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A62017	Sō ̃ma thanatou, the body of death: or, a discourse concerning the saints failings & infirmities Wherein this position, viz. that absolute freedome from sinne is not attainable in this life, is both proved and improved, in three sermons preached in St Edmunds church in the city of New-Sarum; the first upon Wednesday Novemb 24. 1658. being the weekly lecture day; the two last upon August 14, 1659. being the Lords day. By Joseph Swaffeild minister of the gospel at Odstocke in the county of Wilts.	Swaffield, Joseph, ca. 1625-1681.	1661 (1661)	Wing S6231; ESTC R222442	50,170	146

from the wrath to come yet their very infirmities have caused them to tast deeply of the cup of Gods fatherly displeasure and exposed them and their familyes to sore afflictions in this life God thereby evidencing and declaring to the world his impartiality his hatred against sin wheresoever he findeth it and his faithfullness to his own people in chastening them here that they might not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11.32 Now friends if you will be bold to partake of their sins it is just with God that you should also partake of their sufferings You may not promise your selves an immunity from the like sufferings if you indulge to your selves a liberty to commit the like transgressions Thirdly The Scriptures also record other things of the Saints that are more worthy your imitation than their sins You may read of of the meeknesse of Moses as well as as of his passion of the holynesse of David as well as of his infirmities the patience of Job as well as his impatience in cursing his day of the courage and boldnesse of Peter as well as of his cowardise in denying his master in a word you may read as well of the graces as of the corruptions of Gods children Surely it would be your wisdome to observe what is commendable in them and rather to imitate them in their graces than in their sins to observe what was excellent in them and to make that a patern for your imitation Secondly Cauti 2. Let sinners also take heed how they insult over the Godly because of their fallings If a professour of religion doe but slip how doth the world presently condemne him for an hypocrite and even while themselves lye and wallow in sin and allow themselves in all manner of ungodlyness how doe they insult over the Saints for their failings and infirmities These be your Puritans your precisians your Holy Brethren your Saints they are all a company of hypocrites and meer pretenders to Saintship c. Now that you may see the sinfullness hereof Consider First The Children of God are sanctified but in part in this life Though in regeneration the new creature be made partaker of the Divine nature yet the Old man is not utterly abolished In conversion corruption is mortifyed but not nullifyed sin is conquered but not extinguished The children of God when they become Saints doe not cease to be men when they receive the Spirit they doe not by and by wholly put off the flesh but the flesh still lusteth against the spirit Gal. 5.17 and the law in their members warreth against the law of their minds and too often bringeth them into captivity to the law of sin Rom. 7.23 Therefore in insulting over them for their failings you sin against God and wrong the generation of Gods children f Psal 73.15 Secondly If thou didst reflect upon thy selfe thou wouldest find more just cause to condemne thy selfe than them Doth sin dwell in them why it reignes in thee Doe they sin through weaknesse thou sinnest through willfulluesse Doe they sin through infirmity thou sinnest through presumption Are they sometimes overtaken with a Temptation thou many times goest forth to meet a temptation and rather than fail thou wilt turn Devill and tempt thy selfe Thou hypocrite doest thou judge thy Brother for the mote that is in his eye when thou hast a beam in thine own eye Mat. 7.3 Surely if thou wer'st better acquainted with thine own heart and was 't thou not a stranger at home thou wouldst not be so busy abroad Thirdly Know this that in judging the children of God thou condemnest thy selfe Thou art inexcusable oh man whosoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy selfe for thou that judgest dost the same things Rom. 2.1 In censuring thy Brothers infirmities thou dost but aggravate thine own impieties g Turpe est Doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum If his mote seem so big in thine eye how great thinkest thou will thy beam appear in Gods eye another day Assure thy selfe that with what judgment thou judgest thou shalt be judged and with what measure thou metest it shall be measured to thee againe Mat. 7.2 and think not this oh man that judgest and condemnest the people of God for their infirmities and art thy selfe guilty of grosse enormities that thou shalt escape the judgment of God Rom. 2.3 Thus much by way of Caution to sinners to prevent the ill use which they may make of this Doctrine Secondly This Doctrine may be also improved by way of Caution to Saints Caution