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A87586	Parliament physick for a sin-sick nation. Or, An ordinance of Parliament explained, and applyed to these diseased times. Containing a catholicall medicine for all natures and nations, but especially, a generall receipt for all the sickly people in our English-hospitall, and Welch-spittle, compounded after the art of the apothecary, and according to Parliament prescription, as hereafter followeth. Wherein thou mayst see as in an urinal-glasse, the dangerous state of thy English mother, and the genius of the reforming physitians, in seeking her speedy cure, and lasting happinesse, unto all succeeding ages. / By Philo-Parl. Imprimatur, Ja: Cranford.	Joceline, Nathaniel.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1644 (1644)	Wing J757; Thomason E45_13; ESTC R21825	121,637	146

of Hens dung to cast up poyson which for health sake men will take though it be loathsome to the stomack but now this vomit is of another nature it s a supernaturall vomit In confessing thy sins Caution take this Caution along with thee Thou must not with the dog return to thine owne vomit nor with the sow that was washed Hae● est ●nim vera poenitentia 〈…〉 ab●●●● a non 〈◊〉 Hieron Snoph Conversio Bux Qui 〈◊〉 quid●m compunctionis se abluunt sed in idipsum ●●ve●tentes sordescunt Greg. to the wallowing in the mire 2 Pet. 2.22 True repentance doth not onely consist in confessing and grieving for sin but also in ceasing from sin and therefore the learned doe from the Original word translate and call Repentance a Turning it s a turning from sinne and the devill unto God and goodnesse We must not be like that Serpent which casteth up her poyson when she goeth to drink and afterwards sucketh it in again but as Solomon saith we must confesse and forsake sinne if we would find mercy and absolution Prov. 28.13 What Judge will pardon an incorrigible rogue one that hath often been branded committed many robberies Therefore wel saith an ancient Writer on the 51. Psal 17. God will not receive their sacrifice who weep for their sins but doe againe returne unto them and so defile themselves againe The consideration whereof giveth check to many yea most confessours in the world even amongst those who professe the Protestant Religion but especially to the Church of Rome wherein an A●●icular Confession in the eare of the Priest is sufficient But let all such know that the promise of Absolution is only made to such as confesse and forsake their sins Prov. 28.13 They are said to forsake their sins though their sins will not forsake them for like our shadow it will follow us when we run from it as fast as we can Rom. 7.24 CHAP. XV. Humiliation NExt in order followeth the second part of Repentance which is Humiliation This appeareth by the Ordinance and it is the paine and griefe which doth alwayes follow or accompany the potion of Repentance which doth afflict the soul as corporall physick doth the body of the patient 2 Cor. 7.9 APHORISME 8. Humiliation is the soule-afflicting and heart-fainting part of Repentance Lev. 16.29 Ye shall afflict your soules verse 31. Humiliabitie animas vestras LXX Or as the words are translated by the Septuagint Humble your soules Num. 29.7 30.13 Ezra 8.21 Ier. 45.3 Ionah 2.7 For the better understanding of this Aphorisme consider what Humiliation is I might give many definitions but that in the Ordinance is very full and pertinent Humiliation it s a hearty bewailing Parl. Ordin F. even with deepest godly sorrow and detestation secretly and in families but especially publikely in congregations both of our owne personall sinnes and chiefly those sins that are and have been the sins of this Nation In which definition consider these eight parts 1. Humiliation is a hearty bewailing of sinne Toto corde abominantur peccatum Occolamp in Ezek 6.9 It is not enough to b●waile sin but it must be done cordially Repentance must make the heart sick Ier. 4.31 A woman in travell of her first-borne doth bewaile her selfe heartily and not complementally so is the Church of 〈◊〉 to bewaile her selfe seriously God doth require the heart in every thing Prov. 23.26 He doth especially eye the heart in any duty Prov. 21.2 Ezek. 33.31 There is good cause why we should doe so 1. Because our sins are heart-sins 〈…〉 peccato Jun. Mat. 15.19 2. Because they are hearty and serious sins 1 Ioh. 3.4 3. Because a heartlesse humiliation is a hearty dissimulation which is a double iniquity My Masters and fellow-souldiers it is not enough that you confesse you doe not well to sweare but you must confesse it heartily and sorrowfully or else God will look on you as Cavaliers though you fight against them 2. Dolor de peecatis quatenas 〈◊〉 Deum offendit non tantum 〈…〉 hominem a peccato quatenus est 〈◊〉 c. Ames de resip 〈…〉 ●o quod sit contra Deum quem ama● Cassiod in Ps 51.17 This Humiliation is with godly sorrow 2. Cor. 7.10 Godly sorrow works repentance Now this grief is called godly sorrow in divers regards 1. Because God is the chief object of it Eze. 6.9 1 Sa. 7.2 All the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. Though there were no sparks of fire in hell yet there would be drops of water in a truly humbled sinners eyes not onely because of the evill of punishment which doth accompany sin but especially because of the evill of sinne that is in sin as it is the transgression of the law of a righteous holy and a loving God 2. It is called godly sorrow because God is the Author of it Iam. 1.17 3. Because God is the end of it it driveth the soule to God and not from God Hos 6.1 Lam. 3.40 As God is the Alpha of this sorrow so he is the Omega of it As the soule returneth to God that gave it so doth this godly griefe 4. Because the subject in whom this sorrow is is a godly man the wicked have not this griefe Cain Pharaoh Iudas were without it 3. Proseindere Kimhi Sc●nduntur enim ●●●da qui bus sactorum suorun ●oenitet Oecolam Dolor etiam 〈◊〉 debet esse maximus 〈◊〉 dolorum Ames Cor cont●tum dicitur quod poenitentiae labo●●hus vehemente● est afflictum Cassi It s a deep humiliation argued by these words in the definition With the deepest godly sorrow Ezek. 6.9 the word there translated to lothe signifyeth to cut asunder whereupon my authour hath this note Their hearts are cut into pieces who repent of their sinnes Now this cannot be without heart-bleeding sorrow Zach. 12 10 11 12. Upon which place one saith that griefe for sinne ought to be the greatest griefe of all and there is very good reason for it because the evil of sinne is a greater evil then the evil of punishment is or can be the one is of the Devil Iohn 8.44 the other is of God Amos 3.6 There is something good in punishment there is nothing good in sinne onely the most wise God doth by accident turne sin to good Rom. 8.28 as the skilfull Physitian doth make a good and healthfull use of poyson to his patient Again godly sorrow is the greatest because our love to God is greater then to any creature if we be his children now according to the measure of love is the measure of sorrow Quest May not a child of God sometime feel more griefe for some worldly crosse then he doth for sin Gods children feele more sorrow in the intellectuall part of the foul for sinne then for any worldly losse or crosse whatsoever Sol. Thom. Suppl qu. 4. Art 1. Bellar. de poen l. 2. c. 11. Intellective salt●m quoad