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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44688	The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42 : with an appendix wherein somewhat is occasionally discoursed concerning the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and how God is said to will the salvation of them that perish / by J.H.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1684 (1684)	Wing H3037; ESTC R27434	75,821	201

At least do you not find you need the common helps of meat and drink and air and clothing for the support and comfort of your lives And are not all these his creatures as well as you And can you have them whether he will or no 3. And how can you think that he that made and maintains you hath no right to rule you If it were possible any one should as much depend upon you would you not claim such power over him Can you suppose your selves to be under no obligation to please him who hath done so much for you and to do his will if you can any way know it 4. And can you pretend you have no means to know it That book that goes up and down under the name of his Word can you disprove it to be his Word If such writings should now first come into the world so sincere so awful so holy so heavenly bearing so expresly the divine Image avowing themselves to be from God and the most wonderful works are wrought to prove them his Word the deaf made to hear the blind to see the dumb to speak the sick healed the dead raised by a word only commanding it to be so would you not confesse this to be sufficient evidence that this revelation came from heaven And are you not sufficiently assured they are so confirm'd Do you find in your selves any inclination to cheat your children in any thing that concerns their well being Why should you more suspect your forefathers design to cheat you in the meer reporting falsly a matter of fact was not humane nature the same so many hundred years ago Did ever the enemies of the Christian name in the earlier dayes of Christianity when it was but a novelty in the world and as much hated and endeavoured to be rooted out as ever any Profession was deny such matters of fact Have not some of the most spiteful of them confest it Did not Christians then willingly sacrifice their lives by multitudes upon the assured truth of these things Have they not been ever since most strictly careful to preserve these writings and transmit them as wherein the all of themselves and their Posterity was contained And where is now your new light where are your later discoveries upon which so many ages after you are able to evict these writings of falshood or dare venture to disbelieve them 5. But if you believe these writings to be divine how expresly is it told you in them what the state of your case is Godward and what he requires of you You may see you have displeased him and how you are to please him as hath been shewn before in this discourse You know that you have lived in the world mindless and inobservant of him not trusting fearing loving or delighting in him declining his acquaintance and converse seeking your own pleasure following your inclination doing your own will as if you were supream never minding to refer your actions to his precepts as your rule or to his glory as your end And from that word of his you may understand all this to be very displeasing to him And that you can never please him by continuing this course but by breaking it off and returning to him as your Lord and your God That since your case did need a redeemeer and reconciler and he hath provided and appointed one for you you are to apply your selves to him to commit and subject your souls to him to trust in his merits and blood and submit to his Authority and Government And 6. Are you not continually call'd hereto by the Gospel under which you have liv'd all this while so that you are in actual continual rebellion against him all the while you comply not with this call Every breath you draw is rebellious breath There is no moment wherein this lies not upon you by every moments addition to your time And that patience of his which addes by moments to your life and should lead you to repentance is while you repent not perverted by you only to the treasuring up of wrath against the day of wrath and the revelation of his righteous judgment 7. And do you not find as his word also plainly tells you a great aversenes and disinclination in you to any such serious solemn applying your self to him and your Redeemer Try your own hearts Do you not find them draw back and recoil if you urge them do they not still fly off How loath are you to retire and set your selves to consider your case and unto serious seeking of God in Christ both from a reluctancy and indisposition to any such employment as this is it self and from disaffection to that whereto it tends the breaking off your former sinful course of life and entring upon a better And does not all this shew you the plain truth of what the word of God hath told you that the Aethiopian may as soon change his skin or the Leopard his spots as they do good who are accustom'd to do evil Jer. 13.23 that you have an heart that cannot repent Rom. 2.5 till God give you repentance to life Act. 11.11 That you cannot come to Christ till the father draw you Joh. 6.44 Do you not see your case then that you must perish if you have not help from heaven If God do not give you his grace to overcome and cure the aversenes and malignity of your nature that things are likely thus to run on with you as they have from day to day and from year to year and you that are unwilling to take the course that is necessary for your salvation to day are likely to be as unwilling to morrow and so your lives consume in vanity till you drop into perdition But 8. Dost thou not also know sinner what hath been so newly shewn thee from Gods word that by thy being under the Gospel thou hast a day of grace Not only as offers of pardon and reconciliation are made to thee in it but also as thorough it converting heart-renewing grace is to be expected and may be had that what is sufficient for the turning and changing of thy heart is usually not given all at once but as gentler insinuations the injection of some good thoughts and desires are comply'd with more powerful influences may be hoped to follow That therefore thou art concern'd upon any such thought cast into thy mind of going now to seek God for the life of thy soul to strive thy self against thy own disinclination that if thou do not but yield to it and still defer it may prove mortal to thee For is it not plain to thee in it self and from what hath been said that this day hath its limits and will come to an end Dost thou not know thou art a mortal creature that thy breath is in thy nostrils Dost thou know how near thou art to the end of thy life and how few breaths there may be for thee between this present moment