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sin_n	believe_v	forgive_v	forgiveness_n	3,528	5	10.5756	5	false

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A26702	The best of remedies for the worst of maladies, or, Spiritual receipts and antidotes for the preservation of a plague-sick, sinfull soul wherein is shown, sin is the cause and repentance the cure of the pestilence / seasonably published by a lover of peace and truth ..., R.A.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing A983; ESTC R10719	150,980	258

will be then the damnation of my soul These few things among many others may if seriously pondered upon be an effectual means to work thy heart to this hatred and detestation of sin and a loathing of thy self for the same which as it will evidence the truth of thy repentance so will it be an excellent preservative against the now pestilential destroying Sickness Now when the sight and sence of thy sins hath wrought thy soul to a kindly mourning and sorrowing for the same before the Lord and that for all kinds and sorts of sins to wit 1. The weaknesses frailties and pollutions of thy nature even thy proness and inclination to sin for though these being unconsented unto are no actual sins yet are they matter of true sorrow grief and humiliation to a sincere Christian that he is such a polluted and unclean creature and so apt to fall into all sin if he be not restrained and prevented by Gods grace 2. For the sinful acts and habits of thy unregenerate life with all the aggravations belonging to them 3. The slips and relapses of thy most regenerate life and the infinite frailties and infirmities that still adhere to it And that thy soul is wrought also to a real hatred and destation of all sin so that now thou beginest to loath sin as a thing not onely hurtful but ugly and abominable a soul and beastly thing and that which is most contrary not onely to the pure and unspotted essence and being of God but also contrary to and unbefitting the nature and excellency of a reasonable creature as man is I say when these gracious dispositions of soul of grief and hatred for sin are wrought in thee then wilt thou not be ashamed from a contrite and wounded heart to make an humble confession and acknowledgement thereof before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father begging pardon and forgiveness for them Then wilt thou own thy self a vile sinner who hast worthily deserved his wrath then wilt thou make an ennumeration of the particular sorts of thy sins of which thou knowest thy self guilty Then wilt thou aggravate those sins upon thy self by all the circumstances and heightning accidents of them comprizing all thy unknown and unconfest sins under some such penitentiary speech and expression as that of Davids Who can tell how oft he offendeth cleanse thou me from my secret faults Psal 19.12 And as thou art to confess unto God and give glory unto him Josh 7.19 whom thou hast cheifly and principally offended so art thou commanded also to confess unto men James 5.16 Confess your faults one to another And that for these reasons 1. That so we may be capable of one anothers prayers 2. Because it may be our sins are such as have injured others and then confession unto them is the first degree towards reconciliation Matth. 5.24 Or if they be onely against God yet the confession of them to the Lords faithful Ministers and Servants will not be improper but in some kind necessary to such as desire the absolution and forgiveness of them Jam. 5.15 3. Because in sin there is the guilt and the corruption the one to be pardoned the other cured The first being confest to God to obtain his pardon ought also if it have been offensive and scandalous to the Congregation to be acknowledged to them that that expression of repentance may make satisfaction to them for the ill example and avert and deter from sin whom it had invited to it And surely the disclosing of the particular state of thy sinful sick soul and advising with others especially the Physicians of the soul how and by what means a cure may be wrought how a raging sin may be subdued the occasions and temptations to it avoided cannot but be very profitable comfortable and advantageous as to the prosperous constitution and health of thy soul The necessity of which confession and acknowledgement of sin will further appear not onely from the practise of David Psal 51.3 4. Psal 32 5. Ezra Chap. 9.6 7. Nehemiah Chap. 9.32 Job 40.3 Jer. 14.7 Daniel 9.4 5. and other holy men in Scripture but also from such express Texts of Scripture as these If we confess our sins God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all our unrighteousness 1 Joh. 1.9 I acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psal 32.5 So Prov. 28.13 He that covereth his Sins shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy And this leads me to the Third particular as that which will evidence the soundness and sincerity of our Repentance Thirdly If thy Repentance be sound there will be a willing forsaking and renunciation of all sin an abjuring of all thy former evil ways both of the sins themselves and the occasions which were wont to bring thee to those sins 1 Thess 5.22 For all thy fear and trembling at the wrath of God to come for sin thy sorrow for sin thy hating and loathing of sin will not make thy Contrition full and perfect unless thy will also do his part and resolve to forsake and leave it For true Contrition or dying unto sin is such a compunction of the heart for the same as is joyned with a purpose will and resolution to leave and forsake it The gratious soul will hate every false way Psal 119.104 and not tolerate or allow it self in any known evil or bosome corruption whatsoever Psal 18.23 It will not say as Lot said of Zoar Is it not a little one Gen. 19.20 Or as Naaman the Syrian The Lord pardon thy Servant in this thing when I bow down my self in the House of Rimmon 2 King 5.18 It will not account any sin little which will bring upon us the great wrath of so infinite a Majesty It knows and beleives that the weight even of little sins as it were small sands will sinck the ship of our souls as well as our greater and grosser sins That small leaks in Ships and small breeches in Walls being neglected will endanger the loss both of Ships and Cities And that such Tradesmen as in their accompts regard not small sums will quickly prove Bankrupts Disobedience though in never so small matters as in eating of an Apple and gathering a few sticks on the Sabbath looking into and touching of the Ark are yet in Gods account no small matters For how severly hath he punished all these then which what can we imagine slighter But gratious souls know that it is not the smallness of the thing that lessens either our obedience or disobedience but that it is Gods Commandment that ties to obedience in lesser things as well as in greater which Command of his is despised as well in the breach of the lesser as of the greater I say then the truly repenting soul will

