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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32724	A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.	Charnock, Stephen, 1628-1680.; Charnock, Stephen, 1628-1680. Works of the late learned divine, Stephen Charnock.	1683 (1683)	Wing C3711C; ESTC R24823	277,473	158

an Arrow of God's wrath Pride lifts up it self against God's Laws and Soveraignty as much as this frame of spirit acknowledges and submits to him It was a temper contrary to this caused God to send Worms to banquet upon Herod Acts 12.23 He gave not God the glory He was not afflicted with the sin of the People nor reproved them for ascribing to him the honour of God A Soul-affliction for common sins is a bar to Judgments God revives the spirit of the humble Isa 57.15 They that share in the griefs of the Spirit shall not want the comforts of the Spirit God is concern'd in honour by virtue of his promise not to neglect those whom he hath promised to revive He dwells with the contrite spirit who more contrite than he that grieves for publick sins and Family sins and City sins as well as his own private Men do not use to fire their own houses much less God the house and heart which is dearer to him than either first or second Temple or local Heaven it self I might add 5. That such keep Covenant with God The Contract runs on God's part to be an Enemy to his Peoples Enemies Exod. 23.22 It must run on our parts to love that which God loves hate that which God hates grieve for that which grieves and dishonours him Who can do this by an unconcernedness Those that keep Covenant with God shall not fail of one tittle of it on God's part 7. Such also fear Gods Judgments and fear is a good means to prevent them The Old World feared not God's threatning of the Deluge and that came and swallowed them up The Sodomites feared not God's Judgments and that hastened the destroying Shower The Advice of the Angel upon the approach of Judgments is to fear God and give glory to him Rev. 14.7 And then follows another v. 8. with the news of Babylons fall Babylon is fallen is fallen The fall of Babylon is the preservation of his People 4. The Vse 1. Reproof for us Where is the man that hangs his harp upon the willows at the time the Temple of God is prophaned A head a Fountain of tears for Common sins is a commodity rare to be found even in hearts otherwise gracious The Mourners have been for number but a few like the gleanings of the Vintage but the Sinners in Sion for multitude like the weeds in fallow ground What multitudes of those that disparage God and trample upon his Soveraign Commands rend in pieces the very Law of Nature as well as the rights of Religion It were well if there were one to Six as was intimated in the beginning there might be in Jerusalem but we have reason to fear that one marker for the secret mourners would be too much for an hundred destroyers I do not question but there are some that sigh for the abominations they see and hear of that because they are dishonourable to God as well as injurious to themselves But who of us present here can say we have been deeply enough and graciously enough affected with them Certainly both you and I may bring a charge against our selves before the throne of God for this neglect that we have not been throwly humbled for frequently bewailed publick iniquities and spread them before God in secret If we are unconcern'd in common sins can we imagine God will leave us unconcern'd in common Judgments If we endeavour not to keep up the glory of God he will extract glory to himself out of our ashes If this frame be so little regarded among professors what shall we say to many others that have as little remorse for the stabs of Gods honour as they would have for the Tragedy of an East India Prince nay for the death of some inconsiderable fly that have resentments for wrongs done to themselves and sorrow at Command for any worldly loss but not one spark of regret for affronts offered to God In this cause their hearts are as dry as a heath in a parching Summer Who laments the tearing the name of God in pieces by execrable oaths Who bewails the impudent uncleanness boasted of by Concubines in the face of the Sun Who mourns for so many thousand foreheads bearing the mark of the beast and so many thousands more preparing to receive it It reproves then 1. Those that make a mock and sport of sin so far they are from mourning for it The wise man gives them the