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A79511	Nathans parable. Sins discovery, with it's [sic] filthy secret lurking in the brest of men. Or, some few discoveries what the sinfulness of sin is, and spoile it hath made on man, in nine particulars. With the sad experience of it on the author: written, if it may be, to warn all men, especially, the saints, to take heed and to beware of sin. With a letter written to his excellency the Lord General Cromwell. By Edmund Chillenden.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3877; Thomason E723_3; ESTC R207232	24,570	27

spoileth a man of God Isa 59.2 Your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you This people in the 58 Chapter had been a fasting and humbling their souls Isa 58.3 and they aske a reason why God was not found of them and that he did not answer them they expostulate the case with God Wherefore have we afflicted our souls and thou takest no knowledge wherefare have we fasted and thou seest not God giveth them the reason in the fourth verse it was their sins and their iniquities that had robbed and deprived them of the good things that they might have enjoyed so saith the Lord by the Prophet Jer. 5.25 Your iniquities have turned away put by robbed deprived you of these things and your sins have withholden by force and violence as a company of robbers do good things from you for behold you fast for strife and debate to smite with the fist of wickedness to adde drunkenness to thirst Deut. 29.19 it was to feed support and to make provision for sin to spend it on their lust therefore they asked and did not receive because they asked amiss Jam. 4.3 it was to take care for the Arch-rebell and traiterous enemy to God and while sin is nigh and is nourished succoured and harbored God he will be far off for God is far from the wicked and ungodly sinners Eph. 2.12 13. who are said to be without God in the world far off being enemies aliens or strangers to God and by sins made to be at enmity in their mindes by wicked works Col. 1.21 quite robbed and spoiled of God and all that was God-like and filled full of all deadly poison so that his heart is so swoln with it that he saith there is no god Psal 14.1 He is not once in all their thoughts Psal 10.4 but abound in all villany and mischiefes Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murther debate deceit malignity backbiters haters of good without understanding Rom. 1.29 30 31. compared with Gal. 5.21 Tit. 3.3 Eph. 2.2 3. So that we may see by this what spoile sin hath made quite robbed and spoiled us of God what spoile did it make on our parents as is partly before minded How did the Lord rejoyce in the works be had made Gen. 1.31 compare vers 4. both with Psal 104.31 Prov. 8.31 seeing the order comliness and beauty that was in all his works they were good agreeable to his will they pleased him 1 Tim. 4.4 for every creature of God is good pleasant sweet profitable causing joy Song 1.2 4.10 Deut. 6.11 1 Sam. 9.2 Gen. 24.16 compare Mark 9.42 Luk. 17.2 And the Lord did rejoyce in the habitable part of his earth Prov. 8.31 great peace was between God and man yea and all the creatures all the works that God had made they did praise him and gave him honor Psal 45.10 When the morning stars sang togather and all the sons of God shouted for joy Psal 148.3 Job 1.6 there was no division or variance no hateful spirits against God or man to work or do him any mischief no death or diseases no fear of guilt to torment and afflict the soul of man nor any noisome poisonous lust to rebell in their bodies But now cometh sin and robs us of all this and fills the whole creation with mischief strife and debate layeth or turneth the whole world into or in wickedness 1 Joh. 5.19 6. Sin causeth sorrow in God and it grieveth his spirit Gen. 6.3 5. The wickedness of man was great in the earth and the very imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were wholly evil every or all the day that they carefully minded their hearts for evil alwayes therefore It repented God that he had made man and it grieved him at the very heart To see that man that he had made so goodly and comely a creature created him after his own Image or likeness Gen. 1.27 15.1 should so sin against him and provoke him not onely at the first in Edens garden for which he might for ever have left them in misery and utterly have cast them off Psal 75.3 was pleased now in the midst of Judgement to remember mercy Hab. 3.2 and to provide a Saviour for them and to lay their help upon one that was mighty Psal 89.19 Yea then when they were all turned aside and gone out of the way Psal 14.2 3 4. compare Isa 59.15 16 17. 63.5 He then looked down from heaven to see if any understood God if there were any judgement but he saw no intercessor there was none to uphold therefore his own arme of righteousness that upheld and wrought salvation and put all things in a right and orderly frame bringing us back to Christ the Shepherd and keeper of our souls 1 Pet. 2.25 this now doth grieve God that after so much love and mercy man that he had so done by taken so much paines withall that had spared no cost no not his own Son Rom. 8 32. but gave him to dye and shed his blood to redeem them from their vaine conversations they had received from the tradition of their fathers Gen. 3.15 compare 1 Pet. 1.18 19. and all that man might become obedient and subject to God to do his will as he hath commanded us 1 Ioh. 3.23 To this end he gave them his word and oracles Psal 147.19 20. Psal 2.7 Exo. 21.1 Rom. 9.4 5. to instruct them how they should walk towards him In all well-pleasingness Heb. 13.21 he gave them right judgements and true Laws good Statutes and Commandments he had so great a desire after their good that he himself cometh down upon the mount and speaks to them from heaven Nehe. 9.13 Psal 68.11 Nevertheless such prevalency had sin in them That they disobyed him and rebelled against him and cast all his good Laws behinde their backs 1 King 9.10 hated God and to be reformed Psal 50.17 Ezek. 23.35 shew his prophets that testified against them to return wrought great provocation Neh. 9.26 Jer. 32.31 32. compare 1 Kings 23.26 though he gave them his good spirit to instruct them guide and lead them Gen. 6.3 compare Nehem. 9.20 Num. 11.17 in the good old and holy way wherein they should finde rest for their souls wooing and contending with them disputing and convincing them by the mouths of his Prophets and servants in and by the word of his grace also by inward motions and checks of conscience Yet nothing would do for the strong man kept the house sin had got possession Luk. 11.21 22. Mat. 12.29 Mark 3.37 that they rebelled against him and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and fought against them Exod. 15.24 Numb 14.11 Acts 7.15 Job 30.21 Jer. 30.14 Judges 14.15 compare Eph. 4.29 30. 5.11 12. 7. Sin hinders and cloggs prayer though they be never so long and be uttered never

