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A05558	An heavenly chariot layde open for transporting the new-borne babes of God, from time infected vvith sin, towards that æternitie in the which dwelleth righteousnesse. Made up of some rare pieces of that purest golde which is not to bee found but in that ritchest thesaurie of sacred scripture. By M. David Lindsey, ministerr of Christs Evangel at Leith.	Lindsay, David, 1565?-1627.	1622 (1622)	STC 15683.5; ESTC S105377	59,418	81

I finde another lawe in my members Rom. 7.23.24 rebelling against the law of my minde and leading mee captiue unto the law of sinne which is in my members And after this bursteth he not foorth into that languishing complaint O wretched man that I am who shall deliver mee from this bodie of death Besides this O my Soule is not miserable man thus depryved of all righteousnesse and corrupted throughout in bodie and soule made a miserable Beggar beeing before so great a Monarch that hee hath no title to anie of the creatures of GOD so that beeing out of CHRIST the verie meate which hee eateth the verie cloathes which cover his nakednesse the verie aire which hee breatheth into c. shall procure his condemnation suppose hee sinned not otherwayes against his GOD. But which is moste lamentablie miserable O my Soule not onelie is man thus depryved of good and corrupted with evill made a miserable Beggar but a monstrous Slaue yea a Slaue unto a fearfull Slaue even unto Satan that evill one who not onelie lodgeth but even worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes 2.2 fighting against man by those his ugliest champions Sinne the Worlde Death and the Graue When shall this bee seene and perceived by us O my Soule Surelie could this bee seene Sinne should bee hated by us with an unfained hatred Satan should bee resisted by us as our onelie deadliest enemie Wee use to say O my Soule Burnt Bairne Fyre dreaddeth Hath not that fierie Dragon long agoe burnt us all alace in our first parentes Feele wee not even to this day the fearfull hurt which wee received by that burning Yea carrie wee not about with us goe where wee will the scarres and markes of that burning Should wee not then abhorre to looke to that Dragon to obey anie of his counsels were they never so apparantlie profitable or pleasant For albeit his coate appeareth somewhat to bee friendlie his heart shall remaine alwayes the heart of an irreconcilable Foe SCarre scarre O my Soule with sinne as thou lovest thy GOD and thy selfe for hath not thy GOD who loveth thee with a great loue with a wise loue tolde thee That whosoever sinneth against Him must not onelie receiue wages for his sinnes but besides his wages that boontieth which is due unto Sinne also The wages of Sinne O my Soule as thou knowest is Death Rom. 6.23 even that first death with all those diseases which leade a man unto it separating the soule from the bodie and the bodie from the soule and that second death banishing soule and bodie from the comfortable sight of Gods saving Face and gracious presence for ever and why wilt thou die thus O my soule The boontieth of sinne ô my soule is shame Rom. 6.21 procuring such confusion to man that he dare not lift up his head before GOD before Angels before Men unlesse in soule he bee senselesse both of his GOD and of his sinne This shame was that boontieth wherewith our Iust GOD propined our first parents the first sinners O my soule for howbeit Adam and Evah being free of sinne were naked altogether in respect of materiall naturall seene cloathes yet they were not ashamed but could stand before their GOD and looke one upon another with a good heart and chearfull countenance so glorious were they through the beautie of the Image of GOD which then covered them Alwayes O my Soule no sooner are they infected with Sinne by disobeying the Voyce of their GOD Gen. 3.7.8 but as soone they were so covered with Shame that they dare not looke upon GOD and are confounded while they beholde themselues VVOuldest thou bee freed O my Soule from that Death which is the Wages of Sinne and delivered from that Shame which is the bontieth of Iniquitie I beseech thee shake off that Shame which alace too manie misseled by Satan in this our Age are clogged with albeit it procure daylie matter of new death and greater shame unto them and with a good heart smyling countenance put thou on that Shame where-with too few alace in this our Age are covered albeit it bee able GOD beeing mercifull unto us not onelie to slay Death and shake off confounding Shame but also to procure quickening Grace and saving Glorie