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A01281	Englands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho: Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1615 (1615)	STC 114; ESTC S100411	68,934	100

shaken off till death shall at once deliuer that to death vs to life For though with the mind I delight in the law of God yet I see another law in my members rebelling against the law of my minde and bringing me vnto captiuity to the law of sinne His companie is wearisom his sollicitings tedious to the virgine-daughter of Sion Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliuer mee from the bodie of this death I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. So then with the minde we serue the Law of God but with the flesh the law of sinne He will perpetually vrge his sute and not after many reiections be said nay Thy soule cannot be rid of him so long as thou holdest him in any hope of successe And so long he will hope as thou giuest him a cold and timerous deniall Sutours are drawne on with an easie repulse take that as halfe granted that is but faintly opposed In whom this wooer preuailes least he wearles him with importunity till a peremptory answere hath put him out of hart The wauering and weakely-resisting spirit cannot sleepe in the Chamber of quiet whiles innumerable lusts which are the sollicitors and spokesmen of the flesh beate at the dore with their earely knockes pressing more impudently for audience then instruments of villany to Machianell or wronged Clients to an Aduocate Remisse answeres prouoke his fiercer attempts He is shamelesse when he meetes not with a bold heart He thinkes that though Pugnabit primò fortassis improbe dicet Pugnando vinci se tamen illa volet Though at the first the Soule refuse to yeelde Shee meanes on further strife to loose the field Onely resolution can make him giue backe giue ouer His insinuations are many 1. by promises Pollicitis diues He is neither a begger nor a niggard in promising They are the cheapest chaffer a man can part withall 2. By tedious and stintlesse sollicitations as if time could win thee Quid magis est durum saxo quid mollius vnda Dura tamen teneris saxa cauantur aquis The stone is very hard the water soft Yet doth this hollow that by dropping oft As if the strongest sort were not long able to holde out 3. By shadow by reall proffers of friendship Tut a frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen It is a safe and common way by name of friendship to shew false play It was not mine enemy sayth Dauid but my familiar friend that did mee the mischiefe 4. By tendring to the soule pleasing and contentfull obiects as if non vincere possit Flumina si contra quàm rapit vnda na●et The flouds would easily master him If he against the streame should swim Therefore he formes his insidious baites to our inclinations diuersifieth his lusts according to the varietie of our humours Hic Procus innumeris moribus aptus crit This Wooer can vary his Protean formes obserue all straines reserue and conceale his owne till hee bee sure that the pill he giues will worke This Sutour is dangerous and preuailes much with the soule a handsome fellow if you plucke off his skin for this saith Saint Iude is spotted all ouer A virgin well natur'd well nurtur'd that sets ought by herselfe will not fasten her loue on a lazar leper or vlcerous Moore Why then Oh why should the soule so heauenly generate thus become degenerate as to wed her affections to the polluted flesh God indeed once married the soule to the body the Celestial to a terrene nature but to the lusts of the body which Paul cals the flesh he neuer gaue his consent This clandestine match was made without the consent of Parents of God our Father of the church our mother therfore most sinnefull most intollerable Cashier then this sawey Sutour who like some riotous yonger brother with some great heire promiseth much both of estate and loue but once married and made Lord of all soone consumes all to our finall vndoing He breakes open the Cabinet of our heart and takes out all the Iewels of our graces and stintes not his lauisning till he hath beggerd vs. This is the third Sutour 4 The last and best and onely worthy to speed is Iesus Christ. What is thy beloued more then another beloued O thou fayrest among women Say forraine Congregations to the Church To whom she answeres My beloued is white and ruddy he hath an exact mixture of the best colours arguments of the purest and healthfullest complexion The chiefest among ten thousand Infinitely fayrer then all the sonnes of men who alone may beare the standerd of comely grace and personall goodlinesse among all His head is as the most fine gold the Deitie which dwelleth in him is most pure and glorious His lockes are curled and blacke as a Rauen his godhead deriuing to his humane nature such wondrous beauty as the blacke curled locks become a fresh and well fauoured countenance His eyes are like doues c. who will let him there reade and regarde his graces His name is as oyntment powred forth therefore doe the Virgins loue him He hath 1 a rich Wardrobe of righteousnesse to apparrell vs 2. a glorious house a City of golde to entertaine vs whose foundation is Iasper and Saphire and such precious stone the least of them richer then ten Escurials 3. His Ioynture is Glory Ioynture I may call it for so we are with him ioin'd heires though not ioyn'd purchasers If the house of this World be so esteem'd wherein God lets his enemies dwell what is the mansion hee hath prouided for himselfe and his Spouse the daughter of Sion● 4. His fruition is sweet and blessed ob eminentiam ob permanentiam for perfection for perpetuity a Kingdome and such a one as cannot be shaken which no sinne like a polliticke Papist shal blow vp no sorrow like a turbulent Atheist shal inuade This Sutour is onely beautifull onely bountiful let him possesse your soules which with his bloud he bought out and with his power brought out from Captiuitie for him am I deputed wooer at this time for as though God did beseech you through vs wee pray you in Christes stead bee yee reconciled to God who would faine ● present your soules pure Virgins to Iesus Christ Forbeare the prostitution of them to any rauisher to any sinne For peccare to sinne in the literall word is to commit adulterie quasipellicare id est cum pellice c●ire Christ layes iust Title to you giue your selues from your selues to him you are not your own vnlesse you be his We haue heard the Daughter of Sion described qua sit let vs now heare cu●us sit the daughter of my people saith the Lord. God was pleased with that Title the God of Israel His owne Scriptures frequently giue it him Ierem. 32. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel c. The children are vsually called after the name of then

