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A79511	Nathans parable. Sins discovery, with it's [sic] filthy secret lurking in the brest of men. Or, some few discoveries what the sinfulness of sin is, and spoile it hath made on man, in nine particulars. With the sad experience of it on the author: written, if it may be, to warn all men, especially, the saints, to take heed and to beware of sin. With a letter written to his excellency the Lord General Cromwell. By Edmund Chillenden.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3877; Thomason E723_3; ESTC R207232	24,570	27

so loud they go not upward toward heaven they ascend not but do remaine here below they are rejected of God as Caines sacrifice was Gen. 4.3 4 5. he will not hear in heaven for he is deaf and his ear is by sin made heavy Isa 59.1 compare Prov. 1.28 29 30 31. though they call upon him he will not hear them though they seek him early yet they shall not finde him and the reason is rendered For they hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord they would none of his councel they despised all his reproofs Psal 81.11 12. therefore it shall and will be ill with them that are wicked for the reward of their hands shall be given unto them Isa 3.11 This David knew very well Psal 66.18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me as if the Prophet should have said If I regard hug and make much of my sin delight and take pleasure in it God will not regard me saith he This the Iews as wicked as they were knew well enough Ioh. 9.31 Now we know God heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God and do his will him be heareth Jam. 5.15 16. 1 Joh. 5.14 the prayer of the wicked is sin his sacrifice is a great abomination to the Lord he cannot endure it he loaths both it and them Prov. 15.8 29. with Prov. 21.27 How much more when he bringeth it with an evil wicked sinful mind being alienated and made strangers from God in their mindes by wicked and sinful works Eph. 2.12 Col. 1.21 Tit. 3.3 for what hope hath the hypocrite will the Lord hear his cry Job 27.8 9. No he is far from the wicked Prov. 15.29 When they spread forth their hands God he will not hear them he will hide his eyes from them and when they make many prayers God will not have regard their hands are full of blood Isa 1.15 therefore he loatheth their new Moons and their Sabbaths their solemn assemblies his soul hated them they were a trouble to him he was weary of bearing them Isa 66.3 This the Church crieth out of and sadly bewaileth Lam. 4.44 that because of her sins God he hod covered himself with a cloud that her prayers should not pass thorow O what a loss is the poor Church in now God he hath hid his face and she is much troubled Psal 30.7 Whereas she was wont by prayer to ride and soar aloft they were her Chariots and horses by which she pierced the heavens and went with boldness to the throne of grace Heb. 4.16 and received blessings from thence both spiritual and temporal but now she is debarred all by sin that puts a stop to every good thing 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Tim. 4.8 6.6 Jer. 5.25 8. It breaks the peace and blessed communion of the Church of God The Churches of Christ are a holy people called out of the world by the good word of his grace they being begotten againe purged and cleansed from all uncleanness and unholiness made pure by the washing of water by the word Eph. 5.26 27. of his own will Jam. 1.18 not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God 1 Pet. 1.23 called to be Saints 1 Cor. 1.2 to walk together in a holy communion amongst themselves for the worship and service of God and they are called A spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2.5 and therefore are called a holy nation a chosen generation a royal priesthood a peculiar people that they should shew forth the praises of him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvelous light 1 Pet. 2.8 and they may not suffer any unclean or unholy person to come in and be of fellowship with them Isa 52.11 Rev. 21.27 2 Cor. 6.17 for all that are to draw neer to God and bear his vessel are to be clean and holy for holiness becomes his house for ever Psal 93.5 for his way is holy and the polluted sinners may not enter into it they will defile his Sanctuary and holy things Isa 35.8 compare Numb 19.20 22. Ezek. 28.22 for sin is a contagious leprosie that will presently diffuse it self through the whole body as the Apostle saith A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 1 Cor. 5.6 7. therefore when sin doth appear they are presently to labour to purge themselves of it according to the rule and command of Iesus Christ that they may be a holy lumpe and this must be done in love with all meekness and lowliness of spirit Gal. 6.1 2. with all faithfulness without any partiality favour or affection but where sin is there tell the sinner plainly of it Levit. 19.17 that so they may come to see their sins and bring their sacrifice that by repentance and forsaking they may finde mercy and so prosper Levit. 4.23.28 the Church being careful of this they walk sweetly and there is a very comely order amongst them they are Song 6.4 comely as Jerusalem Psal 4.1 2 3. Fair in situation the joy of the whole earth the City of the great King Now sin hath in the night crept in and there having got footing hath and doth mar al this glory and utterly dissipates all the peace and lovelinesse which was once theirs what by false teachers who do arise in and amongst the Churches speaking perverse things Act. 20.30 bringing in damnable errors even denying the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2.1 1 Tim. 4.1 and also often times the frailties of the Saints defiles their bodies and souls by reason of sin This my sin hath caused that the enemies without take occasion to blaspheme and the brethren within are often scandalized and grieved The Churches in the Apostles daies had woful experience of the sad work and spoil sin did make amongst them look on Corinth how they were infested and Galatia Philippi that they were removed to another Gospel see in the seven Churches of Asia Rev. 2.3 chap. and there you shall find sin eating out the very heart and life of God amongst the Churches for amongst them were bitter envyings strife and reproach that as the Prophet saith Every man hunted his brother with a net Philip. 1.15.16 1 Cor. 1.11.12.13 Mich. 7.1.2 those that were their guides they became vain talkers and deceivers of the minds of the simple even to the subverting of whole houses Tit. 2.10.11 teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre sake so that nothing but rottenness and putrifaction did appear Isay 1.2.3.4.5 the grace of God turned into wantonness the holy liberty of the Gospel made a cloak of maliciousness Iude 4. 1 Pet. 2.16 and all manner of filthiness so that iniquity was established amongst them by a Law Rev. 2.4.5.14.15.20.21.22.23 Rev. 3.15 to 20. Psalm 94.20 and so come to have their faces made harder then a stone Ier. 5.3 hated to be rebuked and reformed Psalm

