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spirit_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	13,963	5	5.3517	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19519	A soueraigne salue to cure a sicke soule infected with the poyson of sinne. Wherein is contained, 1 The strength and force of the poyson of sinne. 2 How mans soule became poysoned? 3 How the soule of man poysoned by sinne may be cured, and restored. These parts are all authenticall, and comprised in a most short and compendious method, briefly to be read, that they may be effectually practised. Newly published by I.A. minister and preacher of Gods Word.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1624 (1624)	STC 595.4; ESTC S115221	6,369	22

maligno positus est The whole world lyeth plungeth in wickednesse Now to speake more of the euill of sin it appeareth in thrée things First in the deformity For God doth loath it Secondly in the iniquity For the Diuell doth loue it Thirdly in the generall contagious poyson and leprosie thereof as S. Iohn saith the whole world is infected therewith Secondly how mans soule became infected therewith At the beginning God suruaying his workes with the eyes of his wisedome after they had passed the hand of his power his Iustice pronounced this infallible sentence Genesis 1.31 Loe they were all very good How then came it to passe that mans soule became poysoned And Christ sayth in another place From the beginning it was not so Mat. 19.8 Salomon sayth God made man righteous Eccles 7.29 The answere whereof our Christian Philosophy sheweth vs that our poysoned soules which defile our whole nature came from the fault and fall of Adam and from the curse of the earth through Adams transgression For the Diuell that Roaring Lyon in whom the full perfection of malice lies knowing how to most hurt hath poysoned the Fountaine Adam and Eue the Fountaine once poisoned then the streames issuing from the same are sure and most certainly infected The which Dauid confesseth in the person of all regenerate men I was shapen in wickednesse and in sin hath my mother conceived me Ps 51. Thus our spirituall poyson came into the soule and body of man by the subtiltie of Sathan that arch-enimy of man-kinde For he being once an Angell in Heauen a goodly creature would needes become a God and consequently a Creator Now a Creator must needes make something and therefore here we may behold his worke Lo● it is euen sinne for sinne is the true creature and onely worke of the Diuell And as he is a spirit so hee hath society with the spirits as bodily creatures haue with our bodies Thirdly How the soule of man poisoned by sinne may be cured and restored The soule of man that is poysoned by sinne must begin to be cured in this life but it cannot bee perfected in this life For whatsoeuer is begunne here in grace in the life to come shall be perfected in glory And for this great cure we ought diligently to obserue three things 1. First wee must know our selues what estate wee are in that wee may see how wee are poysoned 2. Secondly wee must vse the remedy to cure the poyson Thirdly we must take our medicine in due time Therefore hee that hath eares to heare let him heare and that hath eyes to see let him see and diligently obserue what salue hee must take to cure this poyson of sinne The first and principall thing is to take this precept of the philosopher Nosce teipsum Know thy selfe It is the first thing to bee done to this cure and the beginning of all grace For in vaine is the medicine ministred where the disease is dissemblingly couered and kept vnknowne Wherefore whosoeuer thou bée that feelest thy selfe to bee infected with this poisoning sinne and art inwardly touched with any care of thine owne saluation and doest groane with earnest desire to stand in fauour againe with God thou must seriously enter into thy selfe and make a true suruey of thine inward man that thereby thou mayst know how sinne hath poisoned thée both in greatnesse and danger For vntill thou knowest thy sinnes and how they haue infected thy soule that thy conscience may bee conuicted by them thou canst neuer bee cured No man can rightly acknowledge his owne sinnes no man can truly confesse his fayth no man can duly vse the Sacraments that doth not first earnestly try and examine his owne conscience That is throughly to try narrowly to search and dilligently to prooue who and what manner of person hee is and in what case hee feeleth himselfe how deeply his owne conscience is poysoned with sinne And withall to know how and which way hee may come into fauour againe with God To the same effect S. Paul sayth Let euery man proue his worke Gal. 6.4 And againe Proue your selues whether you be in the faith 2. Cor. 12.5 Examine your selues and bee sorrowfull for your sinnes not for some sinnes but for all sinnes wherewith you are infected and poysoned And that not for an houre nor a day nor for a weeke nor a moneth but mourne for your misdeedes and bee sorrie for your sinnes continually euen so long as you liue Wee must doe as the Prophet Dauid did when he had considered his wayes and found they were euill He euer after turned his feet vnto the testimonies of the Lord. Ps 119.56 So must euery one doe that mindeth to bee cured from the poyson of his sinne examine his owne conscience and make his heart smart for his sinne by aggrauation thereof The Church of God confesseth not her sinnes lightly but with wonderfull griefe Dan. 9. Secondly wee must vse the remedy to cure the poyson of sinne As by nature wee hate euery