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A17917	Three sermons The former discouering a double and false heart, vpon the I. King. 21. 9. and 10. The second called, the blessednes of the righteous, vpon Psalm. 37. verse 37. The third, the court of guard, or watch of angels: I, Sam. 17. 37. By Nathaniel Cannon, Preacher of Gods Word at Hurley in Berkeshire.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1616 (1616)	STC 4578; ESTC S117074	22,426	70

if God doe not stay vs. Sinne will begin to possesse that man that doth not resist it and break it of in time for it enters in three waies as one of the learned obserues 1. Blandiendo first 3. Degrees in a course of sin it smiles vpon vs like the strumpet Prou. 7. 2. Delectando Secondly it takes away our hearts as Absolom would steale away the hearts of the people 2. Samuel 3. Regnando Thirdly it takes possession like the strong man n Luke 11. then whose are we vntill a stronger come and cast him out thus the wicked they decline sinne per omnes casus Innominatino per superbiam in genitiuoper luxuriam in datiuo per Symoniam in accusatiuo per detractationem in vocat●to per adulationem in ablatiuoper rapinam and yet for all these Iezabel and her crew are certainely perswaded that they can sinne and not be seene 1. Reasons for the progresse of sinne Sinne groweth in the heart as the child doth in the wombe for as the infant hath his increasings euen by degrees vntill he come to see the light and bee borne into the world according as Iob hath it o Iob 10.10.11 Thou hast powred me out as milke and turned me into curds like cheese thou hast clothed mee with skinne and flesh thou hast ioyned mee together with bones and sinewes So is it with the vngodly man his beginnings were but euill imaginations which hee neuer resisted then afterwards out of the abundance of his heart his mouth spake either falsely furiously or fainedly which he neuer repented and then at length he becomes all these and acts any part of wickednesse whatsoeuer Reason 2 The iudgements of God are vpon such men as neuer made conscience of lesser sinnes by meanes whereof they are at length giuen ouer to a reprobate sense and become past feeling which the Apostle notes p Rom. 1.28 that as they haue not regarded to know God so the Lord hath giuen them vp to their owne hearts lusts to worke all maner of wickednesse and this comes first of all by the little or no account that we make of sinne Bernard Tract de de gradibus hum at first this as that father noteth vpon the point of excusing or extenuating sinne when sinne is found out and the question is who hath done it the sinner answereth Nonfaeci if that will not serue the turne but that it be proued then t is turned Si faeci non male faeci if the euill be proued then it is translated si male faeci non multum male if the qualitie and quantitie be proued then it hath a fourth euasion si multum male non male intentione if good or euill intents bee by diuinitie confuted then our last refuge is aliena tamenfaeci perswasione and thus we spin out iniquitie and giue it sucke from such a brest of mainetenance and excuse as if it were very lawfull to doe euill Let vs therefore descend vnto the life of this doctrine that is to shew our vses and applications Vses 1. All these proofes reasons examples and illustrations doe eccho foorth vnto vs this first vse Principijs obsta looke to the beginning of euil kill sinne in the neast before it bringeth foorth for it hath a cursed ofspring thou must set a watch ouer thy mouth as Dauid saith q Psalm 39. thou must make a couenant with thine eies r Iob. ●1 thou must examine thine hart s Psalm 4. if it be a proud hart at the first it wil after spawne foorth into a false heart if become a false heart it will not bee long before it be a cruell heart if it grow to be a cruel heart a little time will make it a hard heart if it be hardened then surely the next degree must needs be a reprobate sense the very iudgement that God suffers the most vngodly to fall into O then stay the beginnings of wickednesse and follow the deuine counsell of thy Christ who wisheth thee to look vnto thy members and if thine eie offend thee to pluck it out if thy hand offend thee to cut it off that is cut or take away that sinne that groweth by meanes of thine eie or thy hand and doe it in time least with the leprosie it run further and further Amongst the many diseases or maladies that happen vnto mans body there is one that they call by the name of Gangren The Gangren which doth affect altogether the ioynts and the present remedy thereof is immediatly to cut off that first ioint which is first affected or else it presently taketh another and so from that vnto a third vnlesse it be thus ordered by decision this is the nature of sinne which vnlesse it bee cut off in the motion proceedeth vnto the action from the action vnto delectation Aristot log Habitus est difficulter mobilis a subiecto from delectation vnto assuefaction or custome from that vnto a habite neuer to bee remooued a dangerous leprosie both for infection and dispersion vnlesse there be a timely preuention Let this bee considered in all our temptations vnto sinne Thetheefe if it be vnto stealth we begin with a pin then a point then a shilling then a pound at length any thing O let the young thiefe take heede of an olde iudgement vnlesse hee repent and leaue that sinne It may bee they haue escaped many times and that emboldens them but hee that leades them will neuer leaue them vntill they are left vnto the law both of God and man vnles they stay these beginnings by true touch of conscience The adulterer doth not presently fall vpon the bed to commit wickednesse The adulterer but first his eye sends a message to his heart his heart giues consent vnto the action and then the time and place purpose is concluded whereas if the eye went single the whole body would haue bene single and that first restraint would cut off the cursed consequents that alwaies do proceede from that sinne The lyar The lier Mendacium perniciosum officiosum ioco sum who kills his owne soule and vents falshoods of al sorts sometimes to destroy a Brother as these false witnesses did against Naboath sometimes out of their pretended charitie to saue anger or preuent displeasure sometimes out of the olde wiues Calender tell strange and merrie lyes fables of great antiquitie and no lesse iniquitie all these lies had their beginning which should haue beene suppressed at the first but for want thereof maketh the ingredient so perfect that a man cannot beleeue one word that commeth out of his mouth and if it happen that such a man speake truth which is but sildome yet it is not beleeued and it is iust vpon a lyer speaking trueth but sildome neuer to be beleeued O then season thy mouth at first with trueth for thy God is a God of trueth and in that thou hast not preuented this sinne in time