LVI.
IT is usuall with men to com∣plain of the suffering, when they doe not of the sinne: For when Nature openeth the mouth for the former, Satan stoppes it for the latter. Now as quicknesse
The gayne of losse: or temporall losses spiritually improved in a centurye & one decad of meditations & resolves. By John Warner M.A. sometimes of Magd: Hall in Oxo: & one of the ministers of the London Brigade in the late western expedition 1644.
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- The gayne of losse: or temporall losses spiritually improved in a centurye & one decad of meditations & resolves. By John Warner M.A. sometimes of Magd: Hall in Oxo: & one of the ministers of the London Brigade in the late western expedition 1644.
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- Warner, John, b. 1612 or 13.
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of the flesh is the cause of the one, so deadnesse of spirit is the cause of the other. For when the eye is opened to see sinne, the spirit prssed with the weight of it, the mouth will open to complaine against it. See it in a clock, which if it have its just weight, sets every wheele in its motion, and makes it sound: so let sinne have its just weight and pressure on the soule, and it will set every faculty of the soule, and part of the body on work, and will make the tongue cry aloud against it, though for∣merly silent. 'Tis true that extre∣mity of pain makes wicked men cry out against sinne: I and my people have done wickedly, sayes Pharaoh. The rack will open any mans mouth: but in the godly this confession is not extorted, but free; I have sinned, saith David, & done this wickednesse in thy sight.
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I will therefore not so much ex∣claim against my suffering as a∣gainst my sinne; so when I have condemned my self for the fault, I shall through mercie be acquit∣ted from the punishment.