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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79511	Nathans parable. Sins discovery, with it's [sic] filthy secret lurking in the brest of men. Or, some few discoveries what the sinfulness of sin is, and spoile it hath made on man, in nine particulars. With the sad experience of it on the author: written, if it may be, to warn all men, especially, the saints, to take heed and to beware of sin. With a letter written to his excellency the Lord General Cromwell. By Edmund Chillenden.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3877; Thomason E723_3; ESTC R207232	24,570	27

known what and how fearful a thing it is to fall into the hand of God and for him to enter into judgment with man Heb. 10.30.31 yet he hath not retained his anger nor continued chiding but hath in the midst of wrath remembred mercy Psalm 103.8.9.10 Mica 7.18 Heb. 3.10 for with him is mercy and plenteous redemption therefore let none rejoyce that I have fallen I shall arise yea the Lord hath raised me up Mica 7.8 and lifted up the light of his countenance upon me having cheered the bones that were broken and made me hear joy and gladness Psalm 4.6 51.8 he having fulfilled his promise not to suffer me to be tempted above what I was able but hath made a way to escape 1 Cor. 10.13 for the snare is broken and my soul is escaped my help is in the name of the Lord Psalm 124.6.7 And now what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of salvation and call upon his name I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people Psalm 116.12.13.14 and I and my house will serve the Lord Nehe. 24.15 truly and sincerely in righteousness and true holiness all the daies of my poor pilgrimage Luk. 1.17 keeping under my body and bringing it under subjection mortifying all corruptions that are in my members that are upon the earth Col. 35. 1 Cor. 9.27 laying aside every weight and those sins that do so easily beset me and run with patience the race that is set before me Heb. 12.1 cleansing my self from all filthiness of the flesh as well as spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord 2 Cor. 7.1 and this I will do through his grace for the Gospel sake that if it be possible by all or any means I may bring glory to God and honor and adorn the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in all things Tit. 2.10 And I will arm my self to bear the reproaches of my mothers children in the house of my friends Cant. 1.6 compared with Zech. 13.7 and all the scoffings of the Michals and Ismaels Gen. 21.4 1 Chro. 15.29 and if any Shemeis shall now curse me I will say let him alone for the Lord hath bidden him 2 Sam. 16.11 and the Lord I know will requite me good for their evil and I will conclude with that saying Mica 7.9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him FINIS May it please your Excellency I Confess my self very much unworthy thus to trouble you but a necessity lieth upon me that I may now at last discharge a good conscience and be plain with God my own heart and your Excellency that with the same mouth and lips by which I have lied and abused your ears and with the same hand and pen acknowledg that I have dealt falsly and wickedly with your Excellency and the rest of your Officers with whom I have had any thing to do about my business especially with those Officers that were appointed by your Excellency to examine my business I do hereby declare to my great shame and acknowledg that I did deal very falsly hypocritically and wickedly and all the means that possible my own base wicked heart could devise I made use of to cover and hide my sins I did not refrain from lies vows protestations wishes and execrations on my self also labouring by all the art I could to draw others into the same sin with me not sparing the poor Church of God amongst whom I walked to the great reproach and blasphemy of the good name of God they profess but the party whom it principally concerned I did frame words and contrive matter what should be said and how the business should go so that truly I confess my sin in that hath been very great I do acknowledg and I do bless God for his good grace to me that after all my hardness and impenitency of heart that he stirred up some of my brethren to deal with me bringing me to a sight of my great evils and thereby also to great repentance for God hath spoken peace and remembred mercy for the which I do bless him and shall all the daies of my life love honor and obey him by a holy humble and righteous walking with him in the wayes of the Gospel and now I do humbly beg at your Excellencies hands and all other your godly Officers hands pardon and forgiveness as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you And my Lord I have too too sadly experienced your Excellencies words to me or rather the Apostles that God will not be mocked Numb 32.23 Gal. 6.5 but will make our sins find us out and truly I have found it true to purpose though I knew it before but sin deceived me the world had possessed my heart the honor and profits of the same were snares to me I pray God all may take warning by me and not to love riches honor good name more then the truth and the honor of God to beware that they be not deceived by their hearts to think that God stands in need of our lies to honor and advantage his name or wayes of his Gospel to sin that grace may abound I do think it very meet to vindicate Col. Goffe Col. Cooper Lievt Col. Mason Lievt Col. Worsly Major Pecker which were appointed by your Excellency to look into my cause that they did faithfully and honestly with a great deal of love and tenderness endeavour to find out the truth especially Col. Goffe and Lievt Col. Mason that in my heart I did look on them as acting against me as my very enemies especially Lievt Col. Mason was so busie and restless that truth might be found out and for this I do pray Col. Goffe and Lievt Col. Mason in particular forgiveness And now my Lord I cannot conclude without an acknowledgment of the many signal favours I have received from your Excellency and how tenderly your Excellency did deal with me about this business so that I may say of your Excellency as it is written of Joseph Mat. 1●●9 that your Excellency being just and full of pity you were not minded to make me a publike example but to put me off privily casting also in your thoughts how to do me good that I might not be utterly ruined all which I do with all humility and thankfulness acknowledg and am sorry I have this sad occasion to trouble your Excellency and yet I rejoyce that God hath been pleased to be merciful to me I rest Not worthy to be reckoned amongst the living much less your Excellencies poor unworthy servant Edm. Chillenden Novemb. 30. 1653.