Nathans Parable SINS DISCOVERY With it's Filthy Secret Lurking in the brest of Men. OR Some few Discoveries what the sinfulness of Sin is and spoile it hath made on man in nine particulars With The Sad experience of it on the Author written if it may be to warn all men especially the Saints to take heed and to beware of Sin WITH A Letter written to his Excellency the Lord General CROMWELL By Edmund Chillenden Lam. 3.1 I am the man that have sinned and for that have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath Heb. 4.12 13. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of Sin Printed at London 1653 To all the Congregations of Saints walking in the faith and Order of the Gospel in England Ireland and Scotland Precious hearts I Have a sad theam to present you with it is of sin and the sad effects it hath produced in the world especially on man and in particular on my self so that I may say in the words of the Prophet Lam. 5.16 The Crown is faln from my head wo unto me that I have sinned for nothing but mischief hath attended me yea destruction and ruine in all things that can be thought of here below and were it not but that God who I have so offended had appeared to me indeed as the Apostle saith Eph. 2.4 Rich in mercy and in great love infinite and beyond all expression I had for ever perished and been punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power Thess 1.5 for I deserved no less so that truly I have experienced that good saying of the Apostle That where sin hath abounded grace hath much more yea exceeding much more abounded Rom. 5.20 Oh rich grace rich grace and great mercies and loving kindness they are past finding out they cannot be fathomed they are high they are deep they are long and they are broad so that I cannot but stand and admire what manner of love it is that he hath bestowed on me 1 Joh. 2.1 I have therefore sent to you these few lines that you may take heed and beware of sin for it is a most deceitful yea a most deadly cruel enemy for it maketh such spoile on a man where it gets footing that if mercy yea rich mercy and love from God do not step in to help it destroyeth soul and body good name relations and all that is neer and dear therefore take heed and beware of sin and take that good counsel of the Apostle 1 Cor. 16.13 Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Eph. 6.10 for if you do not sin will break in upon you and make grievous spoile and havocke For want of keeping this guard it hath broken in on me like an inundation of water and yet I thought once my mountain was so set and so strongly founded that it was not possible it could be moved Psal 30.7 when I was in my Tranquility and the candle of the Lord shone upon my head I said I would dye in my nest and multiply dayes as the sand I would spread my root by the waters I should flourish Job 29.3 18 19 20. all went well I had attained to some good progress in the knowledge of God and the practice of the things of God and I was now safe and my heart spoke a great deal of peace but behold when I thus slept the enemy sin came and stole in upon me and I will tell you how 1. First I grew a little cold and careless in the matters of God in those cold mad and distempered yeers 1647. and 1648. and then sin took occasion and by my base heart deceived me presently runs and layeth hold on me tempteth me and draweth me away Jon. 1.14 15 compare Rom. 7.11 and so hath slaine wounded and destroyed me 2. After that I was thus inticed my heart being by sin deceived then I became it's slave to serve it and this will be the case of every one that sin layeth hold of Now I must provide to lay alwayes for the carrying of it close and secret and here cometh vows oaths wishes execrations and all to save cover and hide this ugly companion sin 3. Then sin will seem very fair and smile on you flatter your heart and if he cometh once to be touched to be discovered and feareth he shall be dislodged he now will come with the help of his first-born the divel and belay you on every side First on the right hand and on the left under pretence of good towards God towards his wayes to thy self and relations For so have I found it that when I had some yeers since abandoned all the thoughts of any such thing and in July 1650. had earnestly besought the Lord for his favour and peace for my former evils and that he would now pardon and pass by my sin and hide his face from my sin the which he did and spoke much peace to me and did deliver my soul from the jaws of destruction when death had surrounded me I then did vow to the Lord to honour him and serve him all my dayes but there was more snares beset me For when in the yeer 1652. I was charged with evil by Master Thomas Halhead and his wife now behold how sin beset me and what alurements it layed before me to hide it keep it close and secret 1. Saith my base heart You are known to be a great professor of religion and if you make it known you are utterly lost in the hearts of all that are godly for a brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City Prov. 18.19 you shall never be in their affections againe 2. The name of God will be much dishonoured you must n t tell it in Gath nor publish it in Askelon lest the uncircumcised blaspheme you need not do it it is enough you have done it to God 3. The wayes of God that you profess which every man especially the Clergy which are great enemies to it and of you in particular watcheth to have somewhat to speak against it and dishonour it 4. Your own honour reputation and good name will utterly be lost and gone which as the wise man saith Eccl. 7.1 Is better then a precious ointment better then gold and silver Prov. 15.15 5. You are now in a capacity to do the poor people of God some good but that will utterly spoile you for ever 6. You will lose your place which is your lively-hood These and many more was my soul beset with and I was taken captive and so insnared consulting onely with my base heart that now I set my self with all my might to pursue these instructions that sin my base heart the divel and the world had layed before me but they