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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12260	A sacred septenarie, or, A godly and fruitful exposition on the seven Psalmes of repentance viz. the VI. XXV. XXXII. XXXVIII. LI. CXXX. CXLIII. the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. of the penitentials. Seruing especially for the direction and comfort of all such, who are either troubled in minde, diseased in body, or persecuted by the wicked. The second impression. By Mr. A. Symson, pastor of the church at Dalkeeth in Scotland.	Simson, Archibald, 1564-1628.	1623 (1623)	STC 22568; ESTC S107775	256,267	548

the name of Mercy includeth all things Who gets me●cy gets all things Gen. 33.11 according to that of Iacob to his brother Esau I haue gotten mercy and therefore I haue gotten all things Desirest thou any thing at Gods hands cry for mercy out of which fountaine all good things will spring to thee The blind men seeking their light cried Haue mercy vpon vs thou sonne of Dauid The Cananite Mat. 20.30 who had her daughter possessed cried Haue mercy vpon me If ye haue purchased the Kings pardon Mat. 15.22 Simil. then ye may enioy the priuiledges of his Kingdome if yee haue mercy yee haue all that God can giue you yee haue title to Christ to the heauens to all the creatures yea and are freed and deliuered from the prison of hell Argumēts to o●taine mercy For I am weake The arguments which he vseth that he may obtaine mercy are taken from his owne vnworthinesse and miserable estate For saith he I am weake This is the generall word vnder which bee comprehendeth all his paines Two sorts of paines and this hee explicates by the diuision of them in his bodily paines in these words My bones are sore troubled and his spirituall temptations in the beginning of the third verse My soule also is sore vexed The order of Gods curing is first to cure the spirituall diseases next the boddy paines But before I handle the argument marke the coherence of this second part of his sute with the former In the first hee craued mercie in this he craueth a cure and remedie for his corporall paines First hee desires to bee freed of the bonds of his sinnes then of his trouble This is the order of Gods curing that first he cures the spirituall diseases next the bodily paines Hezekiah first weeped for his sin turning him to the wall 2. King 20.2 c. and God for gaue it and then commanded Isaias to take a lumpe of drie figges and cure him Mark 2.5 c. And Christ said to the sicke man Sonne thy sinnes are forgiuen thee A double mercy whē God cures both spirituall and temporall discases a double iudgement to bee loosed from the bonds of sicknes and bound with the bonds of sinne and then arise and walke It is a double mercy when God hath first loosed the bonds of thy sin and then the bonds of thy disease and a double iudgement when hee hath loosed thee from the bonds of thy sicknesse and left thy soule bound with the chaines of sinne for then thou are reserued for a further iudgement That deliuery is onely profitable to thee when God hath freed thee from thy sinne and from such plagues as follow it Yee see out of these words that it is very lawfull to craue corporall health it being a benefit of God And at this time it is certaine Dauid was vnder some heauie sicknesse in body Doct. 4 as well as he was pressed down vnder the weight of Gods wrath for his sinne It is very lawfull to seek corporall health Dauid was here sick in body contrary to Bellarmin contrary to the iudgement of Bellarmine writing vpon the Title and Argument of this Psalme thinking it onely to bee the opinion of the Rabbines and their followers Albeit Loranus the Iesuit bee contrary to him writing vpon the third verse of this Psalme and produceth Lyranus Innocentius tertius Theodorus Antiochenus and Caietane who in this are all of one iudgement and opinion with vs. And why may they not agree together that a man being distressed in body and troubled in conscience may repent and mourne for them both The beginning of the two thirtieth Psalme sets downe his bodily paines which hee sustained in his flesh Strong men weakned by the power of sinne 1 Sam. 17.49 August Quem non vicit ferrum vicit libido Iudg. 15.15 and 16.21 Euils of Adulterie Whereupon ye may perceiue that albeit Dauid was a strong man yet sinne is able to cast him on his backe Hee ouercame Goliah yet sin ouercommeth him Lust vanquished him whom the sword could not ouercome Sinne debilitateth man and taketh all strength from him and so it befell to Sampson who smote a thousand Philistims and yet one Whore del●uered him bound to them Euery sinne weakneth man but especially the sinne of Adultery which doth enfeeble mans nature and abate his strength that it maketh him effeminate and womanly hearted Alexander the Great being bewitched with the pleasures of Drunkennesse and Whoredome sodainely made an end both of his life and conquest yea how many other heroicall spirits haue been wasted therewith Therfore learne all to abstaine there-from otherwise it wil bring you low waste your body conscience substance name and posterity Doctr. Weakness● in man a meanes to preuaile with God But behold what Rethoricke hee vseth to moue God to cure him I am weake an argument taken from his weaknesse which indeed were a weake argument to moue any man to shew his fauour but is a strong argument to preuaile with God Simil. If a diseased person would come to a Physitian and onely lament the heauinesse of his sicknesse he would say God helpe thee Simil. or an oppressed person come to a Lawyer and shew him the estate of his action and aske his aduice he would answer that is a golden question Simil. or to a Merchant to craue rayment hee will elther haue present money or a suerty Simil. or to a Courtier for fauour you must haue your reward ready in your hand But comming before God the most forcible argument that yee can vse is your necessity pouerty teares misery vnworthinesse and confessing them to him it shall be an open doore to furnish all things that he hath to you for which cause the Spirit saith Prou. 9.4 All yee that are destitute of vnder standing come to me and euery one that thirsteth come to the waters Esay 55.1 c. and yee that haue no siluer come buy and eate come I say buy wine and milke without silver and without money And our Sauiour himselfe cried Mar. 11.28 Come vnto mee all yee that are weary and loaden with sinne and I will ease you Martha said to Christ Behold he whom thou louedst is sicke Iohn 11.3 that the mention of his sicknesse might haue moued him to reuiue her brother The teares of our miserie are forcible arrowes to pierce the heart of our heauenly Father Reas 1 to deliuer vs and pitie our hard case The beggers lay open their sores to the view of the world Simil. that the more they may moue men to pitie them So let vs deplore our miseries to God Luk. 10.33 that he with the pitifull Samaritan at the sight of our wounds may helpe vs in due time What thing he seeks wherefore O Lord heale me Dauid in the first verse of the Psalme desired that the Lord would not punish him in his heauy