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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86423	A treatise containing three things. Viz. [3 braces] 1. A discovery of the unsupportable burthen of sinne, to a heart that is saint-like sensible of sin. 2. The restlesse resolution of a soule to returne to God, who is saint-like sensible of his withdrawings. 3. A discovery of the sweet and unexpected entertainment that wandring hearts meet with in their returnes to God. / Written by Lieutenant Collonel Paul Hobson.	Hobson, Paul.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2276; Thomason E1479_3; ESTC R208731	63,513	154

that which is at this time most sencible in my heart to speake to you from what God hath spoke to me in my present Condition is three things The first is a discovery of the unsupportable Burthen of sinne when discovered by the light of Gods love Secondly The restles resolution of a Saint when he is Saint-like sencible of his withdrawing from God to turne to God Thirdly The gracious and sweet Entertainment the soule finds with God when that he is brought home And I shall declare it from three portions of Scripture The first from Psalme the 38. and the 4th verse the second from Psalme the 11 6th and the 7th verse The third from Luke the 15th and the 20th verse but I shall begin with the first at this opportunitie Psalme the 38. and the 4th verse For my Iniquities are gone over my head as a heavie Burthen they are too heavy for me DEare friends this Scripture I have formerly viewed and have formerly spoke something from it but I am now constrained to declare what God hath preached to mee for he hath been pleased thorough a discovery of my unsutablenes and my unkindnes by which he hath not onely broken my bones but he hath left no soundnes in my flesh I doe not meane by flesh fleshly nature but all the fleshlines of my owne Righteousnes by which formerly I refreshed my selfe with the sparkes of my owne performance and refreshed my selfe with the peace and tranquilitie I gathered from thence But now my wound is too large to be healed with such a salve but no more of that but to the words and in them you may consider in generall an affirmation wherein you may first consider the partic affirming that is David Secondly the affirmation it selfe that is twofold first That his iniquities are gone over his head Secondly They were a heavie burthen too heavie for him Thirdly You may consider the time when it was when God had shewed him so much of his own nothingnes that he had nothing left to live upon besides free love There was no rest in his Bones nor no soundnes in his flesh by bones and flesh wee are not to understand it naturally but spiritually and by flesh we are to understand it in a double sense according to these Scriptures Galatians the 5. and the 19 verse Gal. the 6. and the 12 verse Philippians the 3. and the 3 and 4 verses Deare friends wee might observe a Conclusion from the party affirming the affirmation it selfe and the time when and the manner how but wee shall draw up all into one Conclusion and that is this Doct. That sinne to a Saint like sencible heart is an unsupportable Burthen In the prosecution the Conclusion observe these foure things First the proofe of it by Scripture Secondly Consider what sin is Thirdly What a Saint-like sencible heart is Fourthly The reasons why sin to a Saint-like sencible heart is an unsupportable burthen First The Scriptures to prove the Conclusion are these In the first place view the Text which cleerly Confirmes the Truth of the Conclusion Further see Romaines the 7 and the 24 verse how Paul cryes out as a restles man under the sense of sin You may further see Psal 51. the 1 2 3. and 4 verses Jeremiah the 3. and the 25 verse Lamentations the 5. the 15 16 17 verses All which doe discover how unsupportable the Burthen of sinne is to a heart that is Saint-like sencible of sinne Deare friends wee need not much proofe to him that knowes it as I am confident every heart that is acquainted with God hath sufficient Experience of this to confirme it The daily heart-breakings in that soule who is sencible of his owne unkindnes by reading Gods kindnes doth demonstrate it But I shall adde no more but this That heart which needs Confirmation of this truth without himselfe and hath not a sufficient proofe within himselfe his Condition is sad Secondly let us Consider what sin is And in that Consideration wee will Consider three things First The nature of sinne Secondly The Concomitants of sin And Thirdly The Effects First What is sin the Apostle tells you in the first Epistle of John the 3 Chap. and the 4 verse That sinne is the Transgression of the Law had there been no Law there had been no sinne The variation from a Law is sinne To speake out the nature of sinne is almost as impossible as to speak out the nature of God For sinne in all things is contrary to God Whatsoever you can say of Darknes of Death of Hell and Devils you may say of sinne Sinne comprehends all and is one with either John in the Revelations tels us of the depth of Satans Temptation Revel 2.24 which Temptation peradventure is but the limbe of the least lust Oh! what a depth is there then in the whole body Whatsoever happines and glory is seene in Light the contrary is found in Darknes whatsoever content and freedome you finde in love Light the contrary misery and bondage you finde in Death but the perfections of all these miseries is comprehended in sinne as the body of them both That heart which is most sencible of sinne is not able to speake out the nature of sinne But I know that that heart which is Saint-like sencible of sinne and doth see sinne to present himselfe as it doth so ugly in his owne eyes thinkes sin can never be presented ugly enough and especially because they see that in sinning they doe not onely crosse Law but Love they do not onely pierce paper but the precious tenders of grace love Zech. 10. It is endles boundless to Anatomize the nature of that where not so much as nature dwels but is inslaved by it Secondly Consider the Concomitants of sinne There are many but I shall onely present so many of them as it at present in my owne view First It s that which drawes a darke Cloud over a mans eyes and hinders him in his cleare beholding of God Though a Christian hath never so glorious a view of divine Light Love that lives in God if God suffers that heart to be padling and medling with sinne and Darkness Isa 59.2 Psal 30.7 Cant. 5.2 3 4 5 6. and then the heart goes expecting to view God as before though God be as he was before an unalterable God yet there is a thick myst drawne upon the eye that he is like a man in a myst and knowes not where he is nor what he sees just like a man whose eyes are fixed upon the Sunne and there he beholds glorious objects than takes them off from that Sun and looks upon the Earth and then goes to looke up to the Sunne againe his eyes dazell that he can see neither Though it is true It is not the glory that we view in God that covers our eyes but rather the thick myst that intercepts our view of that unchangeable object And therefore the Example of

