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spirit_n	fear_n	lord_n	wisdom_n	5,389	5	6.9425	4	false

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B00700	A godly and fruitful exposition on the twenty five psalme, the second of the penteniials [sic]. Seruing especially for the direction and comfort of all persons, who are either troubled in minde, diseased in bodie, or persecuted by the wicked. / by A. Symson, pastor of the church at Dalkeith in Scotland.	Simson, Archibald, 1564-1628.	1622 (1622)	STC 22565.5; ESTC S107781	90,612	198

be thought or called religious God loueth truth as he hateth all falsehood for he is truth Ego sum veritas via vita Ioh. 14.6 He loueth truth in our profession truth in our ciuill life truth in our profession is that which he hath commanded in his word truth in our ciuill life is that which agreeth with dutie of ciuill conuersation without fraud deceit or guile which is different from Gods nature and resembleth the diuell who is a deceiuer In the inward affections It is not a superficiall or scroofe-worship which God regardeth For Cains sacrifice outwardly was as pleasant as Abels Gen. 4.4 ● but God looked to their hearts accepted the one and reiected the other God aboue all things craueth the heart My sonne giue me thine heart God wil be worshipped in spirit and veritie Pro. 23.26 Therefore hast thou taught me wisedome in the secret of mine heart He amplifieth his sin by this circumstance that he did it not as an ignorant but as one who was enlightned with knowledge and besides he had priuate informations and intelligence from God in his heart and tasted of the heauenly doctrine yea it was rooted and fixed in his heart yet like a bruite beast he was caried to that filthy lust and so was inexcusable and suffocated the light of the Spirit which he had receiued He had informations giuen by God but he had not grace to follow them which so much the more made him inexcusable that he was taught Christians perish not for want of informatiō but for contemning the warnings they get God must teach vs. and would not obey So Christians shal not perish for lack of information but because they do not obey the warnings which they get This age hath heard many lessons and God hath manifested his whole will vnto them but because they obey them not their knowledge shal augment their paines God he must be our great Doctor and Teacher we must be Theodidactoi taught of God Neither nature learning experience practise or age can teach vs wisedome onely Gods word must teach vs. Nature preuailed among the Philosophers but that neuer led them to God For all the principles of our faith are contrary to nature sense and reason What is more against naturall reason then these points of our religion God was made man a virgin hath borne a childe a crucified man saued the world a dead man arose c. in these and such we must be taught from aboue by God God teacheth by the ministerie of his word God he teacheth by the ministery of his word which whosoeuer contemneth refuseth the meanes of his saluation but that ministery will not be sufficient without diuine inspiration 1. Cor. 3.6 Paul may plant Apollo may water but God giueth the increase Bellarmine translateth the Hebrew word which he granteth signifieth abscondita incerta and so doth Lorinus those doubting Doctors would haue the mysteries of the Scriptures vncertaine and doubtfull Not● There is great diuersitie of iudgements among men what is true wisedome These are of the Lord is true wisdome Eccles 1.2 but if ye would enquire at the wisest man that euer liued he will tell you that hauing examined all things vnder heauen he found all things to be but vanitie and vexation of spirit and that true wisedom consisted only in the feare of God and keeping his commandements The feare of the Lord is the instruction of wisedome Pro. 15.33 all other wisedome is foolishnesse Verse 7. Purge me with hyssope and I shall be cleane wash me and I shall be whiter then snow HE is not contented simply to craue pardon once or twice but many times yea he multiplieth his suites by metaphors allegories and such borrowed speeches signifying how deeply he was wounded with his sin that he would haue himselfe assured and confirmed in the remission thereof and now he borroweth a similitude from the washings and purgations vsed in the Leuiticall law desiring that God would looke on his miseries who was a leprous man by sin and a filthy polluted sinner that hee might be washed in the blood of Christ prefigured by the Mosaicall washings Purge me with hyssope