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A90059	The sinners hope: as his priviledge, and duty, in his worst condition, stated, cleared, and improved. Tending as well to the startling and inviting of the wicked from his sinfull and wretched course, upon the conditionall hopes that are layd out for him; as the confirming and directing of the truly humble and weak Christian in his duty and comfort, in the severall cases of darkness, sin, and affliction. Being the substance of severall sermons, / preached by Henry Newcome, M.A. and one of the ministers of the Gospell, at Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster.	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing N899; Thomason E1764_2; ESTC R209655	106,234	225

that he had made too much ado and never any if sensible but did sadly repent of their waies of sin this that is required of thee is that which at death all men desire and can only with comfort die in though with many it is then too late to seek for it 6. It is the work of Heaven holiness is glory begun there is no sin in Heaven and the the happiness of Heaven is Rev. 22.3 Psal 1. ult that there they never sin against God there his servants alwaies serve him Alas for wickedness it is a worke that will not alwaies last The way of the ungodly shall perish Psal 139. ult It is work that shall have an end but for the Godly mans course it is the way everlasting it is the way that indures for ever that is begun here and gone on with in Heaven you all count heaven the happy place and there is no sin there Godliness is work of the same kind though not in the same degree as the work of Heaven is this is work you need not break off when you die 7. That which you are required to leave for Heaven is that which if you go on with the day will come when you shall not have one friend left to stand by you in that way in all the world you are advised to leave that for Heaven which if you stick to it you will be left desolate with it one day For 1. God will not look at you Psal 1.5 6. sinners cannot stand in the judgement the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous he asserts the godly mans way but wicked mens waies shal perish from the Lord utterly 2. Christ will not indure you he bids such depart from him Mat. 7.23 he knows them not they are workers of iniquity if such whatever they pretend away with them he wil not indure the sight of them you dare never look God nor Christ in the face in this way you are in 3. Angels and good men cannot pity you they shal triumph in gods justice in your righteous ruine they cannot afford one drop of water out of Heaven to cool Dives his tongue when miserably tormented in the flame 4. The Devils wil be against you they that have been your tempters will be your tormentors as much ado as they have made to get you to sin as forward will they be to hale you to execution for sin and rather then you should be uncondemned Satan would witness against you for the very sins which he tempted you to The man that said to Joab 2 Sa. 18.12 that if he had transgressed the Kings command in the matter of Absolom even thou thy self would have set thy self against me so the Devil that only presses thee to sin now Alas he will set himself against thee in that time of reckoning and it will vex thee to thy heart to see him so persecuting thee for the very waies he enticed thee unto the very Devils shortly wil be against thee and it will torment thee to see how thou hast been betrayed by them the Devil like the hangman that consents or entices to stealing 5. Wickedmen thy companions will be against them Alas you have taken sweet council together you have strengthened one anothers hands in the way that was evil you have turned off from Christ to sit downe in the bosomes one of another but the day will come when ye shall be forsaken one of another Dives had no mind that his brethren should come to him when he was in Hel not as if there was any charitie there but he knew it would aggravate his torment to have them come together both to help his remembrance in the sin they had committed together as also of the mischief he had done by being accessorie to their ruine And so your intimacie and love and sworn brotherhood shall end in this that you shall curse the time that e-ever you knew one another and wish you had never seen each others faces In this eternall fend and hatred will all this love of yours end Mat. 26.1 you may with Judas think they that set you on work should bear part of your punishment for it but they will turn you off and bid you look to that your self others may help you to sin but for the torment you may look to it your selves they will be as if you had never known them when you are in the depth of your adversity unless it be to torment you with the remembrance of them by your sins which lie upon you 6. Your own hearts will be against you conscience will then be unmuzled and let loose upon you Mar. 9 41.46.48 and your heart shall condemn you and you shall be forsaken on all hands this is the worm which your sin hath bred that shall never dye in that fire that can never be quenched Seriously think at it and that it is for this you will