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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

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 and most necessary work of him that would be a Real CHRISTIAN By JO. SHEFFEILD Pastor of SWITHINS London London Printed by J. H. for Samuel Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in Pauls Church-Yard 1659 To the Worshipfull THE MASTER WARDENS ASSISTANTS And the rest of THE Right Worshipfull Society OF SALTERS His Honoured PATRONS Much honoured Gentlemen THE many Favours I have received from you ever since my coming to this place and especially your bestowing so freely of late the first fruits of your Patronage a Presentation for my continuance upon the unanimous and concurrent desires of my loving Neighbours of Swithins after many years conversing together hath deeply engaged me in duty and thankfullnesse to you and them And having nothing else to return in way of requital besides my humble thanks and my hearty prayers whereof the one are fit to be proclaimed upon the house-top the other more fit to be in silence and secrecy presented unto God I was willing to give unto you and to the world a publick and solemn testimony of the honour and Christian respect which from my heart I bear to your whole Society in generall and to your selves in particular by presenting this ensuing Discourse into your hands It treateth of the Thoughts and inwards of the Heart the greatest businesse we have to look unto if we would be Christians indeed not in the Letter but inwardly in the Spirit and have our praise not of men but of God Many others I confesse have to their deserved praise and to the great benefit of the Church written of the same subject but none that I know so particularly as here you will find yet am I not commending my self or this Discourse while I say this being not so much a stranger to my own tenuity unlesse to your Candor and favourable acceptance If you shall please at your best leisure to peruse and read it I hope you will not altogether repent your time and paines bestowed But if your selves or any other any one soul shall reap any benefit hereby I shall rejoyce and blesse God for my poor paines and time so well bestowed Now that it may as the seed upon the ground or the rain from heaven upon the seed prosper to that which it is sent abroad I shall follow it with my prayers for a plentiful and effectual blessing upon you and it as being Yours ever engaged to serve You JO. SHEFFEILD THE EPISTLE TO THE READER READER MAny Learned in their several Professions have put forth profitable Discourses One De occulta Philosophia another De secretis naturae another De morbis secretis a fourth of Stratagems of War a fifth of Policies of State others of the Anatomy of mans body of the Circulating of the bloud c. Usefull and profitable all But the Proper subject of a Divine is to handle the Mysteries of Godlinesse and withall to detect the Mysteries of ungodlinesse Solomon in his great wisdom did not onely Contemplate the Excellency of Wisdomes pathes and precepts but gave his heart also to understand and find out the wayes of folly sin and madnesse Here have I undertaken as hard a task as any I would I could say I had as well performed it To will was present propounding to my self to write of this occult Mystery of iniquity the secret diseases of the soul the Stratagems Policies and depths of Satan the Anatomy of the heart and the Circulating of flesh and bloud in our hearts and thoughts I hope I have undertaken a task not more hard and painfull to me than profitable and usefull to thee Some have travelled far into unknown Lands to shew thee the fruits of their paines travel and expences I shew thee onely thy self Some have compassed Seas and Lands and given thee the Longitudes Latitudes the dangers of passages my designe is to bring home my travels to thy self and to shew thee the dangers of thy own heart that as in water face answers face so in my heart thou mayst see thy own the Methods of Satan the Gulphes of sin the Straits to heaven the various and uneven ebbings and flowings of this sea or lake in thy heart Some have told us in their Travels they have discovered strange Countries Creatures Fruits They relate of Terra del fogo Insulae Latronum they have seen Mountains flaming with Brimstone Dens of Lyons the Lake of Sodom Fountaines of pitch Dead Seas Scalding springs Frozen lakes Here is the Land of fire Island of Robbers Brimstone mountaines Sodoms Lake a Fountain of pitch in thy own heart Thou needst not go into far and remote Countries to see strange and fearfull sights In the Map and Microcosme of thy heart thou mayst see all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The 1 Joh. 5. 19. whole world lies in this wicked one Orbis in Urbe was said of Rome once Orbis in Corde may be said of this Mysticall Babylon A world of wickednesse lies in this narrow heart yet are there none that seek to make discoveries of this New unknown World Man is the silliest of all Creatures they all preserve themselves destroy their enemies Man destroyes himself and spares his enemies those of his own house Man though he pretend to all knowledge yet is of no understanding but bruitish in his knowledge knowing J●● 10. 