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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48928	A memorial of Gods judgments, spiritual and temporal, or, Sermons to call to remembrance first preached and now published for publick benefit / by Nic. Lockier ...	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1671 (1671)	Wing L2797; ESTC R19409	116,705	258

meet to take the Childrens bread and to give it to Dogs By which words Christ would insinuate more particularly to her what the state of us Gentiles is by nature as Dogs most fierce against Sheep oppo●●● to all good and inclined as Dogs to all ill and mischievous qualities and ways By which words it is evident that Christ would have this Woman well acquainted with the being of her natural condition that there is such a great mischief befallen us that we are by nature rather Dogs and Bears and Wolves and Tygars than Men than holy Men as we were created and that this poor Woman did make this use of Christ's Doctrin appears by her reply And she said truth Lord yet the Dogs eat off the Crumbs which fall from their Masters Table Mat. 15.24 25 26 27. Truth Lord I am more like a Dog or any Brute than what I should be and by my sin become as the Beast which perisheth 1. Ignorant darkned in my cogitations profane alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in me Add to this Rev. 3.17 Where we find great blame is cast upon the Church of Laodicea that she said She was rich and increased in goods and needed nothing and knew not that she was poor and blind and wretched which is the word of my Text. and naked Did not know this and that 1. Did not deeply lay to heart that by nature they were corrupt and in a wretched condition and destitute of what-ever should make them truly blessed truly rich and truly wise and truly happy they were vainly puffed up it seems with some few gifts and parts and not aware of the pravity of all and of the whole that Man is by nature and therefore proud as otherwise could not choose but be as a Peacock of his Feathers whil'st he looketh only on his Tail and not on his Legs Secondly We should be deeply sensible of natural corruption in the vastness of its Beeing as it is a whole Body a great and large corporation of all wickedness defiling and destroying all so was Paul Who shall deliver me from this Body c. If thine eye be evil the whole Body shall be filled with darkness That is saith the margent If thy affections be corrupt and given to this World If a sinners affections be naught Set upon this World and any of the lusts of it he is under the weight and slavery of the whole body of corruption Mat. 6.23 And this doth Christ preach to make sinners sensible of the extensive beeing of natural corruption that it is a little leaven which hath leavened the whole lump The Apostle was sensible of natural corruption as in the beeing of it so in the extensiveness of its beeing he was sensible of concupiscence that Fire which is in the nature to evil and he was sensible of the extensiveness of this evil All manner of concupiscence Rom. 7.7 8. I had not known lust saith the margent concupiscence that is I had not been prickt at heart for it and deeply sensible of it but that the convincing power of the Lord helped on this work But sin taking occasion by the commandment stirred and irritated this lust and set all on fire wrought in me all manner of concupiscence that is wicked lusts and heart-burnings Angels appeared in white to shew the purity of their nature say the Dutch on Act. 1.10 And we should be always in black in mourning to shew the impurity of our nature in the vastness of it for from the crown of the Head to the sole of the Foot we are nothing but bruises and putrifying sores which are not dressed at all nor bound up but all open and running and stinking in every ones Nosthrils of which in bodily matters we are deeply sensible All these metaphors are made into an allegory on purpose to make fallen man sensible of the extensiveness of his misery by his Fall that he is bruised all over in his Head in his Breast in his Legs from top to bottom no part sound and incorrupt The Scripture speaketh of being born in sin and of being altogether born in sin the one speaketh the being of our fallen state of which we should be sensible and the other speaketh of the vastness and extensiveness of the being of which also we should be sensible Thou art altogether born in sin Joh. 9.34 They spake truth though they did it not to a good end Yet the words in themselves are true and have a good scope that we might be made sensible of our fallen state and how great it is how great our fall is how it hath bruised and putrified and spoiled all Thirdly We should be deeply sensible of natural corruption in all the properties of it As First The aversness of it to all good If natural corruption were a meer impotency to all good it were not so evil But it is an aversation that a body can never go to meal with a stomack how sensible is any one of this as a great misery This is our case spiritual we can never go to pray to hear to meditate to any holy duty but our hearts hang off and hang this way and that way that we gō to Heaven as if we were going to Hell Should we not be deeply sensible of this that we are still a silly Dove without heart to all that is heavenly The poor Marriners were very sensible that they found one in their Ship which untrimmed it Jon. 1. This Man though a good man yet when the Ship and he tossed and like all to be drowned he was so drowsie that he could not hold open his eyes like the Disciples of Christ when their Master was ready to be leized on yet were drowsie and could not watch and pray Should not such an indisposedness to good if the body of death had no other bad property deeply be bewailed I have heard some complain and indeed it should be for a lamentation that sometimes even in this duty of hearing have not been able to hold open their eyes and yet at all common business as well awake as can be The Church was called upon to this and that Divine duty and she had put off her Coat and knew not how to put it on natural corruption hath this ill property never ready nor dressed and fitted to any good and yet at the same time ready and dressed to any thing that is evil as wise to this as foolish to any thing that is good The natural man or animal man is a Soul too low still for any matter divine which thing alone if there were no other evil property in natural corruption should be deeply laid to heart A Second property of natural corruption is perversness Vain Man would be wise though he be born as the wilde Ass-colt Job 11.12 This Zophar spake of Job as seeing him perverse as he thought but he was right enough as to the thing though not as to Job in this

