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B12161	The thankefull Samaritane In a sermon at S. Peters in Exeter, the sixth of August, Anno 1617. Being the day of the deliuerance of that citie from the rebels, in the dayes of King Edward the Sixth. At which time the Assises was also there holden. By Iohn Comyns Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, and minister of Gods word at Crediton in Devon.	Comyns, John, b. 1587 or 8.	1617 (1617)	STC 5614; ESTC S114489	17,113	24

iustly laid vpon the posteritie which he that was the common head of them all did commit or which they committed in him being originally in his loynes for as the Author to the Hebrewes saith that Leui paid tithes in Abraham Heb. 7.9 10. because he was yet in the loynes of his Father when Melchisedec met him euen so the guilt of Adams disobedience is made his childrens that then were in his loynes and thence proceeded by ordinary generation and by reason of this guiltinesse they are all lyable to temporall and eternall death according to the a Gen. 2.17 threatning of God and by nature the children of wrath according to the b Ephes 2.3 saying of the Apostle and damned before they be borne according to the speech of an ancient Diuine Neither doth the off-spring of Adam stand charged only with the guiltinesse of his disobedience but there is also secondly corruption deriued vnto them and that not by example or imitation only as the Pelagians erroniously maintayned but by generation propagation whereby their whole nature soule body is altogether defiled and disposed only to euill not to any thing which is good This in-bred leprosie of originall contagion Why the sinne of nature is termed Originall breakes forth into a running leprosie of actuall transgression in the children of Adam for it s termed by the name of originall sinne not only because it is ab origine euer since the fall of Adam nor only because it is cum origine bred in euery man in the wombe and brought with him into the world but also because it is origo the bitter roote of all the accursed fruits the poysoned fountayne of all the filthy and noysome streames of actuall sinnes Thus are we all Lepers and vnlesse we be cleansed shall for euer be excluded out of the heauenly Ierusalem into a Reuel 21.27 which no vncleane thing shall euer enter eternally separated from the presence of God and societie of glorious Angels and blessed Saints as the Lepers in the time of the Law must dwell alone See Leuit. 13. and not be admitted into the companie of those that were cleane Wil you know then how and by whom you may be made cleane againe and so escape that most fearefull and sin all exclusion and separation Christ alone cleanseth the spirituall leprosie Surely he which healed this One spoken of in the Text together with his nine companions and none but he is able to cleanse vs he alone is the Physicion and his bloud only is the medicine that can cure our sick and poysoned and wounded soules although there be nothing in vs but wounds See Esay 1.6 18 and swelling and sores full of corruption from the sole of the foot vnto the head and though we be dyed with a crimson and skarlet leprosie of sinne yet being washed by him Iohn 13.10 Psal 51.7 we shall be cleane euery whit and be made as white as wooll yea whiter then the snow in Salmon The Ceremoniall cleansing of the Lepers in the Law was a most excellent and liuely representation of this purging of our spirituall vncleanenesse by Christ who was the b Col. 2.12 body the substance and the truth of all Legall shaddowes and sacrifices whatsoeuer The Ceremoniall cleansing was on this manner the leprous person must be sprinkled with the bloud of a * Leuit. 14. slaine Sparrow wherein a liue Sparrow had been dipped Now what else was signified by that bloud but the bloud of Christ What else represented by the slaine Sparrow but the manhood of Christ which was slaine and offered a sacrifice for sin What else shaddowed by the liue Sparrow dipped in the bloud but the Godhead of Christ which could not be slaine yet being personally vnited and conioyned to the manhood was as it were dipped in the bloud thereof so gaue vertue vnto that bloud to purge sinne sith that by reason of this vnion it became accounted as the a Acts 20.28 Apostle cals it the bloud of God because it was indeed the b 1. Iohn 1.7 bloud of Iesus Christ the Sonne of God which cleanseth vs from all sinne So is Christ in an Allegorie the good Samaritane who voluntarily iourneyed from heauen to earth Reade Luke 10.30 c. to