health and he now stands surer by his first fall Such is the greatnesse and goodnesse of God such his power and mercy concurring that it workes health out of sicknesse good out of euill There is an infinite Good but not an infinite euill For the Good cannot by any meanes be diuerted into euill but the euill may be converted to good By the conspiracie of Iewes Gentiles Iudas Deuils against Christ is our saluation wrought From the horridst and most vnnaturall treasons God hath aduanced his owne glory aduantaged his childrens security We labour of three diseases birth life death all these are cured by those three answerable in Christ. Our vncleane birth is sanctified by His so pure from the least spot of sinne Our transgressing life is reformed by the vertue enformed by the example of His. That tyrannizing wounding Serpent Death hath the sting pulled out by His death that we may embrace him in our secured armes The Conquerour of vs all is conquered for vs all by Him that foiled the Gyant in his owne denne the Graue Thankes be to God which giueth vs the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ. Oh death where is thy sting Oh graue where is thy victory This is our insultation and holy triumph Prouided euer that He be beleeued of vs that hath thus relieued vs. Beleeue and feare not A good conscience is neuer faild of a good confidence of a good consequence Hence ariseth the soules sanity What can indanger in dammage this health no losses to the estate no crosses to the flesh The spiritually-sounde man values all the fortunes of the world lesse then the freedome and health of the mind Hee that wants this armour is wounded by euery blow of affliction Other security is but a shield of waxe against a sword of power They cannot chuse but feare euen where no feare is and testifie their inward guilt and sicknesse by their pale and trembling lookes Timida nequitia dat testimonium condemnations semper praesumit saeua perturbata conscientia Fearefull wickednesse giues testimony of it owne damnation and the troubled conscience imposeth and presumes to itselfe terrible things but the health of faith is health indeed yea this health is life a life Angelical a life Euangelical whether for obedience or peace inspired spirited sealed assured by the word of Truth Which is life to all that find it and health to all their flesh No feare shall inuade him no troubles inuolue him so that he cannot be extricated For the feare of the Lord tendeth to life and he that hath it shall not be visited with euill His innocency may speed in the world as deserts in a lottery be rewarded with a blank But he in whom he affies shall put the marrow of health into his bones distill the sap of grace inio his spirit Low in the world lowly in himselfe in his estimation who sees not that the clambring goates get vpon rockes and promontory places whiles the humble sheepe feed in the bottomes and deiected vallies Onely one day the Sheepe shall bee aduanced aboue the Sunne and starres and set in heauen with Christ when the goates shall be cast downe to the depth of depthes Rich Diues was well enough knowne to the world yet nameles in the sacred Records So we brand our sheepe let the Goates goe vnmarked God sets his seale on his chosen Nouit qu● sui sunt lets the wicked run without his cognisance Thus different is the state of Gods seruants and the worlds slaues They thinke none sicke but wee wee know none sicke but they If equall crosses befall vs both our estate is soone descried Wee differ as the Cammell and the Camomell the one is stunted the other thriues by his burthen Afflictions that so scatter them and loosen the ioyntes of their vaine hopes doe more knit and consolidate our healthes As soone as they take themselues it is as easie to proue as to reproue their diseases Though I confesse in the dayes of their Iouialty hee hath greate wisdom that can make them sensible of their sicknes Were Solon nay Salomon aliue to declare it they see t not ' they will not feele it If the want of health were perceiued how amiable admirable would the benefit appear Gratior est saint as redita quā retenta vix aliter quā perdendocognoscimus Returning health is more welcome then if it had not beene lost We scarse know what health is but by the want Let others spend their times wits treasures to procure health to their bodies which I embrace when it is offered and would not loose by my owne errors giue mee a sound and cleare conscience and let mee not want this health till I enuy theirs 2. Thus hauing enquired what health is leauing a while the consideration therof as it is in it selfe let vs descend into it as respectiuely casting an oblique eye vnto that which is diuers from it or aduerse to it There is a significant and lightfull demonstration or commentarie which one contrary nature giues to another when they are diametrally opposed The day would not seeme so cleare if the departing Sunne should not leaue night to follow it The foile addes grace to the Iewell It no lesse then glorifies learning that the malitious tong of ignorance barkes at it He knowes the benefite of heate that hath felt the sharpenes of a freezing colde If there were no sicknesse to trouble vs health it selfe would be thought sicknesse The very enmity of these repugnances helpe the beholders iudgement eyther to embrace or reiect them Euen their opposition is an exposition of their natures deformity darknes sicknesse sinne all those priuatiue corruptiue destructiue things which as they had no creation from God so giue no direction to the good yeeld by a sober meditation an vnwilling lustre to those vertues graces and happy habites against which they vaunt their contrariety That if any lewde vaine ill iudging worse affecting mind shall still loue the desolation of sinne rather then the consolation of spirituall health it may appeare to bee not because this obiect is not wretched but because hee is blind and bewitched There is a twofolde Sicknesse incident to man 1. in sinne 2. for sinne The former of these is only spiritual the latter is not onely corporall but sometimes spirituall also and of all the Vials of Gods wrath holden to the mouth of miserable men by the hand of iustice it is the forest when sinne shall bee punished with sinne and the destitution of grace shall permitte a lapse to impenitency 1 The Sicknesse in sinne is double according to the cause which is a defect either of right belieuing or straight liuing a debility of confidence a sterility of good works lacke of faith wracke of charity These effects or rather defects are produced by two errors in our Soules diet the one excessiue the other deficient 1. By Fasting too much from Christ 2. By feeding too much on