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A67748	Englands unthankfulness striving with Gods goodness, for the victory as Abaslom [sic] strove with David, whether the father should be more kinde to the son; or the son more unkinde to the father. Or, enough (being wel weighed) to melt an heart of adamant. By R. Younge, florilegus. In reference to Leviticus 19.17 and Isaiah 58.1. In reading whereof, reflect upon your selves; hearken to conscience; and what concerns you, apply it to others, as David did Nathans parable, 2 Sam. 12.1, to 8. And Ahab the prophets, 1 King.20. 39, to 43. Want of application makes all means ineffectual; and therefore are we Christians in name only, because we think out selves Christians indeed, and already good enough.	Younge, Richard.	1643 (1643)	Wing Y152; ESTC R218135	77,968	74

the 〈◊〉 is knowne by the fruit whe●…es it be good or evill as our Saviour shewes Mat 7. 16 17 18 20 and ●…2 33. Yea Unbelievers may be knowne from Christians by their want 〈◊〉 fruit We more then suspect want of sap in the root of a Tree if we ●…de barrennesse in the Branches If either it have bad fruit or no fruit 〈◊〉 is but a dead saith And the true ●…od of grace is cease to doe evill 〈◊〉 to doe well E●…ay 1. 16. 17. For as grace enters into the heart sinne ●…oes out like aire out of a Vessell when wine is powred in Therefore ●…dmit thou wert a negative Christian and couldest not be charged with any ●…of this that I have proved against thee much the better when thou 〈◊〉 reprobate to every good worke The Fig-tree was cursed not for bearing ●…ll fruit but because it bare no good The evill servant was not bound ●…nd and foot and cast into prison for wasting his Masters goods but for not gaining with them And those Reprobates at the last day shall be 〈◊〉 depart into everlasting fire not for wronging or robbing of any bu●… not giving not comforting Wherefore as thou hast heard thy sinne commission laid open so now I will doclare unto thee thy sinnes of 〈◊〉 sion which also would be minded 2. Thou braggest and thankest God with that Parisee Luke 18. That thou art just and payest men their dues but art thou holy like●… and dost thou pay God his dues also Art thou effectually called and 〈◊〉 come a new creature by regeneration being begotten and borne a new of 〈◊〉 by the immortall seede of the Word and the Spirits powerfull working 〈◊〉 it Is thy heart circumcised or rather hath God taken away the stony 〈◊〉 out of thy flesh and given thee a new heart and put a new spirit into 〈◊〉 even his owne spirit whereby thou hast union and communion 〈◊〉 Christ and partakest of the divine nature Dost thou finde an appr●… change wrought in thy judgement affections and actions to what th●… were formerly Art thou changed and renewed in every part pow●… and faculty Is thy understanding enlightned thy minde renued thy 〈◊〉 changed thy affections sanctified c. Hath the Old-man changed w●… the New-man worldly wisedome with heavenly wisedome ca●… love for spirituall love servile feare for christian and siliall feare 〈◊〉 thoughts for holy thoughts vaine words for holy and wholsome word●… fleshly works for works of righteousnesse c. as if thou wert cast int●… new mold even hating what thou formerly lovedst and loving what th●… formerly hatedst For as without this new birth there is no being saved as 〈◊〉 Saviour himselfe affirmes Ioh. 3. 5. So he who thinks he is borne a ne●… and finds not a palpable change in his judgement affections and actio●… does but deceive himselfe 3. Art thou more knowing then the men of the world as havi●… the light of Gods spirit and the Eye of faith above them Art thou bro●… out of darkenesse into marvell●…us light Are thine eyes opened to 〈◊〉 the wonders of Gods Law is that Vaile or Curtaine which was forme●…drawne over thy heart 2 Cor. 3. 15. 16. taken aw●…y by 〈◊〉 and th●…turned from the power of Satan unto God Dost thou receive the Word wi●… all readinesse not as the word of men but as it is indeed the word of 〈◊〉 And hath it wrought in thee mightily hast thou found it by experien●… to be quick and powerfull sharpe c. as it followes Heb. 4 12. Even excelli●… all other Bookes as Wheate doth the Cha●…fe Hath the Law which is 〈◊〉 just good spirituall not onely convinced thee of sinne but so cleared 〈◊〉 sigh●… that thou canst now discerne sinne in every thought word and ac●… on of thine Dost thou see thy selfe out of measure sinfull as 〈◊〉 guilty of all manner of concupisence as having broken every one of th●… righteous precepts Exod. 20. more times and waies then thou