every lust and wickednesse that lodges within you and lay them downe at Christs feet be content to part with all that you may enjoy him that is more than all who would not leave a sinne for a Saviour exchange darknesse for light or part with an empty contentment to be satisfied with the true never-fading good But if profit cannot prevaile with you let danger force you hereunto know there is a great misery in the neglect hereof if you will not have GOD take away your sinnes the truth is God will take away his grace and holy Spirit from you if you ever had it Nay you shall never have it upon these termes Was there ever a man such a baby in nature that hee would not part with the wound that will kill him Was ever any man so foolish that hee would not let the Physitian purge him when hee was sure to recover upon it Consider it seriously you must either take part with sinne or with your souls either suffer God to deprive you of your lusts or deprive you of heaven Psal 5.3 Thou art a God that lovest not wickedness saith David If you will have sin dwell in your hearts God will not dwell with you nor you with him If you will harbour and hold your sinnes you must hold fast shame and sorrow too A stranger to grace and a stranger to God Gratifie your lusts and you gratifie the devill Without holinesse no happinesse Heaven is too pure a place for any uncleane thing to have admission into Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things FINIS Spirituall MUNITION A FVNERALL SERMON Psal 20.7 Some put their trust in Chariots and some in horses but wee will remember the Name of the Lord our God LONDON Printed for Robert Dawlman at the Signe of the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1638. Spirituall MUNITION 2 KINGS 2.12 And Elisha saw it and he cryed My Father my Father the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof WHen the Lord had revealed that hee would take away Eliah in a whirlewinde as appeares in the first verse of this Chapter you shall observe that Elisha one that lived with him and was trained up by him did two things 1. He followed him marvellous closely while he lived And 2. he mourned for him at his death The Lord sent post-haste for Eliah to heaven and in a fiery Chariot suddenly transports him thither Now when Elisha could see him no more nor enjoy him any longer then he cryeth out O my Father my father As though he had said Eliah is now gone he is past all recovery yet though he be a gainer we are all losers having lost a maine prop and support unto us therefore I cannot but breath and pant after him O my Father my Father In the verse I have read you may observe two things 1. The affection of Elisha to his Master 2. The commendation or description of Elijah The words repeated imply his passion as that of David O Absolom 2 Sam. 18.33 my sonne my sonne would God I had dyed for thee O Absolom my sonne my sonne 1. The affection of this holy man appeareth in three things 1. 1. His honourable esteeme of him Father 2. His humble subjection to him My Father 3. His lamentation and mourning for him O my Father wherein the great griefe and passion of his soule appeares by rending and tearing his clothes apieces as you may see in the Chapter I beginne with the first The word Father is sometimes taken for a word of nature as a naturall father sometimes it signifies a terme of time discovering Antiquity as Fathers in Israel that is such as are aged of long continuance and standing in the Church The point hence is this Doct. 2 King 6.21 The Ministers of God should be as Fathers to the people And this appeares in three things 1 1 They should have a stayednesse and gravity both of spirit and life 1 Tim. 4.12 Let no man despise thy youth saith Paul to Timothy but be an example in life and doctrine If thou livest holily without exception and yet men will speake against thee thine heart tells them they lie let them raile their fill 2 2 In regard of the power and authority committed unto them by God Paul had a rod as well as meeke words Ministers must bee Fathers not cockerers nor flatterers of men 3. 3 In regard of the instruction that they give unto the people which must bee according as their necessity and ability requireth They must be eyes to the blind eares to the deafe Isa 40.11 and feete to the lame First Vse 1. this should teach the Lords watchmen to shine as burning lamps to be examples of piety and strict obedience in their severall places Alas what is it to have the highest place and the basest practise the best calling and the worst kinde of living Secondly Vse 2. it should instruct you that are hearers to deale with the Ministers of Gods word as with Fathers you must not despise them in a captious censorious manner undervaluing the Lords Worthies 1 Tim. 5.1 as many doe Rebuke not an Elder saith S. Paul but intreat him as a Father It is not for a childe to call the father to his tribunall Doe wee see any thing in the Minister that is faulty wee should mourne for it and wisely suggest it to him Say to Archippus saith S. Paul he doth not bid you controule Archippus But here mistake me not It is a point of Popery to beleeve and doe in all things as the Minister saith or doth but wee must search the Scriptures and try mens doctrines whether they bee according to God or not This is one passage My father Here is further set down the deare and respectfull carriage of Elisha unto Eliah whence