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A13570	Pauls complaint against his naturall corruption With the meanes how to bee delivered from the power of the same. Set forth in two sermons vpon the 24 verse of the 7. chapter of his epistle to the Romanes. By me William Teelinck, preacher of the word of God at Middleburgh.; Paulus klocht over zijn natuurlijke verdorvenheid. English	Teellinck, Willem, 1579-1629.; Harmar, Christopher.	1621 (1621)	STC 23861; ESTC S102633	39,150	75

our sinfull flesh is like vnto a wicked Enchantresse which smileth vpon vs when she purposeth to destroy vs the pleasing and delightfull concupiscences thereof are like Ioabs kisses who killed Amasa when he seemed to kisse him 2 Sam 20.9.10 Therefore wee must not fauour and please this monster of sinne but we must in this thing denie our selues and kill our earthly members Col. 3.5 And crucifie our old man Gal. 5.24 If we will liue and be deliuered from the eternall crosse and the eternall death Neither must we shrinke or be afrayd to doe it for the lustes of our flesh which we are to cut off are as rotten members members of the bodie of death cankered and putrified members which if we cut them not off in time will corrupt and destroy our whole man yea and bring vs also into eternall death as the truth it selfe teacheth vs expressely testifying that if we fauour and make much of the members of this body of death that is our sinfull lustes and cut them not off we shall with them be cast into hell where the Worme neuer dyeth and the fire neuer goeth out Mar. 9.44 Secondly the man that would willingly bee more and more deliuered from the body of death thorough Iesus Christ our Lord must not onely denie and forsake himselfe but also with all his affections and the deepest desires of his heart make all possible speede to come vnto Christ that he may be cured of him as he himselfe teacheth namely that all that are wearie and laden must come vnto him and he will ease them Mat. 11.28.29 and Mat. 13.15 He then that would be healed by Christ and deliuered from the bodie of death must giue vp himselfe vnto him to be cured by him euen as a poore patient which hauing long beene possessed with a grieuous disease putteth himselfe into the hands of a skilfull Phisitian which by Gods helpe can cure him to be ruled and handled according vnto his will prescription Now the dyet the phisicke the receipts which Christ the onely Phisitian of the soule prescribeth vnto his patients that I may so speake for their curing are found onely in the holy Scripture Ioh 5.39 which is the Phisick booke wherein are plentifully conteined the words which are life to them that finde them and health vnto their flesh Pro. 4.22 Therefore the poore sinfull man that would haue helpe must order and gouerne himselfe according to the rule and true meaning of the holy Scripture wherein is comprehended the great wisedome of God and all the mysteries of spirituall Phisicke according to which whosoeuer truely frameth and carrieth himselfe shall certainely and vndoubtedly be healed Therefore it is the greatest folly and madnesse in the world and a sinne whereof very many stand guiltie before God that wretched sinfull men should be slacke and negligent to enquire and search after the wisedome and counsell of God and to frame and fashion themselues according vnto it notwithstanding the great wife and mercifull God hath reuealed vnto them in his word which he hath put into our handes how they should walke to the end that they may be healed of the bodie of death but run vnaduisedly after the blind conceipt of their owne head without once rightly considering what the Lord Iesus Christ the onely Phisitian of the soule hath prescribed and deliuered in the holy Scripture for poore soule-sicke man to practise and apply vnto himselfe to the end that he may bee cured yea the great stayne of this sinne of the godlesse children of the world shall neuer be purged from them vnlesse they amend therefore those that would bee deliuered from the body of death thorough our Lord Iesus Christ must so giue themselues vp vnto him to be cured of him as that they diligently search and learne out of his word how they must order and addresse themselues to the end that they may bee healed Thirdly He that would be deliuered from the body of death thorough our Lord Iesus Christ must by all meanes endeuour to beleeue and hold as firme and certaine that he thus denying and giuing vp himselfe vnto Christ shall truely bee deliuered and cured by him this did Christ require in the curing of bodily diseases Marc. 9.23 and else-where teaching vs thereby that this faith is aboue all things necessary and requisite vnto the curing of the mortall disease of our soules it being the Conduit which conueyeth vnto vs vertue from Christ whereby we are healed of our corruptions But the Diuell which setteth vp himselfe as a God of the world laboureth by all his might and pollicie to hinder and stop this for hee will eyther perswade a man that he shall liue and bee saued by his faith and beliefe in Christ when hee liueth in a course of perdition seruing the flesh wherein if he continueth it is not possible that he should be saued Rom. 8.13 or else hee will make him beleeue if he can that his sinnes are so great that he shall not obteine pardon and remission of God when he hath denied himselfe forsaken his sinnes laboureth to be conformed vnto the will of God and is heartily grieued because he cannot performe such obedience vnto him as hee should and as hee would but let vs take heede of both these Rockes let vs not presume of the mercy of God when wee are not fit Objects of mercie standing in open rebellion against God being friendes of sinne and let it also bee farre from vs to thinke that God will not haue mercy vpon vs when wee come vnto him for mercie with true sorrow and griefe because wee haue offended him for it is his glory to haue mercie and to haue respect vnto them that humble themselues but let vs wrestle with our vnbeleiefe and beleeue that thorough the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ wee shall bee saued Act. 15.11 This faith thus being founded not vpon an idle conceipt of our owne braynes but vpon the fore-named groundes the word and councell of Christ wee accordingly endeuouring truely to forsake our selues and to put our selues into his hands to be ruled and gouerned by him This faith I say is mightie and worketh wonders and there is no disease of the soule so mortall or incurable of which wee shall not bee cured if so be wee hold fast and continue in this our true and holy faith following the councell of Christ for then may wee expect the blessing of Christ more and more to bee deliuered from the bodie of death Then shall it bee done vnto vs according to the words of Christ Mathew the fifteenth Chapter and the twentie eyght verse Be it vnto thee as thou wilt Then shall wee be more and more freed from the power of sinne and assured of our Saluation to our great and neuer ending comfort ⸪ Laus honor gloria sole Deo FINIS The connection of the Text with the former verses The summe of the Text. The parts of the Text. Why our naturall

