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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02189	The iaylers iayl-deliuery. Preached at Great Saint Maries in Cambridge, the 6. of February. 1619. By Henry Greenvvood, Master of Art, and preacher of the Word of God	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1620 (1620)	STC 12333; ESTC S118959	14,276	38

Commons but when Christ came to the house and home of his heart proued bountifull and liberall insomuch that halfe of his goods hee gaue to the poore and if any man could proue that hee had wronged him a penny he would make him quadruple restitution So this Iayler before his conuersion an insidell prophane and hard-hearted member but the Lord hauing taken him to taske and trembling him by the spirit of bondage now hee reuerenceth Gods Ministers now hee humbly sues vnto them for counsell and instruction saying Sirs Renerend Sirs what must I doe to be saued And thus must wee all be changed beloued in the Lord from darkenesse to light or el● hell and damnation must bee our portion to drinke The Lord then worke this excellent change in our hearts the Lord create in vs all a new heart and renew a right spirit within vs the Lord take away our stony hearts and giue vs hearts of flesh the Lord renew vs in our minds and iudgements wills and affections words and actions turne vs O Lord and wee shall be turned conuert vs thus O God and then and neuer before then shall we bee conuerted Thus much for the first word Sirs The second orderly to be considered is the occasion of this his earnest enquiry for saluation and that was his humiliation by the Law in these words What must I doe I that am the childe of wrath and sonne of perdition I that am leprous lothsome and out of measure sinfull I that haue the wrath of God sensibly vpon my soule for my sinnes I that know no way out of this my feare and misery O what must poore lamentable damnable I doe to bee faued Whence wee note the power office and property of the Law that it is as we reade Galathians 3. 24. A notable Schoolemaster to send vs to Christ it sends vs to Christ non aliciendo sed compellendo not by alluring but by compelling The Law is a killing letter When the commandement came I dyed saith Paul it killeth by shewing vs and making vs feele the damnability of our sinnes some by the Law killed to destruction as Caine Esau Iudas and such as wholly despaire others killed to saluation as Paul and such as by their despaire are driuen vnto Christ The property of the Law is to humble and quake vs for our sinnes it sheweth vs our sinne and ministreth wrath vnto our soules This humiliation standeth in two Confession Attrition The first brings shame the second horror shame from sinnes filthinesse horror from sinnes fearefulnesse This doth the Law being knowne and applyed as a Centinel it bewrayeth the enemy and makes vs flye vnto Christ Thus were they humbled that heard Peter in the Acts they were wounded in conscience and pricked in heart before they cried out Men and brethren what must we doe Thus the Law wrought vpon them that heard Iohn before they cryed out What must wee doe then And so Nineueh being first humbled sought vnto God and Paul first trembled then said What shall I doe Lord And heere a poore Iayler in the sorrow of his soule cryeth out for saluation Sirs what must I doe to be saued so that the Law prepares vs to Christ It is most certaine that saluation belongeth to none but the humble To whom will I looke saith the Lord euen to him that is of a contrite heart and trembleth at my words yea the refreshing is promised to none but the laden for we must go through the hell of a wounded conscience before wee shall taste of the heauenly refreshing Merchants waxe must leach in a candle before it can take a stampe or impression the terror of sinne must languish our soules before wee can come to blessed remission The comming of God into the soules of his chosen is notably resembled by his appearance to Eliah First there came a mighty strong winde that rent the mountaines and brake the rockes but the Lord was not in the winde after the winde came an earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake after the earthquake came fire but the Lord was not in the fire at last came there a still and soft voyce So the Lord appeareth to his redeemed ones first by the winde of his wrath breaking their hearts then by the earth-quake of his anger shaking their soules then by the fire of his displeasure smoking their consciences but in the end by the still voyce of his mercy hee refresheth their soules This poore Iayler had an earth-quake in his conscience as an earthquake in his Castle before euer hee perceiued his election and saluation There is an old saying Wee must goe by the gates of Hell to Heauen but I say more We must after a sort be in Hell before euer we can bee capable of Heauen that is in the hell of an ashamed affrighted and confounded conscience before euer the Lord will say vnto our soules that he is our redemption If humiliation by the Law precedes the saluation of the Gospell then they are not conuerted that more or lesse were neuer humbled Secondly they that are troubled and amazed at their sinnes let them not be disparaged so farre they are in this their hell from Hell as hereby they are composed and fitted for Heauen for wee must be lost before we can be found wee must bee condemned before we can be saued Thirdly let not humbled consciences rest here but passe on still till they haue found the spirit of bondage become the spirit of adoption to their soules And this counsell I giue all troubled soules for sinne Let them come to the Temple Let them impart their griefe to some friend or Minister Let them conferre with them that haue beene in the like case Let them know that they must be thus sicke before Christ will euer heale them Let them build vpon Gods mercy promised to such Let them pray that God in his good time would minister refreshing What must I doe AGaine heere wee may note the miserable mischiefe and cursed condition of sinne how burthensome and irksome it is to the soule it ministreth nothing but horror and hell to our soules The seruice of sinne is farre worse then the slauery of Egypt The bondage of Egypt was of the body onely this of sinne is both of soule and body In the bondage of Egypt they serued men in this sinne and Satan In the first they had a sense of their bondage and desired liberty in the second they thinke themselues free and despise deliuerance In the first the misery was but temporall in the second eternall In outward bondage men may help themselues by running away by intreaty by ransome in the the second they lye still till Gods mercy deliuer them A wofull thing it is to abide in the estate of sinne yea the damned themselues confesse that the way of sinne is a wearisome way to bee walked in Wee haue wearied