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A55344 A sermon preach'd to young people January the first, 1697. And now publish'd at their request. By Samuel Pomfret. Pomfret, Samuel, d. 1722. 1698 (1698) Wing P2798A; ESTC R217924 45,878 51

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sort not unto Death and Damnation but unto Life and Salvation a Repentance never to be repented of And the same Christian will tell you that he is never so sad as when he feels his Heart hard and unrelenting So that upon the whole this Objection against the Yoke as if it were not good to bear because Repentance is required in it which you have thought to be so sour and unpleasant you see it proceeds from a meer palpable Mistake and Error it hath been want of Judgment and Understanding in you as Christ told the Woman of Samaria John 4. 10. If thou knewest the Gift of God thou would'st have ask'd of him and he would have given thee living Water So if thou knewest the sweetness of Gospel-Repentance thou would'st not endure to live a Day longer in an Impenitent State It 's certain Sin hath no such Pleasure as Repentance hath Hos 2. 7. I will return to my first Husband for then it was better with me than now Consult but thine own Experience or if thou hast had none ask thine own Conscience which Day of a Sinner's Life yieldeth the sweetest Rest and Repose at Night whether the Day wherein he has been a Drudg to his Lusts heaping Guilt upon Guilt against the Day of Reckoning Or the day wherein a Man hath been in the Fear of God confessing and forsaking his Sin that all may be blotted out when the Times of Refreshing should come from the presence of the Lord O the Hell upon Earth of the former Could you search the Bed dig up the Conscience of such a Man O what bitings tormenting Despair might you find at the bottom The deeper they have sunk in Rebellion the faster have they tied Damnation to their Souls O fearful miserable Condition But O the Heaven upon Earth of the latter How welcome may he be to both to his God and his Conscience And so how merry may he be in the dark Night on his Bed After a Seasonable April-Shower and breaking out of the Sun again how are the Flowers and Herbs refreshed In like manner after a penitent Soul hath gone forth largely and freely Weeping and Mourning for Sin how Sweet an Odour doth it leave in Conscience It returneth not ashamed but refreshed especially when it can espy a Bow in the Cloud or The Sun of Righteousness breaking through it and shining upon the Soul Mat. 4. 2. Thus having cleared up this that the most difficult part of Christ's Yoke viz. Repentance it self which usually through Satan's Cunning and Malice is represented to Youth as frightful and formidable is good i. e. pleasant which according to the School-distinction of Good into jucundum utile honestum is a material part of what is Good I say having done this and so waded through the most difficult craggy part of my way and work that was most liable to Objections it may shorten my work as to what remaineth This Fort of the Jebusites being won we may conclude all will yield if the most exceptionable part of Christ's Yoke will pass Muster we need not question the rest Thus I have done with the first Head of Argument to prove the Truth treated on viz. That it is Good in an absolute Sense to bear Christ's Yoke Now that it is so especially in time of Youth I shall reserve the proof of that to the Close of the second Head of Argument Wherefore I now shall pass on to the second Consideration mentioned for the clearing up the Doctrine That to bear the Yoke of Christ is the summary of all Good viz. 2. That it is so relatively with respect to the Effects and Conquances of it For the Demonstration and Proof of this it is to be considered that some of the blessed Effects of bearing Christ's Yoke in the time of Youth do respect this present Life and others that which is to come For what the Apostle saith of Godliness I may say of bearing the Yoke of Christ it being the same thing in Sense tho different in Sound It is profitable for all things having the Promise of the Life that now is and that which is to come 1 Tim. 4. 8. 1. Touching those that concern this present Life take these following 1. The bearing this Yoke is good in this respect viz. That now a Man may hereby come to know that his Sins are all pardoned and that the dreadful Controversy is at an end between the Great God and him This the Prophet David lays down as the summary of Blessedness Psal 32. 1. Blessed is the Man whose Transgression is forgiven c. This Load of Sin is laid on Christ So that there is now no Condemnation to him Rom. 8. 1. O how ravishing a thing is it to be able to say Well! Here I stand under this Yoke of Jesus with a full a free a final Pardon there is an Act of Grace and my Name is in it If Satan come with his Charge of my former Vileness Conscience sprinkled with the Blood of Christ may discharge all for Christ's Yoke and Blood go together Before a Man come under and bear this easy Yoke of Christ he abideth under the cruel Yoke of the Guilt of all his Sins O cursed Case poor Christless Sinner had'st thou but thy Spiritual Senses restored thou would'st find and feel the Yoke the Load of Guilt upon thy Soul to be incomparably a greater load than Mountains or all the dead Weights in the World can be to thy Body A Giant that can bear a great Stone on his Back can't endure a little one in his Bladder but roars out and the Earth it self that can bear the Hurricanes Tempests and Storms on her Surface can't bear a little Wind in her Bowels but heaves and sets and roars and opens and overturns Cities c. So the case is here when a Sinner's Conscience awakes in Power and by the Law which is the strength of Sin arrests chargeth curseth condemneth throwing like Fire-Balls into the Soul an exquisite Sense and feeling of its Sins in all their Aggravations and Guilt O till this poor wounded Spirit comes under the sweet Yoke of Christ it is impossible to express the Stabs the Wounds the Throws it feels within so true is that of Solomon The Spirit of a Man may sustain his Infirmity but a wounded Spirit who can bear i. e. A Spirit feeling the Yoke of Guilt or unpardoned Sin Racks Stakes Fire biting Worms rendring Tortures are tolerable to this of a wounded Spirit The Psalmist felt a great deal of it Psal 38. 4. when he cries out Mine Iniquities are gone over my head a Burden too heavy for me to bear and Psal 32. 3. But the greatest part of unpardoned Sinners are altogether unsensible of it and in the greatness of their Madness and Folly sport themselves under this Yoke of Guilt Prov. 14. 9. Fools make a mock of Sin which makes a serious Christian sigh and groan Thus now Contraries illustrate one another what a