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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79511	Nathans parable. Sins discovery, with it's [sic] filthy secret lurking in the brest of men. Or, some few discoveries what the sinfulness of sin is, and spoile it hath made on man, in nine particulars. With the sad experience of it on the author: written, if it may be, to warn all men, especially, the saints, to take heed and to beware of sin. With a letter written to his excellency the Lord General Cromwell. By Edmund Chillenden.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3877; Thomason E723_3; ESTC R207232	24,570	27

spoileth a man of God Isa 59.2 Your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you This people in the 58 Chapter had been a fasting and humbling their souls Isa 58.3 and they aske a reason why God was not found of them and that he did not answer them they expostulate the case with God Wherefore have we afflicted our souls and thou takest no knowledge wherefare have we fasted and thou seest not God giveth them the reason in the fourth verse it was their sins and their iniquities that had robbed and deprived them of the good things that they might have enjoyed so saith the Lord by the Prophet Jer. 5.25 Your iniquities have turned away put by robbed deprived you of these things and your sins have withholden by force and violence as a company of robbers do good things from you for behold you fast for strife and debate to smite with the fist of wickedness to adde drunkenness to thirst Deut. 29.19 it was to feed support and to make provision for sin to spend it on their lust therefore they asked and did not receive because they asked amiss Jam. 4.3 it was to take care for the Arch-rebell and traiterous enemy to God and while sin is nigh and is nourished succoured and harbored God he will be far off for God is far from the wicked and ungodly sinners Eph. 2.12 13. who are said to be without God in the world far off being enemies aliens or strangers to God and by sins made to be at enmity in their mindes by wicked works Col. 1.21 quite robbed and spoiled of God and all that was God-like and filled full of all deadly poison so that his heart is so swoln with it that he saith there is no god Psal 14.1 He is not once in all their thoughts Psal 10.4 but abound in all villany and mischiefes Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murther debate deceit malignity backbiters haters of good without understanding Rom. 1.29 30 31. compared with Gal. 5.21 Tit. 3.3 Eph. 2.2 3. So that we may see by this what spoile sin hath made quite robbed and spoiled us of God what spoile did it make on our parents as is partly before minded How did the Lord rejoyce in the works be had made Gen. 1.31 compare vers 4. both with Psal 104.31 Prov. 8.31 seeing the order comliness and beauty that was in all his works they were good agreeable to his will they pleased him 1 Tim. 4.4 for every creature of God is good pleasant sweet profitable causing joy Song 1.2 4.10 Deut. 6.11 1 Sam. 9.2 Gen. 24.16 compare Mark 9.42 Luk. 17.2 And the Lord did rejoyce in the habitable part of his earth Prov. 8.31 great peace was between God and man yea and all the creatures all the works that God had made they did praise him and gave him honor Psal 45.10 When the morning stars sang togather and all the sons of God shouted for joy Psal 148.3 Job 1.6 there was no division or variance no hateful spirits against God or man to work or do him any mischief no death or diseases no fear of guilt to torment and afflict the soul of man nor any noisome poisonous lust to rebell in their bodies But now cometh sin and robs us of all this and fills the whole creation with mischief strife and debate layeth or turneth the whole world into or in wickedness 1 Joh. 5.19 6. Sin causeth sorrow in God and it grieveth his spirit Gen. 6.3 5. The wickedness of man was great in the earth and the very imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were wholly evil every or all the day that they carefully minded their hearts for evil alwayes therefore It repented God that he had made man and it grieved him at the very heart To see that man that he had made so goodly and comely a creature created him after his own Image or likeness Gen. 1.27 15.1 should so sin against him and provoke him not onely at the first in Edens garden for which he might for ever have left them in misery and utterly have cast them off Psal 75.3 was pleased now in the midst of Judgement to remember mercy Hab. 3.2 and to provide a Saviour for them and to lay their help upon one that was mighty Psal 89.19 Yea then when they were all turned aside and gone out of the way Psal 14.2 3 4. compare Isa 59.15 16 17. 