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A52388	Delay of reformation provoking Gods further indignation represented in a sermon preached at Westminster to the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their late solemn monethly fast, April 29, 1646 / by James Nalton.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1646 (1646)	Wing N122; ESTC R30736	35,648	50

preserve you when ye stand but upon one bough of a tree Gods forbearance or long-suffering which bough if it were broken or cut downe ye should fall into all woe and misery both here and hereafter Are ye willing to cut down that bough Will ye observe lying vanities and forsake your owne mercy p Ionah 2.8 Will ye provoke God to say in his displeasure I will stretch out my hand against thee and destroy thee I am weary with repenting q Ier. 15.6 Oh give God leave to glorifie his name in your Reformation rather then in your ruine and desolation Quest It may be you will say unto me What is that Reformation that is required and so earnestly pressed upon us this day Answ I answer briefly It is the purging away of whatsoever doth defile the Soule As Errour in opinion Inordinacy of Affection Sinfulnesse in Conversation For the first Doe ye thinke Errours in judgement small matters or trifles not to be regarded Know ye not that they are exceeding Dangerous in their Nature Damnable in their Effects First they are dangerous because they bewitch the Soule O foolish Galatians who ha's bewitched you that you should not obey the truth r Gal. 3.1 yea they corrupt and defile the soule I feare saith the Apostle s 2 Cor. 11.3 least your mindes should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ Errours and Idolatries agree in this they are both of them the defilements of the conjugall Bed they make professors turne Strumpets and cease to be loyall Spouses of Jesus Christ Yea moreover they hinder the growth of grace in the soule as the worme at the root of the tree hinders the growth of the tree or weeds sprouting up with the corne hinder the growth of the corne Hence is errour compared to a Canker or Gangrene t 2 Tim. 2.17 which consumes the flesh so doth errour consume or eat out the heart of grace Oh that sad experience did not set seale to this truth but we see it daily and may grieve for what we see That many Christians who formerly have bin forward professors haue seen some beauty in spirituall things and tasted of the heavenly gift yet when once they are caught in this snare of errour they lose the savour of grace and fearfully fall either from the profession or from the power of godlinesse Secondly they are damnable in their effects For it is well observed by Divines u Master Hildersam on Ps 51. p. 704. and others That corruption in judgement is as bad nay worse then corruption in manners especially where the mind ha's been enlightned with the knowledge of the truth Leprosie in the head was of all other Leprosies the most dangerous and destructive w Lev. 13.44 The Priest shall pronounce him utterly uncleane saith the Lord his plague is in his head He was uncleane if he had the Leprosie in his hand or feet but if it were in his head then he was utterly unclean Looke as the Soule is the excellency of man so the intellectuall part is the excellency of the Soule It is the Candle of the Lord as Solomon cals it ſ Pro. 20.27 a light set up to direct the whole man in the way that he should walke in Now as our Saviour reasons in the like case If the light that is in thee be darknesse how great is that darknesse t Mat. 6.23 So here if the minde and judgement be corrupted how great is that corruption In God's feare therefore let all errours be avoyded as Satans snares for so the Apostle cals them v 2 Tim. 2.26 wherein he entangles the understandings of seduced men For the second viz. Inordinacy of Affection such as sinfull feares sensuall delights carnall contentment creature-confidence selfe-love and selfe-seeking earthly mindednesse and the like they must all be renounced if we our selves would be reformed It is a golden Rule of the Apostle the Lord give us hearts to walke by it in 1 Cor. 7.30 31. Let them that weepe be as though they wept not and they that rejoyce as though they rejoyced not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that use this world as not over-using it w 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rerum fluxarum immoderatum usum damnat Beza in locum When a Picture is pasted to a wall if you offer to plucke it away you teare it in peeces but if you set it in a frame you may remove it as you please So when our hearts are glewed to creature-comforts we lose our hearts in the use of them and teare our hearts in parting with them But if our hearts be set in a holy frame of spirituall Moderation we shall neither over-joy them while we have them nor over-grieve when we come to want them For the third viz. Sinfulnesse of conversation This must be abandoned It is not enough to bewaile the Sinnes that ye have committed but ye must also forsake the sinnes that ye have bewayled Hee that confesseth and forsaketh his sinnes shall finde mercy x Pro. 28.13 All Grosse sinnes must be forsaken in practice Let them not be once named among ye as becommeth Saints y Ephes 5.3 See Isa 30.22 The least sinnes even sinnes of thought must be forsaken both in Affection by loathing of them and in Resolution by striving against them cleaving unto God with full purpose of heart z Acts 11.23 and hating every false way a Ps 119.128 Quest But how or by what Meanes may the worke of Reformation be carried on both in publick and private in Church and State in our hearts and houses Answ Let us carefully and conscienciously make use of these Meanes Helpe 1 First let us be humbled to the dust for our former failings and particularly that our Spirits have not been upright or stedfast with our God that we have not payd the Vowes which we made unto him in the day of trouble Like little children while we were under the rod we made faire promises but the rod in a great measure is removed and yet we are not reformed Helpe 2 Secondly Looke often on our Covenant and take heed of breaking with that God who keepes Covenant with us b Neh. 1.5 and accurately eyeth and observeth al the juglings of our hearts Who among us doe not tremble at the story of Zedekiah of whom God speakes thus after he had broke his Covenant which he had made with Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon c Ezek. 7.15.16 shall Zedekiah prosper shall he escape that doth such things or shall he breake the Covenant and be delivered No even in the midst of Babilon shall he dye Memorable is the story of Vladislaus King of Hungary d Turkish History p. 297. who having made a League with Amurath the Turkish Emperour for ten yeeres upon the perswasion of a Cardinall called Julian who absolved him from his Oath he brake his League Hereupon comming