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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

need to feare hell yea heauen is their due notwithstanding they are conuinced in conscience that they are sinfull yet they know no other sinnes that they haue then some small sinnes which they hold to be veniall and those they thinke are so few in number that they need not to make any doubt of their saluation and in the meane time they forget that howsoever they carry it outwardly there is a whole body of death in them which maketh them accursed before God and lyable vnto eternall condemnation this they consider not but say in their heart I am no thiefe no murtherer no drunkard no cheater no whore-monger I can go to Church with my neighbours I need not hide my head for any man and why should they tell me then that I shall not come to heauen as well as another And in the meane while poore men they thinke nor what God hath to say vnto them and what he can alledge against them they weigh and consider not that there is a body of death in them which maketh them to be damnable and accursed before God yea though while they liue they should neither moue nor stirre and doe neither good nor bad But O thou poore man that art thus minded how lamentable is thy case Thou hasf a whole body of sinne with in thee and that as thou liest and sleepest there is a moustrous deformitie in thee which maketh thoe most abominable before God and being not couered will certeinly bring thee to hell thy naturall corruption possesseth thy soule killeth it and maketh it stinke before God Psal 53.2 It destroyeth thy body also for from whence thinkest thou doth it come that thy body is subiect vnto so many paines and difeases that it so decayeth and consumeth away commeth it not from this inward bodie of sinne which hath in it selfe the sting of temporall and eternall death 1 Cor. 15.56 So then yee need not be a thiefe or a murtherer or an adulterer or a drunkard or a deceiuer or an vsurer thou mayest chuse whether thou wilt take so much paines for to goe to hell remaine the same that thou art by nature and thou shalt not escape it continue still an olde wife vnto the olde Man as by nature thou art and thou canst not be saued thou must perish Luc. 13.3.5 if so be thou art not renewed in the spirit of thy minde if the hand of God come not vpon thee if his spirit worketh not in thy heart and create in thee a new heart and a new spirit if hee causeth not the light of his grace to arise in thy heart that thou mayest no longer remaine darkenesse but mayest be light as the day beginning to breake if this I say be not wrought in thy heart it is not possible that thou shouldest euer enter into the kingdome of heauen or inherite eternall life for thou hast a bodie of death in thee which will bring thee into euerlasting death except thou begin to kill the works of this body which thou canst not doe but thorough the spirit which by nature thou hast not neither canst haue but from God alone O what a lamentable thing is it that the naturall man is so blockish and dull that hee not so much as once thoroughly considereth this admonish and exhort these men to marke Gods word diligently to repaire to the Congregation of the faith to watch and pray to redeeme the time and to worke out their saluation with feare and trembling they cast it in the wind they see no reason why they should so trouble themselues they suppose it standeth well enough with them because they are not so openly scandalous and offensiue in their conuersation as others and peraduenture somewhat better then some of their neighbours of whom they report that there is no goodnes in them when as they themselues know not yet what it meaneth to be renewed in the spirit of their minde and what it is to mortifie the deeds of the body thorough the spirit Thirdly let this serue to exhort all the people of God to put farre from them this opinion and conceite of worldly and carnall men let vs giue out selues no rest till we finde that we are renewed in the spirit of our minde and that wee haue some power thorough the spirit to mortifie the workes of this body of death let vs also take heed that we be not so foolish as to seeke our iustification in our selues or in our owne works nothing but that which is perfect can stand before the judgement of God but wee haue a body of sinne in vs which hinders vs from perfection therfore let vs seeke it onely in Iesus Christ our Lord. Fourthly this may moue vs to humilitie shall we be proud and insolent which beare about vs and in vs a body of death which are condemned men vpon whom by the law of God the sentence of death hath already passed Is it a seemely thing that persons condemned and readie to be executed should be proud and arrogant shall we then be high minded and grudging shall we be enuious and malicious shall we be wanton and carelesse which haue in vs a body of death whereby we are lyable vnto eternall death Shall wee in the pride of our hearts make of our body of death a body of insolencie and murmuring a body of voluptuousnesse and mirth a body of wantonnesse and iesting let that be far from vs humilitie becommeth condemned men Abraham was humbled because he was but dust and ashes Gen. 18 27. and shall not we be so too which are nothing els but an accursed lumpe Iob was humbled because the fores had ouer-runne his body but the naturall corruption hath runne thorough all the parts and powers of our soule and body and shall we not be humbled shall a man be cast downe for a disease in the body and shall wee that are so deadly sicke in soule not be cast downe at all Fiftly here is matter of comfort and encouragement to all good hearts who knowing that there is a body of death in them are therewith vnfainedly grieued and troubled and earnestly busied and exercised in mortifying and killing the same by the spirit doe notwithstanding feele in themselues the prickes of the flesh and the continuall buffetts and assaults of this body of sinne Behold my beloued brothers and sisters bee not dismayed and thinke not therefore that you are Bastards among the sonnes of God No as you haue before heard it is the lot of all the Children of God marke in all the foregoing verses of the seuenth chapter to the Romanes what the Apostle himselfe had to doe with his naturall corruption be not then discouraged but stand to it stoutly and although the Deuill goes about to perswade thee that thou art no child of God because thou feelest the pricke of the flesh so strong in thee yet know for certaine that in as much as thou striuest manfully with thy corruptions