observe 2 That loving subjection is that which all people ought to give unto those that are in the place of the Ministery Doct. 2. Heb. 13.17 Submit yourselves What Elisha himselfe did all the sonnes of Elisha will likewise doe Now this appeares in three things 1 1 They must have a reverend esteem of them and the places unto which God hath called them they must entertaine them as Ambassadors Gal. 4.14 as Co-workers with the Sonne for their salvation 1 Thes 5.13 to bring the poore creature and his Creator together that they may be one Men are apt to say Ministers are weak and passionate and full of failings Why brethren who is not so It is our happinesse that we have this heavenly treasure in earthen vessels Should God speake to us face to face who were able to abide him Secondly 2. submitting subjecting of our selves to the truths delivered Tell not me of intertaining a Minister or bidding him to your Table Thou must subject thy soule to the word and labour to bee under the power of divine truths revealed Otherwise
thou dost but despise the Minister all the while thou slightest and disobeyest his Ministery you should say as Samuel did Speak Lord thy servant heareth and as S. Paul Lord what wilt thou have mee to doe If a Command come the soule should readily performe it If a Reproofe the soule should willingly beare it and not repine in a fretting maner saying he aymed at me and I care not if I never heare him more Brethren this is not subjection but pride and rebellion against God and his truth This ought not to bee amongst Christians If any man seem to quarrell and take up Armes against the word of the Almighty let that man know that his doome sleeps not for God will certainly slay all such stubborne and stiffe-necked rebels that refuse to have him rule over them Strive therefore for a yeelding submissive spirit get a frame of soule willing to bee taught of God to bee disposed of by him in everything to receive any impression which hee shall stampe upon thee When thou art to heare the Word beg a teachable minde and say Good Lord let thy servant now heare a seasonable word quicken these dead bones here before thee Speake home to my conscience wound my corruptions slay these sinnes that are too hard for mee let no iniquity prevaile over thy poore servant but let Jesus Christ bee all in all to and in mee take this heart of mine and frame it and alter it and mould it and melt it Worke thine owne will in mee fashion me to thy kingdome of grace here that I may partake of thy kingdome of glory hereafter A good heart will not fume and vexe to see his pollutions ript open but lay things close to his conscience and blesse God for this light and say Blessed be his good word and his poore servant that met this day with my sinnes I never observed that pride I never discovered that fraud and guile of spirit I never tooke notice of such swarmes of lusts lurking in my soule as now I finde What became of Christ I cared not what became of his Ministers I valued not what became of the Name and honour and Gospel of the Lord Jesus I regarded not but now I see the evill of my wayes and blessed bee God for that good worke which hath beene communicated to my soule by his servant It is a fearefull thing when men deale with their sinnes 2 Sā 18.5 as David did with Absalon Doe not kill him but deale kindly with the young man for my sake Such mens spirits are as yet very little in subjection to God and they may wel be ranked amongst the opposers of him and his Ministers Thirdly 3. this further appeares by a free willing serviceablenesse unto those that are faithfull in the worke of the Lord for our good Gal. 4.15 The Galathians would have pulled out their eyes to have done S. Paul good and would have parted with their dearest friends and best commodities to bee partakers of his Ministery Thus you see 1 that Christians ought to have a due respect of Gods Messengers 2 They ought to submit themselves to the Ambassage they deliver 3 They ought to bee serviceable unto them in all things The use of this is for instruction Vse 1. to teach us to depend and wait upon God in the use of the Ministery These are the Conduit-pipes of grace Children they go still to their fathers house to bee fed or clothed So it should be with us This likewise may reprove two sorts of people Vse 2. First those that in stead of doing good unto a faithfull Minister labour what they can to root him out and in stead of subjection to the word by him delivered they set up and maintaine rebellion against it If your wounds once be launced your corruptions discovered and the punishment due unto them flung upon your faces so as you can have no quiet in a sinfull course then presently all the Towne is in an uproare and cry Away with this fellow hee shall not tarry here long Brethren Is he a dutifull sonne that would cast his father out of doores A sonne no a slave to the Devill and a rebell against the Lord Almighty fitter for a prison to tormēt him then a house to harbour him It is a certaine signe that the soule never had grace which opposeth the Ministers of grace This is a fearefull symptome of an unsound heart and where ever it is cleerely evidences that GOD hath forsaken that soule For alas it is not a poore weake man which they oppose but the Great God himself who shines forth in them as they shall one day wofully finde and feele with sorrow This falls heavy upon all close hearted