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cause_n	let_v	lord_n	way_n	2,277	5	5.0648	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90993	Mans delinquencie attended by divine justice intermixt with mercy. Display'd in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abby Church at Westminster, Novemb. 25. 1646. being the solemn day of their monethly fast. / By William Price, B.D. Pastor of Waltam-Abby; and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Price, William, d. 1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3401; Thomason E363_1; ESTC R201226	28,963	60

they had committed abominations Jer. 8.12 Nay they were not ashamed neither could they blush Nay wee are fallen on an age into which those monsters have transmitted by a kind of transmigration their spirits contemporaries to S. Austine of whom he thus complains Quid dignum'● vituperie nifi vitium Ego n● vituperarer vitiosior fiebarn Conf. Though nothing be blamable but sin I lest I should be blamed was fain to be more sinfull I belied my self that I was guilty of what I never committed lest the more innocent I was the more despicable I might appear We are ashamed not to be shamelesse At least ashamed of what wee should count our crown religion profession We are ashamed of our glory Phil. 3.18.19 and glory in our shame as heirs to those prostitutes that extorted tears from S. Pauls eyes but to name Wee have swarms of those that will with triumph trumpet forth how many they have plundred opprest ground to powder ruin'd by their power having no better plea then that of the wolfe to the lamb Thou hast a better cause but I have better teeth boasting how many unwary onus they have over-reacht by flight of brain with that hell-bred Proverb in their mouthes Plain dealing is a jewell but he that useth it shall die a beggar and yet it is a wonder there should be so many beggars and so few plain dealing men Bragging how many pliant souls laden with sin led a way captive by lust they have insnared and subdued by their blandishments Which impudence is to let out sin to use to wind it up to the highest peg and it is a link of the chain of sin fastned next to the gates of hell And it is as irrationall as if a felon should boast of his fetters a dog of his vomit an infected person of his plague-sore or a possest demoniack of his divell Deer Christians if there be any shadow of ingenuity in us ●unsell I trust we shall rather take part with Ezra in the Text blushing for others sins then thus insolently proclaim our own like Sodom 1. ●bortation ●m 1.16 Let us not be ashamed of owning God I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ saith Paul Nay he points to his chain Tim. 1.16 that hee bore for Christs cause as children point where they are fine ●edecorosum ●aro ruenti se ●bducere The Celtes in Damascene thought it a disgrace to withdraw themselves from a falling wall Let us be ashamed to flinch from God though all the world should disclaim him Our Lord and Master will at the last day be ashamed of them that are now ashamed of him Mar. 8.38 Let us not blush in a good cause where justice or mercy challenges our reliefe though justice or mercy should passe for a crime among men Let us blush rather for dishonourable Exhortation dishonest scurrilous subdolous unworthy words and actions Then shal s remember thy wayes Ezek. 16.61 and be ashamed saith God to Israel Motives What is past cannot be recall'd wee cannot be innocent wee may be penitent though wee cannot offer the spotlesse lamb of blamelesnesse we may the turtles of penitency our two eyes fill'd with shame and sorrow We are ashamed of bodily defects of a summetry disproportion of parts whereof wee are not guilty wee are guilty of our spirituall deformity Num. 12.14 As God argues to Moses about his sister Miriam If her father had spit in her face should shee not have been ashamed seven dayes and now shee is a leper let her be shut out seven dayes So it holds by rules of equivalence if wee be ashamed of what wee are meerly passive in from our heavenly Father why not much more for our sin wherein wee have been culpably active Even Nature saith Tertullian hath cast a shamefastnesse on all sinfull evill Omne malum p● dore perfudit 〈◊〉 malefici gestiun latere devitan● apparere trepidant deprehensinegant accusatine torti quide● facile aut sempe confitentur certe damnati maeren● vel fato vel a stris imputant nolunt suum esse quid malum ag● noscunt In Apolog Malefactors delight to sculk refuse to appear They that are drunk are drunk in the night it was so in S. Pauls time 1 Thess 5.7 They tremble and blush when apprehended deny when accused when tortured they seldome or hardly confesse condemn'd they bemoan themselves and impute all either to the malevolent aspect of conjunction of Starres or to the unresistablenesse of fate they will not have guilt lie at their door because it is guilt and opprobrious Let but nature work it will prompt us to this modesty But grace I hope will be more expressive on us I have seen Ephraim saith God smiting on his thigh I have heard his moaning and acknowledging himself ashamed It was melody in Gods ears that confession and that smiting a lovely prospect in his eye as appeares by Gods melting passionate language about him in the next verse Ephraim is my deer son my pleasant child I remember him still my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him And when the soule-wounded Publican durst not look up to heaven ●clinavit ocu● inclinavit ●lum heaven looked down to him he declined his own eyes and inclined Gods In a word It were a strange thing saith Austin if in our faces there should be such a distance between our forehead and tongue ●rum si in fa● tamum inter●llum inter ●ntem lin●am ut frons ●n comprimat ●guam Cont. ●l Pel l. ● ● 1. that shame should not suppresse and stifle a bold tongue If Diodorus the Logician fell down dead for shame that he could not resolve an Argument propounded to him me-thinks if we were truly apprehensive of the multitude and horridnesse of our sins and the venome naturally inter woven with our soules and our unkind abuse of so gracious a God we should blush even to death and be ready to creep into the grave or hell it self we having too much cause to take Ezra's words out of his mouth and to appropriate them to our selves For our iniquities are increast over our head c. I am fallen from the impression of his shame to the expression of his and Israels misery set downe also as the ground of his shame And that first in his self arraignment and inditement filed against himself and Israel Inditement In which bill his ingenuous confession comes first to hand Confession displaying their sins under the varied termes of iniquities and trespasses Iniquity in our English Idiome sounds injustice Iniquity inequality Indeed what is more unjust then sin especially the sin of those within the bosome of the Church who are favor'd and ennobled with so many mercies and priviledges Are not my waies equall and are not your waies unequall Ezek. 18.25 As God expostulates with his people Trespasses is the other