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A20756	The conflict betvveene the flesh and the spirit. Or the last part of The Christian warfare wherein is described the nature of these combatants, the malice and power of the flesh and fleshly lusts, with the meanes whereby we may subdue and ouercome them. By Iohn Dovvname Batchelar in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods Word.; Christian warfare. Part 4	Downame, John, d. 1652.	1618 (1618)	STC 7139; ESTC S110219	333,184	430

God who is displeased with them So Austine There is no sinne so little which being neglected doth not increase and we must not consider what we haue done Nullum enim peccatum adeo paruum quod non creseat neglectum Non enim considerandum quid fecerit led quem offenderit August de peniten vera et falsa cap. 8. T. 4. Col. 1042. Aug. de contrit cordis Cap. 4. T. 9. col 837. but how great he is whom we haue offended Let vs consider further that the eternall Sonne of God suffered the bitter death of the crosse as well for the least as the greatest sinnes and can wee thinke any sinne small which could not otherwise bee purged away but by the precious bloud of our Sauiour Christ Perhaps saith Augustine thou esteemest some sinne to bee but small but alas doth not euery sinne by preuarication dishonour the person of our Lord how dare then a sinner call any sinne small when as the Sonne of God gaue his life for it aboue which nothing in the world can be esteemed § Sect. 2. The greate euills which come of the least sins Secondly let vs consider the great euils which come of the least sinnes For first euen our smallest sinnes defile our persons and leaue such blots and staines behinde them as make vs vgly and loathsome in the sight of God especially when as we giue vnto them voluntarie entertainment and willingly liue in them against knowledge and conscience Now how ill doth it become vs who are the temples of the Holy Ghost to haue in vs such sluttish corners and noysome filth as is odious and abominable to this blessed guest How ill beseemeth it vs who are espoused vnto Christ to come into his presence spotted and blemished with loathsome defilements We will not as neere as we can suffer our faces to bee sprinckled with the least speckes of stinking channell dirt nor to haue our apparell bespotted with noysome excrements and shall wee make more esteeme of our apparell then of our persons and take more care for our corruptible faces then for our immortall soules to present them to our bridegroome without spot or wrinckle holy and vnblameable that hee may present vs such to his heauenly Father Againe the least sinnes doe wound and beeing often committed doe seare the conscience euen as slight labours being continuall doe brawne and bring an hard thicke skin vpon the hands many little drops doe dint the hardest stone and many small blowes cut downe the strongest Oake and as they seare the conscience so they harden the forehead make the countenance to become impudent and take away all shame fastnesse Chrysost in Act 19. Homil. 41. T. 3. c. 716. and blushing According to that of Chrysostome by often sinning the soule is made impudent for euery sinne when it is committed and is come to his perfection doth leaue behinde it Cum per leui● delicta deflectimus vsu cuncta leuigante non timemus postea grauiora committere Gregor in morall lib. 10. cap. 14. a poison in the soule And so being fleshed in wickednesse we are make more bold to venter vpon the committing of those which are more haynous For as one saith when we bend from the right course by lighter faults wee afterwards feare not to commit those which are greater vse and custome smoothing the way that leadeth vnto it And the Heathen Satyrist could say Who hath made an end of sinning when as they haue giuen ouer their blushing Of whom hast thou Nam quis peccandi finem posuit sibi quando recepit eiectum semel attrita de fronte ruborem quisnam hominum est quem tu contentum videtis vno flagitio Iuuenal Satyr 13. in fine obserued of these men to rest contented with one crime Furthermore if we would know how much euen those sins which in the world and according to the iudgement of the flesh are esteemed small doe prouoke the Lords wrath against vs wee may easily discerne it by those seuere and grieuous punishments which hee hath inflicted on offenders in this kinde Nadab and Abihu because they did offer strange fire in stead of that which was continually to haue beene preserued in the temple were presently deuoured with fire sent from God Because Vzzah put out his hand to stay the Arke in the cart which he with the rest of Leuit. 10. 1. 2. his Brethren should haue carried vpon his shoulders vvas smitten with present death Because Achan tooke of the 2 Sam. 6. 6. spoile of his enemies a Babylonish garment a wedge of gold and two hundred shekels of siluer which in it selfe had beene lawfull inough had not God forbidden it diuers of the people were slaine with the sword of their enemies Ios 7. and hee with all his were stoned to death and burnt with fire Because the sonne of the Israelitish woman in contempt of Gods commandement gathered sticks on the Sabbath day he likewise by expresse order from God was put to death Because Ananias and Sapphira in the hypocrisie Act. 5. of their hearts kept backe part of the price of their owne possessions after it was dedicated to the common vse of the Church they both dyed for it in a fearefull manner But aboue all most dreadfull and terrible is the example of our first parents who by eating of the forbidden fruite a sin very light and small in the estimate of worldly men although in truth it were not so all circumstances beeing rightly considered brought death the curse depriuation of Gods image and their owne happinesse all the miseries and punishments of this life and eternall condemnation in the world to come So that no small euils and mischiefes doe come of those which seeme to the world but small sins but although our sinnes when they are repented of become Haec peccata etsi parua sint per dei misericordiam fiunt magna peccatoribus negligentia August de paenit vera et falsa cap. 8. T. 4. Col. 1042. Mat. 5. 22. small veniall and nothing through Gods infinite mercie yet they are made great vnto sinners through their negligence and impenitencie What lighter offence and lighter esteemed then to bee vnaduisedly angry with our brother and in our heate to call him Racha and Foole and yet this alone as our Sauiour teacheth vs will in danger vs to iudgement and our bodies and soules to be cast into hell What seemeth to the iudgement of flesh and bloud more slight and veniall then to vtter now and then some idle words and yet euen of these we shall giue an account at the day of Mat. 12 36. iudgement and those that are accountants are sure to bee cast into the prison of vtter darknes if our Sauiour Christ Si paruum tibi videtur aut modicum fratri dicere fa●ue vel geheona ignis videatu● tibi magna c. August in psal 129. T. 8. c. 1●07 who hath forewarned vs of