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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66819	The doctrine and practice of mortification wherein is discovered the matter, manner, and means thereof, together with the blessed event that comes by it : necesary for every Christian to know and practice, that will live comfortably, and die peaceably / by Thomas Wolfall ...	Wolfall, Thomas.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3249; ESTC R39135	86,981	287

THE DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE OF MORTIFICATION Wherein is discovered the matter manner and meanes thereof together wth the blessed event that comes by it Necessary for every Christian to know and practise that will live comfortably and die peaceably By Thomas Wolfall Master of Arts and Preacher of the word of God LONDON Printed by T.C. for John Sweeting and are to be sould at his shop in Popes-head alley at the signe of the Angell the entring out of Cornehill 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE IOHN Earle of Bridgewater Viscount Brackly Baron Elesmere Lord President of Wales and one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Councell his noble Patron Right honourable HAving upon slow deliberation resolved to publish these Meditations being animated thereunto by some of my good friends wh● are both able and judicious my next resolution came more readily to present them unto your honour not for the worth of the matter but as willing to discharge my duty and service Quod solum nostra opis ●st gratias ager uti apud Douns s●eri amat copiosius sentiende quam loquen de Auson ad Imperator em 1 Cor. 2.4 Col. 2.4 for as my first call to a Pastorall charg was by your honors liberall and unspotted bounty so I here present these the first fruits of my labours of this kinde to your honour as the testimony of my thankfull mind humbly desiring to shroud them under your honours shadow which albeit they come in a plaine and homely dresse m●o more not in wisdome of words to please the curious care but by plaine demonstratiō f●ō the holy Scripture to worke upon the honest heart neither was it my intention in penning and publishing of this discours Non tonantia poetica verba proferimus non aliqua Grammaticorum ante composita nec eloquentia seculari diserto sermone fucata Sed Christum crucisixum praedicamus Aug. de accedent ad gratiam Ser. 1.2 Cor. 10.4 Heb 4.12 to satisfie men vain phantafies but the consciences yet notwithstanding I trust they will bee the more acceptable unto your honour A souldier that intends to kill his enemie doth not doe it with a flourish or flat blowes but by striking home even to the fetching of blood I hope I may be then excused if I take the same course it is not paper pellets that will beate downe strong holds nor woodden swords that will wound to the heart Wherefore I have endeavoured to lay the Axe to the roote of the Tree and to discover that kinde of warre and weapons will be needfull for the work To which end I shall humbly crave leave that I may give your honour in a few wo●ds the summe of the whole 1. Here is a discovery of the enemy which is latent in us sicut Anguis in herba as a Snake in the grasse potent against us building 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strong holds against us lastly subtile and politick and so doth beset us round and hinders the enterance of the good motions of the holy Ghost Heb. 12.1 Sordes peccati spiritus sanctus in uno domic●lio non mor abuntur the filth of sinne and the holy Ghost will not dwell together in the same habitation 2. The combate is set downe in those words mortifie c. Ber. Ser. in Pentecost Hic jac●t Similis cujus atas multorum annorum fuit septem autem duntaxat annis vixit Dion in Hadriano For the place of this combate it is the Church when as once we become the sonnes of God then also doe we become souldiers of Christ and for the time of it it is in and after regeneration and not before though our lives may be long yet our spirituall life in grace may be but short as it was said of Similis whose yeares were many yet lived but seven of them 3. For our assistance we have the spirit of Christ to arme us with that whole armour of God that we may be able to stand in the evill day and withall to put courage and animosity into us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ps 7.8.9 Psal 84.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that we faint not like those Ephramits that went our and carried bowes yet turned againe in the day of battel sine animis nil arma 4. The reward is propounded and promised yee shall live our fight is here our crown hereafter quis sanctorum sine certamine coronatur Hier. Ep. 22. To conclude therefore that we may not bee deceived behold the enemy discovered the flesh with the deeds of it that wee may not pleasantly dream of ease and security behold a sad combat gravis lucta non contra hostes sed hospites Ber. Not against enemies but home born seeming friends that we may not feare nor faint in our minds behold the spirit of grace helping our infirmities And lastly that no man may thinke it in vaine to serve God behold the reward wee shall passe from a battell to a banquet from a combat to a crowne wee have the life of grace here and the life of glory hereafter Wherefore seeing that this kinde of death is the end of so much misery and beginning of so great happinesse which is the maine drift of this discourse I hope at your honours best leasure it may doe you some service though not to informe you of what you know not yet to minde you of what you know so that the good worke begun in you may come to perfection in Gods best time Thus prayeth your honours devoted in all service Tho. Wolfall To the Christian Reader grace and peace THIS discourse being delivered in certaine Sermons to a private Congregation in the City of London the notes whereof falling into the hands of divers of my loving friends by whose motion I was encouraged to commend them to a more publike view as a discourse not unsutable for these times and a good means through Gods blessing to appease and aswage those inward boylings of envie hatred and other exorbitant lusts in the hearts of men Those scandalous scurrilous speeches that issue of their months and also those fell and fierce dissensions that breake out in mens lives not onely to unnecessary suits in Law but also to unjust quarrels and duels even to the indangerment of the losse of soule and body Vitium quod parvulum habitum concupiscere facit ad ultimum etiam concupiscentem reddit Pet. Lum 2. lib. 2. dist 30. all which are nothing else but the fruit of unmortified lusts Jam. 4.1 These as they are born and brought up with us so often like the sonnes of Zerviah they become too strong for us Is it dangerous living among Lions and is it not dangerous living among lusts every one of them seeking fiercely to warre against the soule There be three things that men doe greatly desire equity liberty and peace now so long as sinne lives and lust doth lord it over the soule there is no justice to be expected such