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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67744	A Christian library, or, A pleasant and plentiful paradise of practical divinity in 37 treatises of sundry and select subjects ... / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y145; ESTC R34770	701,461	713

we should not come far short of the Devils themselves Sect. XII And as the healthiest body is subject to the mortallest disease so there is no sin so odious unto which of our selves we are not sufficiently inclinable For Original sin in which we are all born and bred containeth in it self the seed of all sins that fearfull sin against the Holy Gost it self not excepted Such venemous natures we have that never was there any villany committed by any forlorn miscreant whereunto we have not a disposition in our selves Insomuch that we ought to be humbled even for those very sins from which we are in a manner exempt ● For that Cain's 〈…〉 blasphemy Doegs murther Pharaohs cruelty Sodoms lust Iudas his treason Iulians apostacy c. are not our sins and as much predominant in us as they were in each of them it is onely Gods free grace and goodness For all of them should have been thine and my sins if God had left us to our selves Lord saith St Austin thou hast forgiven me those sins which I have done and those sins which onely by thy grace I have not done they were done in our inclination to them and even that inclination needs Gods mercy If we escape temptation it is his mercy if we stand in temptation it is his mercy if our wills consent not it is his mercy if we consent and the act be hindered it is his mercy if we fall and rise again by repentance all is his mercy We cry out of Cain Iudas Iulian the Sodomites alas they are but glasses to see our own faces in For as in water face answereth to face so doth the heart of man to man sayes Solomon Prov. 27.19 Even hating of God is by the Holy Ghost charged upon all men Rom. 1.30 Iohn 15.23 24 25. VVe are all cut out of the same piece and as there is the same nature of all Lyons so of all men There is no part power function or faculty either of our souls or bodies which is not become a ready instrument to dishonor God our heart is a root of all corruption a seed plot of all sin our eyes are eyes of vanity our ears are ears of folly our mouths mouths of deceit our hands hands of iniquity and every part does dishonor God which yet would be glorified of him The understanding which was given us to learn vertue is apt now to apprehend nothing but sin the will which was given us to affect righteousness is apt now to love nothing but wickedness the memory which was given us to remember good things is apt now to keep nothing but evil things c. For sin like a spreading leprosie is so grown over us that from the crown of out heads to the sole of our feet there is nothing whole therein but wounds and swellings and sores full of corruption To be short we are as Traitors condemned to suffer eternal torments in Hell fire being onely reprieved for a time Sect. XIII And so much of Original sin which is the pravity naughtiness and corruption of our Nature Psal. 51.5 Now of actual sin which is the transgression of Gods Law 1 Ioh. 3.4 when evil thoughts are consented unto and performed in outward deeds Iames 1.15 Touching which we are to know and take notice that The Law of God is spiritual and therefore requireth not onely outward obedience in word and deed but also inward in minde and heart and that chiefly neither doth it forbid onely the committing of outward sins in word and deed but also all the secret corruptions of the mind and heart Rom. 7.13 14 15. Mat. 5.21 22 27 28. 1 Iohn 3.15 Again where any duty is commanded there the means which tend thereto are enjoyned and where any vice is forbidden there the occasions provocations and Allurements tending thereto are also forbidden Again 〈…〉 it well also in regard of circumstances as namely that it flows from a pious and good heart sanctified by the holy Ghost and be done in faith obedience to the word humility saving knowledge and sincere love to God zeal of his glory and a desire to edifie and win others of which I might give you many examples as of the Iews fasting Isa. 58 3 to 8. of those reprobates preaching in Christs name and casting out devils Matth. 7.21 22 23. of Cain's sacrificing 1 Iohn 3 12. He offered and God abhorred because he cared not for the manner to do it well God cared not for his offering though the act was good Simon Magus believed Herod listned Felix feared Saul obeyed Iezabel fasted the Pharisees prayed but because they did not believe so hear so fear so obey so fast so and pray so as God required and as is before related they were never the more regarded for what they did For love is the fountain of obedience and all external obedience to God without inward love is hypocrisie whereas Christ commends to his disciples the care of keeping his commandments aright as the utmost testimony of their love unto him Ioh. 15.10 Sect. XIV VVhich being so how oft and how many wayes do we all offend For if we but narrowly look into our hearts and lives we shall easily perceive that there is not one of those righteous precepts set down Exod. 20. which we have not broken ten thousand times and ten thousand wayes Yea O God may the best of us say there is no vein in me that is not full of the blood of thy Son whom I have crucified and crucified again by multiplying many and often repeating the same sins there is no artery in me that hath not the spirit of error the spirit of pride of passion of lust the spirit of giddinesse in it no bone in me that is not hardened with the custome of sin nourished and suppled with the marrow of sin no sinews no ligaments which do not tye and chain sin and sin together Yea If we but watch over our own hearts narrowly one day we shall finde an army of unclean thoughts and desires there perpetually fighting against our souls VVhereby we are continually tempted drawn away and enticed through our own concupiscence As how many temptations come in by those Cinque ports the sences how many more by Satans injections presenting to the affections things absent from the sences but most of all by lust it self a thing not created yet as quick as thought tumbling over a thousand desires in one hour For the devil and our flesh meet together every day and hour to ingender new sins which is the reason our sins are counted among those things which are infinite as the hairs of our head the sands of the Sea the stars of Heaven VVe are swift to all evil but to all good immoveable when we do evil we do it cheerfully and quickly and easily but if we do any good we do it faintly and rawly and slackly VVe have used all our wisdom to commit the foolishness of sin our whole conversation