14. nothing of what he ought to know in vain doth he professe all Arts when he knowes not his own heart Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc tibi scire est Et tua mens nequam si noverit omnia sequam In vain doth the Grammarian teach Congruity of speech while he corrects not the incongruities of his own heart The Logician studieth Syllogismes and the way of disputing subtilly and is not able to deal with the Sophistry and fallacies of his own heart The Astronomer casts his eye up to heaven as if he had perfectly passed all lower studies he numbers the Stars takes the height of heaven observes the motion of the severall Planets but knowes not the uncertaine motion of this one Planet this little lowest Planet The Geometrician measures both Seas and Lands and hath not yet the measure of his own heart The Mathematician by his instruments measures Circles Squares or Angular figures hath no measure for this Center cannot measure this Triangle much lesse bring it into Square The Traveller seeks to know all Kingdomes Cities Nations Languages habits manners customs Laws and knows none of these in his own heart Tecum habita nec te quaesiveris extra Man mind thy self there

for us How slightly do they speak of God Who is the Lord And what can he do for us So in Zephany The Lord will neither do good nor evill These men Zeph. 1. 11. are settled on their lees and dregs of impiety and irreligion whereas it is the language of the Godly Who is like unto thee O Lord Who is like the God of Israel And Ex. 15. 11. Psal 89. 8. Deut. 33. 26. hereby do the Godly know they have been spirituall in their duties if they rise up in the duty to or depart from the duty with higher more raised admiring and exalting thoughts of God in their hearts and more low and self abasing thoughts of themselves CHAP. VIII Of Atheisticall thoughts HAving before spoke of severall kindes of Atheists I shall here speak of the Atheisticall thought A thought so black Irrationall Bruitish and horrid as can be thought A thought which may be darted and haply glance at a gracious heart but can onely find footing and stick with a heart altogether gracelesse To shew the heinousnesse and hatefullnesse whereof I may boldly say five things 1. That it cannot possibly be received but where the man hath first worne out his conscience and all principles of religion It doth ipso facto unsaint a Saint upon its first admission Some other Errors possibly may stand with grace this entertained cannot 2. Nor doth it ever stick but where the man hath lost his reason and his braines too as well as his conscience It is not onely against the light of Scripture but nature even corrupted nature and doth consequently not onely un-saint the Christian but un-man the man Some other Errors have some seeming reason on their side This utterly none It is the fool onely who saith that is imagineth in his heart There is no God And have they no knowledge saith he afterwardes No indeed none Psal 14. 1. and 4. at all either spirituall or so much as naturall The whole Host of heaven and earth and all the creatures animate and inanimate combine together to bear witnesse against this folly and impiety They are all Gods witnesses and say to man if thou denyest a God thou art a lyar or if thou doubtest thou art a fool and we will prove it For who could make these visible heavens but the invisible Deity Who could make the eye but he who is all eye and give the understanding but he who is all understanding Though many of the creatures are mute and cant speak another word they all plainly pronounce this one word A God a God This is the sound of the harmony of the heavens and the note of the whole universe there is no speech nor language where this voice is not heard So much Divinity at least is received for Orthodox among all Nations established not by particular nationall or general Counsells convened as some other points but by the Oecumenicall counsell of mankind though never convened together and subscribed to man by man all the world over and hath gained universall consent in all ages and places as the first if not onely principle of naturall beliefe and our mother natures Creed Some Nations have one Creed some another some have altered their present Creeds this was never altered but received by all without dispute or contradiction There be some people that admit of some books of holy Scripture onely as the Samaritans of old and the Turk at this day of the five books of Moses Some receive the Old Testament entirely as the Jowes Some receive the old and New Testament both as the sound Christian Churches Some admit the Apocrypha and unwritten Traditions too as the Papists Some reject all the whole Bible and have no written Scripture But all have this Scripture written in their hearts the most ancient Scripture in the world before there were any penman of holy Writ And this is universally received and read in all nations in their mother Tongue and expounded in their several and different the most corrupt exercises of religion and worship There have been several Sorts of Philosophers in the world one opposing and thwarting anothers Axiomes there have been several sects of Hereticks in the Church all opposing other truthes and rejecting the soundest Creeds There have been oppositions in all sciences disputes against every thing said or practised in all arts trades professions But all sorts of Philosophers hereticks of all arts trades professions and sciences have unanimously concurred in this when nothing else There is a God However People are divided by Lands and Seas dissonant in their Language and complections more different in their lawes customes manners apparell yet in this all Nations by a divine instinct harmoniously agree there is and of