to Saints First Let them take heed and beware of pride If at any time your hearts begin to swell with pride then minde your corruptions When you begin to be exalted above measure by reason of strength of parts or eminency of grace think upon your infirmities and let this thorn in your flesh prick the bladder of your pride Surely the best of us have enough within us to pull down the pride of our hearts when we are with the Peacock proud of our gay feathers let us look upon our defiled feet and be humbled Alas what have we to be proud of We have nothing of our own but sin As for our gifts and graces we may truly say of them as the young man did of his hatchet alas master it was but borrowed h 2 King 6.5 Or in the words of the Apostle what have I that I have not received and if I did receive it why should I boast as if I had not received it i 1 Cor. 4.7 When therefore the sense of grace at any time lifts us up let the sense of corruption lay us low Certainly there is more of sin than of grace more of the flesh than of the spirit in the holyest man upon the face of the earth As there are more weeds than flowers in the best garden so there is more corruption than grace in the best soul our natures being stepmothers to grace as the earth is to flowers and naturall mothers to lust as the earth is to weeds and the best men alive have cause to complain that in them that is in their flesh there dwelleth no good thing And certainly let men be never so gracious they have infinitely more matter of humiliation through the abundance of corruption remaining in them than of pride and exaltation for the eminency or strength of grace there is more in their sins to humble them than in their graces to lift them up especially if we consider these three things First The sins of Saints are of the same nature with the sins of wicked men What though sin doth not raign in Saints It remaineth in them still and is it ever the lesse sin because it doth not raign Certainly there is the same violation of Gods Law the same contrariety to Gods holy and Heavenly nature the same disobedience to the will of God in the sins of Saints as in

6 A Godly man cannot sin with delight but sin is a burden to him Though a Godly man sinneth yet he hates the evill that he doth Rom. 7.15 yea he hates it with a deadly and irreconcileable hatred so much the word signifies which David useth in that place quoted before Psal 119.104 I hate every false way n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à radice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Odio prosecutus fuit A Godly man that hath learned that lesson which the Apostle Paul teacheth us Rom. 12.9 to abhor that which is evill where the originall word is very emphaticall it signifies to hate a thing with vehemency and to loath it as Hell it self It is a compound word the simple verb imports extream detestation the signification therefore is aggravated by the composition o Leegb Crit. Sacra Indeed sin is a Godly mans affliction and not his pleasure as is evident by the Apostles bitter complaint so frequently mentioned already Rom. 7.24 Oh wretched man that I am c. the originall word signifieth as Beza notes one that is aerumnosis perpetuis pugnis satigatus wearyed with troublesome and continuall combates p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Componitur â verbo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per syncopen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suffero 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 luctus Alsted in Lexic Theol. Calvin saith it is vox anhelantis the voice of one breathing and panting desiring to be delivered from this servitude But now a wicked man sinneth with delight Hence they are said to love evill more than good Psal 52.3 to chuse their own way and their souls to delight in their abominations Esa 66.3 and to have pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thess 2.12 The comfort of their lives comes in by fulfilling their lusts so that they are discontented when their lusts are not satisfied Witness Ahab who was sick till he got Naboths vienyard 1 King 21.5 and Amnon till he could satify his lust upon his sister Tamar 2 Sam. 13. Such is their delight in sinning that they are unwearyed therein Solomon gives us a notable description of their restlesseness and unwearyedness in sinning They sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall Rom. 4.14 16. Lastly Differ 6 A Godly man doth not persevere in sin The just man falleth seven times a day but he riseth again Prov. 24.16 Hence it is that the Scripture as it records the falls of any of the people of God so it records their riseing again as it records Davids adultery and murder Hezekiahs pride Peters denyall and the falls of the Saints so it records also the tears and the sighs the groans the meltings the humiliations and the repentance of those precious Saints In the 51. Psalm you may read of Davids repentance at large and although Hezekiahs heart was lifted up yet you may read that Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart 2 Chro. 32.35 36. Peter fell fearfully but a look a glance of love from Christ melted him into teares he went forth and wept bitterly Luk. 22.61 A look of mercy from Jesus Christ broke Peters heart and opened the floudgate of his eyes too And the Lord turned and looked upon Peter and Peter went out and wept bitterly But wicked men persist and persevere in the wayes of sin insomuch that neither judgments threatned nor judgments inflicted can reclaim them They sin and care not they sin and fear not they sin and they will sin let God say or doe what he will to the contrary As those did Jer. 2.25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thrist i. e. Why will ye goe down to Egypt for help you 'le get nothing by it but bareness and thirst but they say strangers we have loved and strangers we will follow q.d. Say thou what thou wilt we will take our own way and our own course So Jer 44.16 17. notwithstanding God had denounced dreadfull judgments against that people and that in great variety too viz. Sword Famine and Pestilence verse 11.12 13. yet they were resolved to goe on in their Idolatrous practises they answered Jeremiah saying As for the word that thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee but we will certainly doe whatsoever thing goeth forth of our own mouth to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven c. Their wills were fully set upon their sinfull wayes let God say or doe what he would to the contrary Thus also did the old world though God stirred up Noah a preacher of righteousness to warn them for an hundered twenty yeares together yet they persisted in their own wayes and gave themselves to eating and drinking and ranne on to all excesse of riot till the flood came and swept them all away Matth. 24.38 39. So Pharaoh the Lord send Moses and Aaron unto him ten times and inflicted upon him ten plagues one upon the neck of another yet Pharaoh was hardened in the wayes of sin So true is that of the wise man Prov. 27.22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a morter among wheat with a pestell yet will not his foolishness depart from him I have done with the Doctrinall part I proceed now to application and this Doctrine may be improved severall wayes Use 1. First Use 1 This point gives us a check to the errour of those Refuta who assert a possibility of an absolut and perfect freedom from sin in this life Such were of old the Manichees and the Cathari who held that they could not so much as sin in thought q Rogers on the articles of the Church of England p. 64. Such were the Pelagians and the Familists who imagined themselves so free from sin that they needed not to pray Forgive us our trespasses Yea even in our dayes this errour is revived again and therefore it will not be unseasonable to speak something for your establishment in the truth and whereby you may be antidoted against the infection of this poysonous opinion And all that I shall speak upon this Doctrine shall be by way of discovery 1. How contrary this opinion is to the Scriptures 2. How contrary it is to the experience of Saints 3. How contrary it is to the nature of grace and sanctification 4. How contrary to the plentifull suffrage of antiquiy yea to the concessions of some of our Popish adversaries First It is contrary to the Scripture I shall give you some instances First It is contrary to such Scriptures as doe cleerly assert what my Doctrine holdeth forth viz. That the best of men are not so freed from sin in this life but that in many things they offend all Diverse Scriptures were alledged for the proof of the Doctrine that doe cleerly assert this truth To those which were then mentioned I shall onely adde 1 King 8.46 where it is expresly affirmed that ther is no

reines m Psal 16.7 You might have remained under the raign and dominion of sin and have gone on after the counsels of your own hearts to this day had not the Lord graciously turned you out of that way Oh! belsse God that hath overpowered your souls and made you willing in the day of his power to forsake your sinfull wayes so that although sin dwells in you yet it raignes not as in times past Oh! blesse God that hath given you counsell and caused you to understand aright Certainly this is no other but a beam of divine light darted into your souls certainly this is no other than a voice from Heaven that hath said unto you This is the way walk ye in it Secondly Be exhorted to admire the justifying grace of God by the righteousness of Jesus Christ When the Apostle had in the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans at large complained of the remainders of sin in him of the Law in his members that warred against the law in his minde after he had cryed out oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death verse 24. then he is presently rapt up in admiration of the justifying grace of God by the righteousness of Jesus Christ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord verse 25. and then chap. 8. verse 1. he maketh that triumphant conclusion