Sinne no more.

THe chiefe and Ioh. 5 14. Eccle. 21. 1. principall thing that ariseth to our Christian consideration or meditation, out Psal. 7. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 14. of these words, is the comfortable practise of our Mat. 1. 21. 1 Tim. 4. 19. Acts 5 31. Sauiour, who not only cureth this foule and loathsome diseased cri­ple; but sheweth him how hee should liue and continue his health; accor­ding to that of Marlarot vpon this Marolat. place: Qui aegrotos sanat, sanatos ad­monet: He that healeth the diseased, aduiseth how they should maintaine, & preserue their health, Sin no Iohn. 5 14. Eccl 21. 1. Psal. 41. 4. Eccl. 5. 5. 7. Luke 15. 21. more.

Wée are here to consider that no man is without sinne: If we say wee haue no sinne, we deceiue out 1 Ioh. 1. 8. Esay 9. 17. Pro. 20. 9. Esay. 41 29. 1 Iohn 1 7. Ps [...]l 51. [...]. 2 Esa. 4. [...]0. Rom. 7. 23. selues, and there is no truth in vs.

Christ did not séeke his absolute [Page 2] obedience to the whole Law, nor his totall immunity or fréenesse from all sinne; for it is impossible for a man to bée 1 Tim. 4. 10 Acts 5. 31. Matth. 1. 21. cleane without sinne in this life. And therefore our Sauiour in bidding this man sinne no more: Non exegit ab omni peccato vt sit immu­nis: Requireth not that he should bee frée from 1 Ioh. 1. 8. all sinne: Sed compara­tione vitae prioris; but in comparison of his former life: For our Sauiour 1 Tim 4. 10 Mat. 1. 2. Acts 5. 31. Exod. 22. 31. 1 Pet 1. 15. 2 Pet. 3. 11. Iohn. 5. 14. Eccl. 21. 1 Christ knew, that hee was not only impius & improbus, void of all holi­nesse and honesty for a time; but that he was insignis nebulo, a notorious, grosse and grieuous sinner. There­fore in bidding him sinne no more: Is, that as hée hath formerly obeyed sinne, now he must withstand Iam. 4. 7. it, and walke no more so inordinately in Eccl. 21. 1. 1 King 2. 4. 1 Kin. 3. 14. Col 4. 5. it, and as hée was wont to yéeld vnto it, so now he must striue against it, that it may reigne Rom. 9. 12. no more in him, to captiue and enthrall his soule vnto eternall Mar. 19. 14. Dan. 7. 11. perdition: For Ex sani [...]ate [Page 3] animae fit sanitas corporis: The soules soundnesse is the bodies safety; and if his soule had not sinned, (no doubt) his body had not smarted; but had beene alwayes preserued for the joyes of Heauen; Esay 66. 1 [...] Mat. 3 12. Nahum. 1. 2▪ Acts 5. 31. Mat. 1. 21. 1 Tim. 4. 10. Wherefore wée may gather, that the only cause of our Sauiours conference with this man in the temple, was to shew him, that the first and efficient cause of his sicknesse, was nothing but his sinne. Leu. 26. 16. 18. 1 Sam 24. 10. 2 Chro 21. 12, 13, 14, 15. Num. 12. [...] 10, 11. Iohn 8. 34. And therefore hée admonisheth him to sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto him.

Christ would haue him to sinne no more, Iob. 5 14. Eccl. 21. 1. neither in Cogitatione, pro­posito, actione, nec obduratione; Nei­ther in thought, purpose, perfor­mance, nor countenance. Hee would not haue him to Wisd. 1. 9. Mat. 12. 25. 2 Cor. 5. 10 Eccles. 12. 14▪ Mat. 12. 37. Rom. 14. 12. 1 Pet. 4. 5. sinne in thought, lest it should cause him to stumble; nor in purpose, lest it make him fall; nor in performance, lest it cause him to lye prostrate: neither in continuance, lest it make him become obdurate, [Page 4] and past all sence and féeling of sinne. But aboue all things Ioh. 5 14. Eccl. 21. 1. to abhor sinne.

Sinne no more.

