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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04627	The true inquisition or The sad soules search Preached at Newport, May 29. 1632 in the primary visitation of the worshipfull Mr. Edvvard Burbye, Archdeacon of Winton. dBy W. Iones, B. of D. preacher to the Isle of Wight, and Vicar of Arreton.	Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2.	1633 (1633)	STC 14748; ESTC S119450	13,625	31

ponder with thy selfe whether thy conversation be sutable to Gods will or not Concerning this searching and trying in worldly matters we are for the most part very wise he that hath a flock of sheepe will have a shepheard to handle them dayly He that hath much land will have a bay liffe to oversee it continually Yee need not bid the merchant try his silver gold and search his other commodities Who doth not often talke and inquire concerning the estate of his body But concerning the estate of our soules wee are too too negligent I may say of our dayes as Ieremy 8. 6. I hearkned and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickednesse saying what have I done Every one turneth to his course as the horse rusheth into the battell Vnto whom shall I compare the men of this generation certainely they are like the people of Laish Iudg. 18. 27. The children of Dan came unto Laish a quiet people and without mistrust and smote them with the edge of the sword c. Even so though wee heare daily that the Divill like a roaring Lyon goes about seeking whom hee may devoure 1 Pet. 5. 8. and that our lusts daily warre against our soules 1 Pet. 2. 11. and that the whole world lyes in wickednesse 1 Ioh. 5. 19. yet we lie still snorting in our sinnes Yea more though it be most apparant that the Lord hath whet his sword and prepared instruments of death as the plague famine and the sword which have in our country and among our neighbours devoured many thousands and ten thousands within these few yeares yet we are not moved hereby to search and try our wayes Wee sleepe like a man upon the top of a Maste Thus much for the second particular the twofold act search and try I come to the third particular which is the object or what we must search and try namely our wayes And here by this word wayes we must understand our thoughts words and works So they are often termed in the Scripture Gen. 6. 12. All flesh had corrupted his way i. all mankind had polluted their manners they were growne dissolute in their thoughts words and deeds Now our thoughts words and deedes are termed our wayes because by them we walke as t were to heaven or hel as by the Kings high way we passe from towne to towne Hee that thinkes good thoughts speakes good words and doth good workes is walking in the way to heaven Bona opera sunt via regn i. good works are the way to the kingdome of heaven Which God hath ordeined that wee should walke in them Ephe. 2. 10. Hee that thinkes evill thoughts speakes evill words doth evill deeds is walking in the way to hell Prov. 7. 27. Salomon saith The house of a whore is the way to hell i. whoremongers and adulterers are walking in the ready way that leades to hell The like may bee said of the practise of any sinne in thought word or deed t is the way to hell So then whereas the Prophet sayes Let us search and try our wayes T is as if he had sayd Let us examine our thoughts words and deeds Let us consider wherein we have transgressed the Commandements of God or done ought against his will And here it is to be noted that he saies our wayes not other mens wayes In this search wee must have an eye to our owne thoughts words and deedes This is a singular point of wisedome But very many of us fayle most grosly therein We are for the most part like those whom St. August 10. Confess calls Curiosum genus hominum ad Cognoscendum vitam alienam desidiosum ad Corrigendum suam Wee are curious in searching other mens wayes negligent in correcting our owne I doe not deny but a man may take notice of his neighbours wandrings and rebuke him too t is the Lords owne Commandement Levit. 19. 17. Thou shalt freely rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sinne upon him And verily we have all much to answere for because wee have not seasonably reproved our offending neighbours But the course that I now tax is that many are so buysie in searching other mens waies that they neglect their owne and yet they thinke themselves wise men But a wiser than the wisest saith Prov. 9. 12. If thou beest wise thou shalt bee wise for thy selfe Yea the heathen man Platarch de Curiosit saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 T is the end of Philosophy to know a mans owne evills And the Orator saith very well Ne quicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit He is wise in vaine that is not wise for himselfe Wherfore let us carefully hearken to the counsell of the wisedome of God which saith Prov. 4. 25. Let thy eye lids direct thy way before thee ponder the path of thy feet And let all thy wayes be ordered aright And whereas he sayes Let all thy wayes be ordered it gives me occasiō to put you in mind that he that will make a true search must search all his wayes and try all his thoughts words and deeds T is not sufficient to examine some or many of our wayes but we must ponder all our wayes If a Shippe spring three leakes and onely two bee stopped the third will sinke the Shippe If a man have two greevous wounds in his body and take order to cure onely one that which is neglected will kill him Quidve exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una Even so if we having divers lusts which fight against our soules do mortifie but some of them t is to no purpose God cannot indure these halfe-services Hee that will be a man after Gods owne heart must with David Ps 119. 104. utterly abhor all falswais The Pharises were very precise in manythings yet Christ calls them hypocrites and cryes woe unto them because they walked not circumspectly in all their wayes The truth is he that unfeinedly bends his mind against any one sinne hates all sinnes and hee that favours himselfe in any one sinne never so small never so secret this man hates no sinne heartily what shew soever hee makes He may perhaps eschew some sinnes for some sinister respects as namely because they will not sort with his ordinary courses or are not ageeable to his complexion or would hinder him more another way or because he is taken up of so many other uncleane spirits that give him no leasure for these Who will contend the covetous Crib for hating prodigality and excesse in meat drinke and apparrell Who knowes not that he hence reaps no small advantage What considerate man will thinke the better of a prodigall spend thrift because he heares him rayle against this or that miserable Churle Iudas was angry at the waste of the box of precious oyntment and said it might have bin sold and given to the poore But t was not because he loved the poore or hated waste but because hee carried the bag and was