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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69075	Christian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1611 (1611)	STC 4707.5; ESTC S118584	158,929	324

man and especially they of best spirits is of knowledge he surmiseth vnto them a great increase thereof Whereas we ought to remember that which Moses saith that the secrets of the Lord are to himselfe Deut. 29.29 and that the things he hath reuealed are to vs and to our children Hauing heard of the outward causes of the fall what are the causes that rise from our parents themselues They are either outward things of the bodie or the inward affections of the minde moued by them What are the outward things of the bodie They are the abuse of the tongue and of the eares whereof hath been spoken or of the eyes and of the taste which are here mentioned For in that it is said it was delectable to looke on the eyes are made an instrument of this sinne and in that it was said it was good to eate the taste is made to be an instrument of it How could Eua tell it was good to eate which neuer had tasted it She knew it by the beautifull colour it was so for if we be able in this darknesse we are fallen into to discerne commonly by the sight of the fruit whether it be good and especially the Simplists in Physick by the colour only of the herbe to tell whether it be hot or cold sweete or sower how much more were Adam and Eue who had the perfection of the knowledge of those things more then euer Salomon himselfe What learne you from these outward instruments of the bodie That which the Apostle warneth Rom. 6. that we beware that wee make not the parts of our bodies weapons of iniquitie for if without a circumspect vse of them they were instruments of euill before there was any corruption or inclination to sinne how much more dangerous will they be now after the corruption vnlesse they be well looked vnto What more particularly learne you out of them Of the tongue that as it is a singular blessing of God whereby man excelleth all the creatures vpon the earth so the abuse of it is most dangerous because it setteth on fire the whole course of nature Iames 3. and it is set on fire of hell What of outward senses That they are as it were windowes whereby sinne entred into the heart when there was no sinne and therefore will much more now the heart being corrupted What learne you from thence First that we must shut them against all euill and vnlawfull vse of their obiects and open them to the vse of good things and make a couenant with them as Iob did with his eyes Iob 31.1 by a strong and painfull resistance of the euill that commeth by the abuse of them Matth. 5. as it were cut them off and throw them away as our Sauiour giueth counsell Secondly that as the senses are more noble as the hearing and sight called the senses of learning so there should be a stronger watch set vpon them those being the senses that Adam and Euah were especially deceiued by What obserue you of that it is said She saw that it was desireable for knowledge That was only her error which she hauing begun to sip of by communication with the Diuell did after drink a full draught of by beholding of the beautie of the fruite and receiuing the delicate taste thereof And withall how we can heape reasons true and false to moue vs to follow our pleasure What learne you from thence That the heart inclining to error doth draw the senses to an vnlawful vse of them and that the abuse of the senses doth strengthen the heart in error What gather you hereof That before the heart was corrupted there was no abuse of these outward senses but that being corrupt the abuse of them doth set the heart deeper in error What was the effect of all these outward and inward meanes The eating of the forbidden fruite which was the sinne that brought the fall What obserue you in that she gaue it also to Adam to eate The holy Ghost thereby by a special word of amplification doth aggrauate the sinne against her What learne you from thence First the nature of sinners to draw others to the condemnation they are in as Satan Euah and Euah her husband euen those that are neerest them whose good we should procure Secondly that wee should take heed of that the Apostle warneth vs not to communicate vnto other mens sinnes as if wee had not enow of our owne to answere for which especially belongeth vnto those in Charge Thirdly how dangerous an instrument is an euill and deceiued wife which the Lord commandeth men should beware to make choice of and if the man which is strong much more the woman What learne you of that Adam eat forthwith First that which hath been before noted that the Diuel by one of vs tempteth more dangerously then in his owne person so that Satan knew he could not haue deceiued Adam by himselfe as by Euah Secondly for that in excesse of loue he yeelded it teacheth husbands to loue their wiues but it must be in the Lord as the wiues must doe their husbands Hitherto of the former part of this chapter touching the sinne of Adam Now let vs come to the other of the things that follow the sinne It followeth that their eyes were opened and that they saw themselues naked Why were they not naked before and hauing the eye sharper then after the fall must they not needs see they were naked It is true howbeit their nakednes before the fall was comely yea more comely then the comeliest apparell we can put on being clad with the robe of innocencie from the top of the head to the sole of the foote wherefore by nakednes hee meaneth a shamefull nakednes both of soule and body as the Scripture speaketh otherwhere Reuel 3. What gather you from thence That the lothsomnes of sinne is hidden from our eyes vntill it be committed and then it flusheth in the faces of our consciences and appeareth in it proper colours Was that well done that they sewed figge-tree leaues to hide their nakednes In some respect for as much as they sought not a remedie for the nakednes inward it was not well but that they were ashamed to behold their owne nakednes of the bodie it was well for in this corrupt and sinfull estate there is left this honestie and shamefastnes that neither we can abide to looke on our own nakednes and shamefull parts much lesse vpon the shamefull parts of others although it be of those that are neerest ioyned vnto vs. What gather you from thence First that those that can delight in the beholding either of their owne nakednes or the nakednes of any other haue lost euen that honestie that the sinfull nature of man naturally retaineth Secondly that such as for custome sake haue couered their nakednes with clothes doe notwithstanding with filthie words as it were lay themselues naked are yet more wretched and deeplier poysoned with