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A76748	The grand triall of true conversion. Or, Sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts. A treatise wherein these two mysteries are opened. 1. The mystery of iniquity working in mans thoughts by corrupt nature. II. The mystery of holiness working in the thoughts of sanctified persons. Together with precious preservatives against evill thoughts. / By John Bisco, minister of the gospel in Thomas Southwarke.	Bisco, John, d. 1679.; S. S. Man in the moone discovering a word of knavery under the sunne.	1655 (1655)	Wing B2987; Wing S147B; Thomason E1620_1; Thomason E1620_2; ESTC R209672	192,198	465

themselves to eating as bruit beasts as the word signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eathliness and epicurisme 5. They were abominable Apostates Ge 6. 4. There were Gyants upon the earth in those daies The Hebrew word Nephilim which is read Gyants hath the signification from falling as being Apostate fallen from God 6. They were Idolaters Gen 6. 11. The earth was corrupt That is the Inhabitants of the earth Gen 11. 1. Corrupting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nomen Hebraeum discendit a verbo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cadere sic appellantur vel quia a vero Dei cultu deciderunt c. Piscator is in speciall applyed to Idolatry and depraving of the true Service of God Exod 32. 7. Deut 32. 5. Judg 2. 19. as the people are said to do corruptly 2 Chron 27. 2. when they Sacrificed and burnt Incense in the high places 2 King 15. 35. 7. They were Tyrannicall Oppressors falling upon men and making them by fear and force to fall before them 8. The men of the old world broke out into cruell Robberies and Murders for which Calvin will have them called Gyants and this seems to be the opinion of Chrysostom Philo and Josephus Gen. 6. 13. Gen 6. 11. The earth was filled with violence violent wrong injurious and cruell dealing Rapines or Robberies as the Chaldee termeth it 9. They were full of gross infidelity and impenitency not beleiving Gods threats yea they hardned they hearts against all reproofs warnings waitings 1 Pet. 3. 20. Gen. 6. 3. Gigantes promiscuo concubitu polluebant faeminas puellus mulieres Pareus in Genes 6. and long-suffering of God 10. They abounded in abominable adultries and bodily pollutions 11. All Discipline lay trodden down publikely and privatly there was no humanity left amongst men but beastiall barbarisme in all places These and many more were the sins of the old world yet when God comes to pass sentence upon them hee doth not alleadge these open defilements as the chiefest cause of their destruction but their evill thoughts rather The greatest wickedness which was alledged against them Gen. 6. 5. was the thoughts of their hearts Because their thoughts were so many and so continually evill they provoked God more then all their other sins Simon Magus had many foul sins but the thought of his heart was his most provoking sin Hence it is that Peter adviseth him to pray God if it were possible Act. 8. 22. that the thoughts of his heart might be forgiven him as though there lay the greatest guilt and deepest stain before God 4. The sins of mens thoughts are past all number they are as the sand of the Sea innumerable How many thoughts do pass from them every hour yea every minute What man can possibly understand how oft hee offends in his Psal 19. thoughts every day This doth exceedingly heighten the evill of our thoughts and adds to their weight What is heavier then a Mountain Job 6. 7. of sand There be four aggravations which do make the wickedness of mans thoughts to rise up to a kind of Infiniteness the thoughts of carnall men and women are evill 1. From their Childhood yea from Gen. 8. 21. their birth as the great heart-searcher declares the Hebrew word includes not Exod. 2. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A pueritia ejus Ab eo momento quo fuit in lucem editus Schindler ex quo excussus est ex utero We are al transgressors from the Womb Esa 48. 8. Psal 51. 7. 58. 4. only mans age but Infancy or Childs age A Jewish Rabbin confesseth that the evill imagination is in man from the hour that he is formed 2. The thoughts of naturall men are evill continually every day and all the day long Gen 6. 5. as the Hebrew word imports the thoughts of man are alwaies acting even when the body sleeps the mind never lyes still day nor night Psal 140. 3. wicked men are said to think or imagne evils in their heart all the day 3. They are altogether evill only evill Gen. 6. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. Every thought that carnall men think is evil and therefore their evill thoughts must needs amount to a numberless summ the sins of mans thoughts are far more in number then all his other sins whatsoever 2. Vaine loose corrupt thoughts do make up the greatest part of that treasure of sin that sinners are heaping up against the day of wrath O what a vast treasure of wickedness is layd up in their thoughts All wicked men have their fulness of sin which they fill up before Gen. 15. they are cut off the greatest fulness of sin is in their thoughts Position 8. 8. Corrupt thoughts are disturbing evils Interrupters and Undoers of those good things that we do they exceedingly hurt and hinder us in all our performances loose worldly wandring thoughts do spoile us of two pretious things in our Prayers and Services 1. Of our hearts by drawing them another way and causing us to bring empty Oblations to God that wheras we should draw nigh to God with our hearts and keep them close to him in every performance our hearts by reason of our wandring and impertinent thoughts are far off from God The Lord Esa 29 16. complains against the old Jews That their hearts were going after their covetousness when they should have been intent and attent to the word their thoughts were then upon this present world their earthly Possessions Profits c. 2. Wandring and earthly thoughts do spoyl us of the acceptance of our holy things they are like a dead Fly in the Apothecaries Oyntment Position 9. 9. Corrupt thoughts are deadly destroying evils 1. They lead to the height of wrath and misery in this world Evill thoughts are the great leading begetting sins therfore in way of justice must needs bring forth the greatest punishments the greatest miseries that befall a people or Nation in this world as Sword Famine c. are said to be the fruits of their evill thoughts as is evident Jer 6. 19. Behold I bring evill upon this people In the drowning of the old World the Lord had great respect in that judgment to their wicked thoughts which were the root of all and therfore he mentioneth them as the cause of the Flood Gen. 6. 5. 7. Thus Mr. Perkins even the fruit of their thoughts The principall sin which brought that dreadfull deluge and desolation upon the old world was the wickednesse of their thoughts The thoughts of mans heart were evill and therfore God would destroy man and beast from the earth Of all visible Judgments that ever were on the face of the earth this upon the old world was the greatest it is not to be parallel'd by any judgment or vengeance on earth but that second deluge of fire at the last judgment for the waters cut off all man-kind except Noah and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

spirituall things we shall find our Thoughts as unstable as water apt to fly off presently but our thoughts are apt to fix and feed upon earthly sensuall things with much stability and greedinesse such Thoughts as are suitable to mans corrupt nature the heart dwells upon them with the greatest attention and intention it is the greatest difficulty to keep in our thoughts to any holy heavenly object and it is no lesse difficulty to take off our Thoughts from worldly things if once fastened thereto by inordinate affections our Thoughts first stir up our affections which being once raised and fixed upon sensuall objects do fasten our thoughts so storngly to those objects that we cannot loosen them again this we have sad experience of continually 1. If vain slavish fears se●●e upon us our minds are filled with foolish fearfull thoughts which follow us restlesly where ever we are what ever we are doing 2. In raising of worldly grief what black Thoughts do haunt us continually how do our Thoughts dwell upon our present crosses and losses 3. When our love and desires are inflamed and take hold upon the things of this present world as riches pleasures c. how are our Thoughts drowned in these vanities and chained to these objects day and night excessive affections do swallow up all our Thoughts and our thoughts often swallow up our s●ep abundance of riches will not suffer a covetous man to sleep for the multitude of thoughts in his head Eccles 5. 12 15. Out of the heart of men proceeds Curiosity rash unprofitable enquiries foolish unlearned questions which are the fruits of rotten corrupt minds this curiosity consists chiefly in these two things 1. We are apt to be thinking of mysterious things which are above us and do not at all concern us mans mind strongly covets the forbidden knowledge of mysteries that are beyond its reach and without the pale of written revelations 2. It is strangely delighted with curious conceits and new notions the figments of mans fancy The glorious heights of Scripture-mysteries cannot content carnal minds they will be soaring aloft after unheard of curiosities and prying into things that they have not seen neither can be seen in the word or works of God this curiosity of knowledg and speculation the Scripture often condemnes as 1 Tim. 6. 