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A15447	Seuen goulden candlestickes houlding the seauen greatest lights of Christian religion shewing vnto all men what they should beleeue, & how they ought to walke in this life, that they may attayne vnto eternall life. By Gr: Williams Doctor of Divinity	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 25719; ESTC S120026	710,322	935

carefull to resist the beginnings of sinne but withstand the very first motions and the least beginnings of the same so maist thou the easier keepe all these mad Greekes out of Troy these deadly sinnes out of thy heart if euery Protesilaus euery first sinne that seekes entrance into thy soule shall vpon the first footing be there laid for dead Otherwise as Nature though it can easily exclude somekindes of diseases which casually come yet is it pressed and wearied with those that are habituall Thriuer in Apoth 169. Euen so saith Thriuerus the soule of man that is but once wounded may the easier be cured and the Sin by repentance may be the sooner excluded but the same wounds being still wounded and the same sinnes being vsually practised they will neuer or hardly be subdued For if an Ethiopian can change his blacke skinne Ierem. 13.23 or a Leopard his spots that are vpon his backe then can you doe well hauing learned and practised all the dayes of your life to do euill saith the Lord and therefore as our Sauiour saith of rich men I may as truely say of these men Matth. 19.23 that they can hardly enter into the Kingdome of Heauen O then beloued Brethren let vs not continue in sinne Luc. 15.13 for the further we goe with the Prodigall Child the harder it is for vs to returne and the more steps we goe from any Citie the more paines it will be for vs to returne to that Citie againe so the more sinne we commit the more must be our sorrowes for our sinnes and the harder it will be for vs to forsake our sinnes Great sinnes must haue great repentance for as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great sinnes and offences deserue great punishments so they must be greatly sorrowed for before they be pardoned for whosoeuer sinneth wickedly with Saint Peter he must goe out with Saint Peter out of wicked company out of his wicked sinnes and weepe bitterly And he that is vsed to sinne and to leese grace will hardly be induced to leaue his sinnes and to seeke for grace or if he should seeke it Luke 2.46 That we ought suddenly to returne vnto the Lord and not to deferre our conuersion yet will it bee very hard for such a one to find it for when Mary lost Christ but one dayes iourney she was three dayes seeking and searching after him sorrowing before she found him and therefore questionlesse if we leese him thirty forty or fifty yeeres as many men vse to doe it will be very hard for vs to finde him in an hower in the last hower when we haue no more howers left vnto vs and therefore to day if you will heare his voyce harden not your hearts but returne O Shunamite Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit returne returne and seeke him diligently whom thy soule loueth but seeke him quickely and seeke him now while he may be found Fourthly When the custome of sinning hath taken away the sence of the sinne and that the consciences of the sinners are cauterized and as it were seared with a hot iron then they doe aggrauate each sinne and make euery sinne exceedingly sinnefull for now peccator non timet suam famam sinne is growne to his tallest groweth and the sinner hath eaten shame and drunke after it and therefore hee can well digest it hee can fearelessely commit it in all places at all times and before all persons Iacobus de valen in ps 91 Nay now he will First Excuse it and say it is no sinne or if it be it is but a sinne of Infirmitie issuing from the temperature of his body a tricke of youth or his heate and choller or else it is but a sinne of Conformity he doth but as the most men doe because he would not be singular 1 Sam. 13 12. What wicked men will doe to iustifie themselues Secondly They will lessen it and pretending some excuses they will say with Saul that they presumed and forced themselues to doe such things but they hope they are but trifles small veniall sinnes Tush say they wil God be angry for such small sinnes Why if he will then Thirdly They will cleere themselues and say with the same Saule wee haue performed all the commandements of the Lord Matt. 19 20. we haue kept them from our youth vp as the young man in the Gospell sayd and if as the bleating of the sheepe and the lowing of the oxen told Saul that hee lyed so their sinnes doe testifie vnto their face that they haue offended then 1. Sam 15 15. as Saul layed all the burthen vpon the people saying the people spared the best of the Sheepe and of the Oxen and not I and as Adam layd all the fault vpon his wife saying Gen. 3.12 the woman whom thou gauest to be with me Shee gaue mee of the tree and I did eate and therefore is shee in all the fault and not I euen so doe they lay all their sinnes on others euen on God himselfe rather then they will confesse themselues guilty of sinne Then Fourthly They will not onely cleere themselues from sinne and blasphemously say that either God is in fault that they doe sinne or else because he did not make them so that they could not sinne but they will also approue these sinnes in others and knowing the iudgement of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death not onely doe the same but also haue pleasure in them that doe them Ro●● a most fearefull behauiour of most impudent men and yet not all for then Fiftly They will not onely consent with them that doe such things but they will also teach them how to doe them as our Sauiour sheweth they will set vp a Schoole of wickednesse these shall be the least in the Kingdome of Heauen i. e. none at all Matt 5.19 saith the blessed Veritie And yet for all this we are not come to the height of our times iniquity for we will be sure to haue a note aboue Ela to goe a little further then either Scriptures or times can giue vs presidents and therefore Sixtly If these mens schollers be not able enough to learne to sinne they will cause them and compell them to doe it there is no resistance See how the drunkards doe it in euery place and many more who take delight to driue men into Hell And therefore now this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this spirit of slumber or this sleepe in sinne which we may rightly call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the brother of death or a deadly sleepe makes these wofull sinnes to sit in the seate of the scornefull that is secure pertinaciter perseuerare in delictis Psal 1 1. Mollerus in Psal 1. omnem pietatem habere pro ludibrio most securely to continue most obstinately to goe on in all iniquity and most basely to esteeme of all piety

