the men of Israel and be converted that your sinnes may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And then the times after death are times of refreshing when the times before death are times of remission Hee hath prepared himselfe well for death that hath taken order that the time after his death shal be a refreshing time and that order onely hee takes that before his death hath taken order for the pardon of his sinnes Then a man is fit to dye and never till then when the sting of death is taken out so as death can doe a man no hurt when death shall not be deadly to him There is a speech Apoc. 2.23 I will kill her children with death Some men are kill'd with death they doe not onely dye but they are kill'd with death Death proves deadly to them All men dye but all men are not killed with death As a godly man said that hee did agrotare vitaliter so godly men they doe mori vitaliter When a man can dye so then hee is fit to dye Now whence is it that death becomes deadly 1 Cor. 15.56 The sting of death is sinne Sinne onely makes death deadly That which armes death to doe hurt is sinne It is as in that case Apoc. 9.10 The Locusts there had a power to hurt men with their Scorpion-like tailes and their stings in those tailes and their power was to hurt men five moneths So death hath a power to hurt men but that power is from men themselves Sinne it is that gives this power to Death to doe a man hurt In Death there be two things First the hand of Death which is the power it hath over all men it hath an hand to lay upon all good and bad Hos 13.14 I will ransome them from the power of the grave I will redeeme them from death Psal 49.15 But God will redeeme my soule from the power of the grave for hee shall receive mee All men must come into this hand of death Now it is sin that gives Death this hand But yet this hand is not deadly it but separates soule and body and but for a time At the Resurrection that hand of death shall be cut off Hos 13.14 O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction Secondly the sting of death That is the power it hath of delivering men over to the curse of God and eternall wrath And it is this sting that makes it deadly It may strike a man with the hand as it doth all godly men and yet not be deadly but then deadly when it strikes with a sting and makes way for a mans separation from God for ever And this power sinne onely gives death It is sinne unpardoned and unforgiven that gives death this power to deliver a man over to wrath to carry him in chaines to Hell This is to be killed with Death Now a man can never be fit to dye but when he is willing And never can hee bee willing so long as hee sees Death with a sting The onely way to fit a man for death so as to be willing to dye is to get out the sting The way to get out the sting is to get sinne pardoned pardoned sinne makes death without a sting and then it is not terrible A Fly makes as great an humming as a Bee and yet wee feare not a Fly as a Bee because a Fly hath no sting Wee are fit to dye when wee feare not Death This of all other should make us very sollicitous for our pardon Death is the King of terrours and it is a sad thing at the time of death to have the heart full of feares the conscience full of horrours to have death looke gastfully in our faces Get pardon and free from all this Dye thou must that 's once Now if one should come and tell us you shall dye in a Gaole you shall dye in a ditch wee should thinke it a sad hearing it would sound dolefully in our eares I but there is a speech of Christs to those Joh. 8.21.24 that sounds more dreadfully then the former Yee shall dye in your sinnes It is a sad thing to dye in a Gaole to dye in a ditch but this is the sad

no assurance that God accepts his prayers alas what a comfortlesse service is that from such prayers may a man rise with a sad Spirit Goe and eate thy bread with sorrow and drinke thy wine with a sad heart for God accepts not thy prayer God answers not with fire Now what is it that brings a man into this condition This is nothing else but a sad fruit of quenching the Spirit of Grace Because men quench the spirit therefore the Spirit burnes not in prayer and so gives no assurance of Gods acceptance What wonder that fire burns not when it is quencht Thou hast quenched it in the graces and degrees of it and therefore it is quenched in the comfort of it and now it gives thee no testimony of acceptance As therfore wee would feare to want fire to give us assurance of Gods acceptance so take wee heed that we before-hand doe not quench the fire 3. The Spirit makes our prayers accepabe The Spirit of God doth us this good office to make our prayers acceptable Prayer is not acceptable unlesse it be fervent Jam. 5. It is fervent prayer that prevailes therefore it is fervent prayer that is acceptable There is a phrase Am. 5.21 I will not smell in your solemne assemblies What