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A93062	The sinfulnesse of evil thoughts: or, a discourse, wherein, the chambers of imagery are unlocked: the cabinet of the heart opened. The secrets of the inner-man disclosed. In the particular discovery of the numerous evil thoughts, to be found in the most of men, with their various, and severall kinds, sinful causes, sad effects, and proper remedies or cures. Together with directions how to observe and keep the heart; the highest, hardest, nad most necessary work of him that would be a real Christian. / By Jo. Sheffeild Pastor of Swithins London.	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing S3064A; Thomason E1863_1	165,696	337

done smoaking and sparkling when shall this filthy scum boile out when shall these wells Ezek. 24. 6. 2 King 3. 25. Ezek. 36. 25. be fild and stopped up Oh when shall this heart be made clean when when shall it once be and when shall the clean water promised be poured out Deep calleth loud unto Deep the deeps Psal 42. 7. Zech. 13. 1. of misery to greater deepes of mercy This secret fountain of sin to that open fountain of grace for sin and uncleannesse Lord search and cleanse this heart and Psal 139. 23. Psal 19. 12. Psal 51. 10. Psal 17. 8. cleanse me most from secret sins A new a right a stable s●irit create in me O God and keep thou this heart for me with all thy keeping as thou wouldest keep the apple of thine eye Woe is me that I must Psal 120. 5. still dwell in Mesech and my soul with them that hate peace Oh blessed thrice blessed Psal 23. 1 2. he whose sin is pardoned and most blessed he in whose spirit there is no guile Apply the Lev. 14. 6. 50. Lev. 14. 25. 28. warme blood of a dying Saviour to remove my guilt and the efficacy of a living spirit to purge out my guile as the blood of the dead and water with the living sparrow went both together to cleanse the Leprous house and as the blood of the lamb and the anointing oile together to cleanse the Leprous person Oh when shall I have done trifling dallying roving in my thoughts Oh when shall I have done doubting disputing distrusting Oh when shall I have done murmuring repining fretting Oh when shall I have done carking caring thought-taking Oh when shall my heart become composed fixed stablished Oh when shall my thoughts begin to be serious spirituall sanctified Oh when shall I begin to be considerate circumspect heavenly Oh when shall I begin to love chuse and obey thee When shall I follow on to know acknowledge and glorify thee as God! When shall I see that happy day to delight rejoyce and glory in thee When when shall it be my study to seek God contemplate God converse with God When when shall it be my practice to sleep and wake with God to talk and walk with God to injoy and joy in God! Let natures works lead me by the hand to seek thee let reason lift up my head to discern thee let thy word raise up my heart yet higher to admire thee and let thy spirit of grace elevate my soul yet higher to embrace thee till Grace and Glory meet to make thee and my soul meet and be united Onely deny me not two things before I dy Prov. 30. 7 8. Psal 120. 3. remove from me vanity and lyes deliver me O Lord from lying lips and from a vain deceitfull heart Lord is folly so fast bound up in the heart of a child that the rod must fetch it out and Prov. 22. 15. is it bound up so much faster in the heart of a man that neither rod nor word nor smiles nor blowes nor mercies nor judgements can fetch it out Thou hast brayed me in a morter yet doth not this folly depart from Prov. 27. 22. me Oh send out once thy light and truth thy grace and spirit and let them lead me Psal 43. 138. Oh when wilt thou prepare repair and renew this heart Oh that thou wouldest soften circumcise and subdue this heart Oh that thou wouldest purge sweep and cleanse this heart Oh that thou wouldest adorn enrich and furnish this heart Oh that thou wouldest enlighten enliven and enlarge this heart Oh that thou wouldest abide in inhabit and keep this heart Oh that thou wouldest watchover secure and guard this heart Oh that thou wouldest open shut and lock this heart shut out idle unclean and vain thoughts keep in holy pure and chast thoughts setting up the doors thereof the locks thereof and the bars thereof Neh. 3. 6. 2 King 2. 21. Oh season this spring then shall not the waters be barren nor dead Mend this treasure then shall communication be wholsom Mat. 12. 