hypocrites 2. those whited walls that run with the Hare hold with the Hound who though they give way unto the Minister sometimes yet it is but to serve their owne turns to effect their owne ends They make the Minister their stalking horse to procure their owne profit or credit by And if their aimes fall not out but their expectation is crossed and their desires frustrated then for shame of the world they dare not persecute a good Minister openly yet they secretly revile and speak against him saying Would I had never knowne such a man Mat. 10.11 he is able to make one runne madde If any man now have such a stubborne heart and distempered soule that he will not subject to the word of God he cannot have any true peace happily hee may have peace in the world but he shall have gall enough in his conscience Some will say Object I like such a man very well and I could love and respect one Minister dearely but not another Hold thy tongue for shame Answ Is not the truth alike in all why then dost thou discover such grosse hypocrisie as to be a respecter of persons If he be a faithfull Minister and thou canst not finde in thy heart to receive him and highly esteeme of him it is a signe that thou hast no grace O but hee hath wronged mee in this or that matter Object But the word of God did never wrong you Answ This argueth a desperate disposition that thou art rotten and unsound at heart when thou respectest thine owne private ends of profit pleasure credit or the like above the word of God this plainly demonstrates that thy eye is not single and that thou lovest not God for himselfe This therefore should minde the messengers of God Vse 3 chiefly to respect and tender those that yeeld subjection to the message which they deliver O brethren let us that are of the Ministery most esteeme of them most prize them that love God and his word The rich man it may be sitteth highest at the Table but they that love the Lord should be most respected by us loved of us It is true happily they have weaknesses and frailties yet if you delight
that hee put up to the Lord in the dayes of his humiliation If any sins were stirring or any iniquity abounding hee laboured by fasting and prayer to oppose the same I knew him sometimes in Cambridge in his younger dayes at which time the Lord had wonderfully inriched him with spirituall gifts In the exercise whereof he was so industrious that hee did weary himselfe and even consume his spirits by reason of his constancy in holy duties Hee was so taken with love of the Lord Jesus and his blessed truths that hee was faine to bee checked and by many good friends to bee hindered in his pious service and indeavours How oft hath hee stood in the gap and laboured by fervent prayers to avert Gods wrath and remove his heavy judgements Witnes his strong cries and intercessions to the Almighty in the time of common calamitie when the pestilence raged so violently amongst us Witnesse also those painefull imployments that hee tooke up in season and out of season exhorting rebuking with all long-suffring and patience Some times alluring the heart with sweet promises otherwhile denouncing vengeance threatning judgement against obstinate sinners Preaching ordinarily every Lords day and extraordinarily upon the weeke as occasion was offered for the good of his people Witnesse also and I pray brethren thinke of that the many sweet comforts and heavenly consolations wherewith hee refreshed and supported many a fainting soule Thus this blessed Saint weakned his body and wasted his spirits out of love to Christs little flock which now he enjoyes the fruit and comfort of For though our griefe cannot bee expressed having sustained so great a losse yet it cheereth my heart me thinks how now he resteth from all his labours Oh the sweet repose that hee enjoyes Now his eyes that were full of teares and his tongue that did almost cleave to the roofe of his mouth for the good of the Church doe all cease and lie still We leave his pretious soule in the hands of his Maker and his body to bee laid in the dust there to sleep in a bed of downe untill the Trump shall awake both him and us all at the great day of appearing Againe Vse 2. Are faithfull Ministers the helpe and fortresse of a Nation then the losse of an able true hearted Minister is to bee greatly mourned for O my Father my Father saith good Elisha So though we must leave this our deare brother yet let us look after him as hee did Hee looked wishly on him had his eye fixed constantly towards him and when he could see him no more hee cryeth out O my father my father Why should not wee bewaile this great losse of ours in like manner Me thinks every one of us should take up this sorrowfull complaint mee thinks your spirits should relent and mourne at such an object Yea I am perswaded many here present doe so Mee thinks I heare one say O my father by whom I was converted and another O my father by whom I was directed a third O my father by whom my soule was comforted and the little children that are left fatherlesse they cry O my father by whom I was begotten maintained and nourished in spirituall things Brethren let us looke after him though wee must now part with him yet let us call to minde all his prayers and humiliation and fasting and supplications to the throne of Grace All his teares are now dried up all his complaints are now finished all his paines and labours are now