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A86525	The danger of desertion or, A farvvell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister of Gods Word at Chainsford in Essex; but now of New England. Preached immediately before his departure out of England. Together with ten particular rules to be practised every day by converted Christians.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2645; Thomason E171_3; ESTC R1512	16,119	33

keep company in the paths of sinne what is this his proffer what are the tearmes no harder what then should I doe but bid sinne adieu would you have God to be your God and will you not keep out of sinne If not he will not be your God But now let every soule forsake his uncleannesse and God will come to that soule and therefore that place is marvellous sweet Isa 58.8 You shall call and God shall say here I am if that you will forsake your evill courses Thus you see you have as faire an offer as faire a warning as God can propound 2. As you must prepare roome for God so you must give him content let him have his will Where the King comes there he will have all according to his minde so it is with God if he may have his owne worship you please him well you must dresse his dish according to his tooth but when you put poison into his meat you discontent him then you doe not give him his mind you must lay aside all superstition and errours then you please his tooth above all when your soules submit to his truth At the name of Iesus every knee shall bow This is not meant of the word Iesus to give a bow with the knee and a stab at the heart If so why do we not bow at the word Iehovah as at the word Iesus but the bowing at the word the syllable is Idolatry And here we doe not give him his minde but the meaning of it is that we should worship him in spirit and truth 3. As we give him his minde so we must give him welcome also and entertainment If you look lowring towards him and grudge at him and his truth no wonder but he goe away This is the sinne of England We beare an ill will to God and his word God hath done much for us of this land What could he have done more for his vineyard Isa 5. 4. but it brought forth fruit contrary to his expectation and therefore marke what he saith I will take away the hedge thereof it shall be troden downe so will it be with us Are we better then the old world the same sinnes that were found in them are found in us Sodome and Gomorrah on whom God rained fire and brimstone are not our sinnes as great and are there not as great sinnes in us as were in Ierusalem that was carried away captive are we better then other Churches then our brethren that have drunk so deeply of the cup of Gods wrath what are we I will tell you we are a burthen to God he cannot beare us he will thinke his paines well over when he hath destroyed us You know all men are glad when their paines are over so it is with God we are a paine and a trouble to him and why should God goe continually in paine and trouble with us who are worthy to be destroyed If his decree once come forth then shall England seeke peace and shall not finde it God will not pitty us as in Isa 7.25 Ah! Brethren what a heavy case is it when a mercifull God doth shew himselfe unmercifull when a patient God will be impatient O beloved there is a hard time befalling us of England yet we consider it not lamentable is our time God wept over Jerusalem a long time Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thy eyes So may I say to England their Lord hath wept over it in mercy and patience a long time but it hath not been taken notice of God hath hid it from our eyes what shall we doe when his mercy is turned into fury and his patience into frowning what shall we doe when we have leasure to consider what once we did enjoy we can never prize Gods patience till that we finde the great want of it Thus then the poore soule will say There was a time when we might have been at peace with this patient God but now it is hid from our eyes I might have had mercy but now the gate is shut and not onely shut but locked and barred too Thus when people refuse mercy he sends the contrary judgement and then it will grieve and wound our soules to thinke what once we did enjoy but that man that will bid God welcome to his heart may goe singing to his grave 4. You must be importunate with him to stay and to continue and count it a great favour that he will yet be intreated Isa 37. Iacob wrestled with God and thus must we doe if we meane to keep him You that live under the means and will not walk in them what great condemnation wil be to you over to them that have not the meanes as it is said of Capernaum Mat. 18. so say Ito England Thou England which wast lifted up to heaven with meanes shalt be abased and brought downe to hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in India or Turky they would have repented ere this therefore Capernaums place is Englands place which is the most insufferablest torment of all and marke what I say the poore native Turks and Infidels shall have a cooler summer parlour in hell then you for we stand at a high rate we were highly exalted therefore shall our torments be the more to beare The Lord write these things in our hearts with the finger of his owne Spirit for his Christs sake under whom we are all covered FINIS THE RVLE OF THE NEW CREATVRE GAL. 6.16 And as many as walke according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God THe rule of the new Creature which is to be practised every day by all beleevers consisting of these ten particulars First be sensible of thy originall sin corruption daily know how it enticeth thee to all evil indisposeth thee to all good groan under it and bewayle it as Paul did 7. Rom. 14. O wretched man that I-am who shall deliver me from this body of death Also take notice especially of thy actuall sinnes or daily infirmities in thought word and deed endeavour to make thy peace with thy God for them before thou goest to thy bed by repenting and confessing of them to thy God worke thy heart to grieve for them by some melting considerations of Gods mercies towards thee 1 Iohn 1.9 by beleeving or casting thy selfe wholly on Christs righteousnesse for removall of thy sinne and reconciliation with thy God 3 Rom. 22 23 24 25. Cleave to Gods promises of pardon and peace Isa 43.25 Rom. 5.1 waiting till the Lord shall speake peace to thy soule Psal 85.6 The second rule of the new Creature is get thy union with Christ and interest in Christ cleare and confirmed unto thee daily more and more that thou art a branchin that vine a member in that body 2 Cor. 13.3 this may be done three wayes

