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A23813 The grand conspiracy of the members against the mind, of Jews against their King as it hath been delivered in the four following sermons / by John Allington, (a sequestered divine). Allington, John, d. 1682. 1654 (1654) Wing A1209; ESTC R15485 77,977 218

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are now become primi occupantis catch that catch may The ready way to provoke God if not already so far incens'd to give such over even to a reprobate mind that is to follow the Law of the Members which undoubtedly will at length bring even to the gates of death Eccles. 18.30 31. Go not after thy lusts but refrain thy self from thine Appetites for if thou givest thy Soul the desires that please her she will make thee a laughing stock to thine enemies that maligne thee The ready way to captivate the Mind and to bring its Soveraignty under the power of Malignant Enemies is to give way to thy Lusts and to let the Members prescribe a Law unto thee let them but have their desires and thou shalt soon be made a laughing-stock to thy Enemies round about thee It is very likely as the Devill to our Saviour thy Members may promise thee a condition most glorious All the Kingdomes of the World and the glory of them will I give thee That is all possible content and Honour But if thou once fall down and worship if thou wilt suffer thy Mind to prostitute and yeild up it self unto the Members they will soon instead of a glorious state bring thee to an ungracious servitude They will not allow thy Mind a Negative in any thing for the ambition of sin is to reigne in our mortall Bodies What then must the Mind do without doubt Warre it must for as therefore the Inferiour may not War because it hath a Superiour to appeal unto even so on the contrary for as much as the Mind is the Supreme War she may yea War she must against the Members for she for them not they for her must be accountable to God Ever since the days of Job it hath passed for a rule The life of Man is a warfare and ever since the Prophet Micah's time it hath been delivered as a Caveat A mans enemies are those of his own house Now the Generalissimo or chief Commander in this War it hath ever been the regenerate Mind The Mind of man even in all ages hath been entrusted yea commanded to this War commanded to charge upon to subdue and reduce the Members The weapons of our Warfare saith St. Paul are not Carnall but mighty through God Aske you what to do It straight followeth To the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ A larger Commission was never granted then the Regenerate minde hath For should the Members Garison themselves as they too oft do within the strong works of Ambition Pleasure Profit she is even by him that is able promised relief enough even to the pulling down of those strong holds nay she may not leave so much as an imagination nay not any thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God Yea what power can be desired in a Commission which she hath not To lead Captivity Captive power she hath for to the obedience of Christ she is bound to bring into Captivity even every thought Power over life and limb she hath for saith our Saviour If thy right hand offend thee ●ut it off if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out Power she hath to afflict to kill yea to put her enemies and Rebels to the most not only painfull but most shamefull death Mortifie your Members which are upon Earth yea not only so but our Flesh Affections Lusts they must be Crucifyed They must because they have been Traytors and Rebellious be put not only to death but to a shamefull death not only must we mortifie but crucifie the Members And indeed till the Mind shall thus do we can neither look for peace nor truth Affectus corrumpunt Intellectum As Bribes blind the wise even so the Affections and Members they corrupt and pervert Judgement As Justin Martyr of old Scimus quosdam ad iracundiam suam evangelium pertrahentes observed that some made the Gospell to be suitable to their fury even so nothing must be truth nothing must passe for good or godly nothing must men make conscience of where the Members Lusts and Passions are predominant nothing may such a Mind passe either for Law or truth but only what liketh and pleaseth them And as no Truth even so no Peace where there are ruling Members ruling Members being ever as Turbulent to the Mind as ruling Elders will prove unto the Church And therefore if whilest yet we may see we will what belongs to our Peace resolve we must to submit to the Ordinance of God to bring every thing under that Obedience which he hath made the supreme that is the Subjects to their King and the Members to the Mind So shall we enjoy unity of Spirit in the bond of peace so shall we indeed be as St. Peter speaks A chosen Generation a royall Priesthood an holy Nation a peculiar People Perchance some may dream unlesse the Members may have power to curbe the Mind the Mind as supreme may with all impunity oppress and destroy the Members whereas indeed so fearfull vengeance as for the supreme Offender there is none treasured up For as those blessings which are the immediate issues of Gods own hands are far more excellent then those which by ordinary means are conveyed to us even so those wretches those miscreants which God hath reserved to his own immediate punishing those of all Creatures are most miserable Tophet was ordained of old Yea for the King it was prepared The King who because Supreme can in this life have no Avenger for him witnesse Gods Truth though his Subjects use no other then right Christian Weapons Prayers and Tears there is torture enough prepared And indeed look but into our own breasts we may find conjecture enough of this severity for whoever as the Apostle speaketh is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} self-convicted whosoever is as the Poet renders it surdo verbere caesus lasht with the sting of an invisible whip whosoever is as Jeremy told Pashur he should be Magormissabib a terror to himself This bosome-vengeance this secret and private Executioner as it is upon the Supremest power so is it the severest torture And therefore it highly concerns the Mind to preserve it self and to order according to Gods Law the motion of every Member For the power of Law and War it is in the Supreme and that is the Mind and therefore her Members must have no other but the Law she from God and they from her must take their Government So shall men be able to give God the glory and to suppresse that unnaturall War which sin fomenteth in the Members Rom. 6.12 Let not sinne reigne in your mortall bodies Whosoever gives Law unto us it is he that reigns over us unto what member or lust soever we yeild to obey that