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A55810	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle, on Wednesday in Easter weeke Aprill 13th, 1642 before the Right Honovrable the Lord Maior, the aldermen and sherifs of this famous city of London / by William Price...	Price, William, 1597-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing P3402; ESTC R18549	33,074	54

sorrowfull aspect prostration ejulations disheveled haires sorrow-prest heart yet yet returne to me saith the Lord come and welcome to thy God Mar. 10.49 Be of good comfort he calleth thee as it is in the Gospell It is not boldnesse to come it is disobedience not to come Saint Peter indeed denyed his Master but after confessed him Hee who denyed him afore a Damsell confest him afore a Councell like a metled horse that after a stumble amends his pace and gaines way If yet thou standest take heed least thou fall start not backe like a broken bow 1 Cor. 10.12 Phil. 1.27 Eph. 4.14 Heb. 4.14 Pro. 14.14 Nemo fit repente turpishmus Plucke not thy hand from the Plow stand fast be not as children tost to and fro with every wind of doctrine Hold fast your profession looke not backe to Sodom remember Lots wife she was metamorphoz'd to a pillar of salt to season us with her example Backslide not no not in heart as Salomon speakes Beware the least lowest degree of declension No man precipitantly falls to the worst at first The Devill is modest in his first proposalls he desires but to lodge a few sinnes of infirmity in our soules as Pompey his weake wounded Souldiers in a City who recover'd their strength and opened the Gates to the whole Army slips prepare for falls incurable consumptions begin in a yawning oscitant listlesnesse To this end that you may persevere let me prescribe these Antidotes or preservatives Rootednesse Antidotes groundednesse in knowledge That ground that had no root beleeved for a while Luke 8.13 and in time of temptation fell away Pitching our faith on God in Christ 1 Pet. 1.5 Rom. 11.20 Heb. 10.38 we are kept by the power of God through faith saith Saint Peter By faith ye stand saith S. Paul The just shall live by faith as a ship in a storme when others make shipwracke of faith and a good conscience Esay 22.23 Qui ingen●o s●o fidat amat nihil aliud certum quam fiduciam suam ferat Plin. 2. Tacito and those two wrackes goe alwayes together A beleever is like Eliacim as a Nayle in a sure place The Anker is no stay to the ship while it hangs on the ship-side it must be fixed on somewhat firme God loves to let goe a selfe-confident man How neare was Peter to a fall when hee rested on his owne bottome He that trusts in his owne wit saith Pliny for my part let him beare nothing certaine away beside his owne considence Pro 3.5 Pro 28.26 Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and leane not to thine owne understanding Hee that trusts in his owne heart is a foole saith Salomon Love to the truth for the truths sake 2 Thes 2.9 10. It is rendred as a reason why many are deluded and drawne off because they receive not the truth in the love of it There is no trusting of those that love scepticall speculations and victory better then truth Integrity sincerity of heart Triticum non rapit ventus inanes paleae tempestate jactantur Cyprian 1 Iohn 2.19 that which is naturall will hold but wash will off The wind carries not away the wheat the light chaffe onely is tost to and fro They went out from us saith our Saviour because they were not of us for had they beene of us they would not have gone out from us Living to God not to our selves or others if God be our motive we shall not change for hee is without shadow of change If we levell at worldly ends we shall ebbe and flow as the world doth which is constant onely in unconstancy like the Moone never looking upon us two dayes with the same face If plummets move us we shall quickly cease our motion as a jacke when the weights reach the ground Tim. 4.10 The love of the world fetched off Demas The world like Absalom will siltch our hearts from our heavenly King and father Growth in grace Pet. 3.17 18. Fall not from your owne stedfastnesse saith Peter and that you may not grow in grace Grace is to the soule as balast to a ship that keeps it upright A drop may be dryed up when a streame cannot A sparke may be quickly extinguisht a flame not so soone If we grow not better we shall grow worse like an arrow shot upward if it ascend not it descends like a boat against a streame if it goe not foreward it goes backeward As they say of a Courtier if he be not on the rising he is on the falling hand Sit downe Luke 14.28 like a wise builder or generall as the Metaphor is elegantly followed in the Gospell and count costs Forecast the worst when thou first salutest the threshold of Religion bethinke thy selfe what it will stand thee in Thus Christ us'd to prepare those that desired to follow him telling them that they might be big with expectation of temporall preferrement Mat. 8.20 Eph. 6.15 but he had not a house to put his head in In this respect the Gospell is call'd the shooes of preparation because by its warning it carries us dry shod through thicke and thin This doe And that you may not revolt warme your breast with these incentives Consider Incentives That your Apostacy damps the joy of proficients and retards and discourages the budding zeale of probationers in Religion Ye are departed out of the way and have caused many to stumble Mal. 2.8 as it is in the Prophecy It stiffens the sinew brazes the face strengthens the hands steeles the hearts of resolved offenders A backslider Elephantlike doth more mischiefe in his retreat in battle then ever he did good in his onset-like a candle if never lighted offends not but is extinguisht with a stinke The Devill Jaylour-like is more cruell upon a recovery then ever hee was in his first surprizall he is more vigilant over an Apostate blocking up all passages that not a beame of divine grace should through the least crany irradiate on his soule plying him with fresh successions of temptations filling his fancy and conscience with paroxysmes and impressions of horrour A revolting soule is more depraved by the readmission of the Devill then ever Corruptio optimi est pessima The corruption of the best is worst of all The whitest Ivory makes the blackest coale The sweetest wine the sharpest vineger Water heat and cooled againe becomes colder then ever Such a state is most incurable Trees twice dead and pluckt up by the rootes there is no hope of Iude 12. Heb. 6.4 5 6. It is almost impossible that such should be restored by repentance A Bone broken and set and againe broken is hardly reset I speake this not to deterre you from repentance but Apostacy To Apostatize is to loose all our fore-past prayers fastings and teares our doings sufferings for Christs sake It is to climbe mount Nebo and to looke into and not