England ripe is not she weary of God nay she is fed fat for the slaughter It was not so with the Saints and people of God in former times Psal 34.4 It was Davids great and grand desire that he might dwell in the house of the Lord Psal 42.4 his soule panted after Gods ordinances The point teacheth us thus much That the Saints are wondrous importunate to keep God in his ordinances But what if a man want preaching Ob. may not he want it and yet goe to Heaven The arguments are cleare Ans the Saints maintaine God in his ordinances the want of which is under the penalty of death and condemnation Gold cannot feed a hungry man but bread he would have because that he hath need of so the Saints of God are marvellous importunate to keep God in his Ordinances so that though they weare a ragged coat or be pinched with hunger yet he wants God more then these either food or rayment David in the 37. Psalme fretteth at the prosperity of the wicked but at the last breaks off and marke what a conclusion he makes and comes to whom have I in heaven but thee as if he should have said Let them have what they will I have nothing but thee Why so Thou art the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Thou art the strength of the heart Shewing that all things in the world cannot help the heart without God A man were as good offer yron to a hungry man to refresh him or ayre to feed him as to say riches ease and honour will help thy distressed soule These will never establish a man he may hope to have comfort in them but his soule shall be gravelled and troubled It must be the God of peace that must speak peace to a troubled soul It must be the God of salvation that can comfort a damned soule that kindnesse will comfort that is the strength of the heart and portion for ever and then no marvell the soule call for God The soule cares not though happily the purse be filled for it cryes and sighs I am damned Happily the pallate may be pleased but the poore soule cryes I may goe to hell and to the Devill Now God comes and he supplyes all for where he comes there is every good gift If once a man hath God he hath all good things with him God blessed Obadiahs house for the Arkes sake Now the Arke was a type of Christ where he comes all good things follow When God comes we are married unto him Hos 2.19 As when a wife is married her husband is hers so God all is thine what wouldst thou have more He speaks to the raine and it heares the corne and wine and that heares Israell Hell and Death are thy servants but now you that have outward things profits and prosperity c. you have them with a curse unlesse you have God with them Get God therefore if he forsakes a man all miseries befall him and then woe beto him Hos 9.13 Ah! it is true indeed woe beto that heart which God is departed from When God who is the God of mercy is gone away from him who wil pitty that soul that will not submit to Gods peace consolation and salvation When God departeth all miseries follow on amaine when the banks are broken downe the Sea breaks forth so when God departs all miseries come for that man that makes no conscience of outfacing God in his Ordinances marke what the Text saith Deut. 31. 37. I will forsake them and many miseries shall befall them If God be gone the Floud-gates are drawne dry and in comes all misery You will say are not all these things against us seeing God is not with us If we would avoid woe and sorrow and killing and slaying one another Would the women be glad to see their husbands killed before their tender eyes the men to see the women taken out of the world by the hands of wicked men If not then leave not God but hold him fast then all evill will depart and so holding God he will keep us from misery Vse To condemne 2 sorts of people Vse If the Saints be marvellous importunate to have God with them what shall we thinke of those that are weary of the Almighty who say to him depart from us But you will say such are to be chronicled we have none such among us Thou that art a servant and rejectest thy Masters command thou rejectest God Why should a man say that they be so long and so long in prayer and say what man knowes not what he sayes he speaks this because that he is weary of the Ordinances and would be freed from them and God will doe it one day Alas poore soule thou couldest pitty thy condition thou art weary of Gods Ordinances weary of Gods mercies weary of his patience presence Thou shalt one day be deprived of his presence and shut up with the haters of God and goodnesse in the blacke Tophet where the worme never dyes nor the fire never goes out then thy crying will doe thee no good God will be God in thy destruction he will spurne thousands and ten thousands such as thou art downe to hell where thou shalt be an everlasting object of his never dying wrath though thou couldest scale the heavens with thy teares and shrill voice Though thou couldest be heard to cry out of the dungeon yet thy help is never the nearer thy God is gone I admonish thee what to doe lay thee downe and patiently endure his deserved wrath Nay marke what I say a hundred hels thou hast deserved and in those hels to lye a hundred yeares nay for ever Hold thy selfe contented with thy condition for thou hast chosen death rather then life Ier. 31.8 God should wrong himselfe and thee if that he did not give thee thy chusing Will not these things move you my brethren that you may be so happily wise as to chuse life rather than death Lord grant it for he delights not in your destruction One word more to leave impression in your hearts I desire your soules health though my meat seeme bitter yet it is the mind of God it should be so and therefore thou man or woman whosoever thou art that canst not abide preaching but standest on thornes to have the Sermon done that sayest too much of one thing is good for nothing Thou doest as good as say what need have we of that a little of that and more of pleasure here is thy delight and desire Know this whosoever thou art that hast ill-will to the Ordinances of God thou wouldst have no such Gospell thou shalt have thy desire when the Trumpet shall blow thy eares shall tingle with that sentence Depart from me Thou that art weary of God get thee downe to hell I say God will set his teeth at thee and stamp thee downe to hell with thy base lusts Then will God say I