the good of others and our selves Delighting in the contemplation of evill 2 Get our hearts deeply affected with a true sense and thorow feeling of the haynousnesse of our Sinnes a serious detestation and vtter hatred of them with vnfeined sorrow and condemning our selves for them 3 Then descend wee to a particular enumeration of them in the bitter root spreading branches cursed fruits and dangerous effects thereof First the Sinne of our first parents Adam and Evah looke unto the rocke whence we were hewen and to the hole of the pit whence wee were digged for wee all sinned in their loynes and so come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 23. 2 Originall depravation and pollution of nature in the corruption of the Vnderstanding 2 Conscience 3 Memory 4 Will. 5 Sensitive appetite and affections 1 The corruption of the Vnderstanding in 5. 1 Vanity therof our thoughts are vaine taken up with frothy and fruitlesse speculations 2 Blindnesse being ignorant and impotent not able to conceive spirituall things 3 Vnteachatlenesse resisting and opposing the truth 4 Incredulity unapt to believe the truth of God 5 Enmity 1 not subject to the Law of God 2 Not resolving to be so holy pure exact as Gods Word requires 3 but casting off Gods yoke and his coards with reluctancie and distast 2 Conscience which is impure and polluted without light and life 1 A bad remembrancer and false register setting downe sin by the halves like the unjust Steward but fifty where hundreds are due 2 A slack instigatour to good or restrayner from evill being not cleare to discerne things amisse like a dusty looking-glasse Not sensible of sinne or tender but brawney past feeling Not active or stirring up to good but sleeping drowsie not rowsing us to purpose giving us no rest but letting us sleepe securely againe 3 A false accuser or excuser excusing for Sinnes accusing for not Sins 1 It should when the Law is preached accuse thou art the man but then it extenuates that it is no sinne or but a little sinne approving and allowing wayes and courses which seeme good to a Man but tend to death 2 When the Gospell is preached it should extenuate but then it aggravates crying out amaine with Cain My sinne is greater than full of hellish and amazing terrours 3 Memory full of weaknesse our remembrance being like unto ashes 1. forgetting what we ought to remember as our Creatour in the dayes of our youth 2 remembring what wee should forget as injuries and indignities 4 Our Will is full of 1 Contrariety to the Will and Word of God in every thing refusing to doe what hee commands but wilfull in doing what he forbids 2 Pride not dependant on or subject unto Gods will 't will not stoope to bee or to doe any thing for God 't will bee something in it selfe and must be carved to in a good condition as it selfe likes 3 Inconstancie unstable as water in good peremptorie and resolute in evill our tongues are our owne who is Lord over us though in some good mood like Saul to David it may weep yet like the morning dewe it vanisheth presently 4 Disobedience when God commands apt to doe the contrary 5 Sensitive appetite taking pleasure in sensible things too much our appetites and senses outray in things lawfull which come in by the senses 1 Eyes to women wine 2 Eares itching after vanity 3 Taste meat and drinke to Gluttony 4 Touch hands c. 6 Affections deeply distempered being violent turbulent sullen way ward untoward ready to be fired with any temptation rebellious against God either 1. not active lusting after good or 2. placed where they should not bee or 3 exceeding in measure they overjoy over-grieve over love we humour and please them they can but aske and have This corruption is in the concupiscible and irascible faculties of the soule In the concupiscible faculties 1 Love and Hatred 2 Desire and Abomination 3 Ioy sorrow which hath under it Pitty Envie Heavinesse Repentance and Zeale In the irascible faculties 1 Hope and Despaire 2 Boldnes Anger 3 Feare which hath under it Blushing Shamefastnesse Astonishment Agony 1 Love and hatred not of all good not against all sin 2 Delight not in God religion the Saints 3 Feare Man the creature poverty 4 Sorrow cast downe for disgrace 7 Body and members Eyes Eares Tongue Hands Feet Thirdly Actuall transgressions against the Law Gospell of both in our 1 Thoughts being idle vaine frothie not entertaining God in them 2 Words rotten unseasoned they heale not edifie not our tongues set on fire of hell corrupt with lying slander dissembling backbiting 3 Deeds of Omission Commission Not husbanding the talents of grace and nature which wee were betrusted with which we have ill imployed our precious time we raffle out Barren unfruitfull 1 for acts and dueties 1 Neglecting wholly 2 intermitting 3 slighting them Restreyning prayer refuse the Sacrament omit Fasting and Prayer 2 Graces want of love to Christ godly men humility faith zeale 3 Mis-spending our time in vanity raffling out our precious houres and squandring away our talents 4 Occasions of doing and receiving good not clothed not visited not instructed others or trying if at any time God would give them repentance 2 Commission in the rebellion and sinfulnesse of our lives sinning in our generall and particular calling confessing here the sinnes of our Sexe complexion constitution c. those we last of all committed under â—hich our consciences doe yet freshly bleede by which God hath been most dishonoured Both for 1 Quantitie in the greatnesse frequencie 2 Quality in the haynousnesse 3 Relapses iterations 4 Circumstances aggravating sinne viz. The Person against whom The glorious God our most gracious and tender Father Against our Christian Brethren Superiours Inferiours Equalls becomming guilty of other mens sinnes occasioned by our Command Company Counsell Ill example Connivence Silence c. Against our owne soules Against every Creature The Time when In generall in particular In generall before and since our Conversion c. In Infancie Child-hood Youth Mans-age Old-age In particular in the Day Night c. The Place where at home and abroad At home the Table Closet Bed Abroad viz. in the Church in Company in the Fields c. 1 Against God himselfe 2 and that against knowledg 3 without any or with very small Temptation 4 against vowes and covenants 5 against meanes afforded to resist sinne and doe better 1 Hating of God being enemies to him 2 Denying by our workes his power omnipresence justice omniscience setting up base lusts to be our God 3 Despising of God if so we can hide our sinne from man we never care though God see it 2 And thus not onely of ignorance when we-knew not nor of infirmity being transported with passion the Law in our members but even of wilfulnes and presumption
