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A64955	The conversion of a sinner explained and applied from Ezek. 33. 11 ... part whereof was preached some while since at Saviours Southwark : The day of grace, discoursed of from Luke 19. 41,42 ... / by Nathaneal Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1669 (1669)	Wing V402; ESTC R39737	47,380	118

to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all that call upon him Or is it because you never heard of the way and means of recovering life and flying from the punishment you have deserved How often have I sent my Prophets that you might be brought to believe to repent and to obey But still your neck is as an iron sinew you are resolved to rush on in sin If you perish you may thank your selves If you are destroyed 't is because you chuse destruction Three Doctrines the Text affords us First That evil wayes are the wayes of death Secondly The great reason why men die and die for ever is because they will Thirdly The Lord does call and call again upon sinners to turn from their evil wayes and live Doct. 1. I begin with the first Doctrine That evil wayes are the wayes of death As they are morally evil so evil and destructive to them that walk in them Indeed these wayes may seem right but because of this they are not the less but the more pernicious Prov. 14. 12. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the wayes of death 1. These evil wayes do many times accelerate and hasten death temporal That was the sentence pronounced upon mans fall Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return And how often by sin is the execution of that sentence speeded We read of some not suffered to live out half their dayes Psal 55. 23. the reason is because they live so wickedly Those whose carcasses fell in the wilderness might have lived to possess the Land of Promise but they sometimes murmured sometimes they commit idolatry sometimes fornication and at last the oath is sworn they should not enter into Canaan The intemperate and unclean how do they waste their strength How many diseases do they punish themselves with And though so miserably unprepared for judgment hasten their departure out of this world to the tribunal of him who judges righteously 2. These evil wayes God who is our life is not to be found in In a spiritual sense we are dead though alive while we walk here The Ephesians are said to be dead in trespasses and sin while they walked according to the course of this world and had their conversation in the lusts of their flesh Eph. 2. 2 3. If the life of the soul does consist in being united to God in being anim●ted and acted by his Spirit then iniquity that separates between God and us Isa 59. 2. must needs be granted a deadly thing 3. These evil wayes are the beaten path to hells damnation to that death which is everlasting Never any came to hell but through these wayes and there is not one that continues to walk in them without conversion but shall at last come thither The enemy upon the pale horse without a second is deadful but when Hell follows immediately after him alas what hand can be strong what heart can be able to endure This second Death is by one of the Fathers called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The death that is immortal because the sinner is never put out of his pain alwayes tortured but never quite dispatched the fire burns still but never totally consumes them whom it burns the worm still gnaws but is never satisfied VVhither away besotted and blinded soul whither is it thou art making such post haste Is it gain delight and happiness which thou hast in chase that thou seemest rather to flie than run towards it Alas no 't is in the broad way that thou drivest on so furiously 't is not gain but loss 't is not pleasure but pain 't is not an happiness but misery ay and the extreamest misery which thou art pursuing Oh stop thy course and go no further Oh leave this lower path Prov. 15. 24. The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell b●neath You see in what respects evil wayes are the wayes of death Now the righteousness of God in punishing those with death that persist in these wayes will be evident if these things following are considered 1. These wayes are expresly forbidden by him that is the supream Law-giver who has power to save and to destroy and for so mean a wretch as man is to affront and despise that Majesty and Authority that is so infinitely high above him does justly deserve an infinite punishment Besides the Lord profers himself to a sinner if he will forsake his evil wayes and thoughts Now if the sinner reject that offer and prefer not only the empty world but the vilest lusts before the blessed God let reason judge if it be not just that he should eternally be separated from him And this poena damni loss of God is most properly the death spoken of 't is indeed the very Hell of Hell 2. Sinners are threatned with death if therefore they will venture upon that which brings them under the lash of the threatnings 't is but just they should smart for that presumption They are forewarned to flee from that wrath which is to come but if they take no warning that wrath will very justly overtake them They cannot plead either that they knew not their Masters will or that they were ignorant of the penalty following upon their rebelling against it How often have those that enjoy the light of the Gospel been informed that 't is the will of God they should sorrow and rend their hearts for sin that 't is the will of God they should believe in his Son that 't is the will of God even their sanctification 1 Thes 4. Nay how often have they been foretold of the many stripes that must be endured by those that continue in wilful disobedience 'T is not unequal then since they made the Lord a lyar by their unbelief that he should vindicate his truth and cause them to feel those plagues and torments which thousands of times they were warned of but had no faith or fear concerning them 3. As sinners are threatned because of their evil wayes so they are shewed which is the way of life and peace and very much pressed to walk in it Assisting and strengthning grace is profered to them but if neither that glory and immortality at the ●nd of the way nor that help and grace which they may have in the way are regarded but the paths of destruction and misery as they are called Rom. 3. 16. are preferred they themselves indeed do wrong their own souls but God is righteous in destroying them The only use I shall make of this Doctrine is to caution you against these evil wayes that are the wayes of death You that have through grace left them take heed of declining towards them It has cost the Saints dear when they have stept aside their falls have defiled them and broken their bones And you that still resolve to walk in these wayes at last open your eyes and see whither you are going Upon the reading

