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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36329	Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.	Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707.	1666 (1666)	Wing D1895; ESTC R35664	157,743	310

of secret sins Many indeed have vailes for their sins that they may not be discerned by men but God looks through them Let me instance in these following sins that appear to men in the shape of grace but in the sight of God are manifest sins Or sins vailed and masked with plausible pretences of good yet are naked to the sight of God 1. Pride covered with humility A proud person often appears in the shape of an humble man In abasing of himself discommending himself that another may commend him crying down himself that another may cry him up by dispraising himself he would force and wrest a commendation from other men But if he discommend himself do you discommend him too if he say such a thing was meanly done if you say you think so too a proud man cannot bear it he cannot hear another say of him what he saith of himself But this secret pride God seeth 2. Hypocrisie masked with Zeal Many seem to be forward in good waies and zealous in good works but Self is the end 2 Kings 10.16 Come see my Zeal c. 3. Secret love of the World covered with pretence of care for their Family Many have a cloak for the hiding of their covetousness of which you read 1 Thes 2.5 For neither at any time used we flattering words nor a cloak of covetousness God is witness this is seen by God 4. Secret hatred against mens persons covered with pretended zeal against mens sins or covered with plausible expressions of love and amitie Judas had murdered Christ in his heart and yet calls him Master with his mouth and kisseth him Mat. 26.49 Many have words smoother than oyl yet have hatred sharper than swords Psal 55.21 5. Vain-glory hidden from men by pretended charity Many will do good relieve the poor help those that be in distress but they aime at esteem amongst men Matth. 6.1 2 3 4. 6. Self-interest hidden from men by pretence of the good of mens souls and the glory of God so a preaching hypocrite may pretend to lay out himself for the good of mens souls and yet may use his Ministry only as a trade to get a living by it 7. Blasphemous hard thoughts of God might be hid from men by speaking good words of God 8. Inward murmurings repinings against Gods Providences may be hid from men by words of great submission to the will of God 9. Inward fleshy lustings of heart and contemplative uncleanness may be kept secret from men by chaste discourse He may love the presence of a person that is occasion of such secret uncleanness and commit adultery in his heart and the person not know of it and the offender speaking chastly all this while But I warn you in the name of God to strive against these sins for though they are secret to men yet God sets them in the light of his countenance There are three eyes upon you when you are in secret viz. 1. The eyes of Angels good and bad and they may see much of your secret wickedness 2. The eye of Conscience and this may see more secret sin than the Angels see in you the very thoughts of your heart 3. The eye of God and his eye seeth more than the Conscience 1 Joh. 3.20 And this view that God hath of thy secret sins when he sets them in the light of his countenance hath these four properties First It is a clear and distinct view God seeth all the evil there is in thy secret sin We have a confused sight of sin and a dim sight of sin we see not so much evil in the greatest sin as there is in the least We see not so much evil in open Prophaneness as indeed there is in a vain thought But God seeth all distinctly What a man hath before his eyes that is a sutable object at an equal distance and having a necessary medium he seeth distinctly Secondly It is a full view As God seeth all the evil in any one secret sin so he seeth all thy secret sins Man may know none of them thou knowest some of them but God knoweth all When thou turnest thy back to go into secret to commit sin Remember then thou art before Gods face Thirdly It is a constant view What we have seen with our eyes might be quite razed out of our memories but not out of Gods knowledge and when God is said to remember our iniquities no more it is not to be understood of real Oblivion but gracious remission Fourthly It is a judicial view If we speak of the secret sins of an hypocrite or a wicked man then God sets them in his sight as a Judge sets before him the crimes of a Malefactor that they may be read he accused convicted and executed If we speak of the secret sins of Gods people God sets them before him as a Father doth the miscarriages of his child not to disinherite him for it but to correct him and chastise him These are the properties of Gods viewing our secret sins and shall not this move thee to watch against them and abstain from them Or hast thou not done that in secret in the sight of God which thou wouldst have been ashamed to do openly in the sight of men There are six comfortable expressions among others which the Scripture useth to set forth Gods free pardon of our sins viz. That he Casts them behind his back Isa 38.17 Blots them out Isa 43.25 Casts them into the depths of the Sea Mic. 7.19 Remembers them no more Heb. 8.12 Will be merciful to our unrighteousness Heb. 8.12 Hides his face from our sins Psal 51.9 There are also six terrible expressions among others which the Scripture useth to set forth Gods displeasure against men for sin viz. That he Writes them in a book Rev. 20.12 Seals them in a bag Job 14.17 Remembers them Hos 7.2 Marks them Psal 130.3 Will visit them Jer. 14.10 and 5.9 Sets them in the light of his countenance Psal 90.8 If therefore there be any thing in the believing thoughts of Gods viewing your secret sins as doubtless there is very much be careful that you abstain from them and not allow your self in them SECT II. TO keep you from secret sins consider That secrecy in sinning is no security to the sinner This is a consequent of the former because God seeth you in secret therefore you are not safe though your sin be secret You may secure your credit and reputation awhile by keeping your sin secret from men but not your happiness and salvation While your sin is secret you may not be reproached for it by men but you shall be damned for it by God if it be allowed and not sincerely repented of Many shall be openly damned for secret sins Read Psal 64. throughout This will be a notable discovery of the sincerity of thy heart if thou darest not allow thy self in secret sins An Hypocrites greatest care is conversant about things

