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A67769 The seduced soul reduced and rescued from the subtilty and slavery of Satan ... by R. Junius ... Younge, Richard. 1660 (1660) Wing Y181; ESTC R34120 11,402 12

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THE SEDUCED SOVL reduced and rescued from the Subtilty and Slavery of Satan that bloody devouring Dragon and vowed Enemy of all Mankind Together with Provision that none may be disappointed of their end by mistaking their way would men but now hearken unto Christ as they would have Christ another day hearken unto them By R. Junius in reference to Levit. 19. 17. Isa. 58. 1. Prov. 1. 20. to the end and 14. 12. Acts 11. 14. 1 Tim. 4. 16. James 1. 21. Jude 23. CYprian brings in Satan triumphing over Christ in this manner As for my followers saith he I never laid down my life to redeem them as Christ hath done for his I never promised them so great reward as Christ hath done to his and yet I have more followers then Christ and they do far more for me then his do for him And indeed To whom we yield our selves as servants to obey his servants we are to whom we obey whether of sinne unto death or of obedience unto righteousnesse Rom 6. 16. And in case we do the Devils works we are the Devils servants as our Saviour affirms John 8. 34 44. Again it is the abstract of Religion to imitate him whom we worship Neither are we worthy to be called Christians except we imitate Christ and square our lives according to the rules he hath given us Luke 14. 26. 2 Pet. 2. 19. 2 Cor. 5. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Who then shall compare mens lives with Christs life or those rules set down in his Gospel but must be forced with Lynacre to confesse That either the Gospel is none of Christs or very few amongst us are Christians Observe it I pray for it falls heavy on many thousands that think they are Christians beyond all exceptions 2 But to bring this point more close and home to mens consciences We read That the greatest number go the broad way to destruction and but a few the narrow way that leadeth unto life Matth. 7. 13 14. That the whole world lieth in wickednesse 1 John 5. 19. That the number of those whom Satan shall deceive is as the sand of the sea Rev. 20. 8. That many are called and but few chosen Matth. 20. 16. 22. 14. That though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea yet onely a remnant of them shall be saved Rom. 9. 27. Sad predictions How then does it concern every man of us to be-think our selves whether we be of that small number and to mistrust the worst as all wise and sound-hearted Christians use to do Matth. 26. 21 22. And indeed they are Texts of Scripture that would make the most in these dayes to tremble Yea they could not without Gods great mercy but be swallowed up of their own confusion were they not spiritually blinde and deaf and dead For experience shews that amongst those that call themselves Christians scarce one of an hundred whose knowledge belief and life is answerable either to the Gospel their Christian profession or the millions of mercies they have received Yea notwithstanding the Holy Ghost tels us in the word and we hear the same daily That every man shall be judged according to his works be they good or evill Rev. 20. 13. 22. 12. That we shall give an account at the day of judgement for every idle word we speak Matth. 12. 36. That there needs no other cause of our last and heaviest doom then Ye have not given ye have not visited c. Matth. 25. 41. to 46. That the righteteous shall scarcely be saved 1 Pet. 4. 18. That many shall seek to enter in at the straight gate and shall not be able Luke 13. 24. That no unrighteous person shall inherit the kingdome of God but shall have their part and portion in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Gal. 5. 21. Revel. 21. 8. That except our righteousnesse exceeds the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees who were no mean men for outward and formal performances we shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven Math. 5. 20. And that without holinesse no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. which Scriptures if they be true what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse as the Apostle speaks 2 Pet. 3. 11. Yet most men live as if the Gospel were quite contrary to the rule of the Law As if God were neither to be feared nor car●d for As if they were neither beholding to him nor afraid of him both out of his debt and danger Yea as if there were no God to judge nor Hell to punish nor Heaven to reward I cannot think of it without astonishment But to all these let me add one thunder-bolt more out of Gods Artillery which you shall finde Deut. 29. where he expresly tels us that he will not be merciful I pray mark it unto such as flatter themselves in an evill way but that his wrath and jealousie shall smoak against them and every curse that is writ in his Book shall light upon them c. vers. 19 20. And that if we will not regard nor hearken unto him when he cals upon us for repentance He will not heare nor regard us when in our distresse and anguish we shall call upon him for mercy but even laugh at our destruction and mock when our fear cometh Prov. 1. 24. to 33. Neither is salvation more promised to the godly in any part of the Bible Old Testament or New then eternal death and destruction is threatned to the wicked For though to all repentant sinners he is a most merciful God yet to all wilful and impenitent sinners he is a consuming fire and a jealous God Heb. 12. 29. Deut. 4. 24. These are dreadful threats from the mouth of an Almighty and terrible God who is Truth it self and cannot lie Neverthelesse mens obdurate and adamantine hearts brawned and hardned with the custome of sinne will tremble and relent no more at the hearing of them then the seates they sit on or the stones they tread on Their supine stupidity is no more capable of excitation then the Sea Rocks are of motion or the billows of compassion They are like the Catadupans inhabitants of the Cataracts who hear not the roarings of Nilus As Drums and Trumpets we know and that loud rupture of the aire with Ordnance is but like soft musick to the eares of some fleshed souldiers hardned with often successe And the reason is they will rather hearken to their own deceitful hearts and believe Satan that would gull them of their soules and plunge them into eternall torments then they will hearken to or believe the God of Truth And the reason of this reason is when men reject all g●od meanes and refuse to serve the true God he in justice gives them over to the false to be taught and governed by him for which you have