their own inhaerent wickednesse because their judgment perverted already could not give a right sentence as an uncertaine ballance into which you cast different weights may shew there is a difference the one lighter then the other but cannot shew how much difference how much one is lighter then the other So here The best improved understanding while naturall onely is an uneven ballance into which cast you the naturall heart and life at one end and the law at the other It will discover a want of weight in the heart and life bui because it knowes not exactly how much the law outweigheth them there cannot be a certaine discovery what and how great want of weight there is in such a heart and life let this then stand the first demonstration Rectum est index sui et obliqui whatever is not perfectly strait cannot be a perfect measure to find out the obliquity of that which is crooked but now the best improved naturall man is not strait nay he is very crooked his unsanctified improvements make him more perverse and crooked and the naturall heart is by it's sinfulnesse distorted which should be measured therefore I doubt not to conclude this perverted understanding cannot discerne fully the sinfulnesse of a perverted heart 2. Reason because there is much spirituall wicednesse in this sin 2. The best improved naturall man cannot attaine a right and full discovery of the sinfulnesse of his nature or carnall heart because this sinfulnesse consists much of a spirituall wickednesse and the naturall man in his highest improvement remaines carnall and sensuall There is indeed a spirituall deformity or wickednesse in every sin though not equally in every sin some sins are more sensuall and brutish as riot in use of meats and drinkes uncleannesse in the abuse of our bodies and such like sins which are committed by us principally with the parts and appetite which in us is common with the bruit beasts called by Hierocles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unreasonablenesse of those who are wholly immersed in matter Other sins proceed from more sublimated affections and those which are refined from the drosse and lees of matter and sense as being immediately from the rationall soul without the intervention of bodily organs as Atheisme Idolatry c. The first irregular passions of the minds which are not onely spirituall wickednesse because originally springing from the mind which is a spirit but also because contrary to a holy spirituall law for so the Apostle speakes of the Law that it is spirituall and if sin be a transgression of this law there must needs be somewhat of spirituall wickednesse in every particular sin were it needfull to confirme this it might be fully confirmed from Sin 's contrariety to a Lawgiver who is a spirit and commands spirituall obedience to every command and also in every act of obedience as also from Sin 's affecting or inhaering in a spirituall substance as in the prime immediate and proper subject of it which is the rationall soule This then is certaine that there is a high degree of spirituall wickednesse in the frame of our carnall hearts now a naturall man highest improved in his parts can never be more or better then Naturall or Carnall in his Apprehension and judgment of things his understanding proceed's in a carnall manner is indeed as now weakned by sinne proportioned onely to a low sensuall and carnall object or if it lift up it selfe towards what is spirituall it is not in a spirituall manner view and consider well the Notions which Reason left to it selfe hath framed of a Deity its Being Attributes Providence and Happinesse Religious worship of the Deity both as to things it selfe and manner of it Future world and just judgment with the Consequences of it c. how have These spirituall objects been debased in the apprehensions of these men and presented to us in either absurd or at best in a manner suited to our senses a sufficient discovery of the carnall and sensuall faculties of a sinfull mind Had we no other evidence to prove this it were enough and more then enough which we have from their Poets concerning the just punishments of soules for sin which being spirituall substances and convicted and condemned for spirituall offences as sinnes are should be supposed punished with spirituall punishments by that judge who is a spirit but will you heare what the Punishments are How described Primis in faucibus Orci Luctus ultrices posuere cubilia curae Pallentesque habitant morbi tristisque senectus c. Virg. 6. Aenâ—…d And another Poet who is beholding to the charity of some one or two that would report him a Christian converted from Heathenish ignorance though there be more charity in their good wishes then there is of truth in their story This Poet as others became vaine in his imagination of future judgment and is right onely in this Generall that the judge Exaequat damnum meritis in the particulars how vaine and carnall Muta ferarum Cogit vincla pati truculentos ingâ—rit ursis Praedonesque lupis fallaces vulpibus addit c. The best improved naturall man then is very carnall in his judgment and apprehension therefore not able to judge of or find out that spirituall wickednesse which is in it selfe and this I bottome on these two undoubted truths Mensura mensuratum sunt ejusdâ—m Genâ—ris Extensions must be measured by Extension else you will never find them out Likewise Sense must be tryed by sense and reason cannot be judged but by reason Spirituall's whether in generâ— Boni as faith hope love repentance all the graces of the spirit or whether in Genere mali as unbeliefe despaire c. which are contrary to grace can be discerned by none but a spirituall faculty for Inter objectum organnm proportio sit oportet which is the other undoubted maxime on which this second demonstration is grounded Now the evill to be discerned is a spirituall object the best organ a Naturall improved man can possibly use to disâ—erne it is Carnall and Sensuall and as there is no proportion between this obiect and this organ so there will be as little proportion between the reall true nature of the obiect and this Judgwent which is made of it In one word as we know certainly that the naturall man doth easily find out strongly convince himselfe to an ingenuou acknowledgment and deep resentment of that part in this sin which is proportioned to his apprehensions so we know he cannot find out the other which is the greater part of it being so much above his apprehensions 3 Demonstration The best improved naturall man can make no further discovery then the light of his received maximes reach Thirdly the best improved naturall man without a divine revelation can make a discovery no farther then the light of his received maximes diffuse themselves as a man of quickest sight cannot see at any time beyond that space
persons and sweetly flowing from their pen in what they have wrote touching this matter Prize and study them but forget not to study thine own heart at the same time who so wisely joynes these together for the information of a teachable soule is not I think in much danger of mistaking a false and unprofitable for a true and advantageous Knowledge of this doctrine In which there are some things difficult and not obvious to every one which must be sought in the Schooles and other things Experimentall and spirituall which must be sought at the mouth of a gratious and sanctified person Their learning will be a glasse to represent the one their Experience will be a glasse to represent the other part to you Their learning will informe your judgments and their experience will discover your hearts to you while you shall observe that your hearts answer to theirs in those Motions and Pronesse to sin which are now the matter of your daylie exercise and complaints as they once were the matter of their dayly exercise and complaints In one word in such a combination thou hast the skill of a Physitian and the experience of a sick recovered patient to informe thee and direct thee in the very same case and disease His skill can tell thee the cause with the danger and cure His experience can tell thee the manner of this disease in its workings and the sure method of applying the meanes that will not faile to heale thee And thou wilt say who so knowes his disease thus knowes it aright Be you then diligent in using their learning as Scholars and their Experience as Saints and you may well hope to get a sufficient insight into this both as it is a knowledge Profound and deep fit to be searched after by Scholars and as it is Spirituall Experimentall and practicall in its nature and right tendency onely obteined by Saints FINIS A Catalogue of Bookes printed for and to be sold by Richard Davis at his shop neer Oriell Colledge in Oxford A Paraphrase and Annotations on the whole Book of Psalms by Hen Hammond D.D. in folio A Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Books of the New Testament in folio the second Editition The Practicall Catechisme with all other his English Treatises in two volumes in 4o. 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