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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02170	Meditations and disquisitions upon the one and fiftieth Psalme of Dauid Miserere mei Deus. By Sr. Richard Baker, Knight.	Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1638 (1638)	STC 1231; ESTC S100560	42,166	82

be made not legible so by creating in mee a cleane heart there may be no marke of remembrance that ever they were written Indeed this blotting out of sinnes is but an Ablative case in the worke of sanctification the Dative is of much more use for this Dative is the giving mee a new hear● and seeing the heart is the beginning of life by having a new heart I shall begin a new li●e and the sinnes of my old heart shall be no more remembred O great God into how many severall formes of ossi●tance doe wee miserable sinners diversifie thy glorious Majesty We made thee first our Landerer to wash us then our Physitian to purge us and now our Creatour to new make us and indeed there was no staying till we came hither Our Dove can find no rest for the sole of her foote till she returne into this Arke againe for if my sin were only a foulenesse it might be help'd with washing or if only a steining it might bee help'd with purging but seeing it is a totall and absolute corruption now nothing can helpe it but a new Creation But how should David come to be so foule was it by conversing with Bathsheba but what foulenesse could hee take from her who came but then newly out of her Bathe O my soule it is not a Bath of Milke and Roses that can make a cleanenesse in Gods sight God hath strange eyes he can see foulenesse in Bathsheba though comming out of a neate Bath and can see cleanenesse in Ieremy though comming out of a dirty dungeon he can see foulenesse upon Dives for all his deliciousnesse and dainties and can see cleanenesse upon Lazarus for all his 〈◊〉 amongst the Dogges This David knew 〈◊〉 and therefore all his suit is still for cleanenesse Wash me and cleanse me from my sinnes Purge me with Hysope and I shall be cleane Create in me a cleane heart O God All for cleanenesse still for hee knew if hee could get cleanenesse hee should have a Beauty which the Starres want for the Starres are not cleane in Gods sight he knew that by having a cleane heart he should not onely be fit for God to see but fit to see God as Christ said Blessed are the cleane of heart for they shall see God and then if to be seene of God be the greatest glory and to see God the greatest happinesse O how glorious and happy must a cleane heart needs be that is made capeable to enjoy them both O therefore Create in me a cleane heart O God and renew a right spirit within me for thou hast not so finished thy worke of creation but that thou reteinest thy power of creating still and wherein canst thou better imploy that power than in creating of cleane hearts It was a worke of infinite glory to be the Creatour of Heaven and Earth yet to bee the Creatour of cleane hearts is of all thy workes of glory the most glorious worke And indeed were it not better for me and more ease for God to create in me a cleane heart once for all than to be so troubled with continuall purgings and washings as now he is as now I am for alas O Lord thou maist sooner purge my heart out of my body than purge sinne out of my heart but that it will alwaies be returning to its vomit and I shall breake thy rest continually with importuning thee to wash me But why doe I pray to God for a cleane heart and not as well for cleane eyes and cleane hands seeing these also have there share in foulenesse as well as that But is it not that these are but the Emissaries of the heart and do all they do by the hearts direction that if the heart bee cleane these also will bee cleane of course mine eyes will be cleane and never looke more after any more Bathshebaes my hands will be cleane and never bee more imbrued in the blood of any Vrias But did not God create in me a cleane heart once already yet how foule is it grown now and what hope is there if he create in me a new cleane heart but that it will grow as foule as this I now have But can it properly be said that God did ever create in me a cleane heart before He made me one indeed but he created me none hee onely created Heaven and Earth as it is said In the Beginning God created Heaven and Earth and of that Earth he made me a body and in that body a heart so I had a made heart before but no created heart till now for made is of matter praeexistent but created is of nothing although therefore my made heart being made of dust hath alwaies beene apt to gather dust yet my created heart as made of nothing will have nothing in it from whence to gather foulenesse But O my soule trust not to this for though there should bee no foulenesse in the heart it selfe yet the stinch of the prison in which it lies will he alwaies can●e enough to breed in fection unlesse thou canst get ●ome such sove raine persume that may keepe out i●l aires and keepe the place sweer On therefore n● onely Create in me a cleane heart but 〈◊〉 a right Spirit within me for this 〈◊〉 spirit makes a better perfume than that of Tobies fish● to keepe all uncleane spirits from commi●●eere the heart As therefore Moses 〈◊〉 the Genesis of man by saying that God first made him a body and then brea●hed a soule into him so David describes here the Palingenesis of man by saying Create in me a cleane heart and renue a right spirit within me that if Nicodemus had well understood this Psalme of David he needed not to have made such a wonder at Christs speech when he said Except a man be borne againe he cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven for what is it to be regenerat and borne againe but to have a cleane heart created and a right spirit renued in us If only a cleane heart be created and not withall a right spirit renewed within me this will be but Vehiculum sine Anriga and I shall presently fall in othe mire of sin again and grow as foule as ever I was before but if thou vouchsafe to adde a right spirit to my cleane heart this will keepe mee right in the paths of righteousnesse and then as I now praise thee for making me cleane so I shall praise thee as much or rather much more for keeping me cleane Thou O God that art the Maker art also the renner of all things yet I aske thee for re● of nothing in me but onely a right spirit my veeres are waxed old and vanished away as a 〈◊〉 yet I require thee not to renue them my ●reneth is d●yed up like a po●sheard and my moysture is t●rned into the drouth of summ●r yet I require thee not to renue them All my worldly friends are either taken from mee or gone from me