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A86423 A treatise containing three things. Viz. [3 braces] 1. A discovery of the unsupportable burthen of sinne, to a heart that is saint-like sensible of sin. 2. The restlesse resolution of a soule to returne to God, who is saint-like sensible of his withdrawings. 3. A discovery of the sweet and unexpected entertainment that wandring hearts meet with in their returnes to God. / Written by Lieutenant Collonel Paul Hobson. Hobson, Paul. 1653 (1653) Wing H2276; Thomason E1479_3; ESTC R208731 63,513 154

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is punished for all his prosecuting doth but pierce into his owne spirit and all his stirring doth but rouse up guilt in his owne heart and all his rubbing doth but rub upon his owne soare which doth much kill disturbe and disquiet his owne spirit which causes many men in Authoritie when they are a punishing to wish they had not knowne it and they are apt to curtayle and lessen it if not cover it And all this is occasioned as a fruit of sinne from which wee may observe thus much That none are like to be good Common-wealths men but they that are godly and honest men for them that have a chiefe Authoritie in the State or in Counties or Parishes can never suppresse vice vertuously if themselves are strangers to vertue and practisers of vice In the close of this remember but this Scripture Prov. the 28. and the first verse The wicked flies when no man pursues but the righteous is as bold as a Lyon Thirdly It is Injurious to a man as he is a Master of a familie and that thus It binds him up in Exhorting his familie to walke holily when he knowes that his familie knows that he himselfe walks unholily or can he reprove vice when he himselfe is vitious No he cannot do it If it be it is very cold poore emptie The guilt in their owne hearts produced by their unsaint like carriage doth exceedingly straiten their hearts and tye their hands not onely to themselves as reproving and correcting but also to their familie reproved and corrected for at the very best their familie who are sencible of their evills will judge it as the Devill correcting sin Therefore in the close of this let all that desire to be profitable in their families in suppressing evill and encouraging good Let them first shew it in their * 1 Tim. 6.2 Mat. 7.5 practice before they first shew it in their power But I shall say no more as to the Effects of sin though there be many more but I shall come to the reasons why sin to a Saint-like sencible heart is an Insupportable Burthen and the Reasons are these A Saint sees that sin hath brought him into a Condition so bad and so low that himselfe with all the world cannot recover him * Act. 2.37 Act. 16.30 Job 7.20 If a Christian had any crevis to behold helpe besides Christ he would have some way to uphold his heart and inable him to beare his burthen without going to Christ but sin is so large and so broad and so full of weight that it sincks all things under on this side of Heaven which goe to beare it And this a Saint sees and therefore sin to his heart is an unsupportable burthen Secondly Sin takes away the ground of patience and therefore unbearable and that it does why because though there are promises to beare all oppressions yet no promises to beare the practice of sin Therefore my former thus That Condition which is without promise is unbearable but the practice of sin as the practice of sin is without promise Ergo * Gal. 3.29 The third Reason which makes sin so unreasonable and so unsupportable to a Saint-like sencible heart is because he sees that sin is not onely a * Rom. 7.11 lye in speaking that which it will nor cannot doe but whatsoever is contrary to sins promise is brought upon him Contradiction in Expectation works distraction but no where so unsupportable as the busines of sin for there is no contradiction like that It expects joy but beholds sorrow it promised Light and Life but behold Darknesse and * Rom. 6.23 March 24.50 51. Death Fourthly That which makes sin so unsupportable to a Saints heart is this though it be the last it is not the least It is this That Light and Love which discovers a mans sins to him and by it his Lost Condition it doth sweetly make up his Losses by supplies from it selfe that makes the soule in seeing sin to see that it hath not onely sinned against Law but against that Light and Love which discovers and * Zech. 12.10 Luk 15.21 Isal 51.4 supplits And for a heart to see that he cannot lye safely no where but in the Fathers Love and for him to Reflect upon himselfe and see how much not onely below but contrary to that Love he hath lived in Oh! how much doth this breake the heart and wound the spirit I leave to that Soule that after all his owne unkindnesse hath now all his Refreshments from the sweet Incomes of the Fathers loving kindnesse he cannot choose but there see to the continuation of the Fathers nature as he is the Father yet the want of his owne as he is a Childe and he cannot but see how much hee indeavoured to kill that by which he now lives 't is impossible to declare how much the Reflection of this Love doth kill and Crucifie a Saints Spirit The knowledge of which doth make sin to be unsupportable but no more of the Reasons but a word or two of use The first Use Is an use of Information to Informe us of the miserable Condition of those who make light of sin If sin be so unsupportable to one that is made alive sure these people must needs be dead But some will object and say They blesse God they see sin and they conceive sin is cast out and subdued in them In this there may be a very great mistake for men may see sin and yet not Saint-like sencible of sinne And in some the Devill is said to goe out when he is not Cast out according to that Scripture Matth. the 12.43 44 45. But know this sin be onely gone out and not conquered it will Returne againe according to the same Scripture and if you see sin and not Saint-like you may see it and be sencible and yet nothing As Pharaoh Cain and Judas c. And therefore for feare of mistakes I shall propound two questions and give my Answer to them according to what Experience I have found in the like Case The first question is What the difference betwixt a Saint-like sence of sin and the sence of sin a man may have and be nothing Secondly What are the demonstrations to discover that sin is not onely gone out but cast out To the first The difference betwixt a Saint-like sence and a bare seeing lyes in these things First Where it is really Saint-like it is alwayes sencible of that most which is by men seene least Rom. 7.24 Psal 51. ●0 Jer. 17.9 I meane the emptinesse barrennesse basenesse and unsutablenesse of its owne heart But others who are Judas-like are sencible of that which men see most If they are but conformable to what is without they are never troubled for what is within but he that is made sencible of sin by the comings in of grace he is so sencible if God should cut off all dead branches without yet that will not