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A65846 A serious exhortation to an holy life, or, A plea for the absolute necessity of inherent righteousness in those that hope to be saved by Tho. Wadsworth. Wadsworth, Thomas, 1630-1676. 1660 (1660) Wing W190; ESTC R23587 25,975 74

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A Serious Exhortation TO AN Holy Life OR A Plea for the absolute necessity of Inherent Righteousness in those that hope to be saved By Tho. Wadsworth Preacher to the Church at Newington-Butts in Surrey Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with a●l men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. LONDON Printed by R. I. for Andrew Kembe at St. Margarets Hill in Southwark And are to bee sold under St. Marga●ets Church on New-Fishstreet Hill 1660. TO My poor Parishoners of Newington-Butts Whose souls are precious to my God and Saviour and I dare say to mee SIRS THe remembrance of the strange Providences of my God that were apparent in bringing mee to bee your Teacher and have bearn mee company ever since in the work of my Ministry amongst you makes mee think I was born and still continue in the Land of the living for your sakes for the service of your immortal souls to help forward your salvation from that consuming burning wrath that hangs over your heads till Christ bee formed in you and your natur●s changed from what is earthly and sensual to that which is divine This Exhortation to an Holy life I send you as being very confident that without it not one of you shall ever see the face of God but to your shame and confusion if I press it hard upon your consciences blame mee not for it is my full belief you must bee damned without is and my love and pitty to you constrains mee to do my best to prevent so sad a judgement If you wonder how I dare venture to speak so much to you in Print I tell you I dare do any thing for your sakes yea hazzard the reputation of my discretion rather than bee thought defective in my care to your never dying spirits It comes not seldome to my thoughts and lyeth not a little pressing on my spirits Ah what shall I do more for poor Newington to help them towards Heaven before I dye somewhat I have done already as many of you can bear mee witnesse when with prayers and tears not onely publickly but from one house to another I have beseeched you to bee reconciled unto God and it is my greatest grief I have found these six years since my coming amongst you that I have done no more but alas what shall I or what can I do more I would you could but tell mee shall I come and live in all your Families that I may bee continually present to instruct pray with comfort reprove and over-see you this is all impossible I am but one man and can no more multiply my presence than I can my persons or shall I daily follow you from house to house How can it bee my more publick work is great abroad and not small at home besides the care of a selected people lyes upon mee that presseth more than most men imagine except them that feel it and I am but a man and have but the strength of man subject to bodily infirmities with my brethren But however I shall promise to do my best in this kind as I have begun to supply the want of my constant presence with you I have sent you my whole heart in Print that it may speak to you when I am absent it is but little yet I intended it should have been less but it is well it is no more Do but you accept it as kindely as it is offered and improve it as faithfully as it was conscientiously penned and I shall desire no more being very confident it will then run and prosper Which is the thing that is most earnestly prayed for By him whom the Lord hath made your Teacher Tho. Wadsworth A serious Exhortation to an Holy Life OR A Plea for the absolute necessity of Inherent Righteousness in those that hope to bee saved Matth. 5.20 I say unto you That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall in no case enter into the Kingdome of Heaven STay Reader Thou hast perused the Text and canst not but see that it concerns thy eternal life or death I prethee answer mee this one Question and then in the fear of God read on Reader Thou art a dying man or woman Tell mee when thy breath is gone thy eyes closed thy bell hath towled and thy body coffined up for the grave Then Then wouldest thou rather have thy soul in Heaven or Hell in joy or torment with God or Devils For Gods sake make a pause and give mee thine answer before thou dost proceed Tell mee art thou one that carest not whither thou goest or makest no matter whether it bee to heaven or hell Is either of them to thee indifferent And art thou resolved to persist in this indifferency If it bee so Sinner I advise thee throw down the book and as thou lovest thy soul read not a letter more For I so love and pitty thee as to those sorrows that within a few days nay a few hours thou must certainly endure that I am loath that this sheetshould help to wind thee up for Hell or any wayes conduce to increase thy pains or augment thy torments For know Sinner This is the nature of that Gospel of Christ which wee preach or write that it either softens or hardens It is a savour of life to life or of death to death to him that reads or hears it It will either prepare thee for Heaven or ripen thee for Hell for of that very Jesus by whom onely thou canst hope for salvation it was prophesied Luke 20.34 Behold this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel Reader perswade thy self of this That Jesus Christ and his written or preached Gospel if they prove not means to the raising thee from that state of sin and death wherein by nature thou liest they will prove the instruments of that fatal fall that thou shalt never recover to eternity and of this very nature are these lines thou art now perusing being I am confident according to the minde of God I say therefore again if thou art one that hast lived an unrighteous ungodly life and resolvest not to change I beseech thee cast by the book and do not read it for why should it do any thing to promote thy ruine But if thou are a man or woman that canst not dare to think of being damned but tremblest at the very name or thought of it if thou dost heartily desire when thou leavest this poor empty miserable world to exchange it for that full rich and glorious Kingdom of God above then come away and I will lead thee into the path of life and tell thee what a man or woman thou must bee and what a life thou mayest and must live if ever thou hopest to live in that desired and incomparably blessed inheritance of the Saints Hoping now I have got a serious attentive soul to speak to for such Reader I presume thouart let mee