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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87161	A glimpse of divine light, breaking through a cloud of errours. Being an explanation of certain passages exhibited by anonymus, to the commissioners of White-Hall, appointed for approbation of publick preachers, against Joseph Harrison Gospel-preacher at Lund-Chappel in Lancashire, for the supposed delivering of which, he was denied approbation. / Published by the said Joseph Harrison, and proposed to the consideration of all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.	Harrison, Joseph.	1655 (1655)	Wing H897; Thomason E841_7; ESTC R207225	67,448	83

and increased with goods and have need of nothing And knew not that she was wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Rev. 3.17 Fourthly Christians are sensible of and often humbled for many proud risings and secret boastings in their hearts occasioned by the sight and sence but of some outside fleshly performance whereby they think they have gained praise of men and seem to themselves to differ from others Ye are puffed up your glorying is not good 1 Cor. 5.2.6 3. Spiritual Christians when they that is the formal professors glory in their own righteousnes or when they that is they themselves glory really in the Lord do then most commonly in that imagined kind of glorying glory in their sins that is do publish or publickly declare though with detestation of and hearty compunction for their sins First what great sinners they were before their conversion and how God prevented them with his mercy calling to them before they ever looked after him I was a blasphemer a persecuter and injurious {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Sed misericordia sum donatus as Beza but I was had mercie on because I did it ignorantly in unbelief 1 Tim. 1.13 which last words though some conceive added by way of extenuation yet doth Chamier out of Salmero interpret as added by way of aggravation of his sin Qausi diceret Deus vidit me per incredulitatem coecatum ut maia mea non agnoscerem ideò merâ suâ misericordiâ praevenit me peccatum enim causam esse summae bonitati ut subveniat As if he should have said God hath seen me blinded through unbeleef so that I could not acknowledg my misdeeds therefore he hath prevented me with his meer mercie for sin is a cause to infinite goodness that it may come and help and compares it with that parallel Gen. 8.21 Secondly what great sinners they yet are though converted according to that 1 Tim. 1.15 Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief Thirdly that the Law {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Subintravit or obiter subiit as Erasmus came in unexpectedly as to the Iewes Scilicet Not that righteousness as they imagined but that the offence might abound Rom. 5.20 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} was added as an appendant to the promise {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for transgressions sake Gal 3.19 Scilicet To side with sin against the person or to be the strength of sin 1 Cor. 15.56 And not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Christ was delivered Scilicet for the taking away of sin from the person or siding with the person against sin by conferring either justifying or sanctifying grace Iohn 1.17 Rom. 4.15 And that yet for all this Where sin abounded {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Grace did much more abound Rom. 5 20. Fourthly that Christians are divinely ordered though never compelled permitted though never commanded to sin against God that hence God may prove true and every man a lyer That as it is written He may be justified in his sayings and clear when he is judged Rom. 3.4 Or that the most sanctified man may come sensibly to know that there is weakness and wickedness remaining in his heart which as yet he never saw as it is evident in the case of Hezekiah and Peter the one being left to himself for this very end after a most solemn profession made to God of the uprightnesse of his life Isa. 38.3.39.1 2. 2 Chron. 32.31 The other after a most zealous confession of the strength of his faith Mat. 26.33 34. Fifthly That as the Devil through his subtilty and malice doth often bring the greatest evil to them out of their good works Scilicet pride against God and Ignorance of self-nakednesse Rev. 3.17 So doth God through his infinite wisdome and goodness often bring great good out of their sins Scilicet the advancement of his free mercy in pardoning them at their worst condition when they have least to say for themselves and against the Devil and his severe justice in condemning the Devil at his best condition when he hath most to say for himself and against them witness his dealings with Adam Gen. 3.14 15. with David 2 Sam. 12 13. with Hezekiah 2 Chron. 32.26 and with Peter Luke 23.61 62. And now though this publication and penitential confession of sins be to a single eye and a spiritual man instrumental for the glorifying of Gods grace shining clearly in the glass of the Gospel above that cloudy appearance in the Law the casting down of man in himself and the rendering of sinne most odious and abominable yet looked upon with a double eye and to a carnal man it is all one with a real glorying in or a publick narration of our sins accompanied with a conceit of an excellency in and a delight arising from them For first Let christians confesse with Paul I was a blasphemer a persecuter and injurious and yet I was had mercy on or God who is rich in mercy for the great love wherewith he loved us quikened us when we were dead in trespasses and sins Eph. 2.4 and these men presently conceit that they teach people to commit those sinnes to prepare them for mercy or converting grace and that they not only deny good works to be the way to get salvation But assert bad works to be the way to obtain justification at the hands of God Secondly If christians confess after the receiving of grace and mercy that they are the chiefest of sinners or count all things but losse for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus their Lord for whom they have suffered the losse of all things and do count all things but dung that they might winne Christ Phil. 3.8 And these men conclude peremptorily that they delight in committing the chiefest of sins and are professed enemies to all good works Thirdly if christians recite that of Paul the law entered that sin might abound but where sin abounded grace did much more abound These men proclaime them Antinomians against all Law and unlesse they will recant and use it not only {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as becometh the nature of a Law 1 Tim. 1.8 but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the very place and steed of the Gospel they will not let to swear that they are Libertines and teach men to continue in sin that Grace may abound Rom. 6.10 Fourthly If christians confesse with David Against thee thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and over come when thou art judged These men not understanding how the unrighteousnesse of men serveth to commend the righteousnesse of God censure them either to judge God unrighteous who taketh vengeance or that it is mans duty to lye that the truth of God may thereby more