35. and conversation holy Give me Lord What wilt thou give me Give me the heart to ask give me the heart I ask for Give a soft a tender a sound heart Give a rent a broken a contrite heart Give a mourning a melt●ng a fleshy heart Give me Lord a believing a loving an obedient heart Give a humble a meek a contented heart Give a holy a high a heavenly heart Give Lord a faithfull a thankfull a chearfull heart Give a panting a praying a praising heart Give a free a firm a fixed heart Give a willing a wise an understanding heart Give a pure a perfect a sincere heart Give a new a true another heart yea Lord that heart that is according to thine own heart Lord take this heart for an Ark and a Temple and a sacrifice for God Lord make this heart the habitation the sanctuary the mercy-seat of God Let it be thy Shiloh thy Bethel thy Penuel Let it be my Jehovah-j●rith Jehovah Shammah Jehovah Shalom Let it be thy fountain sealed thy engraven signet thy garden enclosed But Alas Alas I must renew my griefes mine habitation is in the midst of deceit my dwelling among briers and thornes yea among scorpions is my abode serpents and Cookatrices that will not be charmed Were it an open enemy I had to do with I would bear it or seek to avoid him or were it a suspected friend I would be shy and wary of him and hide my self But it is thou my familiar my self where shall I go out to fly or go in to hide me I have long looked for peace but behold trouble W●e is me my soul is wearied because of murderers Jer. 4. 13. And my life is a wearinesse to me because of these daughters of Heth to which I am married They who repaired the gate of the fountain in Nehemiahs time had a happy and honourable emploiment but how unhappy mine who am set to repaire this Dung-gate and to set up the doors thereof and the locks thereof and the bars thereof Neh. 3. 14 15. But is there no Balme in Gilead Is there no Physitian there Is there no Refiners fire nor fullers sope to be had or hoped for Must I sit down and say it is my burden and I must bear it The frogs Jer. 10. 19. were a sore plague to the Egyptians which came into their Chambers and were upon their Tables But these come into an Israelites heart into my oratory closet and bed Thou didst sever then between the Israelites and Egyptians sever now between the Israelites and these frogs They after two or three daies were removed and shall these never They had that plague of lice crawling on their bodies yet at length removed but I unhappy I have these on my spirit They had botches on their backs I a plague in my heart they the

the least sins when matters are small or doubtfull 1 Sam. 24. 5. much more for foul and manifest sins 2 Sam. 24. 10. Thus it was with David in both those places 3. It feares to partake of other mens sins Num. 16. 4. 4. Flies appearances and shewes of evil 1 Thes 5. 22. Num. 32. 6. Et sequ Josh 22. 16. 2. The heart must be keep in humility Wines are kept best in lowest Cellars the heart in lowest temper An horse may be kept too low but all the danger of the heart is keeping it too high Esa 57. 15. The lowest heart is the fittest habitation for the most High God God is called Deus optimus maximus but Jesus Christ in respect of his humility was Optimus minimus Three things should keep our hearts humble 1. Gods Excellency Esa 6. 2 3 5. Job 42. 6. 2. His many and undeserved mercies Gen. 32. 10. 2 Sam. 7. 18. Nothing doth so kindly humble a gracious heart as Mercies nothing so unkindly puffs up an ungracious heart 3. Thy own great sins Thus it was with Paul 1 Cor. 15. 9. 1 Tim. 1. 13. Never was there a viler sinner then I never more grace shewed from God 3. The heart must be kept up also in due height 2 Chron. 17. 6. Jehoshaphats heart was lifted up in the wayes of God Three things help to lift up the heart and shew it well lifted up 1. When we strive to walk worthy of God Cal. 1. 10. 2. To walk worthy of the Gospel Phil. 1. 27. 3. To walk worthy of heaven and the expectation of it 1 Thes 2. 12. 4. The heart must be kept clean and pure Psal 24. 4. and 73. 1. Mat. 5. 8. We may be too choice of our clothes and houses to keep them clean but cannot be of the heart Three things help to keep the heart clean 1. Oft washing some say Caput nunquam pedes raro manus saepe but Cor saepius saepissinie Jer. 4. 