ruine your hopes if you would leave this you might be saved you may be eternally happy if you will but repent and leave that which never did you good nor never will do this is all that is required of you and you may be happy for ever Let this fourth consideration have its force with you 5. It will aggravate your misery another day when you shall be past hopes to consider that once there was hopes and you have thus outstood them the day will come when you shall be under absolute despair the door altogether shut upon you you finallie shut in and then think how sad it will be that you shall remember that once the door was open and you stood out Pro. 1.24 as you did God now calls and you will not you shall then call and he will not he will laugh at your calamitie and mock when your fear comes when alas you shall call on the rocks to cover you from the wrath of the Lamb. Oh that you might take warning Rev. 6.15.16.17 that none of you may in hell lament your desperate condition when you shall there be past hopes and shall remember that this hath been preached to you that there is hope yet for you if you would repent nay that there you should remember that we this day foretold you what would befall you if you still stood out CAP. VIII The way readied for gross sinners to come over into a condition of Hope IF any soul be by all or any of these Motives startled as if these words that so neerly concern you should amongst so many fall to the ground and none be moved by them none be stirred in so great a congregation to look after their soules I know not what to think it may signifie towards us These sermons though by a worthlesse Instrument yet as the Lords message will breed something either the conversion of some or else some speedy judgement on you for your impenitency The removall of the Gospell or the like which the Lord

trick of idling at home on the Sabbath day If men be wicked yet if they go to the publick Ordinances the Devill is not so sure of any of them a word set on by Preaching may drive him out of possession of the very worst of you and therefore when he designs to have some more then ordinary security of you that you shall be true to his service and be his for ever never to over-run his Colours he would break you off from Ordinances and then he needs look no more after you unless it be to set you on some eminent Piece of Work for him which only such a one is fit for He may have hopes of many that go to Church that he shall light of a good share of them but this puts him to pains and he is oft made to be-stir himself since the Ordinances of God make Batteries on his Holds and he is lyable to be turned at every Sermon out of some heart and Sinners by long Sieges may be forced to yield but when he knows he hath a strong Garrison within and hath removed them from all Leagures he may leave that Soul and find it at any time safe enough to him We in Christs behalf what Promises soever any make to us can have no security of you if you keep still in loose and bad Company No more can he have hold of any for Hell as long as still they are frequenting Publick Ordinances And those that do thus he doth not only design to be sure of them but he intends some more then ordinary Service from them these men are like to serve him in any thing he puts upon them they keep out of the way of having any thing to hinder them What is there to hinder the vilest thought of taking place of Corruption rising to an height in the heart go to the Church and some word may meet it and give check to it that if men be wicked yet they cannot afford to be so very wicked but when he hath you out of the noise of the word no Voyce behind you to tell you of another way you know not what wickedness you shall stop at Thus have I heard of and known some that have ended their daies on the Gallows that have confessed that the first step towards that Ignominious Death hath been their Sabbath-breaking When men dare turn their backs on Gods Ordinances and sit at home it is hard to think what Meditations they may have at home nay what for vileness and wretchedness may they not have Sure Satan hath a design to take you from Gods teaching that he may have you in secret and on Gods own Day to teach you wholly at home If idling at home be thy Sabbath-daies work no marvail if Thieving Whoredome and what not be thy Sabbath-daies Meditations Alas it is not a matter of Cloaths 1. Ja. 2.1.2 3 4 5. God hath enjoyned us not to be partiall in our selves and to judge after evill Thoughts a poor man in vile Rayment in case of Contest is not to be under-valued but to be equally administred to in a way of Justice as the rich man in costly Apparell with his Gold Ring on his Finger and if you come into these Assemblies much more we shall be as glad to see you as greater men and as much desire the Salvation of your Souls 2. Sure it is a greater shame to stay at home needlesly then to appear at Church in the poorest Rayment 3. The Divell will venture to teach you in Rags 4. And besides see what a Design the Divell hath carried on against you it may be you have been of better fashion among your Neighbours and you have drunk your selves out of your Cloaths your