cure vs poore wounded robbed soules from whom the spirituall Theeues had taken away that rayment of righteousnesse and holinesse wherewith Almightie God in the creation adorned vs he saw vs with a pittifull eye of tender compassion he came vnto vs by his Incarnation he put wine and oyle into our wounds by a most gracious infusion he set vs on his owne beast and bare vs on his owne backe by his most bitter passion he brought vs to the common Inne of the Church by effectuall vocation and he departing out of the world by his glorious Ascension committed vs to the Ministers of the Word with a solemne iniunction to take care of vs and tooke out his two pence his two Testaments his two Sacraments his two great Commandements his Word and his Sacraments which are the ordinarie meanes vnto saluation and finally he promised to recompence the faithfull and carefull Stewards of his house at his comming againe with a large remuneration He is the c Reuel 13.8 Lambe slaine from the foundation of the world d Iohn 1.29 The Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world e 1. Pet. 1.19 The Lambe without spot and without blemish by whose precious bloud we are redeemed and f Heb. 12.24 whose bloud speaketh better things then the bloud of Abel In a word as the Lepers here were healed by his power so can our spirituall leprosie be cleansed only by his bloud O then the vnspeakeable greatnesse of the admirable loue of a most mercifull Sauiour and a most compassionate Physicion who willingly was content when there was no other remedie left to be wounded himselfe that we by his a Esay 53.5 1. Pet. 2.24 stripes wounds might be healed to lay downe his owne life and to vnder-goe a most cursed and ignominious death that we might liue a most blessed and glorious life to shed his owne heart-bloud and to suffer the torments of hell that we might be saued from euerlasting destruction enioy the pleasures of heauen Greater loue then this hath no man saith b Iohn 15.13 Christ himself that a man lay down his life for his friēds No greater loue Why blessed Sauiour thou thy selfe didst shew greater loue then this in dying for vs not being thy friends but thy enemies as thy owne c See Rom. 8.10 Apostle witnesseth True indeed it is the highest pitch of mans loue when one friend layeth downe his life for another Christu● homo verus non homo merus but thou sweet Iesus being not a meere man but more then a man euen God and Man both didst commend and set forth thy loue

THE THANKEFVLL SAMARITANE In a Sermon at S. PETERS in EXETER the sixth of AVGVST Anno 1617. Being the day of the deliuerance of that Citie from the Rebels in the dayes of King EDWARD the Sixth At which time the Assises was also there holden By IOHN COMYNS Master of Arts of EXETER Colledge in OXFORD and Minister of GODS Word at CREDITON in DEVON 1. THESS 5.18 In all things giue thankes for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus concerning you LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1617. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MASTER IOHN SHEERE MAJOR of the Citie of EXETER I. C. wisheth the felicitie of both Worlds Grace in this life and glorie in the next SIR I Here present vnto your view what was first meditated by your appointment it had neuer beene penned but for you and therefore it doth of right appertayne vnto you I confesse that at the time of the deliuerie hereof the weakenesse of my memorie was such as neuer before I had experience of in a Pulpit by reason whereof I ouer-slipped many things And that was one speciall motiue that made me the more willing to commit it to the Presse that what was purposed and penned to be preached but through debilitie of memorie was not vttered with the mouth and therefore could not be heard with the eare might yet at length be seene with the eye If this poore labour of mine shall finde entertaynement with you as a testimonie of my thankefulnesse for your vndeserued kindnesse towards me and of that respectiue loue and louing respect I beare you and if it may be a meanes of the least good vnto any Christian soule into whose hands it shal come I haue enough And thus I commend you to God beseeching him to keepe you by his power through faith vnto saluation and will for euer rest Yours in all Christian dutie IOHN COMYNS THE THANKEFVLL SAMARITANE LVKE 17.15 16 17 18. 