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A10081 Ianitor animæ: the soules porter to cast out sinne, and to keepe out sinne. A treatise of the feare of God. Written by William Price, Batchelour of Divinitie, and vicar of Brigstocke in Northamptonshire. Price, William, d. 1666. 1638 (1638) STC 20335; ESTC S113693 54,780 288

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vaunt of his sins then let the prisoner glory in his fetters the dogge in his vomit and the infefected person in his plague-sore This is presumption in language 3. There is presumption in action 1. When a man dishonoureth God in that place wherein GOD uses and ought to bee worshipped namely the Temple This is to abuse God to his face and in his own house Hos 7.2 2. When a man wilfully dishonours God in a time of generall humiliation when others are be way ling their sins afore God 3. When a man sets himselfe as in the presence of God and yet then dissembles with his lips As those that with Saint Augustine before his conversion pray against lust● and yet secretly wish that God would not heare their prayer And all that with spleenfull spirits come to the Communion professing before God that they are reconciled unto their brethren when they intend no such thing And those preachers that willingly deliver unsound doctrine to the people onely to corrupt them using the Name of God to poyson their hearers doing what in them lies to make God a lyer In a word knights of the Post with their hackny consciences that dare in a false oath cal down God to testifie to an untruth which is so horrid a crime that I am perswaded that many a man now damned in hel would have been ashamed to bee guilty of 4. When a man therfore breaks a commandment merely because it is a command As St. Augustine confessed that in his youth he robbed an orchard not because hee wanted apples Gens ●umanaruit in v●titum resat for hee had as good or better at home but only because he coveted what was forbidden 5. When therefore a man abuses GOD more because God is patient and long suffering Which sordidnesse of humane disposition Salomon takes notice of and brands Because saith hee sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily Eccle. 8.11 therefore the heart of the sonnes of men is fully set in them to doe mischiefe This is to sight against God with his own weapon To turne his grace into wantonnesse 6. When man runs into a knowne grosse sin that Gods watchmen his ministers have newly warned him of or then when the Holy spirit of God suggests motions to him to the contrary This is to quench the Spirit and to despise prophesying 1 Thes 5.19.20 Acts 7.51 1 Thes 4.8 to resist the holy Ghost and his instruments Lastly when a man the more revolts from God the more hee is smitten Isay 1.5 as they in Isay Like Pharoh whose heart was the more hardned the more the sorer plagues God inflicted on him Like the Thracians that then shoot their arrowes against heaven when it thunders and lightens Like Augustus who having beene tempest tost at Sea defied Neptune the Sea-God and in the middest of his Circean sports hee caused his im ge to be pulled downe to bee revenged of him Like Xerxes whoscourged the sea and wrote a bill of defiance against the hill Athos because they intercepted him in his expedition Me thinkes the very naming of these things should move us to ab horre them But to win more upon our affectio is let us consider 1. That this audacious presumption is a despising of God He that feares not GOD Quod non metuitur contemnitur Lactant. Pial 10 13 contemnes him Wherefore doe the wicked despise God sayth David For a superiour to despise his inferiour is no wonder but for a peasant to despise his Prince for a peece of clay for a worme to slight his maker is intolerable Hee that despiseth me 1 Sam. 2.30 shall be lightly esteemed sayth God Saint Paul was grieved at heart that by sinnes of infirmity hee offended his God The evill sayth hee that I would not I do Rom. 7.19.24 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver mee from this body of sinne Shall hee groane under infirmities and shall wee make no conscience of presumptions God forbid 3. What doest thou meane fond man to wrest Thunder-bolts out of the hand of God that would delight to powre blessings upon thee Who hath hardened himselfe against God Iob. 9.4 and prospered sayth Iob 2 Kings 19 Sennacherib slighted GOD and the fruit of it was an Angell in one ni●ht slew his army consisting of one hundred eighty and five thousand men and he himselfe returning home was slaine by his owne sonnes in the temple of his God Libanius a Philosopher at Antioch demanding of a good Christian in scorne How the Carpenters son meaning Christ busied himselfe He answered him that he was making a Coffin for him and indeed hee presently after dyed In the yeare of our Lord 510. one Olympius an Arrian Bishop in a B●th at Carthage blasphemed openly the holy Trinity and the words were scarce out of his mouth but lightning descended thrice from heaven Paul D●●● and at length consumed him Iulian the uncle of the Emperour Iulian comming into a Christian Church pissed in despight upon the Communion Table and struck Euzoius for reproving him for it But shortly after his entrails rotted and he voyded his excrements at his mouth and dyed And Foelix Iulian his Treasurer that jeered at Christ under the name of Maries sonne hee vomited blood night and day Theodoret till hee died You will say wee hope none of us shall ever runne into these extremities But yet let us know that every presumptuous sin against God binds us over to as great mischiefes as any I have named Will wee beleeve Saint Paul If sayth hee wee sin wilfully Heb. 10.26.27 after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a fearfull ezpectation of judgement 2 Pet. 2.9.10 and fiery indignation The presumptuous are reserved unto the day of judgement sayth Saint Peter The arrowes thou shootest against heaven shall fall back upon thine owne head againe Woe to him saith the Prophet that striveth with his Maker Isay 45.9 let the pot-sheards strive with the pot-sheards of the earth What gaine the waves by striking against a rocke they stirre not that but dash themselves in peeces It is hard for thee to kick against the prickes sayth our Saviour to Saul Acts 9.5 If you walk contrary to me Lev. 26.23.24 sayth God I wil walk contrary to you Oh then let that of David bee our prayer Psal 19.13 Keepe back thy servant from presumptuous from presumptuous sinnes let them not have dominion over mee then shall I be upright and innocent from the great transgression This presumption is a second vice contrary to the feare of GOD. And therefore Salomon opposes hardning of the necke unto feare Pro. 28.14 And Aristotle sayth that those that are fearlesse they slight God and man they are audacious and presumptuous This is the Goliah that biddeth defiance to God CHAP. XIII Of Superstitious feare and the