Three times made mention of hysop Exo. 12.22 There is made mention of hyssope where it was vsed in three places first in the 12. of Exodus at the institution of the Passeouer where the blood of the Lambe was appointed to be sprinkled vpon the doore checkes with a bunch of hyssope bound with a scarlet lace The blood signified Christs blood the bunch of hyssope the sauing and the scarlet lace his blood died which bound the bunch all hauing their spirituall significations For the blood no doubt signified the blood of that vndefiled Lambe shed from the beginning of the world The hyssope the instrument applying his blood by faith The scarlet lace the communion of the Saints who are bound by loue the bond of perfection and sprinkled with that same blood to the remission of sins And so the blood which washeth faith which applieth and the lace that coupleth are all one Christ by faith and loue receiued to the purgation of all Christians The second place Leuit. 17. is the purgation of the Leper wherein the blood of the sparrow the bunch of hyssope and the scarlet lace are likewise mentioned and differeth nothing but in this in the first was the Lambe here the Sparrow which is all one for euen as the Lamb is among beasts so is the Sparrow base and simple amongst fowles to which Dauid compareth himself I am as a sparrow on the house top sitting aloue Psal 102.7 so we must be sprinkled with his blood which being contemptible to men was acceptable to God The third was Numb 19. about the red Cow which must haue hyssope dipped in the blood thereof And Christ is compared ●o the Cow or fat calfe which being in so great a price with the Father was giuen ●o death for the saluation of our foules The hyssope hath many things wherein ●t representeth Christ very nigh Wherein hysop representeth Christ 1. Kin. 43● for first it ●s obscure humble and abiect so that Salomon is said to haue written of all trees from ●he Cedar the highest tree opposed to the hyssope springing out of the wall that is to be basest and most common growing amongst stones not standing of mans indu●trie to plant them as other trees doe So Christ in whom we beleeue was contemp●ible a worme not a man despised Psal 2● in him was no beautie riches or earthly honours which maketh men to come in credit and account Next the hyssope is bitter and fowre ●ot pleasant to the drinkers so the crosse of Christ by which our affections are mor●ified is very odious to the flesh and agreeth not with its taste His crosse is therefore 〈◊〉 ●tumbling blocke to the Iewes and folly to the Gentiles Thirdly albeit it be sowre yet it is most wholesome so

but not the possession thereof Albeit God be angrie by correcting his best children yet whom he chastiseth he loueth Heb. 12.6 But Dauid saith Blot them out of the booke of life Obiect Psa 69.29 Solut. It is not to be thought that Dauid supposed they were written in the booke of life but because they seemed to feare God and were in the visible Church but not of her he prayeth that God would make it knowne they were neuer written in it And in praying that the holy Spirit may not be taken from him he doubteth yea he standeth in feare of the losse thereof Blessed is he that feareth continually He doubteth but doth not despaire The Spirit may be grieued by vs and so cease to worke in vs good things or to let vs feele good motions but he cannot go away for when he hath brought vs to our selues and letten vs feele our sins then he purgeth his dwelling place and maketh it more meete to worke in such diuine operations as it pleaseth him to inspire in vs. Verse 12. Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation and stablish me with thy free Spirit IN this 12 verse Dauid craueth another necessary gift and effect flowing from the remission of his sinnes to wit the ioy of his conscience For the kingdome of God standeth not in externall things ●●m 14.17 as meate and drinke but in righteousnes peace and ioy in the holy Ghost saith the Apostle For being made righteous by Christ and peace made with God there ariseth a wonderfull tranquillitie in our consciences from which finally ●riseth a ioy vnspeakable For all the ioyes of the earth could not make vs ioyfull vn●esse God were at one with him neither can all the troubles that can fall vpon our outward man discourage vs if we find the ioy of God in our hearts Nothing spoileth vs of this ioy and pleasure that we haue in God but onely sin Pleasure in sin taketh away our ioy in God For once del●ghting in sin we can haue no pleasure in Gods seruice for these two can neuer stand