Our Sauiour 1 Tim. 4. Acts 5 31. M [...]t [...]h 1. [...]1. Christ would haue this man sinne no more, which fore­warning was a signe that hee loued him, and was loath Exo. 20 6. Iohn 10. 20. Gal [...] 2. 20. 1 Ioh 49. Ephes. 1. Ierem. 2. Rom 5 to lose him: But this loue was not of him to Christ, but of Christ to 1 Ioh 4. 10. Ier. 31 3. him; whereby wee may note, that Christ leueth not on­ly proximum, his néerest, nor ami­cum, his dearest; for cum inimici esse­mus, when wee were his enemies, foes, and aduersaries, [...]. [...]h. 2. he so loued vs that he dyed for vs. Ro 5 6. 7. Iohn [...]. 16. Rom. 4. 25. Heb. 9. 15. 28. 1 Pet. 3. 18. 1 Iohn 4. 9. Ier. 31. 3.

If you say, this man was Christs friend, because he cured him: I may answer, he cured him indeed, Amicum nondum amantem, his friend, not yet louing him: Sed amicum vt jam ama­tum, but as his friend now beloued 1 Ioh. 4. 10. Ier. 31. 3. Rom. 9. 5. of him. Wherefore it may truly bée said that he was, Non amicus quasi a­mans, not his friend as Ioh. 15 18. Acts 20. 30. 1 Iohn 4. 10. louing; Sed [Page 5] amicus vt amans, but his friend as beloued.

But yet let vs marke; Although God loue man neuer so 1 Sam. 13. 14 2 Sam. 11. 4. 2 Sam 24. 15 dearely, yet if he continue in his sinne, he will se­uerely punish Nahu. 1. 2. 3. Mar. 9 44. Esa. 6 [...]. 15, 16. 24. him: It is wonderfull and fearefull to remember, how God hath dealt with those that haue beene néerest and dearest vnto him, and of 2 Sam. 13. 14. 2. Sam. 21. 8. Matth. 25. 30. [...]1. 46. Dan. 7. 11. Mat. 3 12. Mar. 5. 20. Luk. 19 1 [...]. Heb. 10. 27. Mat. 21. 13. Mat. 23. 33. Luk. 16 23. Mat. [...]. 12 29 him best beloued. How for sinne on­ly, and that but once committed (as it is thought) hee hath changed his countenance towards them, turned ouer another leafe, and hath most se­uerely punished them.

The Angels whom hee seated in heauen, and adorned with singular graces and perfections aboue all other creatures: for one onely sinne of pride against the Maiesty of their Maker, were hurled into hell, and are holden with chaines of darknesse for euer-lasting damnation. Iude 6. 2 Per. 2. 4. Reu. 20. 10.

After this, God made him a new friend of flesh and bloud; he created [Page 6] Adam, and placed him in Paradise Gene. 2. 15. Ps [...]l 8. 6. Heb. 2. 8. whom he loued excéedingly, and liued friendly and familiarly withall; hée made him Vice-gerent and sole su­preme Soueraigne ouer the whole world: And as the Psalmist speaketh put all things in subiection vnder his féet; yet for all this, when once hee brake his commandement and Gen. 3. 6. Gen. 4. 24. Gen. 4. 10. did eat the forbidden fruit, all friendship was broken betwixt them, and God mightily offended, insomuch, that he banished him out of Paradise, and condemned him and all his posterity (had he not repented) to eternall mi­sery, and euerlasting damnation.

How seuerely this sentence is exe­cuted, may easily appeare by this, that many millions of people, yea all the sonnes of Adam are adiudged to hell fire Rom. 5. 1 [...]. for euer, saue onely those whom Christ Iesus hath ransomed with his precious bloud, and bitter passion on the [...]. [...]. 26. Iohn 6. 35. Iohn 3. 16. [...] Cor. 5. 15. Rom. 5. 6. Cor. 15 3. Tim. 2. 6. P [...] 3. 18. crosse.

Lastly, because I will not trouble [Page 7] you with a cloud of witnesses to this purpose, which filleth the booke, and are too long to repeat: King Dauid, a chosen vessell, and a faithfull seruant of God (as the Texttermeth him) a man after Gods owne 1 Sam. 13. 14. heart; yet for his adultery, 2 Sam. 11. 4. and numbring the people, God vnsheathed the sword of his vengeance, and made it drunken with the bloud of seuenty thousand for 2 Sam. 24. 15. his sake.

