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A66073 Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the Word of God by Hen. Wilkinson. Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690. 1674 (1674) Wing W2229; ESTC R27587 61,872 145

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a holy life you must get a clean heart v D. Manton in Lo. 2 Cor. 7. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In divino Cultu nihi mutilū sed omnia absoluta esse decet Calv. Cleanse your hands ye Sinners and purify your hearts ye double minded Not only outward impurity of the Body but inward impurity of the Heart not only practical uncleanness but speculative uncleanness should be utterly abhorred and abandoned altogether For so runs the Charge of the Apostle Having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God This then is an undoubted Conclusion consonant to the Rule of the word That where holiness is cordially embraced loved desired and delighted in and rightly priced in the Judgment and preferrd as the true Wisdome before Rubies and all manner of pretious Stones and where holiness is practiced in the life and Conversation questionless that heart is upright and sincere towards God notwithstanding many personal Infirmities which we grieve for and dislike of while we are in this Vale of misery CHAP. IIII. Of ingenuous Sorrow for Sin A Fourth Character of Sincerity is Ingenous Charact. 4. Ingenous sorrow for our Sias sorrow for all Sin This Epithete Ingenuous I therefore name because I would lay down hereby a discriminating note between that sorrow which is for the Sin and that which is onely for the punishment Sect. 1 That sorrow I call ingenuous which is for the Sin more then for the Punishment and this is a Filial kind of sorrow That I call servile and disingenous which is more for the Punishment then for the Sin A Child of God understands the nature of Sin as to it's filthiness guiltiness and punishment which is the consequent thereof and therefore he laies Sin to heart and is grieved and vexed at the very heart because God is thereby dishonoured and his holy Law is broken A Godly mourner mourns for Sin as it is Sin because of its filthiness and defilement and because it displeaseth the only Holy Lord God and is odious and abominable in his sight The Eye of every upright man affects his Heart and melts him into Tears of Godly sorrow and works an inward compunction and a heart breaking sorrow And this is that sorrow which is of the right stamp a genuine and ingenuous kind of sorrow And where ever this ingenuous sorrow is it may be fully evidenced by seven Apostolical characters mentioned by the Apostle For Behold saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 7. 11. this self same thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulness it wrought in you yea what clearing of your selves yea what indignation yea what fear yea what vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge Sect. 2 There is a very great difference between the mournings of Cain Pharaoh Ahab and Judas who only mourned and roared for the smart of punishment and the mournings of David Paul Peter and Mary Magdalen who mourned for their sins and therefore grieved because they displeased so good and gracious a Lord God For instance Pharaoh often cried out that the plagues inflicted on him and on his people might be taken away but what plagues did he mean I answer he meant only the plagues of Frogs Locusts Caterpillars c. Pharaoh had a plague incumbent on him worse than all those and that was the plague of a hard heart of this plague he makes not any mention at all A hard heart was his great sin and it was inflicted upon him as a very great judgment But David cries out against Psal 51. 4. himself for his sins and makes a particular acknowledgment Against thee thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight And he prayes Hide thy face Verse 9. from my sins and blot out all my transgressions Ahab was a meer stranger to the Grace of Humility and unacquainted with it altogether yet it 's said of him that he humbled himself and for his outward humiliation the judgment threatned was adjourned Seest thou how Ahab 1 Kings 21. 29. humbleth himself before me Because he humbleth himself before me I Poenitentia ductus sed quae non permansit Aliquid tamen de commeritâ poenâ ob hoc detractum est Grot. Exemplum bonitatis Dei quatenus Achab quantumvis hypocriticè poe●itentiam agenti poenas meritas differt Hinc colligi pot est Deum multo magis beneficum fore erga cos qui veram seriam poenitentiam egerint Piscat will not bring the evil in his dayes but in his sons dayes will I bring the evil upon his house Yet of Ahab it may be more properly said that he was rather humbled than humble for the fear and horror apprehended of those dreadful judgments which were to be poured down against himself and Jezebel his Wife and his Posterity extorted from him an outward humiliation which consisted in putting on Sackcloth in fasting and going softly and looking with a sorrowful and dejected countenance yet all this while he had not one dram of true godly sorrow and of true humility How sad must be the condition of many loose Professors now a-dayes who come short of such as Ahab was and how dreadful must their condition be who come short of those who come short of Heaven But St. Paul was a man of another spirit he was not only humbled but humble and had the gift and grace of true humility and he was a true Penitent a sincere Convert and a godly Mourner for sin and he was so low and debased in his own eyes as to account himself the chief of 1 Tim. 1. 15. sinners We read of Ahab's forwardness in offering himself a Voluntier and Slave to sin so that this foul Brand of Infamy is stampt upon him But there was none 1 Kings 21. 25. like unto Ahab which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord whom Jezebel his Wife stirred up Ahab was active and put himself forward to work all manner of mischief he precipitated himself without fear or wit into any desperate Adventure He stuck at nothing but ran on in a wild and mad career following all sorts of wickedness with a full bent propension and vergency of his soul and with delight and complacency driving a Trade for Sin and for the Devil We read of such who were almost starved for hunger that they flew upon the spoil And likewise 1 Sam. 14. 32. the Apostle stigmatizeth the vilest of sinners after this manner Who being past feeling have given themselves over Eph. 4. 19. unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness Of this brand was Ahab But on the contrary St. Paul discovers a better spirit as appears by his protestation I delight in the Law of God after Rom. 7. 22. the inward man He was passive and with great grief and remorse of heart Tom. 7.