Death. 3. Externall, internall, eternall. 1. Separacion of body and soule. 2. Of sowle from Christ, which is our lyfe, soe was that spatterlashe [sic] widdowe, 1 Tim. v. 6; dead while she lived. 3. Of body and soule in hell fyre. It was an errour of Pelagius that man should have dyed though he had never synned.
fo. 108b.
Notes of a Sermon upon Matthew v. 17.
"Thinke not that I am come to destroy the lawe, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy them, but to fullfill them." The best could not live free from slaunders, as Nehemias was charged to have rebelled, &c. and Christ himselfe could not escape the malitious censures of the wicked. When he cured the sicke of the palsy saying, Thy synnes bee forgiven thee, these whispered in their hartes, and called that speache blasphemy. When he disposs[ess]ed the man that was vexed with a deuil, they said he cast out deuils by Beelzebub the prince of the deuils. When he suffered for us they sayd he was plagued for his owne offences. But Augustine sayth well of these men; "Hoc facilius homo suspicatur in altero, quod sentit in seipso."
The lawe stretcht noe further then the outward action, but Christ layes it to the secret thought. Synnes in our thoughtes are like a snake in our bosome, which may kill us yf wee nurse it; it is like fyre to gunpowder. Wee must shake synn from our thoughts, as wee would a spark from our garments, lest yf wee be once sett on fyre with them all our teares shall not quenche them. The divel puts synn in our thoughtes, as a thiefe fo. 109.thrusts a boy in at a windowe, to open the dore for the great ones. Yf syn enter into the heart it becomes like a denn of thieves, and like a cage of uncleane birds.
Synn a sly thing; it will enter at the windowe, at the casement, at a chinke of our cogitations.
The more free wee are to syn, the more slaves are wee to Sathan.
Will a thiefe steale in the sight of the Judge, and shall a man presume to synn in the sight of God?
At a Spittle Sermon.
Yf our synnes come out with a newe addicion, Gods punishments will come out with a newe edition.