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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40652	The best name on earth together with severall other sermons / lately preached at St. Brides and in other places by T. Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2413; ESTC R28667	34,017	156

nettles are used for pot-hearbs and s●llets made of Eldern buds so fond parents welcome and embrace in their children the first beginnings of sinne yea please themselves to hear their infants dispraise God swear call names talk wantonly yea this is accounted wit in the little children I am sure it is want of wit in the greater children for so I may fitly call their foolish parents who take delight therein I say no more but as for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children I pray God he useth not their children as a rod for them Now least those who at this present time are neither children to parents nor parents to children should complain with the Grecian widdows that they this day are neglected in the dispensation of my doctrine hearken to a generall use which will take us all in let us all take notice of a bad principle which lurks in our hearts this naturall corruption which deserves the wrath of God in the low Countries half their houses ly buried in the ground the laying of the foundation is counted as much as the rest of the building so half our badnesse lyes secret and unseen consisting in originall corruption whereof too few take notice for though as I have said before baptisme taketh away the commanding and condemning power thereof yet the blot still remaining as by woefull experience we daily find makes us backward to all goodnesse and headlong forwards to all badnesse this is that which S. Paul to the Romans who though he might touch at an improper expression sure would never land there and dwell so long therein calls sinne fourteen times and we shall find it fourteen thousand times to be so in our selves Away then with the sick doctrine of the soundnesse of freewill and merit of works we have alwayes that in us which baneth the perfection of all our performances namely the lawless law in our members which rebelleth against the law of our mind and leadeth us captive to the law of sinne which is in our members Thou shalt not commit adultery and thou shalt commit adultery thou shalt not steal and thou shalt steal thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy neighbour thou shalt bear false witnesse against thy neighbour witches they say say the Lords prayer backward but concupiscence this witch in our soul sayes all the commandments backward and makes us crosse in our practise what God commands in his precepts Thus every day we sin and sorrow after our sin and sin after our sorrow and do what we would not and would what we do not and the vvind of Gods spirit blovveth us one vvay and the tide of our corruption hurryeth us another these things he that seeth not in himself is sottish-blind he that seeth and confesseth not is damnably proud he that confesseth and bewaileth not is desperately profane he that bewaileth and figheth not against it is unprofitablely pensive but he that in some weak manner doth all these is a Saint in reversion here and shall be one in possession hereafter FINIS THE SNARE BROKEN Genes 49. vers 6. O my soul come not into their secrets By T. F. B. D. LONDON Printed by R. Daniel for J. S. 1656. THE SNARE BROKEN Genes 49. vers 6. O my soul come not thou into their secrets AMong the many arguments to prove the pen-men of the scripture inspired by the spirit of God this is not the last and least that the pen-men of holy writ do record their own faults and the faults of their nearest and dearest relations for instance hereof how coursly doth David speak of himself So foolish was I and ignorant I was as a very beast before thee And do you think that the face of S. Paul did look the more foul by being drawn with his own pencill when he sayes I was a murtherer a persecutor the greatest of sinners c. This is not usuall in the writings of humane authors who praise themselves to the utmost of what they could and rather then loose a drop of applause they will lick it up with their own tongues Tully writes very copiously in setting forth the good service which he did the Roman state but not a wo●d of his covetousnesse of his affecting popular applause of his pride and vain glory of his mean extraction and the like Whereas clean contrary Moses he sets down the sinne and punishment of his own sister the idolatry and superstition of Aaron his brother and his own fault in his preposterous striking the rock for which he was excluded the land of Canaan No wonder then if he tell the faults of Simeon and Levi both their cruell murther and the heavy curse which their father laid upon them Old Jacob lyes now a dying the lanthorn of his body was ready to be broken and the light that was in it to be ex●inguished his twelve sonnes get about him every one expects a blessing and they raise their intentions the more because they knew that he was a prophet He begins sadly Reuben hath a check and Simeon and Levi have a curse No doubt old Jacob as a private man had affection to them both but now he speaks to them as a prophet he knowes no naturall affection being acted with spirituall inspiration he leaves off flesh and blood being prompted by the spirit of God and tells them cursed be their wrath for for it was fierce and their anger for it was furious I shall use no other method in the words but such observations as are pertinent to the text profitable for your souls First O my soul c. seeing Jacob doth entertain a discourse with his own soul wee may learn A Christian who can discourse with his own soul may make good company for himself This was Davids precept Psal. 4. vers 4. commune with your own hearts upon your beds this is no contradiction there is a kind of discourse which makes no noise this communion is the heart of heavenly meditation he may give himself a question and answer it himself and David what he prescribes to us practises himself when he sayes why art thou so sad O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me trust still in God Had people this art of entertaining a time to discourse with themselves it would prevent much mischief thou mayest divide thy soul into severall parts and thou maist discourse if thou wilt with every faculty with thy understanding memory fancy and the severall affections of thy soul. Ask that question of thy understanding which Philip askt of the Eunuch Acts 10. understandest thou what thou readest call your understanding to account whether you understand what you read or not Ask thy fancy that question which Acbish once propounded to king David where hast thou been roving all this day bring thy fancy to account Ask that of thy memory which the master did of the unjust steward Luke 16. give an account of thy stewardship ask thy