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death_n	body_n	soul_n	true_a	7,339	5	5.0618	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58035	The morning seeker, shewing the benefit of being good betimes with directions to make sure work about early religion, laid open in several sermons / by John Ryther.	Ryther, John, 1634?-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing R2441; ESTC R10584	92,848	250

of Christ though the Soul be not convinced of it 3. The misery of a Soul out of Christ is in this it is eternal misery The eternity of the misery is the sting of Hell and the very emphasis of damnation To be miserable a thousand years and then to come out of it the very thoughts of a better estate would be some kind of ease to the oppressed mind but their misery is like to be endless and this compleats the misery It is called everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord c. 2 Thes 1.8 This brings me orderly to the next head 4. Poor Sinners seek not out to the Lord Jesus because they are not convinced throughly of a future state of the Soul They are not under the powerful sense of the Souls immortality Who will seek out to Christ if they be not convinced that the Soul is an immortal being Christs errand from Heaven to Earth is in vain his whole series of suffering is in vain his whole undertaking of the work of mans redemption in vain if there be no future state of the Soul But because we live in a time and day that Atheism doth abound let me offer by way of conviction some few Arguments to prove the future state of the Soul Alas men look not out after Christ because they are not taken up with Eternity 1. Argument is taken from Christs death 1 Thes 1.10 which was to deliver from wrath to come Then there is such a thing as wrath to come which could not be if there were no future state of the Soul 2. Argument of a future state is from the horrour that wicked men feel sometimes in their consciences when they are awakened O what Magor Misabibs are they to themselves sometimes Crying out Wo is them that ever they were born to sin such wrath upon their own heads These are the sparks of Hell that are gotten into the Conscience in this life this is the gnawing of that worm that never dyes 3. Argument is taken from the wishes of the wicked that they might dye the death of the Righteous as Balaam desired 4. Argument is taken from the sufferings of Saints What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul which is brought in to the Disciples to caution them against Apostasie O say poor believers we may lose our Souls and therefore we may not apostatize from God and therefore they will suffer the loss of all The poor people of God make a sad bargain of it if they suffer and yet there should be no reward 5. Argument is taken from the great desires that sometimes Believers have to be dissolved as Paul did which if there were no enjoyment of God after would greatly be to believers loss because they enjoy something of God here 6. Argument is taken from the great joy that many Saints have had in their passage into another world How have they gone off the stage of this present life with triumph and died boasting and glorying in God 7. Argument is taken from Saints Communion with God If there be such a thing here then much more hereafter what we enjoy here is but a drop to the Ocean 8. Argument is taken from mens natural unwillingness to dye Certainly there some thing follows death that the Soul cannot endure to think on It is true the dissolving of the marriage-knot betwixt such two dear lovers as Soul and Body is tedious to think of yet there is some preapprehensions of eternity that trouble the Soul that it cannot think of death with any quiet or comfort 9. Argument is taken from the end of Christs appointments God hath appointed the means of Grace in reference to the salvation of poor Souls That thou may save thy own Soul and them that hear thee 10. Argument from the endeavours of Satan seeking whom he may devour or drink up as the word is Satan would spare his pains if there were no future state of the Soul Now it is no wonder if poor sinners seek not the Lord Jesus when they lay not their souls under the convictions of the state of the Soul after death 5. Poor Sinners seek not after the Lord Jesus Christ because they are diverted by their worldly enjoyments and employments We read of some that made excuses and all their excuses were from their worldly business they could not come I have observed that young persons who have been under some notable convictions and resolutions to close with Christ and seek after Christ if ever they have abated and cooled in their first love it hath been when they have entred upon the world changed their conditions set up for themselves the world hath stoln their hearts from God O how sad is this The world broke the bargain betwixt Christ and the young man in the Gospel O but sayes a poor Soul I know not how to seek Christ I am a poor Gentile Sinner that have sate in darkness and am in my dark state of Gentilism to this day and how shall I seek the Lord Jesus that is you say thus willing to be found of me 1. Seek the Lord betimes If you would be speeding Seekers of Christ Job 8.5 you must not be loyterers there is but in time and out of time Make no delay therefore poor sinner in seeking the Lord Jesus Christ take the present time by the fore-lock While it is to day hearken to his voice Now acquaint your selves with God We must take hold of the present time They that seek me early shall find me shall morning me the Hebrew is We must in our seeking give the morning to God It is observable in the morning Jacob got the blessing in the morning the Lord looked through the cloud and discomfited the Aegyptian Host Nay Christ himself is called the Hinde of the morning the morning-star and all to teach us to seek him in the morning The first fruits were to be dedicated to the Lord the firstling of every Creature was to be offered up in Sacrifice to the Lord but the firstling of an Ass being so dull a Creature God would not accept it in sacrifice 1. We should seek the Lord early because the present time is the only time to seek the Lord in Now is the acceptable time now is the day of salvation c. Upon this monosylable Now depends Eternity sayes one There is a present time and a present Truth for us to lay hold on It was a good saying of him when invited to dinner to morrow sayes he I have not promised myself a to morrow this many years Who knows sayes Solomon what to morrow may bring forth What is in the womb of to morrow What if thy death nay thy damnation should be in the womb of another day We read of death and what was at the heels of death and Hell immediately followed him 2. Seek the Lord early you cannot promise your selves any more seasons of Grace

