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conscience_n	die_v	fire_n	worm_n	1,088	5	9.7140	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90296	A vision of vnchangeable free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserved sinners: wherein Gods uncontrollable eternall purpose, in sending, and continuing the gospel unto this nation, in the middest of oppositions and contingencies, is discovered: his distinguishing mercy, in this great work, exalted, asserted, against opposers, repiners: in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, April. 29. being the day of publike humiliation. Whereunto is annexed, a short defensative about church-government, (with a countrey essay for the practice of church-government there) toleration and petitions about these things. / By Iohn Owen, minister of the gospel at Coggeshall in Essex.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1646 (1646)	Wing O825; Thomason E334_15; Thomason E334_16; ESTC R200768	49,154	60

cum Christo quam regnare cum Caesare said Luther a dungeon with Christ is a Throne and a Throne without Christ a hell Nothing so ill but Christ will compensate the greatest evil in the world is sin and the greatest sin was the first and yet Gregory feared not to cry O felix culpa quae talem meruit redemptorem oh happy fault which found such a Redeemer All mercies without Christ are bitter and every cup is sweet that is seasoned but with a drop of his blood he truly is amor delitiae humani generis the love and delight of the sonnes of men without whom they must perish eternally for there is no other name given unto them whereby they may be saved Act. 4. He is the way men without him are Cains wanderers vagabonds He is the truth men without him are liars devils who was so of old He is the life without him men are dead dead in trespasses and sins He is the light without him men are in darknes and go they know not whither He is the vine those that are not graffed in him are withered branches prepared for the fire He is the rock men not built on him are carried away with a flood He is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the first and the last the Author and the ender the founder and the finisher of our salvation he that hath not him hath neither beginning of good nor shall have end of misery O blessed Jesus how much better were it not to be then to be without thee Never to be borne then not to die in thee A thousand hels come short of this eternally to want Jesus Christ as men do that want the Gospel 2. They want all holy Communion with God wherein the onely happines of the soul doth consist He is the life light joy and blessednes of the soul without him the soul in the body is but a dead soul in a living Sepulchre It is true there be many that say who will shew us any good but unles the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us we perish for evermore Thou hast made us for thy self ô Lord and our heart is unquiet untill it come to thee You who have tasted how gracious the Lord is who have had any converse and communion with him in the issues and goings forth of his grace those delights of his soul with the children of men would you live would not life it self with a confluence of all earthly endearements be a very hell without him Is it not the daily language of your hearts Whom have we in heaven but thee and in earth there is nothing in comparison of thee The soul of man is of a vast boundles comprehension so that if all created good were centred into one enjoyment and that bestowed upon one soul because it must needs be finite and limited as created it would give no solid contentment to his affections nor satisfaction to his desires In the presence and fruition of God alone there is joy for evermore at his right hand are rivers of pleasure the welsprings of life and blessednes Now if to be without communion with God in this life wherein the soul hath so many avocations from the contemplation of its own misery for earthly things are nothing else is so unsupportable a calamity ah what shall that poor soul do that must want him for eternity as all they must do who want the Gospel 3. They want all the Ordinances of God the joy of our hearts and comfort of our souls Oh the sweetnes of a Sabbath The heavenly raptures of prayer Oh the glorious communion of Saints which such men are deprived of if they knew the value of the hidden pearl and these things were to be purchased what would such poor souls not part with for them 4. They will at last want Heaven and salvation they shall never come to the presence of God in glory never inhabite a glorious mansion they shall never behold Jesus Christ but when they shall call for rocks and mountains to fall upon them to hide them from his presence they shall want light in utter darknes want life under the second death want refreshment in the middest of flames want healing under gnawing of conscience want grace continuing to blaspheme want glory in full misery and which is the sum of all this they shall want an end of all this for their worme dieth not neither is their fire quenched Thirdly Because being in all this want they know not that they want any thing and so never make out for any supply Laodicea knew much but yet because she knew not her wants she had almost as good have known nothing Gospellesse men know not that they are blinde and seek not for eye-salve they know not that they are dead and seek not for life What ever they call for not knowing their wants is but like a mans crying for more weight to presse him to death and therefore when the Lord comes to any with the Gospel he is found of them that sought him not and made manifest to them that asked not after him Rom. 10. 20. This is a seal upon their misery without Gods free-mercy like the stone laid upon the mouth of the cave by Joshua to keep in the five Kings untill they might be brought out to be hanged All that men do in the world is but seeking to supply their wants either their naturall wants that nature may be supplied or their sinfull wants that their lusts may be satisfied or their spirituall wants that their souls may be saved For the two first men without the Gospel lay out all their strength but of the last there is amongst them a deep silence Now this is all one as for men to cry out that their finger bleeds whilest a sword is run thorow their hearts and they perceive it not to desire a wart to be cured whilest they have a plague-sore upon them And hence perhaps it is that they are said to go to hell like sheep Psal. 49. 14. very quietly without dread as a bird hasting to the snare and not knowing that it is for his life Prov. 7. 23. and there ly down in utter disappointment and sorrow for evermore 4. Because all mercies are bitter judgements to men that want the Gospel all fuell for hell Aggravations of condemnation all cold drink to a man in a feaver pleasant at the entrance but increasing his torments in the close like the book in the Revelation sweet in the mouth but bitter in the belly When God shall come to require his bread and wine his flax and oil peace and prosperity liberty and victories of Gospellesse men they will curse the day that ever they enjoyed them so unspirituall are many mens mindes and so unsavoury their judgements that they reckon mens happines by their possessions