nearer vnto them and demand of them vpon what ground they hope that God will be more mercifull vnto them for to saue them from hell and bring them to heauen then he is to many other whom he casteth into destruction then they are at a stand not knowing what to say or doe or it may be run vnto their workes for to seeke their saluation there or els answere you that it is too high a question for them and that they are not so deepely learned and albeit they are conuinced that they are ignorant of the meanes wherby they may be deliuered from eternall perdition yet they let it sticke there troubling themselues no further but goe on carelesly and securely not so much as once asking or inquiring of that man of God which hath so conuinced them how and which way they may be deliuered but let it so remaine being negligent of their eternall good and this their fearefull miserable blockishnesse and dotage ariseth onely from this that they haue no sense nor feeling of the miserable estate wherein they are by sinne but onely prate and discourse of it because they heare others doe so thinking that men must say so and because for the present they haue their bodily health and the things of this world at will and feele no smart in their consciences for they are dead in sinnes and trespasses and consequently without feeling therefore are they secure and seeke not to bee deliuered from their sinnes but liue taking their pleasure and delight therein for they haue neither true knowledge nor feeling of the misery and wretchednesse whereinto their sinnes haue brought them how their soule is depraued and corrupted and what a curse hangeth ouer them but this securitie of theirs is like vnto that of a condemned person who sleeping before execution is secure no longer then his sleepe dureth for from this that worldly men are ignorant of the misery wherein they are thorough their sinnes ariseth it that they are so negligent and carelesse not troubling not themselues with the Apostle about their deliuerance nor yet once looking after Christ Iesus vnfainedly and heartily whereas had they learned tightly to know and vnderstand the misery wherein they are by reason of their sinnes they would with all earnestnesse and vehemencie haue sought their deliuerance from the body of death as the Apostle did Secondly this sheweth how necessary it is that the Law should be thoroughly Preached to the end that men being made thereby to know the miserable and woefull estate whereinto their sins haue brought them might the better be driuen to seeke their deliuerance thorough Iesus Christ For it is most certain that neither the deliuerance is heartily sought after nor Iesus Christ the Physitian worthily esteemed there where the hate fulnesse of sinne and the greatnesse of the misery by reason of sinne is not thoroughly knowne Goe tell a man which feeleth no griefe and thinketh himselfe to be well and in health that he should seeke for helpe and goe vnto the Physitian for to be cured and he will mocke and deride you but one that findeth his disease and feeleth the paine thereof will thanke you for your counsell so vntill such time that men haue learned thoroughly to know their misery Iesus Christ the Physitian is not respected nor accounted off according to his worth and desert and although the Ministers of Christ come vnto them praying and beseeching them in the name of Christ and entreating them for the loue of Christ to carrie themselues so and so yet these men which know not their misery regard it not at all but set light by all the requestes and entreaties of Christ and suffer his Ministers to pray and entreate as much as they will passing away their time without any care or thought at all and no maruayle for they feele no want of Christ neither finde they any more sweetnesse in the Lord Iesus then in a dry Wort-stalke But on the contrary side those that haue learned truely to know their misery and which giue vp their hearts soules vnto Christ for to be deliuered thorough him those esteeme and count of all things as dung and drosse for the excellencie of the knowledge of Iesus Christ whatsoeuer is required of these in the name of Christ as soone as they truely know it to bee his will they fashion themselues according vnto it they onely being those that honour and esteeme of Christ according vnto his worth and excellencie as daily experience maketh it vndeniably manifest for this cause we see it to be most necessary that men should learne to know their misery by the preaching of the law to the end that they may come vnto the Gospell for their deliuerance in and thorough Iesus Christ Thirdly This serueth to admonish all those which seeke to be deliuered from the bodie of death that they willingly and gladly suffer the reproofe and reprehension of their sinnes and the discouery of the filthinesse and hatefulnesse of them but men are impatient of this auoyding shunning it as the death yet without this they cannot be deliuered from the body of death some when they heare sinne sharply reproued cry out that it is the way to preach men to destruction but truely they know not what they say are they those that thinke to bee deliuered by their owne workes that they cannot suffer to haue it truely declared vnto them that the very best of them according to the tenor and strictnesse of the Law hath by their owne actions deserned no lesse then hell and damnation But if they be wise right minded Christians let them be willing to heare their owne insufficiencie and vnworthinesse discouered and layd open vnto them that they may the more reuerence and esteeme of Iesus Christ and learne not in their owne workes but in his worthines and merites to seeke their deliuerance and saluation and to acknowledge and follow him not from the teeth outwardes like hypocrites but vnfainedly and from their hearts as the onely Physitian and sauiour of their soules Therefore most commendable is the practise of those Ministers of God which are carefull earnest to lay open before mens eyes their insufficiencie vilenesse and cursed estate by nature endeuouring by that meanes to bring men highly to esteeme of Christ whom the end of all our preaching is to make knowne vnto them for by experience we finde and the truth it selfe maketh it cleare that our Lord Iesus Christ is worthily esteemed and honoured of none but of such as by the feeling of their misery are brought into the estate of the Apostle when he cryed out O miserable man who shall deliuer me from this body of death Fourthly this serueth to admonish vs whensoeuer we finde our selues wanting in our loue and due estimation of Christ and feele that wee haue not such a heartie and grounded affection vnto him and such a hungry desire and longing after our deliuerance from the