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<HEAD>THE SAYINGS Of that Reverend and Great Preacher Mr. S. CHARNOCK, Who departed this Life on <DATE><HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 28 of <HI>July,</HI> 1680,</DATE> and was &s;olemnly Interred the 30th following.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>ONE would &s;carce imagin &s;uch an inward ne&s;t of wickedne&s;s as is in a natural man; but God hath af|firmed it: and if the &s;inner &s;hould deny it, his own heart would give him the lye.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thoughts are then &s;inful when they have a bad principle, want a due end, and conver&s;e with the object in a wrong manner.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The holine&s;s of God is &s;een in forbidding &s;in, his wi&s;dom in permitting &s;in, his mercy in pardoning &s;in, and his ju&s;tice in pu|ni&s;hing &s;in.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Such evils as skip up from our natural corruption, and &s;ink down again as fi&s;h in a river, the&s;e are &s;ins though we con|&s;ent not to them; becau&s;e though they are without our will, they are not again&s;t our nature, but &s;pring from an inordinate frame of a different hue from what God implanted in us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Idolatry of the mind is when we dre&s;s up a god accor|ding to our own humors, humanize him, and a&s;cribe to him what is grateful to us, though never &s;o ba&s;e and unworthy of his ho|line&s;s, <Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 50.21.</BIBL><HI>Thou thought I was &s;uch a one as thy &s;elf.</HI></Q></ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis the frequent bu&s;ine&s;s of mens minds to flutter about things without the bounds of Gods revelation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Worldly concerns may quarter in our thoughts, but they mu&s;t not po&s;&s;e&s;s all the room, and thru&s;t Chri&s;t into a manger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some mens fancies are like a Carriers bag &s;tuft with a world of Letters, having no dependance one upon another, &s;ome con|taining bu&s;ine&s;s, and others nothing but froth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>As the more delight there is in any holy &s;ervice, the more precious it is in it &s;elf, and more grateful to God; &s;o the more plea&s;ure there is in any &s;inful motion, the more malignity there is in it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis very dangerous when the mind doth brood upon a &s;inful motion, to hatch it up, and invent Methods for performance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gods law is &s;uitable to his Soveraignty, as mens Laws are to theirs; mu&s;t they not then be as exten&s;ive as Gods dominion, and reach even to the private&s;t clo&s;ets of the heart?</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis not for the honour of Gods holine&s;s, righteou&s;ne&s;s, good|ne&s;s, to let the Spirit which bears more flouri&s;hing characters of his Image than the body, range wildly about without a legal curb.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Man was created both with a di&s;po&s;ition and ability for holy contemplation of God; the fir&s;t glances of his &s;oul were pure, he came every way compleat out of the mint of his infinitely wi&s;e and good Creator.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sin is the key that opens the flood-gates of Divine vengeance, and broaches both the upper and neather Ci&s;terns to overflow the world.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our good thoughts will be our accu&s;ers for not ob&s;erving them, and our bad thoughts will be inditements again&s;t us for complying with them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The tongue was only an in&s;trument to expre&s;s what mans heart did think, and would have been wholly innocent had not his thoughts been fir&s;t criminal.</ITEM>
<ITEM>There is an infinite variety of conceptions, as the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t</HI> &s;peaks of the Sea, <HI>Wherein are all things creeping innumerable both &s;mall and great;</HI> and a con&s;tant generation of whole &s;hoals of them, that you may as well number the fi&s;h in the Sea, or the atoms in the Sun-beams as recount them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Hypocrites religious &s;ervices are materically good; but poy|&s;oned by the imagination &s;eulking in the heart, that gave birth unto them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Evil thoughts are the immediate &s;pawn of Original corrupti|on, and therefore partake more of the &s;trength and nature of it, &s;ucking the bre&s;t of that poy&s;onous dam that bred them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In carnal &s;ins Satan is a tempter, in Mental an actor; there|fore in the one we are conformed to his will, in the other we are transformed unto his likene&s;s; in outward we evidence more obedience to his Laws, in inward more affection to his Per&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Where there is more enmity to God, there is more of &s;imili|tude and love to the Devil; a near approach to the Diabolical nature, implying a greater di&s;tance from the Divine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Under&s;tanding is more excellent than the Will, both be|cau&s;e we know and judg before we will; or ought to will only &s;o much as the Under&s;tanding thinks &s;it to be willed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>God being the Father of &s;pirits, &s;piritual wickedne&s;s of nou|ri&s;hing evil thoughts is a ca&s;hiering all child-like likene&s;s to him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>What a ma&s;s of vanity &s;hould we find in our minds if we could bring our thoughts in the &s;pace of one day, yea but one hour to an accompt, how many fooli&s;h thoughts with our wi&s;dom, ig|norant with our knowledg, worldly with our heavenline&s;s, hy|pocritical with our Religion, and proud with our humiliation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Were we really and altogether Chri&s;tians, would not that which is the chiefe&s;t Purity of Chri&s;tianity be our plea&s;ure, and would we any more wrong God in our &s;ecret hearts, than in the open &s;treets?</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that lets his mind wallow in a cinque of phanta&s;tical fol|lies, robs God of his due, and his Soul of its happine&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>We can more ea&s;ily re&s;i&s;t Temptations without, if we conquer motions within: Thoughts are the Mutiniers of the &s;oul, which &s;et open the Gates for Satan; he hath held a &s;ecret Intelli|gence with them (&s;o far as he knows them) ever &s;ince the fall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t dyed to re&s;tore God to his right, and man to his hap|pine&s;s; neither of which can perfectly be attained, till tho&s;e be thrown out of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the heart.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A &s;anctified rea&s;on would both di&s;cover and &s;hame our natu|ral follies.</ITEM>
<ITEM>As all animal operations, &s;o all the &s;piritual motions of our heads depend upon the life of our hearts.</ITEM>
<ITEM>As there is a law in our members to bring us into the Capti|vity to the law of &s;in; &s;o there mu&s;t be a law in our minds to bring our thoughts to the obedience of Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Till the under&s;tanding <HI>be born of the Spirit,</HI> it will delight in, and think of nothing but things &s;uitable to its fle&s;hly origi|nal; but when 'tis &s;piritual, it receives new impre&s;&s;ions, new re|finings and motions &s;uitable to the Holy Gho&s;t, of whom it is born.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Without skill in the Scriptures, we &s;hall have as fooli&s;h con|ceits of divine Things, as ignorant men without the Rules of which they never &s;aw.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Devil had not his Engines &s;o ready to a&s;&s;ault Chri&s;t, as Chri&s;t from his knowledg had Scripture-Precepts to oppo&s;e him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>None have more plea&s;ant thoughts of divine Things, than new Converts when they fir&s;t cla&s;p about Chri&s;t; partly from the Novelty of their &s;tate, and partly becau&s;e God puts a new &s;tock into them for improvement.</ITEM>
<ITEM>If you cannot tell the time when you fir&s;t clo&s;ed with Chri&s;t, recollect tho&s;e &s;ea&s;ons wherein you have found your affections mo&s;t fervent, your thoughts mo&s;t united, your mind mo&s;t ele|vated, and endeavour to gain that again.</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis difficult to divorce our hearts and thoughts from what appears lovely and glorious in our minds, whether it be God or the World.</ITEM>
<ITEM>He that is winged with a divine Love to Chri&s;t, will have fre|quent glances and flights towards him.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed in the Year 1680.</P>
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