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A04389	The haughty heart humbled: or, The penitents practice: in the regall patterne of King Ezekiah Directory and consolatory to all the mourners in Sion, to sow in teares, and to reape in ioy. By S.I. preacher of Gods Word.	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1628 (1628)	STC 14510; ESTC S120707	108,145	145

but once out of the fire they grow hard and cold and congealed as euer yea that as lukewarme water in the winters frost they will freeze faster then euer they thawed and heated vnlesse they retaine their warmth by some heat and reflection from afflictions fire If it were thus with Ezekiah as my Text and Context plainly demonstrates and with Dauid and the best of Gods seruants then sure it is and will bee so with vs our lesse Grace stands need of quickning our stronger corruptions haue more need of curbing and restraining by the Bit and Rod of Correction then euer theirs had CHAP. III. SECT 1. The best men subiected to their falls their failings THirdly in Ezekiah so good and so godly a man euen a Phoenix amongst men yet as the Scripture saith of Elias a man subiect to infirmities p Iames 5.17 as wee are culpable here in a sinne of omission in ingratitude in not rendring thanks gratulatory and Eucharisticall Praises proportionable to the mercy receiued of life and health after transgressing in a sinne of commission in shewing his Treasures in the pride of his heart to the Ambassadors of the King of Babel we may see in him the condition of the rest the best of men that as the bright Sun is subiect to clouding and eclipsing the cleare Moone to her waining and shadowing and ouercasting the strongest and healthfullest body to a sickning a feauer an ague a weakning the purest lawne to a spotting and polluting the nimblest ioynts subiected to falling the most metald horse to his stumbling so the best of men are subiect to sinning the holiest of men haue their infirmities * Vide etiam et testimonia patrū praecipue Augustini in Psal 5. in lib. 1. de nuptijs et concupisc cap. 25. in tract 41. in Ioh. et in lib. 1. de peccat meritis cap. 23. as the purest gold hath his drosse the best corne his weedes the fullest eares their awnes and their huskes to begin from the beginning of mans fall and to reflect euer since on mans frailty Abrahams denying q Gen. 12. v. 13. Gen. 20.2 and twise dissembling his owne wife Iacobs fraudulency and subtilty r Gen. 25.31 Gen. 27.19 in twise defrauding his brother Esau Ioseph swearing ſ Gen. 41.15 by the life of Pharaoh Iudahs incest with his daughter in Law t Gen. 38.25 Rubens incest with his mother in Law u Gen. 35.22 Lots incest * Gen. 49.36 with his own daughters Moses his murmuring x Numb 20.12 13. et 27.14 and infidelity Aaron his emulation y Numb 12.2 and consenting to Idolatry z Exod. 23.5 Dauid his adultery a 2 Sa. 11.4.17 bloodshed in defiling Vriahs his bed his blood his conniuence at his childrens sins b 1 King 1.6 his iniustice c 2 Sam. 16.4 towards Mephibosheth his dissembling d 1 Sam. 27.10 11. with King Achish his pride of heart in numbring his people e 2 Sam. 24.1 Salomons Idolatry f 1 King 11. concubinary vncleannesse Polygamy with the Polygamy of all the Patriarkes Sampsons g Iudg. 16.1 4. effeminate folly Iob h Iob 3.3 Ieremie i Ier. 20.14 15 16. Elias impatiencie k 1 King 19.4 Zacharies incredulity l Luke 1.20 Peters deniall m Luk. 22.57 temporizing n Gal. 2.12 13. disswasion of Christs passion o Matt. 16.22 Thomas his doubting p Iohn 20.25 and strange diffidence all the Disciples culpable ignorance want and weaknesse of faith q Mark 16.13 Iames and Iohns fiery zeale r Luke 9.54 and aspiring presumption ſ Mat. 20 20 21 Paul and Barnabas dissention and diuision t Acts 15.39 Or to come to history Augustines once Manichisme and luxury i Apud Cent. Magd. cent 5. cap. 10. pag. 1113. Cyprians k Funccius fol. 103. et tom 1. conc p. 242. Rebaptization Tertullians Montanisme l Magd. cent 3. p. 235. Origens Idolatry m Niceph. lib. 5. c. 12. Chrysostom and Epiphanius hot and hasty bickerings n Socrates l. 6. c. 12. et 14. et cent 3. c. 9. and carnall mutuall reuilings Ierome and Ruffinus o Extant scripta strange and strong vnbrotherly oppositions c. Or to come to neerer times Beza his once youthfull light and wanton verses Luther as also Zwinglius in their heats and intemperancies euery where breaking out in their writings and disputings Picus Miradula his wanton effeminacy with the Ladies