63.5 He then looked down from heaven to see if any understood God if there were any judgement but he saw no intercessor there was none to uphold therefore his own arme of righteousness that upheld and wrought salvation and put all things in a right and orderly frame bringing us back to Christ the Shepherd and keeper of our souls 1 Pet. 2.25 this now doth grieve God that after so much love and mercy man that he had so done by taken so much paines withall that had spared no cost no not his own Son Rom. 8 32. but gave him to dye and shed his blood to redeem them from their vaine conversations they had received from the tradition of their fathers Gen. 3.15 compare 1 Pet. 1.18 19. and all that man might become obedient and subject to God to do his will as he hath commanded us 1 Ioh. 3.23 To this end he gave them his word and oracles Psal 147.19 20. Psal 2.7 Exo. 21.1 Rom. 9.4 5. to instruct them how they should walk towards him In all well-pleasingness Heb. 13.21 he gave them right judgements and true Laws good Statutes and Commandments he had so great a desire after their good that he himself cometh down upon the mount and speaks to them from heaven Nehe. 9.13 Psal 68.11 Nevertheless such prevalency had sin in them That they disobyed him and rebelled against him and cast all his good Laws behinde their backs 1 King 9.10 hated God and to be reformed Psal 50.17 Ezek. 23.35 shew his prophets that testified against them to return wrought great provocation Neh. 9.26 Jer. 32.31 32. compare 1 Kings 23.26 though he gave them his good spirit to instruct them guide and lead them Gen. 6.3 compare Nehem. 9.20 Num. 11.17 in the good old and holy way wherein they should finde rest for their souls wooing and contending with them disputing and convincing them by the mouths of his Prophets and servants in and by the word of his grace also by inward motions and checks of conscience Yet nothing would do for the strong man kept the house sin had got possession Luk. 11.21 22. Mat. 12.29 Mark 3.37 that they rebelled against him and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and fought against them Exod. 15.24 Numb 14.11 Acts 7.15 Job 30.21 Jer. 30.14 Judges 14.15 compare Eph. 4.29 30. 5.11 12. 7. Sin hinders and cloggs prayer though they be never so long and be uttered never

so loud they go not upward toward heaven they ascend not but do remaine here below they are rejected of God as Caines sacrifice was Gen. 4.3 4 5. he will not hear in heaven for he is deaf and his ear is by sin made heavy Isa 59.1 compare Prov. 1.28 29 30 31. though they call upon him he will not hear them though they seek him early yet they shall not finde him and the reason is rendered For they hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord they would none of his councel they despised all his reproofs Psal 81.11 12. therefore it shall and will be ill with them that are wicked for the reward of their hands shall be given unto them Isa 3.11 This David knew very well Psal 66.18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me as if the Prophet should have said If I regard hug and make much of my sin delight and take pleasure in it God will not regard me saith he This the Iews as wicked as they were knew well enough Ioh. 9.31 Now we know God heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God and do his will him be heareth Jam. 5.15 16. 1 Joh. 5.14 the prayer of the wicked is sin his sacrifice is a great abomination to the Lord he cannot endure it he loaths both it and them Prov. 15.8 29. with Prov. 21.27 How much more when he bringeth it with an evil wicked sinful mind being alienated and made strangers from God in their mindes by wicked and sinful works Eph. 2.12 Col. 1.21 Tit. 3.3 for what hope hath the hypocrite will the Lord hear his cry Job 27.8 9. No he is far from the wicked Prov. 15.29 When they spread forth their hands God he will not hear them he will hide his eyes from them and when they make many prayers God will not have regard their hands are full of blood Isa 1.15 therefore he loatheth their new Moons and their Sabbaths their solemn assemblies his soul hated them they were a trouble to him he was weary of bearing them Isa 66.3 This the Church crieth out of and sadly bewaileth Lam. 4.44 that because of her sins God he hod