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evil_n	bitter_a	good_a	light_n	2,289	5	8.2364	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00951	Miles Christianus, or The campe royal set forth in briefe meditations on the words of the Prophet Moses, Deut. 23, 9, 14. here under following, preached in the armie as Dungen-Leager, profitable for all sorts of men to reade; and published for the generall good of all that will read, By Samuel Bachiler, Preacher to the English at Gorinchem.	Bachiler, Samuel.	1625 (1625)	STC 1106; ESTC S114807	35,497	56

things whereof you are now ashamed Blush for shame and be confounded in thy selfe O Sinner We can be ashamed of bodily nakednes of spirituall nakednes we are not A worse nakednes is this then any other for it is a nakednes joyned with filthie deformitie and misshapenes men are not ashamed alwaies to be seene naked but when they are deformed mismade and ugly this nakednes of sinne is the greatest deformitie that can be imagined The ugly Ephes 4. monstrous Old man is without al forme or beautie But as with some people the purest black is the purest bewtie so is it with some men the fowlest black and soote of sinne is bewtie in their eyes Secondly labour oh labour to haue sinne which is thy nakednes covered not by excusing and hiding it but rather by uncovering it to God Blessed is the man whose iniquitie is forgiuen and whose sinne is covered Men will not suffer their filthie nakednes to be seene and therefore they will clap and keepe their garments about them and rather weare ragged then none at all Yet all covering externall will never hide this spirituall nakednes Bodily nakednes requires bodily covering and that is enough Spirituall nakednes requires spirituall covering Put ye on therefore the Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 13. That he see no uncleannes in thee The Hebrew phrase may be read two wayes first the nakednes of a thing an uncleane busines or matter that he see not an unseemely thing in thee Or secondly any nakednes or uncleannes any at all so dhabhar is taken to signifie any Observation 5. Observ 5 God must see no uncleannes or impuritie of sinne among us The reason is because he cannot abide it Ies 1 13. his rejecting their oblations and hating their sacrifices was the rejecting and hating their sinns Bring no more vaine oblations incense is abhomination the new Moones and Sabaoths and calling of assemblies I cannot away with a speech of extream indignation and what is the reason what cannot he away with his owne ordinances it is iniquitie sayth he Iniquitie God cannot endure verse 14. Your new Moones and your appointed feasts my soule hateth they are a trouble to me I am wearie Sinne is a trouble to the Lord. Wash you wash you sayth he what doe you with this uncleannes upon you which I cannot away with Consect 1. Why then happie are Gods Children for he seeth no iniquitie in Iacob nor transgression in Israell Num. 23. Not because he cannot but because he will not and he casts a covering of his sonne upon them Should God see uncleannes in us he should breake out upon us Lord if thou beholdest iniquitie who can stand Psal 130 3. Secondly we must therefore beware of defiling our selues with sinne the rather When Children are uncleane by rude behaviour all bemired and dirtie they are afraid of their Fathers sight so should we be afraid that God should see the uncleannes of any sinne in us from whom we cannot hide it In the 24 chapt of Deut. verse 1. it was permitted that if a man had perceived Ervath dabhar anie uncleannes in her whom he had taken to wife unto him he might put her away and will God joyne himselfe to us if we cherish the uncleannes of sinne in us The second generall thing is the reason of the order for holynes and against uncleannes in them followeth in these last words saying And turne away from thee or from after thee Hebr. The Chalde sayth here least his WORD turne away from doing good unto thee See this of turning away from them to doe them good Ier. 32 40. Observation 6. Sinne forceth God to leaue Observ 6 and turne away from a people and that in great displeasure Is 59.2 Your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God Sinne sayth one is a Schismatique And this is the Schisme and rent which it makes betweene God and us Hosea 5 15. I will goe and returne unto my place till they acknowledge their offence Meaning as here he speakes he would turne away from them So the Lord turned away from Sampson Iudg. the 16. and 20 verse The reason is first that which was partly giuen in the former point he cannot endure sinne Hab. 1.13 He is a God of pure eyes and cannot looke upon sinn a most impure object Secondly Sinne is that which turnes away from his law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the righteousnes of his nature and is most contrarie to him Thirdly Sinne turnes us away from God therefore the Lord turnes away from sinne and us because of sinne Consect 1. Why then it is no small matter for God to turne away from his people And this appears also by the bitter complaint hereof in the church of God among his people when God had turned from them and the woefull effects thereof threatned Deutr. 31 17. I will forsake them and hide my face from them and many evils and troubles shall befall them Lord it is no marvell though many evils doe befall us when thou the fountaine of all good doest leaue us Hosea 9 12. Yea woe unto them when I departe from them As when the Sunne goeth away from our Horizon he turnes away all his light and comfort from us and leaues us to grope in darkenes so when God turnes away from us we are bereaved of all good He turnes not away alone The Sunne when he comes to us comes with a great deale of comfort with much refreshing through his bright shyning rayes and sweete influence of his beames And truly the light is sweete and a pleasant thing is it to behould the Sunne Eccles 11.7 God is a Sunne of blessed influence where he commeth I will be a Sunne and a shielde Psalm 84. and Christ is sayd to arise like the Sunne The Sunne of righteousnes shall arise with healing in his wings and ye shall grow up as Calues and goe forth Mal. 4.2 So when God comes to a people he comes with a great deale of peace and happines and when he leaues any and turnes himselfe away he turnes and takes away all his mercies Your iniquities haue turned away these things that is all those good things before spoken of and your sinnes haue withholden good things from you Ierem. 5.25 I haue taken away my peace from this people euen loving kindnes and mercies Ier. 16 5. First God takes himselfe away or we by our sinnes and foule transgressions turne God away and loose all blessing with him As when the King goes away his court followes him his attendants and all goe away with him and nothing remaines but a naked place so when God turneth away his Court of attendance and all those good things as Concomitants doe wheele about with him Which aboue all things in the world should make us carefull as we tender the residence of God among us yea as we tender our liues the life of our liues that by Sinne we turne not God away from us For the Ioye of the Lord is our strength Nehem. 8 10. Secondly this should teach us that we should no sooner see uncleannes and sinne but like God away we should turne our selues from it with loathing indignation As when we behould an object lesse savorie and pleasing to our sent and sight we turne away and goe aside hide our eyes and stop our noses so there should no evill boldly present it selfe to us but we should divert our selues And so it should appeare that there is somewhat of that true hatred of sinne in us which is most infinitely in God which if we did God would the lesse nay not at all turne away from us Thirdly and lastly Behold here the loathsomenes of sinne the vilenesse and the filthinesse thereof most intollerable in that it makes the Lord turne away from us yea from his beloved people Nothing my Brethren can be so odious to us to make us turne away in disdaine to make us forsake and withdraw our selues from it as sinne and uncleannesse is to GOD. It is that which forceth him to abandon his people with a temporarie dereliction untill they returne and the wicked with an eternall desertion It must be a great matter must make us turne away from those who are deare unto us Gods people are his children it must be a strange thing must make a Father turne away from his children They are his Spowse and therefore Sinne is some greate abhomination that constreineth the Lord to leaue them When we turne away from any thing we turne away from a Serpent from a Basiliske from a Toade from a stincking Carkasse which is most noysome or wee turne away from our enimies whom we hate and of whom we are hated Some displeasing obiect or other it alwaies is which we turne away from We never turne away from that which is amiable louely and faire but what is accursed and miserable and worthilie of it selfe to be detested oh what an abhominable and beastly thing is sinne a most uncleane uncleannesse and impure impuritie which makes God to turne away from us because of that FINIS