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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51248	An heavenly wonder, or, A Christian cloath'd with Christ purposely penned to comfort Christs sin-sick-spouse / by Sam. Moore, minister of the gospel of God sometimes at Brides in Fleetstreete, London.	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1650 (1650)	Wing M2586A; ESTC R232290	37,531	104

as though they were Holiest Majesty pleaseth to overlooke greatest impuritie sinnes of Saints are superlative as acted under the received Soveraigntie of Christ their King yet behold a wonder Saints sinne and doe not sinne have spots and are spotless Exod. 15. 11. it s his saying who 's wonderfull in Pro. 10. 12. holinesse There 's a sin-covering Love which has covered and conquered corruptions of Saints yea multitudes by multipli'd pardons her sinnes which were many are forgiven Luk. 7. 47. her this bids the godly Bee of good cheere Saints sins are ever before them yet cast behinde their God My sinne is ever before mee Psal 51. 3. sayes the soule in Languor and then makes melody with her fathers love Thou in love to my soule ●sa 38. ●7 hast cast all my sins behinde thy backe Their Crimson sinnes have lost their colour and had their Sepulture in their Saviours wounds their foule sinnes are lost in this open fountaine to whom themselves are a fountaine sealed yea Zech. 13. 1. his fountaine of purest springs and fairest gardens Thus speakes hee whose lippes like Lillies drop sweet Cant. 4.12 15 smelling Myrrhe There 's no spot in thee Cant. 5. 13. The word in the Originals of three Languages imports any out-ward blemish in the body as blind lame or deformed in any limbe or Levit. 21. 18. 21. Deut. 15. 21. and 17. 1. Rev. 14. 1. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 undè 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Chaldee Mum● quo verbo L●x illud frequenter reddunt Macula ●●abes vitium part and is here fitly appli'd by the Holy Ghost to blemishes in the soule h. e. sins vices and spots of the inward man Christ when he wooes his Bride to winne her works over those miracles on her soule which he was wont to worke upon bodies of old makes the blinde to see the deafe to heare the dumbe to speake the lame to walke and the dead to live againe sets all to rights where he comes to cohabite Christ is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spotlesse and a Christian is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too they are both immaculate their union grounds it so in the Text the Spouse is said to have no spot in 1 Pet. 1. 19. Eph. 5. 27. V●●ij expers irreprehensibilis in quibus nec momos invenit quod carpat Cornelius a Lapide her too That place in the first of John the third ninth verse gives you a light into the opening of this phrase of speech Hee that 's borne of God doth not commit sinne for his seede remaineth in him and he cannot sin because hee 's borne of God he sins not viz. unto death as some will he sins not viz. he resists sin as others he sins not viz. as a servant or subject of sin say a third sort Propriè significat rem aliquam certis qualitatibus orno dicitur enim à nomine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qualis Leig C●●r Sac. the Greek is very emphaticall and signifies so to sinne as to make a trade of sin to make it ones work and businesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 q. d. hee do's not act the sin do's not sin artificially as doe others ha's no art in sinning though he act it he do's not art it do's not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make much of sin not curiously and industriously adorne and set it forth with all art and skill as the word properly imports One place more in he eight of John and the thirtie fourth verse where t●e same word is used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin but the best of men commit sinne even of them who are Christs own servants freed from sin the meaning then of that place is this hee sins as a servant of sin who makes sin makes a trade of sinning So in the Romans that which our translation ha's Fullfill not the lusts of the ●om 13. 14. flesh the Greek ha's it Doe not make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. the lusts of the flesh Hee that committeth sin is of the Devill sayes the Scripture that is that creates sin for sin is the Devills Creature his workmanship and his Children his John 3. 8. works they will doe said Christ to the boasting Jewes There 's no spot in thee some spots are not the childrens wee 'l shew which they are next in what sence they 'r spoken spotlesse how and why so called SECT 2. 1. UNpardonable spots are not the Spouses shee cannot out-sin pardons shee may sin away the comforts of her body but can shee sin away her soule an unpardonable sin is a sin unto death such killing crimes shee perpetrates not sinnes against the Father and sins against the Sonne may be forgiven but sins against the Spirit shall ne're be forgiven shee s on the other side the grave of the last sin mentioned shee has no sin that God has not pardoned hence her sin is not now iniquities of Israel are sought for and there are none and Judahs Jer. 50. 20. Mr. Caryll on Job Chap. 7. v. 21. p. 717. sins shall not be found because pardoned as was promised as Jeremiah hath it pardon of sin destroys sin as to forgive a debt is to make it no debt so a pardon'd sin is in Gods account no sin pardon of sin is our acquittance from sin our quietus est sealed in the bloud of the Lambe all proscesse at Law is to to such staid prohibited as to them They have a Propitiator hee 's their propitiation saith John in Hebrew Copher he coffers up as 1 Joh. 2. 2. it were and covers all their sins hee 's their covering the Apostle seemes to speake him so in allusion to the Arke covering the two Tables within it The mercy-seate covering the Arke and the Cherubims covering the mercy-seate and one another so Christ has covered a Christians sins all his sins and the curse sins demerit and him has the Father set forth for the remission ●om 3. 25. of their sinnes set forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pointing out the same thing even with the finger as the word is for remission 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the relaxion ●ioda●e or releasement of sin as of bonds or fetters as the Greeke has it Christs Love cannot sin an unpardonable sin O Spouse speak thou ● full descrip●●on of the sin ●gainst the ●oly Ghost canst thou doe despight to the Spirit of grace persecute the known truth and the Author thereof sinning willfully what canst thou after Heavenly illumination partnership in the Spirit tasts of Heavenly gifts with the good word of God and the Powers of the world to come decline Father Sonne and Spirit prove an Apostate fall away and sin remorslesse thou canst not sweet Lambe is never Bride of his served him so had such straitned bowells towards him such sinners cannot be renewed by repentance shall never have