Nathans Parable SINS DISCOVERY With it's Filthy Secret Lurking in the brest of Men. OR Some few Discoveries what the sinfulness of Sin is and spoile it hath made on man in nine particulars With The Sad experience of it on the Author written if it may be to warn all men especially the Saints to take heed and to beware of Sin WITH A Letter written to his Excellency the Lord General CROMWELL By Edmund Chillenden Lam. 3.1 I am the man that have sinned and for that have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath Heb. 4.12 13. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of Sin Printed at London 1653 To all the Congregations of Saints walking in the faith and Order of the Gospel in England Ireland and Scotland Precious hearts I Have a sad theam to present you with it is of sin and the sad effects it hath produced in the world especially on man and in particular on my self so that I may say in the words of the Prophet Lam. 5.16 The Crown is faln from my head wo unto me that I have sinned for nothing but mischief hath attended me yea destruction and ruine in all things that can be thought of here below and were it not but that God who I have so offended had appeared to me indeed as the Apostle saith Eph. 2.4 Rich in mercy and in great love infinite and beyond all expression I had for ever perished and been punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power Thess 1.5 for I deserved no less so that truly I have experienced that good saying of the Apostle That where sin hath abounded grace hath much more yea exceeding much more abounded Rom. 5.20 Oh rich grace rich grace and great mercies and loving kindness they are past finding out they cannot be fathomed they are high they are deep they are long and they are broad so that I cannot but stand and admire what manner of love it is that he hath bestowed on me 1 Joh. 2.1 I have therefore sent to you these few lines that you may take heed and beware of sin for it is a most deceitful yea a most deadly cruel enemy for it maketh such spoile on a man where it gets footing that if mercy yea rich mercy and love from God do not step in to help it destroyeth soul and body good name relations and all that is neer and dear therefore take heed and beware of sin and take that good counsel of the Apostle 1 Cor. 16.13 Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Eph. 6.10 for if you do not sin will break in upon you and make grievous spoile and havocke For want of keeping this guard it hath broken in on me like an inundation of water and yet I thought once my mountain was so set and so strongly founded that it was not possible it could be moved Psal 30.7 when I was in my Tranquility and the candle of the Lord shone upon my head I said I would dye in my nest and multiply dayes as the sand I would spread my root by the waters I should flourish Job 29.3 18 19 20. all went well I had attained to some good progress in the knowledge of God and the practice of the things of God and I was now safe and my heart spoke a great deal of peace but behold when I thus slept the enemy sin came and stole in upon me and I will tell you how 1. First I grew a little cold and careless in the matters of God in those cold mad and distempered yeers 1647. and 1648. and then sin took occasion and by my base heart deceived me presently runs and layeth hold on me tempteth me and draweth me away Jon. 1.14 15 compare Rom. 7.11 and so hath slaine wounded and destroyed me 2. After that I was thus inticed my heart being by sin deceived then I became it's slave to serve it and this will be the case of every one that sin layeth hold of Now I must provide to lay alwayes for the carrying of it close and secret and here cometh vows oaths wishes execrations and all to save cover and hide this ugly companion sin 3. Then sin will seem very fair and smile on you flatter your heart and if he cometh once to be touched to be discovered and feareth he shall be dislodged he now will come with the help of his first-born the divel and belay you on every side First on the right hand and on the left under pretence of good towards God towards his wayes to thy self and relations For so have I found it that when I had some yeers since abandoned all the thoughts of any such thing and in July 1650. had earnestly besought the Lord for his favour and peace for my former evils and that he would now pardon and pass by my sin and hide his face from my sin the which he did and spoke much peace to me and did deliver my soul from the jaws of destruction when death had surrounded me I then did vow to the Lord to honour him and serve him all my dayes but there was more snares beset me For when in the yeer 1652. I was charged with evil by Master Thomas Halhead and his wife now behold how sin beset me and what alurements it layed before me to hide it keep it close and secret 1. Saith my base heart You are known to be a great professor of religion and if you make it known you are utterly lost in the hearts of all that are godly for a brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City Prov. 18.19 you shall never be in their affections againe 2. The name of God will be much dishonoured you must n t tell it in Gath nor publish it in Askelon lest the uncircumcised blaspheme you need not do it it is enough you have done it to God 3. The wayes of God that you profess which every man especially the Clergy which are great enemies to it and of you in particular watcheth to have somewhat to speak against it and dishonour it 4. Your own honour reputation and good name will utterly be lost and gone which as the wise man saith Eccl. 7.1 Is better then a precious ointment better then gold and silver Prov. 15.15 5. You are now in a capacity to do the poor people of God some good but that will utterly spoile you for ever 6. You will lose your place which is your lively-hood These and many more was my soul beset with and I was taken captive and so insnared consulting onely with my base heart that now I set my self with all my might to pursue these instructions that sin my base heart the divel and the world had layed before me but they