whether visible or inuisible whether inwardly conceited in our mindes or outwardly exposed to our senses for so the Apostle saith that because the Gentiles knowing God glorified him not as God but changed his glory into the Image of birds beasts and creeping things Rom. 1.18.24 therefore the wrath of God was reueiled from Heauen against their vngodlinessse Deut. 32.17 and he gaue them vp to vile affections Deut. 7.26 to doe those things which were not conuenient for this sinne of Idolatry is so offensiue vnto God that it is tearmed a seruice of the Diuell and therefore abhominable and accursed by God and most dangerous vnto Man Secondly a perfidious tempting of God The doubting of Gods goodnesse towards vs is a most horrible wickednesse Psal 78. c. 1 Cor. 10.9 as whether hee be with vs or whether he can or will doe what he promised for vs for so the Psalmist saith that the Israelites tempted God in their hearts and spake against him saying Shall God prepare a table in the Wildernesse He smote the stony Rocke so that the water gushed out and the streames flowed withall but can he giue bread also or prouide for his people and therefore the Lord was so wroth that the fire was kindled in Iacob and there came vp heauy displeasure against Israel because they beleeued not in God and put not their trust in his helpe for God is so able and so willing to helpe his owne seruants that none can doubt thereof without horrible in●ignity offered him And therefore we should euer relye upon him and neuer doubt of this infinite goodnesse of God Thirdly a murmuring against God To murmure or to be discontented with God a heauie sinne Gen. 4.5 and complaining secretly as it were in our hearts that he doth either presse vs sore with heauy yoakes and punishments or that he dealeth not so gently and so louingly with vs as he doth with others for thus Caine murmured against God that he accepted the oblation of Abell better then his and thus the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 10.10 the children of Israel murmured against God that he had dealt hardly with them in bringing them out of Egypt to suffer hunger and thirst in the wildernesse and therefore they were destroyed of the destroyer and therefore we should beware of murmuring which is nothing worth and take heed of this muttering against God for there is no thought so secret that it shall goe for naught Wisd 1.11 Iob 13.15 Rom. 8.28 but we should with Iob in all estates put our trust in him though he kils vs knowing that he worketh all things for the best for them that loue him Fourthly an obstinate contumatious rebelling against God To refuse to obay God a fearefull sinne as when we refuse to heare his word wil not be obedient vnto his lawes but will say with the Iewes Let vs breake his bonds asunder and cast away his cords from vs Psal 2.3.4.5 for against these the Psalmist saith He that dwelleth in Heauen shall laugh them to scorne the Lord shall haue them in derision and then shall he speake vnto them in his wrath and vexe them his sore displeasure And therefore we should take heed of rebelling and refusing to heare and to obey the Word of God least the wrath of God should be suddenly kindled against vs and consume vs. To oppose the knowne truth a most horrible sinne Num. 14.37 Fiftly Blasphemy against God and the slandering of the Truth of his Doctrine especially when we oppose it fully though wee know it to be Truth most certainely as the spies that were sent to view the Land of Canaan did and therefore dyed by the plague before the Lord for this is a sinne of a malicious wickednesse and a branch of that vnpardonable sinne against the Holy Ghost and therefore we should euer take heed to oppose the Truth against our consciences Deut. 27. Disobedience to Parents a most fearefull sinne Sixtly Disobedience and dishonoring of our Parents for so the Lord saith Cursed be he that despiseth his Father his Mother and let all the people say Amen And therefore we finde heauy iudgements inflicted vpon Cham Absalon and all other like children of disobedience and the Lord requiring that vpon the bare testimony of the Parents saying This our child is disobedient and will not be ruled by vs they should carry him out of the Citie and stone him with stones till he dyed Gen. 4.10 The shedding of mans blood a most haynous sinne Seauenthly The shedding of Innocent bloud especially of those that are the sonnes of God for the voyce of blood as may be seen in Abell is such a shril piercing vndeniable voyce that it will speedily ascend to Heauen and neuer depart vntill vengeance bee powred out vpon the sinners Oppressing the poore a fearefull sinne Eightly The oppressing of the poore the fatherlesse and the Widdowes for if you hurt the Poore and they cry vnto me saith the Lord Et indignabitur furor meus I will surely heare their cry and my wrath shall waxe hot and I will kill you with the sword and your Wiues shall be Widdowes and your children fatherlesse Vntamed lusts a most odious sinne Ninthly Vnbridled wandring lusts such as were the lusts of the Citizens of Sodome and of all those that giue themselues to doe adulteries whoredomes and following after strange flesh for the Lord hateth all such lasciuious liuers and therefore destroyed of them three and twenty thousand in one day 1 Cor. 10.8 and wrought a most grieuous slaughter vpon the whole tribe of Beniamin Judg. 19.25 for that one foule abuse offered vnto the Leuite● Wife Tenthly Sacriledge and prophaning of holy things for this is a robbing of God as the Prophet sheweth Mal. 3.8 Sacriledge a fearefull sinne and such a high transcendent sinne as that I could farre easier fill whole volumes of most fearefull examples of Gods vengeance executed against sacrilegious persons then finde you one man either in Diuine or humane stories that wronged and robbed the Church of God and scapt vnpunished both in himselfe and his posterity vnto the third and fourth generation Eleuenthly Continuall swearing a most dangerous sinne Continuall swearing and prophaning of the blessed Name of God for of all the sinnes forbidden in the Commandements this onely with Idolatry is forbidden with sub paena with a curse yea a grieuous curse denounced against vs if we will not shunne it for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine These and such like lewde and wicked sinners they say God absoluing will not absolue because the doers hereof haue no loue of goodnesse no care of godlinesse no sence of sinne no remorse of conscience and therefore is the Wrath of God so exceedingly kindled against these sinners sinners 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these grieuous huge and horrible sinners that he will neuer