Ignoble that Reason in a naturall man were his eyes but open in his own Reason he would kick it out of doores It is a meere Jesuiticall Tyrant speaking faire to accomplish its owne ends and by it to bring the Creature to slavery and bondage The truth is if the people of Gods heart were often with God and fed upon those glorious noble and divine injoyments Sin would not finde so easie an entertainment in their hearts but they being so often abroad and so little at home I meane in their fathers house or rather in his heart is that which occasions many slips and falls by harkning to those deluding Intisements which afterwards will appear to be an unsupportable burthen Thirdly Consider most of all against whom you sin It is not onely against Law but against Love and against that deare Love which is your life Truly if the people of God had alwayes power from God to consider how injurious and unkinde they are to Gods heart when they shake sin by the hand they would have much more Resolution against sin and say as Ephraim What have I to doe any more with Idolls Hosea the 14. chap. and the 8. vers or say as Joseph Genesis the 39. and the 9. How can I doe this and sin against God or as the Apostle saith Roman the 6. the 1 and 2. I know it is not in the Creatures power to minde it selfe but I am sure when God gives power it is a great advantage to us and disadvantage to sin to weigh well the great opposition sin makes against the Comings in of Divine Loves nay how much it wounds the Lord Christ afresh Some thinke that the worst that even sin did was to bring Christ upon the Crosse but I must tell you though that was great yet know also that every time the people of God sin Heb. 6.6 Heb. 10.29 they doe as it were crucifie Christ afresh for Christ is as really crucified within us as he was upon the Crosse for us and therefore every time you sin know this that in your owne soule you accuse you arraigne condemne crown with thornes spit in the face and smite with the hand nay pearce and wound that dearly beloved unction that is come downe from God and truly had we but power to consider that indeared Love and Life that from God speaks to us nay that woes and intreats for Entertainment with us not to adde to it selfe but to advance us undoubtedly such thoughts would much conquer us and sin in us There are many other motives but I shall leave them onely take notice it is dangerous to be a Dydimus not to beleeve till you feele Take notice of this from what my soule knowes that sence will be very sad and the rather because there is no Reliefe when you are wounded but in that you have wounded by that which wounded you oh what will you say when you come for Reliefe from that deare heart and to draw life from those sweet Loves that you did no lesse then throw dirt in the face of oh if there be any of the people of God who are so farre deluded as under the notion of Liberty are run into loosnesse oh I beg nay I would beg with teares for them to consider from whence they are fallen and to remember their first Love Revela 2.4 5. It is possible some may be made so unsensible by their wanton sinning as that they may make a jest of these sayings As for such spirits I shall leave them desiring to see my selfe in them and so rather conclude with mourning then to spend time in dispute with all the objections that such may bring and shall onely give answer to two or three objections which are more common and accustomary yet like deceiving Object How can this be when as the Apostle Saint John in the first Epistle 3.9 saith he that is borne of God cannot sin Answ In my answer to this I shall not trouble you in rehearsing how often the Devill hath presented we with this Scripture to perswade me that the people of God cannot sin but my answer to this Scripture is briefely thus The same Apostle in the same Epistle chap. 1.8 verse saith that whosoever saith he hath no sin is lyar and deceives himselfe Therefore he doth not intend but that the people of God may and doe sin but it is true that in them which are borne of God in them I meane that Saintship or unction or anoynting or spirit of life which comes from God and is one with God that doth not nor cannot sin 't is true it cannot sin because it is borne of God We may as well say we can turne Heaven into Hell and turne light into darknesse as to turne that into sin or that to sin no deare hearts that is of another nature that 's Gods little one that is placed in us to justifie Wisdome Mat. 11.19 and to condemne folly and to breath out Love and Light in opposition to darknesse and 't is so far from being capable of joyning with sin that its proper worke is to arraigne accuse and condemne the old man which was in Paul though he was a childe of God Rom. 7.20 21 22 23 verses Now this unction * 1 Joh. 2.20 21. or this thing borne of God gives us the denomination of being the children of God but though it is the power of God in us to kill sin by the nature of it selfe yet it never did nor will turne sin into grace nor yet manifest so much in this life as to fill Saints with grace and free them from all sin but they must have some Canaanites and Hittites in their hearts * 2 Cor. 12.7 Now the people of God is a generall tearme and envolves the whole person either men or women in a Scripture-sence but that generall doth include at a new so an old Man and both in one subject * Rom. 7.21 22 23. The one to be pulled down and the other to be exalted one to dye and the other to live for it is Life now when the Apostle saith that which is borne of God cannot sinne he intends that principall of Life which lives in us and doth not include the whole man and when he saith he hath no sin he deceives himselfe and is a lyar he intends the old rotten Man in our forme which is in us and as to our fleshly part is one with us Object Where there is no Law there can be no sin but the people of God are by Christ freed from the Law and if freed from it then there is to them no Law if no Law then no sin Answ That Christ hath freed beleevers from the Law the Scripture is cleare but that Christ which hath freed us from a Law hath given a Law to us which he calls a new * John 13.34 1 John 2.8 Commandement but as the Law was in the hand of Moses a condemning and a