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A64956	The conversion of the soul, or, A discourse explaining the nature of that conversion which is sincere and directing and perswading all to cease their loving sin and death, and to turn to God and live / by Nathanael Vincent ...	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing V403; ESTC R38014	195,915	409

when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in Victory 1 Cor. 15. 53 54. 4. Will there be a Judgment 't is wonderful there should be so much security in them that hear of it 〈◊〉 Really the very mentioning of Christs Tribunal before which all must stand should make all Criminals to tremble If a Man were seized for a Crime that 's capital deserving Death by the Law of God and Man and being in Bolts and Fetters in Newgate he should be secure and unconcerned though the Sessious were at hand you would conclude him to be very stupid and inconsiderate What Sinner secure and shortly to be Judged O Drunkard Whoremonger Swearer Sabbath-breaker Covetous Worldling what secure and speedily to appear at the Judgment-seat of Christ who has said That they that do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God! Sin is folly security in Sin is the folly of that folly Take heed of Security 't is not I only but Christ himself also that gives you this necessary caution Luk. 21. 34 35 36. And take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth Watch ye therefore and Pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man. VSE II. By way of Counsel Two words of Counsel I would give this Congregation The one is more firmly to believe a Judgment and more frequently to think of it The other is Be sure in time to prepare for eternal Judgment 1. More firmly believe more frequently think of Judgment You have reason to believe it for the Judge is ordained and though neither Men nor Angels know the day yet the day is appointed Act. 17. 30 31. The time of this ignorance God winked at but now commands all men every where to repent because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the World in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all in that he hath raised him from the dead The stronger your assent is unto this the more serious and often will be your Consideration of it To think of Judgment is proper for a Saint that he may be encouraged to fight the good fight of Faith and persevere in well doing to the end To think of Judgment is proper for a Wicked Man to awaken him and to make him with fear and trembling to work out his Salvation It 's proper for an Hypocrite to think of Judgment because then all Masks and Vizours will be pull'd off all shews will be at an end and naked Truth will appear at that day The Graves will be open'd and do ye think the whited painted Sepulchers will remain shut Oh! then all the concealed Pride and Filthiness and Selfishness and Sensuality and Injustice and earthliness of Professors will with all their aggravations be brought to light before Men and Angels Oh how many demure and serious Countenances that have been a covering to naughty Hearts will then be filled with Confusion 'T is proper for the Old to think of Judgment they have one foot in the Grave already and quickly the whole body must drop into it and the Spirit must return to God who gave it You also that are Young should think of Judgment have the youngest of you any assurance of your Lives Infants Children Youths do not many of them dye and step into Eternity and as you see them leave the World so certainly they appear before God and one way or other have their Doom Solomon tells you that Childhood and Youth are Vanity Would you that are Young be serious the Meditation of Judgment would conduce much to it Eccles 11. 9. Rejoyce O young Man in thy Youth and let thy heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the wayes of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes He says Rejoyce but speaks Ironically and means the quite contrary thou hast no reason at all to rejoyce whilst taken with things that are seen and whilst thou walkest in those evil ways which thy Heart naturally does like Then the Wise man speaks seriously But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment If you ask me What are the Benefits that will accrue by a firm Belief and frequent Meditation of Judgment I thus Answer to this momentous Question 1. This will be a great Preservative against Temptation Look beyond the present advantage and delight that Sin boasts of and see as far as the Judgment-seat this is the way to silence the Tempter and to avoid his snare Would the Lyar dare to speak falsly if he considered that all Lyars shall be adjudged to the lake that burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21. 