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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36329	Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague (anno 1665) answered in XIII directions / by Tho. Doolitel.	Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707.	1666 (1666)	Wing D1895; ESTC R35664	157,743	310

Tim. 3.13 But evil men and seducers wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived To encrease in Riches is not simply evil to encrease in Grace is surely good This increase is commanded 2 Pet. 3.18 But grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ It is commended 1 Cor. 1.5 In every thing ye are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge It is to be prayed for Luk. 17.5 Lord encrease our faith Col. 1.9 For this cause we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you and to desire you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding Vers 10. That ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitfull in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God But to encrease in sin and to grow in wickedness especially after men have seen Gods displeasure against sin in a wasting Plague is an evil to be lamented if we could with tears of blood When instead of adding grace to grace 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. they adde sin to sin to Drunkenness they add Adultery to Passion Malice to Malice Revenge Some men make such progress in sin by little and little till as all the little Channels meeting in one place become a common Sewer of all filthiness and impiety Sinks of sin and nasty dunghils of all uncleanness Let me premise these six particulars and I will pass to the proof of this first thing 1. That the Nature of man is wonderfully depraved and in all men except Christ equally sinfull For First All men are equally under the guilt of Adams first transgression Secondly All men are equally deprived of Originall righteousnesse Thirdly All men have equally the seeds of all sin in their nature all naturally prone to all sin Gen. 6.5 though by reason of the temperament of the body some men might be more inclined to one sin than to another yet all sin is seminally and radically in every mans nature all men by nature are equally tinder the curse of the Law deserve the wrath of God and equally liable to the torments of hell Ephes 2.3 2. That every sin that men commit is of a damning nature and though some sins in comparison of others might be called little sins yet in respect of the great God against whom they are committed no sin is small Though degrees of sin and inequality of sinning have greater degrees of torment and shall have inequality in sufferings yet eternall death is the wages of the smallest sin Therefore let no man think while I speak of the increase of sin that he is good because he is not so bad as others grow to be 3. That in the world there are severall sizes and degrees of sinners as in the Church there are severall sizes and degrees of believers In the Church there are Fathers Young men Children 1 Joh. 2.13 And Babes 1 Pet. 2.1 So there are severall sizes of sinners Some morall men some openly prophane some are great swearers and great drunk●rds Ringleaders to sin the Devils Lievetenants provoking others to sin and incouraging them therein Some are chief among sinners Luk. 19.2 Some drink in Iniquity like water Job 15.16 Some are drawn to sin and some draw sin to them and that as with Cart ropes Isa 5.18 some commit sin and tremble at it and some commit sin and rejoyce at it Prov. 2.14 some commit sin and are terrified at it when they have done it some commit sin and make a mock and sport of sin when they have done it Pro. 10.23 14.9 some commit sin with great remorse and reluctance and others commit sin with as great and eager greediness Eph. 4.18.19 A dreadfull text Having the understanding darkned being alienated from the Life of God through the Ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart vers 19. Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness These are sinners of a great Magnitude if you weigh the things spoken of them 1 Having their understandings darkned The word doth either signify the faculty it selfe or the ratiocination or reasoning of the understanding and it is true in both respects their understandings are dark and ignorant and their reasonings are dark and obscure 2 Being alienated from the Life of God i. e. That Life that God commands and approveth they are too much acquainted with a sensuall flesh-pleasing swinish life but they are utter strangers to an holy self-denying sin-mortifying Life because of the ignorance that is in them as a bruit doth not know the life of reason so sinners are ignorant of the Life of God 3 Because of the blindness more properly the hardness of their heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This word is sometimes rendred blindness sometimes hardness because they are conjunct a blind heart is a hard heart and a hard heart is a blind heart it signifieth the thick skin that covereth the palmes of the hands of hard labourers that they can handle nettles and in that part of their hand have no feeling of the stingings as others are sensible of There is a thick skin hath over grown the hearts of some sinners that they are 4 past feeling unsensible as a stone who are said to have their consciences feared as with an hot Iron But though they feel not their sin here they shall feel the torments due for sin in the life to come The hideous howlings and gnashings of teeth amongst the damned speak plainly that they feel the punishment of sin 5 Have given themselves over to lasciviousness sometime sinners are said to sell themselves to work wickedness as Ahab 1 King 21 2● sometimes are said to give themselves to wickedness which denotes their constancy and complacency in working wickedness as when St. Paul commanded Timothy to give himself to reading he saith Give thy self wholly to them 1 Tim. 4.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be thou in these things a mans heart is in those things he is given to a Schollar that is given to his Book a drunkard that is given to drinking when his cup is in his hand his heart is in the cup. He is in drink is our proverb when the drink is in him God and Christ should dwell in their heart but their heart is in their sin and sin is in their heart 6 To work They work at sin as for gain when it is the loss of the soul that will be the issue Sin indeed is a hard labour and greatest drudgery sinners work and damnation will be their wages they should be working out their salvation but they are working out their damnation they are Labouring for hell and taking pains to undoe themselves and what is it they are so much imployed in 7 In uncleanness in the extent and latitude of it working all manner of uncleanness and that 8