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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26346	God's eye on the contrite, or, A discourse shewing that true poverty and contrition of spirit, and trembling at God's Word is the infallible and only way for the obtaining and retaining of divine acceptation as it was made in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusetts Colony at Boston in New England May 27, 1685, being the day of election there / by William Adams.	Adams, William, 1650-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing A498; ESTC W12431	33,350	44

thou compass him as with a shield Concl. 5. The standing tryal of a person's and so a peoples Acceptation with God is their being of a poor and contrit spirite and trembling at His Word The Text is plain and peremptory for this from the Lords own mouth What is signified by these expressions was shown in the opening of the words In summe they imply the meek humble and lowly the evangelically poor contrite and tremblers at God's Word Here may be considered I. Who are they that are poor contrite and humble II. Whence it is that God accepts of and respects such III. How God doth accept and look upon them I. Who they are that are poor contrite and humble meek and lowly Or when a person or people may be said to bear the Character of the Text. And they are and doe so 1. When they are poor contrite and lowly in their Spirits and esteem of themselves Prov. 16. 19. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly when their spirits are humble Unto which Contrition and lowliness of spirit there is requisite the sense and acknowledgement 1. Of the infinite Distance and Disproportion that is betwixt GOD and them That they are wormes to the LORD Psal. 22. 6. But I am a worm If the nations be as the drop of a bucket and as the small dust which wo'nt turn the Ballance Isai. 40. 15. what then is a small handful of people and what are single persons to Him 2. Of their Guiltiness and Pollution by S●… The heart of the contrite-spirited person smites him and is wounded for his ●…in as its contrary to God's Will and Holiness His sins are before him Psal. 5. 1. 3. My sin is ever before me The sense of them in their numbers and aggravations take hold upon him and make his heart even to fail Psal. 40 12. For innumerable evils have compassed me about mine Iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up they are more than the hairs of my head therefore my 〈◊〉 faileth me And He is doubtful and afraid of unseen errours and faults Psal. 19. 12. Who can understand his errors Cleanse thou me from secret faults He trembles to think how many Words of God he hath cast behind his back and how prone he is stil so to doe For the less Corruption any one hath remaining i●… him the greater burden it is to him As on the Contrary they who have most Corruption in them feel it least 3. Of their Unworthiness to receive the least favour and mercy from God Genes 32. 10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant Luke 15. 19. and am no more worthy to be called thy son Look themselves through and through they can find nothing to build any claim upon to the smallest mercy All their righteousnesses they know are but filthy raggs Isai. 64. 6. Though they pray earnestly and ca'nt take a denial yet it is with a sense of their unworthiness to receive Dan. 9. 18 19. O my God encline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our Desolations and the City which is called by thy Name for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses but for thy great Mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord ●…earken and doe defer not for thine own Sake 4. Of their Forfeiture of all that which they have received from God already and Desert of the greatest Evil. That they deserve as to receive nothing further so to be stript of all that which they already have And therefore under all afflictions and bereavements when God comes out snarply against them they can heartily say He has punished us less then our iniquities deserve and It is th●… Lord's mercies that we are not consumed Ezra 9. 13. Lam. 3. 22. They know they live upon sparing Mercy and long-suffering and that if God should mark their iniquity they could not stand Psal. 130. 3. And therefore they humbly acknowledge that God has not dealt with them after their sins nor rewarded them according to their iniquities Psal. 103. 10. The●… have not taken so slight a view of themselves and their sins as to imagine that Justice can demand no more of them 5. Of their absolute need of Divine help and grace upon all accounts That they cannot live but are most certainly undone without God's Grace and help in Christ. Their help all their help and their only help is in the Lord. 2. Chron. 20. 12. Wee have no might neither know wee what to doe but our eyes are upon thee 2. When they are lowly in their Carriage and behaviour of themselves The poor and contrite-spirited person 1. He ingenuously confesses all he knowes and is sensible of by himself unto God He does not seek to cover or cloak any of his weakness or wretchedness but openly acknowledges all he is willing to speak plain truth of himself before and unto God And the forementioned things which his heart knowes to be Truths concerning him with respect to God he subscribes to them all Luke 15. 21. Father I have sinned and am no more worthy He humbly receives his Doom and Sentence from the Word of God the Judgement it passes upon him To this practice of Humiliation God would have his sinning people brought to confess their trespasses and humbly declare their acceptance of the punishment of their iniquity justifying God therein Levit. 26. 40. 41. If they shall confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers with their trespass which they trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me and that I also have walked contrary unto them and have brought them into the land of their Enemies if then their uncircumcised Hearts be humbled and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquities then will I remember 2. He layes himself down before God to be dealt with as He ●…ees meet 2. Sam. 15. 26. But if He thus say I have no delight in thee Behold here am I let Him doe to mee as seems good unto Him If He shall refuse to help and rescue him he justifies and clears Him If He does help it will be undeserved Mercy Therefore he puts his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope for him and he may receive any thing from God who is so far above him and of Whom he has so ill deserved Lam. 3. 29. He kisses the rod when lai●… in the dust and submits himself to God's sovereign disposal To this degree of practical humility and submission God brought His people before He afforded them Deliverance in a desperate case Iudg. 10. 15. And the Children of Israel said unto the Lord we have sinned d●…e thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee deliver us ●…s only we pray thee this day 3. He humbly accepts of offer'd Mercy by a Mediator and Surety