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A10617	Foure sermons viz. I. Sinnes contagion, or the sicknesse of the soule. II. The description of a Christian. III. The blindnesse of a wilfull sinner. IV. A race to heaven. Published by William Ressold, Master of Arts and minister of Gods Word at Debach in Suffolke.	Ressold, William, b. 1593.	1627 (1627)	STC 20894; ESTC S100603	96,549	145

God Oh therfore labor we earnestly for the graces of Gods spirit be infused into us to drive away the darksome clouds of corrupted nature and to make us see the odiousnesse of the entertaine of sinne and the speciall worth of grace and pietie for the naturall man discerneth it not 1. Cor. 2.14 And because the word of God is the ordinary meanes to worke this upon our soules for which cause the blessed Gospell of Christ is called the ministration of the spirit 2. Cor. 3.8 Rom. 1.16 1. Pet. 1.23 2. Tim. 3.15 the power of God to salvation an immortall seed able to beget us anew and to make us wise unto salvation oh therefore frequent we it diligently and heare we it with all reverent attention for the happie infusion of heavenly grace Pro. 13.13 for hee that despiseth this sacred truth shal be destroyed Pro. 28.9 he that turnes his eare away from it his very prayer shall be abominable it shall bee easier for Sodome and Gomorrah at the day of judgement than for that man Mat. 10.15 Ier. 29.18.19 the Lord will make him a curse an astonishment a hissing a reproach among all nations And thus beloved in Christ Iesus wee see the first point the blindnesse of man in corrupted nature intimated from the multiplicitie of sinnes for hee commits not onely some thing but things even many things worthy of death Come I now unto the second point the patience of God in executing revenge upon the wicked intimated in this that though they commit things worthy of death yet hee forbeares and doth not presently throwe them downe to death The Gentiles committed things worthy of death even many things worthy of death eternall death yet God with patience did forbeare and did not presently execute upon them the strength of his justice nor cast upon them his finall wrath Rom. 6.23 when yet as the Apostle speakes The wages of sinne is death even of any sinne whatsoever Behold then here the greatnesse of Gods patience sinne is committed yet God forbeares nay sinnes things worthy of death many loathsome and odious sinnes yet God forbeares to execute the due deserved stroke of his justice that well might Chrysostome say Chrysost Deus quasi invitus compellitur cum magno dolore peccatores condemnare Ezek. 33.11 God is as it were against his will with great sorrow compelled to condemne stubborne-hearted sinners and to throwe them downe to eternall death for as himselfe doth seriously protest hee doth not desire the death of the wicked but doth earnestly invite them Turne you turne you from your evill waies for why will yee dye oh yee house of Israell Aug. Aversos benigne revocat cū ferire potuit praemia promittit Oh saith Aug. he calls back the averse and froward spirits and when he might strike them with the final stroke of his justice he rather doth promise them rewards to move them to revert turne from their evill waies God is patient toward man intensivè extensivè durativè though they commit things worthy of death Thus God is patient sparing man in sinne sparing man the subject of sinne long sparing him though he hath committed things worthy of death How well therefore might this instruct us to bee cautious that wee no longer abuse the patience of our God but now presently revert from our evill waies and turne unto his blessed Majestie for God himself tells us My spirit saith he shall not alwaies strive with man Gen. 6.3 When God would prescribe repentance to that spacious citie of Ninive Ion. 3.4 he offords it but forty daies Yet forty dayes and Ninive shall be destroyed And to his owne particular people hee limits them onely a moneth A moneth saith he shall devoure them with their portions Hos 5.7 Oh that then wee would even now returne from our evill waies and turne to this loving God abusing his patience no longer for wee have his own word Zach. 1.3 Turne unto me saith the Lord of Hostes and I will turne unto you Oh if we turne to him with mourfull hearts deploring our transgressions how soone will hee turne to us speaking peace to our soules and consciences Psal 51.17 for a contrite spirit is a sacrifice unto God yea these Christ himselfe invites Come unto mee all yee that are wearie and laden you that growne under the burthen of your transgressions and I will refresh you Mat. 11.28 I will speake peace to your soules and comfort to your consciences But if we will yet bee so pernicious as to despise the patience and long sufferance of our God by which he would lead us to repentance Rom. 2.4 oh then remember wee what Salomon tells us Eccle. 8.12 13. that though a sinner doe evill an hundred times and God prolong his daies c. yet it shall not bee well with the wicked c. God will not alwaies spare him Aug. Tunc Deus i●ascitur quando non irascitur Gen. 19.23 24 for as Austine speakes then is God angry when hee seemes not to bee angry We may see that when the Sunne did rise upon Sodome and there was no expectation of judgement then the Heavens were opened then fire and brimstone was poured out upon it utterly to destroy it Mat. 3.10 Oh take we knowledge therefore that now the axe is laid unto the root of the tree if we will yet bring forth no fruit no true repentance for sinne but wee will still abuse the patience of our God and still commit things worthy of death that it is just with him to hew us downe and cast us into the fire even eternall fire never to bee extinguished And thus much for the second point the patience of God in executing revenge upon the wicked intimated in this That though the Gentiles did commit things worthy of death yet God did patiently forbeare and did not presently throw them downe to death Come wee now unto the third point observed in the matter of this pollution the equitie of God in punishing the wicked exprest in this that he throws down none to death but for things worthy of death they committed things worthy of death Sinne is the cause of Gods wrath and mans miserie Esay 59.2 Your iniquities saith the Prophet Esay have separated between you and your God your sinnes have hid his face from you Lam. 3.39 Iude ver 6. Wherefore saith the Prophet Ieremie is the living man afflicted man suffereth for his sinnes For sinne the Angells were throwne downe from Heaven for sinne Adam was thrown out of Paradise Gen. 3.24 Gen. 6.7 Gen. 19.24 Cassio Tantum unusqulsqua repellitur dividitur à Divinitate quantum ejus peccata cumulantur and a curse denounced against him and his posterity for sinne the old world was drowned and Sodome and Gomorrah burned oh saith Cassiodorus so far is every one repelled and divided from the