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Serious advice to delivered ones from sickness or any other dangers threatning death, how they ought to carry it that their mercyes may be continued, and other misery prevented, or, The healed ones prophulacticon or healthfull diet delivered in several sermons on John 5: 14 by James Allin.
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Allen, James, 1632-1710.
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these it is by labouring to be in a way of Reformation 6. If you would sin no more be in the use of all means that God hath appointed to preserve you from sin with earnest prayer for his Spirit to help you to mortifie sin and be found in the way of obedience that you may be assisted by his Spirit in the doing of it All means endeavours that any man can use himself without the help of Gods Spirit will not do Rom. 8. 13. mortifie the deeds of the body by the Spirit You may refrain a while but you will never destroy one sin without the Spirit and this Spirit is to be obtained by prayer Luk. 11. 13. the Lord will give his Spirit to them that ask him O be earnest with the Lord to lead you by the hand of his Spirit that shall guide and assist you in a holy course 7. And Lastly Resolve not in your own but in Christs strength that you will not sin any more Job 34. 31. 32. I know resolutions and engagements in a mans own strength they will fail him Peter is a sad Instance Luk. 22. He was as resolved as any could be though I dye with thee I will never deny thee That is the Reason why they come to no better Effect the Vows and Resolutions of men because they think they can do it of themselves Therefore saith David I said I would take heed to my wayes that I sin not with my Tongue Psal 143. But he begs that God would keep the door of his lips establish his saying I said through the grace of God that I would do my duty be waiting upon God for his help Psal 119. 13â— I will run the wayes of thy Commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart Teach me O Lord the way of thy Statutes and I will keep them unto the end Thus we should take up those holy resolutions in the grace and strength of Christ that we sin no more But labour to walk more closely with God for time to come SERM. V. THe last Doctrine we observed hence was this That continuance in sin after eminent deliverances pull down heavier Judgemens or those that contitinue in sin after eminent healing mercyes from God worse things will befal them For the handling this Doctrinally we shall shew you 1. that there are worse things may befall men then ever yet have befallen them 2. What are those sins the continuance in which or what is that continuance in sin that worse Judgements shall befall such sinners 3. That it shall be so and the Reasons of it 1. That worse things may befal sinners then ever yet have befallen them God hath sharper Arrows in his Quiver other manner of Judgements to inflict on sinners then ever sinners have undergone there is none should be so bold as to say what ever afflictions they have come under that God hath done his worâ—â— I remember I have heard of one in England near Westchester that had such expressions upon a great affliction that God had now done his worst but God made her a living monument of his sorer Judgements that for many years It is a great deal of boldness for any sinners to limit God in his Justice as well as in his mercy for any to say of God in his mercy can God provide for us it is a tempting God so for any to say Can God bring a greater Judgement yea there may be a great deal worse Christ tels this man you do not read what his sickness was but you find by the Effects it was very distressing he was unable to help himself had never a friend to help him and had lain under this infirmity thirty eight years and yet the Lord Jesus tells him if he doth not carry it better worse things shall befal him and the Lord tells us of the last times in which we live Dan. 12. 1. There shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation there are troubles God will bring upon a professing people such as never was worse on any Nation so there are those God can bring upon a person such as never were worse on any person But more particularly 1. There are worse Judgements in this world that God can inflict then ever have been inflicted on any 2. There are worse Judgements God hath to inflict in another world 1. In this world as 1. Temporal or outward Judgements such as respect the outward man God can bring other manner of outward miseryes then ever yet he hath done on any 2. Spiritual Judgements such as respect the inward man 1. For outward Judgements the Lord hath variety of them a great variety but especially we read of four sore Judgements of God Ezek. 14. 21. For thus saith the Lord how much more when I send my four sore Judgements on Jerusalem the Sword the Famine the noysome Beasts and the Pestilence to cut off from is man and Beast God hath sent his Sword among you but Famine is a sorer Judgement and noysome Beasts that is a sorer Judgement still and the Pestilence but how much sorer are these when all these are together when what the Sword leavs the Famine shall devour and what the Famine leaves the wild Beasts shal devour and what these leave the Pestilence shall devour When God sends all his Judgements at once upon a people that is a sore affliction as there are worse sorts of Judgements so there is never an one of these sorts but God can make it a worse Judgement in the degree of it he can make every one of these Judgements a great deal worse as you read Ezek 9. 10. As for me saith the Lord my eye shall not spare neither will I have pitty but I will recompense their wayes on their heads When Judgements come in such a way of Iudgâ—ment without any mixture of Gods sparing and pittying mercy then it is a sorer Judgement when the Errand of them is only to destroy not refine and purge a People but to ruine them and God will have no more mercy on them this is a sore affliction 2 There are spiritual judgements that God inflicteth in this world and they are a great deal worse then any outward judgement there are variety of spiritual judgements but especially there are four main sorts of spiritual judgements the sorest there is the sword that is the word of God when it is only for terror only for conviction a wound in the conscience is more dreadfull then a wound in the body when God sends an arrow into the conscience a wounded spirit who can bear Prov. 18. 14. it is an intollerable unsufferable wound especially when God will provide no balm in Gilead nor healing medicine for it when God shall make a man a terror to himself this is a sorer judgement The Soul is the tenderer part the more spiritual part therefore every such judgement is far greater that reacheth the Soul and spiritual