accomplished and hee to receive a plentifull reward of them Let us mourne for our neglect of the means of salvation whiles he lived amongst us O his labour and teares and painfull studying are now all gone they are now in heaven whither he himself is gone before us The Lord give us to follow his steps that we finishing our course as he did our latter end may be like unto his To conclude briefly Vse 3 Is one of the Horsemen of Israel gone Are the Charrets of Israel taken away What must wee then do Certainly we should double our forces now and make a new presse because a Generall is slain The Lord hath brought us hither at this time O let us lay this dolefull spectacle to heart and be affected therewith as we ought I should speak as if I were never to speake more You should heare as if you were never to heare more Men Fathers and Brethren what hath befallen this Saint before you may be any of our portions ere long wee know not how soone Death may knock at our doores Our times are in Gods hand who can take us to himselfe when hee pleaseth Happily this day may be thy last day and this very season the last opportunity that ever thou maiest have to meet GOD in his Ordinances Oh therefore bee encouraged to adde one prayer more Goe home I beseech you and consider with the departure of this our deare Friend how many prayers and teares are departed with him How did hee importune the Lord for the good of the whole Land in generall and for the Country and place wherein he lived in particular Thinke you all his earnest striving with God was in vaine Or seemeth it a small thing in your eyes to lose so many fervent effectuall supplications I beseech you lay it to heart and every man in his place put to his helping hand for repairing of so great a losse Now make a presse of prayers raise up armies of petitions Goe your wayes home bee humbled pray one praier more that the Army may be increased still You that were of his Parish and enjoyed the worke of his Ministery Oh you have lost a good Pastor a faithfull Labourer in Gods harvest one that had a longing desire after your salvation But know this how ever your provocations are increased yet the Lord who for your sins hath made this breach among you hath further blessings in store if you seeke to him He can supply your place againe with a faithfull able Minister and with a couragious Generall Therefore brethren if ever you pray pray now if ever you fast now fast if ever you humble your selves now bee humbled in dust and ashes before the Lord never more need never greater want By this meanes the Land will be strengthened and our peace and safety continued What though our enemies are many and our sinnes great fervent prayer hath to doe with a God stronger and mightier then they all This will undermine the most subtill underminers of Gods truth and children therefore set your selves seriously upon the work however the flesh is awkward yet stirre up and provoke your spirits hereunto It will never repent you upon your death beds of your prayers and teares put up unto God It will bee a great refreshment to your drooping soule at that day if you can say in truth as Hezekiah did Good Lord remember how I have walked uprightly before thee This is that which will continue a mans comfort and support his soule in the greatest extremity An unpraying heart is a dismall thing Therefore be incouraged to the duty Pray pray pray FINIS
on Christ Answ The meanes to put on Christ they are three especially 1. Wee must put off something 1 and bee uncloathed before we can be cloathed upon Now there are two things to be put off First put off all thy bosome abominations Put off all sinnes and all those menstrous clothes which Esay speakes of we must not listen after our own lusts nor be carryed away by the power of corruption though temptation within comes and occasions without arise bee not overswayed to any sinne For by these meanes you withdraw your selves from the assistance of the Lord Jesus and his Spirit cannot take any place in your hearts his grace will not worke because you set sinne on worke Therefore let us put off all our darling lusts and corruptions and whē we have casheered them wee shall be fit to receive grace The Angell spake to Ioshua Zach 3.3 4. Put off thy filthy garments and I will give thee change of raimēt that is abundance of grace to carry thee on in a good course If wee live in the spirit Gal. 5.25 26. let us walke in the spirit How is that Let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another and envying one another As if hee had said If you listen to pride and vain-glory you cannot walke in the spirit Christ Jesus must bee next the heart hee will not give you outward honours and the like that you may keepe your secret lusts No no grace and Christ must bee nearest the soule of all The second thing that must be put off is this 2 We must deny our selves we must renounce our selves What is that Wee must renounce all sufficiency and ability that is in us that wee may bee under the power and assistance of the Spirit He that will trust to himselfe and his owne ability never can nor shall receive any such supply of grace from Christ to strengthen him as otherwise God would give and hee might enjoy therefore the Apostle wisheth Oh that I might bee found in him Phil. 3.9 not having mine own righteousnesse Before Paul boasted that he was a Pharisee If any man saith hee hath whereof hee