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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01554	Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1623 (1623)	STC 11681.3; ESTC S118743	126,618	154

destroyed eternally that being chastened in the world they may not bee condemned with the world In regard of those that perish the obstinate wicked to make them the more inexcusable that they may not say but that they had faire warning giuen them before if they would haue taken it This Gospell saith our Sauiour shall before the worlds end be preached to all Nations throughout the world to be a witnesse against them And the vse of this point to omit all others may be two-fold vnto vs To commend vnto vs Gods patience To prouoke vs to repentance First to commend vnto vs Gods patience yea his mercie and his goodnesse Who though he might smite iustly without more adoe so soone as men sinne the generall warnings that the light of Nature and the very letter of the Law afford are sufficient yet he doth not proceed ordinarily to any extraordinary iudgement but hee giueth many faire warnings of it before-hand A signe that hee desireth not to doe that that he threatneth if he were not by mans obstinacie vrged thereunto For Professed hatred we say taketh away opportunitie of reuenge A conspiracie against Commodus was frustrate by the folly of one that should haue executed it but would needs tell him what hee was to doe ere he did it Those that minde mischiefe therefore are not wont to giue warning Absolom spake neither good nor bad to his brother Ammon but watched his time only and then tooke it Nor would God saith Augustine proclaime thus what he is about to doe if he were desirous to doe it But he threatneth destruction that he may not destroy as by the Prophet Ezekiel himselfe implieth And as in the Niniuites it is apparant who by being threatned with destruction were saued from being indeed destroyed It is not therefore for want either of euill desert on our part or of good cause and iust ground yea or power on Gods part that he holdeth his hand from smiting so soone as wee sinne and in this manner giueth warning before hee smite His hand is not weakned that hee cannot strike vs nor his arme shortned that he cannot reach vs. He hath not lost his power but hee exerciseth his patience saith Augustine He exerciseth his patience while he expecteth our repentance And so passe we to the second vse Where to passe by onely pointing at it in a word that vse that might bee made hereof for Imitation that as God dealeth with vs so should we also deale with others we should not be as too many are A word we say and a blow or No word and a stab For shall God be so patient and man so impatient shall God beare with vs and not we beare with our brethren No If thy brother wrong thee saith our Sauiour goe and tell him of it betweene him and thee and if he heare thee not so take two or three with thee if hee will not heare them neither then acquaint the Church with it and if hee refuse to heare the voice of the Church too then mayst thou and not before carrie thy selfe toward him and take such course with him as with an Heathen or a Publican such as they then were thou mightest But to keepe to that that we principally now intend As this commendeth vnto vs Gods patience so it should prouoke vs to repentance since that by it God calleth vs thereunto The patience goodnesse and long-suffering of God leadeth thee to repentance saith the Apostle That is the end that God aimeth at in it and that is the vse that wee should make of it Doth God giue warning of any generall Iudgement And who seeth not that he so doth at the present To say nothing of ought at home decay of trade likelihood of dearth and the like Cast we our eyes abroad into foraine parts almost on euery side of vs and see if the fire of Gods wrath be not gone out alreadie and hath taken hold of our neighbours houses yea and burnt diuers and not a few of them downe to the ground And it concerneth vs as wee say not them alone to looke to it when our neighbours houses are on fire These are reall warnings and very sensible ones if wee be not stupid and senselesse Doth God then giue warning Let vs take it when he giueth it Therefore I will doe this vnto thee saith the Lord by Amos. And because I will doe this vnto thee therefore prepare to meet thy God O Israel Let vs prepare to meet him that is comming towards vs before he come at vs. Let vs according to our Sauiours counsell dispatch Messengers our praiers and teares saith Cyprian to meet him on the way while he is yet afarre off and make an attonement with him ere his wrath breake in vpon vs. Let vs make all haste by speedie and vnfained repentance to preuent the heauie doome and sentence of death Otherwise let vs assure our selues that though Gods patience last long yet it will not be euerlasting Though he beare with vs for a long time yet he will not alwaies forbeare vs. Yea Patience ouer-much prouoked is wont to turne not into wrath but into rage And it is a iust thing with God to take those away without further warning that would not take warning when it was giuen NOA tooke warning here and was saued the World would not take warning and was suddenly destroyed And so we come to consider the fruit of this warning in regard of NOA what effect it had with him This diuine warning therefore wrought in NOA Faith Feare and Care or Gods warning wrought Faith Faith Feare Feare Care Gods warning I say wrought Faith in NOA by Faith saith the Apostle NOA fore warned of God c. not the habite of Faith which hee had before but a renewed act of it NOA beleeued this when no body but himselfe would beleeue it yea when he was counted no doubt generally a doating foole for his labour And this his Faith is commended by a circumstance of the warning giuen or the thing forewarned Of things as yet vnseene All warnings are generally of things not seene For what need any be warned of that that themselues see But this was of a thing an hundred and twenty yeeres off such as there was no signe or shew at all to be seene of such as no print or footstep of was at all yet such as neither by outward sense nor naturall reason could be apprehended or coniectured a thing most vnlikely improbable incredible yea in nature impossible Where obserue wee the nature and propertie of true Faith to apprehend things vnseene to beleeue vpon Gods bare word things not vnlikely only and improbable but euen incredible yea and in some sort also impossible Faith saith this our