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The arraignment of unbelief, as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment
The arraignment of unbelief, as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment: cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament, at Margarets Westminster, upon the 28th. of May, 1645. being the day of their public fast. / By Joseph Caryl, late preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, now pastor at Magnus near the bridge, London.The arraignment of unbelief, as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment: cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament, at Margarets Westminster, upon the 28th. of May, 1645. being the day of their publike fast. / By Joseph Caryl, late preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne, now pastor at Magnus neer the bridge, London.
London: printed by G. Miller for Giles Calvert, 1645
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The Prophet Jeremiah (chap. 17. 5.) pronounceth a ⟨p. 11⟩curse upon the man, that trusteth upon man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. The Apostle expounds whose heart that is (Heb. 3. 12.) Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. An unbelieving heart, is an heart departing from the living God. The antithesis in the Prophet (ver. 7.) confirms that exposition; Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. Hope and trust are the contraries to unbelief. But what is the portion of this unbelieving heart? No good I warrant you. The sixth verse assures us so, He shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh. As unbelief locks sin upon our souls, sorrows and judgements upon our bodies, so it locks our souls out of eternal, and our bodies out of temporal salvation. An unbeliever shall not see when good cometh, that is, he shall not taste or enjoy good when it cometh. So Elisha told that unbelieving Lord, when in the name of the Lord he had promised plenty in Samaria; Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof, 2 King. 7. 2.
The Prophet Ieremiah (chap. 17. 5.) pronounceth a ⟨p. 11⟩curse upon the man, that trusteth upon man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. The Apostle expounds whose heart that is (Heb. 3. 12.) Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. An unbeleeving heart, is an heart departing from the living God. The antithesis in the Prophet (ver. 7.) confirmes that exposition; Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. Hope and trust are the contraries to unbelief. But what is the portion of this unbeleeving heart? No good I warrant you. The sixth verse assures us so, He shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good commeth. As unbelief locks sinne upon our souls, sorrows and judgements upon our bodies, so it locks our souls out of eternall, and our bodies out of temporall salvation. An unbeleever shall not see when good cometh, that is, he shall not taste or enjoy good when it commeth. So Elisha told that unbeleeving Lord, when in the name of the Lord he had promised plenty in Samaria; Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eies, but shalt not eat thereof,