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A51632	Death and life, or, Sins life, the sinners death; sins death, the saints life being the sum of eight sermons on Romans 8. 13. / by Samuel Malbon ...	Malbon, Samuel.	1669 (1669)	Wing M312; ESTC R10001	130,564	198

exhortation Rom. 11.20 be not high minded but fear he adds v. 21 22. if God spared not the natural broaches take heed lest he spare not thee behold therefore the goodness and severity of God on them that fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off As a Mother leading her little Child it goes towards the fire or water and though she hold it fast sure that it shall not fall in yet to make it careful she saith take heed if you fall into the fire you 'l be burn't if into the water you 'l be drowned so that we may not be secure and careless and self confident we have divers such If 's in Scripture spoken to Gods Children Thirdly True Believers may have and too oft have through compliance with the Flesh great falls though they live not after the Flesh they act much according to it therefore to cause them to maintain a continual sight against the Flesh and to keep at the farthest distance from it and to quicken them to repentance when they have turned aside therefore are they to be put in mind what an enemy the Flesh is even such that if they do live after it they shall dye eternally and so far as they act according to it they do dye spiritually For such reasons as these the Apostle speaks that Heb. 10.26 If we sin wilfully he faith not you but we if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment c. that is even for us if we so sin It may be objected is this a sit and proper argument to work upon true Believers to keep them from the wayes of the flesh or to bring them to repentance when they are seduced thereby should not such rather have other things Preached to them A. Other things should be Preached and that chiefly as the death of Christ love and grace of God c. but this also ye shall dye if c. all considerations are needful in this world to keep us awake God thought it a proper and fit argument to lay before Adam when he had no Flesh no corruption in him in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye why then is it not a proper and fit argument to be propounded to those who have much sin remaining in them though they being in Christ are not under that Covenant under which Adam was and cannot fall as he did yet is this argument rather more suitable to them than to Adam even the argument of death in this respect because they have much Flesh in them which both in it self deserves death and enclines them or moves them to walk in the wayes thereof sweet arguments may more take with the renewed part but this may more curb remaining Corruption and work upon the heart when in a fearless careless frame and if the soul be in never so good a frame to hear that they who live after the Flesh shall dye may stir it up to thankfulness that through and in Christ it is secure and the more thankful the more obedient shall we be to God If any say that grace most works upon them I answer the more any are drawn by Grace the less do they need to be driven by this truth yet even this truth minds us of and sets forth to us the grace of God in that but for it we had all lived after the flesh and there is love in this very truth that the Lord is thus pleased to warn us It may again be said but is this right to avoid or turn from the wayes of the Flash because they bring to death A. We are bound to believe all the word of God and it 's the nature of true faith to Believe all believing all things saith the Apostle that are written in the Law and the Prophets Acts 24.14 therefore all Scripture truth is to be Preached and whatever we do in faith from true faith is as so well done and acceptable to God as Noah's building an Ark because through faith he was moved with fear c. besides death implyes separation from God and this is very good it is love to God to avoid sin that by it we may not be separated from him Application Use 1. Whether do you or any of you live after the Flesh It is as great a question as whether you shall dye Be the more inquisitive each one as to himself because multitudes are strangely mistaken some seem as if they did live after the flesh yet really before God they do not 2 Cor 10.2 I beseech you that I may not be bold with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh the Apostles themselves seemed to some so to walk yet were they far from so walking On the other hand there are and that many more who make a shew as if they did not live after the flesh yet in truth after it do they live Thus men also mistake concerning themselves thinking that of themselves which is contrary to truth It 's like if the question were put in the general to any of you whether think you not there are some here present who live after the Flesh you would every one say if you should speak your thoughts yes some here do so live or I fear there are some whose life is such but let every one be ask'd as to his own particular probably he would say I do not or I hope I do not live after the Flesh I beseech you Brethren deceive not your selves for if you do thus live whether you think so or no of your selves you will find this true that ye shall dye I would be helpful to you in this enquiry for which purpose I shall briefly offer divers things to your serious thoughts to be made use of in self examination I say self examination for you know it 's not that God requires of you nor that which concerns you or not so much to try others as each one himself and her self 1. Whoever hath not had a great change in his heart a mighty turn he doth live after the Flesh however he may seem to live for all by nature are dead in their sins and the uncircumcision of their Flesh Col. 2.13 all naturally are born of Flesh and are Flesh having no good thing in them and if the tree be bad the fruit cannot but be bad also if any are dead in the Uncircumcision of their flesh it 's certain they live after it Secondly To live in the doing of any of the works of the Flesh though it be but in some one or two of them is to live after the Flesh Q. What are the works of the Flesh A. They are very many and they are all or most of them very manifest as the Apostle tells us Gal. 5.19 The