or displeased We must dye said one of the Heathen so say I whether God be pleased or displeased with us to speak with reverence we must believe as the Cananitish Woman did when Christ called her Dog or else we sinck and perish Vse 4 Wherefore my last Use is to exhort you to seek this grace of faith that you may be able to believe God because of his own Word Job 4.41 And so to set your Seal to his Word and Works and by this be able to espy light in darkness which God is most ready to give Righteousness shall go before him and he shall set us in the way of his steps Psal 85. ult Truth shall spring out of the Earth and Righteousness shall look down from Heaven which words surely point at Christ and the Gospel by which God trains up sinners to believe in him to their Salvation in this World and in the World to come God preached Christ to Adam and taught him to take hold of him to his temporal and eternal Salvation Adam named his Wife Eva or Life And the promise is that we shall all i.e. Jew and Gentile be taught of God to this thing to glorifie the word of the Lord that is the essential word Christ and the written word the Scriptures God taught Noah to build the Ark concerning which one thing is most remarkable that the Door into the Ark was in the lowest story and so was under Water all the time of the Flood which surely was done on purpose to make and exercise faith purely in him which shut him in Seek faith in this height which my Text and Doctrin spake of 1 That you may be able in the greatest darkness to make light and sight The Jews in their daunces would say Blessed be thou O my Youth which hast not shamed my old Age and these were called Men of Performances Others would say Blessed be thou my old Age which hast gain-said my Youth and these were called Men of repentance Both would say Blessed is he that hath not sin'd and he that hath sinn'd and is pardoned Seek such a faith that thus you may see cause to bless God in every condition in Youth in Age in sickness in health when down and when risen again when you do not sin and when you do sin as being able to apprehend Christ and your pardon Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned blessed is he to whom the Lord will not impute sin surely his Salvation is neer them that fear him that gl●ry may dwell in our Land mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other Psal 58.9 10. What this kissing of Righteousness and Peace means you may see Vers 2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy People thou hast cover'd all their sin Selah The Psalmist by faith saw peace in Heaven towards the Lords People and that peace i e. All good should be on Earth to them also which keeps the heart in a ready chearful frame to serve God and to bless him in every state and therefore such a faith should be sought for Watch to preserve your faith who have this grace of graces How careful we are to preserve our eyes and much more to preserve our lives Faith is your best eyes by which you are able to look out of every hill into Heaven and faith is your best life by this we live spiritually and by this we have all the joy of our life that is worth any thing He that never saw the rejoyceing of drawing of Water never saw joy in all his life saith the Jewes so he that never saw the joy of faith which is called unspeakable and full of glory never saw joy in all his life and therefore you that have this faith and the great and unspeakable benefit of it preserve it all you can and make no shipwrack of faith and conscience and there you save all though you lose all beside Hence it is that David begs that God would draw out his loving kindness to them that knew him and his righteousness to the upright in heart with thee is the Fountain of Life and in thy light we shall see light Psal 36.9 10. By which he means that God would more reveal Christ to him in his word and works for the better establishing of every grace and thus let us p●nt all our days that in his light we may see light and have our faith and integrity preserved for they live and dye together He that did bring the World by the Flood in o●ics first Chaos covered all with VVater he can and is ready to bring our fa●len state by Christ the greatest piece of which is unbelief to some degree of restoration and bear up the Pillars thereof faith and every grace and all by his own hand And he that enabled Noah in Seven Days to furnish the Ark with all Creatures for a whole Year both for nourishment an● for sacr fice to weather it in all that dark time he can quickly inable us to store our Souls in this dark day with every grace to weather well this evil time and to stand compleat in all the will of God The Motives which may be used are these your own matters are or may be suddenly very dark most Mens sun claps in in this hour and every one either in point of estate or liberty or life begineth to walk in the Vally of the shadow of Death it would be well now in such times to have such a frame of spirit to keep up and to fear none ill to be able to say as David The Lord is my light and my Salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid though an Host encamp against me my heart shall not fear though War should rise against me in this will I be confident for in time of trouble he shall hide me in his Pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me and now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about Psal 27.1 2 3 Many Clouds are up and more still arising and some are already over-shadowing you Would it not be well if you were able indeed to say thus Though Wa●s be though Famine though Pestilence though Imprisonment Banishment yet in all these will I be confident over these shall I be a Conqueror for in the times of these troubles the Lord will hide me and it may be now as dark and as dismal as things look shall my head be lifted up above all mine enemies round about God promised after the Flood was over that Day and Night should no more cease Gen. 8 22. which intimateth saith one upon that place that during the Forty Days Rain which made the Flood that the Day was as it were ceased and turned into Night by the great and thick Clouds and Tempests which were all over the World and Clouds and Darkness are usually