former going to Church hath not hindred your loose living and now he hath brought you to beggery and so ashamed to go to Church at all and now he may do what he will with you 5. But when you come to die and find the want of what you should die with and this upon your Consciences that you neglected the means of getting it what a rage will this leave you in 6. And besides all this the Damned in Hell if they might have leave to come to the Ordinances would make it no matter of Cloaths they would be glad to hear a Sermon for the good of their Soules though in the poorest Cloaths that ever man wore But men that do thus there is the least hopes possibly of them of any again And those that leave the publick Ordinances out of Conscience their Condition is no better they are to lead the Divels Van they are gone through Profession to the Divels Camp on the other side They frame mischief by a Law They forsake Assemblies and justifie it and doubly affront the Ordinance of Christ and these are more unlike to return to the Assemblies again and as sure as any to feel the damning effects of their neglect of them This for those that are very hopeless But thirdly We may shew what our hopes are of any of you that are yet vile and live in sin Why truly we may to affect your hearts with it open our very hearts to you about your Estate As indeed it were but reasonable that you should ask your Ministers advice about your Condition you are not apt to trust your Assurance for your Estates without the advice of your Lawyer For your bodily Health you are willing to ask the Physitian and and very earnestly sometimes desire him to tell you what he thinks of you both because you judge the matter is Important and that their skill in the business is rather to be trusted then yours since better verst in it and how comes it that the Minister is so seldome Consulted with in the case of the immortall Soul is it because the matter is of less Concernment or you have skill enough to judge your selves Or that Ministers are to no manner of purpose As for the use that a great many make of them they were the needlessest Officers that ever were set on foot or intruth is it because you least matter this business of any But we may in faithfulness tell you what our thoughts are of you Gratis Sure we may say of the very vilelest that hear us there is hopes and we tell you in our God we have hopes of you of the vilest Drunkard unclean prophane person in the Congregation thus far it may be it pleaseth you and we shall endeavour your profit as much in what we shall say further We have some kind of hopes about you whilst we consider 1. That it is out of ignorance that any of you do as you do if you knew what you did you would close with Christ presently The God of this World blinds your eyes 2 Cor. 4.4 that the glorious light of the Gospell breaks not in prevailingly upon you 2. That yet we may see a day of the worst of you God may turn you There

to be reconciled unto God 2 Cor. 5.20 we entreat you in his Name to come in nay in his stead And do you think that if it were no more then for the comfort of us to our labours in this work that he would send us on such an Errand and not stand to what he sends in Ambassage by us Doth he pray you to be reconciled and when you are willing do you think that he will go back and not be reconciled Far be it from us or you to have such a thought of him 3. His tenders of mercy to them that refuse him and the mercy he hath shewed to thee in thy former sinfull estate may make thee believe he is not so scant of Mercie as to have none for thee now thou repentest Doth he stretch out his hands all the day long to a wicked and gain-saying People Rom. 10.21 Psa 81.11 to them that will have none of him And will he not embrace him that will have him that desires after him Doth Christ so lament over Jerusalem that she would not be gathered when he often would have gathered her and saies If thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace Lu. 10.42 and brings in this even thou even thou rebellious murtherous Jerusalem even thou mightst have had Mercie and sadly concludes that she had out-stood her day and will he not rejoice over one that sees what makes for his peace and gladly embraces it and comes in Do you think he is onlie earnest for them that will not accept of it like some of us that have a mind to save our Gift and our Credit too would offer it earnestly and invite him strongly if we thought he would not take it such things are common amongst men but certainly the Lord invites none but those that should find welcome if they would come in surely if the vilest Sinners are invited to come Penitents need not doubt of their being received Besides thou knowest what Mercies he afforded thee in the time of thy Ignotance He may say to thee I girded thee when thou knewest me not Es 45.5 As he says to Cyrus Many a Mercy he prepared thee with that at last his goodnesse might draw thee to repentance and will he have no mercie now thou dost repent It can never be If he had intended to flay thee he might have taken the advantage of the time when thou wert in enmitie to him he might have come on thee in thy blindnesse