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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64836	A warning to back-sliders, or, A discovery for the recovery of fallen ones delivered in a sermon at Pauls, before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London / Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1654 (1654)	Wing V229; ESTC R8176	20,885	66

A WARNING TO BACK-SLIDERS OR A DISCOVERY FOR THE RECOVERY OF FALLEN ONES Delivered in a SERMON at Pauls before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the CITY of LONDON By RALPH VENNING Hosea 2.7 Then shall she say I will go and returne to my first husband for then was it better with me then now LONDON Printed by T. R. E. M. for John Rothwel at the Fountaine and Bear in Gold-smiths Row in Cheap-side 1654. To the Right Honourable THO. VINER LORD MAJOR AND THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE ALDERMEN of the City of LONDON Honourable and honoured I Hope it will not be imputed to me as a crime that I did all I could to keep this Sermon from the Presse not fearing that it would do any hurt but rather that it might do little if any good in this hard very hard-hearted age But seeing it hath pleased I think I may without offence say God and you to call it to remembrance some moneths after it was preacht I could not but obey your Order in giving you that which you called for viZ. the Sermon and not another thing For indeed having observed some books frontispic'd with a Sermon Preacht at PAULS which as 't is said of Sir Francis Drake's Ship had nothing left not a plank nor rib but the very name thereof I durst not and I hope none will think it a too nice and a needlesse scruple of conscience that I say I durst not give you that to read which you did not heare You have the same things and words with no more variation then nor inded so much as the necessary very necessary difference that is to be put between pen and tongue required If it be estimated by the seasonablenesse of it it will as it seems you judge be beautifull and I hope that it will not be the lesse acceptable nor the more succesless for being plaine for I professe to prevent all exceptions to be made against it on that account that it hath more of heart then Art and of affection then affectation The time would not give me leave to usher it in with any Preface nor to close it with any Oratorious insinuations nor is it I think fit to do it now on the grounds forementioned Homely yet I hope wholsome as it is let it go and the blessing of God go along with it The lesse man appears in it the more God may appeare by it If it may bring some glory to his Name by engaging any to remember either from whence they should not fall and so to stand fast or any to remember from whence they have fallen and so to returne I shall be glad though my Name suffer by it as I believe in some mens esteemes it will But not to trouble you any longer with such things nor to enlarge this Porch beyond the proportion allowable I shall instead of speaking to you speak to God for you I do heartily beseech Almighty God that that City over which God hath made you overseers may never become an harlot that it may never be said of it It hath lost its first love and left its first works It was full of judgement righteousnesse did lodge in it but now murderers That its Silver may never become drosse nor its wine be mixt with water that its Princes may never be rebellious noir companions of thieves that none of them may love gifts nor follow after rewards that Oh that it may never be said they judge not the fatherlesse nor doth the cause of the widow come before them Lest the Lord of Hosts the Mighty One of Israel should say Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemies The good Lord rather turne his hand and purely purge away the drosse and take away the tin and make Judges as at the first and Counsellours as at the begining that she may be called the City of righteousnesse the faithfull City and for these things the beauty and the glory of the whole Earth Thus honourable and honoured is the hearty prayer of March 1654. Your humble Servant RALPH VENNING A WARNING TO BACKSLIDERS OR A Discovery for the Recovery of Fallen ones Let him that hath an care to heare heare what the Spirit saith to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus REVEL 2.5 Remember therefo●e from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first workes or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick out of his place except thou repent IN this Epistle you have these three parts 1. The Superscription by way of Preface and Introduction in the first verse 2. You have the Contents of the Epistle in the five following verses wherein you have 1. A commendation in the 2 3 and 6th verses 2. An exception which implies a reproof v. 4. 3. An exhortation in the Text v. 5. 3. The third branch of the Epistle viz. the Epilogue or conclusion of it v. 7 He that hath an eare let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches That which is writen to one is spoken to all My Text falls among the Contents of the Epistle and is the third part thereof viz. the exhortation backt with a threatning In the exhortation you have three things required 1. A sight and sense of their sin Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen 2. A repentance for their sin Remember and repent 3. A returning from their sin Do the first works The threatning hath these three things in it 1. The certainty of Christs coming I will come 2. The suddennesse of his coming I will come quickly 3. The end of his coming I will remove thy candlestick out of his place unlesse thou repent I shall very briefly touch a few general Observations which the context and the Text do afford us and then come closer to the words The first Observation is this That God takes special notice and keeps an exact account of all our doings be they good or be they bad I know thy works viz. what they were and what they are God hath his books of Remembrance written according to which he will judge the world for he will bring every work to judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or evil I know thy works c. 2. Obs That persons may be prais'd to their dispraise they may be commended to their discommendation I know thy works but or Neverthelesse A mans praise is ever the lesse when he is prais'd with a Neverthelesse To commend with a but is but to discommend To say such a man was a meek man was an humble man was an holy man is not a praise but a dispraise you did run well who hindred you Such an one was good but quantum mutatus ab illo the man is not what he was Praises with exceptions are little better then disparagements Neverthelesse c. 3. Obs The good we have done will not excuse the bad we do do God will not put the good