14. Wash thy heart that vain thoughts lodge not Say to them as we say to nasty and slovenly beggers here is no lodging for you 2. Often searching 2 Cor. 13. 5. 3. Frequent and fervent prayer Jam. 4. 7 8. Cleanse your hearts and draw nigh to God joyned Prayer is as Thunder and Wind they purge the ayre this the heart 5. The heart is to be kept in Faith Heb. 10. 22. Habak 2. 4. Three things help to keep the heart in Faith 1. To eye Gods promise this Faiths food and the life of the life of Faith 2. To eye and remember Gods past providences and our Experiences 2 Cor. 1. 10. He hath delivered and doth and will deliver 3. To study Gods alsufficiency Rom. 4. 21. What he promiseth he is able to perform 6. The heart is also to be kept in due fear The Child is well kept when kept in awe so is the heart This is the great heart-keeper and Covenant keeping grace Jer. 32. 40. Three things help to keep the heart in holy fear 1. A due sense of Gods dreadfull Name and Majesty Deut. 28. 48. 2. A due sense of Gods goodness Hosea 3. 5. 3. A continuall sense of our own weaknesse Prov. 28. 14. The child that fears a fall escapes a fall Vis in timore esse securus in securitate time as Bern. Fear in time of security makes secure in time of fear 7. In readinesse and willingnesse 1 Chron. 28. 9. Exod. 35. 2. Gods people are a ready and willing people And as it is a commendation to a man or woman to be handy and ready to be able to take our work and leave it so it is here Three things help to make us more ready and willing 1. Frequency and familiarity with duties Use makes perfectnesse By praying thou wilt learn to pray An instrument daily used is soon fit to play upon long disused asks much time to tune it How unfit must they needs be for prayer that pray not from sabbath to sabbath 2. To consider that God accepts a willing mind for the best deed 2 Cor. 8. 12. 3. All other service is unacceptable to God 1 Chron. 28. 9 10. Unprofitable for us 1 Cor. 9. 17. 8. In steadinesse Psal 108. 1. Act. 11. 23. Cleave to God with full purpose of heart Three times when we should look to keep the heart steady 1. In state of fullnesse The full vessel evenly carried tries the steady hand and head Phil. 4. 12. I can abound and not be proud be lifted up yet not be lifted up A hard lesson 2. In time of straits Psal 112. 8. His heart is established and doth not shrink and warp as unseasoned timber Job said I will not curse God is where he was I am where I was my faith where it was and my integrity I will not let go This another hard lesson 3. In earthly businesse to have the heart steady eying God I am in my calling God sees me This a high lesson The wicked his heart is steady and fixed on the world when at prayer he cant get the world out of his mind the godly have heavenly minds in earthly businesses 3. Wouldst thou be free from evil thoughts then get thy mind filled he which hath his chests his shop and his house filled but his mind empty is a poor man We must not do with our hearts as with our houses have the lower rooms furnisht and have nothing in the upper garrets but trash but have our upper roomes especially furnished Satan comes into the house that is empty swept and garnished But Jesus Christ chuseth to keep his feast in an upper room that is furnished Luke 22. 12. Take some good meditation promise Scripture read next thy heart to keep out wind every morning An empty addle heart is a fit bayt for Satan 4. Get a heart fixed as well as filled that thy spirit sit not loose about thee Keep thy loynes girt this bow continually bent arcum intentio frangit animum remissio It is too much looseness or unbending that breaks the mind as too much bending breaks the bow We love not a garment too big or shoes to slop about our feet We get our armes fixt get thy mind so and be ever and anon saying sursum corda The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath Prov. 15. 24. How safe was David when he could say O God my heart is fixed my heart is fixed Psal 108. 1. And the stable Psal 51. 12. spirit is that he prayes for as well as the right or new spirit The devil makes as good sport with an unfixt spirit as children do with light airy toyes the squibs bubbles and empty hoops which they drive before them or the paper Kite driven with the wind which though never so high mounted they can pull to them when they will these are taken captive by Satan at his will as the Apostle saith 2 Tim. 2. 26. 5. See the Lords eye still upon thee