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A03339	The doctrine of fasting and praier, and humiliation for sinne Delivered in sundry sermons at the fast appointed by publique authority, in the yeere 1625. By that late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ. Arth. Hildersam.	Hildersam, Arthur, 1563-1632.; Hildersam, Samuel, 1593 or 4-1674.	1633 (1633)	STC 13459; ESTC S104100	106,897	227

saith Moses Psal. 90. 8. set our iniquities before thee our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance But thou wilt say to me What sinnes should I call to mind all that is an endlesse worke I know not where to begin nor where to make an end Psal. 40. 12. They are more in number saith David then the haires of my head How much more wilt thou say are my sins innumerable I answer 1. The more sinnes thou canst call to mind the better it will be for thee This we may see Ezek. 20. 43. where this is promised as a singular grace God would worke in his peoples hearts You shall remember your wayes and all your doings you have beene defiled and yee shall loath your selves in your owne sight for all your evils that ye have committed Therefore also when the Lord prescribeth unto Aaron the course hee should take in making an attonement betweene God and the people he tels him Levit. 16. 21. he must confesse over the live goat all the iniquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions in all their sinnes And therefore it is good when thou goest about this worke to take the helpe of the glasse set the glasse of Gods Law before thee and examine thy wayes according unto it Rom. 3. 20. By the Law commeth the knowledge of sinne Secondly take heed thou dost not in thy examination willingly forget or passe by any sinne Either 1. out of a conceit that it is but small For Gods curse is due to the smallest Deut. 27. 26 Nor. 2. out of favour thou bearest to it and loathnesse to leave it For if thou regardi niquity in thine heart the Lord will not regard thee Psal. 66. 18. and Prov. 28. 13. Hee that hideth his sin shall not prosper Thirdly and l●stly Be thou yet in this examination of thy selfe specially desirous and carefull to call to mind the foulest and grossest of all thy sinnes that ever thou commiettdst though it were long agoe Deut 9. 7. Remember and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wi●dernesse Thus did David in the exercising of him●selfe unto repentance thinke oft of the sinnes of his youth Psalm 25. 7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth nor my transgressions So did Paul oft call to mind his foulest sinnes 1 Tim. 1. 13. I was a blasphemer and a persecuter For the heart will sooner bee brought to remorse and sorrow by remembrance of these then of smaller sinnes which was the cause why the Publicans and Harlots those grosse sinners repented sooner then the civill Pharisees Matth. 21. 32. No hard matter for you that have beene adulterers blasphemers persecuters theeves oppressours drunkards to bring your hearts unto godly sorrow if you would take but a little paines with them You that have lived more civilly as that rich young man had done that concerning the Commandements of the second Table could say unto Christ Matthew 19. 20. All these things have I kept from my youth up must take the more paines in this work The second thing we must doe in this examination of our selves is this When we have found out and called to mind our sinnes then must wee consider and weigh with our selves the hainousnesse of them aggravate them against our selves and lay them so to heart as we may bee affected and moved to remorse and sorrow for them Men are oft blamed for this that they laid not their sinnes to their heart considered not so of them as to bee affected with them Esay 47. 7. The Caldeans are blamed that they did not lay to their hearts the oppressions they had done to Gods people And the Iewes Esay 57. 11. that they laid not to heart their Idolatry Now the way to lay them to our heart is to consider well the hainousnesse of them and the circumstances whereby they are aggravated Pa●l did use thus to aggravate his sinnes against himselfe Ephe. 3. 8. I am lesse then the least of all Saints 1 Tim. 1. 15. I am the chief of all sinners The circumstances whereby sinne is aggravated are many I will name a few of them First Consider thy sinnes have beene committed against many and strong meanes of grace Remember what Christ saith Matth. 11. 24. to Capernaum because of this I say unto thee that it shall bee more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgement then for thee Oh! consider with thy selfe that if the sinnes of Indians and other barbarous people that never enjoyed any ordinary meanes of grace shall justly be punished in Hell fire as doubtlesse they shall For as many as have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law saith the Apostle Rom. 2. 12. If the sinnes of Infants doe justly deserve damnation as certainly they doe Death hath raigned saith he Rom. 5. 14. even over them that have not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression that is not actually What degree and measure of punishment and torment thinkest thou is most justly due to thy sinnes that have beene committed against such meanes of grace as thou hast enjoyed Secondly Thy sinnes have not beene committed upon ignorance but against thy knowledge And if the elect Iewes were so pricked in heart for the sinne they committed ignorantly Act. 3. 17. how much more cause hast thou Remember what Christ saith of this circumstance Luk. 12. 47. That servant which knew his Lords will and prepared not himselfe neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes Thirdly How voluntary thou hast sinned how weake and light the tentations have often beene that have drawne thee to it nay how thou hast drawne and provoked thy selfe to it And say thou to thine owne heart If God were so much offended with Ahab though he had so strong a tempter as Iesabel his wife I Kings 21. 25. Alas what cause hath he to bee offended with mee that have beene mine owne tempter Remember what the Holy Ghost speaketh of this circumstance Esay 33. 1 Woe to thee that spoilest and wast not spoiled 5. 18. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity sin as it were with a cart rope Fourthly The● 〈◊〉 ●●mber of thy sinnes Say they were in their 〈…〉 so small yet the number of them and thy multiplyi●g of them so of● makes the burden ●f them intolerable Consider how the Lord aggravates sinne by this circumstance Ier. 5. 6. A Lyon out of the forrest shall slay them and a Wolfe of the evening● shall spoile them a Leopard shall watch over their cities every one that goeth out thence shall be torne in pieces because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased See what weight this very circumstance gave unto Davids sinne in the sense of his Conscience Mine iniquities saith he Psal. 40. 12. are more then the haires of mine head therefore mine heart faileth mee The sands though taken severally they

