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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25835	The souls worth and danger, or A discourse exciting and directing to the due care of its eternal salvation upon the words of our blessed saviour	Armstrong, John, 1634 or 5-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing A3708B; ESTC R214882	33,452	78

their everlasting peace 6. That which I would chiefly and in the last place intreat for thy Souls safety is this Expose not thy self to the temptations of Seducers The Soul is more precious then to be hazzarded upon the mistaken sense of the Apostles words 1 Thess 5. 21. To trie all things thou needst not be of all religions how false or dangerous soever Among several poysons thou wouldst not trie any of them whether it would kill thee or no. Therefore the meaning of this place must be that we are to examine the Doctrines that are delivered unto us by the Scripture whether they are built thereon or no. Like the Bareans commended Acts 17. 11. who searched the Scriptures whether those things were so that were delivered to them for the truths of God And let that place Rom. 14. 1. be considered by all such as are not throughly grounded in the Principles of Christianity Him that is weak in the faith receive but not to doubtful disputations Every private Christian is not fit to cope with hereticks and such as are skilful to destroy the faith of others You would not allow a man to come and undermine the foundation of your house This do they and worse that go about to undermine your Faith and labour to shake and unsettle you in the grand truths of the Gospel Therefore I say again Expose thy Soul as little as may be to the temptations of seducers 'T is in vain for any to pray to God to keep them from the infection of errour if they wilfully against the express word of God and without any just warrant and call run into the company of Seducers and read their Books Observe well how God in the Scripture bids us To beware of them S t Mat. 7. 15. not to go after them S t Luke 21. 8. To avoid them Rom. 16. 17. To turn away from them 2 Tim. 3. 5. If they come to us not to receive them or bid them God speed or encourage them 2 Ep. Joh. 10. Though they come with seeming zeal Gal. 4. 17. They zealously affect you but not well Yea they would exclude us that you might affect them Though they come with pretences of Gods Spirit this they may easily do who are led by their own spirit or a worse 2. Cor. 11. 3. But I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ v. 4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus whom we have not preached or if ye receive another spirit which ye have not received or another Gospel which ye have not accepted ye might well bear with him v. 13. For such are false Prophets deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ v. 14. And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light v. 15. Therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works And to this we may adde but two Scriptures more and so finish this use The one 2 Pet. 3. 17 18. Ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ The other Jude v. 24 25. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his Glory with exceeding joy To the only wise God our Saviour be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power now and ever Amen Use 4. Is the losse of the precious Soul so exceeding great and dreadful How very careful then so far as concern'd should we be of the welfare and salvation of the Souls of others And how fearful should we be to have any hand in their utter undoing If thy friend after thou hast warned him will take such ways as but to ruine his estate dost thou not think it well when thou canst say praised be God in that I am not guilty of it Much more if any of thy relations neighbours or acquaintance after thou hast endeavoured thy duty towards them will follow such courses as to ruine their Precious Souls is it not a great mercy when thou canst say blessed be the Lord in that I have had no hand in it In a Country a Parish a neighbour-hood a family by setting a good example and so furthering the work of Christ in the hands of his Ministers thou mayst not only benefit thy self but be always doing good to others as long as thou livest and the Souls of those whom time after time thou hast encouraged in the ways of holiness may come to bless God for thee and with thee for ever Whereas by shewing a bad exampl thou hinderest the messengers of Christ in his work and service and art continually doing mischief to thy self and others about thee all thy life long And the perishing Souls which thou hast any way drawn to sin and ruine may curse thee eternally as a wretched miscreant doing more hurt then if thou hadst ruined a whole Kingdome as to the outward estate of it Oh therefore if thou hast inticed any to sin and they be yet a live seek to do their Souls as much good as thou hast been a cause of evil But if they be dead and swallowed up in the torments of Hell think what a case thou art in and how justly thou mayst fear to follow them if a great repentanee prevent it not But this chiefly concerns those who in a more special manner are entrusted with the Souls of others whether Ministers or Parents and Family governours 1. As for every faithful Minister of Christ how exceeding careful should they be for the Souls committed to their charge How exceeding careful should they be to save themselves and those that hear them And to keep themselves as S t Paul says he did pure from the blood of all men 'T is true God hath made our Calling excellent and honourable but people would see little cause to envy us that double honour of respect and maintenance which the Apostle would have given 1 Tim. 5. 17. did they rightly consider how weighty our charge is how dangerous our condition how many and difficult our duties and how troublesome our fears and cares touching the estate of their Souls I know some may think we take more care then needs wishing we would meddle less with them in their ignorant careless and secure ways which we could wish too if it would consist with Gods honour the credit of religion and their and our own safely But I besech you consider if any of you was intrusted with a Jewel of five or ten thousand pound price would you not see it needful to watch all ways and by all means to keep it safe and secure and if you had many such in your