8. Would the Unclean Person dare to defile himself and run to the Harlots house if he did but believe and consider that Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Improve Christs Cross and think of Christs Tribunal and this will cool and kill Corruptions and take away the force of your Temptations 2. The Belief and Meditation of Judgment will cause you to use this World as not abusing it to make a good improvement of it You that have this World in great abundance and have the clearest and largest Estates do you think you are Proprietors of what you have Do you think 't is given or only lent you for a time You are only Stewards intrusted with that which is Gods and not yours and are accountable at the last day for all you have received What sad accounts will most give up of their Stewardship when they must be no longer Stewards Imprimis So much daily for Eating and Drinking to Self and not to the Glory of God. Item So much for brave Apparel that Pride might be maintained and gratified Item So much for making provision for the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof Item So much for costly and vast Past-times a great deal of Wealth and much more precious Time being wasted together But unto good uses to maintain a Godly and laborious Ministry of the Gospel to the poor and needy given very little or nothing With what an Eye do you think that the Judge will look upon such accounts as these Think of Judgment that you may holily improve the unrighteous Mammon and Christ may say you have been Faithful Stewards even of worldly things 3. The Belief and Meditation of Judgment will make you exceeding diligent that you may be found of your Judge in peace without spot and blameless With what Seriousness and Fervency will he come

been committed Sin is Rebellion and Treason against the King of Glory 't is a Transgression of a Law given from Heaven the breach of which is threatned with not only a temporal Curse but an eternal Penalty Well may sin fill you with fear Let your Sorrow express it self freely and abundantly in remembrance of your evil wayes Sin is the only evil in Gods eyes and the ●reatest evil unto you hateful to God hurtful to the Sinner Every Sin has given you a Wound and as Sins Wounds are the worst so they should be most grievous Lament when you see in what a woful plight you are The sad effects of Sin the whole man over the Prophet emphatically sets forth Isa 1. 5 6. The whole Head is sick the whole Heart is faint from the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it but wounds bruises and putrifying sores they have not been closed nor bound up nor mollified with oyntment And should you not be ashamed of your own folly in being such enemies to your selves your Pollutions your Perdition is really of your selves Guilt should make you blush and because Sin has stript you naked and bare of every thing that 's good and beautiful Oh what a loathsome Leprosie is apparent in all your Parts and Powers your foulest spots are open to Gods eye well therefore you may be cover'd with Confusion and that which still should make you more confounded is your base ingratitude you have despised riches of goodness you have abused Mercy and Grace and when a Cure has been offered in the Gospel you would not be healed Be therefore truly angry at your selves Let your Indignation and hatred spend it self on your iniquities be revenged upon them that they being mortified and dying you may not dye in them and for them Humiliation is indeed grievous to Nature but friendly to Grace The more Humiliation Ploughs up the Fallow ground the fruits of Righteousness commonly are brought forth in greater Plenty 4. Study the mischief which the beloved Sin or Sins have done you The Master Sin is Gods Capital Enemy and the chief obstacle of Conversion this has the greatest Interest in the Heart to forsake this is indeed most difficult but withall most necessary That great Commander Hannibal had more of Enmity against the Romane State than a thousand ordinary Carthaginians He still to his utmost endeavour'd to hinder peace with Rome and to bring Rome to ruine The commanding Sin which by reason of the Sinners complexion or calling or other circumstances has most strength and bears the greatest sway does most oppose the turning unto God therefore this must in a special manner be resisted hated for the Life and Strength of it lies in the love of it Thy Master Sin is thy greatest transgression Psal 19. 13. and has rendred thee obnoxious to the greatest Wrath this especially provokes divine jealousie this has made thee most a slave and most abominably defiled thee this is thy strongest fetter and thy most deadly plague thy love to it is altogether against thy hatred of it will be with the greatest reason The young man in the Gospel might have been a Convert but Love to his great Possessions was the sin that hindred Mat. 19. 