hefore us which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast c. Heb. 6.17 18 19. And this was it without all question that made the Apostle break out with that holy boldness and exultation of spirit Who shall seperate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword Nay in all these things we are more then Conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded saith he that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to seperate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8.35 to the end Now this stability and firmness of Gods love grounded upon the faithfulness of God may be a great support to the poor doubting soul that is apt to question the Love of God and the certainty of its eternal estate in Christ 2ly This Faith in Gods faithfulness is to be acted upon the account of our Vocation or Calling to and confirmation or establishment in the Grace of God God is faithful saith Paul by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord And therefore will he confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 1.8 9. That God who hath called you unto the communion or fellowship of his Son not externally only in point of Ordinances Church-fellowship and Publique-worship whereby we profess to have communion with Christ and his benefits but internally in a special manner whereby we are really united to him by faith and by the spirit of Christ and so are made partakers indeed of all the glorious benefits priviledges and advantages of his death resurrection ascension intercession Rom. 8.32 Eph. 3.17 1 Joh. 1.3 This God who hath so called you is the faithful God faithful in the performance of all his promises he hath made to confirm you unto the end not to leave you nor forsake you Heb. 13.5 as many freinds do in time of adversity not to cast you off Rom. 11.1 2. as many Parents do their Children not to forget you as many cruel and unnatural Women do their sucking children Isa 49.15 No surely he will not do it his faithfulness is engaged to stand by you fear not he will be with thee be not dismayed he is thy God he will strengthen thee yea he will help thee yea He will uphold thee with the right hand of his righteousness Isa 41.10 And make an everlasting Covenant with thee that he will not turn away from thee to do thee good but will put his fear into thy heart that thou shalt not depart from him Jer. 32.40 So the Apostle Paul praying for the Thessalonians that the very God of peace migh sanctifie them wholly and that their whole spirit and soul and body might be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ He makes this the ground of his confidence Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it 1 Thess 5.23 24. So 2 Thess 3.3 But the Lord is faithful who shall stablish you and keep you from evil Why shouldst thou then fear of falling away or of thy persevering in the grace of God when Gods faithfulness is engaged forthy establishment 3ly This faith in Gods faithfulness is to be acted upon the accompt of a Christians temptations and conflictings with sin and Satan 1 Cor. 10 13. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man but God is faithful observe that I pray you who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it Thou poor tempted soul thou thinkest perhaps that no temptations are like unto thine but thou art mistaken thy temptations are not singular but in common with others other men have been exercised with the like And thou art apt to think thou shalt sink under thy temptations thou findest so little strength to undergo them but what saith the Apostle God is faithful and will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength but will proportion suitable strength according to your trials Gods Faithfulness is engaged to help you and to support you under all your temptations and trials Would Satan then make thee beleive that thy sins are of that nature and magnitude that they shall not be forgiven think upon Gods faithfulness then who is engaged to pardon thee So saith John 1 Joh. 1.9 If we confest our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness It would be an act of unfaithfulness and injustice in God if he should not pardon and forgive poor penitent sinners who confess and forsake their sins But God is faithful and just and cannot falsifie his word If we beleive not yet he abideth faithful he cannot deny himself 2 Tim. 2.13 4. This acting of faith in Gods faithfulness is of excellent use in order to our standing fast in the faith and continuing in our publique faithful testimony for the Lord Heb. 10.23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering and why for he is faithful that hath promised faithful in performing what he hath promised Josh 23.14 And what hath he promised Surely as hath been declared before to establish and keep us from evil and confirm us unto the end 1 Cor. 1.8 According to that also in 2 Thess 3.3 But the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from evil Stablish you in the faith lest you fall from it and keep you from evil to wit the Devil lest he subvert your faith by evil men as the instruments of his art or it may be taken more generally for any evil as the Apostle declares in the 2 Tim. 4.18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly Kingdom And therefore we may upon this consideration be much encouraged to hold fast our profession and not to be staggaring or wavering in our honourable and faithful testimony for the Lord. 5. This acting of faith in Gods faithfulness is of excellent use to encourage us as to a suffering state for Christ and to Christian contentation under the Cross It is a faithful saying saith the Apostle that if we be dead with him we shall also live with him If we suffer we shall also reign with him 2 Tim. 2.11 12. Rule or reign as Kings so the word it seems imports if we endure all manner of tribulations with patience and stedfastness in the faith And it is a faithful saying saith he a certain sure firm credible irrevocable word not to be questioned or doubted Or we shall be glorified together with him as the Apostle expresseth it Rom. 8.17 and