Alace O my Soule how manie with Vincentius the Hereticke beside Augustine in his fourtie-eight Epistle while they thinke shame to amende their Faultes thinke no shame to continue in their Faultes Corah with his companions lift up themselues against Mo●ses Numb 16. and Aaron A certaine space is graunted unto them to advise themselues about this their sinne But dare they not face the matter peartlie beeing as readie to present themselues upon the morrow before the LORD as Moyses and Aaron were What wonder then that our GOD just in all His Wayes cover them with Death and with Shame to their destruction who would not confesse their sinne and willinglie acknowledge That Death and Shame belonged unto them because of it to their conversion Fewe Sinners alace O my Soule in these our dayes with Moyses with David with Daniel with that Great Apostle Paul can acknowledge and confesse their sinnes crying yea crying aloude That Shame yea open Shame belongeth unto them and That Glorie and Righteousnesse belongeth to their GOD and therefore what wonder that amongst our Sinners there bee fewe who haue our Blessed GOD to looke their eyes with Moyses to put away their sinnes with David Deut. 34.6 2. Sam. 12. Dan. 9. 1. ●●m 1. to heare them with Daniel to receiue them to mercie with Paul Pronounce thy selfe heerefore O my Soule worthie of death because of thy sinnes that GOD through His CHRIST may receiue thee to Life Take the Coate of Shame to thee for thy sinne O my Soule to the ende that thy GOD for thy Saviours sake who for a while was covered with Shame for thee may cloathe thee with Grace heere and with Glorie heere-after for ever FOrget not forget not O my Soule to giue in a Bill of Complaint against thy selfe unto thy GOD accusing thy selfe condemning thy selfe before His Majestie for the secret sinnes committed by thee hid from the Worlde yet knowne by Him And with this forget not to giue in the like Bill against thy selfe before GOD before Angels yea before Men for thy manifest and knowne sinnes seene by that Sunne which shineth by day and not kept secret from that Moone which governeth the night For if thou O my Soule deceived by that olde cunning Deceiver vvho as yet taketh pleasure to deceiue shalt attempt to refuse for anie alluring promise can bee made unto thee for anie harming threatning can bee pronounced against thee to giue in those Billes against thy selfe to the ende that thou happilie judging thy selfe bee not justlie condemned with the Worlde I know one beeing taught of my GOD who will both peartlie and fearcelie giue in his Bill against thee ayming at no lesse than thy

perceiue that which thy blessed Maker would leade thee unto by that more than Majesticke Glorious Comfortable Oracle sounded by His Majesties Glorious Lippes while Hee is about to make Man for Himselfe after that Hee had made the other creatures for man Let us make Man in our owne Image Belieue mee O my Soule Could this Oracle never alace sufficientlie as yet considered by man bee rightlie weighed by thee thou wouldest learne to thinke lesse of the other creatures after the which alace so manie doate so miserablie yea by the which alace there is a verie worlde grosselie bewitched Yea thou wouldest learne to accompt of none but thy GOD yea not to attempt to loue thy selfe but for GODS cause and in so farre as thou findest thy selfe like unto Him What O my Soule Shalt thou bee made to see and heare if thou shalt compare the twentie sixe verse of the first of Genesis pointing at Mans Creation with the third sixt ninth fourteenth twentie and twentie foure verses of that same Chapter leading us to the Creation of the other creatures True it is O my Soule that all these were created by that same GOD by whome Man was also created yet they and Man are not brought foorth after one and the same manner for albeit our GOD being to create the Light the Firmament c. be content to say Let there be Light let there be a Firmament c. yet it contenteth not His wise mercifull Majestie when He is to make Man barely to say let there be a Mā but he must say Let us make Man to our owne Image Thus passing from the Creation of the other creatures to the making of Man not without speciall advise and deliberation as it were and yet heere thou must not thinke ô my Soule that thy powerfull GOD to whom all thinges are easie brought foorth Man with anie greater difficultie than He brought foorth the other creatures or that Hee doubted anie wayes about the making of Man but this is done by Him that hereby His wise Majestie one in substance three in Person Father Sonne and Holie Ghost