and have destroyed thee and have had thee speechlesse but now to draw thy heart after him to throw thee off is the unlikelyest thing that ever was Oh no He that could forbear thee when thou sinnedst sure will pardon when thou repentest His carriage towards others that will not repent and towards thee while thou wert imponitent give thee no ground to have hard thoughts of him as if he should refuse thee upon thy repentance He doth not use to cast Souls from him that ever loved him It is not consistent with the Tenor of the Gospell and his hitherto constant dealings with Sinners in the world to cast any Souls into Hell that will hang about him Most that go into Hell are easilyer shaken off then thy Soul in this state would be 4. The greatest of the work is done already Christ hath paid the price already If Christ were yet to die thou mightst be more doubtfull thou mightst think it would hardly be that ever he would come into the World for such a One as thou though that which did bring him when he came would again bring him if it were to do again Thou wouldst have made an ill believer under the Law to have believed in a Christ to come that art so hard to believe now the price is paid and the Work is compleated and done by him as it is It is but now his giving thee a part in his satisfaction which is a small thing towards the painfull making of it A part in that full Price he hath laid down will serve thy turn which how easie a matter is it for him to bestow on thee that stuck not at the main of laying down his life for thee The King was offended that when his Oxen and Fatlings were killed and all things were ready that they came not to the Marriage Matt. 22. If men should come to their friends to feast with them when they are not provided it is some trouble but when the dinner is provided and persons are invited persons provide nothing but what they would have merrily eaten and they take it ill if persons do not come The Feast is prepared and God had rather you came then not If Christ died for us when we were Enemies how much more shall we be saved by his life If Christ when we were Enemies laid down the Price now we would be Friends will he not give us a share in it shall we not be saved now he is risen and gone into Heaven and the worst is over No more remains to be done but giving out shares and portious in that which is done so fully already Thou wouldst hardly believe he would come to die for thee if it were to do now as certainly he did when he did it upon as little desert in the Creature as thou canst shew in thy self if thou canst not believe he will give thee a part in the price he hath paid already 5. He mightily enjoyns mercy and exalts it among men and he enjoyns us to shew mercy after his example Be mercifull as he is merciful Eph. 41 l and forgive as God for Christs sake forgives you He bids you do nothing in this case but what he will do the like upon your self if need be The Servant that pulled his Fellow-servant by the Throat if he had found God such a one Mat. 18.32 as thou thinkest him to be he had not been so dashed as he was when his Lord called him to account He might have said Why should I forgive him when thou wilt not forgive me five hundred Pence with me is as great a Summ to lose as a thousand Talents with thee if thou wilt have all I must get what I can in of what is owing me towards paying of thee But you find the Lord had forgiven the thousand Talents when he reproves the exaction of the five hundred Pence upon the Brother O this pity is to be found amongst Christians and it is in resemblance to Christ's pity to Sinners and yet thou doubtless whether it be in Christ or no! How odious is unmercifulness amongst men David was wroth with the man that had done this thing because he had no pity 2 Sa. 12 6. as if a man and no pity was a thing intolerable The Senator that killed the Sparow which flew into his hand for refuge from the Hawk was condemned to die as unfit to be a Governour or to live that would shew

Cruelty to that which flew to him for refuge Dost thou fly to Christ pursued by Sin Satan and thine own Conscience and dost think he will slay thee The Emperour that proclaimed Who ever would bring in such a Rebell should have so much money The man came in and demanded the Reward himself and the Emperour gave it him Can such Nobleness be found amongst the Creatures and will you think the Lord will not pardon and reward in like manner the Sinner that brings in himself the Rebell unto him If a man could afford to do thus bountifully God can much more Edward 1. King of England Faxe 's Acts and Monument when a Servant of his on the other side of the River crossed him in his sport and he said he would have rebuked him if he had him on that side the man seemed to set him at defiance in that he was on the other side Whereupon he makes his Horse take the River and ventures his life to revenge himself on him the man seeing his Rage never over-ran him but came and held his Neck to his Sword This submission of his cooled him which the River could not and he put up his Sword and touched him not Satis est prostrasse leoni And do you think the Father of Mercies Graciousness and