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A12381	The sinfull mans search: or seeking of God. Preached by Henrie Smith, and published according to a true corrected copie, sent by the author to an honorable ladie	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1592 (1592)	STC 22697; ESTC S113756	32,346	94

when he taketh the furbished blade into his hand when he is readie to throwe the fierie thunderbolts of his wrath when hee summoneth before him the worme that neuer dyeth the fire that neuer shall be quenched to reuenge on the wicked into what a plight are they then driuen then leaue they off be fauourable O Lord be fauourable and say to the hilles O ye mountaines come and couer vs O ye waters come ouerwhelme vs wo wo wo how great is this darknesse The godly on the other side are bathed in such streames of blisse and aduaunced to such happines as neither tongue can vtter nor heart conceiue The second thing wee haue to note in his promises is his mercie which exceedeth all his workes For God though he haue giuen a cursse of the lawe against sinners yet seeing Christ for the penitent hath borne the cursse wherby his iustice is not impaired he is content to accept our weakenes as our strength to recompence our imperfections with reward of greatest perfection that which we can performe but in small part he is content to accept as whole not for any desert of ours but in the satisfaction of his sonne who paid with the seale of his own blod the ransome for our sins he hath cancelled the hand writing that was against vs. Wherfore we are to pray vnto God that whensoeuer our sins shal come in question before him that he would looke vpō Christ Iesus the true loking glas in whō he shall find vs most pure innocent to shine most cleerly in the righteousnes which hee hath giuen vs by faith so that we appeare not in our owne righteousnes but in the righteousnes of the lambe who hauing taken away the sinnes of the world and hauing made vs as white as snow though wee were as red as Crimson saith he will be mercifull to our iniquities and wil remember our sinnes no more Of him doe all the Prophets beare witnesse that thorow his name all that beleeue shall receiue remission of theyr sinnes Againe drinke yee all of this for this is my bloud which is shed for the remission of sinnes Christ gaue himselfe for our sinnes that hee might deliuer vs from the cursse of the law euen according to the will of his father Christ bare our sinnes in his owne bodie on the tree that we being deliuered from sin might liue in righteousnes by whose stripes we are healed for we were as sheepe going astray but are now returned to the shepheard and Bishop of our soules It is no more but beleeue and be saued beleeue and receiue remission beleeue and lay of thine owne righteousnes and inuest thy selfe with the righteousnesse of the vnspotted Lambe Dauid was young and after was old yet in all his daies he neuer saw the righteous forsaken Sometimes he scourgeth his children but like a louing father hee layeth no more vpon them then they are able to beare for hee afflicteth them for his own iustice because they are sinners for his wisedome to exercise their faith for his mercie to cause them to repent but this is the end of all he helpeth them in their distresses he reuengeth himselfe vpon his enemies and giueth to his people rest and quietnes O that we would therefore praise the Lord and forget not all other his singular benefits O that we would confesse that his mercie endureth for euer The third thing to note in his promises is his bountifull kindnesse in requiring so small a thing with so great and liberall blessings and bindeth himselfe by obligation as it were that as sure as we perfome the one so hee will not faile to accomplish the other The fourth is his patience and long suffering which is not slacknesse as some men account slacknesse but is patience because willinglie hee would haue no man to perish but gladly would haue all men come to repentance He is content to stay our leysure till we seeke and pray vnto him and neuer smiteth till there be no hope of redresse The fist is his loue in that he is content to stirre vs vp to holy exercises and puritie of life and to allure vs with faire promises of aide prosperous encrease of all his blessings in this world The particular examination of these blessings would require a large discourse then fearing tediousnes I dare presume to trouble yee withall wherefore a worde of ech and so I end Touching the first where it is said God will awake vp vnto thee it is a greater benefit then the words import