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A13267	Iacob and Esau. Election. Reprobation Opened and discussed by way of sermon at Pauls Crosse, March 4. 1622. By Humphry Sydenham Mr. of Arts, and fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1626 (1626)	STC 23567; ESTC S101842	26,538	44

fecerunt I shut vp all with that state of Fulgentius in his first booke ad M●●cinum cap. 13. Where hauing long houered ouer this question An peccata siant ex praedestinatione He at last thus resolues it Potuit Deus sicut voluit praedestiuare quosdam ad gloriam quosdam ad poenam sed quos praedestinauit ad gloriam praedestinauit ad iustitiam quos autem praedestinauit ad poenam non praedestinauit ad culpam God when hee saues any man doth predestinate him as well to the meanes as to the end But in the reprobation of a sinner God destines the sinner onely to the punishment foreseeing but not determining those sinnes which shall in time draw Gods punishments downe vpon him Doe our corruptions harden then and God punisheth Take heed you Pharaohs of the world you which persecute the poore Israelite in his way to Canaan spurre not the goodnesse of the Almighty to reuenge or iustice Laesa patientia fit suror trample too much on the necke of patience you will turne it to fury It is true God hath feet of Lead clemency intermixt with slownesse of reuenge but he hath hands of iron they will grinde and bruise into powder when they are dared to combat Sera venit sed certa venit vindicta Deorum Procrastination of diuine iustice is euer waited on no lesse with a certainty of punishment than ruine What shall wee doe then wretched miserable that we are or to whom shall we flie for succour The good S. Augustine tells vs à Deo irato ad Deum placatum from the tribunall of his iustice to his throne of mercy and compassion That of Anselmus was most admirable Et si Domine ego commisi vnde me damnare potes tu tamen non amisisti vnde me saluare potes O blessed Iesus though I haue committed those transgressions for which thou maist condemne mee yet thou hast not lost those compassions by which thou maist saue me If our soules were in such a straight that wee saw hell opening her mouth vpon vs like the red sea before the Israelites the damned and vgly fiends pursuing vs behinde like the Egyptians on the right hand an on the left death and sea ready to ingulse vs yet vpon a broken heart and vndisguised sorrow would I speake to you in the confidence of Moses Stand still stand still behold the saluation of the Lord. Thou then which art opprest with the violence and clamour of thy sinnes and wantestan aduocate either to intercede or pitty heare the voice of the Lambe Cry vnto me I will heare thee out of my holy hill Is any heauily loaden with the weight of his offences or groanes vnder the yoke and tyrannie of manifold temptations Come vnto me I will refresh thee Doth any hunger after righteousnesse behold I am the bread of life take eat here is my body Doth any thirst after the waies of grace loe I am a liuing spring come drinke here is my bloud my bloud that was shed for many for the remission of sinnes for many not for all Hath sinne dominion ouer thee or doth it reigne in thy mortall heart are the wounds of thy transgressions so deepe that they cannot be searched or so old that they corrupt and putrifie where is the Samaritan that will either binde them vp or powre in oyle But art thou not yet dead in trespasses are not thy vlcers past cure are there any seeds of true life remaining is there any motion of repentance in thy soule will thy pulse of remorse beate a little haste thou but a touch of sorrow a sparke of contrition a graine of saith know there is oyle of comfort for him which mournes in Sion Not a teare drops from thee with sincerity which is either vnpittied or vnpreserued God puts it into his bottle On the other side is there a Pharaoh in thee an heart vnmollified a stone that will not be bruized a flint vnmalleable I both mourne for it and leaue it But is this heart of stone taken away and is there giuen thee a heart of flesh is it soft and tender with remorse truly sacrificed to sorrow know there is balme of Gilead for the broken heart balme that will both refresh and cure it Thou then which groanest in the spirit and art drawne out as it were into contrition for thy sinnes thou which hast washt thy hands in innocence goe cheerefully to the altar of thy God vnbinde thy sacrifice lay it on But hast thou done it sincerely from thy heart lurkes there no falshood there is all swept cleane and garnished doth the countenance of that smile as cheerefully as the other seemes to doe of the outward man if so thy fire is well kindled the Altar burnes clearly the sauour of thy incense shall pierce the clowds But is this repentance disguized hath it a touch of dissimulation in it is not thy olde rankor cleane disgorged but must thou againe to thy former vomit hypocrite thy Altar is without fire thy incense without smoke it shall neuer touch the nostrils of the Almighty thy prayers in his eares sound like brasse and tinkle like an ill-tuned Cimball all this formality of zeale is but a disease of the lip giue me thy heart my sonne I will haue that or none and that cleane too washt both from deceit and guilt That subtill fallacy of the eye pointing towards heauen that base hypocrisie of the knee kissing the earth that seeming austerity of the hand martyring thy breast gaines from me neither applause nor blessing the example of a Pharisee could haue chid thee to such an outside of deuotion Qui pectus suum tundit se non corrigit aggrauat peccata non tollit saith Augustine where there is an outward percussion of the breast without remorse of the inward man there is rather an aggrauation of sinne than a release these blanchings and guildings and varnishings of externall zeale are as odious in the eie of God as those of body in a true Christian this glosse this paint of demurenesse speakes but our whoredomes in religion the integrity of that man is open both to censure and suspition that is exposed either to the practise of it or the approbation A villaine is a villaine howsoever his garbe or habite speake him otherwise and an hypocrite is no lesse though sleeked ouer with an externall sanctity drest in the affectations of a preciser cut Let vs be truely that what we seeme to be and not seeme what we are not let there be dores casements in our breasts that men may see the loyaley twixt our heart and tongue and how our thoughts whisper to our tongue and how our tongue speakes them to the world A way with those Meteors and false-fires of Religion which not onely by-path vs in a blinded zeale but misleade others in our steps of errour Let vs put off the old man in our pride vaine-glorie hypocrisie enuy hatred malice and that foule disease of the times and vs vncharitablenesse and let vs put on the new man in sinceritie faith repentance sobrietie brotherly kindnesses loue and what without it disparages the tongue both of men and Angels charitie then at length all teares shall be wiped away from our eyes and we shall receiue that euerlasting benediction Come yee children inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To which the Lord bring vs for Christ Iesus sake to whom be praise and power ascribed now and for euermore Amen Gloria in excelsis Deo FINIS