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A26702	The best of remedies for the worst of maladies, or, Spiritual receipts and antidotes for the preservation of a plague-sick, sinfull soul wherein is shown, sin is the cause and repentance the cure of the pestilence / seasonably published by a lover of peace and truth ..., R.A.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing A983; ESTC R10719	150,980	258

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners yea the greatest and cheifest of sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 And that God hath set him forth to be a Propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of sins Rom. 3.25 And though thou art naturally unclean and hast contracted much defilement by reason of sin yet that Christ hath loved thee and washed thee from thy sins in his own blood Rev. 1.5 That in him thou hast redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins Col. 1.14 Satan will tell thee thou hast broken the Law and incurred Gods anger wrath hell and eternal damnation Faith will tell him that Christ hath perfectly fulfilled the Law satisfied divine justice taken away the curse and freed thee from condemnation Rom. 8.1 and that Jesus Christ by his blood hath pacified Gods anger towards thee Rom. 3.25 Faith will tell him thou art not under the Law now and so not under the Curse and that though the Law does pronounce thee accursed for the breach of it yet Christ hath redeemed thee from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Gal. 3.10 13. Satan will tell tell thee still thou art unrighteous and the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God but faith will tell him that thou art washed that thou art sanctified that thou art justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 6.11 And that Christ was made sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 And as he was made sin so of God also is he made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption Does Satan tempt thee ●o evil Faith will tell him that he so tempted Christ but Christ vanquished him in all his tempttaions Mat. 4. And we are more then Conquerors through Christ that hath loved us Rom. 8.37 Does he yet tempt thee to be proud tell him that God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble 1 Pet. 5 5. Does he tempt thee to passion tell him that the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God Jam. 1.20 Does he tempt thee to uncleaness tell him thy body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and thou art not thine one but art bought with a price and therefore thou must glorifie God in thy body and in thy spirit which is Gods 1 Cor. 6.19 20. Does he tempt thee to be a servant of men tell him thou art bought with a price and so freed from that servitude 1 Cor. 7.23 would he have thee to please men tell him if yet thou shouldst please men thou shouldst not be the servant of Christ Gal. 1.10 Does he tempt thee to the love of the world tell him that if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him 1 Joh. 2.15 Does he tempt thee to an indifferent luke-warm spirit in the things of God tell him that the Lord testifies against such a spirit that is neither hot nor cold that he will spue it out of his mouth Rev 3.16 Does he tempt thee to fall away draw back and renounce thy profession tell him that such as so fall away shall not be renewed again unto repentance Seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame Heb. 6.6 And that if any man draws back the Lord will have no pleasure in him Heb. 10.38 You see what a most excellent weapon this sheild of Faith is to repel the temptations and assaults of Satan upon all accounts Secondly And it is of like force and efficacy to expel the venome and malignity of sin Art thou stung with it at any time look up by faith unto the brazen Serpent there 's healing Numb 21.9 Are thy sins of a scarlet dye Faith in his blood can make them as white as snow are they red like crimson it will make them as wool Isa 1.18 Are they many and multiplied transgressions Faith will tell thee that where sin hath abounded there grace hath much more abounded that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 5.20 21. Hast thou abundantly sinned this faith will tell thee that God will abundantly pardon he will multiply pardons Isa 55.7 Dost thou fear the reigning domineering power of sin This faith will assure thee That sin shall not have dominion over thee for that thou art not under the law but under grace Rom. 6.14 Dost thou yet fear that thy sins shall stand on the file and that God will remember thine iniquity this faith in Christs blood will assure thee that he will blot out thy transgressions for his own name sake and will not remember thy sins Isa 43.25 But perhaps thou art afraid of Death and of the power of the Grave this Faith will assure thee that death is swallowed up in victory his sting taken out that Christ hath ransomed thee from the power of the grave and hath redeemed thee from death that he is deaths plague and the graves destruction Isa 25.8 Hos 13.14 1 Cor. 15.54 So that we may triumphantly say Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect it is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword Nay the gracious beleiving souls may be perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus their Lord Rom. 8. and some of the last verses thereof Wilt thou not then fear this severe stroke of Gods visitation O get more of the blood of sprinkling on thy soul this speaketh better things then the blood of Abet The blood of the Paschal Lamb was to be strook on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses of the children of Israel when God did intend to smite the first-born in the land of Egypt and execute his judgement against all the Egyptian gods and saith the Lord When I see the the blood I will pass over you meaning the children of Israel and the Plague sholl not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the Land of Egypt What did this typifie and hold forth but Christ the true Passover or Paschal Lamb whose blood besprinkling the conscience cleanseth us from all sin and delivereth us from the stroke of the destroying Angel even from wrath to come 1 John 1.7 1 Thess 1.10 See then that thou exercise thy self continually in that onely heaven upon earth and sweetest sanctuary to a

