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A66437 Warnings to the unclean in a discourse from Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield lecture, August 25th. 1698. At the execution of Sarah Smith. By Mr. John Williams pastor of the Church at Deerfield. Williams, John, 1664-1729. 1699 (1699) Wing W2743; ESTC W15452 28,591 67

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more undiscorned God layes his plagues on some mens Souls when he layes them on other mens bodies He sends leanness into some mens Souls when he sends leanness on others Estates Ha●'t God let you alone and poured upon you a Spirit of deep sleep given you eyes that you should not see nor perceive nor be converted to this day To be left of God to go on stupidly in impenitency is a very great testimony of Divine Wrath. Soul plagues are the forest plagues 4. The longer ago your sins were committed the more hazardous your unconcernedness about ●epenting of them getting a Pardon of them God wont be patient alwayes though he is ●ometimes long suffering if he waites on Sinners till they bring forth briers and thornes he would have them know they are nigh to Cursing Yea such as are impenitent after much long suffering may fear that they are Vessels fitted to destruction Rom. 9.22 God sayes I come three years looking for fruit and find none cut it down why cumbereth it the ground Luk. 13.7 ult 2. Some are ready to argue that their sins are but little if they had been left to gross acts of Fornication or Adultery they acknowledge they should have had need to have haltened to Chrst for a pardon but they were only guilty of some wanton dalliances therefore they don't think God is very angry with them 1. Though some sins comparatively considered are little yet no sins absolutely considered are little and small because against an Infinite God and Violations and Transgressions of his holy Laws and Commands 2. Such little sins if your Consciences were awakened and enlightned would fill you with great perplexity and distress As long as the commandment did not come with Convictions of its exactness and spirituality on Pauls Conscience he was alive and could do well enough but when such an exposition as Christ put upon the Commandment came sin revived and ●e dyed he was slain and could justifie himself no longer 3. God finds stubbornness rebellion which are as that Sin of Witchraft where Sinners can see only humane frailty and sins of Infirmity 1 Sam. 15.23 Saul saith he had obeyed the● he had a good end in varying from the command or the people are to blame but God tell● him of rebellion and stubbornness which were to him as Witchcraft and Idolatry God tell● him that he had in so doing rejected the Word of the Lord. Christ tells us he that looks upon a Woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart Hear what account God makes of that which you call a look a cast o● the eye a little thing Isa. 3.16 17. 4. The more madness to break with God and expose your Souls to Hell Torment for these things that had but a little of pleasure to entice Ezek. 13.19 5. Little Sins make way for greater One Sin allowed stupifies and makes way for great ones the greatest Sinner began with that which you call little Eve first saw that the tree was good Cain was first wroth with Abel and then slew him 3. Some are arguing thus God is long-suffering and patient no hazzard of present danger Eccles. 11.8 If God strike Sinners dead presently they should be afraid to put off Repentance but God waits and forbears he waited long on the Old World on Sodom on many wicked men of old they don't doubt but God will yet wait on them they see no appearance of wrath as yet to this Consider 1. Is not this to despise the riches of Gods Grace and Patience to the treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath Rom. 2.4 5. can't you be content without a treasure of wrath that you can find in your heart thus to delay Repentance 2. God did not exercise any patience towards the Fallen Angels and he is under no obligation to exercise any towards you Jude 6. 2 Pet. 2.5 What reason can you give why God should wait any longer on you can you do him more Services God is very arbitrary in his waiting longer or shorter on Sinners 3. God doth not ordinarily wait so long on Gospel Sinners Rom. 9.28 no Sinners ripen sooner for cutting down in vengeance than Gospel Sinners God makes very quick work with some Acts 13.46 how quick and sudden was God with Ananias and Saphira 4. God threatens to make quick work with them that harden themselves in Sins in hopes of long-suffering Ezek. 12.27 28. So that you have no security in putting off repentance it s very hazzardous 4. Some will reason thus with themselves God is very gracious and merciful and pardons great Sins and Sinners God pardoned Manasseh and Mary Magdalen and other great Sinners If God had not proclaimed his Name to be gracious and merciful slow to anger forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sin they should be afraid of delaying repentance but inasmuch as God is so very merciful they hope it will be no very hard thing to perswade him to pardon afterwards To this consider 1. That he is a just and righteous God too and pardons no Sinners but such as are penitent it 's true God gives great Sinners encouragement to turn to him and upon their repentance he will forgive their iniquities yea multiply to pardon but remember he is a just God too when he proclaims his Name with so much encouragement to repenting Sinners he subjoyns that he will not at all acquit the guilty Nahum 1.3 as merciful as God is he will not shew mercy and grace to the wronging and injuring of his Justice 2. You take a course to be shut out of all mercy and to have God appear shutting up all bowels and pitty from you Deut. 29.19 Such reasonings are to be abominated Rom. 6.1 surely you turn the grace of God to wantonness when you improve it to encourage you on in ways of sin and rebellion 5. Some plead for themselves that they are weak and ignorant God hath not given them muck knowledge as others wherefore their sin is not so provoking to God as the sins of them that have more knowledge they hope God will pity their weakness and not be so very severe with them 1. One sin won't excuse you for another a gracious act presently after a sinful one will not excuse you before God surely the pleading of that which is a sin will be no security for a sin It 's true the more any sin against knowledge the more aggravated is their sin but ignorance is no defence against Gods anger especially in such as you that have had your Education in New-England under the plain convincing preaching of the Gospel You must of necessity have refused to attend to the Word preached that remain ignorant as to the plain principles of Religion you must have set at nought Gods Counsels and closed and shut your own eyes What excuse will it be for you if you are willingly ignorant you did not see because you shut your eyes and would not 2.