that meanes see vers 22. I will not accept When incense was offered upon the Golden Altar if the Priest had layed incense upon it upon the cold Altar if there had been no fire there had beene no smell it must burne before it could smell For as in that case Ex. 29.41 For a sweet savor an offering made by fire unto the Lord so this it must be fire that must make an offering of sweet savour So all our prayers if there be no fire they have no smell they have no acceptance Now if we quench the spirit we quench the acceptance of our prayers our incense is not accepted if it doe not smell it cannot smell unlesse it burne and how can wee thinke it should burne when wee have quencht the fire of the Spirit by which our incense should burne The Spirit gives us a comfortable assurance of our good condition before God 4. Fourthly the Spirit of God doth us this good office to give us a comfortable assurance of our good condition before God Rom. 8.16 The same spirit beareth witnesse c. yea it seales to us our adoption 2 Cor. 1.21 ye were sealed with the spirit But now if the spirit be quenched where is that comfort of Adoption Can a quenched spirit be a witnessing spirit Can a quenched spirit be a sealing spirit Can a quenched spirit be an assuring spirit Can a quenched spirit be a spirit of consolation It is a dangerous thing to quench the spirit it is the quenching of his witnesse it is the blurring and defacing of his seale it is the quenching of a mans own comfort 5. Fifthly The Spirit guides us in the way of truth the Spirit of God doth us this good office to leade and guide us in the wayes of truth and life Joh. 16.13 The Spirit will leade you into all truth and 1 Cor. 12.3 No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Spirit It is he that by his light guides us and shewes us what is truth Hee is as the pillar of fire Exod. 30.11 to give light to goe by day and by night Wee live here in the darke and if we have not the light of the Spirit wee cannot but wander and goe amisse And this is a danger of quenching the spirit that it being quenched wee are in danger of being in the darke and being in the darke of miscarrying of falling into dangerous and foule errours It seemes that sometimes Israel did travell by night by that place Exod 30.21 and there was no danger of going out of their way or falling into pits c. because they had the pillar of fire to give them light to goe by night If they had gone by night and had not had the pillar of fire in what danger had they gone They had been in danger of being wilderd of losing their way of falling into holes and pits into which they might have broken their neckes So here so long as wee have the light of the Spirit to guide us we are safe from such danger but if once wee quench the spirit wee quench the light of it and then are in danger of being wilderd and losing our way of falling into this and that dangerous errour Experience lets us see the truth of it Wee see some that have beene very forward in godlinesse and Religion very Zealous and active and who but they But after they have abated their zeale and fervour fallen off from good society and duties they have quenched the Spirit And what hath become of them Why not one odde opinion stirring in a Country not any dangerous errour abroach but they fall presently into it and are ensnared And no wonder that such fall into the ditch for the light of the Spirit is quencht And thus the Spirit is quenched in the offices thereof when quenched in the graces 2. Secondly To quēch Gods Spirit kindles the divels a second danger of quenching the spirit in the graces thereof is this The quenching of Gods Spirit is oftentimes the kindling of the spirit of the Divell Saving and sanctifying graces though they cannot bee quenched in their habits yet wee saw before that they may bee quencht in their acts and operations may be quencht in their measures and degrees And the quenching of sanctifying grace though but in the act and degree yet it makes way for the kindling of the fire of the spirit of satan Wee are counselled Ephes 6. to quench the fiery darts of satan Now when wee quench the spirit of God in the acts and degrees of grace wee are farre from quenching the spirit of satan nay wee doe certainely thereby give so much the more advantage for the tentations of satan to prevaile and the fire of them to kindle so much the easilier But now when the spirit is quenched in the common gifts and graces thereof such as reprobates may have then the quenching of the spirit of God is the kindling of the spirit of the Divell so as hee enters with so much the more power to carry men into all manner of sinne with greedinesse Marke that passage 1 Sam. 16.14 But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul There was the spirit of the Lord quenched And what was the issue Was that all No marke the danger that followed upon it And an evill spirit from the Lord troubled him Gods Spirit goes and the Divels spirit comes Yea hee came so that Saul was carryed into horrible and fearefull sinnes Hee proved unreasonably malignant and malicious against David Hee commits a most barbarous and cruell murder 1 Sam 22.16 Thou shalt dye Ahimelech thou and all thy Fathers house It was a bloudy act to put Ahimelech to death