hast hi●… on thy head Not being able of thy selfe to thinke a good thought 〈◊〉 that all the powers of thy soule and Members of thy body are wholly ●…nd originally corrupted Dost thou see thy sellse as guilty of Adams sinne 〈◊〉 being in his loynes as any Heire is lyable to his Fathers Debt And 〈◊〉 knowledge that thou broughtest a world of sinne into the world with ●…hee and deservedst to dye so soon as thou didst begin to live That thine ●…standing is darkned and dulled thy judgement blinded thy will 〈◊〉 thy memory disordered thy affections corrupted thy reason 〈◊〉 thy thoughts surprized thy desires intrapped and all the facul●…ies and sanctions of thy soule no better then poysoned That of thy 〈◊〉 thou 〈◊〉 not onely weake but even dead to what is good moving ●…o more then thou art moved That thy best workes are faulty all thy ●…nnes deadly thy nature corrupted originally That thou art swift to ●…ll evill but to all good immoveable 4 A●… thou ashamed of thy former conversation Dost thou bewaile ●…nd mourne bitterly for all thy sinnes actuall and originall of omission and commission secret as well as knowne lesser as well as greater evill thoughts vaine and unprofitable words as well as sinfull actions Yea as well for the evill which cleaves to thy best workes as for thy evil works grieve for thy unprofitableness under the meanes of grace being more sorry for offending so good a God then for that it doth or might bring thee shame or punishment in this life or in Hell Dost thou finde thy selfe in a lost condition confessing that thou hast deserved all the plagues of this life and that which is to come And groaning under the burden of sinne dost thou utterly dispaire of all helpe in thy selfe Doth it make thee solicitously careful in the use of all meanes to attaine faith in the promise of Gods mercy made in Christ as finding no rest untill thou gettest some assureance vehemently hungring and thirsting after and earnestly praying for the pardon o●… sinne waiting on the Lord with patience Dost thou hate sinne thorowly and universally Art thou grieved for the abominations that are done by others to the dishonour of God and slander of Religion or the ruine of mens soules Dost thou account spirituall judgements as the blindnesse of mens minds hardnesse of their hearts c. more woofull then any temporall judgement the world is so sensible of and troubled at 5 Dost thou often and upon all occasion go to God in prayer praying by the power of the spirit in Christ●… 〈◊〉 and with the understanding also according to 〈◊〉 w●… An●… a●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of thy sins and 〈◊〉 dost thou chiefly pray for the pardon of sinne the 〈◊〉 of grace and for the assistance of Gods spirit that thou maist more ●…mely believe more soundly repent more zealously doe more patiently su●…er and more constantly persevere in the practice and por●…ession of every duty striving against deadnesse of spirit and distractions as an

4. 4. 2 Tim. 2 26. Ephe. 2. 2. 3. Nor can the Devill put you upon any worke or service like this For herchy viz. in making Religion contemptible you detain many from entring into a religious course stagger many who have made some progresse in the way keep many from doing the good which they would or appearing the same which they are beat many off from their profession harden many and make them resolve against goodnesse intentionally slay many with death eternall and so advance his Kingdome exceedingly and as much as in you lyes both block up the way to Heaven 〈◊〉 open a flood-gate to all manner of prophanesse 5. I grant that you know it not 〈◊〉 as those four hundred of Ahabs Prophets in whom this ev●…ll spirit spake did not know that Satan spake by them 1 King 22. 22 Neither did Iudas know when he eat the sop that Satan ●…nt ed●…o him and put it in●…o his heart to b●…tray Christ Ioh. 13. 2. Neither do Magistrates when they cast the servan●…s of God into prison once imagine that the Devill makes them his Iaylors but he doth so whence that phrase of the Holy Ghost The Devill shall cast some of you into prison Revel. 2. 10. They are his instruments but he is the principall Au●…r Neither did Aranias and Saphira once thinke that Satan had filled their hearts or put that lie into their mouthes which they were strucken dead for Act 5. Yet the Holy Ghost tells us plainly that he did so vers. 3. Nor our Grand mother Eve in Paradise had not the least suspition that it was Satan which spake to her by the Serpent Nor Adam that it was the Devils min●…e in her mouth his heart in her lips when tempted to eat the forbidden fruit Nor did Dav●…d once dreame that it was Satan which moved him to number the people 1 Chron. 