iniquity of our sinne Thou hast stricken us but we have not grieved thou hast consumed us but wee have refused to receive correction wee have made our faces harder than a rocke and have refused to returne We have received the grace of God in vaine and have neglected the great Salvation which thou tendrest unto us in Iesus Christ Wee have grieved the holy Spirit of God whereby wee are sealed to the day of redemption and have turned the grace of God into lasciviousnesse We have left our first love our soule thirsteth not for God for the living God We have even sinned wilfully since we received the knowledge of the truth so that we may justly feare there remayneth now no more sacrifice for our sinnes but a certaine fearefull looking for of judgement and fiery indignation For if he that despised Moses law died without mercy Of how much sorer punishment shall wee be thought worthy who have troden under foote the Sonne of God and have counted the blood of the covenant wherewith we were sanctified an unholy thing and have done despite to the Spirit of Grace Many scarlet and crimsin sins have wee committed whereby great occasion hath beene given by us to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme Yea we overpasse the deeds of the wicked Wherefore I abhorre my selfe and repent in dust and ashes For innumerable evils have compassed me about mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to looke up they are moe then the haires of my head therefore my heart faileth me For thou art the God of my strength why dost thou cast me off why goe I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy Thou hast set our iniquitles before thee our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance When yee come to appeare before me who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts For Ierusalem is ruined and Iudah is fâ—llen because their tongues and their doings are against the Lord to provoke the eyes of his glory Woe unto them that draw injquity with cords of vanity and sinne as it were with a Cart rope But your injquities have separated between you and your God and your sinnes have hid his face from you that hee will nor heare As a Fountaine casteth out her waters so shee casteth out her wickednesse violence and spoyle is heard in her before mee continually is griefe and wounds Yet I had planted thee a noble vine wholly a right seed How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me For though thou wash thee with niter and take thee much sope yet thine injquities is marked before mee saith the Lord God The sinne of Iudah is written with a pen of jron and with the point of a diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart and upon the hornes of your altars Behold I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sinnes For wee know that the Law is spirituall but I am carnall sold under sinne But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sinne which is in my members O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death 2. EVILL of punishment And for all these thou our God hast punished us lesse than our injquities deserve It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed because his compassions faile not If thou shouldst lay judgement to the line and righteousnesse to the plummet thou mightest make thy anger and jealousie to smoke against us and all the curses that are written in thy booke thou mightest lay upon us and blot out our name from under heaven Thou mightest give us our portion with the wicked that are turned into hell and all the nations that forget God See the heads Plague Punish c. in the Seripture Phrases 2. PETITION for FORGIVENES But with thee Lord is mercy and with thee is plenteous redemption O therefore pardon our injquities and our sinne and take us for thine inheritance Put away our transgressions as a cloud and our sinnes as a mist O Lord though our injquities testifie against us doe thou it for thy names sake for our back-slidings are many we have sinned against thee O that I might have my request and that God would grant mee the thing that I long for even that it would please him to cover mine injquity and cause my sinne to be blotted out from before him Remember not the sinnes of my youth nor my transgressions according to thy mercie remember thou mee for thy goodnesse sake O Lord. For thy names sake O Lord pardon mine injquity for it is great O remember not against us former iniquities let thy mercies speedily prevent us Take away our injquitie and receive us graciously so will we render the calues of our lips Turne againe and have compassion upon us subdue our injquities and cast all our sinnes into the depthes of the Sea Behold the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world To this end was hee borne and for this cause came hee into the world that hee might save sinners of whom wee are the chiefe Hee was wounded for our transgressions hee was bruised for our injquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes are we healed For his sake and in his blood wash me throughly from mine injquities and cleanse me from my sinne Purge me with Hysope and I shall be cleane wash mee and I shall bee whiter than snow Hide thy face from my sinnes and blot out all mine injquities I have sinned greatly in that I have done and now I beseech thee O Lord take away the injquitie of thy servant for I have done very foolishly Looke thou upon me and bee mercifull unto me as thou usest to doe unto those that love thy name Though your sinnes bee as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like câ—imson they shall be as wooll Behold thou art the Lord the God of all flesh there is nothing too hard for the. For FAITH O we are of little faith therefore O Lord encrease our faith though it be yet but as a graine of mustard seed that being justified by faith wee may have peace with thee Worke in us not a dead faith but that which may bee rich in good workes following after peace with all men and holinesse without which none shall see God Create in mee a cleane heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Not having mine owne righteousnesse which is of