and seruitude of sin we must be made partakers of Iesus Christ for his death is the death of our death and by his wounds are we healed his bloud being the medicine of our soules Esay 53. Heb. 9.14 Now that we may be made partakers of Christ we must beleeue in him for it is faith in him that maketh vs free Ioh 8.31.32.36 Which the Apostle hauing in the verse following our text he thanketh God through our Lord Iesus Christ namely for this that he thorough the Lord Iesus Christ was deliuered from the body of death Therfore thus speaketh Christ of himselfe Ioh 8.36 If the sonne make you free you shall be free indeed thus doth Iohn also testifie euen that wee thorough faith in Christ doe ouercome the world Iohn 15.5 But we finde by experience that the faith of many men consisteth onely in words being nothing els but an idle conceit swimming in their braines for there be many who when they vnderstand that men by faith are made free from their sinnes and blessed doe presently perswade themselues that they also beleeue whereas alas they know not what it is truly to beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ nor yet what is the nature and vertue of true faith Wherfore let euery one in few words vnderstand that whosoeuer would be found truely to beleeue in Christ must make it appeare that he beleeueth and holdeth for good all the words counsell of Christ consequently must practise the same Ioh 3.36 Luc 6.46 Or els let him know that his faith is nothing worth and that he shall not be saued although he suffers himselfe a thousand times to be perswaded that he shall obtaine saluation and happinesse thorough Iesus Christ For as we know it is not enough for one that would be cured of some perillous disease onely to beleeue that such an expert Phisitian can and will cure him but if he will be holpen he must follow the aduise of the Phisitian and vse the medicines which shal be prescribed vnto him or els he is like to be neuer the better So it is not enough that a man to the end that he might be cured of the body of death by the onely Phisitian of the soule Iesus Christ Mat. 9.12 perswadeth himselfe that Christ can will helpe him but he must also follow the counsell of Christ if he will be cured by him according to that which the holy Scripture so expressely declareth euen that Christ is the author of saluation vnto all that obey Heb. 5.9 In which sense also speaketh Iohn the Baptist most plainly He that beleeueth in the sonne hath eternall life but he that obeyth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Ioh 3.36 From whence it may fully be gathered that that faith which maketh not vs obedient to the sonne is not that faith wherby we can be healed so Iames also confidently affirmeth that that faith is dead and nothing worth which maketh not vs as well followers as beleeuers of the words and will of Christ For it is most certaine that wheresoeuer true faith is there is also the practise endeuour of obedience vnto the will of Christ Now what the will of God is in this that men might thorough our Lord Iesus Christ be deliuered from the body of death very much might be spoken thereof but my purpose is here briefly in a word to touch the most necessary things and so to cōclude because I haue largely handled it in another place and that wretched and sinful man might be deliuered from the body of death through our Lord Iesus Christ the Prince of life be more and more set free from the power of sinne he must practise and endeuour these three things according to the will and counsell of Christ First he must forsake himselfe He that will follow me sayth Christ namely that will be led healed by me let him for sake himselfe Mat. 16.24 that is let him cast away and renounce his owne vnderstanding judgement let him breake himselfe of his owne will and affections let him in nothing yeeld vnto his sinful flesh nor take any care to obey it in the lustes thereof Rom. 13.14 And let him not please or vphold this body of sin by giuing it any of those deadly pernicious things it lusteth after but let him herin circumcise himself let him deale harshly and roughly with this body of sin keeping from it and denying it of euery thing it would haue so shall the strength therof decay for as it was the meat of Christ to do his Fathers will Io 4.4 So is it the nourishment strength of the corrupt flesh to doe against the will of God by committing sin from which we must bridle it if we will kill it Behold this is the counsell of Christ speaking after the manner of a Phisitian who when he taketh a man in hand to cure him requireth of him that by all meanes he would keepe a good dyer refraine to eate those things which nourish feede his disease the which the Christian man must doe that willingly would be cured of the body of death for we find it to be a common and familiar thing that those which be sicke in body doe most desire those things that doe them least good So is it also with men that are sick in soule they euermore desire lust after sinne which is most hurtfull vnto them therfore those that would be cured in their soules must deny themselues according to the prescript rule of Christ yea they must renounce and forsake the whole body of death as the Apostle cryeth out against the whole body of death not only this or that part or member thereof as some doe who to be cured forsake striue against some sins retaining stil other some pleasing beloued ones whereby they become the more incurable continue sick euen vnto the death as the scripture teacheth vs Eze 18.31.32 for although the very best so long as they remaine here are not free from all sinnes yet euery one that would be cured healed of his sinnes must striue and fight against all of them Iob 20.12 But this is very grieuous vnto a naturall and corrupt man to weane his lustes of their desires and to depriue himselfe of those thinges with which his heart is most in loue Oh it is as death vnto sinfull man it is as if he should put out his eye or cut off his hand as Christ himselfe giues vs to vnderstand Mat 5. Neuerthelesse it must be done as he that cannot lye teacheth vs in the same place vers 29.30 And looke by how much the more this body of death that hatefull monster the corrupt flesh doth flatter and embrace vs for to entice vs to serue it in the lustes thereof by so much the more must wee set our selues against it and seeke to subdue it and bring it vnder 1 Cor. 9.27 For