21. 1. Much lesse did Peter who so dearly loved Christ imagine that he was set on by Satan to temp●… his owne Lord and Master with those affectionate words Master pitty●… thy selfe For if Christ had pittied himselfe Peter and all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perished Yet he was so which occasioned Christ to answer him Get thee behind me Sata●… Mat. 16. 22. 23. Yea poore ignorant 〈◊〉 you are so far from knowing it or being acquainted with Satans ●…iles Ephe. 6. 1●… 〈◊〉 though you fight under Satans Banner against Go●…s people ye●… y●… 〈◊〉 your selves to be no●…Sata●…s but Gods servants Ye●… you think●… you do●… God good service in it as the Holy Ghost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iob. 16. 2. Gal 1. 13. 14. Phil. 3. 6. 6 Yea worse then that you shall never know it but goe on i●… thinking your selves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goo●… 〈◊〉 w●…ile you are indeed very A●…ists and Devils You 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and persecu●…e the conscion●…ble an●… 〈◊〉 the●…●…o the death eve●… for the grac●…s of Gods spirit which shines in them and yet cou●… your selves Relig●…ous untill you he●…rken more to wh●…Go●… speakes in his W●…d 〈◊〉 to the ●…ter Untill you are led by a be●…er guide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cust●… or example or carnall reason or good inuentions or the dictates of your deceitfull heares For all these will deceive you untill you have th●… 〈◊〉 a●… grace to apply to your selves what is delivered unto you out of the word For till then as a Childe when he beholds his owne face ●…n a Glass he think●… he sees another Chil●… face and not his owne so will it fa●…e with you touching what I have hitherto said Yea the whole B●…ble all the Sermons you here the check●… of your ow●…e consciences and the m●…ions of God spirit will be altogether ineffectuall as you know they have proved hitherto which is the reason that you trust your selfe so m●…h an●… know your selfe so little CHAP. XX 1. FOr notwithstanding you are guilty of all I have laid to your charge whereof one sinne is soule Ma●…her which will cost you deare one day either in tears or in torment No man under Heaven thinks better o●… himselfe For as M●…cha could d●…ingly say Now I know that the Lord will 〈◊〉 good unto me seeing I have a Levite to my Priest Or as those Hypocrites before spoken of Jer. 7. 4. could applaud themselves for their outward work●… and priviledges Esay 66. 3 4. So wilt thou most shamefully though tho●… dost even renounce both Christ and thy Baptizme in persecuting him an●… all that sincerly professe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as I have abundanly showne 2. True as the pretended M●…her that stole away the live Childe 1 King 3. 16. to 28. prosessed before King Solomon a●… great love to it and pleaded as hard for it as the naturall M●…ther could d●…e and yet so little did sh●… care for it that she wa●… content to have 〈◊〉 divi●…d which shewed plainely that love of strife and envy to the true Mother prevailed 〈◊〉 with her then true affection to the thing striven for so thou pretendest as gre●… love to Christ and the true Religion as their best and truest friends 〈◊〉 when it comes to the tryall they have no greater enemy For for matter of Reli●…ion thou art much like the ancient Romans whom a sensualist would have taken to be very religious and conscionable for they al●…ed of ●…he service of all Gods and to that end built a Temple to all Gods ●…alling it Pan●…beon yet it was evident they were not because they would ne●…er ad●…it of the true God to wit Jehovah So thou and in indeed all 〈◊〉 at large art very religious For thou wilt conforme to any Religion the State shall establish were it Popery it selfe as when super●… and 〈◊〉 were ●…dvanced in England by Queen Mary did not ninteen or rather ninty nine parts of the Land conforme to Popery And would they not doe the like now if the streame should turne yes it is more then probable they would And indeed men that scoffe at the power of godlinesse are for any Religion so they may injoy their i●…ities D●…n 3. 7. 3. Let none object their suffering since the Parliament and how constant they are to their principles For I grant t●…y are as stiffe as a stake as immov●…le a●… a R●…e in their resolution against Reformation That they will ●…ick as close to their wicked and s●…stitious Custo●…s as Clay to a Cart wheele Yea th●… a●…e m●…e 〈◊〉 t●…Sa●…n for the most part then Christs s●…vants are to him But if ever a meere ei●…ill man suffer for his faith in Christ and for 〈◊〉 sake 〈◊〉 have my head cut off No they will rather worship a ●…alse wi●…h the Israelite●… Exod. 32. 4. O●…a golden Image with the Cha●…deans D●…n 3. 7. I know divers will say not for want of ignorance in the Scripture if these honest moral men go not to Heaven Lord have mercy upon us And yet Chri●… s●…aith except the most ri●…hteous of them have another righteousnesse exceeding their owne they shall never come th●…re Mat. 5. 20. Yea he