force must be acknowledged There is a God And a little reason will serve to prove it for as when I see a son I must needs yeeld this child had a Father so when I see the creatures I must needs grant a Creator who is the Lord. Therefore hold this fast 3. This is the most Destructive thought and error in the world Some errors are about the Superstructure this a fundamentall error some fundamentall errors impugne some one article of faith or principall doctrine This is destructive of all Religion destroyes all divinity and humanity too it leaves us never an article of faith never a command in the Decalogue and never a point of doctrine It leaves not a stone upon a stone but pulls down all This smites the glorious Statute of Body of Religion upon his feet and breaks all to pieces and brings it down to the ground destroying piety civility humanity curtesy and the improvements of common reason as that stone which smote that Image in Daniel so that Gold Dan. 2. 24. silver brasse iron and clay all crumbled in pieces and became like the chaffe in the summer threshing-flore 4. This Atheism in the thought is a Mother sin a big-bellied monstrous sin having in its womb all manner of impiety and like Babylons Cup is full of all manner of abominations Atheism never goes alone Therefore it is added Psal 14. 1 2. The fool said there was no God Corrupt are they and have done abominable works c. 5. The fifth and last thing I shall observe is that there is so much Irrationallity in this thought that it is banished the world and excluded the society of man and so much of Impiety in it that it is not onely excluded heaven but this of all other sins is excluded out of hell too There is no Atheism to be found in hell there is blasphemy malice envy c. no Atheisme The Atheist goes to hell Atheisme doth not Nullus in Inferno est Atheos ante fuit And is not this a mad and monstrous impiety which can be harboured in the heart when neither heaven earth or hell it self will own it The devils and damned are herein sounder then thou art they believe and tremble And

pestilence among their cattle I among my first-born The woman with child travailes and hopes to cast out her sorrows but must I ever travell never be delivered of this dead child This body of death Ah sinfull base proud heart ah vain loose idle heart ah unconstant unstable uncertain heart ah falfe deceitfull treacherous heart ah sickly diseased faint heart ah unclean rebellious stubborn heart oh thou son of perverse rebellion dost 1 Sam. 20. 30. thou not know that thou hast chosen these companions to thy own destruction and that thou shalt never be stablished till these removed Ah! What shall I take to witnesse for thee What shall I liken to thee and to what shall I equal thee that I may bemoan or comfort thee Thy breach is great like the Sea Who can Lam. 2. 14. heal thee Unsafe was the valley of Siddim so full of slime-pits for a place of battel Gen. 14. there fell the Kings and holy Lot among them captive My habitation is among these slime-pits wherewith I am alwaies bemired too often foyled Sad was holy Ezekiels lot among Briers and Scorpions Jeremies Ezek. 2. 6. case sad in that mirie dungeon Daniels in the Lions Den the three childrens in the Dan. 6. Dan. 3. Jon. 2. Act. 12. fiery furnace Jonahs in the whales belly Peters in the midst of Iron chains and more stern keepers mine more sad than they altogether Sad the Egyptians case when the waters turned into blood their vines smitten with hail fruits consumed with locusts land covered with frogs their day turned into night themselves annoyed with flies and lice and frogs and evil Angels How many of these plagues are continually upon me Miserable Herod who was eaten up with the vermin Act. 12. that issued out of his own body more miserable to have the soul tormented with those vermin which are bred and ingendred there Miserable Sampson who was betrayed bought and sold into the hands of the Philistines and there made to grind or Jud. 16. make sport to his insulting enemies my case no lesse miserable Were we in this case sold for slaves or delivered to death or to make sport to men well we might bear it but to grind in Satans prison house and to make sport for hell who would not prefer death before it must the Cedar vine olive submit to a bramble And shall Athaliah Jud. 9. 2 King 11. 1. quietly possesse the throne when she hath destroyed the seed royal Avenge me of these Midianites Deliver me from mine enemies for they hate me with cruell hatred Hold not thy peace O God of my praise Why standest thou so far off Art thou a God that hast pleasure in wickednesse or delight in the death of a sinner Shall I say with Peter depart from me I am a Lu. 5. 8. sinfull man O Lord Or shall I say Lord carest thou not that I perish neither Lord Mar. 4. 58. Mat. 8. 2. But if thou wilt thou canst make me clean Say Lord I will be thou clean I ask no more Thou art of purer eyes then to behold evil and Hab. 1. 13. canst not look on iniquity why lookest thou then upon them that deal treacherously and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the more righteous Lord make this sea go back this Jordan stand still Let not the water floud drown me neither let the pit shut her mouth upon me Being invironed with these so many envious keepers as Peter was and loaden with so many chaines and deslined to death by mine enemies I cry the more importunately Lord send thine Angel loose these bonds disperse these keepers open the prison doors yea make this iron gate to open of it self that the ransomed of the Lord may go forth with songs and everlasting Esa 35. 