Hereupon let vs consider with our selues, search the Iohn 3. 19. Rom. 15. 4. Nehe. 8 7. Deut. 6. 6, 7, 8, 9. Acts 17 12. Ps. 19. 2. 4. 9. Pro. 30. 5. Psal. 112. 1, 2. Deu. 11. 21, 22. Iosuah 1. Psal. 19. 7, 8, 9, 10. Scriptures; and let each of vs descend into his owne soule and conscience, and sée whether there bee any reason or cause in the world why God should spare vs, or change the course of his justice to­wards vs, when he hath dealt thus se­uerely with great personages, and holy Prophets for some few sinnes, and those only of infirmity. And let vs resolus with our selues, that vn­lesse we repent vs of our sinnes, God will mete the like measure vnto vs, [Page 8] and our reward and punishment shal be the same, which hath be fallen vnto Nahu. 1. 1, 2, 3. Reu. 17. 18. 1 Sam. 3. 12, 13. Hose 4 1. others. Here we may learne what it is, that is the cause of Gods anger, and haleth downe a punishment vpon men: the Text sets it downe in a grosse summe, and in Ioh. 8. 14. Matth. 9. 2. Matth 8. 16 Deut. 26. 16. 18. Num. 12. 10, 11. generall, to be sinne: For sinne causeth the children of vnbelée [...]e Eph. 2. 2. so to dandle in the lap Ec. 10. 10. of folly, that they neuer feare their fall, nor hells fury Iud. 8. 17., vntill they bée serued with a writ of present Mat. 25. 12. penance. Sin blindeth the sight of many, which in their owne conceit sée me to be wise Luke 12.▪ 19., but wanting true wisdome, separate ^f Rom. 1 2 [...]. themselues from God, and run head­long to hell, and eternall Esay 59. 2. Ier. 15. 6. Eccl. 10. 13. damnation. Marke I pray you, the subtilty of sin, whom it can diuert from the milke of Gods 1 Pet. 2. 2. word, it politickly blotteth against, with the doctrine Ier. 10. 8. of vanity: whom sinne can frustrate from the rock of 1 Cor. 10. 14 religion, it vniteth vnto the God of 2 Kin. 1. 2. Ekron: whom sinne can de­uorce from the Spouse of Reu. 12. 19 Christ, it [Page 9] deflowreth with the foule whore of Reu. 17. 3. Babilon. And in the end, sinne brin­geth with it such damned Reue. 12. 3, 4. spirits, howling hel-hounds Mat. 25. 41 Luke 13. 27. Psal. 22. 16., and 1 Pet. 5. 8. Psal. 35 17. roaring lyons, with Vasa furoris, their vessels of fury, which euer shall be prepared ready for their Reu. 12. 4. prey. Thus sin being not forsaken, causeth a worse thing to come vnto all them whom it ru­leth and Rom. 6. 12. ouer-commeth: Qui jam no­lentes ceciderunt in paenam; quia sae­pè volentes ceciderunt in culpam; which now vnwillingly are punished in hell Es. 30. 33. fire, because they so often sin­ned, and so long & willingly continu­ed in their sin, without Luk. 13. 3. Nahu. 1 [...]. repentance.

Heare, oh therefore, heare all you that walke after the lusts of your owne hearts, and depart from Bethel Gen. 28. 19▪ the house of God, to starue your soules in Bethauen the den of Ios 24. 20. Hos. 4. 15. Ioh. 18. 12. iniqui­ty: It is sinne, oh! it is your vnrepen­ted sinne that drawes Gods anger to­wards you, that makes our eyes more dry than the stony 1 Ioh. 3. 8. Nah. 1, 2, 3. 1 Cor. 15. 56. Iohn 8. 34. Rom. 6. 12. Rom. 6. 21. Ier. 31. 30. rocke, and [Page 10] your hearts more hard than the A­damant; that you cannot relent with any tender affection vnto your God, for all your foule Exod. 17. 6. Num 20. 8. offences, which you haue daily and hourely committed against him.

Oh! if you did féele the smart of sinne but prick in your wounded con­science, it were Iohn 20. 1. Ezech. 12. 3. forcible enough to draw streames of teares out of the dryest eye that euer was in the head of man; and to excite a multitude of sorrowfull groanes out of the har­dest heart that euer God made: Yea, it would make you (like Dauid) to pray 2 Sam. 24. 17. 20. and cry vnto God againe and Psal. 51. 2. 11, 12. againe, and neuer leaue the Lord vntill you obtaine his mercy and Rom. 12. 11, 12. Luke 18. 1. Eccl. 18. 22. Eph. 6. 18. Col. 4. 2, 3. Thes. 5. 17. 1 Thes. 3. 1. fa­uour, that you may get some comfor­table perswasion of Gods loue in Christ, for the pardon of your sinnes. Vntill you do so, you shal neuer haue peace nor quietnesse of conscience, nor any sound comfort of Gods holy 2 Cor. 13. 5. 1 Cor. [...]. 16. 1 Cor. 12. 3. Gal. 5. 12. Spirit in you.

