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A29204	The right way to safety after ship-wrack in a sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons, in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin : at their solemn receiving of the blessed sacrament / by John, Lord Bishop of Armagh.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4231; ESTC R35340	13,261	27

17. June 1661. ORdered That the undernamed persons or any three or more of them do repair unto His Grace the Lord Primate of all Ireland and in the Name of this House return thanks unto His Grace for his great pains taken yesterday in Preaching and Administring the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper unto the Members of this House and to desire His Grace that he would cause the same to be Printed Sir Henry Tichburne Sir Theophilus Jones Mr. of the Wards Sir Francis Hamilton Sir Robert Forth Sir Richard Kirle Copia Vera. Ex. per Philip Ferneley Cler. Parl. THE RIGHT Way to Safety AFTER SHIP-WRACK IN A SERMON Preached to the Honourable House of Commons in St. Patrick's Church Dublin Jun. 16. 1661. At their Solemn Receiving of the Blessed SACRAMENT By the most Reverend Father in God JOHN Lord Archbishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland DUBLIN Printed by John Crook Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And are to be sold by John North Bookseller in Castle-street 1661. PROV 28. 13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy IN these Words two different Ways which Sinners take to attain to Happiness are represented to us The one short and broad but impassable by reason of Thieves and Precipices He that covereth his sins shall not prosper the other long and strait but certain and secure Who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Or if you will a common Shipwrack wherein two Planks are presented to us to save us from drowning The one painted but rotten which will undoubtedly deceive us that is the Plank of Dissimulation He that covereth his sins shall not prosper The other rugged but sound which will infallibly bring us safe to Land that is the Plank of Repentance He that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercie Or lastly We may consider herein the Sore the Chyrurgery and the Success The Store is Sin the Course of Chyrurgery is double and different the one by healing over or binding up the other by incision or cleansing out the one with supple Oyl the other with sharp Vineger the one by bathing the other by lancing the one by covering the other by confessing The Success is likewise double and different proportionable to the two ways of cure the one unprosperous shall not prosper the other prosperous shall have mercy He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercie The Sore is spiritual and epidemical that 's Sin 2. Chron. 6. When every one shall know his own sore And more emphatically Isa. 1. 6. it is styled a putrifying sore So long as our first Parents continued in the state of Innocencie Roses grew without Thorns as St. Ambrose observed As there was no Sin so there was no Sickness no Sores in the World either of Soul or Body Indeed it was not impossible for them to sin so they should have been Gods not Men but it was possible for them not to have sinned which is as much as the Angels in Heaven can challenge to themselves for many of them fell irrecoverably because they found not a Redeemer and those which stood owe their Conservation as we do our Redemption to the Cross of Christ Col. 1. 20. But by the fall of Adam the Image of God became defaced in Man the Rays of heavenly Light eclipsed the Sparkles of divine Grace cooled the Understanding infatuated the Will confounded the Affections disordered and in place of these Perfections Sin entered into the world as an Hereditary Contagion a spirituall Leprosie with the Consequents of it all manner of Sores and Diseases both of Soul and Body which cannot be cur'd with all the Balm in Gilead nor cleans'd with all the Water in the Ocean but onely by the Blood of Christ and in order to that by Repentance which is the Cure commended in my Text. Hence all those swarms of Fevers Catarrhs Gouts Palsies Apoplexies and the like which do infest the Body of Man more than any other living Creatures We may be burned up with Cholerick Distempers drowned with Hydropick Humours choak'd with the Fumes of a vitious Stomack and buried quick in the Grave of Melancholick Imaginations But the chiefest Defects are those of the Soul as 1. Ignorance that in so thick a mist of Errours and Sects we know not how to finde out the Truth and that which tops up our Folly is That we are grown too wise in our own conceits 2. Concupiscence that Pestilence of the Soul whose cankered Blossoms are still sprouting up in the most Regenerate Hearts this weakened the Power of Sampson infatuated the Wisdom of Solomon defiled the Holiness of David 3. Self-love an hidden Poyson the Rust of the Minde the Moth of Holiness the Parent of Envie the Original of all Vices 4. Discontent which makes up prize what we want sleight what we enjoy more sensible of Sufferings than of Blessings like little Children which for want of some Toy which they affect throw away all they have and fall a crying we follow Contentment hard but as Fools do an Ignis Fatuus always at a distance 5. Preposterous fear If we do ill we fear Magistrates if we do well we fear Detractors if we be rich we fear Thieves if poor Creditors if we hate we fear Enemies if we love Corrivals 6. Distrust We all say We trust God but for the most part sooner with our Souls than with our Estates and hardly without a Pawn as Usurers would trust a Bankrupt Lastly Hypocrisie If there be a Mote in the Eye there is a Beam in the Heart if there be a Beam in the Eye there is a Stack of Mischief in the Heart We look one way and row another way blow hot and cold with the same Mouth and have our Hearts more double than our breath We flatter for advantage and we slander for advantage we serve God for advantage and if need be we serve the Devil for advantage Then since we have all made shipwrack of Baptismal Grace by sin since all without exception do stand in need of a second Plank to save them from drowning it remains that we make choice of one of the two presented to us in my Text Dissimulation or Conversion Covering or Confessing That 's the next part He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy There are three good covers of sin in holy Scripture 1. Charity 2. Conversion 3. Pardon The two first are mens covers the third is Gods cover 1. Charity Prov. 10. 12. Hatred stirreth up strife but love covereth all sins and 1. Pet. 4. 8. Charity shall cover the multitude of sins Charity thinketh no evil Charity suspecteth no hurt Charity interprets all things in the best sense Charity doth not aggravate or exaggerate the faults of men but seeks to extenuate them imputing them to a good Intention or to