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners yea the greatest and cheifest of sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 And that God hath set him forth to be a Propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of sins Rom. 3.25 And though thou art naturally unclean and hast contracted much defilement by reason of sin yet that Christ hath loved thee and washed thee from thy sins in his own blood Rev. 1.5 That in him thou hast redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins Col. 1.14 Satan will tell thee thou hast broken the Law and incurred Gods anger wrath hell and eternal damnation Faith will tell him that Christ hath perfectly fulfilled the Law satisfied divine justice taken away the curse and freed thee from condemnation Rom. 8.1 and that Jesus Christ by his blood hath pacified Gods anger towards thee Rom. 3.25 Faith will tell him thou art not under the Law now and so not under the Curse and that though the Law does pronounce thee accursed for the breach of it yet Christ hath redeemed thee from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Gal. 3.10 13. Satan will tell tell thee still thou art unrighteous and the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God but faith will tell him that thou art washed that thou art sanctified that thou art justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 6.11 And that Christ was made sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 And as he was made sin so of God also is he made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption Does Satan tempt thee ●o evil Faith will tell him that he so tempted Christ but Christ vanquished him in all his tempttaions Mat. 4. And we are more then Conquerors through Christ that hath loved us Rom. 8.37 Does he yet tempt thee to be proud tell him that God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble 1 Pet. 5 5. Does he tempt thee to passion tell him that the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God Jam. 1.20 Does he tempt thee to uncleaness tell him thy body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and thou art not thine one but art bought with a price and therefore thou must glorifie God in thy body and in thy spirit which is Gods 1 Cor. 6.19 20. Does he tempt thee to be a servant of men tell him thou art bought with a price and so freed from that servitude 1 Cor. 7.23 would he have thee to please men tell him if yet thou shouldst please men thou shouldst not be the servant of Christ Gal. 1.10 Does he tempt thee to the love of the world tell him that if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him 1 Joh. 2.15 Does he tempt thee to an indifferent luke-warm spirit in the things of God tell him that the Lord testifies against such a spirit that is neither hot nor cold that he will spue it out of his mouth Rev 3.16 Does he tempt thee to fall away draw back and renounce thy profession tell him that such as so fall away shall not be renewed again unto repentance Seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame Heb. 6.6 And that if any man draws back the Lord will have no pleasure in him Heb. 10.38 You see what a most excellent weapon this sheild of Faith is to repel the temptations and assaults of Satan upon all accounts Secondly And it is of like force and efficacy to expel the venome and malignity of sin Art thou stung with it at any time look up by faith unto the brazen Serpent there 's healing Numb 21.9 Are thy sins of a scarlet dye Faith in his blood can make them as white as snow are they red like crimson it will make them as wool Isa 1.18 Are they many and multiplied transgressions Faith will tell thee that where sin hath abounded there grace hath much more abounded that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 5.20 21. Hast thou abundantly sinned this faith will tell thee that God will abundantly pardon he will multiply pardons Isa 55.7 Dost thou fear the reigning domineering power of sin This faith will assure thee That sin shall not have dominion over thee for that thou art not under the law but under grace Rom. 6.14 Dost thou yet fear that thy sins shall stand on the file and that God will remember thine iniquity this faith in Christs blood will assure thee that he will blot out thy transgressions for his own name sake and will not remember thy sins Isa 43.25 But perhaps thou art afraid of Death and of the power of the Grave this Faith will assure thee that death is swallowed up in victory his sting taken out that Christ hath ransomed thee from the power of the grave and hath redeemed thee from death that he is deaths plague and the graves destruction Isa 25.8 Hos 13.14 1 Cor. 15.54 So that we may triumphantly say Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect it is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword Nay the gracious beleiving souls may be perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus their Lord Rom. 8. and some of the last verses thereof Wilt thou not then fear this severe stroke of Gods visitation O get more of the blood of sprinkling on thy soul this speaketh better things then the blood of Abet The blood of the Paschal Lamb was to be strook on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses of the children of Israel when God did intend to smite the first-born in the land of Egypt and execute his judgement against all the Egyptian gods and saith the Lord When I see the the blood I will pass over you meaning the children of Israel and the Plague sholl not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the Land of Egypt What did this typifie and hold forth but Christ the true Passover or Paschal Lamb whose blood besprinkling the conscience cleanseth us from all sin and delivereth us from the stroke of the destroying Angel even from wrath to come 1 John 1.7 1 Thess 1.10 See then that thou exercise thy self continually in that onely heaven upon earth and sweetest sanctuary to a