A man is never fit for duty till hee be such an one as may be accepted and can never be accepted till his sinnes be pardoned When a man comes to God in any holy duty and comes in his guilt in his sinnes Satan is presently ready to put in a barre against him and to lay his sinnes in his dish that God may not regard him Lord here is a man prayes heares receives Lord respect not his service let him have no acceptance nor answer from thee I but why Satan Lord hee is a swearer a drunkard uncleane covetous hee hath committed such and such sinnes and the guilt of them yet lyes upon his soule And wilt thou have communion with guilty sinners Art not thou a God of purer eyes then to behold iniquity And this is a strong plea and will carry meate in the mouth of it so long as sinne is unpardoned There is no way to enervate Satans pleas but by getting sinne pardoned that is it alone which will take off the edge of all his accusations Our prayers will never be of force so long as his accusations be of force His accusations will be of force and will enfeeble the prevailing of our prayers so long as sinne is unpardoned But when once sinne is pardoned then God hath to answer Satan with all It is true Satan that this man that now prayes c. hath committed such sins as thou accusest him and those sinnes of his deserve that hee should be rejected but yet those sinnes of his shall not prejudice his prayers nor be any stopping to my blessing for I have pardoned all those sinnes of his they are all taken away and forgiven Doe but consider that place Zech. 3.1 There is Joshua standing before the Angel of the Lord that is before Christ standing that is ministring in and executing his office offering up sacrifices and prayers for the people And at the very same time Satan is standing there also and standing at his right hand to resist him to be an adversary to him that is hee was there ready to hinder and frustrate his prayers by putting in accusations against him What was the ground of his accusations Wherein lay their strength That appeares vers 3 4. Now Ioshua was cloathed with filthy garments That is he was guilty of divers sinnes as vers 4. opens it And hee answered and spake unto those that stood before him saying Take away the filthy garments from him And unto him he said Behold I have caused thine iniquity to passe from thee and I will cloath thee with change of raiment Now Christ is willing to accept Ioshua and to regard him in his service I but Lord sayes Satan hee is in his filthy garments hee is defiled with the guilt of his sinne Therefore that Christ may make way for the prevalencie of Ioshua's prayer see how hee answers Take away his filthy garments And hee sayes unto Ioshua I have caused thine iniquity to passe frō thee c. Ioshua thy sins are pardoned and so thy prayers shall speed and shall prevaile against all Satans resistance and accusations Out of which passage wee may observe these particulars First that whenever man comes to pray to God and performe that duty Satan will stand at his right hand to resist him Joshua cannot stand before Christ but Satan will stand at his right hand Secondly that the ●●ine strength of Satans accusations lyes in the guilt of our sinnes Sinne unpardoned is that which puts validity into his resistances Thirdly that when sinne is pardoned and filthy garments taken away then a mans prayer prevailes findes acceptance and proves too strong for Satans resistances A pardoned sinners prayers are too strong for all the devils in hell with their accusations So that all this considered what a motive should it be to make us get our pardon As wee would not have all our duties to be turned into sinnes as wee would have communion with God in them all as wee would get good by and in them all as wee would have our duties accepted and prevalent as wee would bee fit to pray c. so get the pardon of our sinnes What a sad thing is it to lose all our endeavours to lose our prayers hearing and receiving all is lost and is lost labour if wee come unfitted to them Every man that is unpardoned is unprepared every unprepared man doth but lose his labour in all his duties and performances Fifthly it is that which exceedingly fits a man to suffer and to beare the crosse It is that which every one must reckon upon that will be Christs to take up the Crosse It is but a delicacy that men dreame of to divide Christ and his Crosse A man cannot take one but hee must resolve to take up the other Now no man can suffer unlesse hee be fit for it and well prepared for the service It is not an