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A52087	A sermon preached at St. Margaretts in VVestminster on Sunday the sixt of February last, before many of the worthy members of the Honorable House of Commons in this present Parliament / by John Marston...	Marston, John, Master of Arts.	1642 (1642)	Wing M817; ESTC R15682	29,903	48

guilt and obligation to eternall punishment and lives with us in Hell to keepe us everlastingly living or dying for I cannot tell whether it be life or death to live in nothing but torment and dead to nothing else but happinesse I beseech you thinke Now what will be Then and let the thought of that Th●n teach you how to prize the Prophets Now for Ex hoc m●mento pendet aeternitas the eternall Condition of your soules depends upon it O now for the Tongue of Angells to perswade you but miserable man that I am I check that holy ambition knowing that to be so excellent that I cannot attaine unto it but such as I have I give unto you and beseech you as you vallue the joyes of Heaven as you dread the paines of Hell by those Soules of yours to redeeme which cost Christ himselfe his blood and by that precious blood the pri●e of your soules redemption by the love of that God who was before all 〈◊〉 lasting beyond all time being the Eternity it self to make a true use of this time Now O let not this day passe with out some reformation let not this dayes Sun set and the wrath of God still upon us but draw neere unto him now so neere that you may kisse the sonn for if his wrath be kindled yea but a little Blessed are all they that put their trust in him Let me expostulate with the prophet doth not the Su●llow and the Crane know their time yet poore man for whom these were made knowes it not Happily sometimes we feele Agrip●as ague some motions and groouings of repentance but we are still at a stand for a Conuenient season and so the fit goes off for the soules ague Contrarie to that of the body beginns with a hott fitt and ends in a Cold Truely though no time be amisse in respect of God for at what time soever a sinner doth repe●t that is the acceptable time that is the day of saluation yet Esaw's teares when the time was past the Virg●ns knocking when the dores were shut these shew what Solomon said that there is a time for every thing if we loose that time we shall weepe and knock as foolishly as they Opportunitie is it self a favour and t' is a second favour to discerne it but the greatest is to lay hold fit and from the want of these spring the causes of our Procrastination which is the common error of repentance I beseech you marke it eyther our Ignorance in not discerning the time or our Negligence that when wee doe discerne it do not yet embrace it This Christ laments with bitter teares and of that God himself complaines Ier 8. verse 7. Even the Storke in the ayre the Turtle the Crane the S●allow observe the time of their comming but my people knoweth not the Iudgement of the Lord God useth not thus to complaine but in ●reat cases to slight his so graciously offered opportunity he accompts no triviall matter T' is a point of the greatest consideration in all Christianitie else God would not have complain'd nor Christ so passonatly have bemoaned Ierusalem for the losse of it O saith he If thou hadst knowne that this day had bin the day of thy visitation and what then there he breakes off the teares comming so fast that he was forc't to weepe out the rest of his meaning O those teares silently tell us what the losse of time is for therefore did he weepe then because they wept no sooner But mee thinkes I heare flesh and blood begin to pleado May I not lay by the consideration of my repentance a little I am yong and healthy and gladly would I befriend my youth with the pleasures of the world a little longer and then I will turne to God with all my hart O be not deceaved a suddaine death may snatch us hence and send the soule into the other world with all our sins upon it and what the condition of that soule is I dread to tell you But suppose the best that Death send his harbinger by some languishing sicknesse kindly gives us warning of our departure yet lett me tell you that infinite are the perplexities which disturbe the repentance of the death bed Our owne paines will disquiet us and make us roare for uery anguish and so to cry to God is rather passion then repentance Can we be fitt to turne unto God when we can scarce turne our selues in our bedds the thought of the poore widdow we shall leave behind us will make the soule forget her spowse and swetest bridgrome Christ the feare of death will horribly affright us and a trembling dread so over whelme us that fearing to die we think not how to dye and so loose the life of the blessed the enemie will then raise Deuils in our consciences and present our thoughts with a sad Idea of hell and shew us all the torments we have deserued torments so intollerable so immarcessible that the damned soule would be glad to be but a Deuill and thinke it a high preferment to be nothing And to shew f●ll malice in the conclusion at our very departure he will shew us all our sinns in such a shape that despairing we may grow mad and die Tell me then is this a fit time for repentance Is the death bed a conuenient Altar to offer up our bodyes a living sa●rifice and then to when we lie a dying O God gi●e us grace to thinke of this betimes and lett me add that the Conuersion of our last time is seldom free but inforc't by the feare of hell but in that feare there is no loue and with out loue there is no hope of heaven To feare him onely for his iudgements and not as sonns is to find him a Iudge and not a Father Besides the actions of vertue performed then are not of that vallue with God as those which come to him wing'd with cheerefullnesse in our health and prospe●ity What great mercy is it to pardon an enemy when we have no power to hurt him or what great charity to distribute ou● goods when we cannot keepe them Alas in this estate Peccat●te dimiserunt non tu illa thy sinnes forsake thee Thou dost not forsake thy sinnes And let me argue the unsoundnesse of late repentance by the usuall experience of sick men who make prot●tations of great contrition but restored to health returne to sinne as the dogge t● his vomit and so as they mend grow worse But sinne I know is full of flattery and now I call to mind the Th●ife on the Crosse was not he saved the very last hower of his life though he scarcely ever thought on God before was not he prefer'd from the Crosse to Paradice without the trouble of more r●pentance Vnhapily argued but shew me such another example and sinne on till you lye a dying and truely that soules hardly put to it that hath no better shift then to make that a ground