for soul or body even to the least bit of bread we eat or shall to eternity of which we could not well want any one Christ hath purchased of his Father for us and yet God the Father also hath of his free grace mercie given us in giving us his Son for which read Psal. 68. 19. and 145. 15 16. and 75. 6 7. Yea God is many time●… working our good when we least think upon him as he was creating Adam an help meet for him when he was fast a sleep And as much do we owe unto God for the dangers from which he delivereth us as for he great wealth and dignities whereunto he hath alwayes raised us Now if we are so bound to blesse God for his external temporal inferiour earthly perishing benefits what praise do we owe for the lasting fruits ●…f his eternal love and mercy and how thankful should we strive to be ●…ich shall be the next thing treated of Now what should we render unto the Lord our God so good and gracious in way of thankfulnesse for all these his mercies for favours be●…owed and deliverances from danger binde to gratitude or else the ●…ore bonds of duty the more plagues for neglect The contribution of ●…essings require rotribution of thanks or wil bring distribution of plagues Neither could we possibly be unthankful if we seriously thought upon ●…hat God gives and what he forgives For in reason hath he contrived 〈◊〉 many wayes to save us and should not we take all occasions to glorifie ●…m hath he done so much for us and shall we denie him any thing that 〈◊〉 requireth of us though it were our lives yea our souls much more 〈◊〉 lusts We have exceeding hard hearts if the blood of the Lambe●…not soften them stony bowels if so many mercies cannot melt them ●…as Christ crucified for our sins and should we by our sins crucifie him again 6. Now the meditation of what God and Christ hath done for us ●…ould make us do what we are able for him again For did Christ all ●…is for us and shall we do nothing for him for our selves like savours●…quire like gratitude He that confers a benefit upon a grateful nature ●…bs him of his liberty and self also and in one and the same act makes ●…m a vassal and himself his master Wherefore if we have any inge●…ity in us it will make us to direct all our thoughts speeches and actions 〈◊〉 his glory as he hath directed our eternal salvation thereunto But to help and further you herein if you be willing so to do take ●…se few directions First Let these things be never out of the mindes memories mouthes 〈◊〉 those whom Christ hath done thus for O let us I say remember as we ●…ould never forget Si totum me debeo pro me facto quid jam addam pro ●…facto saith holy Bernard If I owed my whole self unto thee for gi●…g me my selfe in my creation what have I left to pay for giving thy 〈◊〉 for me to so cruel a death ●…o procure my Redemption which was not 〈◊〉 cheap as my creation Great was the benefit that thou wouldst create 〈◊〉 of nothing but what tongue can sufficiently expresse the greatnesse of 〈◊〉 grace that thou didst redeem me with so dear a price when I was ●…se then nothing We are full of thy goodnesse O let our hearts run 〈◊〉 with thankfulnesse yea let so many of us as have either heart or 〈◊〉 in the next place say O Lord What is man that thou art so minde●… of him Psal. 8. 4. And O man what is God that thou art so unmindful of him And then conclude with What shall I render unto thee Lord for all these thy benefits but love thee my Creator and Redeemer and become a new creature I will serve thee ô Lord by the assistance 〈◊〉 thy'grace because thou hast given me my self but much more hono●… thee because thou hast given me thy Son Christ 7. Nor can any man in common reason meditate so unbottomed love and not study and strive for an answerably thankful demeanure 〈◊〉 a friend had given us but a thousand part of what God hath we sho●… heartily love him all our lives and think no thanks sufficient What price then should we set upon Jesus Christ who is the