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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93730	The absolute truth, and utmost certainty of the word of God and that all things which are contained in the scriptures, yea to every tittle and iota thereof, will be fulfiled : demonstrated in a discourse on Rom IX. 6 / by Richard Stafford ...	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5107F; ESTC R200365	26,764	34

all the Reproof and Admonition of Christian Friends and Acquaintance And what is yet more and nearer and closer unto them Notwithstanding all the Accusings and Dictates of their own Conscience which is Gods Witness in Man or Woman yet still There are a People in the World who will not hearken unto the Voice of all these Tho' it must be carefully said as to Temporal Judgments that they therefore Refuse and Disobey because the Lord would slay them But as to futurity The Lord is not willing that any should Perish but that all should come to Repentance 2 Pet. 3. 9. However He affording them the means thereof after continued and repeated Provocation as to that he gives them up at length to themselves to their own Hearts Lusts and to walk after their own Counsels in which they going on will Perish Everlastingly God hath suffered it so to be That Satan works with all Deceivableness in them that Perish which comes upon them through his continued Temptations and Suggestions I have oftentimes thought that People would never do so of themselves as now they do in Offending Displeasing Despising and Provoking of God but that an unseen Enemy doth stir them up Like as it is recorded But there was none like unto Ahab which did sell himself to work Wickedness in the sight of the Lord whom Jesabel his Wife did stir up 1 Kings 21. 25. In the Margent it is Incited So tho' there is a great deal of Wickedness in the Heart of Man by Reason of original and inbred Corruption for Flesh and Blood will Imagine and Practice Evil Yet this Corrupt Nature would never proceed and tend so far especially in immediate Rebellion against and Provocation or Despising of God for what is shewed forth against his Word is against God himself as it will be found by his Interpretation and Judgment at the last tho' perhaps this may be now besides and out of the Mind and Intention of the Creatures unless this Infernal Jesabel whose Right Name is Belzebub did stir and incite them up Now the Serpent was more subtle then any Beast of the Field which the Lord God had made Gen. 3. 1 He is more cunning then all or any of the Sons or Daughters of Men as they are merely such without the assistance and direction of Gods Word and Spirit He tempts suggests and doth whatever He can that each one in particular may lose Heaven and fall into Hell He walketh about seeking whom He may devour It is his continued Business and Employment So that it is not altogether so much to be wondred at tho' indeed it is a matter of Horrour and Grief Psal 119. 53 158. and Sighing Ezek. 9. 4. That when God hath made such very severe Declarations from Heaven against all manner of Sin and Transgression and against all Vngodliness and Vnrighteousness of Men. Which also will be Executed upon and sensibly felt by them after that their Breath is out of their Nostrils and their Souls are departed from their Bodies Yet Nevertheless in this Time of Provocation and in this Day of Temptation or Trial in this Wilderness of the Earth still People go on therein and do the same Yea rather more Greedily and Earnestly then they would have done if God had revealed no wrath and future Punishment against the same I knew a Man who after he had been convinced of the Sin of Unrighteousness and after He had heard the Word of God declared against it Yet the next opportunity afterwards He would more eagerly Practice the same And so when the like hath been done to Harlots and Unclean Persons the Sin and Danger of their course hath been laid open and made known unto them by my Ministry of ●…e Word it hath been told unto me that at the very ●…e moment they would for all Practice the lesser Acts of Lasciviousness This sheweth after what manner the Spirit of Disobedience doth work in the Children thereof And when they will of set Purpose Transgress yet more and more in plain and downright opposition to the Word of God and to the Preaching and Ministration thereof When they will run greedily after the Errour of Balaam for Reward Jude 11. Or to the Errour of any of their own ways any Law or Ordinance of God to the contrary Notwithstanding VVhen they will break these Bands asunder and cast away these Cords from them And they will do it the rather because the Lord by his Word and Ministers hath forbidden it This and such like in the very Truth seems to be that Sin of Presumption or that Sinning with an high hand whereof it is written The Soul which doth Presumptuously shall be cut off from my People saith the Lord. Ay But the People of the World do not value nor fear that Threatning for such Persons who do Presumptuously and Sin with an high hand do commonly live out their appointed Time in Health Strength Wealth and Prosperity as other People do Yet Alas In this they are Ignorant or Unmindful that God hath another Place besides this Earth and another time besides this Life wherein He will fulfil and make true his Word For tho' a Sinner doth Evil an Hundred Times and his Days be Prolonged yet it shall be well with them that fear God which fear before him Ecles 8. 12. But the sinner being an Hundred Years Old shall be Accursed Isa 65. 20. By which Phrase of Accursed we are given to understand that the Word of God doth speak Evil of him now for so Maledictio the Latin Word for a Curse doth signify and it shall go Evil with him at the last VVhen all the Curses that are written in this Book shall be upon him Deu. 29. 20. And shall be also Excuted and the Lord also shall Blot out his Name from under Heaven so that Himself shall not go there This is to be cut off from Gods People when they shall be Blotted out of the Book of the Living and not written with the Righteous Psal 69. 28. So that tho' when He heard the Words of the former Threatning He blessed himself in his Heart saying I may live as long as other Men and VVomen tho' I walk in the Imagination of my Heart to add sin to my Lawful desires For that is Adding Drunkenness to Thirst ●…asmuch as Thirst is a Lawful and Necessary desire wh●…as Drunkenness is a Sin So the Course of the World goes on that whereas such and such Thoughts Words and Actions are Lawful and Necessary People go on to graft and add thereto Vain Thoughts False Words and Sinful Actions of their own whereof there is no need For as Thirst may altogether as well or rather be better quenched and satisfied without Annexing Drunkenness to it So People might think speak and Act altogether as well yea better then by conceiving Vanity speaking forth Falsehood or Acting of Evil. It is yet seven time● a greater Sin and will make the Oven or Furnace seven Times