[Page 11]Therefore, with spéed learne here of our Sauiour to sinne no more Ioh. 5. 14. Psal 41. 4. Eccle. 21. 1., for it is farre better for vs, that Anima carnem ad Coelum vehat, quam vt animam caro ad infernum trahat: The soule should carry the body to Heauen, then the body should pull downe the soule to hell, Es. 30. 39. by the heauy weight and burthen of sinne.

For sinne is of such an intolera­ble weight, that it pressed Christ him­selfe, as a cartis pressed that is full Amos [...]. 13. of sheaues: and it maketh the earth to réele to and fro like a drunken man. Wherefore, let vs flye from sin as from a serpent, saith the sonne of Esay 24. 20. Eccl. 12. 15. Syrach, and learne here of our Saui­our Act 5. 21. to sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto vs.

Sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto you.

THe effect of sin is punishment, Deut. 32. 42, 43. Mat. 23. 33. Rarò antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede poena claudo, Pumish­ment [Page 12] limping after with his lame foot, hath seldome forsaken the sinner going before him. Thus sin goeth be­fore, Gene. 13. 6. & punishment followes after. Gen. 13. 19 [...]4. They are inseparable companions, like water & moysture, fire and heat, the Sun and his light: yea, cause and effect, mother & daughter, which sin, no man can pardon but God, Mat. 1. 31. Hosea 13. 4. Iohn 1. 15. & take this for a generall rule whatsoeuer thou bee, that Peccatum puniendum est, aut à te, aut à Deo: si punitur à te, Augustine. tunc punitur sine te: si verò à te non Luke 24. 47. Esay 45. 15. punitur, tecum punietur. Sinne must néeds bée punished, either of God, or of thy selfe: If by thy selfe, then it is Psal. 4. 8. Dan. 9. [...]. punished without the: If of God, then thou and thy sin must be punished to­gether, m 1 Pet. 4. 13 for God punisheth either sin, or Luk 13. 3. Esay 59 1. [...] the sinner, in one, or in both, and that without respect of persons, ex­cept they repent, Ioh. 5. 14. Eccl. 21. 1. [...] and sin no more; p whensoeuer, wheresoeuer, and in whomsoeuer he findeth it. Quia abys­s [...]s abystum inuocat, one déepe calleth [Page 13] another: So, the greatnes of the sin Luk. 15. 2 [...] causeth the seuerenesse of the Matth. 22 13. punish­ment. Thus you may see that sin, Non solum ponit nos contrarios Deo, sed facit nos nobis ipsis graues, doth not onely set vs at varience with God, Esay 1. [...]. Pro. 1. 28. Exod. 32. 10. but it maketh vs grieuous vnto our selues.

Sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto you.