22. He went away from Christ he was too much taken with worldly Wealth therefore not at all taken with a Treasure in Heaven Herod that did many things might have done more but love to his Herodias was his darling Lust this made him instead of hearkning to John the Baptist put him in Prison though John designed Herods spiritual Liberty and eternal Salvation Let the proud man hate his Pride the Covetous man contemn the World which he has made an Idol of the filthy wretch abhor Fornication and all Uncleanness the unrighteous become just and make Restitution of what he has unjustly gained Mortifie all the members of the Body of Sin but especially consent the right eye should be pluckt out the right hand cut off and the very Heart torn out of that Body 5. Would you become Converts in Truth save your selves from the Society of evil doers The Prophet who tells us he turned his Feet unto the Testimonies of God quickly after adds I am become a Companion of them that fear thee and of them that keep thy Precepts Psal 119. 63. He that will be a true Convert and indeed a blessed Man he must not walk in the Counsel of the Vngodly nor stand in the way of Sinners nor sit in the Seat of the Scornful Psal 1. 1. David resolving to keep the commands of God abandons that company that were breakers of those commands and were likely to be continually perswading him to transgress them Psal 119. 115. Depart from me ye evil doers for I will keep the Commandments of my God he is so far from approbation from imitation of them that he beheld them with grief and with horrour It was Counsel given to those that had been prickt at the Heart and began to turn Save your selves from this untoward Generation Act. 2. 40. There is a great Contagion in Sin 't is likened to the Plague to the Leprosie because 't is such a deadly because 't is such a catching disease When we are needlesly Conversant with them that are dead in Sin what deadness do we find seizing upon our own Hearts When we are too intimate with vain Persons how does vanity insinuate it self into our minds too much estranging them from God and putting them out of a serious frame Carnal Company are a sort of Devils in humane shape that are bound for Hell themselves and are drawing as many others as they can thither they can't be contented to Sin and be damn'd alone Have therefore no fellowship with the unfruitful Works of darkness but rather reprove them Eph. 5. 11. Reprove them because Destruction and Misery is in their wayes but let not them ever perswade you out of the way of Peace And as you are to shun the Profa●● so you must take heed of being deaded and diverted by the Erroneous If Satan cannot draw you back to your form● ungodliness and unrighteousness he will endeavour to turn you aside to some false and strange Doctrine that this may take up your time your thoughts your zeal the Power of Godliness and Practical Religion being in the mean while neglected When Errour has been embraced and has corrupted the Mind and made the Head giddy 't is usual for it to bring a false Peace into the Conscience and by diverting the Heart to hinder it's Converting unto God. Beware beware of that vain Religion which is nothing but a kind of Philosophy of Opinions which is a thing for a wanton fancy to play with a smooth Tongue to talk of that is made up of Brain and Mouth without Heart to love and Hands to work for God. 6. If you would be Converts in Truth let your Hearts be fill'd with awful apprehensions of the

fiercer indignation Compassionate these Counsel these Pray for these and endeavour though they are and will be without the Word to win them by a wisely expressed Love and by a well-ordered Conversation 1 Pet. 3. 1. Let not your Bowels be straitned but Pray for the Worlds Conversion to God that he would return to this Earth which for Sin he has so justly forsaken and that he would turn the VVorld into a New One wherein may dwell Righteousness 5. Be sure to Love all true Converts Love them all because God loves them and love what you see of God in them The Image of God is so excellent that in whomsoever it shines it ought with pure affection to be owned and respected Converts I grant may differ in many things but they agree in the main all of them believe in Jesus all of them turn to God all of them endeavour to Glorifie him here on Earth and all of them are bound for Heaven And Vniversal Agreement thus far is a strong reason for Catholick and Vniversal Charity All Converts of what Perswasion soever of what Nation soever of what Rank and Condition soever in this World they are all adopted by one Father all redeemed by one Christ Jesus all espoused to one Husband all members of one Body all enlivened by one Spirit and shall all meet at last in one Heaven where they shall perfectly be joyned together in Union and in Love and this should strongly move and perswade unto Unity and Love at present 6. Lastly and so I conclude this Doctrine you that are Coverts see that you abide with God and be stedfast in his Covenant they that totally and finally depart from God