He was bad when he was born and worse while he lived and worst of all when he is to dye 5. Learn the equity of Gods Justice in punishing a wicked man with eternal torments for sins committed in time For he sinned more and more as long as he lived and if he had lived longer he would have sinned longer and if he had lived for ever he would have sinned for ever 6. Learn the over-ruling providence of God that setteth bounds to wicked mens sins if he did not restrain them they would be worse and do worse than they do 7. Learn that natural men by the improvement of common grace or the means of grace cannot work themselves into a state of grace nor of themselves that are bad make themselves to be good for we have shewed that without the speciall and irresistible operations of the Spirit of God wicked men grow worse under the Administrations of the Gospel 8. The folly of delays and procrastinations of repentance and turning unto God Wicked men think they can repent when they will and though they have no heart to turn to God for the present yet they will hereafter but he that is not disposed to turn to God and repent to day will finde his heart more indisposed to morrow and the longer they put it off the more unwilling and unable they will be to do it hereafter We have heard we must not be worse now let us see we must be better and that is the second part of this first Direction SECT XVI HAth the Plague been raging and you yet alive then be better than you were before And here I especially direct my speech to those that had the grace of God infused into their hearts before this Judgement came upon us that you would improve this providence by being better than you were before if Drunkards and Swearers will not be better yet be you if sensualists and flesh-pleasers will not be better yet be you It may be the wicked will be worse but will you be so too If Gods people are not mended by his Judgements who will and hath God swept away so many thousands into another world and shall there be no good effect or fruit upon neither bad nor good God forbid London hath been a place of great prosperity a City of Feasting and a place of plenty of outward enjoyments but in this last Sickness God hath filled it with dolorous complaints by the many breaches made by death in so many families and relations God hath filled it with pale faces and sick persons and running sores God hath turned it into a place an house of mourning And Solomon saith Eccl. 7.2 It is better to go into the house of mourning than to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart Have not your houses been houses of mourning some dead out of most houses and you are yet living will you then lay it to your heart What should you lay to heart Lay to heart the great Judgement that hath been amongst you Lay to heart the sins that did provoke the Lord to lay his hand so heavy upon you Lay to heart the goodness of God in preserving you The City hath been an house of mourning but have you learned the lessons that are to be learned in an house of mourning Have you met so many dead Corpse carried in the streets have you seen the living laboring to carry forth their dead and yet not learned the lessons that are to be learned in such a place of mourning Where one is dead in a family that before was an house of mirth and gladness it will turn it into an house of mourning and sadness much more when many dead in one family and this is the case of many families God hath been teaching you many things at such a time but is your lesson taken out Oh what dull Scholars are we in the School of Christ that must thus be scourged to learn our lessons and yet have not done it Consider when God hath turned London by reason of their dead into an house of mourning he hath been teaching you such things as these I. God hath been teaching you the Infallible verity of divine threatnings God threatned our first Parents Gen. 2.17 That if they sinned they should certainly dye they and their posterity This threatning was made some thousands of years since and it hath been made good in all generations Length of time makes not voide the threatnings of God men read Gods threatnings but do not believe them nor fear them nor tremble at them Many will not practically believe that they shall dye though they sin and will not at all believe they shall be damned though they sin but we see that men that have sinned must dye and wicked men shall feel that they shall be damned according to Gods threatnings but you have learned the truth of Gods threatnings in this and they are as true in all other respects therefore do you that are Gods people learn the truth of Gods threatnings when he saith the Drunkard shall not inherit the Kingdom of God and let this move your heart to pity them that are such that have a threatning of God which is of undoubted verity as a flaming sword standing in their way to keep them out of the Paradise of God and be thankful unto God that you are none of these Do you learn the truth of Gods threatning when he saith the hypocrite and unbelieving shall be cast into the lake that burnes with fire and brimstone Rev. 21.8 and pity and pray for them that are such and bless God that you are none of them and so are taken from under the curse of that threatning II. In this great house of so great mourning God hath been teaching you what are the Wages of sin You have often heard that death is the Wages of sin Rom. 6.23 The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there used is a military term signifying the wages that is due to souldiers intimating that death is as due to a sinner for his service to the Devil as pay is to a Souldier for his service to his General it comes from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth properly all kind of pleasant meats that may be prepared or made ready by fire so that all the delicates and dainty dishes that sin prepares for sinners hath a deaths head in them Do you learn this and by this learn to hate sin more than you did before and watch against it more than you did before III. In this great house of so great mourning God hath been teaching you the certainty of mens mortality You have seen that this is the way of all flesh Josh 23.14 1 King 2.2 and therefore learn to live as mortal dying men should live you have seen that thousands have been carryed from their houses to their graves And Oh