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A30270 A call to sinners such as are under sentence of death and such as are under any prospect of it from the long-suffering and gracious, but most righteous God / by His servant, Daniel Burgess. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1689 (1689) Wing B5695; ESTC R23828 12,715 36

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A CALL TO SINNERS SUCH As are under Sentence OF DEATH AND SUCH As are under any Prospect of it FROM The Long-suffering and Gracious but most Righteous GOD. By his Servant Daniel Burgess at the Pious Request of an Excellent Person ●f God peradventure will give them Repentance 2 Tim. 2.25 LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside and R●bert Gibbs at the Golden Ball in Chancery-Lane 1689. To my dear Children My Hopes and my Fears THE first Adam's sin came into You thro' my Loins O may the second Adam's grace come into you thro' my means My God and the God of my Father's grant it To Him have I Dedicated you And for Him would I Educate you I am Called unto much work for Others It's little that I can do distinctly for You. Be it your Care to make Yours what is done for many Others Thus publickly I command you to read this Call as wrote singly for your selves 'T is possible some other Parents may from so mean an example Charge their Children And this my Paper may speak unto you when I am gone from you You know they are many who think my Days on Earth will be few And that You must Die Young or Live Orphans However that be order'd by God hasten ye to make sure your Peace with Him. Up and be doing O precious Souls and dear as mine own The God of my own Mercies Comforts and Hopes be with you Amen A Call to SINNERS UNDER Sentence of DEATH and under any Prospect of approaching Death O Blessed God that hast called me to lay my Paper to the Grave and to intreat the Dead to Rise to Argue with Rocks and Perswade very Mill-stones to be Saints O take the Work into thine own hand half a word of thine will make every Reader a Sincere Convert and Sound Believer Lord if thou wilt thou canst make this Call like the Trump of the Archangel to raise Millions of Dead Souls out of their Graves Amen Amen for Jesus sake Amen Miserable O miserable but not yet Helpless Sinner THE Lusts thou hast served all thy former days cannot now give thee one pleasant Thought in these thy last days The World thou hast Idolized cannot save thee from or in thy approaching Death The Devil whom thou hast Imitated and Obeyed longs to be sent to fetch thee to Hell. The God whom thou hast not sought unto for thy Peace with Him is resolved to wait but a very little longer for thy seeking unto Him. Yet so Kind is his holy Nature so Compassionate is his holy Jesus so long-suffering is his holy Spirit that by my hand He gives thee once more the Offer of his Pardon Grace and Glory He commands me to try if any or all of these ten Cousiderations will awaken thy Soul. C. 1. The very last Week and Day of thy Life is given thee to prepare for Eternity as well as all thy former ones I and the mispending of these will be a greater sin than the mispending of all thy former Weeks and Days hath been It will be a kind of sinning over all former sins again and adding unto the same Who can say thy Day of Grace is over And who can doubt but our last sins be still incomparably our worst sins C. 2. The very minute it self wherein Thou beginnest thy true Conversion God doth begin thy true Salvation Thou art under the Sentence of Condemnation not onely by the Law but by the Gospel When thou dost begin to Convert read Luk. 15.20 And he arose and came to his father But when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him C. 3. The very Call that in this Paper God sendeth unto thee is a probable argument that God hath saving Grace in store for thee Methinks God hath said to me Go preach to the poor condemned Malefactors for I have some people among them and Hell shall not have all that die on the Gallows C. 4. The very Book of God which directs me to all I put thee upon is full of Proofs that thou mayst be saved however wicked thou hast been if even now thou dost not Deny or Delay Gods merciful Call sent thee The Heaven is not so full of Stars as Old and New Testament of Proofs hereof In the Old Testament Manasseh is a famous Instance of saving Grace to Sinners most notorious The Thief dying on the Cross is another recorded in the New Testament One of 97 years old was converted by John Rogers And Richard Rogers used to say of John I will never despair of any man for John Rogers's sake so wicked a wretch John had bin C. 5. The very Nature Decrees and Words of God make it certain that Vnbelief dishonours God more than all other Sins and Faith more honours him than all other Duties St. Austin says Judas sinn'd worse by his unbelieving sorrow for his Sin than by all his sins that he sorrowed for And such another Phoenix saith That right Faith honoureth God more than an uniform intire Obedience to the whole Law in Innocency could do C. 6. The very Pardon and Salvation of thy perishing Soul is a Work God has more Delight in than he has in all the Works of the whole Creation Seek Sinner seek seek and fear not that God will deny unto thee the thing he delighteth to give unto all that do duly seek C. 7. The very Hope that in his Gospel-way God will save thee and Confidence that through Christ he can do it without any loss of his own glory is no small Honour unto God I and 't is that without which thou canst never rightly Believe on Jesus Christ and therefore never Do any thing pleasing unto God. C. 8. The very Soul of thine which is certainly and extremely corrupted and cursed is not worse than many of the Souls which are now in Heaven once were Gods Son hath Redeemed and his Spirit hath sanctified as bad as Thou art Why not Thee too C. 9. The very Change of thine that I write for change of Covenant of Spirit of Nature of Conversation of Company it can no sooner be made but Heaven will ring with Joy for it I. and Hell gnash for envy at it Father Son and Spirit Angels Saints above and all Saints below that hear of it will be right glad C. 10. The very State that thou art now in is not so bad as that thou shalt presently pass into is good if now thou acceptest Christ offered to Thee No nor shall the very Eternity of the Damn'd be so bitter as he Eternity of thy blessed Soul and Body be sweet Sinner sinner lay this to thy heart thy State is Hellish bad as a Creatures sin can-make it But Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and in the same moment it shall be Heavenly even good as a God-Man's Obedience can deserve to have