the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith For REPENTANCE Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for O that all the night I could make my bed to swim that I could water my couch with my teares that I might repent in sacke-cloth and ashes and grant us repentance unto life Thou hast in love to our soules vouchsafed unto us space and time to repent in O that thou wouldst also give us grace to repent O that there were such an heart in us that wee might repent and recover our selues out of the snare of the Devill who have beene hither to taken captive by him at his will Doe thou melt our stonie hearts into godly sorow which worketh repentance unto salvation not to bee repented of SANCTIFYING GRACE Sprinkle cleane water upon us that we may bee cleane from all our filthinesse and from all our a new heart also doe thou give us and a new spirit doe thou put within us and take away the stony heart out of the middest of us and give thou unto us an heart of flesh and put thy Spirit within us and cause thou us to walke in thy statutes and keepe thy judgements and doe them KNOWLEDGE That the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the father of glory would give unto us the spirit of wisedome and â—evelation in the knowledge of him The eyes of our understanding being inlightned that we may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints that the earth may bee filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea that all may know thee from the least to the greatest of us That Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith that we being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and heighth And to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that wee might be filled with all the fulnesse of God That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death And because it is not good that the soule bee without knowledge incline our eares to wisedome and apply our hearts to understanding that we may cry after knowledge and lift up our voice for understanding that wee may understand the feare of the Lord and find the knowledge of God That wee may be enabled to cry unto thee Our God wee know thee Vid. Ier. 31. 33. 34. LOVE of GOD c. That wee may love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soule and with all our mind that because our sinnes which are many are forgiven us therefore we may love thee much That wee may love one another as Christ hath loved us that our love may abound yet more and more towards all men especially them that are of the houshold of faith That wee may love our enemies blesse them that curse us doe good unto them that hate us and pray for them that dispitefully use and persecute us ZEALE Make us to bee zealous of good workes that we may not rest contented with a luke-warme profession being neither cold nor hot but that our soule may breake for the longing that it hath to thy judgements at all times that the zeale of thine house may eate us up that so our zeale may provoke very many SINCERITIE Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts O therefore make us Israelites indeed in whom there is no guile That in simplicitie and godly purenesse wee may have our conversation in the world because thine eyes are upon all our wayes and thou understandest our thoughts a farre off and art acquainted with all our wayes for there is not a word in our tongue but loe O Lord thou knowest it altogether And thou wilt bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and wilt make manifest the counsels of the heart Though they dig into hell thence shall my hand take them though they climbe up to heaven thence will I bring them downe And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottome of the Sea thence will I command the Serpent and hee shall bite them If thou sayest behold wee knew it not doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it and that keepeth thy soule doth not he know it and shall not he render to every man according to his workes God shall bring every worke into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart I beseech thee O Lord remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts Can any hide himselfe in secret places that I shall not see him sayeth the Lord doe not I fill heaven and earth sayeth the Lord. Shall not God know this for he knoweth the secrets of the heart The darknesse hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day the darknesse and the light are both alike to thee The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly thou even thou knowest the hearts of all the children of men Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom they have to doe BOLDNES the Profession of the GOSPEL That we may not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that beleeveth Grant unto thy servants that with all boldnesse we may speak of and professe thy word Considering that if we shall bee ashamed of Our Lord Iesus Christ and of his words in this adulterous and sinfull generation the Sonne of man also will be ashamed of us when he commeth in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels PERSEVERANCE O that there were such an heart in us that we might feare thee and keepe thy commandements alway that it might be well with us and with our children after us for ever Give us our heart and our way that we may feare thee for ever and make thou an everlasting covenant with vs that thou wilt not turne away from us to doe us good and put