life of our lives a●…soul of our souls But thirdly this should at least make us part with our nearest dea●… and sweetest darling sins to serve him in righteousness and holiness ev●…day every hour all the dayes of our lives Even every sin for what 〈◊〉 should be so dear to us as Gods onely Son was to him Do we then 〈◊〉 Gods sake not spare our dearest sin when God for our sakes did not spa●… his dearest Son Yea what a brutish and barbarous unthankfulness and shame were that God should part with his Son and his Son with his own precio●… blood for us and we not part with our sinful lusts and delights 〈◊〉 him 8. Fourthly Hath Christ done all this for us his servants so mu●… and so many wayes obliged unto him let us do what we are able for h●… again 1 Let us be zealous for his glory and take his part when 〈◊〉 see or hear him dishonoured Nor can there be any love where there no zeal saith Augustine Well-born Children are touched to the qui●… with the injuries of their Parents And it is a base vile and unjust 〈◊〉 gratitude in those men that can endure the disgrace of them under wh●… shelter they live 2 Let us seek to draw others after us from Satan Him 3 Do we all we can to promote his worship and service 4 Ta●… all good occasions to publish to others how good God is and what hath done for us 5 Let us wholly ascribe all the good we have or to free grace and give him the glory of his gifts imploying them our masters best advantage 6 Let us that we may expresse our tha●… fulnesse to him shew kindnesse to his Children and poor members 〈◊〉 are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh Ephes. 5. 30. 7 Abhor we 〈◊〉 selves for our former unthankfulnesse and our wonderful provoking him 8 Hearken we unto Christs voice in all that he saith unto us a●… express our thankfulness by our obedience Yea all this let us do if we it but for our own sakes For what should we have if we did thus s●…Christ who hath done all these things for his enemies neglecting and 〈◊〉 honouring him True we cannot properly be said to do any thing for him that have we have from him Or if we could give him our bodies and souls they ●…ld be saved by it but he were never the better for them yet we may do these and many the like things which he accounts and rewards as done to himself CHAP. V. 1. NOw these things we ought to do thus thankful we ought to be to God for his inestimable and unspeakable benefits

hold of them therefore they are honest and square dealers Nor can there be a more plausible deceit For as the Swar by compared with the Blackemore thinks himselfe faire So civill men looking upon the prophane admire their owne holinesse Whence it is that the more unrebukeable any naturall man is the greater is the difficulty of his conversion For as nothing is more easily broken then that which is most hard so notorious offenders are nothing so hard to be convinced and converted as the civilly honest The civill Iusticiary is like the young man in the Gospell that supposed he had honestly kept all the Commandements who when he was bid to follow Christ turned his bac●… upon him But the Loose Libertine resembles Matthew the Publican a notorious sinner who was no sooner called but he followed Christ 3. But will these mens high thoughts of their owne excellencie serve their turnes No but condemne them the rather That civill Justiciary Luke 18. 9. to 15. was not a Publican and thereupon boasts himselfe extreamely but he was a Pharisee like these men which was a great deale worse wherefore all can be done for them will be in vaine except I can first convince them of their selfe purity and the great danger thereof and after of the●…miserable impurity both which must be done as I before intimated 〈◊〉 making manifest unto them the secrets of their hearts in either For the effecting whereof I will not be sparing either in paines or prayer As O that God would put words into my mouth and add vertue unto those words That he would give them hearts to minde what I shall say but so much as it concernes them For God alone hath the key of the heart Acts 16. 