himself Before the day pass as the chaff that is very swiftly suddenly like chaff the day is passing away therefore whiles ye have time yet before the day that runs and wears away so fast does bring forth the Decree produce and make appear what God hath decreed against you O Nation undesirable search your selves yea search your selves very narrowly whiles the heat of the Lords wrath doth not yet come upon you whiles the day of the Lords wrath doth not yet take hold of you This is further inculcated and prest by the Lord in the Prophesie of the Prophet Haggai chap. 1.5 7. Is it a time for you O ye to dwell in your ceiled houses that is in your stately and sumptuous houses for pleasure and delight and this house lye waste or desolate meaning the Lords house Now therefore thus saith the Lord of of Hosts Consider your ways Or which is more agreeable to the Original Set your heart upon your ways Observe and consider well how it fares with you by reason of your sins Had they considered or set their hearts aright upon their ways this might have prevented the execution of Gods judgements mentioned the 9 10 and 11 verses thereof For want of this the Lord by the Prophet Isaiah ch 1. takes up a bitter lamentation and complaint Hear O Heavens and give ear O Earth for the Lord hath spoken I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me The Ox knoweth his ower and the Ass his masters scrib but Israel doth not know my people saith he doth not consider They were more brutish and void of understanding then the beasts or brute creatures For want of this consideration it was that every one turned to his course of sin as the horse rusheth into the battel breaking and running through like a water flood as the word is properly used And why Because no man said What have I done And the Lord complaineth further That the Stork in the Heaven knew her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow did observe the time of their coming but his people knew not the judgement of the Lord Jer. 8.6 7. This is that consideration which we ought to have of our selves But what strangers are most men and women to their own hearts who enters into such a serious thought as to say What have I done Seneca reporteth of Sexius how every night before he slept he asked his own heart What evil this day hast thou amended what vice hast thou resisted in what part art thou bettered Surely such a course as this would prevent the fearless and heedless running into many gross enormities and sins and so prevent the ruine and destruction of many a poor sinful soul This course the Church took in the Lamentations Wherefore doth the living man complain a man for the punishment of his sins Let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord Lam. 3.39 40. Fall then in good earnest upon this work of self-examination and think it better to know thine own infirmites and thy soul-sicknesses and sores then to know the whole world and all the wonders thereof It is one of the best parts of wisdom to know thy self This will beat down thy pride and keep the humble and lead thee to the true knowledge of God It will cast out and keep out sin and preserve thee from many temptations It is the beginning and foundation of grace and repentance Lam. 3.40 And will prevent the severe stroak of Gods judgements as in that of Zephany 2.1 2. And saith the Apostle If we will judge our selves we shall not be judged of the Lord Surely did we but know what the heart of man is while unregenerate and in its natural estate what a sink a sea of sin and filthiness it is how deceitful above all things and desperately wicked as Jeremy hath it Jer. 17.9 what infinite intricate windings and turnings there are in the dark laborinths of mans heart what a multitude of vain thoughts do lodge within it Jer. 4 14. What swarms of lusts and uncleaness issue out from this corrupt and putrified fountain Mat. 12.34 comp with chap. 15.18 19 verses What a deal of self-sophistry and imposture is wrapt up there by which millions of souls are inwraped in the snares and shackels of Satan I say did we rightly know and were not strangers to these things it might put us on with all seriousness and readiness this so weighty and profitable a work But O where is the man almost that knows or sets himself in good earnest for to know and find out the Plague of his own heart O what a many of Plague-sores and running issues are in the hearts of men and women at this day and yet they are insensible of them Every one almost is sensible of the Plague-tokens or sores when they seize upon the body and most people fear and dread this contagious disease because of the loathsomness of it but for the Plague of the Heart the Soul-sickness and sores O where is there any knowledge or discerning of it where is there any sense of the loathsomness and infectiousness of it And yet without this how can we expect a healing and the removal of this severe stroke of the Lord according to Solomons prayer at the dedication of the Temple 1 King 8.37 38 39. If there be in the land famine if there be pestilence c. whatsoever plague whatsoever sickness there be what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man or by all the people Israel and mark what follows which shall know every man the plague of his own heart and spread forth his hands towards this house Then hear thou in Heaven thy dwelling place and forgive and do and give to every man according to his ways whose heart thou knowest for thou even thou onely knowest the hearts of the children of men Now this prayer of Solomon had its confirmation from the Lord 1 King 9.3 So that this knowledge of the Plague of the heart is a necessary qualification or ingredient to go along with that prayer which shall be prevailing with the Lord for the removal of the Pestilence out of the land or Nation wherein it is But if the men of this generaration are still unacquainted with the plagues or sores of their own heart if they be still as vain as proud as oppressing as Superstitious as Idolatrous as Adulterous as Murderous as Blasphemous as Rebellious and Disobedient against the Lord and his commands as reviling and persecuting the way of truth and holiness as ever can it be expected that the hand of the Lord should be removed or the fire of his his indignation which now burns so very hot among us should be quenched Set thy self then in good earnest upon this heart-searching work whoever thou art that would escape this severe stroke of the Lord. And if thou knowest not how to deal with thy heart it is so

