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spirit_n	truth_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	5,370	5	12.3554	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11077	The onely remedy that can cure a people, when all other remedies faile. By F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1627 (1627)	STC 21346; ESTC S106124	62,668	256

world haue not the loue of the Father Yea though the world shall passe away the lusts thereof and they onely that doe the will of the Father shall abide for euer For meates cannot make men Euerlasting but there must be an end and perchance the sooner for abusing them and then there must come an account euen for the abuse of them But as these offend in an excesse of quantity so others offend in an excesse of quality and put as much sinne into a little roome as others doe into a great A great summe of money is contracted into a single dish and there is an ambition to make vp a great excesse in as little a forme as they may Thus the shapes of vices are altered but vices are retained and there must bee new fashions in sinnes as in clothes Surely the Nature of these times doth not call for these studies and without study this Art of Excesse cannot mount to this Height When God calleth for pouerty wee should not meete him with prodigalitie when hee calls for humilitie wee should not meete him with pride and when he calls for fasting we should not meete him with excesse of Riot But let vs feare the Consequences of such incongruities and let this feare teach vs to auoide them Surely the Iudgement which God himself hath denounced against them is fearful there wants nothing but faith to beleeue it and then it will appeare as fearefull as it is In that day did the Lord of Hosts call to weeping and to mourning Esay 22. 12. and to baldnesse and to girding with sack-cloth And behold ioy and gladnesse slaying oxen and killing sheepe eating flesh and drinking wine Let vs eate and drinke for to morrow wee shall dye And it was reuealed in mine eares by the Lord of Hosts Surely this iniquitie shall not bee purged from you till yee dye But to those that tremble at the word of God and conforme themselues to his will as in all things so in the right vse of his Creatures the Scripture offereth more grace For the Grace of God which bringeth saluation Tit. 2. 11. hath appeared and teacheth vs That those who deny vngodliness and worldly lusts liuing godly righteously and soberly in this present world they may comfortably looke for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ. For verily there is a reward for the righteous Psal. 58. 11 verily there is a God that iudgeth the earth 17 But to what purpose Not onely particular sins but a generall roote of wickednes is among vs. doe I seeke to cut off the branches of particular sinnes by the sword of the Spirit as long as there remaineth among vs a Roote of gall and wormewood that can bring forth all sinnes at once For if we cure sinnes one by one and while one is curing many spring forth the disease ouergroweth the cure Yea euen that very sinne which we seeke to cure after a little while will breake forth againe because the Roote of it is still aliue This Roote of Bitternesse is a naturall prophanenesse euen a contempt of God and the Truth of Religion I say the truth of Religion for there may bee an eye cast toward Religion out of custome or for company or for some remaining impressions of the first Creation that may make men to feare there is a God But to loue Religion in the true shape of it and because it is true this is it that I find farre banished by this Roote of Prophanenesse And though I much lament it yet I doe not greatly wonder at it for I see a Cause of it and therein I see that while men are nothing but men this will be their fashion For Religion in the Truth of it must needs be Spirituall Ioh. 4. for it is the worship of him who is a Spirit and therefore cannot bee pleased by any worship but of Spirit and Truth Now if Religion bee Spirituall how can it bee but it must needs be contemned yea hated by men that are carnall For the carnall minde is enmity against God Rom. 8. 7. and the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other And from this Contrariety ariseth that Enmity and from that Enmity ariseth Persecution euen from the beginning vnto the end of the world For this two fold seed of the flesh and the spirit hauing the foundations of it laid in Paradise the Enmity then also was enacted between them And as then Cal. 4. 29. I meane as soon as men were borne he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was borne after the spirit so is it now Now doth the flesh despise and oppose spirituall worship and spirituall worshippers which opposition so farre as it doth preuaile so farre doth the generall roote of sinne preuaile and the sins springing from that roote And because the Diuell is the Prince of this Enmity hee fitteth weapons for this warre wherwith the sonnes of the flesh may fight his battells against the sons of the spirit And of all the weapons which he hath prouided in these last Ages I thinke he neuer inuented any Engine made of words more seruiceable to him than one which of late hee hath brought into fashion For it is a sharpe-pointed word directed to runne into the very eye of true Religion it is a Canon mounted to batter the very Kingedome of Christ to lay wast all holinesse of life the fruite and effect of that Kingedome and this word is then shot off when a Saint is called a Puritane K. Iames in his Preface to Ba●● Doron And though King IAMES a King higher than the Kings of the earth in Learning and Iudgement tied the propertie of this word to Anabaptists their Sectaries it is now diuerted to Saints euen to those that doe not walke in the broad way of common and sociable vices and especially if they goe somewhat higher than ciuil and naturall Righteousnesse If the spirit doe but shew it selfe in some expression of a clearer light or more heauenly vertue than the darkenesse of the flesh comprehendeth it is to bee beaten down and quenched with the Title of Puritaisme Yet Christ plainely calleth his Disciples to excellent things Mat. 5. 20. 〈◊〉 16 3. New Tran and Dauid calleth the Saints by the Title of Excellent yea and for this very Reason in them is all his delight because they are Excellent and for this very Reason doth the man of flesh hate and persecute them And indeed in this very Excellence wherin the spiritual man exceedes the carnall and naturall man stands the glory of Gods Kingdome of Grace For when men doe those workes which the carnall and naturall men doe not sauour and therfore doe them not then are mens eies turned away from the men that doe them to God the Author of them and so seeing their good workes to shine