easie thing to suffer there is a great deale of patience of courage of resolution and Christian magnanimity of Spirit required in him that will suffer for Christ and the Gospell A man that is fearefull a coward will never suffer Hee that will suffer must be free from cowardise of spirit Now there is nothing so cowes a mans spirit as the feare of Hell and damnation Many a man could looke death in the face that dares not looke Hell in the face Many a man that shrinkes not at dying yet shrinkes at damning that quailes the stoutest courage in the world And there is nothing that puts a man more in the feare of Hell than guilt the want of the pardon of sinne And nothing that makes a man feare Death more then when through death hee sees Hell when hee sees the gates of death open into Hell and then a man sees Hell through death when hee apprehends his sinne unpardoned and seeing Hell through death hee is so affrighted at the sight of Hell that if hee can shift it hee will not dye but will redeeme himselfe from death upon any termes Hee will doe any thing yeeld to any thing be of any Religion of any faith rather than suffer death for the true Religion because if hee dye his sinnes being unpardoned hee knowes there is no way but Hell for him Thus doth sinne unpardoned unfit a man to dye for Christ an unpardoned sinner dreads the fire because it may but prepare him for a worse fire in Hell But now when a mans sinne is pardoned and his conscience discharged of the guilt his heart is quit of all feare of Hell and damnation Hee sees the gates of death open into Heaven into happinesse And Death is not dreadfull nor terrible at all when the doore opens that way There is nothing so animates a man so sills his heart with courage and resolution as pardon of sinne doth That is it which alone makes a Christian Souldier valorous that takes palenesse out of the cheekes whitenesse out of his Liver cowardise out of his heart such

thing indeed yee shall dye in your sinnes In a Gaole in a ditch a man may dye and yet goe to Heaven but the man that dyes in his sinnes a dead Dogge is better then he It had beene good for that man that hee had never beene borne To dye in ones sinnes it is to drop downe right into Hell It is dangerous to live in ones sinnes because a man may dye in them but it is more dangerous to dye in them because no way but Hell with such a man Take heede what ever ye doe and looke to it that when you come to dye yee doe not dye in your sinnes And the way not to dye in your sinnes is not to live in your sins but to get the pardon of them while yee live This is the happinesse of a man whose sinnes are pardoned that being once pardoned as hee will not live in them so being once pardoned hee shall never dye in them It is a sweet thing to dye as Stephen did Act. 6.56 to see Heaven opened c. to dye with the sense of Gods love and favour Some when they dye they see Hell opened and the Devils standing about their beds ready to drag them to the place of torment It is hideous dying so which of these two deaths would wee now choose If yee would not dye the last get sinne pardoned that yee may not dye in your sinnes None can at their death with Stephen see Heaven opened that have not first gotten their sins pardoned It is impossible that a man should have peace and comfort in his end that dyes without sinne taken away and pardoned When death once arrests a man then conscience if it be awake will bring in and lay to a mans charge all his sinnes and Satan will be busie to lay on loade and to affright a man with Hell and damnation If a debtor be arrested and cast into prison it is no sooner heard of but every creditor comes in and brings in his severall actions and loades him with executions Such is the case of an unpardoned sinner at his death So soone as death doth arrest him Satan comes in conscience comes in yea and God himselfe comes in all come in with their actions against him and what peace or comfort can there be in such a condition But if sinne before-hand be pardoned all this trouble is prevented and a man dyes in peace It is a rule that such as are about dying persons live by that when a man is dying nothing should be done that might trouble him in his departure that there be no shrieking or crying out none will offer to pull off the clothes to plucke away his bed from under him because they will have him dye quietly wee will not have a dying man disturbed and disquieted Now how much more should every one have a care that when hee comes to dye hee may dye quietly that hee may not heare the cryings and shriekings out of conscience nothing will disturbe a dying man as will they If then men would goe quietly out of the world let them get the pardon of their sinne If that be not pardoned there is little hope of departing in peace Quest Since therefore it is a thing so much to be looked after how may a man get his iniquity taken away and pardoned