of such as seek not the Lord. Such poor Souls see no worth in the Lord and are not such to be reproved If Christ be not worth seeking he is worth nothing When we see the worth of any thing we will seek after it The object we seek must be some good O how neglecters to seek Christ do undervalue Christ 2. They never see a want of him We seek not that we want not O but now when the poor Soul doth see its need of him then it doth with the Spouse seek him Poor Gentiles they sit still It is the Character of a Gentile to sit in darkness Vnto you who sat in darkness a great light shined viz. to Gentiles They have no mind to rise off from their seat 3. It will aggravate the condemnation of such that Christ sought them and they would not be found of him How often would I have gathered thee c. But there are a company of poor souls that object what have we to do with Christ such poor Sinners as we are O poor Souls the great Promise is to such To it shall the Gentiles seek Isa 11.10 All poor Sinners must betake themselves to this Glorious Ensign The root of Jesse shall stand for an Ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles seek But we are dark Creatures Luk. 1.79 He came to give light to them that sate in darkness and in the shadow of death and guide our feet in the wayes of peace Another Vse is of Inquiry If Christ be so willing to be found of Gentile Sinners what then may be the reasons why poor Sinners do not seek the Lord Jesus O how few Seekers hath the Lord Jesus Sinners it is true are Seekers but it is of the living among the dead 1. Poor Sinners ignorance of the worth of Christ who will or can desire after an unknown good As he said to the woman If thou knewest the gift of God Mat. 13.44 45 46. thou would ask living water and he would give it thee So do I say If Souls knew the worth of Christ they would cry None but Christ none but Christ Nothing without Christ nothing below Christ would satisfie their Souls The Merchant man could not be satisfied with goodly Pearls after he had come to know there was a Pearl of Price then all the goodly Pearls were out-shined by the Pearl of great Price and now he is resolved upon any terms to have Christ He sells all O what difference betwixt this person and the young man in the Gospel who when Christ bid him sell all went away sorrowful O this broke the bargain betwixt him and Christ He knew not the worth of Christ It may be Christ is not much valued by you now but ask your hearts the question O my Soul what will Christ be worth upon a death-bed What will Christ be worth when thy Soul is filled with horrour of thy own guilt When thou art a Magor Misabib to thy self Nay it may be to all that are round about thee When thy heart is made to meditate terrour Could thou ask the damned in Hell what Christ would be worth to them what they would give if it could be procured for one offer of Christ in good earnest It may be they might better inform thy judgement If you did converse with awakened dying guilty consciences or with poor damned Souls they might tell you something of the worth of Christ or with Souls deeply groaning under guilt at first Conversion or with poor tempted Souls These four sorts of persons can tell you what apprehensions they have of the worth of Christ When men know the worth of a commodity it will go hard but they will obtain it O what will a Malefactor judge a Pardon worth So doth a poor self-condemned Sinner judge of Christ 2. Poor Sinners seek not after the Lord because they are lockt up under infidelity and unbelief We read of being concluded and shut up under unbelief as close prisoners under lock and key in arctâ custodiâ they are in Satans close custody 1. Poor Sinners believe not Christs willingness to embrace and entertain their poor Souls upon closure with him Untill poor Sinners be convinced of this they can never make out after Christ Therefore it is we read of Christs invitations and asseverations entreaties promises all to demonstrate his willingness to be found of sinners when they seek him Alas poor sinners take up false conceptions of Christ they think his heart is hardned against them and his bowels shut up in displeasure and they take him for their adversary and all this is their unbelief and so are hindred from looking out after Christ 2. Poor Sinners believe not the Fathers willingness to shew them mercy Many Souls stick here though Christ hath told them he hath declared his Fathers Name and would declare it to poor sinners O what pains doth Christ take to convince of his Fathers good will Joh. 6.37 38. This is the will of him that sent me 5. Poor Sinners believe not an indispensible necessity to close with Christ They do not see their Souls lost for ever without a Christ And this brings me to the next particular 3. Poor Sinners seek not after the Lord Jesus because they are not throughly convinced of their misery without Christ Peter did not cry out Master save me or I perish until he begun to sink So poor Souls cry not after Christ seek not after Christ until they see themselves in a perishing sinking condition Persons may fall under some convictions of their misery but alas they are ●lighty convictions and so wear off the next temptation that comes upon their Soul But when the conviction gets to the heart then it is hopeful When they were prickt to the heart then they cryed out Men and Brethren what shall we do There are many convictions that get no farther than the head But now when a sense of misery is clapt to a mans heart it will make him look out after Christ Let me shew poor Sinners something of their misery without Christ 1. You are without hope and is not this the height of misery Hope doth yield the Soul some relief in the saddest condition but to be without hope is to be in Hell above ground What is it that makes Hell Hell they have no hope of ever coming forth from the pit there is no redemption If a man be in Algier hope keeps up his heart that he shall be redeemed one day But there is not one prisoner of hope in all hell among all the damned 2. Without Christ you are condemned men already There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Then it follows they that are out of Christ Jesus are under the sentence of condemnation What a miserable condition doth a poor condemned creature think himself to be in and cannot rest night nor day but thinking of his execution This is the case of a poor Soul out