might rejoyce much more I circumcised the eight day of the kindred of Israel and the like He had a gay coate and he was marvellously proud of it but when the Lord Christ came to save him he rent it all in peeces hee counted his former garments and all his furniture as nothing and cast all under his feet No souldier puts two Helmets on his head at once and no man weares two shooes on one foot It is pretty to consider it even in nature as it is with a boate that stands partly upon the streame and partly upon the ground so long as it is thus the streame cannot carry it but commit the boat wholy to the streame and then it glides along easily So it is with our souls while wee rest partly upon Christ and partly upon our owne strength and what our parts and wit can doe the power of our Lord Jesus Christ will never carry us nor enable us so chearefully to goe on in a Christian course as otherwise wee might doe It is true the Lord hath given us power to doe what hee requires but the first moving of grace is not in our selves the Fountaine is in Christ and to him we must first goe and from him have our graces supplyed and strengthened Here is the cause why many a Christian finding himselfe weake and his corruptions strong is much daunted because hee lookes onely to himselfe and when any temptation stirres and his lusts move presently hee begins to quarrell with his owne heart and saith Never any man had such a heart as I have by which meanes he is more troubled than before and pores only upon his sins whereas hee should goe to Christ for grace Sinne in our soules is too hard and strong for the power that is in our selves but it is not too hard for the grace that is in Christ hee is the fountaine of holinesse and if we looke to our selves wee goe to a wrong place as a child though hee have life in him yet he cannot walk except his father lead him so we are all such children even the best of Gods people though we have some grace yet Christ must quicken us by his Spirit and raise us up and support us by his grace and then wee can walke chearfully This is the reason why many a poore weake Christian walkes comfortably and sweetly when many an old stander fals often because when an old Christian hath gotten a little wisedome and grace hee thinkes then hee can goe of himselfe and then his peace is forgotten and therefore many times the Lord withdraws his Spirit and here he fals into this sinne and that sinne gets the upper hand of him whereas a poore soule that seeth his owne weaknesse and mournes under it seekes earnestly to Christ that hee would raise up his heart and that hee would strengthen him with his grace and this man walkes chearfully While little children are under the Nurse they never fall but are safe enough but when they are gone from the Nurse then here they fall and there they fall sometime into the fire sometime into the water So it is with us while wee goe into the hands of Christ and look for grace from him all this while though never so feeble in our selves we receive much strength and succour from above but when wee begin to trust to our selves say What need we looke up to Christ now God hath enlightned us and pardoned our sinnes and given us grace now we can goe of our selves then we fall most shamefully then we are much distempered and lose all our peace and all our assistance from Christ Suppose a childe and old man bee swimming the childe that knowes how to doe it he commits himselfe to the Streame and so he swims easily but the strong man thinkes hee can doe it of himselfe and so he strikes with his foot and will not suffer the water to carry him he stands with one foot on the ground and strikes the water with the other this is not swimming but going till at last hee sinkes and is drowned So it is with a poore soule when hee commits himselfe to the streame of Gods grace hee goes on comfortably in a Christian course but when wee rest upon our own ability and on what we can doe the Spirit of grace doth not carry us nor the promise ever assist us and how can wee then subsist Ier. 10.23 for it is not in man to direct his owne wayes S. Paul saith I live and yet not I but Christ liveth in mee That is I must first bee as dead in my selfe before I can live in Christ so should every childe of God say It is not I that have zeale and quickening of my selfe it must bee given me from above The second
easily submits to every good word of God Thirdly 3 addresse thy selfe to reforme what ever is amisse doe thy uttermost endeavour to amend the evill committed and performe this good duties thou hast formerly omitted doe what thou canst in the particular and labour for ability from Christ to doe that which of thy selfe thou art not able It was a hard taske which God enjoyned Abraham to sacrifice his beloved and darling Isaack yet when the thing appeared plaine to be Gods command though it were never so hard there is no resisting it Abraham therefore rose betimes in the morning and hee and the child went immediately to discharge his duty he prevents all occasions that might hinder him his wife was not acquainted with it and his servants knew nothing of the matter So if a man be the son of faithfull Abraham whatsoever the Lord enjoynes though it be the killing of a darling secret beloved lust if the Lord say it must bee done this sin must be avoided this course must be amended bee it never so profitable and full of content the