Answ Two things must be done to get pardon First wee must be taken off from such false principles as make us regardlesse of pardon that keepe us from looking after and labouring for pardon Two false principles there are that kill endeavours after pardon and make men carelesse in looking after it First that it is an easie thing to be had at pleasure a man may have it with a wet finger at any time when wee will that it may be had at the low rate of a Lord have mercy upon mee when there is scarce breath enough in a mans body to speake these five words Secondly that it is an impossibility to get pardon of sinne and that it is a thing cannot be had Both these principles though contrary to each other make men carelesse in looking after pardon and in taking paines to get iniquity taken away Who will be anxious sollicitous industrious who will take care and paines all the dayes of his life to be getting that hee may have when he will for five words speaking Who againe will bestow time and paines about that which hee conceives impossible to bee effected No man will set a teame of horse to remove a feather because when hee list hee can remove it with a slight puffe of his breath No man also will set a teame of horse to remove a mountain because he knowes it is an impossibility So that whilest men either conceive it so easie to bee had or so impossible to be had it layes a bed all cares and endeavours after pardon Therefore on the contrary we must know these two things First that it is not so easie a thing to get pardon as men imagine it is an hard thing to get pardon Secondly that though it be hard yet it is possible and may be had It is hard yet possible it is possible and yet hard and hardnesse of obtaining and possibility are the two quickners of cares and endeavours to obtaine any good thing First then wee must learne that it is not so easie a thing to get a pardon but that the worke is a difficult and an hard worke A worke that a man must tug and sweat at that will cost him a great deale of care a great deale of trouble and contention of spirit a great deale of paines and diligence before it can be brought about That it is not so easie a thing as men dreame of to get the pardon of sinne appeares by that speech of Peters to Simon Magus Act. 8.22 Repent thee of this wickednesse if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee Hee doth not intimate an impossibility of getting his pardon for then why should hee prescribe him a course to seeke it if hee had meant it had beene impossible in vaine had hee advised him to repent but his meaning is to shew him that his pardon would not easily be had but that it would bean hard a very hard thing though a possible thing to be obtained As if he should say I will not deny but it is possible but yet if thou wilt ever have it it will cost thee tugging and sweating for it Simon Magus indeede was naught and therefore his pardon might seeme the harder to be gotten but yet if wee looke upon good men wee shall finde that they have found it hard enough to obtaine See how David labours and wrestles for it Psal 51.1 2. Have mercy c. blot out Wash mee Cleanse me This iteration and ingemination of his suite that hee thus pulls and tugs for it implies how hard hee found it to get pardon Lesse labour and contention of spirit would have served the turne

of the worth of it sell it not but keepe it still rather then make a fooles bargaine and to be made the laughing stocke of men and Angels Secondly to sell the Truth it is to make a profane bargaine and it is a manifest evidence of a profane heart Heb. 12.15 Looke diligently least any man fall from the grace of God that is lest any man sell the Truth they are the same thing What if any man doe sell the truth and fall from the Doctrine of Grace Lest there be any profane person as Esau was who for one morsell of meat sold his birth-rights Marke then that that man that sells the truth and falls off from it is such another profane person as Esau was and is guilty of the same profanenesse that he was Esaus profanenesse what was it not onely in this that hee sold such a priviledge at so despicable a price that indeed aggravates his profanenesse but in that hee sold spirituall things for temporall things The selling of his birth-right was the selling of his title to and hope of Heaven This to doe is profanenesse and this they doe that sell the Truth for ease preferment liberty life c. They sell spirituall things for temporall ones they sell their right to and hope of Heaven for outward things And thus are they guilty of making a profane bargaine Thou that sellest the Truth thou makest Esaus bargaine and shewest thy selfe as profane a wretch as Esau was Thirdly to sell the Truth it is to make a dangerous bargaine Ezek. 7.12 Let not him that selleth mourne but no man hath more cause to mourne then he that sells the Truth that man may come home by weeping