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heart_n	according_a	david_n	lord_n	2,122	5	3.7150	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30126	Infirmity inducing to conformity, or, A scourge for impudent usurpers, and a cordiall for impotent Christians preached not long since in St. Peter's the Poore ... and in St. Pancras Church-yard when it could not be admitted into the church, July 8, 1649 / by Peter Bales ...	Bales, Peter, 1547-1610?	1650 (1650)	Wing B549; ESTC R3551	29,358	39

noble stock Yea they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of the blood-Royall in a spirituall sense For God is their Father Christ their elder Brother the Holy Ghost their Comforter the Church their Mother Heaven their inheritance and Regeneration their Evidence yet are they Offenders in many things and this they doe in humility and sincerity of heart acknowledge In many things saith Saint James We doe offend I an Apostle and you Professors even we who are called justified sanctified and redeemed by the pretious blood of Jesus Christ That the deare Children of God both Ministers and People have been are and shall be Offenders in many things even to the world's end not onely my Text but other places of holy Scripture doe sufficiently declare Was not Noah a man beloved of the Lord and a Preacher of righteousnesse yet was he not inebriated with his owne wine Vino captus qui diluvium fugerat saith Saint Ambrose He was freed from a deluge of water and drowned in a deluge of wine Gen. 9.21 Had not Lot his Epithete of Just Just Lot 1 Pet. 2.7 8. And was not he vexed at the uncleanly conversation of the wicked And did not he see the Sodomites burnt with fire for their lusts yet did not he doe wickedly and being delivered burne with incest Joseph sinned in swearing By the life of Phardoh Gen 42.15 Aaron sinned in making the golden Calfe for the Israelites to worship Exod. 32.21 And he and Miriam sinned in murmuring against Moses Numb 12.7 8. The Prophet Jonah transgressed in flying from Joppe to Tharsus and in justifying his unjust anger for the Gourd Moses though the Servant of the Lord and the meekest Man upon the earth offended in unbelief and anger Numb 20.12 16.15 The Prophet David was a man according to God's owne heart 1 Sam. 13.14 and in the state of regeneration yet his heart was uncleane Psal 51.10 and he fell into the sinne of adultery hypocrisie murther and ambition 2 Sam. 11. 24. Salomon the wisest Man upon the earth committed folly Job the patientest yet not altogether to be excused of impatience nor Elias of passion nor the Sonnes of Zebedee of ambition nor Peter and Barnabas of dissimulation Gal. 2. No nor the blessed Virgin her self of vain-glory Saint Peter was couragious yet pusilanimous Confident yet Diffident so faithfull that Christ built his Church upon his Faith yet denied and that with execration his Lord and gracious Redeemer nay all Christ's Disciples though at one time they forsook all to follow him yet at another time they all forsooke him and fled But why should I thus discover my Father's nakednesse rather indeed would I goe backward and cover the same with the mantle of my pity Yet let us not be too lavish in pitying them For God hath caused their infirmities to be recorded First to let us understand that both they and we have one and the same God who was alwaies offended with sinne were the Persons that wrought it never so great or glorious Secondly to let us know that both they and we have one and the same Physician to cure us of all our maladies viz the immaculate Lamb Christ Jesus who saveth his People from their sinnes Mat. 1.21 Thirdly and lastly to teach us circumspection and cautelousnesse to flie from sinne as from a Scrpent and to say to it as Pharach said to Moses See that thou see my face no more or as Abraham to Lot If thou go on the right hand I will goe on the left or if thou go on the left hand I will go on the right For if the deare Children of God who have gone before us both in time and in the graces of the Spirit beare such reproach by reason their corruptions are registred what shall we sustaine who live in a brighter Age and upon whom the ends of the world are come But alas so base is our nature that sinne will be a Jebusite it will be a constant guest to our house though it sitteth not in the chiefest room it is bred in the bone and it will not out of the flesh untill Joseph's bones be carried out of Aegypt i. e. untill we be out of this world As Israel could not passe to Canaan but through the Desart of Zin so we must not look to passe to our spirituall Canaan but through the wildernesse of sinne Sinnes are like Rebels that not onely revolt but also keep castle against their Soveraigne from whence they are not easily removed Aristotle tells us of three things that doe acquire wisdome viz Nature Learning and Exercise Sure I am not these but God's free grace can make us avoid sinne Philosophers are of opinion that if the inferiour spheres were not governed and stayed by the highest the swiftnesse of their motion would quickly fire the world So I may very well hold that if the affections of God's dearest Children were not moderated by the guidance of his holy Spirit they would run so farre into sinne as to precipitate their soules into the black gulfe of eternall destruction for our reason is no better than treason and our affections are no better than infections We cannot truely say of our selves as Isidore too boldly of himselfe For fourty yeares space saith he I found not in my selfe any sinne no not so much as in thought anger or any inordinate desire or as Alexander de Hales of Bonaventure His life was so upright saith he that Adam seemed not to have sinned in him No no my Brethren look upon a Christian at the best whilst he liveth in this world and you may well compare him unto the Arke of the Covanant which was but a cubit and half high an imperfect measure by this you may know his stature adde what you will it will be but a cubit and an half Perfectly imperfect was he when he began imperfectly perfect when he ends in all his actions Therefore as we doe offend in many things let us in humility and sincerity of heart acknowledge and confesse the same as Saint James in my Text In many things we doe offend This hath been the constant practise of God's beloved ones What is man saith Eliphaz that he should be cleane and he that is borne of woman that he should be just Behold God found no stedfastnesse in his Saints yea the heavens are not cleane in his sight Job 15.14 15. Therefore Job acknowledgeth his failings Job 7.20 and when he came to plead with God for his uprightnesse did abhorre himselfe and repented in dust and ashes Job 42.6 Nehemiah maketh a large confession of his own and the Peoples sinnes Nehem. 9.5 6 7. So Ezra and Daniel in the behalf of the People confesse that justice belongeth to God but shame and confusion to themselves Ezra 9.5 6 7. Dan. 9.6 7. Salomon hath his Booke of Acknowledgment viz Ecclesiastes David confesseth his folly in numbering the People saying I have sinned exceedingly in that I have done therefore now