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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02843	An antidote against the erroneous, or rather blasphemous, opinions of some people in this our corrupt age; concerning the true and real cause of man's falling into those gross and notorious sins, which do commonly prove his eternal ruine. : Made plain in a short discourse, being the substance of two sermons upon the 12, 14, 15. verses of the 1st chap. of St. James. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, &c. / By Samuel D'Assigny, a well-wisher to the Church of England's prosperity.	D'Assigny, Samuel, b. 1673 or 4	1698 (1698)	Wing D286; ESTC R171689	15,649	17

himself in plainer terms taketh it upon himself Ezek. 14.9 If the Prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing I the Lord have deceived that Prophet And in the 2d Chap. 2 Epist to the Thess at the 11th Verse God shall send them strong Delusions that they should believe a lye If so how doth our Apostle speak a truth here when he saith God tempteth no man unto evil For the better explication of these mysterious Expressions and withal to make it appear unto you how God shall be just and ●●t bath the natures and workers of such wickedness shall be asham'd before him Take I beseech you seriously these two things into your Christian consideration First That in all the Scriptures before alledged th●re is 〈◊〉 made of some precedent Iniquity in those ungracious Persons wh●●● God so dealeth with deserving and procuring the hand of God t●● heavily upon them Hath God hardned Pharoah surely ●●●●●●h ha●d●●● himself Exod. 8 32. Du●ities oft Hominum peccatum O 〈…〉 s●●th 〈◊〉 so it was with this Obstinate Sinner saith S. A●g●●●● D●●● 〈…〉 Ju●●●●●●●ys● 〈◊〉 per l●●erum a●b●trium God hardned 〈◊〉 by his just Judgment but Pharoah first hardned himself by his 〈◊〉 free Wi●l Did he give over the Gentiles to a reprobate Sense Filthiness not to be 〈◊〉 of Look into the 〈◊〉 of the Rom. at 27 and you shall find the Apostle there to Answer in God's behalf that it was a Recommence or Reward of their former Errors or because they chan●●d the truth of God into a lye worship'd the Creature more than the Creator and turn'd the Glory of an incorruptible God into the Image of a corruptible Man and wherefore were they misled with strong delusions but because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved Thus God as a just Judge seeing the Heart of Man to be wholly bent upon Wickedness doth inflict upon him the Spiritual Punishment of induration slumber blindness or the like punishment I say for when Sin is plagn'd with Sin as it is many times in the Wisdom of God whereby he governeth the World then it is not Peccatum but Judicium not Sin but Judgment Thus St. A●gustin speaking of the hardning of Pharoah's Heart he thus concludeth God indeed did incline 〈◊〉 will of Phar●●h being Evil of it self in this Sin but it was by his Just and Secret Judgment D●●● non est Author Pe●cati ut est Peccatum sed ut est ●●●●a P●●●at God i● n●t the Author of Sin as it is Sin but as it is the punishment of those former Sins which we have so presumptuously committed 〈◊〉 his Divine Majesty But 2dly The second thing which I would 〈◊〉 you to consider is this That whatsoever God doth in the Action of Sin●ing as in hardning of Pharoah's Heart or any other the like Judgments he doth it not by infusing any Wickedness into their hearts 〈◊〉 infused no Wickedness into the Heart of Pharoah there was Infidelity Obstinacy and Rebellion before God did any thing in the matter as it evidently appears by that Speech of his unto Moses and A●●●● Exod. 5.2 Who is the Lord th●● I should hear his Voice and let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Thus Reader as this Doctrine hath been sufficiently proved suffer the Instructions I beseech thee arising from thence to be effectually enforced In the first place then if God be not the mover unto evil or the author of sin as the Apostle here affirmeth then let no man attribute his sin unto God by saying God moved me to do thus or thus For perditio tua ex t● O Israel thy sin is of thy self and thou art the cause of thy own ruine We cannot but be sensible that it is a great wickedness of this present Age too too heathenish to impute the fault when they have sinned unto the Stars and Planets by saying they were born under a Malignant Planet and that the Stars had fore-signed their going awry But to this St. Austin answers and saith that the Grace of God doth not only excell all the Stars and Planets in Heaven but also controlleth the very Angels and Devils in Hell And if you look into the 10th Chap. of Jeremiah at the 2d Verse you shall not only find this judicial Astrology to be condemned as a heathenish invention but also the People of God to be forewarned that they should not relye upon such vain signs and constellations 2dly Others there be which stick not at this only but reach more immediately at God himself by saying God would have it thus and thus and if God would not I could not have done it for who can resist his power Thus when they have spilt the blood of the innocent like water upon the ground defiled their Neighbours beds and provok'd Heaven with many presumtuous sins as Rapes Robberies Murthers Treasons and the like they will spue out a Blasphemy against God himself by countenancing their sins under his authority and by pleading that they have done but the will of God in committing such wickedness against him 'T is true but it is a will against his will that because they did not value or regard that which God had publickly enjoyned them they should do another thing which he had privately determined and he that fulfilleth the will of God in this manner or rather the will of God is fulfilled upon him will certainly without timely and unfeigned repentance perish unto all Eternity I am now come to the second Argument which the Apostle produceth here to prove his former proposition which is drawn from the corruption of Man 's own Nature arising out of these words but every Man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed As if the Apostle should have said here but every Mans falling into any Sin comes from himself his own Treacherous sensual Appetite suggests and tenders him some sensitive carnal baits and so consequently by them draws him out or his Course and entices him unto Sin God then is neither the Mover not the Author nor the perfecter of any evil Action that proceeds partly from our own Corruption and partly from the suggestions of Satan for our Natures being through the ●ail of ou● first Parents corrupted our desires are defiled and being defiled rebel against the rules and dictates of right Reason and so hu●●y u●on headlong unto all uncleanness to draw iniquity with cords of Vanity and sin as it were with Cart-ropes Now what shall we ●ay that God is the cause of this Original Corruption ●●●●ly no But every Man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own ●ust and enticed God placed Man at first in a perfect state of happiness of innocently and integrity for he made him pure in his Body pure in his Soul and pure in the 〈…〉 Soul 1. For his Body though it was formed out of the Dust yet we must consider that