pardon in this world nor that which is to come 't is the saying of Christ the Judge and why for thou actest afresh Crucification of Christ to thy selfe art a Caitife shame-Christ fresh-kil-Christ Quasi dicat Christ was alive to thee and in thee not only in patefaction and manifestation but in operation but now he that lives in himselfe to others is dead to thee and with the life of Christ hast thou lost the life of all that 's good for thy better part how will hee quicken thee no more never intreate wooe or beseech thee any more never wil heavenly gales of the Spirit reach thy heart more Who reads these lines that trembles at truth and is void of regret now all ordinances duties services are life-lesse love-lesse to such a soule who will cry when too late as hee I wretched in my selfe dying Nil misero vivit moriente mihi nothing is alive to mee But I feare sometimes may a loyall soule say this is my spot and I have find in this very kinde I would faine know the worst by my selfe an universall hardnesse of heart attends it There 's a twofold hardnesse of heart one in those who never did or can sin in so high a measure the other in them who are flagitious in this highest degree of sinning hardnesse of heart in the first sort is like the hardnesse of water congealed an Isicle or Icie hardnesse which is such as that for some season it may bear burdens of weight and bulke but when once the Sun with its lasting heate of raies and beames smiles upon it dissolves melts away into its owne liquid moisture as at first so here poore soule thou criest out I have a hard heart O what shall I doe I reape no good from the word or works of God thrive not under thriving meanes and sometimes sayst thou hast sin'd this sinne Consider sad soule thou art hardned but by fits thy winter lasts not long thy summers Sun is coming and brings along with it the Sabbath of those thoughts Jesus Christ will shine out unto thee with a continued smile and then thy hardnesse will loose it nature mercy can mollifie such in a matchlesse manner Peter Math. 26. 70. ad sinem Luk. 22. 54. to 63. a good man yet had he a very hard heart for a time an unworthy unkind servāt to his Master the while when sweet Christ was had to the high Priests Hall hee would not own him was ashamed of him followed him a far off and when he had entred the House den●'d him did it thrice bound his sayings with an oath and a curse to prove he knew not the man yet for all this kinde Christ by one look of Love thawed his frozen hard heart that it melted like wax in the sight of the Sunne he wept bitterly not without cause But secondly hardnesse in such as have sin'd this sin is such as is the hardnesse of a Stone a stony hardnesse which the more it hath of the Sun the more its hardened still such wax worse and worse and after the hardnesse of their hearts heap up the reward of misdeeds hence the same Sun that softens wax hardens clay makes the soft iron hard and the hard steele soft the hot fire coole and the cold water warme Have such their hearts broken by judgements the hardnesse remaines still save that 't is dispersed into severall parts broken parcells as a stone that 's broken all to pieces is a stone still retains its hardnesse in the least of its parts as truly as when 't was united and in the whole thereof There hardnesse is Homogeneous Homogeneum est quod constat● ex partibus idem nomen cun● to●o habentibus Keck System Log. l. 1. c. 22 like that of a stone each small portion retaining the nature and name of the whole Quaelibet pars aqua est aquae every drop of water is water and every sparke of fire is fire so is such hardness though dispersed divided taken in pieces such may have their legall fractions but strangers they will be to all evangelicall contrition and spider-like sucke they poyson from the same flower the Bee sucks honey 2. Losse of feeling and alienation from the life of God as Paul to the Ephesians speakes darknesse Eph. 4. 18 19 of understanding and blindnesse of heart Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hardnesse brawninesse a hoofe upon their Collum obductum Trap. hearts brawny brests horny heart-strings a metaphor taken from hardest hands of hardest labourers under a dead and dedolent disposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De●olentes Desperantes Mo●tanus desperately sinfull and remorslesse fearelesse of the Majestie of God to which is added a cauteriz'd conscience like Devills having nothing to doe with God loth to be tormented before their time and a contracted hardnesse through custome in sin so as neither Ministry nor misery nor miracle nor mercy can molifie their hearts being dry stiffe inflexible and sencelesse impenitent having a lifelesse frame as to the use of means being bereft of all and singular checks of conscience sinning unsmitten and not at all wounded in Christ his wounds the last degree and fullnesse of that sad alienation from the light and life of God Men when so sick that their excrementalls passe through them insensibly are then mortally sicke we say so such can thinke speake and act any thing all lasciviousnes and uncleannesse that with greedinesse voide of all sence and feeling which argues they have the initium pregustion beginning and Vide Mat. 13. 13 14 15. first tast of spirituall and eternall death already hence matter of holy and heavenly Melody is to them Simulata sanctitas est duplex iniquitas as Musicke in a dead mans eares or language to a stocke or stone which penetrates not That the Quondam high flowne but now ●ouly and low fallen professors of this age be not of this number faxit deus it is my desire if to God it seeme good O foolish and unkinde can loosenesse of life speake out your love to the Lord blush you not at all when you looke on the Lambe that was slaine must he indeed be twice slain what by you is Iscariot alive still can you like Caveatur osculum Iscarioticum that kill Christ kisse and kill together what againe and againe were not his wounds widened before canst thou adde afflictions to his bonds who owned and reliev'd thee in Chaines sought thee out and refreshed thy bowells Canst thou thou that didst once cry up Christ be vicious when he is gracious avertat deus Sipio when an Harlot was offered Vellem si non essem imperator him could say I would if I were not a Generall say thou if I were not a Christian will some doe so much for their honour and canst thou doe lesse for thy God SECT 3. 2. THe spot of presumptuous sin is not the Spouses that 's the great