10. Jon. 2. 4. joy upon his head Out of the belly of hell do I cry unto thee let my prayer come before thee O Lord heare O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do defer not for Dan. 9. 17. 19. thin● own sake O my God cause thy face to shine on this sanctuary this soul that is desolate for the Lords sake Avenge me this once and help me this once and let me dye with Jud. 16. 28. these uncircumcised with whom I have conflicted all my life if I may not be so happy as to outlive them and see them cut ost If I can not see the Egyptians destroyed in the wildernesse but they still pursue me carry me through the red sea of death that I may see them dead on the shore Lord Ex. 14. 30. Josh 10. 6. slack not thine hand to assist this poore Gibeonit● now in covenant with thee who flies to thy protection against the numerous host of the Canaanites round about deliver me from mine enemies for they are stronger then I and mo in number then the haires of my head Jacobs service was hard with Laban which lasted twenty years and he was deceived Gen. 31. 7. ten times by him I have served longer one who hath deceived me more then ten and ten times and shall I not be set free Thy people Israel were sadly oppressed in Egypt they sighed by reason of their burdens and their bondage and thou sentest a redeemer But when shall the Redeemer come out of Sion when will the Lord turn the captivity of his people They were after carried into Babylon and they that took them captives held them fast and refused to let them go But strong and faithfull was their Redeemer Jer. 50. 33. 34. who did throughly plead their cause and give rest again to his land and disquieted the inhabitance of Babylon And shall this captive exile dye in a pit and shall his eyes faile in Esa 51. 14. Esa 38. 14. expecting salvation I am oppressed undertake for me Well now I see what cause to cry out Oh the depth of the riches of the Ro. 11. 33. wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Judgments and his ways past finding out Thy waies and thoughts are all to me mysterious I read O Lord that David was thrice anointed to one kingdome ere he came to the full possession of it and must I be so too He was first anointed by Samuel when a child but for all that little like a 1 Sam. 16. kingdome followed but persecutions hatred exile poverty and misery The second time in Hebron after the death of Saul then somwhat indeed of a kingdome 2 Sam. 2. 3. a divided kingdome was given unto him though maintained and kept with long and sore wars But a third happy anointing followed after the death of Ishbosheth when he had possession given him of the whole kingdome which he held all his daies Lord when thou hadst first anointed me in thy eternall 2 Sam. 5. 3. decree of election there was a designation indeed to a heavenly kingdome but till the second anointing comes in effectuall vocation there is nothing like a King or of one designed for heaven to be discerned But then some small part of the kingdome is settled upon us A little grace set up in Gods throne the heart but opposed by much corruption Lord hasten the third anointing in Jerusalem that the kingdome of old designed in election entred into in vocation though yet engaged in doubtfull wars may be fully and quietly possest There was long war then between Saul 2 Sam. 3. 1. and David But David grew stronger and stronger and out lived that war and was settled in peace But when I have done with Saul I have an Absalom coming out of my own bowels and that rebellion scarcely quelled but another Sheba up he blows a Trumpet all make head and I almost forsaken 2 Sam. 20. 1. Oh must there be no discharge from this war must it continue as that between Rehoboam Eccl. 8. 8. 1 King 14. 30. and Jeroboam all our daies There was a● time when Kings went out to war and a cessation 2 Sam. 11. 1. time when David was at home walking on his roof must I neither expect a tryumph here nor hope for peace nor so much as look for a cessation Thou dost all in mercy and for the best I hope we should be in more danger on the roof then in the field Thy will be done The Canaanites were left to try thy Jud. 3. 1 2. people and to learn them war just and good They would otherwise have been secure and Deut. 7. 22. then the beasts of the earth had risen up against them Better it is I must needs say to be exercised continually with these Canaanites then to be destroyed for ever by the wild beasts I read of the care of a mother towards the 2 Sam. 21. 10. carcasses of her children when dead though they could take no more hurt Rizpah the daughter of Aiah Sauls Concubine suffered neither the birds of the Aire to rest on her two Sons by day when executed and hanged on a tree nor the beasts of the field by night even for a long time from the beginning of barly harvest till water dropped upon them out of heaven and then were they taken down and all that time she took sackcloth and spread it for her upon the rock And have I no care of a living-dead-carrion-heart and is there no help but the birds of the aire and beasts may come and rest upon it day and night Well I will spread sackcloth for me upon this rock till either water drop from heaven to soften and cleanse this heart or till it be not taken down but taken up and translated Collige oves Areā munda Templumque repurga Cor renova Satanam contere Christe veni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 21. 20. FINIS