will be then the damnation of my soul These few things among many others may if seriously pondered upon be an effectual means to work thy heart to this hatred and detestation of sin and a loathing of thy self for the same which as it will evidence the truth of thy repentance so will it be an excellent preservative against the now pestilential destroying Sickness Now when the sight and sence of thy sins hath wrought thy soul to a kindly mourning and sorrowing for the same before the Lord and that for all kinds and sorts of sins to wit 1. The weaknesses frailties and pollutions of thy nature even thy proness and inclination to sin for though these being unconsented unto are no actual sins yet are they matter of true sorrow grief and humiliation to a sincere Christian that he is such a polluted and unclean creature and so apt to fall into all sin if he be not restrained and prevented by Gods grace 2. For the sinful acts and habits of thy unregenerate life with all the aggravations belonging to them 3. The slips and relapses of thy most regenerate life and the infinite frailties and infirmities that still adhere to it And that thy soul is wrought also to a real hatred and destation of all sin so that now thou beginest to loath sin as a thing not onely hurtful but ugly and abominable a soul and beastly thing and that which is most contrary not onely to the pure and unspotted essence and being of God but also contrary to and unbefitting the nature and excellency of a reasonable creature as man is I say when these gracious dispositions of soul of grief and hatred for sin are wrought in thee then wilt thou not be ashamed from a contrite and wounded heart to make an humble confession and acknowledgement thereof before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father begging pardon and forgiveness for them Then wilt thou own thy self a vile sinner who hast worthily deserved his wrath then wilt thou make an ennumeration of the particular sorts of thy sins of which thou knowest thy self guilty Then wilt thou aggravate those sins upon thy self by all the circumstances and heightning accidents of them comprizing all thy unknown and unconfest sins under some such penitentiary speech and expression as that of Davids Who can tell how oft he offendeth cleanse thou me from my secret faults Psal 19.12 And as thou art to confess unto God and give glory unto him Josh 7.19 whom thou hast cheifly and principally offended so art thou commanded also to confess unto men James 5.16 Confess your faults one to another And that for these reasons 1. That so we may be capable of one anothers prayers 2. Because it may be our sins are such as have injured others and then confession unto them is the first degree towards reconciliation Matth. 5.24 Or if they be onely against God yet the confession of them to the Lords faithful Ministers and Servants will not be improper but in some kind necessary to such as desire the absolution and forgiveness of them Jam. 5.15 3. Because in sin there is the guilt and the corruption the one to be pardoned the other cured The first being confest to God to obtain his pardon ought also if it have been offensive and scandalous to the Congregation to be acknowledged to them that that expression of repentance may make satisfaction to them for the ill example and avert and deter from sin whom it had invited to it And surely the disclosing of the particular state of thy sinful sick soul and advising with others especially the Physicians of the soul how and by what means a cure may be wrought how a raging sin may be subdued the occasions and temptations to it avoided cannot but be very profitable comfortable and advantageous as to the prosperous constitution and health of thy soul The necessity of which confession and acknowledgement of sin will further appear not onely from the practise of David Psal 51.3 4. Psal 32 5. Ezra Chap. 9.6 7. Nehemiah Chap. 9.32 Job 40.3 Jer. 14.7 Daniel 9.4 5. and other holy men in Scripture but also from such express Texts of Scripture as these If we confess our sins God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all our unrighteousness 1 Joh. 1.9 I acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psal 32.5 So Prov. 28.13 He that covereth his Sins shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy And this leads me to the Third particular as that which will evidence the soundness and sincerity of our Repentance Thirdly If thy Repentance be sound there will be a willing forsaking and renunciation of all sin an abjuring of all thy former evil ways both of the sins themselves and the occasions which were wont to bring thee to those sins 1 Thess 5.22 For all thy fear and trembling at the wrath of God to come for sin thy sorrow for sin thy hating and loathing of sin will not make thy Contrition full and perfect unless thy will also do his part and resolve to forsake and leave it For true Contrition or dying unto sin is such a compunction of the heart for the same as is joyned with a purpose will and resolution to leave and forsake it The gratious soul will hate every false way Psal 119.104 and not tolerate or allow it self in any known evil or bosome corruption whatsoever Psal 18.23 It will not say as Lot said of Zoar Is it not a little one Gen. 19.20 Or as Naaman the Syrian The Lord pardon thy Servant in this thing when I bow down my self in the House of Rimmon 2 King 5.18 It will not account any sin little which will bring upon us the great wrath of so infinite a Majesty It knows and beleives that the weight even of little sins as it were small sands will sinck the ship of our souls as well as our greater and grosser sins That small leaks in Ships and small breeches in Walls being neglected will endanger the loss both of Ships and Cities And that such Tradesmen as in their accompts regard not small sums will quickly prove Bankrupts Disobedience though in never so small matters as in eating of an Apple and gathering a few sticks on the Sabbath looking into and touching of the Ark are yet in Gods account no small matters For how severly hath he punished all these then which what can we imagine slighter But gratious souls know that it is not the smallness of the thing that lessens either our obedience or disobedience but that it is Gods Commandment that ties to obedience in lesser things as well as in greater which Command of his is despised as well in the breach of the lesser as of the greater I say then the truly repenting soul will