14. to whose blessing I leave the successe humbly beseeching the Almighty that these lines may not rise up in judgement against those Hazaels that shall read them and be never the better and so instead of ●…u in their sinne prove a meanes to increase their torment 4. I begin with the first Let a Minister come to thee that art a Formalist or civill Justiciary and question with thee about thy estate or aske thee how thy soule fares and what peace thou hast admit it be upon thy death bed what will be thy manner of answering especially i●… thou hast not been a notorious offender art thou a whit troubled for sin either Originall or Actuall Or wilt thou acknowledge thy selfe to be in a lost condition without Christ No thy conscience is at quiet and thou 〈◊〉 at peace with thy selfe and all the world and thou thinkest God no sinne troubles thee Thou hast been no murtherer no adulterer no common drunkard Neither hast thou beene an Oppressor Yea wilt thou say I doe not know that I have wronged man woman or childe I have been a Protestant and gone to Church all my daies c. as commonly they thinke be●… of themselves that have least cause Yea the true Christian is as fearefu●… to entertaine a good opinion of himselfe as the false is unwilling to be driven from it They that have store of grace mourne for the want of it and they that indeed want it chant their abundance Yea whereas the Law is spirituall and binds the heart from affecting no less then the hand from acting thou art so blinde and ignorant tha●… thou thinkest the Commandement is not broken if the outward grosse sinne be for borne whence it is usual with thee to brag of a good heart and meaning of the strength of thy faith and hope of thy just and upright dealing c. Yet in case thou dost abstaine from notorious sinnes what should hinder but thou art an excellent Christian if God be not beholding to thee for not wounding his name with Oathes for not drinking and playing out his Sabbaths for not rayling on his Ministers for not oppressing and persecuting his poore Members 5. Perhaps thou wilt in generall or in grosse acknowledge that thou art a great sinner But come to particulars thou canst not tell in what Thou never brakest the first Commandement of having many Gods for thou art no Papist nor Idolater Thou never brakest the second for thou worshippest God aright Nor the third for thou hast been no common swearer onely a few petty Oathes Not the fourth for thou hast every Sabbath gone duly to Church Not the fifth for thou didst ever honour thy Parents and art as loyall a subject as may be Not the sixt for like the young man in the Gospell thou darest justifie thy selfe to Christs owne face that thou hast kept it from thy youth for thou didst never murder any man though others finde that thou never goest without enmity in thy heart against such as are more godly and sincere then thy selfe but to thy unseeing eyes that is no man-slaughter Not the seventh for thou perceivest not how the lust of the eye should be a sinne so long as thou lyest not with thy Neighbours wife Not the eighth for though thou hast cousoned an hundreth indirectly yet thou never stolest ought from any man Not the ninth for thou Makest conscience of perjury though none of back-byting and slandering thy Neighbour As for the tenth that perhaps makes thee at a stand till thou hearest what is meant by Thou shalt not cover and so by consequence thou provest that thou didst but lie and dissemble when thou didst acknowledge thy selfe a sinner For indeed and in truth thou thinkest thy selfe noe sinner or almost for thou hast kept all the Commandements Nor is it any hard matter to draw it out of thine own mouth before an hundred witnesses for let but this question be asked thee Art thou proud thou wilt answer no not I none are proud but fooles and thou hatest a proud man c. which implies that thou art as righteous as Christ himselfe or Adam in the state of innocency For he that can cleare himselfe of this sinne may easily cleare himselfe from all other sinnes So that thou art pure in thine owne eyes hast one sinne to repent of but much good to 〈◊〉 of which 〈◊〉 condition worse then the wickedest mans alive For Christ that came to save all weary and heavy la●…en sinnes be they never so wicked neither came to save nor once to call thee that hast no sinne but art 〈◊〉 enough without him Mat. 9. 13. Om 〈◊〉 tells thy brethren the Scribes and Pharisees who counted then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 and Harlets should goe before them into the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 21. 31 32. And you well know that God preferred the penitent 〈◊〉 that trusted in his mercie before the proud Pharisee that trusted in his owne merits Luke 38. 10 to 15. Yea the Publican condemning himselfe was justified and saved whereas the Pharisee justifying himselfe was evelastingly condemned 6. Nor can Christ profit thee any thing untill with St. Paul who before his conversion was such another thou seest thy selfe even the greatest of