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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16327	Helpes to humiliation. By R.B.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; I. S., fl. 1631-1638.	1631 (1631)	STC 3235; ESTC S115297	19,071	176

thy selfe and puttest thy selfe among the sorrowes of the divels which is a Bedlam madnesse Helpe 2 Be acquainted with all the wayes thou canst possibly how to anatomize thy sinnes for which purpose take these methods and helpes Method 1 Bee perfect in the Law of God and looke thy selfe in the pure Christall glasse thereof be throughly catechised in the Commandements as in the fourth Commandement wherein consider Preparation Celebration Preparation which consists In praying Publiquely with thy Family Privately with thy selfe In examination In renewing thy repentance In covenanting with thy thoughts to spend that whole day in holy things Celebration It may be for scandalous sinnes in thy life thou hast beene sorrowfull but thou hast passed the Sabbath with many wādrings for which thou hast not beene humbled All these are to be brought to thy minde with much bleeding An vtter Cessation or abstinence from thoughts words deeds of calling or recreation more then for necessity mercy or comelinesse Method 2 Take survey of all the wrong which wee haue offered to all things in Heaven and Earth all things are the worse for a wicked man soe farre as his sinne can adde hurt vnto them Method 3 Take a perusall of thy selfe from top to toe The sinnes of thy eyes each thing thou lookest on not making a holy vse of them is a sinne of omission consider then how many there are every day and if in one part so many what are there in the whole body Method 4 Consider all the commissions and omissions as thou standest in severall relations As a Creature how thou hast carried thy selfe to thy Creator As an husband to thy wife As a Father to thy Children As a Master to thy Family As a neighbour to them without or to Gods children As a Subject c. Take notice of all thy faylings in all these and thou shalt finde sufficient matter for a day of humiliation Method 5 Labour to get as I am perswaded every Christian hath two Catalogues of thy sins before conversion and since Of Gods mercies spirituall and temporall Helpe 3 Take notice of the guilt of originall sinne Now because a Christian may haue his heart locked vp more at one time then at another let them in case of barrennesse consider these sixe quickning points Quick Point 1 Looke to the seede and sinke and naturall inclination of thy heart to all manner of wickednesse for suppose by the mercy of God thou wert able to say and that truely that thou couldest not possibly finde any actuall sin within thee yet looke backe to the corrupt fountaine and there thou shalt finde that thou and the most holy Christian on earth whilst thou livest in this house of flesh and tabernacle of clay thou hast it in thy nature to sinne against the Holy Ghost to kill Iesus Christ to commit sodomy and what hindereth but Gods free mercy This then throughly considered is sufficient matter to humble thee to consider with thy selfe what a wretch am I yet that haue this seede still in my bowels Quic. Point 2 Consider and throughly weigh the circumstances of all thy sinnes of thy vnregeneration at what time in what place with what scandall c. As Austin sayth of himselfe hee did wonderfully weepe in reading the fourth booke of Virgill when Dido was killed what a damn'd soule had I quoth hee that could weepe for her misery and not for my owne so when hee listned to musicke and to the tune in singing of a Psalme in the Church rather then kept his heart to goe along with the matter and for being much addicted to stage-playes and many more but especially for robbing an orchard which hee aggravates by many circumstances that great renowned Father left this example to all posterity whereas if a young man now adayes should but crye out of robbing an orchard hee would be thought simple and too precise Looke the second booke of his Confessions Cap. 4. where see his sinne aggravated by these ten circumstances Circum ∣ stance 1 Sayth hee this theft which I committed was not onely in the booke of God forbidden but I had it in my heart dayly Circum ∣ stance 2 Volui feci I resolued with free will to doe it and I did it Circum ∣ stance 3 Fastidio aequitatis I did not doe it for want but in disdaine of goodnesse and out of an eager desire to do wrong Circum ∣ stance 4 I had abundance of the same kinde better at home Circum ∣ stance 5 I did steale them not soe much to injoy the thing as mine owne theft that it might be sayd of my old companions that I robd an Orchard Circum ∣ stance 6 There was a number of desperate swaggerers and incarnate Divels with mee Circum ∣ stance 7 Nocte intempestiva at midnight which hee aggravates with another Circumstance when wee had been sporting and dancing and drinking we did it Circum ∣ stance 8 We carried al away Circum ∣ stance 9 We carried so many away that they were a burden to vs. Circum ∣ stance 10 When wee came home we gaue them to the swine and then at the conclusion hee cryes Oh my God behold my heart Ecce cor meum Deus If wee would looke backe on such a Sabbath breaking how in such a place at such a time so inflamed with lust If drunkards whoremongers vsurers c. would take this course they might finde such aggravations that by the mercy of God might terrifie them from their evill courses Quic. Point 3 In case of barrennesse consider wee had our hands in the sinne of Adam and soe brought all the sorrow sinne and damnation vpon all men that are or shall be damned and we are guilty of all the horrours of conscience If wee had not hearts of adamant or hewn out of a rocke or had sucked the brest of Wolues or Tigers wee would be moued at this which is able to breake a thousand adamants I speake advisedly it is able to open a wide gap of penitent teares in the most flinty soule of the most bloody sinner Quic. Point 4 Cut of all sin both originall and actuall that thou hast taken notice of and do but consider the imperfections that follow the best actions the innumerable distractions of the most holy prayer that ever thou madest the sins of the last Sabbath thy deadnesse fruitlesnesse c. Quic. Point 5 Remoue all personall sinnes yet consider how many wayes wee haue our hands in others sins which it may be they haue carried to hell with them Wee haue a world of matter from hence to breake our hearts for wee may be guilty of others sins 13 wayes There is none but are guilty of some of these wayes viz. First by incouraging them as those Prophets which cryed Peace peace when there is no peace when they are but formall or civill professors those that sow pillowes vnder mens elbowes that heale the wounds of the people with faire words