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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61468	A brief commentary upon the CIII Psalme with the severall axiomes or doctrines therein conteined [sic], and uses thereupon inferred.	Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.	1649 (1649)	Wing S5473; ESTC R21977	156,758	358

the devil Jam. 4.7 2 Doctrine The LORD pardoned all Davids iniquities 1 The object of this forgivenesse was all Davids iniquities that is Explic. both Adams sinne imputed and the actuall sins committed by himself as whereof he had actually repented 2 The pardoning of sin is all one with not imputing it to condemnation or the freeing a man from the guilt of it and consequently from the punishment due upon the guilt 3 The LORD that is the whole Trinity seeing it is opus ad extra a work or act of God terminated upon a thing without Himself Yet as in the Persons there is an internall naturall order of being one from another so also there is an order of working from and by one another even in externall and voluntary actions For as the Father is from none the Sonne from the Father by generation the Holy Ghost from both by procession so the Father creates of Himself by the Sonne and the Holy Ghost the Sonne from the Father by the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost from both So here the Holy Ghost making men conformable to the stipulation of the covenant immediately applies the remission of sins the Sonne taking our flesh upon him merited and procured it but primarily and in a more speciall manner this act is ascribed to the Father Who dwels in the light that no man can approch to sitting continually in the throne of his Majesty and keeping his authority whole and entire to Himself without any condescension of his Person and therefore the power and right either of justly punishing or graciously remitting sinnes doth after a more principall manner belong to him Quest Here a Question may be moved Whether all a mans sins even those which are to come be at once remitted when he is first converted Answ I answer No by no meanes For if so then a man once converted and so perswaded could not otherwise then frivolously pray daily Forgive us our trespasses as which he knowes are all forgiven already David was converted long before the businesse of Urijah If therefore this opinion stand good see to what purpose all that earnestnesse was Psal 51. and what answer had befitted his petitions Have mercy upon me Answ It is not now to doe I had mercy on thee long agoe yea before thou stoodest in need of it for those very sins Blot out my trangressions Answ They were never upon record but pardoned before they were committed Wash me purge me cleanse me Answ No such need thy sins being forgiven aforehand have not defiled thee Deliver me from blood-guiltinesse Answ It was never imputed to thee c. See Rom. 3.25 This opinion tends directly to take away all care of avoiding sin and all repentance for sin committed For why should any that is thus perswaded be afraid to commit any sin whatsoever or repent of any that he hath committed Lest he fall into condemnation There can be no such feare but very foolish if a man be sure that all his sins are pardoned aforehand Neither can he in common sense fear lest God should be displeased For if clearly foreseeing all his sinnes in their nature kind and degree with all their circumstances He fully forgave them all before they were committed how is it possible that without manifest change of mind He should be displeased when any of them are conmmitted But to returne to the Doctrine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Davids sins were forgiven by God see also Psal 32.5 The principall cause of this forgivenesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the Mercy of God whereby He appointed His Son to be the Mediatour and made a covenant with Him the Stipulation whereof see Psal 40.6 7. the Promise Isa 53.10 11. Then also the Justice of God which Christ having exactly performed the stipulation requires the performance of the promise though made freely and of mere grace The Apostle seems to comprehend both together Rom. 3.24 25 26. Uses Here then 1 we see that though we all have our sinnes as the former Doctrine put us in mind yet the case is not desperate Instr There is hope in Israel concerning this thing It is an Article of our Creed I beleeve the remission of sinnes But then 2 we see also to whom this remission belongeth namely not to such as go on in their sinnes without repentance but to such as David was 3 Behold the greatnesse of Gods mercy For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all notes the generality of the object and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the participle of the present tense notes the continuation of the act and that it is ever present as need shall require This may be a ground of comfort 1 Against the terrours of conscience Consolation Thy sinnes are many but Gods compassions are farre more those great but these infinitely greater 2 Against death whose onely sting is sin 1 Cor. 15.56 which being taken away there is nothing in death that can hurt and a Christian is so far from fearing it that he desires and longs for it as rest from his labours and the way to heaven 3 Against all the afflictions of this world positive or privative which forgivenesse of sinnes supposed all work together for our good Rom. 8.28 c. Quest But how shall I know my self to be of the number of them whose sins are forgiven Answ I answer seeing remission of sinnes is the act of God alone according to His good pleasure therefore we must not judge of it according to our own imaginations which may easily deceive us either on the one side through presumption or on the other through scrupulousnesse but according to Gods word wherein He hath revealed his will so farre as it concerns us to know Now from the word of God we may gather two Notes of the forgivenesse of sinnes One and that a most evident one is taken à priore from that which goes before forgivenesse thus It is most certaine that God will doe whatsoever he hath promised Num. 23.19 For as being most faithfull and simply immutable He neither will nor can change His mind so being omniscient He knowes and being omnipotent He is able abundantly to performe His word If therefore we would know whether our sinnes be forgiven we must see whether our spirit can witnesse that we by the grace of God are of the number of them to whom God hath in Scripture testified the promise of forgivenesse Prov. 28.13 Isa 1.16 17 18. Mat. 6.14 15. 11.28 Act. 2.38 10.43 The other Note is taken à posteriore from that which followes forgivenesse For as there is a great difference in man before and after the forgivenesse of his sinnes so the providence of God concerning him is farre different In temporall goods there is a wide difference seeing to a sinner they are given onely out of Gods first or generall love whereof a man may tast deeply and yet never come neare the kingdome of heaven yea the more of this

