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spirit_n	heart_n	law_n	sin_n	7,752	5	4.9628	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

Reader may in like manner comment upon the rest These last-Ag'd Prophets professe themselves to bee the Teachers of Christian Religion And Christ proposing himself as an Example invites us by his Example to Humility as to the most proper badge of Christians Take my yoke upon you and learn of Matth. 11. 29. me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest into your Souls It is in the Latin Bible humilis corde humble in heart And having washed his Disciples Vetus Interp. feet which was an Act of profound Humility he speaks thus I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to Jo. 13. 15. you An humble man will throw himself at the very feet even of the lowest and humblest of People And the Degrees of Christ's Humility and of his descending still beneath himself are superlatively admirable He first descends from Heaven into the womb of a Virgin our Mothers womb being the place of Men. Then is he born in a Stable being the place of Beasts because he came to seek men changed into Beasts Afterwards he humbled himself Philip. 2. 8. and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross and the Cross was the place of wicked men as being worse than beasts After this he is put into a Sepulchre being the place of dead men yet still worse if they die wicked because they cannot repent Lastly he descends into Hell which the Apostle calls the lower parts of the earth Eph. 4. 9. The Truth is Heathens and Heretikes are altogether uncapable of true Charity and of true Humility as all Ages have testified the one after the other CHAP. X. The seventh Matter in Question THe seventh Matter of the Appeal calls for entrance I charge upon these new-vaumpt Walkers That they are the most High and Mighty Scandalizers of others and the greatest Blasphemers and Blemishers of Reputation that were ever known amongst Men. Others are very sensible of it and know it But I have had a large portion of Experience in this kinde Witness a Cursed Paper which these false-mouth'd and rabid Preachers have dispatcht after me in all places wheresoever I desired to sit down and which contains most horrible Slanders Some whereof they have at last withdrawn for their apparent and most devilish falshood others they keep on foot As that I own'd and hid a Box of Crucifixes whereas I appeal to God my King and Judge I have not been the owner of a Crucifix these twenty years neither have I had a Crucifix in my hands or possession And which is a most deplorable Business and a sadding-Heart Ulcer of these Times I am demonstratively certain that the two persons whom they suborned to swear to it wherof the first Mover was the troubled Husband of my Child's Nurse which She had most unchristianly abus'd and almost starv'd and was therefore taken from her for their Accusations are the lamentable Effects of blind mad and unrighteous Passion the wrath of man working not the righteonsness James 1. 20. of God know not what a Crucifix is Likewise that I used fordid words with an Oath concerning a neer Friend of mine which I appeal to God I never did and such-like And all my Friends know that my mouth is not set or tun'd to Oaths Now again Certain Reliques of this Viperous Brood have taken from the mouth of a Water-man's discontented Wise having been by the Report of the People where she lives high and low a lewd-liv'd woman it is well known where her Heart was and having an impudent face and a rotten Heart and Body That I never say my Prayers And this now stands up to face me I am heartily sorry that I must give a publike Account of my Prayers and private Devotions But the present Business importunes it Wherefore that these conceited phantastical blockish stock and block-retaining beetle-headed wooden-brow'd Busy-bodies in Reliligion may know that our appealing to God and our calling of God to witness in these circumstances is not unholy nor deserves their affected composing of their mouths and crying fie fie but Apostolical I shall begin with St. Paul The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 11. 31. which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not I never miss to pray at the least twice a Day likewise to exercise Acts of Sorrow for Sin seconded with the Wish Abomination and Purpose before-mentioned and of the Love of God as often likewise to unfold before God in manner of Thanksgiving a Catalogue of the chief Blessings and Deliverances wherewith he hath most graciously assisted me both by Sea and Land Also to sacrifice my self to God and to sing Scripture-hymns of his Praises Moreover I endeavour every day to pray continually or without ceasing by using Aspirations 1 Thess 5. 17. thus Mystical Divinity names them upon emergent or occurrent occasions Which I shall here deposit for the use of others As when I awake from sleep in the morning My voice shalt thou hear in the Psal 5. 3. morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in v. 4. wickedness In the beginning of a good work I delight to do thy will O my God Psal 40. 8. yea thy law is within my Heart After I am subdued by a Sin Hide thy face from Psal 51. 9. my sins and blot out all mine inquities Create in me a clean heart O God and renew v. 10. a right Spirit within me Cast me not v. 11. away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me Restore unto me the joy v. 12. of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit In my entrance into the house of God How amiable are thy Tabernacles ô Psal 84. 1. Psal 27. 4. Lord of Hosts Or One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his temple Before the reading of Scripture or any other pious Book Speak Lord for thy servant 1 Sam 3. 9. Ps 119. 18. heareth Or Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law At the sight of meat The eyes of all wait Ps 145. 15. upon thee and thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest thy hand and v 16. satisfiest the desire of every living thing In Prosperity If I do not remember thee let Psal 137. 6 my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy In Adversity The Lord killeth and maketh alive 1 Sam. 2 6 he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up The Lord maketh poor and maketh v. 7. rich he bringeth low and lifteth up Or What Shall