covered himself with a cloud that her prayers should not pass thorow O what a loss is the poor Church in now God he hath hid his face and she is much troubled Psal 30.7 Whereas she was wont by prayer to ride and soar aloft they were her Chariots and horses by which she pierced the heavens and went with boldness to the throne of grace Heb. 4.16 and received blessings from thence both spiritual and temporal but now she is debarred all by sin that puts a stop to every good thing 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Tim. 4.8 6.6 Jer. 5.25 8. It breaks the peace and blessed communion of the Church of God The Churches of Christ are a holy people called out of the world by the good word of his grace they being begotten againe purged and cleansed from all uncleanness and unholiness made pure by the washing of water by the word Eph. 5.26 27. of his own will Jam. 1.18 not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God 1 Pet. 1.23 called to be Saints 1 Cor. 1.2 to walk together in a holy communion amongst themselves for the worship and service of God and they are called A spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2.5 and therefore are called a holy nation a chosen generation a royal priesthood a peculiar people that they should shew forth the praises of him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvelous light 1 Pet. 2.8 and they may not suffer any unclean or unholy person to come in and be of fellowship with them Isa 52.11 Rev. 21.27 2 Cor. 6.17 for all that are to draw neer to God and bear his vessel are to be clean and holy for holiness becomes his house for ever Psal 93.5 for his way is holy and the polluted sinners may not enter into it they will defile his Sanctuary and holy things Isa 35.8 compare Numb 19.20 22. Ezek. 28.22 for sin is a contagious leprosie that will presently diffuse it self through the whole body as the Apostle saith A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 1 Cor. 5.6 7. therefore when sin doth appear they are presently to labour to purge themselves of it according to the rule and command of Iesus Christ that they may be a holy lumpe and this must be done in love with all meekness and lowliness of spirit Gal. 6.1 2. with all faithfulness without any partiality favour or affection but where sin is there tell the sinner plainly of it Levit. 19.17 that so they may come to see their sins and bring their sacrifice that by repentance and forsaking they may finde mercy and so prosper Levit. 4.23.28 the Church being careful of this they walk sweetly and there is a very comely order amongst them they are Song 6.4 comely as Jerusalem Psal 4.1 2 3. Fair in situation the joy of the whole earth the City of the great King Now sin hath in the night crept in and there having got footing hath and doth mar al this glory and utterly dissipates all the peace and lovelinesse which was once theirs what by false teachers who do arise in and amongst the Churches speaking perverse things Act. 20.30 bringing in damnable errors even denying the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2.1 1 Tim. 4.1 and also often times the frailties of the Saints defiles their bodies and souls by reason of sin This my sin hath caused that the enemies without take occasion to blaspheme and the brethren within are often scandalized and grieved The Churches in the Apostles daies had woful experience of the sad work and spoil sin did make amongst them look on Corinth how they were infested and Galatia Philippi that they were removed to another Gospel see in the seven Churches of Asia Rev. 2.3 chap. and there you shall find sin eating out the very heart and life of God amongst the Churches for amongst them were bitter envyings strife and reproach that as the Prophet saith Every man hunted his brother with a net Philip. 1.15.16 1 Cor. 1.11.12.13 Mich. 7.1.2 those that were their guides they became vain talkers and deceivers of the minds of the simple even to the subverting of whole houses Tit. 2.10.11 teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre sake so that nothing but rottenness and putrifaction did appear Isay 1.2.3.4.5 the grace of God turned into wantonness the holy liberty of the Gospel made a cloak of maliciousness Iude 4. 1 Pet. 2.16 and all manner of filthiness so that iniquity was established amongst them by a Law Rev. 2.4.5.14.15.20.21.22.23 Rev. 3.15 to 20. Psalm 94.20 and so come to have their faces made harder then a stone Ier. 5.3 hated to be rebuked and reformed Psalm