thing that hurteth vs how much more by grace should wee abhorre sinne that woundeth vs Amongst all the workes of the Diuell there was none so mighty and malicious as the poisoning and destroying the soules of men by sinne So for to cure our soules from this deadly poison our Sauiour Iesus Christ that heauenly Physition hath accordingly giuen vs a remedy proportionable to our malady out of his glorious store-house of the holy Scriptures If we will he cured from the poyson of sinne we must take Christ and the vertuous physicke hee giues vs by a liuely fayth but wee must keepe and retaine him and it by holinesse of life These two faith and holinesse are the two bonds of our vnion with Christ Faith brings Christ to vs and holinesse keepes him with vs and vs with him If any man saith Christ heare my voyce and open the doore I will come into him and will stay with him and hee with me Thus by faith we take this heauenly Physicke and by holinesse wee kéepe it Wherefore all those which formerly obeyed sinne if they will be cured from the poison thereof by faith and holinesse of life they must now withstand it They which were wont to yeelde vnto it must now striue against it they which were wont to delight in it must now lament it they which did formerly let sinne raigne and captiue their soules in them must now raigne ouer it quench it and subdue it and flie from it as from the most venemous sting of a Serpent If the filthy and stinking poyson of their sinnes cannot moue them let the shortnesse and vncertainty of their liues dampe them If the shortnesse of their lines cannot let the small number of them that shall be saued fray them If that cannot tell Death terrifie them If Death cannot let the day of iudgement shake them If all these cannot then will the torments of hell for euermore torment them Thirdly wee must take our

medicine in time For common experience teacheth vs that Tempus est pretiosum breue irreuocabile Time is pretious short and irreuocable Qui non ost hodiè cras minús aptus erat He that is not ready to receiue this Heauenly physicke to day will bee lesse ready to morrow Let vs therefore take this time while wee haue it for we haue no time but this present time the time past is not ours it is gone and cannot bee recalled the time to come is not for beeing not come it may bee it neuer shall come Onely the present houre is ours let vs take and make good vse of it So that now euen now is the time to take this wholesome and brauenly phisicke to purge away our sinnes while wee are here in this life the time is in our hands Now the doore is open but after this life it will be shut Therefore now while the Gospell shineth now while Christ calleth now while he speaketh now while hee kneeketh let vs amend our former liues let vs now therefore heare Gods word let vs now obey him let vs make this day our day to returne vnto God And although we could neuer bee mooued by reading any booke heretofore or by hearing Gods word preached hitherto yet let vs now be moued at the last and with good Ezechias let vs be afraid of Gods threatning sorrow aforehand examine our consciences and mourne for our sinnes let vs clense and purge our hearts and soules from this poison and let vs neuer drinke nor taste that deadly dregs againe Let vs walke no more so inordinately in it wallow no more in the filthie mire of it obey no more the lust of it nor giue our members any more to be weapons to fight for it But with all our power let vs oppose it resist it and manfully with all our force fight against it Oh let vs shake off our sinnes banish them send our dearest darlings packing and neuer pittie them neuer loue them neuer be led by them for they would poison our soules most deadly vnto eternall destruction To conclude God grant that we may all and euery one of vs forsake our sinnes in time before it bee too late and as Physitions doe heale many sore maladies with sharpe medicines so giue grace O eternall and most gracious God that these my labours though they seeme vnsauery and sharpe to the wicked may yeelde such sound and godly Phisicke that they may become a salue to cure and preserue the soules of the godly in their zeale of thy glory And furthermore grant O swéet Iesus that it may offer and minister all such spirituall Physicke vnto the soules infected with the poyson of sinne that it may be a meanes to withdraw them from the same And that the salue which is here presented vnto such as are sicke and almost past recouery may worke so effectually one them that it may both strengthen helpe and heale them of that damnable poyson wherewith they are so deadly infected This GOD grant without whose helpe all the labour of man is in vaine And thus both from the poyson of sinne and the punishment due for the same the Lord deliuer vs all euen for his deare Sonne Christ Iesus his sake our onely Saviour To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour glory praise power and dominion both now and for euer Amen The Author to the Reader Gentle Reader I most humbly desire thee what so euer thou bee that gatherest any spirituall Physicke to cure thy soules mallady out of these my labours to pray vnto my Sauiour Iesus Christ for mee to direct me with his holy Spirit and giue mee his grace to vse it to salue and cure my owne soule that as I endeauour to cure thee in words I may also labour in deedes to raise and preserue my selfe from all my sinnes to the setting forth of Gods glory and the saluation of my owne soule which God grant for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake Amen FINIS