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Mr. Thomas Wadsworth's Last warning to secure sinners being his two last sermons concerning the certainty and dreadfulness of the future misery of all impenitent ungodly sinners : to which is prefixed an epistle of Mr. Richard Baxter's.
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Wadsworth, Thomas, 1630-1676.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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the Wilderness they wanted Water no more What now became of this People Here is a good God he lets them want nothing he works wonders for them and delivers them with a mighty hand and gives them Angels food to eat and water out of a Rock to drink and here he numbreth them in the Wilderness Six hundred thousand fighting men What did these people do Do Surely they loved God and were obedient to his Law and would never murmur against him more But did they do so No you shall see how that before Forty years came about God cut off all these Six hundred thousand men and left their carcases to rot in the Wilderness and swore in his wrath they should never enter into his rest Notwithstanding he had done all this for them they so provoked him to wrath and so abused all the means of mercy that God cut them all off See also Numb 14.28 29 30 Say unto them saith God As truly as I live saith the Lord as ye have spoken in mine ears so will I do to you What had they said in his ears They had murmured against God and said God hath brought us and our children into the wilderness to destroy us Well saith he I have heard your murmuring and for your murmuring against me your carcases shall fall in the Wilderness and all that were numbred of you according to your whole number from twenty years old and upward which you have murmured against me Doubtless ye shall not come into the Land concerning which I sware to possess you of save Caleb the son of Jephuneh and Joshuah the son of Nun. There were six hundred thousand men and amongst them there was but two men that did believe that Promise that God made to Abraham that he would give them Canaan for an Inheritance O read to day as in a glass here the infidelity of England and the World for as face answers to face in a glass so does the face of the generality of the men of the world answer to the faces of the unbelieving Israelites and old unbelieving World But saith he For your little ones which ye say shall be a prey No saith God your little ones shall go into the Land and shall possess it for they knew nothing of your murmuring But as for you there is not a man of you shall enter into the Land Well go a little farther for the instances are many I will pass by all the dealings of God with this very people under the Judges where you may read that they were as many times captivated for their rebellion against God as they had a Judg raised up among them but we will pass by the time of this people under those Judges because the time will be short for me to relate all the dealings of Christ with this Church and we will come to those Twelve Tribes after they came into Canaan and were divided into two great Kingdoms Ten Tribes under Jeroboam and Two Tribes under the Posterity of David two mighty Kingdoms all of them that had or might have had the Oracles Promises and Covenants all of them had the Bible and might have used it But what did they do with it They cri'd themselves up just like England The Church the Church The Temple of the Lord and boasted of their priviledges that there was no people in the world like them and that if God should cut them off he knew not where to find another people See now what became of them We will consider the Ten Tribes first In the first of Kings the 19 and the 11 and 14 Verses And it was so that when Elijah heard it he wrapped his face in a mantle and went out and stood in the entring in of the Cave and behold there came a voice unto him and said What dost thou here Elijah And he said Elijah said I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts because the children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant thrown down thine Altars and slain thy Prophets with the sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away Here were Ten Tribes a great Kingdom a people of the Lord that had the word of the Lord and the great Prophet of the Lord Elijah among them who called them to Repentance and told them God was angry with them for forsaking Him and his Covenant Why but how many of this Kingdom did so Why truly for what Elijah could see he could not see one man that did keep Covenant with God I only am left alone Why what did the rest do Why they have all forsaken thee This is strange What! the seed of Abraham all gone What they whose fathers God delivered out of Egypt and brought them through the Red-Sea and fed them with Manna and gave them water out of a Rock What forget it all Ai forget it all They have left the Lord and forsaken his Covenant What have they done with the Prophets of the Lord Knockt them o' the head slain them kill'd them thrown down his Altars and no worshipping of God and yet these were the men that were the seed of Abraham that had all the means of grace offered them God had given them many a call they had the word to do it and his Prophets to do it and yet we see they all left him It is true as God said afterwards in reproving Elijahs judgment in the case I have a few more my Kingdom are not all gone saith God I have reserved seven thousand that keep Covenant with me Ai but my Brethren what are seven thousand to a whole Kingdom What if God may have seven thousand in England to keep Covenant with God What if twenty thousand What are they to compare to those many hundred thousands that are in England Here you see many are called but few chosen many are taken visibly into a Covenant but there are few that are spiritually in Covenant with God Well what became of these Ten Tribes these that had the Oracles Covenant and Promises among them What became of them Why you shall see what became of them no good you may be sure God pays them off their old scores at length God is a long time in reckoning but be sure he will do them justice in the end He will do it 2 King 17.18 there you shall see the destruction of them In the 15 vers And they rejected his statutes and his covenants that he made with their fathers and they followed vanity Therefore Vers 18. the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight there was none left but the Tribe of Judah only 22. For the children of Israel walked in the sins of Jeroboam which he did they departed not from them 23 Vntil the Lord removed Israel out of his sight as he said by all his servants the Prophets The word of God spoken by his servants and Ministers though but men he will make it