for it signifieth not onely that he will heare thee but that he will also doo what thou desirest and satisfie thy request As long as the sinner sleepeth the Lord is said to bee a sleepe but assoone as the sinner awaketh from sinne God will arise sayth Dauid and his enemies shall bee scattered and they that hate him shall flie before him as the smoake vanisheth before the wind and as the wax melteth against the fire euen so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God Wherfore as Paul exhorted the Ephesians so I exhort you Awake thou that sleepest stand vp from the dead Christ shal giue thee light awake vnto God and God will awake vnto thee Christ euen the sonne of God the bright morning star shall giue thee the light of life In the second he promiseth abundance of worldly blessings in recompence of prayer for it is said He will make the habitations of thy righteousnes prosperous that is the Lord will make peace within thy walles and prosperitie within thy pallaces hee will commaund his blessings to bee with thee in thy store house and in all thou settest thy hand vnto he will open vnto thee his good treasures euen the Heauens to giue raine on thy lande in due season Thou shalt laye vp golde as the dust and the gold of Ophir as the flint of the riuer thou shalt wash thy pathes with butter and thy rockes shall powre out riuers of Oyle thou shalt call saluation thy wall and praise shall be in thy gates Loe thus shall the man be blessed that feareth God Lastly for being pure and vpright hee will make thy latter end greatly encrease and that thou maist the lesse mistrust his promise hee will doe it though thy beginning be but small Heere brethren ye see what a sea of matter is offered mee wherevnto if I would commit my selfe I might discourse vnto yee what straunge euents by Gods prouidence haue happened in the world what great Kings and Potentates haue been plucked downe from their thrones and what contemptible persons in the eye of the world haue beene aduanced to their roomes How Mardocheus a straunger was exalted into Hamons place how Ioseph and Daniell the one a bond-man in Egipt the other a Captiue in Babilon were made Princes in those kingdomes But because I will not ouermuch transgresse the bondes of modestie or hold

thy goodly ornamēts of thy godly desires of religious thoughts of zealous affections of christian communication of holy indeuours of assured perswasions of faith of stedfast waitings through hope of constant suffering by patience and heartie reioysings from loue In the perfect consummation of which things because al happines consisteth beware thou carelesse wretch least sodainly by thy abhominable filthinesse thou either for a time wholy depriue thy selfe of comfortable feeling of these things or much diminish thy present graces and blessings receiued of the holy spirit to the glorie of God the Father But why doe I vtter my voice or striue to make a dead carkas moue ô quicken thou me that art the fountaine of life and call thou out of heauen thy dwelling place that my wandring soule may heare the voice of hir shepheard and followe thee whither soeuer thou leadest nay of thy tender compassion take me vp vpon thy shoulders and carrie mee gentlie into thy fold again for theeues haue stolne me away haue bound my feete so that I cannot go and they watch for me vntil thou art gone that they may carrie me away quick from thy pastures ô do thou therefore presently deliuer me and giue me thy helping hand ô cast thou downe by thy spirit my raging lust and by thy grace subdue mine vntamed affection I am weake ô Lorde and vnable to resist the force of my mightie aduersarie sende thy helpe from aboue and saue mee out of the iawes of the cruell Lion thou hast deliuered me out of the mouth of hell ô let not the gates thereof anie more preuaile against mee let mee not anye longer bee occupyed in vngodlinesse least mine enimie triumph ouer mee saying in his malicious heart there there so would I haue it Let this sinne be farre from me ô Lord that I should defile my selfe anie more with this notorious wickednesse worke therefore in mine heart an vtter detestation of it that I may euer hereafter keepe my selfe pure and vnspotted for thy kingdom Thou that art able to make of stones children to Abraham mollifie I pray thee my stonie heart that all manner of sonne like affections may bee imprinted therein plucke vp ô good father these rootes of bitternesse that no vnsauorie fruite may come of the tree which thou by thine owne hand hast planted I desire I looke I call I crie for thy assistance that I may conquer