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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23637	Serious advice to delivered ones from sickness or any other dangers threatning death, how they ought to carry it that their mercyes may be continued, and other misery prevented, or, The healed ones prophulacticon or healthfull diet delivered in several sermons on John 5: 14 by James Allin.	Allen, James, 1632-1710.	1679 (1679)	Wing A1030; ESTC W22141	43,058	40

argument of Gods love whether they be afflictive or mercifull meerly outward Providences are no argument of Gods special love Eccles 9. 1. You cannot see love or hatred by any of these things that are before you You cannot say God hath more love to you then he hath to them he took away by the disease because he spared you for these in themselves are but common mercies 2. Consider that meerly when outward judgement ceaseth we cannot thence conclude Gods anger ceaseth or is turned away We cannot conclude by the present removal of a judgement that the anger of God is removed for God may remove it in anger There are pardoning mercies God may be said to pardon when he doth only spare for a time Psal 78. 36. So he forgave their iniquity How forgave Not with a special saving pardoning mercy for he punished them afterwards yea unto destruction many of them but it was a present reprieve from the judgement God may be as angry with you still as ever though he hath removed the present Judgement a sparing mercy may be in wrath in displeasure to the person that is spared therefore you have no reason to be secure nor to be pleased with your present condition while God may be angry with you while the anger of God is not appeased you have no reason to cry peace to your selves when God doth not speak a word of peace 3. Consider that when men are delivered from affliction and not saved from their sins it is certain God is angry with them still when they are delivered from an outward affliction and sin remains that that is the cause and coar of affliction and evill be not removed you may certainly conclude it is but a reservation to greater judgements As it is an argument of their happy condition that are in the very midst of affliction when they are taught of God in it made more holy humble conformable to Gods will so it is an argument of a miserable and a cursed estate though you are out of affliction if you have not been taught of God if you are out of affliction but still in sin it is a certain argument of reservation to greater punishment that worse things will befall you unless timely Repentance prevent it There are these two ends why God doth punish his people and God will accomplish his end in every punishment there is his work and his whole work God will doe on mount Sion Isa 10. 22. When God hath done his whole work then he burneth the rod and not till then it is but laid by and Gods intention to bring a greater What is Gods whole work There is in every Judgement a work of judgement and a work of mercy there is a work of mercy God hath to all his elect and people to reform and refine them to purge away their sin to make them holy and to make them better Isa 27 9. That is the work to them that are the true children of Sion But then God hath a work of judgement that is on those he never intends saving mercy to every judgement is but the beginning of their misery God judgeth them in way of satisfaction to Justice there is but part of paiment in one judgement that is upon them and it is is to ensure them that the remainder is behind that God will be sure to take the full paiment If none of this work be done if God hath not refined his people there is still some work to be done if there be those that are unconverted never to be converted greater and worse judgements doe abide none such but shall have greater cause to curse the day of their birth then ever Iob or Jeremiah yea to curse the day of their preservation better you had died of that sickness because your judgement is but so much increased by your living Those that shall live out their dayes without true repentance of their sin every dayes mercy is but an aggravation of their condemnation There are many signs of Gods remaining displeasure methinks the clouds doe seem to return after the rain God doth not make it cleer day with us nor cause the clouds to break and scatter but to gather again There are many Signs as God's taking away those that are the prime and hopefull ones of the next generation that is a sad sign of worse judgements 1 King 14. 13. It was sad to Jeroboams house and so to all Israel the taking away Jeroboams Son in whom some good thing toward the Lord was found it was a judgement to the whole house of Israel he was taken from the evill and it was a sign from the Lord of the evill he would bring on them so the taking away so many of Gods faithfull ones especially in eminent place in Magistracy and in Ministry putting out so many lights in the Candlesticks and that men many of them in their prime in the flower of their years that were very likely to have lived many years and done much service to God that died not in a full old age and full of days but in their youth and in the flower of their dayes and which is a great deal worse and makes it look the sadder that there are not any doe rise and fill their places that it is so hard a thing to see and rationally to think that there are men to fill up the rooms of those God hath taken from us When stars doe set and there are no others that rise it is a sign of a very dark uight when men that stood in the gap are taken away and none to put in their room they are sad signs that God hath a mind to take away the hedge unless speedy repentance and reformation prevent this ruine Yet this is the saddest sign of all that these things doe befal● us and so few doe lay them to heart that men are not awakened to bestir themselves to lay hold on God that when they have lost all visible props they doe 〈◊〉 make sure of God to be their friend While God himself stands at a distance and 〈◊〉 sinners stand at a distance from God this is the saddest sign of all 〈…〉 not humbled doe not stir up themselves to lay hold on God Isa 〈…〉 are taken away no man laying it to heart that was the 〈…〉 People had there been broken hearts under a breach that might have made some amends and have been a means to prevail with God to pour out his Spirit but to be an unhumbled unreformed people under such dispensations of God this is one of the saddest signs though I do verily believe and have many Arguments to sway my thoughts concerning it that God will not throw up the work he hath done in New-England will not utterly root up the plant he hath planted and that the Judgement God hath taken out of the hand of an Enemy he may not easily put it into the hand of another but that he will take it himself and deal with his People by his own hand but yet believe it if God love you if you are such that God hath special favour for then God will not spoyle you and if God will not spoyle you then he will not spare his Rod and you may be sure if one will not do another shall The godly holy shall be refined if one Furnace will not do it another shall Those that are Elect however they are like wild Asses Colts God will have his Month to find you God hath other Thorns to set in the way of your lovers if you will be like Manasseh that must be taken in the bushes God will have his time to do it when you shall humble your selves and your Souls before the God of your Fathers them that God hath designed for Conversion they shall be converted what every way God hath to do it it seems to be a terrible way but if there be some God hath no such special love for let me tell you God will not spare you to spoyle his end God is about reforming work not only his People but things among his people God is about to have other manner of Churches and other manner of Spirits his People shall be refined but they shall be consumed it will be a terrible day of the Lord but shall be as refiners fire and will purifie the gold but the dross shall be consumed in the fire And therefore let me leave this solemn advice with you nay it is not mine but Christs and that the Lord himself gives you that you bewail your former and take heed of future sinning Eccl. 12. 1 2. Remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth the Clouds may not return after the Rain It is spoken to those that are not only in the beginning of their time but in their prosperous time If you so do you will not only prevent future judgements but be in the way to better mercyes as well as continue those you have I may say to you from the Lord you have seen the worst dayes the bitterness of death is over the best are behind and your present preservation is a pledge of your future Salvation Psal 94. 12. Psal 119 71 75. which will put an end to sin sorrow and the fear of either for ever And may say with him Isai 38. 17. In love to my Soul the Lord hath delivered me for he hath cast all my sins behind his back and with the Apostle 2 Cor. 1. 9 10. FINIS In the Epistle l. 4. for vein r. view P. 4. l. 20. r. Luk. 10.