crosse That as Salomon speakes in that case Prov. 11.26 Hee that with-holdeth Corne the people shall curse him but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it So here contrarily Hee that holds and keepes fast the truth God himselfe shall blesse him but cursing shall be upon the head of him that sells it It is that which will bring a curse with it and therefore a dangerous sale Dangerous in these respects First Such as doe make Merchandise of the truth and sell it and once part with it they seldome or never recover it againe That 's Gods curse upon them for selling that they shall never redeeme or buy it more A man that sells his inheritance it is seldome seene that ever hee comes to buy it againe And yet it is possible and falls out oft in the World that a man sells his house and Land and lives to redeeme and buy it againe But when a man hath sold the truth hath played the voluntary Apostata by falling from Religion whose experience can give an example of any one that ever recovered againe and repented and received and embraced the truth againe That 's commonly Gods curse upon such since yee have sold it yee shall sell it for ever you shall never have the commodity againe That as in that sense the Prophet speakes Eze. 7.13 The seller shall not returne to that which is sold So in this case God in wrath makes it good upon the sellers of the Truth such sellers shall not returne to that which they have sold but as they have parted with the truth so they and the truth shall be parted for ever They are irreducible irrecoverable by the Ministery of the Word Hos 11.7 And my people are bent to backe-sliding from mee though they called them to the most High none at all would exalt him Secondly Such as sell the Truth God will sell them and they themselves shall be sold And that First They shall be sold over to sinne sold to be bond slaves and servants to all wickednesse That as it is said of Ahab 1 Reg. 21.25 Hee did sell himselfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lord. There was none like unto him So it is true often of the sellers of the Truth that when men have once bought the Truth and then sell it againe they have once profest the Truth and Religon and then decline and fall off they grow so wicked so vile so base in their courses that there are none like them they be men sold over to sinne to commit wickednesse with greedinesse The house fell sayes Christ and the fall of that house was great If these men sayes Moses dye the common death of men c. So these men fall not the common falls sinne not the common sinnes of men but prove the most transcendent outragious sinners of all other men None so loose none so notorious drunkards adulterers non so bitter and pestilent persecutors of the Truth as they Dan. 11.30 There were forsakers of the Covenant sellers of the Truth and what proved they vers 32. wicked doers against the Covenant Psal 53.3 Every one of them is gone backe back from the truth were sellers of the truth And what proved they they are altogether become filthy They prove filthy fellowes filthy drunkards filthy adulterers filthy scoffers filthy persecutors Thus men that have sold the Truth are sold to worke wickednesse in the sight of God and men Secondly they shall be sold over into the hand and power of their enemies When men sell Truth they sell God and when men sell God God will sell them and as Psal 44.12 Thou sellest thy people for nought We shall never finde God threatning to sell his people or selling them but when they had first sold the Truth Hee threatens to sell them Deut. 28.6 8. There yee shall be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women But this threatning is upon their forsaking God and his truth and the purity of Religion and their falling off to superstition and Idolatry And when hee did sell them why was it but because they had first sold the Truth Deut. 32.30 32. How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight except their rocke had sold them and the Lord had shut them up For their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter And so Judg. 3.7 8. And the children of Israel did evill in the sight of the Lord and forgat the Lord their God and served Balaaim and the groves Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel and hee sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim King of Mesopotamia and the children of Israel served Cushan-Rishathaim eight yeeres And Judg. 4.1 2. And the children of Israel againe did evill in the sight of the Lord when Ehud was dead And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin King of Canaan that reigned in Hazor the Captaine of whose host was Sisera which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles It is an hainous thing to sell a righteous man for silver the poore for a paire of shooes Am. 2.6 And that which brings heavy judgements upon a Nation how much more will it bring