Nathans Parable SINS DISCOVERY With it's Filthy Secret Lurking in the brest of Men. OR Some few Discoveries what the sinfulness of Sin is and spoile it hath made on man in nine particulars With The Sad experience of it on the Author written if it may be to warn all men especially the Saints to take heed and to beware of Sin WITH A Letter written to his Excellency the Lord General CROMWELL By Edmund Chillenden Lam. 3.1 I am the man that have sinned and for that have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath Heb. 4.12 13. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of Sin Printed at London 1653 To all the Congregations of Saints walking in the faith and Order of the Gospel in England Ireland and Scotland Precious hearts I Have a sad theam to present you with it is of sin and the sad effects it hath produced in the world especially on man and in particular on my self so that I may say in the words of the Prophet Lam. 5.16 The Crown is faln from my head wo unto me that I have sinned for nothing but mischief hath attended me yea destruction and ruine in all things that can be thought of here below and were it not but that God who I have so offended had appeared to me indeed as the Apostle saith Eph. 2.4 Rich in mercy and in great love infinite and beyond all expression I had for ever perished and been punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power Thess 1.5 for I deserved no less so that truly I have experienced that good saying of the Apostle That where sin hath abounded grace hath much more yea exceeding much more abounded Rom. 5.20 Oh rich grace rich grace and great mercies and loving kindness they are past finding out they cannot be fathomed they are high they are deep they are long and they are broad so that I cannot but stand and admire what manner of love it is that he hath bestowed on me 1 Joh. 2.1 I have therefore sent to you these few lines that you may take heed and beware of sin for it is a most deceitful yea a most deadly cruel enemy for it maketh such spoile on a man where it gets footing that if mercy yea rich mercy and love from God do not step in to help it destroyeth soul and body good name relations and all that is neer and dear therefore take heed and beware of sin and take that good counsel of the Apostle 1 Cor. 16.13 Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Eph. 6.10 for if you do not sin will break in upon you and make grievous spoile and havocke For want of keeping this guard it hath broken in on me like an inundation of water and yet I thought once my mountain was so set and so strongly founded that it was not possible it could be moved Psal 30.7 when I was in my Tranquility and the candle of the Lord shone upon my head I said I would dye in my nest and multiply dayes as the sand I would spread my root by the waters I should flourish Job 29.3 18 19 20. all went well I had attained to some good progress in the knowledge of God and the practice of the things of God and I was now safe and my heart spoke a great deal of peace but behold when I thus slept the enemy sin came and stole in upon me and I will tell you how 1. First I grew a little cold and careless in the matters of God in those cold mad and distempered yeers 1647. and 1648. and then sin took occasion and by my base heart deceived me presently runs and layeth hold on me tempteth me and draweth me away Jon. 1.14 15 compare Rom. 7.11 and so hath slaine wounded and destroyed me 2. After that I was thus inticed my heart being by sin deceived then I became it's slave to serve it and this will be the case of every one that sin layeth hold of Now I must provide to lay alwayes for the carrying of it close and secret and here cometh vows oaths wishes execrations and all to save cover and hide this ugly companion sin 3. Then sin will seem very fair and smile on you flatter your heart and if he cometh once to be touched to be discovered and feareth he shall be dislodged he now will come with the help of his first-born the divel and belay you on every side First on the right hand and on the left under pretence of good towards God towards his wayes to thy self and relations For so have I found it that when I had some yeers since abandoned all the thoughts of any such thing and in July 1650. had earnestly besought the Lord for his favour and peace for my former evils and that he would now pardon and pass by my sin and hide his face from my sin the which he did and spoke much peace to me and did deliver my soul from the jaws of destruction when death had surrounded me I then did vow to the Lord to honour him and serve him all my dayes but there was more snares beset me For when in the yeer 1652. I was charged with evil by Master Thomas Halhead and his wife now behold how sin beset me and what alurements it layed before me to hide it keep it close and secret 1. Saith my base heart You are known to be a great professor of religion and if you make it known you are utterly lost in the hearts of all that are godly for a brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City Prov. 18.19 you shall never be in their affections againe 2. The name of God will be much dishonoured you must n t tell it in Gath nor publish it in Askelon lest the uncircumcised blaspheme you need not do it it is enough you have done it to God 3. The wayes of God that you profess which every man especially the Clergy which are great enemies to it and of you in particular watcheth to have somewhat to speak against it and dishonour it 4. Your own honour reputation and good name will utterly be lost and gone which as the wise man saith Eccl. 7.1 Is better then a precious ointment better then gold and silver Prov. 15.15 5. You are now in a capacity to do the poor people of God some good but that will utterly spoile you for ever 6. You will lose your place which is your lively-hood These and many more was my soul beset with and I was taken captive and so insnared consulting onely with my base heart that now I set my self with all my might to pursue these instructions that sin my base heart the divel and the world had layed before me but they