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Three sermons viz. The walking sleeper, the ministeriall husbandrie, the discouerie of the heart. Preached and published by Sam. Crooke.
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Crook, Samuel, 1575-1649.
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Commandements Psal 119.176 not that wee doe not sometimes goe astray and that wee aime and endeauour after perfection Phâ—l 3.12 13. not that we haue already attained thereto For this cause the Church in the entrance of this Song doth as well confesse her selfe blacke Cant. 1.4 as auouch her selfe comely and in these words no lesse complaineth of the drowsinesse of her flesh then reioyceth in the wakefulnesse of her spirit I sleepe but mine heart waketh For being to set before vs a sorrowfull type of her owne vnkind and sinful sluggishnesse denying entertainement to her louing Sauiour and of the chastisement inflicted on her for her amendement shee first telleth vs in what state shee was when her Lord made tender of loue vnto her to wit partly sleeping and partly waking A state mixed or compounded and that of contraries but with distinction as may seeme of the subiects wherein they are I sleepe that is my naturall or vnregenerate part but mine heart waketh that is the spirituall or regenerate part in mee Not that some one created part is in a Christian either regenerate or corrupt some other not but because the whole man and euery part is partly sanctified and partly sinfull partly spirit and partly flesh Herevpon it is truely said I sleepe that is mine whole nature is subiect to infirmitie through sinne or as Rom. 7.18 in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing and as truely mine heart waketh that is there is in me an hidden seede of God 1. Ioh. 3. a principle of Grace an inner man that suffereth me not to consent to sin but rowseth me vp and armeth me against it Rom. 7.22 so that it is no more I that doe it but sin that dwelleth in me Rom. 7.20 In a word the whole nature of man is as the ayre to wit a receptacle first by creatioÌ„ of light alone without darknes that is of grace without sinne since the fall of darkenesse alone without light sinne without grace after conuersion of a twylight light and darknesse grace and sin entermingled throughout and iustling at one another Gâ—l 5.17 Prou. 4.18 2. Sam. 3.1 but grace as the morning light or as the house of Dauid waxing stronger and corruption weaker Finally in Heauen as in Paradise shall bee no night no sinne at all but a perpetuall Sun-shine of grace without so much as any mist or cloud of corruption The summe then is that in this world the state of the Church and of euery member of it is a sleepie watchfulnesse or a waking sleepinesse that is a mixture of sleepe and waking sinne and grace flesh and spirit Which that wee may duely consider of let vs seuer them and begin with the former I sleepe THe Church confessing that shee sleepeth teacheth vs First that we all as many as are members of this body are apt to sleepe that is to be surprised with the infirmitie of the flesh notwithstanding the readinesse of the spirit Matth. 26.41 The spirit indeede is ready saith our Sauior of his drooping and drowsie Disciples but the flesh is weake For the opening of this point consider 1. What the spirituall sleepe is 2. In whom it is found What the spirituall sleepe is we shall see by comparing it with the naturall The naturall sleepe is a ligation or binding vp of the instruments of sense and motion caused principally by vapours ascending from the stomacke into the braine Secondarily by wearinesse extreme cold or heate frication Musik finally whatsoeuer doth either consume or benum the spirits the end of sleep is that the spirits and naturall heate retiring inward may attend to the refection and nourishment of the body Agreeably in the spirituall sleepe of sinne may be noted 1. The ligation of the spirituall senses whereby it commeth to passe that men haue eyes and see not Esa 6 9.10 eares and heare not 1. Cor. 2.14 hearts and vnderstand not the things of God neither can they perceiue them wanting the vse of spirituall sense because they are onely spiritually discerned 2. The surcease of spirituall motion the naturall man neither doing the workes Roâ— â— 12 17. nor walking the wayes of God 3 The causes are alike to wit Either principall the vapours of worldly and fleshly lusts 1. Pet. 2.11 Eph. 4. Luk. 21.34 fighting against the soule darkening the cogitations oppressing the heart and so shutting out all heauenly thoughts and affections or secondary as wearinesse in holy exercises such as surprised the three excellent disciples Mar. 14.37.40 whom our Lord chose to assist him in his agonie extream colde of feare Math 26.70 such as benummed S. Peter vnto the deniall of his Master and no lesse extreame heat of vnaduised zeale such as incensed the two sonnes of thunder to demand fire from heauen vpon the Samaritans by a falsely-supposed spirit of Elias Luk. 9.54 frication whereby the itching eare is scratched with fables or flatteries in stead of truth musicke 2. Tim. 4.3.4 whereby the diuell in his syrens the world and the flesh singeth lullaby spare thy selfe Reioyce O young man Math. 16.22 Eccles 11.9 1. Cor. 15.32.33 in thy youth Let vs eat and drinke for tomorrow we shall dye c. 4 The end of spirituall sleepe is that our care and endeuour being diuerted from heauenly things we may fully take thought for the flesh to satisfie the lusts thereof Rom. 13.14 Thus as the naturall sleepe leaueth little 1. Sam. 19.13 or no difference betweene Dauid and Michols Puppet so this spirituall sleepe of sinne maketh an Idoll of a man Looke what a thing an Idoll is saith the Psalmist that hath a mouth and speaketh not Psal 115.5.8 eyes and seeth not c. such is the Idolater such is euery sinner Euery sinner setteth vp an Idoll of sinne in his heart Ezek. worshipping the creature happily his owne creature and forsaking the Creator Rom. 1.25 and that Idoll of sinne taketh away the hart from God so filling it with the loue of the world Hos 4 11. 1. Ioh. 2.15 that the loue of the Father can finde no lodging nor entertainment Finally as the naturall sleepe is an image of death so is the spirituall Yea sleepe and death in this case as twinnes are ioyned yea confounded Lighten mine eies saith Dauid that I sleepe not in death Psalm 13.3 and the voice of the Gospell waking the spirituall sluggard as dead in trespasses and sinnes is Eph. 2. Awake thou that sleepest Eph. 5.14 and stand vp from the dead c. Such is the sleepe of sinne now let vs see who be the sleepers Wee shall find them to bee of three sorts 1 Sinners vncalled sleepers not yet wakened such all men are or were being borne sluggards none vnderstandeth none seeketh after God Rom. 3.10.11.12 none doth good c. Naturalists make it questionable whether man beginneth to liue