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Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…
Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness of sin. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
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The Point is this, A good heart is in good earnest content to part with any corruption: What David did, a good man must do, the ground is the same, and the work of grace is the same, a good heart is in good earnest content to part with any corruption, he doth not put ⟨p. 197⟩off God with good words, and think to satisfy God with fair speeches, but it is seriously and sadly, and in good earnest content to part with any corruption: He doth not say Lord, take away some stile out of the way, or take away some log or impediment in the way of sinning, I would not be disparaged and disgraced and troubled in sinning, no Lord, take away the way of sinning, that I may never walk in that way more: this was the guise of the soul of the holy man; and it is so with every holy man, and Hos. 14.2. and it was so with the converted Church, when their hearts were humbled, and they came to seek the Lord, they say, take away from us all our iniquity, and receive us graciously: they do not half it with God and patch it, and piece-meal it; but oh take away all iniquity, ⟨p. 198⟩even the greatest and the least and the dearest, take away all Lord, not only the open and the known, but the secret and the hidden, Lord take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: In the old Law the burnt offering was all to be burnt; so is it with a sound heart, when it offers a whole burnt offering to the Lord of sin, leave not a hair or a hoof behind, but let all be consumed, and all over-mastered, and subdued: so Psal. 119.133. Let not any iniquity have dominion over thy servant; markē the generality, there is none exempted, none reserved, there is no reservation, not one Lord Let no sin have dominion over me. A good heart will not deal with sin as the people of Israel dealt with the Canaanites, the Lord commanded them to drive out the Canaanites and leave none there, but they for ⟨p. 199⟩their own profit would not destroy them utterly but made them tributaries, but a sound heart will not thus deal with sin, he would have it utterly removed:
The Point is this, A good heart is in good earnest content to part with any corruption: What David did, a good man must doe, the ground is the same, and the worke of grace is the same, a good heart is in good earnest content to part with any corruption, he doth not put