together Therefore we must loath sinne that we may reioyce in God Next Christians haue ioy and sorrow intermingled 2. Cor. 12.7 ye see the estate of a Christian is not alwayes one ioy and sorrow is intermingled he hath a Summer of ioyes and a Winter of griefes Saint Paul had the messenger of Satan to buffet him that he should not be exalted aboue measure with his great reuelations After a Christian hath mourned he will reioyce He who neuer sorrowed for sinne will neuer reioyce for grace He that neuer mourned for the affliction neuer reioyceth for the consolation of Ioseph Mourne with them that mourne and reioyce with them that reioyce saith the Spirit The substance and ground of this ioy is the saluation of God so God is the matter of it and this saluation is purchased by God onely Psal 3.8 Saluation is the Lords Whereby he letteth vs see that the first grace will not do the turne to vs of initiation but we haue need of the second grace of confirmation which is the accompanying and perseuering grace Stablish me This stablishing is to make vs sure whereby he would aduertise vs of our instabilitie and vnsurenesse if we were not yet supported Samson was strong in grace but being left to himselfe he fell Peter bragged presumptuously in his owne strength Mat. 26.33 Though all the world would forsake thee yet I will not yet being left to himselfe he fell according as Christ had prophecied Before the cocke crow twise thou shalt denie me thrise Let vs now take heed vnto our selu●s the time is come to trie all Christians what is in them and I feare our weaknesse will appeare to the world to our shame and the dishonour of our profession And I neuer saw any who presumed aboue others of their owne strength Nota. but they haue proued the weakest souldiers who by Thrasonicall confidence in their wisedome holinesse constancie and other of their vertues bragged aboue their neighbours yea contemned them but in the end they proue cowards presuming in pride and falling with shame This is one of the most certaine markes of Gods Spirit that as he is free in himselfe so he giueth libertie and freedome to all his children whom he possesseth Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is libertie For where the Spirit of the Lord is there is libertie They are not bound with the chaines of sin they are not bound with mens traditions but they freely serue God as the children of the house are free The Romans were free men as citizens brag of their freemen and there is great difference between them and other free men that they may vse their trades of merchandize without controlement so is a Christian of all men the most free Our Sauiour said to Peter Who should pay tribute children or strangers But I pray you Mat. 17.25 Obiect Solut. is a Christian who braggeth of the Spirit free to do what he pleaseth God forbid he is onely free to do Gods commandements and to stand in the libertie which God hath giuen him He is bound to keep the cōmandements of God to be free from the traditions and vanities of men So a man needeth not to brag of the Spirit that he may say and do what he pleaseth and alwaies pretend the Spirit and the libertie purchased by Christs blood to euery one of his follies no but that libertie hath her owne bounds and circumscriptions for the Spirit giueth vs no more libertie but that which is bound by his word No true ioy but in the saluatiō of Christ The word jasha importeth either Sauiour or saluation as Ier. 3.18 To declare that there is no true ioy but in the saluation by Christ This ioy Marie had in God her Sauiour Luk. 1.47 and Iohn in his mothers wombe leaped for ioy Luk. 1.44 Zach. 5.9 Isa 60.5 Reioyce daughter Sion This ioy maketh vs reioyce in tribulation by the comforter who eateth vp all our sorrowes and perplexities as fire eateth vp the rust of iron Other ioyes be but toyes Quicquid non est in Domino non tam intus recreat quam foras What ioy is not in the Lord refresheth not so much within as without This is the wine which Salomon commandeth to be giuen to the grieued in heart Pro. 11.6 And surely this ioy is a foretaste of that future ioy which we shall haue in heauen where there shall be no interchange of ioy with sorow but a perpetuall ioy wherein the creature shall reioyce in the Creator and daily find new causes of pleasure Psal 16.12 At thy right hand is pleasure for euermore But where he desireth a restauration of this ioy it is certaine that he once felt and tasted of the sweetnesse of Gods fauour and the life to come Those who abuse the fauour of God shall feele the want therof