Goodness will come so far behind as to slay the Soul that falls down at his Feet and humbly comes in unto him Certainlie you distrust that in God in the present case which you would not doubt to obtain from many a man in the like case Prov 19.11 It is mans Glory and what not Gods too to pass by a transgression 6. He hath shewed mercy when he hath declared Judgement and will he not shew mercy when he hath promised mercy He said plainly Jon. 3.4 Yet forty daies and Nineveh shall be over-thrown Joxah took it absolutelie thought much it was not over-thrown there was a reserve still for repentance a tacit exception if they repented not And do we think when he promises Mercie upon this condition expresly that he will refuse to shew it Mercie rejoices against Judgment The Penitent hath alwaies such influence on God that Judgments threatned still must be put by if repentance come in and shall Mercie promised to Repentance be denied Jonah saw God so inclined to Mercy that he saies he thought it was no going of a Message of Anger from him to say peremptorily Wrath should follow his prediction Sure then Jon. 4.3 if Jonah had been sent of our Message he would have gone merrily upon it to shew Mercy to the Penitent this was a Message of a matter of the right kind and that which the Lord hath evermore been famous for and never failed the Messenger in performance of it and fulfilling according to his word Mercy breaks forth when Judgments are threatned upon the tacit condition of repentance can we think Mercy will be denied where it is expresly promised to the Penitent Repentance is a thing the Lord hath alwaies so looked at that he hath abated of a Judgment threatned for but the shew of it Ahab did but humble himself in Sackcloath 1 Kin. 21.27.29 and walked softly and the Lord shews Elijah this and defers the Judgment for it to his Sons daies Certainly if he had seen Ahab repent in earnest he that delaied it for a shew would have taken it quite off for true repentance and would have said I will not bring this Judgment upon him at all O the gratious disposition of God to shew mercy may encourage the Penitent to hope in his mercy in this plain case he is in 7. Christ Jesus did never refuse any diseased person that came to him and needed his help when he was on Earth Mat. 8.7 He took on him our Infirmities and bare our sicknesses Though this was especially done when he suffered for our sins on the Cross as you have it applied elsewhere yet in this place Christ when he saw the sicknesses of our nature that came on us for sin 1 Pet. 2.24 in tending to satisfie for sin he was so pitifull that he took himself concerned in those pitifull Maladies he found upon the Nature which he had assumed and as fellowfeeling with us took part with us therin and stirred up his Divine Power for the release of the severall persons so affected Now if Christ did never turn back any poor diseased Creature that came to him with their Bodies but still healed them all Mat. 9.2 and this further usually began at pardon of sin with all his Patients and healed the Soul into the Bargain though seldome that was looked for by them Do we think that he will turn off thee Mat 9.2 that comest to him with a diseased Soul and further seekest for pardon of sin in the first and chief and only place If Jesus Christ turn a diseased Soul off that comes unto him for Cure he doth that which he hath said he will not do nay I may say he doth that which he never yet did And further thou findest him much changed from that gratious disposition that he had when he was here And sure that can never be He is not on the Throne of Mercy in Heaven an Advocate with the Father for his c. to have less pity and mercy then heretofore he had for poor Sinners It is triumphant Mercy now and therefore what he did before he will do that and much more now He ows not a Mite to Justice he is come through all the Demands goes to the Father released from the Grave sin having no more to charge upon him and therefore now he is in his Royalty of Mercy and Interest for us and so sure can want of nothing which ever he shewed of pity to poor Creatures while he was here Now did he ever do as thou fanciest he will do with thee 8. Will he not shew pity How come men to shew pity to you Ministers that see you in trouble that can pity you their hearts are turned towards you for all your Aversions and untowardness heretofore upon a change You are to them as if you had never rebelled and never been otherwise In our esteem and affection we look upon you in unregeneracy and converted as not the same persons Our hearts are opened to you upon your coming in and do you think that we that are but finite streightned hard-hearted Creatures can have so much affection towards you and God who is infinite in mercy that is the Fountain of all pity that he can want favour for you Sure if the Masters chief Stewards be so kind to you they have some Intimation from their Master of his good will towards you or they are not so good to be so forward of themselves or sure they do think it is not against their Masters mind or they durst never shew that favour to you which they do That men should pity you it is a sign that