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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13570	Pauls complaint against his naturall corruption With the meanes how to bee delivered from the power of the same. Set forth in two sermons vpon the 24 verse of the 7. chapter of his epistle to the Romanes. By me William Teelinck, preacher of the word of God at Middleburgh.; Paulus klocht over zijn natuurlijke verdorvenheid. English	Teellinck, Willem, 1579-1629.; Harmar, Christopher.	1621 (1621)	STC 23861; ESTC S102633	39,150	75

and seruitude of sin we must be made partakers of Iesus Christ for his death is the death of our death and by his wounds are we healed his bloud being the medicine of our soules Esay 53. Heb. 9.14 Now that we may be made partakers of Christ we must beleeue in him for it is faith in him that maketh vs free Ioh 8.31.32.36 Which the Apostle hauing in the verse following our text he thanketh God through our Lord Iesus Christ namely for this that he thorough the Lord Iesus Christ was deliuered from the body of death Therfore thus speaketh Christ of himselfe Ioh 8.36 If the sonne make you free you shall be free indeed thus doth Iohn also testifie euen that wee thorough faith in Christ doe ouercome the world Iohn 15.5 But we finde by experience that the faith of many men consisteth onely in words being nothing els but an idle conceit swimming in their braines for there be many who when they vnderstand that men by faith are made free from their sinnes and blessed doe presently perswade themselues that they also beleeue whereas alas they know not what it is truly to beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ nor yet what is the nature and vertue of true faith Wherfore let euery one in few words vnderstand that whosoeuer would be found truely to beleeue in Christ must make it appeare that he beleeueth and holdeth for good all the words counsell of Christ consequently must practise the same Ioh 3.36 Luc 6.46 Or els let him know that his faith is nothing worth and that he shall not be saued although he suffers himselfe a thousand times to be perswaded that he shall obtaine saluation and happinesse thorough Iesus Christ For as we know it is not enough for one that would be cured of some perillous disease onely to beleeue that such an expert Phisitian can and will cure him but if he will be holpen he must follow the aduise of the Phisitian and vse the medicines which shal be prescribed vnto him or els he is like to be neuer the better So it is not enough that a man to the end that he might be cured of the body of death by the onely Phisitian of the soule Iesus Christ Mat. 9.12 perswadeth himselfe that Christ can will helpe him but he must also follow the counsell of Christ if he will be cured by him according to that which the holy Scripture so expressely declareth euen that Christ is the author of saluation vnto all that obey Heb. 5.9 In which sense also speaketh Iohn the Baptist most plainly He that beleeueth in the sonne hath eternall life but he that obeyth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Ioh 3.36 From whence it may fully be gathered that that faith which maketh not vs obedient to the sonne is not that faith wherby we can be healed so Iames also confidently affirmeth that that faith is dead and nothing worth which maketh not vs as well followers as beleeuers of the words and will of Christ For it is most certaine that wheresoeuer true faith is there is also the practise endeuour of obedience vnto the will of Christ Now what the will of God is in this that men might thorough our Lord Iesus Christ be deliuered from the body of death very much might be spoken thereof but my purpose is here briefly in a word to touch the most necessary things and so to cōclude because I haue largely handled it in another place and that wretched and sinful man might be deliuered from the body of death through our Lord Iesus Christ the Prince of life be more and more set free from the power of sinne he must practise and endeuour these three things according to the will and counsell of Christ First he must forsake himselfe He that will follow me sayth Christ namely that will be led healed by me let him for sake himselfe Mat. 16.24 that is let him cast away and renounce his owne vnderstanding judgement let him breake himselfe of his owne will and affections let him in nothing yeeld vnto his sinful flesh nor take any care to obey it in the lustes thereof Rom. 13.14 And let him not please or vphold this body of sin by giuing it any of those deadly pernicious things it lusteth after but let him herin circumcise himself let him deale harshly and roughly with this body of sin keeping from it and denying it of euery thing it would haue so shall the strength therof decay for as it was the meat of Christ to do his Fathers will Io 4.4 So is it the nourishment strength of the corrupt flesh to doe against the will of God by committing sin from which we must bridle it if we will kill it Behold this is the counsell of Christ speaking after the manner of a Phisitian who when he taketh a man in hand to cure him requireth of him that by all meanes he would keepe a good dyer refraine to eate those things which nourish feede his disease the which the Christian man must doe that willingly would be cured of the body of death for we find it to be a common and familiar thing that those which be sicke in body doe most desire those things that doe them least good So is it also with men that are sick in soule they euermore desire lust after sinne which is most hurtfull vnto them therfore those that would be cured in their soules must deny themselues according to the prescript rule of Christ yea they must renounce and forsake the whole body of death as the Apostle cryeth out against the whole body of death not only this or that part or member thereof as some doe who to be cured forsake striue against some sins retaining stil other some pleasing beloued ones whereby they become the more incurable continue sick euen vnto the death as the scripture teacheth vs Eze 18.31.32 for although the very best so long as they remaine here are not free from all sinnes yet euery one that would be cured healed of his sinnes must striue and fight against all of them Iob 20.12 But this is very grieuous vnto a naturall and corrupt man to weane his lustes of their desires and to depriue himselfe of those thinges with which his heart is most in loue Oh it is as death vnto sinfull man it is as if he should put out his eye or cut off his hand as Christ himselfe giues vs to vnderstand Mat 5. Neuerthelesse it must be done as he that cannot lye teacheth vs in the same place vers 29.30 And looke by how much the more this body of death that hatefull monster the corrupt flesh doth flatter and embrace vs for to entice vs to serue it in the lustes thereof by so much the more must wee set our selues against it and seeke to subdue it and bring it vnder 1 Cor. 9.27 For

