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A sermon preached at the assizes in Salisbury upon Saturday, July 23. 1653 By Henry Carpenter, vicar of Steeple-Ashton in Wiltshire.
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Carpenter, Henry, 1605 or 6-1662.
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accuse us of equalling and levelling all sins because we allow not of their vain Distinction of Venial and Mortal Sins especially in their sence Truth indeed we account no sin simply little and in its own nature small Because No little God to sin against the least sin minimum spirituale is against an infinite Majesty No little Price payd for little sins the least sin pardoned cost the invaluable Blood of Christ No little disobedience in little sins As much Treason in false coyning of pence of Silver as of pieces of Gold No little unthankfulness in little sins the less the matter and occasion is wherein we offend the greater is our unthankfulness in offending God for so small a matter and advantage which shews the greater Corruption by how much the less was the Temptation No little pollution by little sins A small Puddle may defile a man as much as a muddy Pond No little punishment for little sins so called Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin as sin is eternal death 'T is known that the Plagues of Lice and of Flies did trouble the Land of Egypt as much if not more then some of the greater Plagues The Magicians were first baffled in the Lice and made to acknowledg the finger of God Exod. 8.9 and Pharaoh first heart-struck in the Flies without a Rod to yield the Israelites to sacrifice to their God Ver. 24.25 The smalness of the Instruments adds unto the horror of the Judgments Maximus in minimis Gods hand being most palpable and sensible in the smallest and vilest things Pharaoh might take it in as much scorn to perish by the basest and vilest creatures Judg. 9.54 as Abimelech to be killed by the weakest vessel a woman Therefore though we extenuate no sin saying of it as Lot of Zoar Gen. 19 20 Is it not a little one because we know all sin of it self mortal yet let us make a difference in degrees of sin and remember that to be possessed with a Dumb Spirit is to be possessed with a Great Sin indeed When a man is so Dumb that he cannot confess his sins to God and so Dumb that he cannot crave the mercy of God to forgive his sins and so Dumb as he cannot praise God for his Bounty and Goodness and so Dumb that he can rebuke or exhort his Brother Then indeed he is possessed with a Dumb Spirit and a Great Sin But no more of the Malady This Kind And as little of the Recovery Coming forth It is so remarkable 2. Mat. 12.24 28. that Christ never healed any possest but he still cast the Devil out that the Ancient learned sought for Reasons and found Four why Casting out is the only note of Cure why only by Coming forth 1. Because the Devil like a cunning Cheater doth always cozen and out-reach men in his Bargain Luke 4.6 Mat. 4 8 2 Pet 2 14 deluding of feeble senses and beguiling of unstable Souls never giving any valuable Consideration for any thing that he had Primae Actiones sunt regulae As appears by his Cheat put upon our first Parents who for an Apple sold Paradise the Price was indeed so little as the Spirit of God would never yet acquaint us what it was And consider I pray what doth he give the Ambitious man for his Soul but Smoak And what the Covetous man but Muck And what the Adulterous Libidinous man but Rottenness In which respect there is Ejectio firma against him as the Law provides in like cases he must be cast out 2. Because like a false juggling Dealer he never performed or made good his Bargain He promised our first Parents Gen. 3.4 5 They should not dye but live and be as Gods But alas though some of their posterity might be said to live as Gods Psal 82 7. Rom. 6.23 yet to be sure they shall all dye like men Right Legerdemain taking from us what he seems to give us He is ever lavish in his tempting promises of things not his own Mat. 4 9. Luke 4.6 as he was to Christ But universal experience hath found him false and therefore he is justly Cast out 3. Because the Devil like a sharking Jobber chaffer'd with those that had no power to sell Psal 10â— 3 Mal. 2.10 as children and servants that have no power to sell that which is not their own but their Parents and Masters Mens Bodies are not their own 1 Co. 6.19 much less their Souls And in this Case again the Law says Caveat emptor let the Buyer look to it and therefore is he Justly Cast out 4. Because the Devil never pays the quit-rent that is Thanks and Praise to God which he never renders willingly as an end of Agents Intention but only as an end of Passive Compulsion This Quit-rent of Honour and Glory God always as Creator reserved to himself in his most general Grant of all things to his Creatures But this the Devil never pays and therefore is he justly cast out and the great Landlord hath reason to re-enter Let us add but two more 5. Because he lets all go to decay and loves to ruine where he comes Lands and Buildings both the outward and the inward parts of the Dwellings He ruines the Body as well as the Estate of a Drunkard Glutton and Leacher and intemperate Liver with Rottenness and Consumptions He lets also the inward parts run to wrack as the Foundation to fall which is Faith the Walls to decay which are Charity and all the other inward Virtues to run to Ruine and therefore is he justly Cast out for not maintaining Reparations 6. Lastly Because God himself means to re-enter 1 Cor. 6.19 Cap. 10.21 and dwell there where must be no Inmate No room for Belials Mammons Idols 2 Cor. 6.15 Devils in the Temple of the Holy Ghost Therefore in Justice and Necessity is the Devil cast out of doors Applicat 1 Now seeing these things are so let the same Grounds which Christ had to cast out Satan be earnest Provocations unto our strong fortifications to keep him out and not suffer him by cunning disguizes to get possession in our Temples For though he turn himself into the harmless shape of a Sheep 1 Pet. 5. â—â— 2 Cor. 11.14 Ephe. 6.12 yet he is transcendently a subtil Serpent a malicious Dragon a roaring Lyon And though he transform himself into an Angel of Light yet he is a Spirit of Darkness He is fitly resembled to Hazael who being told by the Prophet that he should do such and such desperate things and prodigious acts answers Is thy servant a Dog that he should do such great things 2 Kin. 8 13 As if Elisha had been mistaken in the man but the event shewed the truth of that Prophecy Judg. 4 18 21. Cap. 5.25 And for all the world like Jael crying to Sisera Come in my lord come in fear not c. First give him