WARNINGS TO THE Unclean IN A DISCOURSE From Rev. XXI 8. Preacht at Springfield Lecture August 25 th 1698. At the Execution of Sarah Smith By Mr. John Williams Pastor of the Church at Deerfield Boston Printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry at his Shop over-against the Town-House 1699. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE HENRY STEVENS of Vermont FSA c. 4 Trafalgar Square London 1882 TO THE READER ALthough in the Popish Sense we m●y allow no sin to be Venial For the wages of every sin is death yet there are doubtless degrees in sin some are in their nature circumstances more peculiarly aggravated and expose to a much sorer Condemnation Among which may be reckoned those which are not only violations of positive Precepts but of the very dictates and law of nature in such sins there is both a contempt of the Divine Authority and a great deal of violence offered to Conscience which would restrain from the commission of them and is a plain demonstration of prevailing Atheism of the heart and mighty power and love of sin in it to over-bear the light they have but that such sins should be committed under the clear light of the Gospel shews men to be wholly without excuse It therefore is and ought to be for a lamentation that though we live in such an Age of the World wherein the Light of the Gospel shines with greater clearness probably then it ever did since the first revelation of it yea in days too wherein the Wrath of God is revealed from heaven against the unrighteousness of men That in such days there should be found so many sad instances of these horrid and unnatural sins of Murther and Uncleanness but especially of this latter that there is ground to fear that it hath been one of the things for which God hath so long had a controversie with the Land As for what is obvious to men of this nature we have reason to hope that the Land is free from the guilt of it by the vigilance and faithfulness of those to whom God hath committed the Sword of Justice but there are many things of this nature secret which the method of God in his Judgments seems directly to point at It is noted among the procuring causes of Israels miseries 2 King 17.9 That the Children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right in the sight of the Lord probably this may re●err to what we read in 1 King 14.24 There were Sodomites in the land However that be it 's certain the Prophets reckon up the sins of Whoredom and Adultery among the black Catalogue of their abominations and the causes of their calamities Jer. 5.7 They assembled themselves by troops in Harlots houses and Hos. 4.11 Whor●dom and Wine take away the heart these are such things as defile the Land where-ever they are committed and will certainly procure an increase of Judgments unless repentance prevents whensoever God in his just Wrath leaves any to be monuments of shame ignominy before the world it is a loud call to all who lye under such guilt to be speedy and thorough in repentance God both requires and expects it should be so Deut. 13.11 All Israel shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously on which account it seems very sutable to accompany such sad instances with solemn warnings that those who are under the like guilt may be awakened and others may be awed and it is especially needful that persons be put in remembrance of the dreadful consequence of these things in the world to come in comparison of which the greatest shame and severe penalties here are as nothing and as the Judgment of God is more severe so it is more certain he hath positively declared Heb. 13.4 Whoremongers and adulterers God will Judge these works of darkness may escape the notice so the Judgment of men but there will be no escaping the Judgment of God there is no darkness or shadow of death where the workers of Iniquity may hide themselves the eye of God follows men into their darkest recesses and he will surely have a day to bring to light the hidden things of darkness To promote these Ends it is that many of the Hearers of the following sollid and seasonable Warning delivered just before the Execution of a person convicted of these horrid sins of Murther and Adultery have desired the publication of it to which the Author hath consented being desirous to further the right Improvement of such a sad Example to deter others from the like abominations As for the person Executed for these sins she is an awful instance of the infatuating hardening and stupifying power of this bruitish Sin of Uncleanness her love to frequent practice of it having occasioned her stifling many convictions contracted a fearful stupidity and sottishness upon her near the approaches of death It is earnestly to be wished that such Warnings and Examples might not be in vain that all would so improve them that we might see no more such Examples To conclude therefore let me perswade all to consider the heinous nature and dreadful effects of these sins the Apostle gives a particular account hereof 1 Cor. 6.9 13 14 15 16 17. It s a sin against a mans own body it is a defiling of that which should be the temple of God it is a Sin loathsome in it self and makes those who are guilty of it loathsome to God and to men too when it is discovered it is a sin that is ordinarily the punishment of other sins Prov. 23.27 A Whore is a deep ditch and a narrow pit the abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein It is a Sin that dreadfully hardens and besots those who are guilty of it Prov. 21.9 't is said of the Harlot n●ne that go in unto her return again neither take they hold of the path of life 2. That persons would more carefully avoid the inducements to this Sin which are too common Such are over cos●ly light garish Attire impudent and immodest carriages filthy communications idleness intemperance by which the body is inflamed and modesty banished the command that forbids the acts of Uncleanness forbids also the occasions and tendencies to it and unless there be a tenderness and watchfulness to avoid these there will be little hopes that gross pollutions will be avoided Thus commending the following Warnings to the Blessing of God and to the serious consideration of the Rising Generation I am Your Souls well-wisher W. Williams WARNINGS TO ALL Unclean Persons Rev XXI 8. But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire brimstone which is the second death SInners promise themselves a great deal of pleasure satisfaction and delight in the ways of Disobedience to the holy Commands of God but the destinations and appointments of God to them are far