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A01092	The means to keepe sinne from reigning in our mortall body A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, May 26. 1629. By William Foster, Master of Arts, and parson of Hedgeley in the county of Buckingham.	Foster, William, 1591-1643.	1629 (1629)	STC 11204; ESTC S120710	21,469	38

The means to keepe Sinne from reigning in our mortall Body A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS CROSSE May 26. 1629. By William Foster Master of Arts and Parson of Hedgeley in the County of BVCKINGHAM LONDON ¶ Printed by John Haviland 1629. TO THE RIGHT Honourable Robert Lord Dormer Baron of Wing Earle of Caernaruon Lord Lieutenant of the County of Buckingham my very good Lord As also To the right honorable and vertuous Lady the Lady Anna-Sophia Countesse of Caernaruon his most gracious deare and louing Wife Right Honourable I Formerly prouided this Sermon for you in a Country Auditory Your occasions then carried you elsewhere The approbation it receiued from such learned Diuines as hapned to be present made mee settle my thoughts and meditations againe vpon it Those second thoughts and meditations gaue it a new being and that growth that it came from the Country to the City Meeting there with the Presse it presumeth to presse from the City to the Court bearing your Honours name in the forehead For whither could it bee sent more fitly to cry downe the reigning of sinne than to Court where vertue and not sinne should reigne among the Peeres and Nobles of so vertuous and pious a King as wee haue who like the Emperors Theodosius the younger besides his priuate deuotions leauing his Princely sports is an assiduous frequenter of publike prayer and Constantine the Great besides his priuate reading is a great and constant hearer of Sermons the meanes to receiue sacred instructions to keepe sinne from reigning in his mortall body Let mee not be thought then presumptuous if I dedicate this small worke of mine to your Honours to be a Remora to stay you from yeelding to the inchanting allurements of such perdition-working Syrens as are alwayes seducing the fraile nature of man vnto sinne Neither doe I this because I any wayes deeme your Honours prone to follow such or because you want either good precepts or neere examples to follow For my good Lord besides your owne gracious disposition you haue been brought vp at the feet of Gamaliel in the Vniuersitie that hath furnished you with the one you haue those noble Lords your Vncle and Father in Law neere and bright shining Lights to you in the other you haue the daily attendance of such as are able and ready to direct you in both And you right noble Lady as inheritrix of your deceased Lady-mothers vertues are ready to ioyne in the practice of such actions as may bring eternall happinesse to you both But I dedicate these my poore labours to your Honours to encourage you to goe on in what you are For your Lordship well knowes that of the Poet Qui monet vt facias quod jam facis ipse monendo Laudat hortatu comprobat acta suo I deuote them to you as a sure testimonie of my vnfained respect to your Honours and heartie desire that you may be saued in the day of the Lord. For seeing this Sermon such as it then was should haue beene yours before seeing you haue beene graciously pleased to receiue mee for yours since to whom may it more fitly be appropriated than to your Honours So that I may say to each of you with the Poet Hoc lege quod possis dicere jure meum est Censurers I shall haue and doe expect many but I feare or regard none My aime is Gods glory to cast my mite into the Treasurie of the Church for the good of my Country in generall and to testifie my desire of doing your Honours seruice in particular This is the marke I looke at and I shall euer endeuour by Gods grace to hit it The criticall Spectators I passe by without any glance on them I shall neuer care to please them That Archer which lookes on the standers by and not on the marke cannot but misse his aime and that Writer which endeuours to please all shall please none neither God good men nor himselfe But if next to Gods glory and the Churches good your Honours out of your wonted candor will be pleased to accept it I shall attaine my wished scope and shall be encouraged further to shew my selfe Your Honours deuoted Chaplaine and humble seruant to be commanded WILLIAM FOSTER A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS Crosse May the 26. 1629. ROM 6. 12. Let not sinne reigne therefore in your mortall bodie that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof IN Adams being we had all our being and in his fall wee all receiued a fall His person being the first infected our humane nature our humane nature being from him infects our persons So that now no man liuing without the brand laid vpon him by S. Iohn of deceiuing himselfe and lying to others can say he is without sinne If we say that we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues and the truth it 〈◊〉 in vs 1 Ioh. 1. 8. Lawne and that the ●●est hath his bracks Roses and those the sweetest haue their pricks Men and those the best haue their faults S. Iames outstrips S. Iohn and saith that we doe not onely offend all but we offend all many wayes In many things we offend all Iam. 3. 2. The Prophet Dauid though this be alreadie too much for our store augments the store and makes the many sins many many sins so many that we know not how many Who can tell how oft he offendeth Lord cleanse me from my secret faults Psal 19. 12. So that then the righteousnesse of man consisteth not in hauing no sinne for then no man could bee iustified no man could be righteous but it consisteth in mans stout resisting and suppressing of sinne that it reigne not in him and presumptuously get the dominion ouer him and Gods free remission of sin that it bee not imputed vnto him hee condemned for it Dauid therefore prayes against the dominion of sinne that he may be innocent from the great offence and S. Paul exhorts vs to resist and suppresse sinne and his lusts that it reigne not in vs and wee incurre the irreuocable sentence of eternall death for our offence Let not sin reigne therefore in your mortall bodie that yee should obey it in the lusts thereof As if the Apostle had sayd To exhort you to an absolute puritie were to enjoyne you an absolute impossibilitie For there was neuer yet any man altogether pure and without sinne Christ Iesus excepted who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both God and man but yet a man need not be all sinne he need not yeeld the powers and faculties of his soule and members of his bodie as instruments of vnrighteousnesse vnto sinne and so let sinne haue his full careere in him and rule and reigne in his mortall bodie but hee may by the grace of God resist sinne and so haue but few and those but vnderling sins and those few vnderling sinnes by the great and superabundant mercie of God in Iesus Christ forgiuen and not