never were totally and fully turned to him Let your Perseverance be an evident Demonstration to prove the truth of your Conversation let not the hardest labour the hottest service that you may be put upon the greatest sufferings that you may be exposed to in the least discourage you for God doth not require that you should do or that you should suffer any thing for him but only by the strength that he himself hath promised and doth intend to give All you Converts have done well in turning to God do better in following hard after him and best of all in finishing your course that you may get the Crown of Righteousness To conclude Let your Faith be firm like to the Rock it is founded upon let your hope be stedfast Be rooted and grounded in your love and let your hearts be so united to fear the name of God Psal 86. 11. that it may be as possible to hinder the Sun from rising as to hinder you from shining like lights in the World. That it may be as possible to cause the Moon and Stars to cease their wonted courses as to turn you out of the way of Truth and Holiness That it may be as possible to alter the Ordinances of Heaven as to make you neglect Heaven and become again earthly-minded Thus have I done with the first Doctrine that I raised from the words which I have been large upon That Conversion is of absolute necessity and the great thing that God requires of Man. Doct. 2. I proceed unto the second Doctrine that I raised from the words and that is this Conversion is then sincere when the soul is Converted The Soul of Man is the chief subject of Sin. It is the Soul that uses or rather abuses the members of the Body as Instruments of Unrighteousness The Beasts that have no rational Soul are not capable of committing Iniquity and as the Soul is the chief subject of Sin so it is the chief subject of Converting Grace if this be not turned really there is no true turning unto God. God is a Spirit and he weighs the Spirits of Men and he doth chiefly require the Heart and Spirit Prov. 23. 26. and accordingly the Convert with David sayes Psal 25. 1. Vnto thee O Lord do I lift up my Soul. And Psal 119. 129. Thy Testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my Soul keep them In the handling this Doctrine 1. I am to shew you when the Soul may be said to be Converted 2. To prove that till the Soul is Converted Conversion is not sincere 3. To demonstrate the necessity of turning to God with the very Soul. And then in the last place to make application 1. I am to tell you when the Soul may be said truly to be Converted the opening of this is the chief thing that I design in this Doctrine 1. When the Soul is Converted there is a marvellous Light that shines into the Mind The Tree of Knowledge was so called because it was a Tree of Tryal whether Man would persevere in goodness or whether he would be tempted and drawn away to evil but when this Tree was once tasted Man presently fell under the power of darkness The eyes of all understandings are blind till enlightned by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation Eph. 1. 17 18. All the Stars that are in the Firmament cannot make day without the Sun and all the works that God hath wrought all the words that he hath spoken cannot of themselves enlighten the mind of Man without the Spirit of God. It is He that takes off the Vail and causes the Light to shine upon and into the very Soul. This Light makes things manifest Eph. 5. 13. For all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light This Light that shines into a Converted Soul doth discover Sin it shews the filth the spots the sting the poyson the death the wrath the Hell that is in Sin or is annexed to it It doth discover the deceitfulness of Sin in hiding its own bad nature and the dreadful consequences that follow upon it And as this Light doth make sin manifest so it doth discover Christ too the sufficiency of his justifying Righteousness the excellency of his sanctifying Grace and how to turn to God is of miserable to become truly blessed This Light also is directing It directs what Converts must do that they may be saved It shews them the End and the proper Means for the attaining of that End. It leads them out of the broad way and from all the snares and stumbling-blocks and the precipices that are there and it leads them into the way that is everlasting Psal 139. ult Finally This Light that shines into the Converted Soul hath Heat and Influence like the Light of the Sun in the Spring-season that causeth the Trees and Plants to be flourishing and to be fruitful The Light of the Converts hath a mighty influence upon them The things that are freely given of God are so seen as that the heart is taken with them as the principal things of all and undervalues other things in comparison of those Thus the wise Merchant that sought goodly Pearls when he had found one Pearl of great price he went and sold all that he