I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood Did not these men mourne for their sinnes thinke you Yes that they did but it was not out of any respect to God whom they had offended but onely out of respect to themselves and the hurt they had done themselves thereby as appeareth plainly in their stories Now the true repentant though he be humbled for his sinne in respect to himselfe and the danger and hurt that he feareth his sinne will doe him yet he resteth not there but he is also humbled for his sinne in respect to God and chiefly because he hath offended and dishonoured God by his sinne This was that that troubled David most Psal. 51. 4. Against thee thee onely have I sinned When God had threatned heavy things against him by God he cryeth not as Pharaoh Exod. 10. 17. Take away from mee this death only but as 2. Sam. 24. 10. I beseech thee ô Lord take away the iniquity of thy servant Yea he was well content to beare that punishment so his sinne might be pardoned that he might have Gods favour verse 17. Let thy hand I pray thee be against me and my fathers house The punishment that his sinne hath brought or is like to bring upon him troubleth the true penitent nothing so much as the offending of God and losse of his favour Hee lamenteth after the Lord as it is said Gods people did 1 Sam. 7. 2. And as he mourneth for his sinne in respect to God more then to the punishment of his sinne so doth hee joy and take more comfort in the assurance of the pardon of his sinne then in deliverance from any judgement whatsoever This is the thing that David gloried in Psal. 32. 5. Thou forgavest not the punishment as the old translation reads but the iniquity of my sinne O let us examine our selves by this second note whether we have sorrowed for oursinnes in respect unto God or to our selves onely Thy sinnes doe trouble thee because thou knowest they deserve hell and damnation thou knowest they deserve Gods curse in thy children in thy estate in every thing thou takest in hand Thou dost well in this but if this be the onely thing or the chief thing that maketh thy sinne such a burden to thy heart thou hast not yet repented aright When those that heard Peter were pricked in their hearts with these legall sorrowes and asked him what they should doe to come to comfort he bad them repent Act. 2. 37. 38. As if he had said This is a good preparative but this is not repentance This is a chief note of sincerity in every grace and so in this when we doe that that God requireth when we mourne for our sinnes in respect unto God and not to our selves Thus God upbraideth the hypocrites Zac. 7. 5. When yee fasted and mourned did yee it at all to mee even to mee Rom. 14. 6. He that regardeth a day regardeth it unto the Lord. I will give you therefore three other notes to try this by whether your sorrow for sinne be in respect to the Lord because you have offended and dishonoured him or noe First Then your sinnes will trouble you aswell in the days of health and prosperity as in sicknes and affliction else you doe no more then an hypocrite may doe For it is said of the wicked Israelites Psal. 78. 34. When he slew them then they sought him and returned and enquired early after God Secondly Then you will be troubled for one sinne aswell as for another for every thing you know to be a sinne for God is offended and dishonoured by one aswell as by another Whosoever shall keepe the whole Law saith the Apostle Iam. 2. 10. and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all I doe not say we should be troubled so much for one sinne as for another for God in his Law hath put a difference betweene sinnes and as some dutyes that God requireth of us so some sinnes are weightier then others Mat. 23. 23. Iudgement Mercy and Fidelity are called by our Saviour the weightier matters of the Law and it is made there the note of an hypocrite to be more troubled for small sinnes then for great Matthew 23. 24. to straine at a gnat and swallow a camell But this is also certaine that he that is troubled for sinne because it is sinne in resepect unto God because he is offended and dishonoured by it will be troubled for one sinne aswell as for another So we shall find David was humbled not for his adultery and murder onely but for all his sinnes Psal. 51. 9. Hide thy face from my sinnes and blot out all mine iniquities The Apostle speaking of the loose performing of spirituall duties of coming to the sacrament without due preparation saith we must judge our selves even for that 1 Cor. 11. 31. And saith that even for this sinne God strucke many with sicknesse and mortality because they would not judge themselves for such sins God did judge them 1 Cor. 11. 30. Davids heart smote him even for cutting of the lap of Sauls garment 1 Sam. 24. 5. When Saul counted the sparing of Agag and of the fattest of the cattell specially for sacrifice but a matter of nothing Samuel telleth him disobedience to God is as bad as witchcraft and idolatry 1 Sam. 15. 23. O therefore know thou art not troubled for any sinne in respect to God if thy very unprofitablenes idlenesse peevishnesse unconstancy playing fast and loose with God do not trouble thee Yea the man whose heart is truly humbled for sin is conscious of the sinfull depravation of his nature and is humbled for that which is the root asmuch if not much more then for his actuall sinnes which are the fruits of it All sins that defile a man come from within from this fountaine Mar. 7. 23. David was humbled for this Psal. 51. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sinne did my mother conceive me And so Paul though he had lived a most innocent life even before his calling to Christ Phil. 3. 6. Yet see how he was troubled even for this Rom. 7. 14 24. Thirdly If you be humbled for your sinne out of respect to God because God is offended and dishonoured by it then will you be able to mourne for the sins of other men for God is aswel offended and dishonoured by them as by your own 1. I shewed you before that the man that is truly hūbled for the Iudgments of God upon this land will mourne more for the sinnes of the land then for the Iudgements themselves So must we 2. bee able to mourne for the sinnes of the places and townes we dwell in specially if they be of note for religion This is prescribed as a duty 1 Cor. 5. 2. Ye should have mourned that he that hath done this deed might be taken away This is commended by the Holy Gost as a great vertue and grace in Lot