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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02029	The blinde-mans sermon: or confutation of the blinde Pharises. By Thomas Granger, preacher of the word, at Botterwike nere Boston in Lincolnshire	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12176; ESTC S112830	26,167	74

signifieth two things First it signifieth the infinite knowledge of God whereby all things lye open to his eye-sight neither is there any thing hid from him no not the most secret intention of the spirit and he is therefore called in Gréeke Kardiognostos a Searcher of the heart Psal 139. 1. 2. 3. Secondly it signifieth the loue and fauour of God whereby hée doth not onely know but acknowledge approoue and grant the prayers of the godly whether they be vocall or the desires and sighes of the heart Contrarily not to heare is to forsake men and leaue them to themselues to disallow not to accept to deny and not to regard their prayers and desires Sinners Are all men vnregenerate whereof some are brutish some ciuill some outwardly religious As for the regenerate though they sinne yet they doe not commit sinne 1 Iohn 3. 8. 9. that is to say sinne doth not raigne in them Rom. 6. 12. Sinne raigneth when men obey it in their lusts That God heareth not sinners it is euident Prou. 28. 9. Hee that turneth away his eare from hearing the Law euen his prayers are abhominable Here is a lesson for them that come to heare the Word in a statute pace Esay saith When you shall stretch out your hands I will hide mine eyes from you and though you make many prayers yet I will not heare you Esay 1. 15. Zachary saith As hee cryed and they would not heare so they cryed and I would not heare saith the Lord Zach. 7. 13. As we are dead dull and drowsie in the worship and seruice of God and vnthankfull to him for his benefits mispending the same on our lusts euen so in affliction and trouble the Lord will be also heauy and slow of hearing Are you come to inquire of me saith the Lord as true as I liue when I am asked I will not answer Ezech. 20. 3. Here is a lesson for them that neuer offer to the Lord prayer praise and thanksgiuing for all the good things that they hold of him inioy by him and daily receiue from him And Dauid goeth further Psal 66. 16. If I incline my heart vnto wickednesse the Lord will not heare mee Héere is a lesson for hypocrites that babble much and pray little comming néere to the Lord with their lippes but kéepe their hearts from him There be sundry reasons why the Lord heareth not sinners First because they are not the Sons of God but the seruants of sinne and therefore haue they not the spirit of Sons whereby they might call God Father but the spirit of feare not of Sonne-like feare which proceedeth of loue and reuerence but of seruile and slauish feare whereby they rather auoide the presence of God as of an inexorable Iudge and are then most quiet in minde and least troubled in Conscience when they haue the least to doe with him and when they thinke speake and heare the least of him Héerein euidently shewing themselues to be sonnes of sinfull Adam who knowing himselfe guilty shrouded himselfe in the thicket from the presence of the Lord. This is the cause why sinners hate the Church where God speaketh vnto them and they should speake vnto God and contrarily loue the Tauerne Ale-house and vaine company euen a filthy polluted Conscience wherein the worme beginneth to gnaw vpon euery occasion This is the cause why they so hate yea persecute with deadly hatred the most godly Preachers euen because they take them to be their greatest tormentors saying in their spirits as Ahab said to Elias Hast thou found me O mine enemy 1. Kin. 21. 20. Art thou hee that troublest all Israell 1 King 18. 17. And as Amaziah said of Amos The land is not able to beare his words Amos 7. 10. And as Ahab spoke of Micah to Iehoshaphat There is one Micah the sonne of Imlah by whom we may aske counsell of the Lord but I hate him for hee neuer prophesieth good vnto mee but euill 1 King 22. 8. Secondly the Lord heareth not sinners because they do not pray aright yea their petitions are full of rebellion and derogatory to Gods Maiesty Therefore euen as the Prince throweth a wicked petition from him and casteth the petitioner into prison and it may be punisheth him with death as King Salomon did Adonijah for asking Abisag to wife so the Lord dealeth with those petitioners as Dauid saith let euen their prayer be turned into sinne So that the Lords answer to such requests is like the answer of Salomon to Bathsheba concerning Adonijah God do so to mee and more also if Adonijah hath not spoken this word against his owne life Now the wicked cannot pray rightly because they know not the Lord nor his wayes what pleaseth what displeaseth him And the reason hereof is because they despite the word of the Lord. The wicked know well what they would haue of God but they cannot abide to know what God would haue of them Gods benefits they loue but faith and obedience they loue not Thirdly the Lord heareth not sinners because they aske temporall things to consume them on their lusts and spirituall gifts many desire to glorifie themselues therewith Therefore saith Salomon the scorner seeketh wisedome and findeth it not Prou. 14 6. And S. Iames saith yee aske and receiue not because you aske amisse that you may consume it on your lusts Ye Adulterers and Adulteresses know ye not that the amity of the world is enmity with God and whosoeuer will make himselfe a friend of the world is an enemy of God Iames 4. 3. 4. Euen as the Adulterous wife asketh gold siluer iewels costly apparell c. of her husband that she may bestow them on her louers so do all wicked men euen all the men of this world aske and desire of God all good things for the sustenance of their bodies and maintenance of their persons onely to chéere and delight their flesh therewith to adorne and beautifie their persons therewith but not to glorifie God with the same Heerein they make vse of God to serue their owne turnes of him as it is now a common practise of these wretched times for one man to loue another onely for the vse that may be made of him for his owne gaine And as it is the practise of rouing whoremongers to marry a woman that is old or of base parentage because shee is rich that with her goods they may maintaine their Strumpets Euen such is the dealings of sinners with God They seeme to draw néere vnto God but it is with flattering and dissembling hearts for their heart goeth a whooring after his benefites to set their whole affections thereon to mispend the same vpon their bodily lusts without feare The wicked héerein are like Abimelech the King of Gerar that gaue kind intertainment to Abraham Gen. 20. and to Isaak Gen. 26. for their supposed sisters sake because they were faire and beautifull to looke vpon so the wicked make a shew of praising and thanking God