this vnruly motion O blessed sauiour that hast granted so manie petitions vppon earth to them that were carefull for the bodie fulfill I pray thee this my desire not for health nor strength nor riches nor honour nor for food nor apparell but for thine heauenlie grace and inspiration yea let mee lose all those rather then be left to my sinfull flesh that I should be ruled anie longer thereby Mortifie good father in me the old bodie of sinne and giue vnto me a new bodie purged from these dead works to serue the liuing God renew my spirit dayly that I may cast away these workes of darknesse let it be enough ô mercifull Father that my weaknesse in failing heeretofore hath chased so mightely so gratiouslie and so dearlie for vs we beleeue and know that one drop of his bloud is sufficient to heale our infirmities pardon our iniquities and supplie our necessities but without thy grace our light our strength our guide we are able to do nothing but sinne as wofull experience hath taught vs too long and the example of them which are voide thereof whose life is nothing else but the seruice of the world the flesh and the diuell Therefore good father as thou in speciall fauour hast appointed vs to serue thee like as thou hast ordained all other creatures to serue vs so may it please thee to send downe thy heauenly spirit into this earthly mansion to iluminate our mindes mollifie our hearts change our affections subdue our reason regenerate our wils and purifie our nature to this dutie so shall not thy benefits nor thy chastisments nor thy word returne voide but accomplish that for the which they were sent vntill we be renued to the image of thy sonne Good Lord we beseech thee looke downe in the multitude of thy compassions vppon thy militant Church this sinfull Realme thy gratious Handmaide our dread Soueraigne her Honourable Counsell the ciuill Magistrates the paynefull Ministers the two Vniuersities the people that sit in darkenesse and all that beare thy crosse Gather vs into one communion of thy truth and giue vnto euerie man a spirit to his calling that we being mindfull of the accompt and that wee are called Christians may firmely resolue speedely begin and continually perseuer in dooing and suffering thy holy will Good Lord blesse and sanctifie our meeting that no temptation hinder me in speaking nor them in hearing but that thy word may be heard and spoken as the word of God which is able to saue our soules in that day howsoeuer it pleaseth thee by weake and foolish things to magnifie thy selfe There is no cause ô God most iust why thou shouldest heare sinners which art displeased with sinne but for his sake which suffered for sinne and sinned not in whose name we are bold to lift vp our hearts hands and voices vnto thee praying as he hath taught vs Our Father which art in heauen c. FINIS Diuision Concerning the search Psalm 107. Math. 6. Matt. 17 20 Eccle. 35. Gal. 6. 1. Thess. ● 1. Tim. 2. 1. Iohn 2. Mat. 13 14. Prou 28. Iude. 1. Pro. 24. Gen. 3. Exo. 7.27 1. King 13. 1. Chro. 28 Iam. 1.17 1. Cor. 2. Rom. 1. 2. Pet. 5. Reue. 12. Luke 11. Ephe 6. Reue. 12. Ioh. 1. Psal. 144. Esay 65. Math. 23. Iob. 28 Prou 9. Psal. 32 Eccle. 5. Amos. 8 1-Pet 3. Eccle. 12. Eccle. 32 47.50 Math. 2. Iam. 5.25 Iohn 16. Acts. 15 1● Math. 18. Iosu. 10. 2. King 20 Dan. 6. Exod. 24. Dan. 3. 1. King 8. Iud. 5. Luke 9. Luke 5 Luke 6. Iohn 11. Math. 26. Iohn 18. Luke 22. Luk. 23. Math. 19. Psal. 39 Rom. 8. 2. Tim. 4 Psalm 33 Esay 9. Prou. 2. Psal. 10 5. Psalm 18 Iere. 77. 2. King 16 Psal. 118. Reue. 19 Rom. 1. Deu. 27. 1. Thes. 5. Ephe. 4. Psal. 2. Math 13.15 30 41 Reue. 1.7 2. Cor. 5. 2. Pet. 3. Psal. 78. Ephe. 5. Reue. 22. ● Psal. 112. Deu. 28. Iob. 22. Iob. 29. Psal. 128. Hest. 8. Gen. 30. Dan. 6. Psal. 113. Psal. 78. Iob. 42. Psal. 126. Psal. 42. Reue. 9. Psal. 95. Psal. 96 Iohn 11. Gen. 27. Math. 6 33 Iob. 2. Gen. 47. Gen. 45. Luke 8. Matth. 8.19 Matt. 25. Gen. 18. Gen. 19. 1. Tim. 3.2 Num. 35. Luke 19. Matth. 5.13 Matth. 5. Luke 4. Iohn 8. Math. 5.13 Luke 8.14 Exod. 3. Marke 1● Luke 3. Gen. 18. Acts. 2. Acts. 8. Acts. 22. Gen. 8. Exod. 8.32 2. Sam. 15. Luke 8. Matt. 13.45 2. Tim. 4.2 Matth. 6. 1. King 17. 2. King ● Iohn 11. Matth. 26. Luke 5. Eccle. 3. Num. 21. Matth. 25. Gen. 6. Luke 17. Hebr. 11. 1. King 18. Gen. 37. 1. Sam. 17. Psal. 69. Luke 7.33 Acts. 25 Luke 7.34 Gen. 31.24 Num. 12. Num. 22 2. Pet. 2 1● Gen. 22 1. Sam. 3. Luke 14. 1. King 18. Math. 14 Mark 6.20 Luke 11.28 Rom. 1.16 Gen. 25 28. 1. Pet. 2.1.2 Psal. 4● 1. Ecol 12 13. Heb. 11.6 Rom. 10.17 1. Tim. 4.8 1. Pet. 1 13 Luk. 21 33 1. Pet. 1 25 Iames. 1 22. Math. 12 50 Luk. 11 28.