our sinfull flesh is like vnto a wicked Enchantresse which smileth vpon vs when she purposeth to destroy vs the pleasing and delightfull concupiscences thereof are like Ioabs kisses who killed Amasa when he seemed to kisse him 2 Sam 20.9.10 Therefore wee must not fauour and please this monster of sinne but we must in this thing denie our selues and kill our earthly members Col. 3.5 And crucifie our old man Gal. 5.24 If we will liue and be deliuered from the eternall crosse and the eternall death Neither must we shrinke or be afrayd to doe it for the lustes of our flesh which we are to cut off are as rotten members members of the bodie of death cankered and putrified members which if we cut them not off in time will corrupt and destroy our whole man yea and bring vs also into eternall death as the truth it selfe teacheth vs expressely testifying that if we fauour and make much of the members of this body of death that is our sinfull lustes and cut them not off we shall with them be cast into hell where the Worme neuer dyeth and the fire neuer goeth out Mar. 9.44 Secondly the man that would willingly bee more and more deliuered from the body of death thorough Iesus Christ our Lord must not onely denie and forsake himselfe but also with all his affections and the deepest desires of his heart make all possible speede to come vnto Christ that he may be cured of him as he himselfe teacheth namely that all that are wearie and laden must come vnto him and he will ease them Mat. 11.28.29 and Mat. 13.15 He then that would be healed by Christ and deliuered from the bodie of death must giue vp himselfe vnto him to be cured by him euen as a poore patient which hauing long beene possessed with a grieuous disease putteth himselfe into the hands of a skilfull Phisitian which by Gods helpe can cure him to be ruled and handled according vnto his will prescription Now the dyet the phisicke the receipts which Christ the onely Phisitian of the soule prescribeth vnto his patients that I may so speake for their curing are found onely in the holy Scripture Ioh 5.39 which is the Phisick booke wherein are plentifully conteined the words which are life to them that finde them and health vnto their flesh Pro. 4.22 Therefore the poore sinfull man that would haue helpe must order and gouerne himselfe according to the rule and true meaning of the holy Scripture wherein is comprehended the great wisedome of God and all the mysteries of spirituall Phisicke according to which whosoeuer truely frameth and carrieth himselfe shall certainely and vndoubtedly be healed Therefore it is the greatest folly and madnesse in the world and a sinne whereof very many stand guiltie before God that wretched sinfull men should be slacke and negligent to enquire and search after the wisedome and counsell of God and to frame and fashion themselues according vnto it notwithstanding the great wife and mercifull God hath reuealed vnto them in his word which he hath put into our handes how they should walke to the end that they may be healed of the bodie of death but run vnaduisedly after the blind conceipt of their owne head without once rightly considering what the Lord Iesus Christ the onely Phisitian of the soule hath prescribed and deliuered in the holy Scripture for poore soule-sicke man to practise and apply vnto himselfe to the end that he may bee cured yea the great stayne of this sinne of the godlesse children of the world shall neuer be purged from them vnlesse they amend therefore those that would bee deliuered from the body of death thorough our Lord Iesus Christ must so giue themselues vp vnto him to be cured of him as that they diligently search and learne out of his word how they must order and addresse themselues to the end that they may bee healed Thirdly He that would be deliuered from the body of death thorough our Lord Iesus Christ must by all meanes endeuour to beleeue and hold as firme and certaine that he thus denying and giuing vp himselfe vnto Christ shall truely bee deliuered and cured by him this did Christ require in the curing of bodily diseases Marc. 9.23 and else-where teaching vs thereby that this faith is aboue all things necessary and requisite vnto the curing of the mortall disease of our soules it being the Conduit which conueyeth vnto vs vertue from Christ whereby we are healed of our corruptions But the Diuell which setteth vp himselfe as a God of the world laboureth by all his might and pollicie to hinder and stop this for hee will eyther perswade a man that he shall liue and bee saued by his faith and beliefe in Christ when hee liueth in a course of perdition seruing the flesh wherein if he continueth it is not possible that he should be saued Rom. 8.13 or else hee will make him beleeue if he can that his sinnes are so great that he shall not obteine pardon and remission of God when he hath denied himselfe forsaken his sinnes laboureth to be conformed vnto the will of God and is heartily grieued because he cannot performe such obedience vnto him as hee should and as hee would but let vs take heede of both these Rockes let vs not presume of the mercy of God when wee are not fit Objects of mercie standing in open rebellion against God being friendes of sinne and let it also bee farre from vs to thinke that God will not haue mercy vpon vs when wee come vnto him for mercie with true sorrow and griefe because wee haue offended him for it is his glory to haue mercie and to haue respect vnto them that humble themselues but let vs wrestle with our vnbeleiefe and beleeue that thorough the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ wee shall bee saued Act. 15.11 This faith thus being founded not vpon an idle conceipt of our owne braynes but vpon the fore-named groundes the word and councell of Christ wee accordingly endeuouring truely to forsake our selues and to put our selues into his hands to be ruled and gouerned by him This faith I say is mightie and worketh wonders and there is no disease of the soule so mortall or incurable of which wee shall not bee cured if so be wee hold fast and continue in this our true and holy faith following the councell of Christ for then may wee expect the blessing of Christ more and more to bee deliuered from the bodie of death Then shall it bee done vnto vs according to the words of Christ Mathew the fifteenth Chapter and the twentie eyght verse Be it vnto thee as thou wilt Then shall wee be more and more freed from the power of sinne and assured of our Saluation to our great and neuer ending comfort ⸪ Laus honor gloria sole Deo FINIS The connection of the Text with the former verses The summe of the Text. The parts of the Text. Why our naturall