title of fools Prov. 14.9 fools make a mock at sin Which though it seems too low a Character for such abominable works yet in scripture it hath a greater import than in our Common discourse it signifies an Atheist Psal 14.1 Prodigious madness to make that our sport which is the dishonour of God the murderer of Christ the grief of the Spirit and the destruction of the Soul that which opens the flood-gates of wrath and brings famines plagues wars upon a people If mourning for others sins be an affection like that of Angels delighting in other sins is an affection like that of Devils He is at the greatest distance from Christ that looks pleasantly upon that which Christ could not regard without grief and anger God seems to seal up such to destruction as well as the mourners to preservation Isa 22.12 13. And in that day did the Lord God of Hosts call to weeping and mourning to baldness and girding with Sackcloth and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing Sheep eating flesh and drinking wine let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall dye And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of Hosts surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you dye they were ranters instead of mourners and God passes this sentence on them their iniquity shall not be purged from them till they dye If we carry our selves jollily at the sins of others we evidence that the concerns of God are of little concern to us that we have slight thoughts of his glory and cast it at the heels of our own passions 2. Those that make others sins the matter of invectives rather than of lamentations and bespatter the man without bewailing the sin We should consider common sins with affection to God and pity to the offenders with a desire that they may restore by a true conversion the glory they have robb'd God of by an accursed Rebellion While we hate the sin we should evidence that we love the man * Non nunquam fae●it●●i in c●lpam saevimus in hominem Prosper We must never love the wickedness nor hate the person We pity a sick man though we loath his Disease Sinners are miserable enough without our hatred and by hating them we make our selves more miserable by committing a fault against reason and nature and do them no good The more wicked any man is the more worthy of pity by how much the more his crime is our hatred God who is infinite purity hates mens sins

believer accepted Page 702. Vid. Believer much expected after pardon Page 118 † Vid. Acceptation Obedience Signs of Grace true ones to be used in self-examination Page 831. Simplicity of the word powerful in changing men Page 236. minding it a means of the new-birth Page 240. necessary in preaching Page 834 5. Sin beloved most opposed by Grace Page 3. the new-Creatures hatred of it universal great Page 91. 96. difficult to such a one Page 95 6. enmity to the first motions of it a mark of Regeneration Page 123. so is enmity to spiritual sins occasions and temptations to them Page 123 4. brutes uncapable of it Page 179. many though not all may be avoided by common Grace Page 180. 1 2 3. its vast power over narural men Page 197 198. fully expiated by Christ Page 340. not to be spared or loved Page 315. 376. the fruit of Ignorance Page 445 6. all the fruit and sign of unbelief a Page 649. ad 652. 724. God brings good out of it Page 667. 1364. 44 † against the Holy-Ghost what Page 682. love to it the cause of mens refusal of Christ not known in its ext●nt but by the Spirit Page 557. 572. men love not a sight of it Page 566. men have disguises and evasions for it Page 568. forgotten revived by the Spirit Page 575. what and what in it the Spirit convinces of Page 579. ad 583. weakned by frequent communicating of those that draw nearest God the blackest Page 821. how great an evil Page 822. 950. to be forsaken and why Page 855. 872. 883. though general not to be followed Page 1217. 72 † Vid. Commons of sin actual the sproutings of original Page 1314. alias in the unregenerate ib. to be checked immediately Page 16 † former ones how they may be improved Page 16 17 † small ones their danger Page 113 † Sins of others saving knowledge will make us mourn for them Page 425 6. mourning for them a duty Page 66 7 8 † 1369. acceptable Page 68 9 † a preservative from publick judgments Page 69 70 1 † 74 † those that mock rail only fret imtate or not mourn aright for them reproved Page 272 † comfort to those that bewail them Page 73 † mourning for them urged Page 74 5 † Sincerity can't be without a new nature Page 26 7 8. of God in his promises though he denies special Grace Page 190. a means of perseverance Page 1370 1. deliverance delayed to discover it Page 48 † mourning for others sins an evidence of it Page 69 † a preservative from common judgments ib. a sign of pardon Page 115 † Sorrow immoderate prevented by spiritual apprehensions Page 554. Christ tender of raising it in his distressed people Page 555. godly strangers to it are unbelievers Page 726. necessary at the Sacrament Page 752. 