There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus A worthy divine now alive n Dr. Tho. Goodwine in his tryall of a Christians growth p. 47. in a treatise by him published observes an Emphasis in that little word now mark saith he that word now that now after such bloudy wounds and gashes there should yet be no condemnation this exceedingly exalts this grace for if ever thought he I was in danger of condemnation it was upon the riseing and rebelling of these my corruptions which when they had carryed me captive I might well have expected the sentence of condemnation to have followed but I finde saith he that God still pardones me and accepts me as much as ever upon my returning to him and therefore doe proclaim with wonder to all the world that Gods justifying grace in Christ is exceeding large and rich Thus farre the aforesaid Author My beloved this must needs extoll the justifying grace of Christ that where there is so much matter of condemnation there should not be condemnation it selfe that not onely all the sins of the elect of God before conversion are pardoned but sins after regeneration and though we run upon new scores every day yet these should be still paid and that there should be riches of grace enough and merit enough to pardon us this exceedingly advanceth the justifying grace of God and the righteousness of Jesus Christ Thirdly Blesse God for establishing grace This is indeed a great wonder that a childe of God should have so much corruption left in him and that that corruption should not destroy grace but that this heavenly plant should thrive in the midst of weeds and this spark be kept alive in the midst of a sea of corruption Our first parents had no sinfull nature in them and yet being tempted by the Devil they fell but now that beleevers who have both a tempting Devil without and a corrupt nature within should stand and not fall away this is the Lords doing and it should be marvelous in our eyes o Psal 118.23 That we should be kept by the mighty power of God through faith unto salvation p 1 Pet. 1. that we should have such strong corruptions within us warring against our souls and yet not be finally overcome by them this magnifieth the establishing grace of God Grace cannot perserve it selfe of its felfe in the midst of so much corruption We should quickly turn bankrupts and lose not only degrees of grace but all grace were it left in our own hands But that corruption that dwelleth in us and our frequent falls may teach us that it is as as necessary for God to afford us his preserving grace to continue what we had given us as his preventing grace to give us what we had not The body of sin dwelling in us may minde us that it is by grace we stand that were we left to our selves we should soon doe as our Father Adam did There is naturally the same revolting spirit in us that there was in him an aptnesse and inclination of heart ready to depart away Jer. 5.23 And we have the same enemy the same tempter to draw us away with the like temptations and in those that are not preserved by the mighty power of God these things scil corruption within and temptation without doe prevail so farre as to turn back many who seemed to begin in the spirit and to cause them to make an end in the flesh q Gal. 3.3 and to return with the dog to his former vomit and with the sow that is washed to her wallowing in the mire r 2 Pet. 2.22 It is by grace we stand (Å¿) 2 Co. 1.24 and should God but with draw the supply of his spirit and the instuences thereof from our souls we should be obnoxious and liable to all assaults not of flesh and bloud but of principalities and powers and spirituall wicked nesses in high places and open to all the furious attempts and all the fiery darts of the wicked Therefore blesse God for establishing and preserving grace Fourthly Blesse God for any disappointments that you meet withall in the wayes of sin Truly there is not a sadder judgment in the world than for God to suffer us to goe on in sin without restraint and it is as great a mercy when God is pleased to lay stumbling blocks in our way to hinder us in any course of sin It is promised as a mercy to the Church that she should meet with disappointments in the wayes of sin She shall follow after her lovers but shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not finde them Hos 2.7 As satisfaction in sin is a great judgment whence that threatening the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own wayes Prov. 14.14 So disappointment in sin is a great mercy We should not therefore be troubled but blesse God when we cannot have our wills It is a mercy when carnall desires are disappointed Therefore God would have Abimelech acknowledge mercy in a restraint I withheld thee from sinning against me therefore suffered I thee not to touch her Gen. 20.6 And David blessed God for preventing his intended execution of his revenge against Naball when he said to Abigail Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed bloud and from avenging my selfe with mine owne hand c. 1 Sam. 25.32 33 34. Lastly Let us every day labour for