receive thee But if thou art stubborn and rebellious and wilt go on thou maist expect no other but that God will inflict upon thee hell to thy soul at death and at the Resurrection hell to soul and body But there are Aggravations of this thy stubbornness for thou art stubborn First Against the tenders of mercy that are made to thee Secondly Against the long-suffering of God to thee And Thirdly Thou art stubborn notwithstanding thou hast had so much warning And these things will justifie God and lay a foundation for condemning thee in thine own Conscience As First Mercy mercy I will pardon their iniquities let a wicked man forsake his sins What then I will have mercy upon him and will abundantly pardon him Here are tenders of mercy offering strength to help thee to conquer thy lusts according to that of the Prophet O ye simple ones how long will ye love simplicity Are you blind I will teach you Are you weak I will strengthen you How wilt thou do it I will pour out my Spirit upon thee Hast thou a mind to have Grace He will give it thee Hast thou a mind to have the Spirit of Grace and Supplication He will bestow it upon thee But for thee to go on in sin and reject pardon when offered What canst thou say for thy self Again These tenders of mercy are made with long-suffering There are a great many sinners I am afraid some here are not yet Converted who all for a long time have heard Sermons God hath been calling upon you As God said of the old world Here is a wicked people What shall I do with them What Why Justice might have said destroy them No saith God they are a rash giddy-headed-people I will give them warning How long Why almost one hundred and twenty years So sinner God saw thee Drunk heard thee Swear Justice might have said cut him off No saith God I will try him with another month of Sermons another year of Sermons I will try what my Children that are his Friends will say to him O sinner The long-suffering of God waiteth upon thee Grace cries repent and I will pardon thee Repent and I will give thee my Spirit though thou art a wicked Rebel I will not snatch thee away I will let thee live five years longer ten years longer O if thou goest to Hell what will Conscience say O thou art a stubborn sinner Thou must say Righteous art thou O God in all thy ways and just in all thy judgments I might have been in Heaven but I would not and now I am in Hell and that justly because I preferred my lusts before God Lastly Never say 't is an unjust Sentence because God gives you warning There is the merit of the cause If nothing will do Why then take notice God gives you warning He does not let you go on and say let them alone I will be even with them at length He might have done so No but in pity to poor sinners he gives them warning Sinner repent saith God and be reconcil'd to me come and lay hold upon Christ for else I will damn thee Take notice of it there is a Tophet prepared and everlasting burnings prepared a worm that never dieth and I tell thee before-hand what it will cost thee and yet sinners will go on still Never complain that God hath done thee wrong he hath offered to give thee his Spirit to sanctifie thee and save thee But if thou wilt not after all thank thy self if thou goest to Hell O sinners What will you do Will you imitate the old world or imitate Noah Why if you imitate the old world you see then what a desperate course you are running you are running your bodies to the Grave and your souls to Hell For when the flood came there was not one spared The flood takes whole Families they look gastly one at another Father what shall I do saith the child And when the world was full of cries and scrieks and they all drowned one would have thought this was enough yet God had no pity upon them for as soon as they were dead their disobedient souls were laid in Prison Well now say you What shall we do Why obey the Gospel This is your Duty Obey Christ Jesus speaking by his Spirit in Us poor men that are the Ministers of Jesus Christ for we are but as instruments to convey the mind of the great God to you for certainly what I have Preached to you is no other than the word of Jesus Christ and he will make it good O get into some corner and cry mightily to the Lord and pray Christ to pay all your debts for you and that the blood of Christ might take away all your iniquities and that you might have an Ark to save you from the fire that will burn the world as Noah had an Ark to save him and his house from the flood that did drown the world and then you are safe and never safe till then The Lord awaken you that you may take warning and not go away and mind no more what you have heard than they did and so be lost as they were 1 Peter III. the later part of the 20 Ver. While the Ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water IN the former words you have an account given you of the Destruction of the old world by the flood They were all drowned Men Women and Children God neither spared the grey-headed-sinner no nor the sucking-infant children of wicked and Rebellious Parents he drowned them all The reason of this wrath of God that was poured out upon them was their Disobedience their disobedience to the Spirit of Christ by which Noah Preached to them What did he Preach He Preached to them Repentance called them to repent and reform their lives and if they would not God would drown them all Why what were their sins Why the very thoughts and imaginations of their hearts were evil and that continually They were men of wicked hearts they were devising nothing but mischief they thought of nothing but the satisfaction of their lusts I wish it be not the case of some here I am sure it is the case of every unconverted sinner the imaginations of his heart are evil and that continually for he does defile even his good thoughts with unbelief And their sin was likewise the sin of their lives Their hands were full of violence they were oppressors they were cruel they were bloody and besides this they were secure and wanton and they minded nothing but eating and drinking and marrying and giving to marriage their whole hearts were taken up in these things No man enquired after God no man regarded the voice of God in his servant Noah God waited upon them after he had sent Noah and forewarn'd them above a hundred years and that while was Noah a building his Ark but they despised the long-suffering of God which should