A SERMON PREACHED AT St. MARGARETTS in VVestminster On Sunday the sixt of February last before many of the worthy members of the Honorable House of Commons in this present PARLIAMENT By Iohn Marston Master of Arts and Rector of the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen in Canterbury Printed upon the importunity of many Auditors LONDON Printed by F. L. for Io. Burroughes and Io. Franke and are to bee sold at the signe of the Golden Drag●n neere the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet 1642. To the Reader READER IF thou bee'st Courteous thou hast heere a fit obiect of ●hy mercy If Criticall heer 's worke enough to make thee thine owne plague as well as mine you must adventure to your owne perrill if you denie me pittie Accept then a leane discourse shuffled over hastily into the pulpit and thence spurr'd on in a full speede unto the presse The importunity of no meane hearers hath extorted this and they can testifie I was almost a Rebell to perswasion But conquered at last with the kindnesse not the Cause I now stand upon the stall to haile the passengers And if thou beest ihtrap't to a small expence thinke not that deere which will invite thee to repent I hope of all thy sinnes at least of this that thou layd'st out this money no better 'T is a scribling age and the unhappie comfort is imperfections could never flye abroad with lesse inconvenience to their authour Vse me Charitably and I am Thy Servant Iohn Marston A SERMON PREACHED at St. Margrets in Westminster on Sunday the Sixt of February 1642. IOELL 2. 12. and part of the 13. VERSE Therefore also now saith the Lord Turne unto me with all your heart with fasting and with weeping and with mourning And rent your harts and not your garments and turne to the Lord your God THE Gospells glad tydings are not now in season Something to make us sad suits these times best I finde a woe pronounc't against those that laugh Now then hang we up our Harpes and sit wee downe by the waters of Babylon where we shall not choose but weepe if we but remember this our Syon And to compleate our woe let 's measure greifes lay our calamities of England against those calamities which God heere threatens against I●dea Calamities able to fright the reader and make him considering them forget his owne Such Calamities as must live when they for whom they were provided are dead for the old men must leave the storie of them as a sad legacie to their children so we reade chap. 1. ver. 2. But the newes of this Iudgement must come first which invades them with such horror as makes the judgments come before they come in the apprehension of them And so the newes was to them like the presence of our Saviour to the Devills to torment them before the time For God under an Alegorie of the Locust and Canker worme threatens a future destruction by the Invasion of the Caldeans A lyon like Nation shall destroy their vines and the drunkards must weepe for the losse of them ver. 5. So that now their cupps must be empty or they must fill them with their teares The trees must bee undrest and stand naked without their barke that so they may wither and dye and for their death the whole land mourn'd at the 10. verse Nay such scarcity did succeed that the meate and drinke offerings were cut off from the house of the Lord and therefore do the Priests mourne and lye all night in sackcloth ver. 13. And now in the second chapter all their Iudgements are proclaimed by the sound of a Trumpet nay the day is so neere at hand that the very allarum sounds and the dism●ll day may beseene at the Second verse though it be onely seene in this that it cannot bee seene for a day of darkenesse shall it be and gloominesse saith the Prophet And just it is that they in their distresse should want the light who in their prosperity whilst they had the light were the children of dark n●sse Now horror invades the people who through feare and affrightment are so transformed that their faces gather blacknesse the blacknesse of a Po●s-out-side for so the Hebrew word the●e signifies and so were mask● in the livery of their owne terror and distructions all things as blacke as their owne thoughts ●reade of one who 〈…〉 at onceboth with enemies and darknesse d●sired God onely so much light as might serve to see himselfe dye valiantly He loved light well that was so loath to dye without it But heere Sion hath it not Heaven winkes at their ealamitie and drawes a curtaine of darkenesse before all her eyes the Sunne and Moone shall be darke and the Starres shall withdraw their shinning ver. 10. Nay the Lord himselfe shall bee Generall of the forces that come against them and shall vtter his voyce before his armie to encourage it the day of his ven●ance is terrible and who can abide it And in this horror and distresse whether shall they got whether shall they ●●ye their darknesse cannot cover them for the darknesse is no darkenesse with him all their power summon'd together cannot withstand his wrath for who can stand wh●n he is angry There is no way to turne from these dismall and approching evills but by turning unto him that brings them and that by repentance But Quid ad nos what 's all this to us would God it were not doe not dangers threaten us also and such dangers that if we paralell them with these we shall soone see they doe exceed God threatned to destroy them by their enemies but we have beene in danger to be destroyed by our friends for what could it be lesse then the judgement of God upon us that thus one Nation should rise against another both professing the same true religion both the dutifull Subjects of the same King both having the same ground of quarrell to maintaine Religion will not this make riddals in the Chronicles And truly was not the day of the Lord the day of 〈◊〉 judgement neere at hand when these loving enemies were ready to send the messages of death to one another in the dreadfull language of the Cannon and their distresse picture out the horror of the last day in blood and Fire and vapour of smoke And what a day of black confusion had followed had the warre proceeded when two valiant Nations united hitherto both in love and religion should have beene united onely in the mixture of their blood but in this respect I confesse the hand of the Lord is not still stretched out for he hath removed far from us the Notherne armie and our friendship I hope like a fracture of a bone in our bodies is the stronger knit for being broken But though that danger 's vanisht a worse now succeeds it and under the feare of that we groane more then did Iudea heere for feare of the Chaldeans if a forraigne foe did