soule of a gracious man will rise early in the morning that is he wil forthwith set upon the means to accomplish the same As for instance Let this be the case that comes to the scanning of a poore ignorant Christian Imagine the Lord informes him and his conscience perswades him that hee must pray in his Family Now happily a poore soule at the first is not able to pray his understanding is weake and his abilities meane hee cannot of himself frame a prayer to God yet hee will set upon the duty he will take the booke and reade a prayer though hee cannot conceive a prayer being a novice and a young Christian yet hee will use the stilts till he get his legs follow him home to his closet and you shall finde him bemoane his basenesse and hee prayes that hee may pray he beseecheth the Lord hee may know what to aske that he may see his sins and confesse them he will begge for the Spirit that hee may bee able to cry Abba Father I beseech you remember this one thing it is a marvellous distemper in many people that say I confesse such courses ought to be avoyded the Word forbids it and my conscience goeth against it but what shall I doe I cannot set to the worke I shall never overcome it why then lay all religion aside for how can it stand with sincerity of heart that I should bee informed and convinced that the Lord requires a service at my hands and I yet never set upon the performance thereof I deny not but a good Christian may be unable to doe as hee ought but he will strive to doe what God requires Alas Object saith the Gallant I confesse the fashions are fooleries and it is a madnesse to follow every vanity but what should I doe a man had as good bee out of the world as out of the fashion Fashion not your selves after the world Ans saith the Text. But I know not how to get out of it saith the gallant The custome is so usuall that I cannot leave it Doest thou know a duty and is thy heart perswaded of it and yet wilt thou not submit to it Where is grace now in thy soule Certainly thou art still in the gall of bitternesse even reason and common civility wil make a man reforme some things me thinkes grace should prevaile much more If a man will not part with a lock with a feather a fashion a foolery for Christ how will hee lose his credit liberty and life for him how can hee leave all sinne that will not part with the shadow and appearance the haire and nayle of sinne Fourthly a gracious heart is content to take up the hardest means the sharpest medicines that God hath appointed for the killing and slaying of his corruptions If there bee any weapon in the world more keene than other for wounding of his lusts the soule gladly imbraces the same that reformation may bee made Take an arme or a legge that hath the Gangrene the nature of which disease is to infect spread over the whole man when the Chirurgeon comes and tels the patient Either you must lose your legge or your life you must have your arme cut off or else bee cut off your selfe one of the two must speedily bee done If the patient say I will rather abide the worst than part with a limbe every man will conclude he cannot live long If hee did purpose to maintaine life sure hee he would part with that which takes away life So is it here with some kinde of baser sinnes I meane grosse and notorious crimes which are scandalously vile there is no way to bee ridd of these without some corrosive bee applyed the soule will never be separated from them unlesse some bitter Pill be taken which if a man refuse to use it is an evident signe hee hath no purpose to part with his sinne Suppose a man hath got an estate by theevery and cozenage and the like when the Word of God comes home to his conscience and tels him he must make satisfaction or bee damned This man may bee dejected in spirit and bemoan himselfe with teares but that will not serve the turne nothing will cure but satisfaction peace will not be attained without restitution this is the Gangrene that must bee cut off Happily hee will say most of his estate hath come in this way and if I should restore all that I have unjustly gained I should die a beggar Let me ask thee but this question What will it profit a man to get the whole world and lose his owne soule Is it not better to die in a poore estate than in a sinfull estate To depart a good man than a rich man Againe suppose a man lives in the bosome of the Church and be a great Professor and yet hath beene seen openly drunk or is knowne to have cōmitted adultery there is no cure for this man now but he must satisfie the congregation the Church of God which hath beene dishonoured and discredited by his sinne let him fast and pray and weepe in secret never so much I cannot see how this mans conscience can be quieted unlesse he make publike satisfaction as his offence was publike But to proceed 5. A sincere Christian wisheth and welcomes those truths that are most powerfull to prevaile with his sinnes 5 and most likely for the subduing of his corruptions when he cannot doe what hee would and master his sinnes as hee desires hee wisheth Oh that the Lord would send some truth that might plucke these corruptions out of my heart and that word is most pleasing to him that is most effectuall this way The soule makes its moane to God and complains as David did Yee are too hard for mee yee sonnes of Zerviah O Lord these corruptions sticke so close they are too mighty for mee I am not able