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A73378	An exposition of the lawes of Moses Viz. Morall. Ceremoniall. Iudiciall. The second volume. Containing an explanation of diverse questions and positions for the right understanding thereof. Wherein also are opened divers ancient rites & customes of the Iewes, and also of the Gentiles, as they haue relation to the Iewish. Together with an explication of sundry difficult texts of Scripture, which depend upon, or belong unto every one of the Commandements, as also upon the ceremoniall and iudiciall lawes. Which texts are set downe in the tables before each particular booke. All which are cleered out of the originall languages, the Hebrew and Greeke, and out of the distinctions of the schoolemen and cases of the casuists. / By Iohn Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Gods Word.; Works. v. 3	Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.	1632 (1632)	STC 25207.5; ESTC S112662	524,931	1,326

of the Compasse trembleth alwayes untill it stand to the North-Pole so the soule hath no rest untill it be set upon the right object God himselfe The rich man said soule take thy rest when he had his Barnes full Luk. 12 9. But riches cannot bring rest to the soule for the more that a covetous man hath the more he coveteth an example of this we see in gold-thirstie Babel Esa 14.4 the more they had the more they coveted the soules of the wicked are in a sling 1 Sam. 25. a stone in a sling is violently tossed about so are their soules and they shall get no rest day nor night Rev. 14.11 So David compareth the wicked to a wheele which alwayes turneth about Psal 83.13 and to a drunken man that lyeth upon the top of a Mast How to finde true rest Prov. 23.24 If thou wouldst haue true rest to thy soule disburden it of sinne Looke how the poore shippe was tossed so long as Ionas was in her but when he was throwne into the Sea the storme was calmed so cast out sinne and then thou mayest haue rest When a man entertaineth his sinne he is like a man that is sicke on the Sea he runneth from this place to that place to seeke rest but all in vaine because he hath the sicknesse within himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel sapius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per antiphra sin quasi illocalis infinitus qui nullo loco capitur sed omnibus rebus locum dat God is called by the Hebrewes Makom locus because he containeth all things and is contained of none every thing is kept in its owne place God is the place for the soule to rest in the Philosophers say Bonum ex integra causa consistit malum ex quolibet defectu Goodnesse cannot consist without the integritie of all the parts but evill is a defect of any of them that a man be in good health it is necessary that every humour keepe his just temper and proportion but to make a man sicke it is enough that one humour onely be distempered the rest of the soule is GOD who is all goodnesse but any griefe will disquiet the soule the soule is a disturbed thing therefore we must admire his power who can settle it when Christ calmed the winde and the Sea they said Who is he that both Sea and winds obey so we may say when God calmeth the soule and putteth it to its rest Why Satan can haue no rest who is this that the unsetled soule doth obey Satan being so farre from God who is the place of rest he cannot finde rest Then he saith Quest I will returne vnto my house from whence I came out How can Satan returne to that place out of which he hath beene cast Satan is cast out two wayes Answ either partially or totally Partially he is cast out by illumination totally by sanctification this partiall casting out of Satan A twofold casting out of Satan is wrought sundry wayes first by civill education as Nero was very meeke the first fiue yeares of his Raigne because he was brought up under Seneca a good Master so Iulian so long as he was a Reader in the Church Satan was cast out of him partially and sometimes by the constitution of the bodie Wicked men how restrained from sinne as some abstaine from some sinnes because of the constitution of their bodies as they abstaine from drinke because they haue a weake braine and sometimes by shame and sometimes by the restraining power of God but it is easie for Satan to enter in againe when he hath but such barres to hold him out but where there is a totall sanctification he cannot enter in againe there Now when we call it a totall sanctification it is meant totall here in parts but not in degrees that is there is no facultie in the soule but there is grace in it as well as there is sinne and therefore Satan cannot enter there againe Vnto mine house from whence I came Satan desires to goe backe into his ancient habitation No place can content him so well as his former habitation wherein he hath dwelt a long time and he glorieth more to repossesse himselfe in his former habitations than to purchase new places When Satan was dispossessed out of the people of the Iewes in the Wildernesse by the doctrine of Miracles which Moses wrought he sought to be repossessed againe first by Idolatrie secondly by Whoredome with the daughters of Moab and by rebellion so when hee was dispossessed out of the Christian Churches in the East first he sought to be repossessed again by schismes and heresies but especially by Arrianisme then he fully repossessed himselfe againe by Mahomet How to keepe us free from Satan that he enter not againe If thou be free from Satans possession looke not back againe as Lots wife did Satan is like a Raven when he is driven from a dead carkasse he fleeth but a little from it and is readie to returne to it againe Simile when a man commeth out of a Bathe the Physitians prescribe to him then that he looke well to himselfe for he is readie to catch cold because his pores are open so when Satan is cast out a man hath neede then to be very vigi●●nt that Satan surprise him not againe For if after they haue escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ they are againe intangled and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning 2 Pet 2.20 And when he is come he findeth it emptie swept and garnished This house was swept and hung but it was not well furnished within Obserue that God never commeth to the soule with a privation but as he taketh away sinne God commeth never with an emptie hand so he putteth in grace pull up the thornes and then sow the wheate Iere. 4.3 Cease to doe evill and then learne to doe good Esay 1. The Lord liketh not this privatiue Divinitie Curse yee Meroz because they came not to the helpe of the Lord Iudg. 5.23 So when I was an hungred yee gaue me no meat at all Mat. 25.42 Many men doe content themselues with this they will doe their enemy no harme they will haue no medling with him but this is the sweeping of the house onely but they come not to the positiue part I will doe him good and therefore Satan may get entrance againe Then goeth he and taketh seven other spirits with him more wicked than himselfe Here the question may be mooved Whether some Devils be worse than others whether some Devils be worse than others It may seeme there are because Beelzebub their Prince he is worst goe to the hel 's prepared for the Devill and his Angels Mat. 25.41 And as amongst the good Angels some are Powers Dominions and some Thrones so it seemeth that amongst the wicked Angels there are some