IT is said in the holy Scripture, in diuers & sundry places, that Odio s Ioh. 5. 14. Wisd. 14. 9. Psal. 5. 6. Psal. 14. 4. Prou. 15. 8. Iohn 12. 5 [...]. Esay 1. 15. Psal. 5. 9. est Deo impius & impietas eius: God hateth the wicked man & his wicked­nes too: He hateth all those that work iniquity; both the wicked man, and al his wickednes, are in hatred with him; Yea, the whole life of sinners, as much as their very thoughts, Mat. 12. 37. Wisd. 1. 9. 1 Cor. 5. 10. Rom. 10. 12. Eccl. 12. 14. 1 Pet. 4. 5. Mat. 12. 18. words and deeds God hateth. They are ab­homination in his gracious sight, hée cannot abide them, but saith, He that committeth sin, is of the Deuill 1 Iohn 36. ; and therefore, their names shall Pro. 10. 7. [...]ot, their dwelling place shall not Iohn 5. 2. remaine, for [Page 14] a worse thing shall come vnto Ioh. [...]. 14. them, their destruction shall come sudden­ly, when they least thinke of Pro. 14. 22. 1 Pet. 3. 10. it: hee doth not only say, their houses shalbe Pro. 11. 14. destroyed, but also they themselues shalbe no more Iob 24. 20. remembred, because they shall be taken in the sin of their Pro. [...]1. 5. owne transgression: And farther yet, he cannot abide, nor permit sin­ners to praise Psal. 14. 4. Wisd. 14. 9. Psal. 5. 6. him: but cutteth them off suddenly, in so much as many haue not time to think on God, or once to cry, Lord helpe me; and therefore no maruell if he shew such rigour to sin­ners at the last day, when their worse thing Gen. 19. 24. Exo. 14. 29. Num. 21 6. Nu. 16. 32. Acts 12. 23. Luke 12. [...]0. Acts. [...]. 10. Iud. 3. 21. [...]. 2. Sam. 2. 27. shall come vnto them, that is the dreadfull sentence of Christ: Quantum in delitiis fuit, tantum date illi tormentum: Looke how much he hath béene in delights (of his sinne) so much torment do you lay vpon him: where and when hée or they shall be­hold the great, terrible Re [...]. 18. 7. feareful, and angry countenance of that mighty God Exod. 6. 2. Iehouah, aboue them to be their [Page 15] Iudge Ge. 18. 2 [...]. Mat. 16. [...]5. Mat. 16. [...]7. Rom. 4. 4. Heb. 12. 23. Ioh. 3. 22. Psal [...]6. 13. Iam. 4. 12. with a sword of Vengeance in the one hand to Deut. 22. 41. terrifie them, and a scabart of Iustice in the other hand to judge them; and their sin on the one side, to accuse and cry for Vengeance against them; and those cursed Gen. 3. 14. Ser­pents, those vgly Esay 27. 1. Monsters, those damned spirits, Mat. 25. 41. those houling hel­hounds, Psal. 22. 16. on the other side, to execute ^e 1 Pet. 5. 8. Iohn 5. 14. Esa. 30. 33. the vengeance of this worse thing that shal come vnto them, (which is) Gods eternal wrath and damnation; their conscience gnawing within them: without them al damned soules that continued in their sinnes, bewai­ling; and beneath them, Gehenna, that infernal pit of hell open, and the cruel fornace ready to deuoure them: without, and on euery side of them, all the world burning on fire. O then what shall they doe? to goe backward is impossible, and to appeare, intol­lerable: Oh, therefore, let vs not de­ferre our time, but learne of our Sa­uiour Acts 5. 31. Mat. 1. 21. [...] Tim. 4. 10. to sinne no Ioh. 5. 14. Wisd. 2 [...]. 1. Eze. 18. 21. Ie [...]e. 4. 1. more, lest a [Page 16] worse thing doe come vnto vs.

Lastly, it was the continuing in sin, that caused the reiection of Came Gen. 40. 11 , the drowning of the whole World Gen. 7. 10., the burning of Sodome Gen. 19. 14 , the con­suinption of Herod Acts 22. 23. , the fall of Ana­nias, Acts 5 5. and the damnation of the rich glutton Luke 16. 25. Esay 30. 33. Iohn 5. 14., with many thousands more which now lye damned in hell: and can none of all these fore-warnings serue vs to sinne no more, that this worse thing doe not come vnto vs?

If they cannot, yet at the last, ei­ther let the miraculous deliuerance of Ionah from Ionah 2. 16. drowning, Ichosaphat from the 2 Ch [...]o. 20. 24. Amorites, Ioseph in Gen. 41. 14. prison, Daniel in the Lyons den Dan. 6. 22., Sufanna from her wrongfull iudgement [...] Sam. 6. 2., Pe­ter from sinking in the sea Mat. 14. 31, the thrée Israelites from the fiery fornace Dan. 3. 26., or the most bitter death which our Sa­uiour Iesus Christ suffered on the crosse for our sinnes [...] Cor. 5. 15., be a motiue to cause vs to sinne no more, which in so doing, hée hath both couenanted and [Page 17] granted Ier. 31. 33. Heb. 8. 10. Mal. 3. 7., that this worse thing shall neuer come vnto vs.

If you would flye the effect, shun the cause: If you would auoid the punishment, then abandon your sin; and learne of our Sauiour to sinne no more, lest that a worse thing do come vnto you. And as you were cloathed before (like the criple) with the gar­ment of Eccl. 5. 1. Ezec. 7. 19. Vanity: you must now put on the Robes of Christs Rouel. 19. 8. humility; & wash not your selues in Sylo, nor in Iordan; but in the Ma. 23. 12. Iames 4. 10. poole Bethesda, of spirituall Syon; Lest a worse thing come vnto you.