Hence also are reproved 1 Such as do not seek remission of sinnes Repr much more such as rejoice in their sinnes past especially if gainfull and delightfull and still securely rush into more Of which neither can stand with desire of remission Prov. 28.13 2 Such as seek it not of God Consol Exhort The uses of Consolation and Exhortation see Vers 3. Doctr. 2. as before Vers 13. As a father pitieth his children so the LORD pitieth them that feare Him Here we have the latter effect of Gods mercy or loving-kindnesse illustrated also 1 from the object 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them that feare Him 2 from a similitude As a father c. 1 Doctrine A father pitieth his children 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pitieth Of this vers 4. Doctr. 4. Expl. and verse 8. Doctr. 1. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sonnes Synecd spec for children of both sexes 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a father Synecd gen for a father that doth the office of a father and so shews himself worthy of this title That such a father doth pity his children 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 see Mal. 3.17 Luk. 15.20 And the example of Jacob Gen. 33. who when Esau whom he feared was coming toward him set his children in the last place vers 2. See also vers 13 14. And chap. 43. how hardly and with what caution he let Benjamin goe into Egypt And this proceeds partly from the instinct of nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which hath the same effect even in brute creatures But because men in these things are not so subject to it as brutes but by their free will to evil may extinguish the light of nature and sinne against the laws of it therefore God hath given man a precept for it inclusively in the 5th commandement expressely elswhere And reason it self dictates the same in as much as the sonne is a naturall effect of his father begotten according to his image his own flesh and blood and bone yea as it were a new and second self to him in whom he lives after death and attains to a kind of eternity in this world which in his own person he can not have From this double obligation viz. the conscience of Gods command and the dictate of right reason that naturall affection whereof I spake before is both intended and regulated And hence it is that whereas in brute creatures that instinct ceaseth to have any further operation after that the yong ones are able to provide for themselves contrariwise man continues his affection and the effects of it to his children and childrens children as long as he lives laying up for them 2 Cor. 12.14 and when he is ready to dy giving them his charge and blessing Gen. 49. Uses Hence we may observe 1 If children be the objects of pity Instr then they are also the subjects of misery For commiseration alwaies supposes misery in the object of it And this is evident not onely to experience but reason if we seriously consider the condition both of their bodies and soules 2 He is unworthy the name of a father that doth not pity his children 3 Those married folk who have children have indeed a blessing Psal 127.3 4 5. but a worldly blessing so not without troubles attending it Therefore they who think of marriage must consider beforehand that if God shall send them children though never so good they must not look to have them causes onely of joy and comfort but sometimes also of grief and pity How much more if they be deformed sickly idiots c. On the other side if they have no children as they want those of whom they may rejoice so those also whom sometimes they may have cause to bemone and pity And if this be the duty of a father to pity his children then they are to be reproved Repr who want this naturall affection who do not pity their children 1 In respect of their soules wherein folly is bound Prov. 22.15 like to break out into actuall sinnes which will bring eternall damnation if not prevented Those parents therefore have no pity of their children who seeing them lying under that misery and danger do not endeavour with the rod of correction to drive away that folly which is so bound in the hearts of their children And much more are they to be reproved who will not so much as teach their children how to avoyd that so great an evil 2 In respect of their bodies So they who by their own sinnes heap temporall punishments upon the heads of their children Exod. 34.7 Psal 109.14 15. Jer. 32.18 Especially idolaters Exod. 20.5 Sacrilegious and rebellious men Jos 7.24 Num. 16. c. So they who either through idlenesse do not get or through riot and prodigality lavish out and spend that wherewith they should provide necessaries for their children These are worse then heathen yea then brute beasts Neither are they onely in this fault who do not supply their childrens necessities for the present but they also who do not providently take care for them for the future so farre as lawfully they may 2 Cor. 12.14 Some men bring up their children daintily enough yea too daintily for the present but forgetting that rule of oeconomicks That ordinarily a mans revenews should exceed his expenses they spend profusely what their parents have left them and so leave litle or nothing for their children whereas by reason of their dainty education they will be more sensible of hardship and penury and so more miserable So they who are too severe and cruell toward their children provoking and discouraging them Coloss 3.21 This also should exhort 1 Parents to pity their children Exhort Motiv 1. Consider the miseries which they either do or may suffer 2 All are commanded to pity those that stand in need of pity Job 6.14 19.21 Lam. 1.12 Rom. 12.15 20. 1 Pet. 3.8 Prov. 12.10 Exod. 23.5 Much more ought parents to pity their children 1 For their neare relation Kindred though more remote are called our bone and flesh Gen. 29.14 2 Sam. 19.12 13. Much more are children so unto their parents That therefore which the Apostle writes to Philemon ver 16. holds much more in parents in respect of pity If every man ought to pity every man in misery for Gods commandements sake then parents surely above others should pity their children both for the commandement and in regard of their relation 2 Because parents have been the means of bringing misery upon their children all thus farre in that they have begotten and brought them forth into this miserable world and derived to them that spirituall corruption of nature which themselves have received from their parents and all from Adam some yet further transmit unto their children bodily infirmities and such a temper or constitution whereby they are more then ordinarily prone to some notorious vices some by their own actuall sinnes draw down