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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12161	The thankefull Samaritane In a sermon at S. Peters in Exeter, the sixth of August, Anno 1617. Being the day of the deliuerance of that citie from the rebels, in the dayes of King Edward the Sixth. At which time the Assises was also there holden. By Iohn Comyns Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, and minister of Gods word at Crediton in Devon.	Comyns, John, b. 1587 or 8.	1617 (1617)	STC 5614; ESTC S114489	17,113	24

THE THANKEFVLL SAMARITANE In a Sermon at S. PETERS in EXETER the sixth of AVGVST Anno 1617. Being the day of the deliuerance of that Citie from the Rebels in the dayes of King EDWARD the Sixth At which time the Assises was also there holden By IOHN COMYNS Master of Arts of EXETER Colledge in OXFORD and Minister of GODS Word at CREDITON in DEVON 1. THESS 5.18 In all things giue thankes for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus concerning you LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1617. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MASTER IOHN SHEERE MAJOR of the Citie of EXETER I. C. wisheth the felicitie of both Worlds Grace in this life and glorie in the next SIR I Here present vnto your view what was first meditated by your appointment it had neuer beene penned but for you and therefore it doth of right appertayne vnto you I confesse that at the time of the deliuerie hereof the weakenesse of my memorie was such as neuer before I had experience of in a Pulpit by reason whereof I ouer-slipped many things And that was one speciall motiue that made me the more willing to commit it to the Presse that what was purposed and penned to be preached but through debilitie of memorie was not vttered with the mouth and therefore could not be heard with the eare might yet at length be seene with the eye If this poore labour of mine shall finde entertaynement with you as a testimonie of my thankefulnesse for your vndeserued kindnesse towards me and of that respectiue loue and louing respect I beare you and if it may be a meanes of the least good vnto any Christian soule into whose hands it shal come I haue enough And thus I commend you to God beseeching him to keepe you by his power through faith vnto saluation and will for euer rest Yours in all Christian dutie IOHN COMYNS THE THANKEFVLL SAMARITANE LVKE 17.15 16 17 18. 15. And one of them when he saw that he was healed turned backe and with a loud voice praised God 16. And fell downe on his face at his feete and gaue him thankes and he was a Samaritane 17. And Iesus answered and said Are there not ten cleansed but where are the nine 18. There are none found that returned to giue God praise saue this Stranger WHen Satan that old Serpent had stung our first Parents and in them had poysoned all their posteritie so that mankinde had receiued such a deepe and desperate wound as that it passed the skill and power of all the Angels of heauen and all the Creatures on earth to heale the same it pleased the great a Mat. 9.12 Physicion of the world to come downe vnsent for by wounded man from the height of heauen to the earth below to cure this otherwise incurable spirituall sore of the Sons of men that as they who were bitten with fierie Serpents in the dayes of Moses were preserued aliue by looking vpon that fierie brazen Serpent Num. 21.8 9. which Moses made and set vpon a pole by the commandement of God so all of those that had a spiritual eye of faith to looke vpon this true brazen Serpent who was lifted vp not only on the Crosse Iohn 3.14 but also by the preaching of the Gospel might not perish but haue life euerlasting And during the time of his continuance here on earth for the healing of mankindes grieuous wound he wrought also many miraculous cures on them that were diseased with bodily infirmities he opened the eyes of the blinde so that they were able to see and the eares of the deafe so that they were able to heare he loosed the strings of the tongues of the dumbe so that they were able to speake and strengthened the feete and ancle bones of the lame so that they were able to walke he rebuked the feauers and they left those who were sicke of them and healed the bloudie issue whereof the woman could not be made whole Marke 5.26 but as one Euangelist hath added became much worse though shee had suffered many things of many Physicions and had spent all that shee had finally he cleansed the Lepers as here in the Storie whence the Text is taken Now as the earthly Physicion must haue his fee when he hath finished his cure so is there a fee due vnto and expected of this heauenly Physicion Doe not thinke that siluer and gold or any worldly pelfe is the fee which he will be best pleased withall No no it s a matter of lesse cost to thee Thankfulnesse the heauenly Physicions fee. yet of more acceptance with him hee lookes to haue thankes for his paines that is his fee yet hath he cured many that haue not paid him here were ten Lepers cleansed and but one of them turned backe and praised God and gaue him thankes And therefore might hee iustly complaine of the detestable ingratitude of the other nine that hauing wrought on them so great a cure yet was denyed by them so small a fee. In this portion of Scripture I consider these two generall parts viz. 1 The euent of the miraculous healing of those Lepers viz. 1 The thankfulnesse of one 2 The ingratitude of nine 2 The euent of that euent viz. 1 Christs complaint of the great ingratitude of nine 2 Christs approbation of the thankfulnesse of one And one of them c. What this one thankefull Samaritane and the other nine vnthankfull Iewes were bodily that are we al spiritually to wit infected with the leprosie of sinne it s a disease hereditarie wherwith we are all possessed euen from our conception and birth Psal 51.5 He was a Saint that confessed himselfe to be conceiued and borne a sinner and if we will beleeue S. Suscepit Dauid personam generis humani Aug. in Loc. Austine he did in that confession take vpon himselfe the person of all mankinde so that all that euer descended from Adam by the ordinarie course of naturall generation are infected with an in-bred spirituall leprosie as soone as euer they are conceiued in the wombe and it may truely be said of them all that they were ouer-spred with the darknesse of sinne euen while their Mother kept them warme in her wombe before they came forth to see the light of the world and were dead in sinne and wickednesse before euer they drew the breath of life in the world and that they were no sooner naturally conceiued men but they were also conceiued spiritually leprous men and that they receiued life and sinne in one moment the first from God their iust Creator the other from Adam their sinfull Progenitor The Apostle doth plainly auouch so much when as he saith that in Adam all haue sinned How Rom. 5.12 16 19 but by drawing from him guiltinesse of nature and corruption of nature First guiltinesse because all stand charged with Adams disobedience in the first moment of their conception as if it had beene their owne that being