it thou art taken as with the dead Palsie or Lethargy thou stirrest not makest no head against thy corruption or thon art as retired out of the field and layest the reins on the neck of thy lusts thou didst seek to cut down and destroy these Briars and Thorns but now thou let'st them grow believe it this is a black mark and character upon thee look upon thy self see thy self mark'd with it consider what it portends or presageth It at least gives cause to suspect thy condition to fear that God intends not to save thee yea be zealous and repent awake and fight against those enemies within thee or they will destroy thee the Sword of destruction hangs over thy head thou art in the hands of thine enemies which thirst for thy blood Use 2. The way of life and happiness is not an easie way wherein one can walk lazily asleep without care labour pains and industry for he that attains happiness must still be fighting warring killing and slaying many great and potent enemies strong lusts and corruptions a numerous issue of evil motions which sure is no easie matter to do Had a man only one lust to grapple with it were no easie thing to keep it under how then can it be easie to subdue many evil affections many there are in every one all which must be mortified Therefore the Apostle saith not if ye mortifie this or that deed but the deeds of the body that is all of them though many God said to Adam when he had sinned in sorrow shalt thou eat of the ground all the dayes of thy life thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the ground The earth it's bringing forth thorns and thistles seems to be spoken as one reason why Adam's life should be a life of sorrow and labour and this is one thing that makes the life of a husband-man laborious and painful when their ground is still bringing forth thorns and thistles or such like things which must be destroyed time after time It 's sure this makes the life of a Christian one that is truely set and bent heaven-ward full of trouble and labour he hath lustings within far worse than briars and thorns more hard to be subdued and yet more necessary to be mortified By this then for one thing it may be known that many people are not in the way to heaven because they live as to all spiritual soul work a lazy slothful life sure such are not wont daily to mortifie the deeds of the body therefore are they not such who walk in the way of life unless we shall think which Scripture permits not that they have a priviledge above all others to be quite freed from the body of sin which if they had they would be more favoured than any man ever was in this life What a work have we with a disease when it gets rooted in our bodies what pains what means Purging Sweating Bleeding and what time e're we can get it mortified much more difficult to get a lust subdued which is natural which was in the seed of it bred and born in us Is it not hard work to deal with a strong enemy who hath got into the heart of the Country who hath divers strong holds and is oft sallying forth Use 3. Doleful and next dore to desperate is their case who are so far from mortifying the deeds of the body that they nourish and cherish them they help and quicken them they make provision for the flesh which the Apostle warns us not to do Rom. 13. last Make no provision for the flesh but some even make all provision for it they feed their corruptions they stir up their lusts by giving themselves to think of those things that tend thereto by running upon occasions of sin ventring boldly upon manifest temptations by their excessive using the good creatures of God and other wayes Jam. 5.5 they live in pleasure and nourish their hearts as in a day of slaughter they so live that they make the body of sin in them exceeding strong and lusty plump and fat and accordingly its deeds are the more numerous gross and notorious as the most strong and lusty people have commonly the strongest and lustiest Children Sad is their case who do not mortifie their lusts exceeding sad then sad with a witness is their case their condition who do the contrary when their flesh lusteth they heap fuel on the fire and if corruption stir not of its own accord they venture to call it forth as if they should like mad men call to their worst most inveterate enemies to come and hack and hew them cut their throats or stab them through the heart Use 4. Be not you discouraged who are daily exercised in this work of mortifying your sins though you can't at present quite win the field and drive your enemies out but they are still rallying their forces and assaulting you yet while you keep combating and beating them down be not discouraged because this is a work not to be issued till you have finished your course It is not therefore to be expected that you should so subdue your corruption as no more to be troubled with it while you are in this evil world Use 5. Hinder not one another but rather as you may help each other in this work because it is so necessary to be done do nothing so far as you can help it that will stir up corruption in another but do what in you lyeth to prevent and stop the workings of sin in those with whom you live walk and converse It is too common a thing and a great evil among men they blow up sin in one another they stir up lust in one another and strengthen one the other in evil by ill councel enticement and perswasion or by some vain naughty discourse or by provoking and vexing or by ill example by laying stumbling blocks c. be you ware of all such things And whenever you see any under the working of any sin so speak so walk so carry it towards them that you may be helpful to them in the mortifying thereof for this purpose remember these counsels and such like Gal. 5.26 Let us not be desirous of vainglory provoking one another envying one another 1 Cor. 8.9 take heed lest by any means your liberty become a stumbling block to them that are weak Rom. 12.21 Overcome evil with good 1 Thess 5.14 Now we exhort you brethren warn them that are unruly comfort the feeble minded support the weak be patient toward all men c. Use 6. Consider and try each one as to himself do you indeed mortifie the Deeds of the body You may here take notice of four or five things First The Apostle saith not if ye mortifie your selves a man may himself in his natural visible body be mortified and yet his sins not be mortified some have made away