4. 20. Col. 2. 2. Tim. 4. 3. where the Apostle foretells of a time when men will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts that is 1. They will seek after Teachers with ardent desires running to and fro 2. They will make choice of their teachers rashly without judgement and discerning 3. Without order they will not be confined to a Pastor and teacher according to Gospel-order but they will have heaps of teachers which imports a confused multitude these three things are implyed in the Original word here used 2 Tim. 4. how apparantly is this Scripture fulfilled in these our dayes Now what is the ground of all this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have itching ears their minds are possest with an itching desire after curiosities therefore they go after divers teachers that so they may hear something which may feed their curious minds this itching after curiosity of knowledge was the ruine of our first Parents and it is an hereditary disease which they have conveyed to all their posterity men love to be poring upon strang notions and musing on hidden mysteries 2. A second Act of Curiosity is when the thoughts of men are delightfully taken up with news and common reports which flye up and down in the world how greedily do they hearken after all news forraign and domestick meerly to feed their curious fancies Act. 17. 21. and to fill up their thoughts I grant that we may desire to hear how matters go in respect of the Church and cause of Christ that we may be sutably and spiritually affected with providentiall acts but to listen after the news of the times State transactions and private actings of others that so we may have matter for our thoughts to feed upon in our solitary seasons this argues a mind sick of curiosity and a stranger to Gospel news This Curiosity is properly the corruption of the thinking faculty 2. It is a vanity which is exceeding pleasing to mans corrupt fancy which is taken with novelties 3. It is exceeding displeasing to God when our thoughts are spent upon those things that do not concern us nor belong unto us 16. Out of the hearts of men proceed projecting thoughts how to satisfie their own carnal desires and corrupt designs the thoughts of carnall persons are mainly taken up in projecting and providing for the flesh how they may fill up and feed the lusts therof 1. Licentious men take thought how to find out fittest opportunities and places for acting sin 2. Vaine-glorious Hypocrites take thought how they may raise their own names appear in their gifts and parts and so come to be some body 3. Greedy Worldlings take thought how to raise their estates and grow rich in this world their thoughts do project and plot all the crafty waies of getting how they may come to be Masters of Isa 32. 7. this black Art in over reaching oppressing and going beyond their brethren in bargaining c. This artificiall iniquity of mans thoughts is of all other most abominable it is a great evil when sin takes our thoughts but when we shall take thoughts to satisfie sinfull flesh and worldly lusts this is the height of wickedness the ●ore study and thoughtfulness is in sinning the more sinfull and satanicall is mans sin This made Davids sin out of measure sinfull his taking thoughts and projects to cover his unclean Act and to cut off Vriah these projecting thoughts for the flesh are condemned Rom. 13. 14. 17. Out of the hearts of men proceeds a speculative acting of sin in their thoughts 1. It is a making present those sensual pleasures in their imaginations which are not actually present 2. It is a secret acting those wicked works in mens thoughts which they have not opportunity to bring forth into visible actions there is a strong inclination in their corrupt imaginations to this speculative wickedness This acting of sin in the thoughts is an easie way of sinning when men can set up a stage in their own fancies and act over all sins within themselves in their own secret imaginations and not go forth to any object with their outward man when their lusts want outward objects to work upon yet they can inwardly in their thoughts act their own filthy froathy desires and affections 2. It is a pleasant way of sinning wherwith mens fleshly affections are much delighted they take much pleasure in the bare thoughts of sensuall pleasures 3. T is an empty way of sinning these sinfull speculative delights cannot give the least reall satisfaction to the Soul for all the pleasures of sin when actually enjoyed in their greatest fulness freeness and reality