To conclude, séeing God, is the infinite good Psa. 1. 18. 29 Ier. 33. 11. that is offended: Sinne the infinite euill that is committed W [...]sd. 14. [...] Prou. 15. 9. Esay 1. 18., & this worse thing that should come vnto vs, the infinite punishment of hell prepared for all those that conti­nue in their sinnes without ^c repen­tance: Let vs therefore learne our Sauiours Caueat, to forsake our Io. 15. 14. Psal. 41. 4. sins, that this worse thing may not [Page 18] come, for our sins are in the falling; but the grace of God is in the rising: Sin, the cursed worke of the Deuill: but mercy, pardon, and forgiuenesse, the blessed worke of 1 Pet. v. 3. Iude 2 [...]. Iere. 9. 24. God. And as much as God is mightier than the Deuill, so much is his mercies to­ward repentant sinners greater than his Rom. 5. 19. 20. Psa. 103. 24. malice; our disease is great, but the power of the Physician is farre greater; yea before they call I will answer, (saith the Lord) and while they speake, I Es. 65. 24. will heare.

Wherefore, let vs not plead vnto God, Non est factum, in denying our sinnes, which he warneth vs to Sinne no more; but let vs like good Soul­diers, put on the whole Armour Eph. 6. 11. of God, and violently resist the Deuill, in the power of Iesus Christ, and he will flye from Iam. 4. 9. vs: So often as we resist him, so often wée ouer-come, we make the Angles Luk. 15. 7. glad; and glori­fie God which exhorts vs to fight, And helps vs in the time of Heb. 14. 16. need: He [Page 19] beholds our striuing, he helps vs vp, when we faint, and crownes vs with glory and honour, when we 1 Tim. 6. 17. ouer­come.

The greater our temptations are, the more noble must bee our Iames 4. 9 resi­stance; and the more godly our life and conuersations are, the greater shall be our crowne and 2 Tim. 4. 8 Esay 4 [...]. 3. glory.

We must also most entirely desire Almighty God, who is the Author of Ier. 31. 18. Leuit. 5. 21. repentance, to giue vs his grace to Ecc. 21. 1. Psal. 41. 4. repēt, that we may record a decrée in our hearts, to kéepe all our sinnes with euerlasting exile of Banish­ment 1 Pe. 5. 18., and neuer admit any of them againe in our Coasts. And let our hearts be pricked on with the féeling of Gods Psal. 1. 2. mercies, encouraged by his gracious promises of accepting our poore endeuours to doe him 1 Cor. 15. 58. seruice; yea rauished with the expectation of such a Col. 2. 13. Esay. 53. 5. reward, as is assured vnto all those which learne this lesson of our Sauiour, To sinne no Iohn 5 14. more.

[Page 20]And withall, let vs bee ashamed Rom. 6. 21. of our long continuing in sinne, that wee could repent no sooner, and con­demne the carelessenes of our hearts, for doing our best workes so imper­fect.

And most entirely craue pardon, grace, and mercy, from the Father of mercies; and carefully searth our hearts, 1 Gor. 12. 28. find out our sinnes, that wée may learne here of our Sauiour, To sinne no Iohn 5. 14. more; but each day renew our repentance.

And then we shall be assured, that tha outward offering of grace, will bee euer accompanied with the in­ward working of the Spirit. And Gods holy Spirit will be our condu­ctor, his Word our director, while our faith Eph. 6. 16. holds the anchor; And grace stéere Eph. 1. 7. Titus 3. 7. the helme: Oh let our teares Kings▪ 20. 1, 2, 3. bee theseas, our sighes 2 Cor. 5. 2, 3. the gales of wind, to arriue at Gods heauenly Kingdome, which God hath prepared for Genes, 1. 1. vs, Christ hath meri­ted [Page 21] for Iohn 3. 16. vs, the holy Spirit doth as­sure vs, 1 Iohn 5. 1, 6, 8, 13. 1 Cor. 2. 12. and our owne godly liues and conuersations in learning here of our Sauiour to sinne no more, will witnesse the same vnto vs, which the Father of mercies, euen for his Son Iesus Christ his sake, for euer grant vs. And as wee haue begun to liue here in thy feare, procéed and conti­nued in thy fauour, grow daily in thy grace: euen so we beséech thee Oh Lord, to let vs liue within thée thy Glory. Amen.