and Curtizans of Rome p De eius vita et morte P. Iouius colipsing all that glory which he had wonne by his learned and witty writings and disputations together with all these Neui as Scultetus calls them q Passim in medulla patrum these warts defects and wants which Illiricus the Germane Centuries and our Modernes obserue in the writings of the Fathers in the Greek and Latine Church * Hence haue we the errours o● Iustin Mart. apud Magd. cent 2. pag. 212. Of Ambrose apud Osiandrum in Epit. cent lib. 3. pag. 391. Of Theophilus apud eundem cent 4. l. 4. p. 454 Hence read we too of good Constantine murthering his sonne Licinius apud eundem cent 4. lib. 2. pag. 143. Of Theodosius bloodshed lib. 4. pag 442. Of the East and West Churches dissenting apud Funccium folio 101. Et Magdab Cent. 2. pag. 152 ad p. 163. these al these with the experience of al Ages Times in all Countries Churches Families c. doe plainely and demonstratiuely write vpon the Columnes and Pillars of Truth That as soone shall wee finde the heauens euer without clouds the ayre without stormes the Sea that moues without froth Corne growing without Chaffe or huskes as any meere man yea the best man without his sinnes his frailties his infirmities prudently sing one Adam Sampsonem Dauidem Salomonem Decepit Mulier quis modo tutus erit If Adam Sampson David Salomon By Women fell from all sinnes pure who one Nay nay posse non peccare to haue stood in integrity so farre as to fall or not to fall was once in the power of Adams freewill but now non posse peccare not to be able to fall at all since in Adams fall we haue lost our selues and our freewill as Luther t De seruo Arbitrio learnedly disputes this is proper onely to God and the elect Angels who euen by Christs redemption haue obtained the Grace of Confirmation in the purity of their created integrity without euer dainger of falling much lesse falling away as the Reprobate Angels and men do the very heathen u Horatius could see thus much with the eies of nature that sine vitijs nemo nascitur optimus ille qui minimis vrgetur There 's no man borne without his faults his failing The Best is he in whom sinne 's least preuailing From whence no doubt of it came also the prouerbs Bonus dormitat

and calme shore stand still and admire many particulars in the meanes and manner how and by what wayes some distressed passengers in a tempestuous storme escaped shipwracke and drowning helped at a dead lift as they say by some speedy Boate or Pinnace comming to them which Pinnace fraughted with so many rescued and saued distressed wights as Ezekiah and his Israelites is Humiliation to this they flye in this they are safe and secure from all the windes and waues of surging wrath To make some vse to our selues of this happy Barge still offered as at hand to vs to saue vs in the like cases and straits which wee are or may be in by our ouer-burthening sinnes indaingering daily the drowning of our soules in the floods of wrath we might following the Card and Compasse of our Text hoisting vp sailes in this soules ship this strong and low-deckt Humiliation touch vpon two points further Ezekiahs act effect the Penitents practice and his comforts c. But because in this great sea of matter obuious before vs in which we purpose God willing to discouer and discourse of as so many Ilands and Countries from the grounds laid downe the nature quality parts fruits and effects of this humiliation our spirituall nauigation is like to be long tedious as it hath beene now already desiring in our next setting forth the sweet Fauonian windes and gentle gales of the Spirit vpon our sailes we will for this time as a breathing space from our former and a preparatiue to a future labour deliberating by renewed meditations vpon our intended course as may be most for Gods glory and the poore penitents peace as here victualling a while and taking in fresh water we conclude our first part referring and reseruing as the best wine last a second intended part of this penitentiall proiect in further and fuller prescribing the precepts and practice of renewed repentance The second Part. THE HAVGHTIE heart humbled OR The Penitents Practice with The Penitents Peace The fourth Sermon The Text. 2 Chron. 