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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81566	Divine characters: or, The true Christian discovered, and the hypocrite detected. In three treatises. The first treatise shewing, that both saints and unconverted sinners ought daily to go to God in Jesus Christ, for pardon of their sins ... The second treatise shewing, how we are to expect salvation, not from any righteousness of our own, but by the righteousness of the mediator, Jesus Christ ... The third treatise shewing, The Gospel evidences of a true Christian ... ; To which is added the summe and substance of the Christian religion, in a short catechise.	P., A.	1695 (1695)	Wing D1718A; ESTC R174671	155,114	255

hide from man not considering the judgment of God that hangs over thee But if not so yet a heart full of uncleanness envy wrath malice which our Lord Jesus Christ in his opening the Law in its spirituality Mat. 5.21 22 27 28. convinceth to be murder and adultery which it may be thou hast never considered of so thou hast not been an actual adulterer or murderer In a word There 's not a vain thought in thy heart the first rising of it but brings thee under the guilt of condemation of the Law and as thou art under the Law as if a transgressor in thought word and deed of the whole Law This may seem strange to thee but see it proved Jam. 2.10 For whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all But it hath been proved that thou art guilty of the breach of every Commandment of God from thy youth up But see further sinner that some word of God or other may hit thee this Law could not condemn thee wouldst thou have been convinc'd of guilt and made in to grace by Jesus Christ but thou art under the guilt of Gospel-contempt Come sinner saith Jesus Christ see what I can and will do for thee I 'll save thee from this condemning Law I 'll take away the curse I 'll remove all thy guilt blot out all the charge that is against thee I 'll put a righteousness upon thee I 'll bestow my spirit upon thee I 'll give thee a heart to love God and his Law and in the inward man to delight to walk in it and then take thee to Heaven and fill thee with glory for ever All this Heaven of mercy and free grace thou hast sleighted and sinned against and brought thy self under greater condemnation than by the law And yet by the way Jesus Christ will do as much for thee still as I have spoken of and more Though thou hast thus sinned against Law and Gospel if thou wilt come a poor undone guilty soul unto him which is that I aim at in thus pressing upon thee and were the sense of guilt indeed upon thy soul thou wouldst seriously hearken to me Therefore yet further bear with me Take home this guilt to thy Conscience and say Oh guilty guilty of all that hath been this day charged from the righteous God upon me Oh may the Lord find thee out this day and lay in the fresh sense of the guilt of sins even of such thou hast long since committed do not justifie nor excuse thy self any longer for that 's the natural way of thy heart as thou hast been shewed Never did guilty prisoner at the bar find more shifts more subtle pleas than the proud and shameless heart of a sinner will do till God himself pronounce guilt in the conscience and then the guilt of one sin laid in brings in the guilt of all other and they sometimes come in like waves and billows upon thy soul Oh let the sense of thy lying swearing prophaning the Sabbath slighting the word refusing Jesus Christ out of thy secret hatred of holiness reproaching the people of God because in their practice they condemn thee Oh let this any all seize upon thee go and lye low before the great God judging charging condemning thy self and say God and his Word hath found me out this day and I go home with at arrow of God in my conscience I am the Man or Woman that am found the guiltiest soul in the Congregation how to be delivered and saved from it that 's my business now Blessed be the advice and counsel now which formerly I despised of any good man that speaks in the Name of the Lord unto me and will show me there is yet hope for so wretched a creature as I am Particularly these are the effects of the sense of the guilt of sin wrought by the Holy Ghost upon the conscience of a poor soul in order to his salvation 1. Fear of wrath to come more or less possesseth the heart can a man be guilty and not fear if truly sensible of it This was upon Adam after he had sinned and heard Gods voice which struck him with sense of guilt Gen. 3.10 I heard thy voice and was afraid so when guilt came upon Belshazzar his thoughts troubled him Dan. 5.6 Felix trembled Acts 24.25 The Jaylor came trembling Acts 16.29 The fear of wrath the fear of a miscarrying soul the fear of eternity seizeth upon the spirit of a poor creature and then 't is an infinite weighty matter with a poor soul to be saved 2. Shame is another effect of guilt brought in upon the conscience So Adam likewese was ashamed and hid himself because he was naked Gen. 3. What fruit had you in those things whereof you are now ashamed Rom. 6.21 So Ezek. 16. last That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord See also Ezek. 43.10 11. Oh how is a sensible guilty soul ashamed before God Angels and men of such ways and carriages in which he impudently before delighted himself and lies down in his shame and confusion of face even covering his face before God and ashamed to look up unto him 3. The soul walks up and down with a burthened spirit those creature-comforts delights contentments which before would still the spirit now will not sense of guilt eats out the hearts of them the soul must now have something else than wind and vanity for so are creatures become to such a poor soul It may be the deceitful heart carries a poor creature to this thing and that but finds no satisfaction there the burden still remains the arrow that God hath shot sticks fast till Jesus Christ pluck it forth and heals all with his Blood and Spirit 4. Guilty souls make out for deliverence sue to Heaven are enquiring how the law may be satisfied how guilt may be removed how attonement may be had how bondage taken off in a word how he may come to see the face of a blessed God reconciled in Jesus Christ and so love him and bless him to eternity Why now careless sinner Is' t not better be thus than be hardening for Hell and have the guilt of sin as nothing to thee till the books shall be opened all thy sins written in Letters of Blood against thee Conscience accused charged and witnessing against thee and so away screeking to Hell without all remedy and canst not be heard a word for thy self nor any one Saint or Angel for thee Now thou mayst be heard if thou wilt speedily acknowledge thy guilt not cover thy transgression nor hide thy iniquity in thy bosom Job 31.33 but come with fear and shame burthen'd with thy guilt to him whose arms are yet open to receive thee and is ready to take away iniquity off thee and take off thy