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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14992	A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to aduise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to beare them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 25299; ESTC S107622	140,887	282

not without some little successe tho farre short of what I ought and but for mine owne carelesnesse might haue attained Another because I conceiued that as a man which hauing but a small stocke can himselfe make but small gaines of its returne may yet giue husband like directions to him that hath a larger stocke by which he may improue his ten talents to more aduantage then else he could doe so a man that hauing but a small quantity of grace can doe little himselfe may yet giue sound directions to those that haue receiued a greater measure of Grace to further them much in their spirituall thrift And as he that by some disease or wound is halfe lame and can goe but a slow pace in the knowne right way may yet direct others to the right way and quicken their pace by calling vpon them so may he whose corruptions suffer him to proceed but slowly in the wayes of holinesse shew that way to others and hasten them therein In a word he may be a good Drummer or Trumpeter in the warre that hath but a weake body and feeble lims to fight Hinder not thy selfe therefore from profiting by this Work by looking on the weakenesses of him that wrote it striue thou to run apace in this path I will either follow after thee or beare thee company or if I can goe before thee as fast as I can Fight thou valiantly at the sound of this Trumpet and I will also striue to vse the hand aswell as the mouth and the Sword aswell as the Trumpet So committing my selfe and thee to the good fauour and grace of our common Father and requiring a few of thy prayers for my selfe in speciall I rest A wel-willer to thy victory against thy spirituall foes William Whately Banbury Feb. 17. 1622. MORTIFICATION Coloss 3.5 Mortifie your members which are vpon the earth CHAP. I. Opening the Text and shewing the Doctrine IN this briefe precept to omit all speech of the coherence because the meaning is plaine enough without it the Apostle deliuers a most necessary point of Christian doctrine Three things obseruable in the Text. For the better explanation of his words we must in them consider three things An action to be done The obiect of this action and the persons to whom the action appertaineth The action is Mortifie or to speake in plaine English Put to death First an action to be done Put to death In this phrase the holy Ghost seemeth to allude vnto the ancient sacrifices whereof so many as consisted of things hauing life were appointed to be slaine by the Priest afore they were offered vp vpon the Altar as a type of our killing the old man before wee can become an acceptable sacrifice vnto God Now to slay sinne is nothing else but to labour with all our might vtterly to subdue it that it may haue no command vigor working no nor being in vs. It is a constant endeauour of causing our corruptions to cease to stirre to moue or to abide in our hearts as a dead man is no longer a man nor can performe the actions of a man and is said no longer to bee amongst men Wee must not surcease striuing against sinne till wee haue vtterly abolished it our desire and endeauour must bee to vse it as a venimous creature euen to knock it on the head and make a cleane riddance of it Wee must not account it sufficient to fine our corruptions as it were or to confine them or to imprison or to bind them or to hurt or to maime them as some kind of inferiour offenders are chasticed but as a capitall offender a mortall enemie an irreclaimeable traytor wee must see execution done vpon it and make a finall and an vtter dispatch of it 2. 2. The obiect of the action Your members on earth This is the action inioyned The obiect of the action is your members that are vpon earth By these earthly members hee meaneth our manisold corrupt and sinfull dispositions according as himselfe doth make manifest by instancing in some for all saying Fornication vncleannesse c. There are in euery mans soule an innumerable company of disordered inclinations contrarie to the will of God and our dutie as ignorance vnbeliefe pride folly worldlinesse silthinesse and all that rabble of euils which we commonly call vices Now all and each of these must be pursued with a mortall hatred and assailed with the same earnestnesse and furie as wee would doe an enemie in the fields euen with an intention of slaughtering him if we can It will not be amisse to consider of some reasons why our corupt lusts should be called members and why members vpon earth There seemeth to bee a threefold reason of this name 3. First the whole corruption of our euill nature Why Lusts are called Members is in Scripture compared to a mans body and called The body of death wherefore the seuerall corruptions are fitly termed members or parts concurring to the full constitution of the whole body You know that Nature hath prepared for man head shoulders armes brest belly thighes legs feete and the rest in the fit and apt ioyning together of which the beeing of the humane body doth consist So doth our wickednes consist in many particular disorders pride vnbeliefe rebellion impatiency hypocrisie carnall sorrow carnall confidence wrath vncleannes earthly-mindednes and diuers others as bad as these the ioyning of which together doth make vp the vniuersall sinfulnesse of our nature called The flesh the old man Againe they are called members vpon the same consideration wherein our Sauiour inioyning the same dutie that here the Apostle is pleased to vse this figuratiue kind of speech Mark 9.43 c. If thy eye offend thee pull it out and cast it from thee if thy foote offend thee cut if off and cast it from thee and if thine hand offend hee cut it off and fling it from thee Because to a man now corrupted his corruptions are as naturall as his members hee brings them into the world with him together with his hands eyes feete they begin and grow in him with the beginning and growing of his lims and in his account they are as necessarie vsefull pleasing and as deare and tender to him as his armes or his legs or his very eyes yea the apple of his eye Nothing in the world is more precious to the vnsanctified and vnregenerate man then his lusts he could as easily part with the ioynts of his body as with them yea with his whole hart he would be content to redeeme the libertie of following them by the losse of his eye Well are they termed members because to the carnall man they are as welbeloued as his members and hee will as lothly part with them and as il spare them as his members yea a man already in part sanctified finds it as much to doe to wrestle against them till they be not thorowly mastered as it were