evils come upon them which will never be removed their torments begin which will never know an end So long as God is God to have God their enemy so long as God is happy to lye in extreamest misery What tongue can utter or heart imagine the horror of this An angry sin-revenging Lord will lay load upon thee and yet keep thee from sinking into nothing he will uphold thee in thy being that thou mayest be for ever plagued He will shew his mighty power in holding thee up with one hand that he may lash thee with the other unto all eternity Use III. Of Consolation You who have obeyed the Call of God to turn I am commanded to speak peace and comfort to you Isa 40. 1. Comfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God The unconverted are not more accursed than you are blessed I have several things to tell you which are enough to make your hearts leap for joy 1. God hath had thoughts of love towards you before the foundation of the world was laid He did predestinate and chuse you unto the adoption of children Eph. 1. long before you were From everlasting he did design to make you his Heirs and joint-heirs with Christ unto that Kingdom and Glory with which the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared And since the love of God towards you is from everlasting is co-eternal with himself surely it can never in time be changed 2. God hath justified you freely by his grace through the redemption of Jesus Christ Rom. 3. 24. As far as the East is from the West so far are your iniquities removed from you Psal 103. 12. and surely that 's as far as you can desire They are cast into the depth of the Sea which argues when they come to be sought for they shall not be found just as those things which are cast into the depth of the Sea we despair that ever they should be recovered Christ has been wounded for your transgressions he has been bruised for your iniquities Isa 53. 5. And as the Imputation of your sins to Christ did cause him to undergo real sufferings so the imputation of his righteousness to you will cause a real exemption from that wrath and punishment which by sin you have justly merited Be of good cheer Converts your sins are forgiven and consequently the curse of afflictions and also the sting of death is taken away 3. You that are Converts it won't be long e're you are all glorified Rom. 8. 30. Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified The Lord has promised that those who overcome shall sit with him on his Throne You shall not only overcome but be more than conquerors through him that has loved you Mansions are already prepared for you and when you are prepared for those Mansions you shall be received into them Then neither the fury nor the favour of the world will be a temptation Satans fiery darts will not be able to reach you when once you are gotten into the third Heaven When you are just entring into the new Jerusalem you will shake hands both with sin and misery at the door and neither of these will be able to follow Tears will be wiped away and all cause of sorrow will be gone there will be a clear view of God without the least cloud the Sun of righteousness will shine for ever without any eclipse there will be intire joy without grief perfect peace without any trouble compleat holiness without the least remainder of corruption a full blessedness without period Use IV. Of Exhortation And who would not now become a Convert Have you any thing to say against a pardon or against that glory which has been revealed Shall it be made a question whether pleasures for evermore or eternal torments are to be preferred Oh that you would come to your selves and then I am sure you would come to God immediately The Arguments to perswade you to Conversion are divers 1. If you turn not you cannot answer the end of your Creation You must not think God gave you a being and sent you into the world to please your selves to satisfie your inordinate and corrupt desires and to live carelesly and rebelliously against him but thus you will do till you are converted Did the Lord give you an understanding faculty and not design that he should be understood and known by you Did he give you a memory and not intend that he should be remembred Did he give you an heart to love and to desire and not design himself to be the chief object of both Did he give you affections that you should give them away to sin and vanity Oh cross not any longer the end for which you were made lest you cause the Lord to repent and be grieved at the heart he made you Gen. 6. 6. and so resolve to destroy the workmanship of his own hands If you continue obstinate and without understanding He that made you will not save you or have mercy on you he that formed you will shew you no favour Isa 27. 11. 2. Unless you turn you cannot answer the end of the death of Christ and the Redemption wrought thereby Our Lord died not only to expiate offences but also to purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works and that in the body of his flesh through death he might present them holy and unblameable Col. 1. 22. Through the eternal Spirit he offered up himself without spot to God that by his blood he might purge our consciences from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9. 14. From these and and such like places it evidently follows that not only our pardon but our purity was designed by the Lord Jesus But how can we be pure unless we turn to God from sin which does defile us Christ knew what a sickness and debasement of our nature sin is therefore he himself was slain that sin might be killed And will you dare to live in sin Hark to the Apostle 1 Pet. 2. 24. Who his own self bare our sins in his body on the tree that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed And as the death of Christ is an argument to perswade to turn from sin so from this death vertue and power is to be derived whereby sin may be subdued 3. You are further obliged to turn because of Gods condescension in giving you leave to do it If the gulph had been fixed upon the very first transgression if the turning of fallen man had been as impossible as the turning of the fallen Angels the Lord could not have been charged with the least injustice But although you have departed he calls after you Without any detriment or prejudice to his justice he has found out a way to shew you mercy The Devils were never called to