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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34789	Life & death offered to the choice of the sons and daughters of Adam, or, A doctrinal essay towards the discovery of the broad way that leadeth to destruction, and also the narrow path that leadeth unto life being the substance of several sermons preach'd on Matth. 7, 13, 14 : in the entrance of which discourse you have something spoken occasionally touching judging of others, and also touching the giving of holy things to dogs, and casting pearls before swine.	Carter, R., 17th cent.	1662 (1662)	Wing C663; ESTC R5924	50,195	64

will I now entertain you in my glory Then will be fulfilled that Revel 22. 11. He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is filthy let him be filthy still c. After this time preaching will cease and the strivings of the blessed Spirit will cease and all hopes of salvation will cease for ever Oh! therefore strike while the Iron is hot while Grace is profered accept i● while the Spirit strives with thee yield unto him suffer thy self to be overcome by the Spirit in a way of Mercy or else God will overcome thee in a way of Wrath and Indignation The concernment of the soul is made a by-business with the most in the world and is taken care for in the last place Most do by their souls as it hath been formerly said of the Courtiers that they do all things late rise late and dine late and go to bed late and that which is worst of all they usually repent late It was my observation in the Countrey that it was rare to have prayers desired for the Sick or any counsel desired from the Minister to the Sick till all hopes of life was even gone So that generally if publick prayers were desired or the Minister sent for you might conclude nothing but death was expected Take heed of thus deferring repentance for consider that though true repentance be never too late yet late repentance is seldom true Christ saved one at the last hour as the Thief upon the Cross that none might despair and it was but one that so none might presume 3. Consider that the day of Grace may be over with Note thee before thy life is ended God doth often in judgment give men up to hardness of heart and blindeness of minde that in seeing they might see and not perceive and in hearing they might hear and not understand c. After that persons have withstood a powerfull Ministry it may be ten twenty thirty or fourty yeares and in this time the Spirit hath strove with them and perswaded them times without number to close with Christ and forsake sin and could never prevail upon them then doth God judicially give them up to their own hearts lusts commands his Spirit to strive no more with them and giveth a Commission to the Devil to take them for his own and to seal them up unto the day of wrath Consider a little what a dreadfull Judgment this is for first it is a spiritual Judgment Now the spirituality of this Judgment consists in these three particulars 1. In that it is upon the spiritual part of man it is to have the heart fatned the minde blinded the conscience seared c. Isai 6. 9 10. Math. 13. 14 15. Mark 4. 12. John 12. 40. Acts 18. 26 27. Rom. 11. 8. 1 Tim. ● 2. 2. In that it is executed by a Spirit designed and commissioned for that work 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. It is the great work of Satan to harden and blind the hearts of such as do slight and oppose Christ 3dly In that it is with respect to spiritual blessings lest they should see and understand and believe and lest the light of the glorious Gospel should shine upon them and they should be converted and healed This judgment it is to this end that those who before would not see now may not see that those who before opposed and shut out the light may now for ever be rendered uncapable of understanding Gospel-Mysteries that the light of the glorious Gospel may never break in upon their hearts So that a soul under this judgement is not capable of receiving any benefit by the means of Grace be it never so powerful and glorious And therefore Christ saith not Luke 19. 42. but now they are taken from thine eyes for at this time they had Christ's Ministry among them and afterwards the Ministry of the Apostles but saith Christ Now they are hid from thine eyes So that persons judicially hardened are under the power of such darkness that though the Gospel be preacht to them yet it 's hid from them and becomes not the savour of life to life but the savour of death to death 2dly This Judgement is irrevocable The soul is lost for ever it 's impossible to renew him unto Repentance there remains now no more sacrifice for sin Heb. 6. 6. 10. 26 27. 3dly To compleat the dread of this Judgement consider that the soul is here struck insensibly mortally wounded and knows it not This we may see in Esau who though he was much tormented that his brother Jacob should circumvent him yet could find no place for repentance no place wherein to change his mind Heb. 12. 17. The man had the plague at his heart was given up to a reprobate sence but this he knows not he bewails not We feel the smart of outward Judgments and they often do us good but this giveth a deadly wound and is not felt This stroke makes persons that before would melt under a Sermon and be moved by counsel and reproof to be Sermon and Counsel-proof make them able to defend themselves against all Assaults that shall be made against them If this be so then it concerns you to make out after Christ while there are any movings and stirrings upon your spirit left you be given up to this dreadful Judgement There are three bad Companions upon a dying bed 1. Good counsel refused 2. Vows and Promises not performed And 3. Strong Conviction rejected and not obeyed Thus much by way of Argument Object It 's possible some may here object That it 's in vain for them to seek since Christ saith Luke 13. 24. That many of those that seek shall not be able to enter in Ans The great reason why the most wil fall short is because they can't submit to the terms afore-mentioned they can't with that Merchant Matt. 13. 46. part with all for the purchase of the Pearl Quest What then may I do to bring my heart to submit to those terms Ans 1. Study the worth and excellency of thy precious and immortal Spirit It would be but a bad bargain though thou shouldst gain the whole world if thou shouldst lose thy soul Job 27 8. Mark 8. 36 37. This well studyed would soon make thee willing to deny all to forsake all so thou might'st save thy soul 2dly Consider that the design of the Devil and sin is to undo thee for ever for Lust when it is conceived bringeth forth sin and sin when it is perfected will most certainly bring forth death Jam. 1. 15. 3dly And chiefly Study the worth and excellency of Christ What ever thou deniest for Christ thou wilt find it abundantly made up in him If Riches durable Riches are with him Prov. 8. 18. If Honor All that believe in him are made Sons and Heirs and that of a Kingdom Joh. 1. 12 Rom. 8. 15 16 17. Gal. 3. 26. Joh. 17. 22. If Pleasures At his right hand are pleasures for evermore Psal 16. ult If the rags of thine own righteousnes he wil become the Lord thy Righteousness Jer. 23. 6. If thine own wisdom In him are hid the treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge Col. 2. 3. Hadst thou but a sight of Christs glory a tast of his goodness thou wouldst be willing to part with all other things so thou mightest but enjoy him My last word is to such as have engaged in Heavens way in the strait path My Exhortation to you is that you would hold on your way and persevere unto the end Though your troubles should be great and your Friends few yet know that you are in a blessed path and that your end will be peace Let not therefore vain Worldlings baffle you out of your Religion let neither the frowns for smiles of men cause you to decline the wayes of God and walk in any accursed path I 'le propose two Scriptures for your consideration and so conclude one is Heb. 10. 38. Now the Just shall live by faith and hee 'l make a good living on it but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him The other is Mark 8. 38. compared with Mat. 10 32 33. and Luke 12. 8 9. where our Lord saith That whosoever shall confess him before men him will he confess before his Father and his holy Angels but whosoever shall deny him be the Generation wherein he liveth never so adulterous and wicked never so full of malignity and cruelty him will he deny when he shall come in his own glory and in the glory of his Father and in the glory of his holy Angels The good Lord cause the rain of his blessing to fall upon these Lines Amen and Amen FINIS