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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10076	Ephesus vvarning before her woe A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Passion Sunday, the 17. of March last. By Sampson Price, Bachelour of Diuinity, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford: and lecturer at S. Olaus.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20330; ESTC S115214	43,526	80

of God ioy of Angels hauen of sinners Awake thou that sleepest in thy sinnes 2. Ti. 2.7 I say vnto thee as Saint Paul to his Tymothy Consider what I say and the Lord giue thee vnderstanding in all things Come now and reason with God though thy sinnes be as scarlet they may be as white as snow Is 1.18 though they be red like crimson they may be as wooll God is able to bring light out of darknes life out of death our sinnes shall turne to our good if we rise from them more humble more fearfull more carefull and warie then wee were before Happy is that fall that is taken vp by humility Bar. To our repentance wee must adde our former good workes from whence we are fallen For by our good workes wee glorifie our father which is in heauen Mat. 5.16 Mat. 5. By them wee shew our faith Ia. 2. By them our consciences are quieted Ia. 2.18 being sure neuer to fall making our calling and election sure 2. Pet. 1.10 Yet merit by these wee cannot 2. Pet 1.10 Iustified by them wee are not Euery one must confesse as Gregory Nudum me in fide prima gratia genuit nudum eadem gratia in assumptione saluabit Gr. Meral l 2 c. 40. p. 11. col 1. Edit Par. 1551. the first grace begot in vs faith when wee were but naked in good workes and the same grace shall saue vs hereafter when we shal be but naked in them neither Non proecedunt iustificandum sed sequuntur iustificatum they are the signes of our sanctificatiō not the causes of our iustification That learned speech of reuerend Caluin shall euer be true Fides sola est quae iustificat fides tamen quae iustificat nonest sola Vt solis calor solus est qui terram calefaciat Col. in Act. Synod Trid. Sext Sess Antid Tract Theol. p. 336. col 2. non tamen idem insole solus est quia coniunctus cum splendore It is faith alone that iustifieth and yet that faith that iustifieth is not alone As it is the heate alone of the Sunne that heateth the earth yet is not that heat in the Sunne alone because it hath brightnes ioyned with it Repentance and good workes cannot be seuered Behold a Christian must labour else he shall neuer tast the sweet Manna of comfort from aboue The Angels of heauen need not to repent because they sinne not the Diuels in hell care not for repentance their iudgement is sealed but it appertaineth to vs all who are the sonnes of men and must be practised if euer wee will goe to heauen Our marble and flinty hearts must bee sofrened with the sweet showers of Gods heauenly word Our stiffe and iron-sinued neckes must bee bowed with the yoake either of the Gospell or of the law Our foreheads must not be like hers that refused to bee ashamed Math. 11.30 Act. 15.10 Ie. 3. Our eares must not be so deafe our eyes so drye our senses so dull our wills so obstinate our affections so barren our desires so cold but wee must awake The golden bels of Aaron the thundring trompets of Esay the well-tuned Cimbals of Dauid the shrill sound of preaching aime onely at our conuersion to God O consider this you that forget God I speake only to them whose consctences accuse them If you make religion but fashion seeking onely to seeme Christians hauing Gods liuery on your backes and name in your mouthes yet outfacing all reproofes by your insatiable couetousnes biting vsury false measures forsworne valuations adulterat wares catching at the possessions of the Church grinding and griping the faces of the poore by which meanes howsoeuer you fill your Coffer you fester your soules though your faces were like Angels without repentance and good workes there must follow a portion with the Diuels from which Good Lord deliuer vs. O then while it is called to day let vs ransacke our hearts and get a sound affection to God a firme resolution to goodnes hatred to sinne in all men especially in our selues and an obedient keeping of the commandements O then you whom God hath endowed with holy and vpright hearts that haue done and intend still to doe honour to your maker honesty to the Gospell credit to this famous Citie Be stedfast and vnmoueable alwaies abcūding in these works of the Lora knowing that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord. You are not Treasurers but Stewards whose praise is more to lay out well then to haue receiued much Neither the times nor your selues are in your owne disposing the more speedily you doe good the more comfort you shall receiue O then let vs all follow Austins aduise Aug. 〈◊〉 33. in Job take time while time is offered least the gate of mercy which to day is open to morrow bee shut and neuer opened againe vnto vs. Let vs beware that wee abuse not the patience and long suffering of so good a God least after so-many calmes of comfort he powre downe vpon vs the bitter stormes of indignation and come quickly against vs as hee threateneth to come against Ephesus which is the first particular of my second generall Of else I willcome vnto thee quickly Prima secundae Such are the neuer-stinting streames of Gods mercy that hee neuer ouerthroweth any King dome or nation Citty or people before he send a warning peece to admonish them He endured the people of the Iewes sufficiently in the wildernesse protesting in the Psalmes Ps 95 10. Forty years long was I grieued with this generation not onely prouoked offended discontented but grieued at his very soule who could haue grieued all the veines of their hearts and taught them the price of angring so dreadfull a Maiesty as his is A generation for whose sake hee had wrought many wonders preparing a table for them in the desart their diet Qu●iles and Manna in such aboundance in such delicacie that neuer any Prince was so serued in his greatest pompe hee deliuered them from a bondage worse then death vanquisht many Kings for them and led them by miracle through the red Sea yet they murmure repine grudge rebell and when no fauour could moue them God sweareth in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest His patience being moued turneth into fury Here are mercy and iudgement that hee threateneth before hee punisheth and it is conditionall Vpon the opening of the ayre and shutting of the windowes of heauen after the waters had ouer-run the world in 150. dayes God set his bow in the cloud a token of Couenant betwixt him and the earth Not but that there was Raine and a Raine bow before the flood for how else could the plants and fruites of the earth haue beene so many yeares preserued without Raine but Now it began to be a signe twixt God and man Gen. 9.11 Doct. Will●t in Gen. that there should be no more a flood to destroy the