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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93240	Divine cordials: delivered in ten sermons, upon part of the ninth and tenth chapters of Ezra, in a time of visitation. By that godly and faithfull preacher of Gods Word, Iosiah Shute, B.D. and late rector of Mary Woolnoths in Lumbard-Street London. Published by authority.	Shute, Josias, 1588-1643.; Reynoldes, William.	1644 (1644)	Wing S3714; Thomason E38_7; ESTC R7756	101,687	190

in forgiving them God forgives them pounds nay talents and shall not they forgive their brother pence Neither tell me hee is a base and unworthy fellow for there is not that distance betweene him and thee be hee never so base as between thee and God O but it is a grosse wrong which he hath done mee is it worse then the sins which thou hast committed against thy God O but hee hath done it often What of that yet not so often as thou hast offended thy Maker O but it stands not with my credit to pardon him thy pride at once eats out both thy Piety and Charity and let me tell thee looke to obtain that from God which thou art willing to doe for thy brother Christ Jesus the Sun of righteousnesse would not set in a cloud though hee was put to death without cause but hee prayes for his persecutours Pater ignosce nesciunt quid faciunt Father forgive them they know not what they doe If thou follow not the example of our Blessed Lord take heed lest he stop his eares to thy Prayers because thou refusest to be reconciled to thy Brother Before wee leave this clause another observation offers it self to be handled there is hope in Israel concerning this that is in the Church and the point which I hence infer is this There is no remission of sinnes out of the Church Doctr. Remission of sins is not a flower that growes wild it onely growes in the Garden of Zion For proof of this look that pregnant place Psalme 128.5 The Lord shall blesse thee out of Zion or as another translation renders it The Lord shall blesse thee out of Zion from heaven Mark he doth not say the Lord in heaven shall blesse thee from heaven but the Lord from heaven shall blesse thee out of Zion indeed the Church is a heaven for where the holy people of God be there is a heaven and there is a blessing which though primarily it come from God yet secondarily it comes from the Church and though I doe not say with some Philosophers that all influences come from the Moon to the Starres yet I will say it of the Church thither hath God conveyed his blessings to bee transmitted to the sonnes of men I would have you to marke one thing which it may be you never yet took notice of the Propitiatory was joyned to the Arke so as it could not be removed from it to shew that he that would have his sinnes forgiven him must hold close to the Arke and this is according to that ancient rule of Divines he that will have God to be his father must have the Church to be his mother Our blessed Lord was named Jesus because saith the Angel He shall save his people from their sinnes and in the end of the Creed we say I believe the holy Catholike Church the forgivenesse of sinnes by the conjunction of which two Articles together is intimated to us that out of the Church there is no forgivenesse of sins This is also proved in the 87. Psalme last verse ●s●● 87.7 Isa 33.24 All my-springs are in thee and Isa 33.24 The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven all their iniquity Vse 1 It is to let us see the miserable estate of those without the Church they being without the pale of the Church what shall become of them As Christ told the Jewes John 8.24 John 8.24 They shall dye in their sinnes And what is it to dye in sin it is immediately to goe to hell there to be tormented with the devill and his Angels for ever Heathens are here said to be without the Church and to be sure if they live and die such they shall be excluded heaven hereafter for as in Rev. 22.15 without shall be dogs Rev 22.15 Vse 2 Secondly as wee must deplore the miserable condition of those which be without the Church so let us magnifie God for our own happy condition God hath entred us into his Church blessed bee his name for it wee are in the way where his blessings be and where the heavenly Manna falls daily but this is not all that we be in the visible Church for tares grow in the field as well as good corne it is true all that were without the Ark perished but yet a Cham was saved alive in the Arke so that it is not all to be externall members of the Church but as we be admitted into it by Baptisme so we must believe and repent else we are but Tares in the field of the Church which though for a time they may grow up with the good corne yet at last they shall bee but fuell for the fire of hell A mans water in Baptisme is but a cold proofe of Gods love unlesse hee hath faith and repentance I speak not of Infants which never committed actuall sinne for unlesse there be a heart to believe and repent he may be damned for all his Baptisme as some of the Jewes were for all they were circumcised As therefore we glory in this that wee are within the pale of Gods Church so let us not content our selves with it but let us labour to be within the Covenant by getting faith and Repentance that so in Gods good time we may attain the end of our faith the salvation of our sinfull soules in Jesus Christ Shecaniah now goes on and saith Let us make a Covenant with our God It appears by this good man that as hee had heard Ezra to confesse his sins amongst the rest so he desired not onely to be pardoned for what hee had done amisse but he resolves on a new course of life saying Now therefore let us make a Covenant with our God And indeed these be the two maine stones in the building of repentance first when a man desires to be better secondly when hee resolves to bee better First when a man desires to bee better it is a good part of health wee say to desire health our blessed Lord faith to the impotent man Wilt thou bee made whole he would not heale him against his will even so we must desire to bee cured of our spirituall maladies It was so with the Iaylor Acts 16.30 in Acts 16.30 he saith to Paul and Silas Sirs what shall I do to be saved and this where it is supposeth a sense of miserie and we see it in holy David Psal 142.2 Psa 142.2 I powred out my complaint before him J shewed before him my trouble And Saint Paul saith O miserable man that J am who shall deliver me from this body of death Rom. 7.25 Thus sure it was with Manasseh Rom. 7.25 and with those Converts in Acts 2.37 who being pricked in their hearts Acts 2.37 say to Peter and the other Apostles Men and brethren what shall wee doe I feare a great many doe not truely desire to be freed from their sinnes it was the sin of Augustine when time was saith he I