32.26 Notwithstanding Ezekias humbled himselfe for the pride of his heart hee and the inhabitants of Ierusalem so that the wrath of the Lord came not vpon them in the dayes of Ezekiah CHAP. I. SECT 1. When Gods wrath is either feared or felt humiliation of all and euery one is to be practised I Will vse no repetitions for our natures are so desirous of nouelties that wee say not of old matter repeated againe as of old wine in respect of new the old is better but wee would bee fed with variety a Certa prodest varia delectat yea somtimes with quailes in our curiosity rather then Manna otherwise I could bee content to reflect on things formerly deliuered and giue you at least the abstract of all in a briefe Epitomie Onely as a ground worke of our further intended fabricke which is as in other materiall buildings to pull downe and to raise vp to pull downe the haughtie proud some pegs lower and to lift vp the humbled penitent some straines and notes higher I desire you to remember thus much in the last propounded point pretermitting purposely all the rest that Ezekiah for the remouall of that wrath which was vpon him and his people humbles himselfe as also the inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem from whose president according to my purpose and promise I first prescribe my Penitents practice That a whole Nation and euery particular man yea euery particular family and euery soule which is of yeares of discretion capable of godly sorrow for sin ought to humble themselues before the Lord in fasting weeping mourning c. in the Church the familie the Oeconomie when the wrath of God is either threatned or feared or felt according to the proportion of this wrath in the extension or the limitation of it for if it hold this humiliation in a whole nation then much more in a family in a particular person sinning or punished for sinne neither indeed is this precept calling for practice any paradox but such as is propt with the pillars of truth and wants not reasons Theologicall to confirme it beside many moe euen from Gods owne command and the practice of his Church from time to time with her members First for Gods command Ioel as the mouth and message of God summons all of all sorts all sinners to this humiliation enumerating the iudgements of God vpon their lands and fields by the deuouring Palmerworme Locust Canker-worme and Caterpiller hee inuites the drunkards to weepe and howle b Ioel Chap. 1. v. 5 6 7.15 16. Chap. 2. ver 12 13. like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth he inuites the husbandmen to be ashamed the vinedressers to howle yea he inuites the Priests and Ministers of the Altar to lament and lye all night in sackcloath to sanctifie a Fast and call a solemn assembly yea he commands the Elders and the Inhabitants of the land to be gathered into the house of the Lord and to cry vnto the Lord yea with more vehemency as redoubling his iniunction hee would haue all and euery one from the highest to the lowest Prince Priest and people euen elders and youngers to turne to the Lord in fasting weeping and mourning to rent their hearts and not their garments c. yea he spares not the very bride and and bridegroome but brings them out of their chamber and closet to weepe and mourne before the Lord. This constant note sung all the rest of the Prophets as Esay before him anatomizing the corruptions of Israel that from the crowne of the head to the soale of the foot there was nothing but wounds and blaines and corruptions and putrifactions c Esay 1.6 the very heads and rulers like the heads of great fishes stinking and the whole body of the Communaltie smelling ill calling for their vncleanness●● their Princes Princes of Sodom d ver 10. and the people a ●●●●●n of Gomorrah prescribing the clensing and purging 〈◊〉 ●edy for these pollutions euen their serious humiliation he excites them to wash themselues to make themse●ues cleane to cease to do euill e vers 16. learne to doe well to seeke iudgment releeue the oppressed iudge the fatherlesse plead for the widow hee prescribes them speciall parts of humiliation branches of repentance auersion from euil conuersion vnto God praeterita plangere to bewaile what is past to wash and wipe cleane plangenda non committere not to commit againe former sins bewailed * Haec vera penitentia cum quis sic confitetur vt crimen non repetat Ambrose so Ieremy as Gods Herauld proclaimes in this north that which is the very maine soule of humiliation without which it is dead and rotten and that is reuersion or true turning vnto God Returne returne O backsliding Israel f Ier. 3.14 So on this hearts string of humiliation touch also the Apostles and Iohn the Baptist Oh generation of