15. And one of them when he saw that he was healed turned backe and with a loud voice praised God 16. And fell downe on his face at his feete and gaue him thankes and he was a Samaritane 17. And Iesus answered and said Are there not ten cleansed but where are the nine 18. There are none found that returned to giue God praise saue this Stranger WHen Satan that old Serpent had stung our first Parents and in them had poysoned all their posteritie so that mankinde had receiued such a deepe and desperate wound as that it passed the skill and power of all the Angels of heauen and all the Creatures on earth to heale the same it pleased the great a Mat. 9.12 Physicion of the world to come downe vnsent for by wounded man from the height of heauen to the earth below to cure this otherwise incurable spirituall sore of the Sons of men that as they who were bitten with fierie Serpents in the dayes of Moses were preserued aliue by looking vpon that fierie brazen Serpent Num. 21.8 9. which Moses made and set vpon a pole by the commandement of God so all of those that had a spiritual eye of faith to looke vpon this true brazen Serpent who was lifted vp not only on the Crosse Iohn 3.14 but also by the preaching of the Gospel might not perish but haue life euerlasting And during the time of his continuance here on earth for the healing of mankindes grieuous wound he wrought also many miraculous cures on them that were diseased with bodily infirmities he opened the eyes of the blinde so that they were able to see and the eares of the deafe so that they were able to heare he loosed the strings of the tongues of the dumbe so that they were able to speake and strengthened the feete and ancle bones of the lame so that they were able to walke he rebuked the feauers and they left those who were sicke of them and healed the bloudie issue whereof the woman could not be made whole Marke 5.26 but as one Euangelist hath added became much worse though shee had suffered many things of many Physicions and had spent all that shee had finally he cleansed the Lepers as here in the Storie whence the Text is taken Now as the earthly Physicion must haue his fee when he hath finished his cure so is there a fee due vnto and expected of this heauenly Physicion Doe not thinke that siluer and gold or any worldly pelfe is the fee which he will be best pleased withall No no it s a matter of lesse cost to thee Thankfulnesse the heauenly Physicions fee. yet of more acceptance with him hee lookes to haue thankes for his paines that is his fee yet hath he cured many that haue not paid him here were ten Lepers cleansed and but one of them turned backe and praised God and gaue him thankes And therefore might hee iustly complaine of the detestable ingratitude of the other nine that hauing wrought on them so great a cure yet was denyed by them so small a fee. In this portion of Scripture I consider these two generall parts viz. 1 The euent of the miraculous healing of those Lepers viz. 1 The thankfulnesse of one 2 The ingratitude of nine 2 The euent of that euent viz. 1 Christs complaint of the great ingratitude of nine 2 Christs approbation of the thankfulnesse of one And one of them c. What this one thankefull Samaritane and the other nine vnthankfull Iewes were bodily that are we al spiritually to wit infected with the leprosie of sinne it s a disease hereditarie wherwith we are all possessed euen from our conception and birth Psal 51.5 He was a Saint that confessed himselfe to be conceiued and borne a sinner and if we will beleeue S. Suscepit Dauid personam generis humani Aug. in Loc. Austine he did in that confession take vpon himselfe the person of all mankinde so that all that euer descended from Adam by the ordinarie course of naturall generation are infected with an in-bred spirituall leprosie as soone as euer they are conceiued in the wombe and it may truely be said of them all that they were ouer-spred with the darknesse of sinne euen while their Mother kept them warme in her wombe before they came forth to see the light of the world and were dead in sinne and wickednesse before euer they drew the breath of life in the world and that they were no sooner naturally conceiued men but they were also conceiued spiritually leprous men and that they receiued life and sinne in one moment the first from God their iust Creator the other from Adam their sinfull Progenitor The Apostle doth plainly auouch so much when as he saith that in Adam all haue sinned How Rom. 5.12 16 19 but by drawing from him guiltinesse of nature and corruption of nature First guiltinesse because all stand charged with Adams disobedience in the first moment of their conception as if it had beene their owne that being