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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06018	An epitomie of mans misery and deliuerie In a sermon preached on the third of the Romans, vers. 23. and 24. By Mr. Paul Bayne.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1641; ESTC S101578	26,964	49

cannot admit Againe the heauenly Ierusalem is a place so pure that no vncleane thing nothing that worketh any abomination may haue any doings there Reuel 21. There is then no place for vs therein who are so besmeared and stained with sinne that whatsoeuer wee turne our selues vnto is before the Lord no better than abomination And this in generall may suffice touching this doctrine For we are dead 1. Here spiritually But now for as much as wee are not as soone as we come forth of the wombe cast into hell know therefore that euery one of vs are first come short of this glory in regard of spirituall and heauenly life of the which there is not by nature the least sparke remaining in vs we being starke dead in our sinnes as often the Scripture expresly speaketh Ephes 2.1 You were dead in sinnes and trespasses and Mat. 8.22 Let the dead bury their dead Liuing men then who are void of this spirituall life are no better in the Lords account than dead men who when they burie others dead as touching this bodily life it is as pretty a pageant as to see one dead corps carry or accompany another vnto the graue Yea let men frolick it and ruffle in pleasures and not onely liue in their conceits but liue brauely and deliciously yet euen in this condition they are but dead and the more thus they liue the further are they plunged into death as Paul saith 1. Tim. 5.6 of the widow Our naturall life being but a shadow of life that shee that liueth in pleasure is dead while she liueth It is but a conceit a name of life that naturall men haue it is but a goodly vizour drawne ouer a dead and rotten corps Thou hast a name that thou liuest but thou art dead saith our Sauiour to the Angell of Sardi Reuel 3.1 Notwithstanding heere the Lord doth let his Sunne to shine and his raine to fall on the vngodly together with his owne and these dead soules enioy many documents of Gods fauour and bounty whereby they neither seeme nor indeed are so wholly and vtterly separate from happinesse as they shall bee 2. Subiect to the bodily death Wherefore there is a second staire by which all of vs if the Lord succour not descend yet further from this blessed life and this glorious conditiō that is in death when a dissolution of soule and body commeth Then the body is committed to the earth where it feeleth no good at all as in life it did nor any euill and the soule is gathered to the spirits of apostate angels and reserued to eternall condemnation in chaines of darknesse Iude 6. Lastly 3. To death eternall there is yet one lower descent in the day of iudgement when as soule and body at the resurrection which is both of iust and vniust being reunited shall be separated for euermore from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2. Thes 1.9 and shall be cast into vnquenchable fier where the worme of their consciences shall neuer die but vncessantly vexe and torment them for euer And so we will in one handle the vses which are to be made of both these instructions Vse 1 First then we are to treasure vp these instructions in our hearts Is to furnish vs with matter of confession in our prayers that they may serue vs from weeke to weeke and from day to day to direct vs in our prayers for the confession of our sinnes wee haue all by rote and can vtter the words of Saint Iames though otherwise than hee speaketh them In many things we sinne all Iam. 3.2 But rare is that man that truly vnderstandeth what it is hee vttereth wherefore let these things be still present with vs that we may vnderstand fully and explicate in particular our corruption and misery To doe it feelingly and particularly when wee come before the Lord to make our confessions and prayers For to confesse our selues sinfull and miserable not know how wherin we are so surely is nothing else but with those wicked Iewes wherof the Lord complaineth For slight and generall confession is vnprofitable Isa 29. to draw neere to him with our lips while our hearts are far from him and to commit that from which Salomon dehorteth Eccles 4.17 viz. To offer vp the sacrifice of fooles babling with our tongues what we mind not And a mocking of God or vnderstand not Nay it is a plaine mocking of God vnto his face thus without knowledge and consciousnesse of our sinfulnesse in particular and the seuerall branches of it to confesse our sins Who would not take himselfe abused by such a debtor that should confesse that he were indebted to him if he knew for what but therein hee must pardon him For he could not call to mind wherein nor why nor how he should owe him any thing Such a flouting confession doe we make to God of our sinnes when in generall termes wee acknowledge them but in the meane while our heart doth not smite vs for any in particular nor can wee tell wherein we are so sinfull Wee must then bee well acquainted with this our miserable condition the knowledge whereof will helpe much to enlarge and excite our hearts to a feeling confession thereof and a more earnest crauing of Gods mercy for the cure of it And to driue it home vnto our harts To remedie which we must consider our state in sinne when we confesse that we are thus tainted in soule and body with the leprosie of sinne let vs seriously consider that we are in a most fearfull and lamentable estate To be fearfull and lamentable It is a fearful thing to haue a noysome disease a stinking or running sore on any part of the body but how much more lothsome and fearfull is it to be couered with boyles and scabs as was Iob and to haue nothing sound in the whole body but as the Prophet speaketh from the sole of the foot to the crowne of the head to bee laden with wounds and swellings and soares full of corruption Such a lamentable sight should we see in this ougly leprosie of sinne wherewith wee are infected if we could discerne it whose poyson and contagion goeth beyond the most fearfull and noysome diseases of the body And most contagious For be a disease contagious it is and not without cause terrible yet cannot it infect where it toucheth not but a pestilence oh how dreadfull is that accounted what running and flying from it is there which can only yet infect the aire and neere and neighbour places to the hazard of such as dwell at hand and thereabouts But this plague of sinne hath wrought vpon the whole creature to infect the very heauens and make all things subiect vnto vanity that as the garment and house which were infected incurably with the leprosie the one was to bee burned with fier the other razed downe and