might recommend to our consideration the excellencie and eminencie of Man beyond and aboue the other Creatures daining Himselfe to take a speciall consultation onelie about the making of Man as about His most excellent and glorious Worke. Shall these three sacred Persons of that incomprehensible Deitie after mature deliberation as it were concurre joyntlie and joyefullie for the making of Man and should not I O my Soule summonding all thy powers with all the members of my bodie after due advise charge them all to concurre for the loving for the seeking and for the serving of that blessed GOD againe crying aloude O my minde O my heart O my will O my whole affections and so ô my loue ô my hatred ô my feare ô my confidence ô my joy ô my sorrow ô mine anger ô my patience concurre to seeke Him concurre to serue Him who concurred to make you yea ô mine eyes mine eares my lips mine handes my feete and remnant members see you all concurre to withstand sinne the enemie of that GOD who with joye concurred to make you and to proue your selues alwayes to be His duetiefull servants who hath proved so gracious a Lord unto you MOurne Mourne ô my Soule when thou rememberest what I was from my GOD being created by Him in Adam and what I am now from my Father Mother having fallen with them in Adam was I not created to the verie Image of His Majestie being so righteous and perfect that in my whole minde heart and will yea that in all the powers of my soule and members of my bodie there was sufficiencie of strength and power whereby I was able to know my GOD to loue my GOD and my Neighboure according to that voyce of the Law Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soule Mat. 22.37 39 and with all thy minde And Thou shalt loue thy Neighbour as thyselfe And that without anie disorder rebellion or corruption and so without anie darkenesse in the minde frowardnesse in the will rebellion in the heart corruption in anie of the remnant powers of the soule or members of the bodie and being thus spirituallie beautified was I not beside this that great emperour greater than the Turke who styleth himselfe THE GREAT EMPEROVR having all the fowles of the Aire all the fishes of the Sea with all which is here on Earth to be found bound by the verie appointment of GOD to serve me yea most readilie willing by the force of His Majesties blessing accompanying me for to serue me But alace ô my soule as I am now from my parents having fallen with them in Adam I am deprived of that Image of my blessed GOD to the which I was made and so voyde of that righteousnesse wherewith I was then cloathed being shapen and fostered as Seth the son of Adam and Evah was shapen and fostered and how was that O my soule surelie in the sinnefull Image of his sinnefull parents so that now my soule is not simplie wounded through sinne but starke dead in sinnes and trespasses and therefore no wonder that our GOD who onlie knoweth perfectlie what harme sinne alace hath procured to us speake thus of man Genes 6.5 All the imaginations of mans heart are onlie evill continuallie And lest anie man should haue proved or should proue so peart as to apply that saying to these of that first world overthrowne by the Deludge it pleased our wise GOD O my soule after that Noah was brought foorth of the Arke to plenish the Earth againe to sound over againe his former Iudgement touching Man saying Genes 8.21 The imagination of mans heart is evill even from his youth Oh! ô my soule when shall wee learne to consider rightlie that third Chapter to the Romans by the which that Spirit of trueth describing man unto us as he is out of Christ and destitute of the grace of GOD proclaimeth him to be nothing but a verie masse of vilde and loathsome corruption yea is not this our originall corruption cleared unto us by the holy Scriptures so sensiblie that as wee are acquainted with that good which wee cannot possiblie doe because of it so we are informed anent that evill which we cannot but doe by reason of it 1. Cor. 2.14 2. Corin. 3.5 Roman 7.18 Roman 8.7 The naturall man perceiveth not the thinges of the Spirit of GOD neyther can hee know them because they are Spirituallie discerned Wee are not sufficient of our selues to thinke anie thing as of our selues I finde no meaues to performe that which is good The wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against GOD for it is not subject to the Law of GOD neyther indeede can bee Yea is not holie Paul couched under the tyrannie of this fearfull originall corruption where-with alace wee are infected O my Soule compelled to make this confession