803. accompanies faith Page 800. how to try it Page 805. excessive in a Believer reflects on Christ Page 1149. godly prevents bad thoughts Page 14 † ungrounded and mistaken the best apt to be overwhelm'd with Page 555. 1156. godly a sign of pardon Page 116 † Soveraignty of God disparaged by the Patrons of free-will Page 152. seen in Regeneration Page 212. 226. known by the Creatures Page 480. struck at by unbelief Page 621 2. thoughts of it would check pride and envy Page 667. seen in Christ's Death Page 836. Soul its substance or faculties not taken away in Regeneration Page 72 3. nor its essential acts Page 73. the substance of it the proper seat of Grace Page 77. the whole corrupt Page 152. its happiness and perfection wherein Page 391. 400. admirably represent God's perfections Page 480 81. God its Creator Page 1287. Soul of Christ fitted with gifts Page 251. its Glory in Heaven Page 1094. Spirit the end of his coming Page 17 18 556 7. his motions to be entertain'd and improved Page 63. 209. 224. 470. 596. 1376. 17 † 18 † new Creatures like him Page 103. natural men can cherish his motions Page 186. wronged by the Patrons of free-will Page 199. fitted Christ to be Redeemer Page 290. given him by the Father and why a Page 290. ad 298. 672. his mission an evidence of Christ's acceptation Page 317. 897. his mission argues our ignorance Page 484 5. the fruit of Christ's Death Page 897. conferr'd after his Exaltation Page 335. 1097. 1099. his Death and Ascension necessary to the sending him Page 555 6. his presence better than Christ's bodily one Page 556. his motions how discern'd Page 595. oppos'd by unbelief Page 629 630. engaged to preserve a Believer Page 1346 1347. Spirituality of God known by the Creatures Page 480. States but two Saving and Damning Page 9. Suasion moral only can't convert Page 70. 200. 217. Lords Supper its end for shewing forth Christ's Death Page 748. 758. a necessary memorial of it Page 749. what in Christ's Death it sets forth Page 750 1. how Christ's Death to be shewn forth in it Page 752 3 4. of the frequent celebration of it Page 755 6. very requisite Page 756. ad 762. the neglect of it lamented Page 762. neglectors of it urg'd and their objections answer'd a Page 757. ad 768. a continuing ordinance to the end of the world and why a Page 769. ad 774. no longer than till Christ comes Page 775. Examination before it necessary Page 777. 793 4 5 6. object of examination before it Page 777. 796. unregenerate men must not come to a Page 777. ad 784. assurance not as necessary qualification Page 783 4. ignorant ones must not come to Page 784. ad 787. what knowledge requisite to qualifie ibid. nor men in a course of sin Page 787. what sins debar ibid. not a converting Ordinance Page 790. ad 792. Judas not at it Page 793. Faith to be examined before and acted in it Page 798. 802. and godly sorrow Page 803. and love to God Page 806. and love to the Saints Page 810 11. and holy desires Page 811. T. TEaching others a means of encreasing a mans own knowledge Page 473. Temptations Regeneration a comfort against them Page 115. enmity to them a mark of Regeneration Page 124. to unbelief not complyed with not unbelief Page 606. good brought by God out of them Page 667. Believers shall have assistance in and success over them Page 1104 5. 1144 5. 1152. remembrance of former mercies a motive to resist them Page 1311. former prevailing ones if not so now a sign of mortification Page 13●8 Testament the old to be studied Page 853. Thank●ulness deliverance delayed to promote it Page 49 † Thoughts changed in Regeneration Page 82. a natural man hath some power over them Page 182. unbelieving if resisted not unbelief Page 606. of man naturally universally evil and highly provoking Page 2 † what are sinful Page 2 3 † sinful aggravated by delight contrivance and reacting Page 4 5 † are sins Page 5 6 7 † worse than evil actions Page 7 8 9 † reproof to those that