heart but if yee shall still doe wickedly yee shall be consumed For though prayers of Prophets and Priests be powerfull with God to draw down his mercy yet there is no vsuall course of mercy to bee expected by a sinfull and impenitent Nation Wee reade and heare that though God shew a great mercy euen mercy vnto thousands yet it is on them that loue him Luk. 1. 50. and keep his commandements And the mercy of God is vpon them that feare him from generation to generation Therefore before Samuel vndertakes to offer sacrifice and prayer for Israel hee speakes vnto Israel to put away their sinnes to prepare their hearts vnto the Lord and to serue him only And when they had done so and with fasting acknowledged their sinnes 1 Sam. 7. 3. c. then Samuel prayed and the prayer of Samuel was heard and the Lord sent them a deliuerance from heauen Wherefore let not the people thinke to cast all on the Ministers and imagine that good men in the Ministerie will serue to saue bad men in the Laitie But let them striue to be such by repentance and holines that the prayers of the Ministrie may bee heard for their preseruation For otherwise by their sinnes they binde the hands of the Ministers which they desire should bee lifted vp for them yea they cause God both to stop his owne eares and the mouthes of the Ministers For when they loue to wander and refraine not their feet from euill then comes forth that fearefull command Ier. 7. 16. Pray not for this people neither lift vp cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to mee for I will not heare thee And for their owne prayer that will not be heard though it come with fasting which also is and hath beene otherwise an aduancer of vndenyable prayer Ier. 14. 11. 12. When they fast I will not heare their crie Wherefore it concernes the people by turning from their sinnes to make themselues capable of the prayers of their Ministers and not to vrge them to speake by intreaties and to stop their mouthes by sinnes Let euery particular man search his particular sinnes according to directions already giuen and especially when hee feeles any griefe or sees any terrour let them feele and behold it as a spurre to repentance So shall lesser iudgements keepe off the greater it being a great mercy of God to chastise with rods to saue punishing with Scorpions and a great wisdome in man to make a right vse of this mercy Wherefore let the Land mourne for their sinnes that it mourne not for an vtter desolation All the families together Zach. 12. 12 13. 1. and euery familie apart and euery man apart And then in that day there shall bee a fountaine opened for sinne and vncleannesse to wash them away and the iudgements that follow them But howsoeuer the multitude doe Num. 11. 4. who most commonly are like the old mixed multitude rather giuen to murmuring when their lusts are vnsatisfied than to turning vnto him that smites them Esay 9. 13. let the mourners that are marked Ezek. 9. 4. doe the office for which they are marked If they reply that they are few and their fewnesse doth discourage them it may be answered The fewer they are the more they should mourne to supply that mourning which is wanting in others yea to mourne for that want Againe thou maist bee the man that may make vp the ten the twenty or thirty euen that set number which may saue a Sodome a sinfull City or Kingdome yea sometimes one man may stand in a gap and bee the repairer of a breach Amos Amos 7. was a man subiect to infirmities as we are and hee was but one yet a Iudgement being denounced when he said O Lord forgiue I beseech thee by whom shall Iacob arise for hee is small Then the Lord repented for this It shall not bee saith the Lord. Lastly though thou seeme to thy self to be alone and with Elias thou knowest no more yet with Elias thou maiest be deceiued 1. King 1. 6 10. 18. and there may bee seuen thousand which thou knowest not that haue not bowed their knee to Baal and thy mourning ioyned to the mourning of that remnant which the Lord hath left Esay 1. 9. may saue vs from being like vnto Sodome and Gomorrha Howsoeuer do thy part let the Souldier of Christ be found in his place euen when iudgements are comming If thou saue not all thou shalt be sure to saue thy selfe perchance temporally Ier. 1. 19. 39. 18. without doubt eternally And now to summe vp all I wish that both Magistrate Minister and people may go so throughly with the truth of repentance that sinnes and sinfulnesse being put off the iudgements that cleaue vnto them may also be put off And because this is not done but by putting on the spirit of Christ Iesus by the power wherof the kingdome of Sathan is put downe and the kingdome of Christ erected I pray that wee may come to this point of putting on the spirit of Christ Iesus All the rest is but the forme of godlinesse but in the spirit of Christ is the life of godlines howsoeuer men may flatter themselues they are not Christians except they bee one spirit with Christ Iesus For CHRIST being called Rom. 8. 9. Christ because he is anointed 1. Cor. 6. 17 aboue his fellowes with the Psal. 45. 7. spirit without measure Cant. 1. 3. wee are truly to bee called Christians by beeing annointed with the same spirit according to our measure But no annointing no true Christianitie But if this ointment dwell in vs 1. Ioh. 2. 27. then haue wee Christ Iesus and with him all the promises of God 2. Cor. 1. 20 21. for in Christ Iesus all the promises of God are Yea and Amen Psal. 78. 49. Then haue wee power to wrestle and ouerthrow the principalities and powers which are often the Inflicters of the iudgements of God and continually the Tempters prouoking vs to those sinnes for which iudgements are inflicted For it is the Spirit of Christ only that settles a Church and makes it a pillar of Truth vnremoueable by Sathan And most commonly where a Church is thus settled the Nation is also settled which containes such a Church and the Diuell is not suffered to preuaile against the later because of the former But when a Church growes spiritually cold turnes from the life and heart of godlinesse to an outside of profession then God growes cold to vs in loue but in wrath hee growes hote against vs. If a Nation turne from the spirit to the flesh though they be as great as the gyants in the old world and as the Anakims in the new yet they are but great pieces of flesh and an ouerflowing floud will destroy the one and a destroying sword will cut off the other When the daies of