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A56552	The door of salvation, opened: or, A voice from heaven, to unregenerate sinners Plainly shewing the necessity of opening your hearts to Christ, or else he will open Hells mouth to devour you. VVith many sweet invitations to come to him, that they might have life, and be hidden from the wrath of God, which is worse than death. Together with the dreadful condition of the stubborn and hard-hearted sinners. Dealing impartially with their souls, propounding blessing and cursing, life and death; salvation if you open to Christ, damnation if you refuse Christ. By T. P.	Passenger, Thomas, attributed name.	1650 (1650)	Wing P657A; ESTC R217112	9,224	27

standing and calling to thy soul If thou wilt hear and open I will come in unto thee now Christ is saying I know thy works I know well enough what thou hast béen and what thou hast done I know thou hast béen a Blasphemer or a Drunkard or a Whoremonger or a Thief or a Sabbath-breaker and a Scorner yet I stand at thy Door this day and knock I will receive thée unto mercy I will forgive thee all thy sins I will accept I will heal I will save thy soul if thou wilt open thy heart this day unto me and let me in Oh brethren for Christ his sake refuse not Christ do not reject nor neglect so great salvation so ample a salvation so waiting a salvation lest you perish 1. Consider the necessity you have of him Give me Children or else I dye saith Rachel Oh give me Christ or else I perish for ever Can you be saved without Christ and if you may have Christ but for opening the Door Then while it is called to day hear and open to him if the door of Grace should be shut because the door of thy heart is shut thou wouldest be shut up with a vengeance for ever 2. Consider what answer thou wilt be able to make at the great day if thou wilt harden thy heart and not open why what wilt thou why what canst thou plead for thy self at the day of Iudgement Wilt thou say the Gospel never offered thée Christ Why thou hast heard this day If any man will hear and open I will come in and sup with him Wilt thou say I would have opened my heart had it not béen for the love of sin or of ease or of Liberty or Honour or Friends or Companions Oh how will Men and Angels hiss at thée this is the Person who for Lusts sake forsook his mercies who for a little vanity rejected his own Salvation Oh how wilt thou curse thy self that for nothing nay for that which is worse then nothing thou hast put off Christ and his Salvation therefore men brethren and Fathers hearken unto me as Moses said to the Israelites so this day propound I unto you Blessing and cursing life and death Salvation if you will open to Christ and damnation if you refuse Christ Oh for the Lords sake chuse not cursing but blessing chuse not death but life chuse not Hell but Heaven chuse not Sin but Christ though you have formerly slighted him if yet you will regard though you have formerly contemned him yet if you will prise him though you have formerly resisted if yet you will yield if yet you will consent if yet you will become willing to open unto Christ Christ will be yours Mercy will be yours and Salvation will be yours and what would you have more What will not all this do will not mercy allure you will not love constrain you then give me leave to reprove you and affright you if it be possible out of those depthe of Satan into which you are faln however I am resolved whether you will or no and the Lord fasten it upon your souls Use 2. Of terrour to you who have no communion with Christ that have refused to let in the king of Glory Oh seriously lay to heart your unspeakable misery for ever And here I know not how to begin if non-communion with the Church of God be so direful a curse that makes Cain cry out Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth and from thy face shall I be hid I shall be a fugit ve and a vagabond on the earth and every one that finds me will slay me Gen. 4.14 Oh then what is non-communion with Iesus Christ Luther did professe that he would not be in Heaven if God were not there but he would rather chuse to dwell in Hell if God were there Oh soul where wilt thou abide after death let me beg thée to ask thy soul these Questions following 1. In the bowels of love and mercy let me beg thée to ask thy soul this Question How long will this life and the comforts of it last thy soul is immortal and must never dye but it must have being somewhere to all eternity this worlds happinesse is it everlasting no surely thy Money and thy Corn and thy Land will do thée no good in the great day Oh what hast thou done for hereafter what hast thou laid up for the world to come is the door of thy heart open to Christ Alas is thy poor soul unmarried all this while Q. 2. What will become of thée when this life and the comforts thereof are gone Oh thou hard-hearted sinner this broad way which thou walkest in will never lead thée to the promised Land thy gold and silver key will never open heavens gate for thée thy care for this worlds good will not plead for thee before the Iudge all thy careful friends and acquaintance with whom thou hast spent so many jolly hours their good word will stand thée in no stead then thou wilt be ready to cry Oh where is the Christ that I have despised O where is the Iesus that I have resisted will he plead for me No surely but go to the Gods whom thou hast chosen Oh what will become of me must I not dye Oh whither will death carry me into which of the Regions of the world will my death land me either of light or darkness to which of these two Regions am I now travelling certainly the way of pleasure or worldly profit the broad way of the world it is not the way to transport me to heaven and everlasting happiness say Oh sinner to thy soul what must I be taken from all my glory and greatnesse from all my delights and dalliances and be thrown like Lucifer son of the Morning from all my brightness into blackness of darkness for ever when death hath closed my eyes must I awake in everlasting flames I sinner thou shalt without remedy unless thou open to the Lord Iesus Christ Q. 3. Ask thy self on which hand thou art like to stand in the day of Iudgement on the Right hand or on the left among the Sheep or among the Goats if thou wilt not hear and open now if thou wilt not open thy heart now be assured the Devil will open Hells mouth for thée what will be the end of those joys which now so make glad thy heart you who are in the broad way to destruction and utter separation from Gods presence for ever thy pleasures here we may judge of Oh but who can tell the thousandth part of those fiery torments to which thou art liable in the other world whilst thou livest here thou art a cursed sinner and when thou dyest thou shalt be a Damned Creature whilst thou livest thou art fed like a Beast by common Providence and art a meer stranger to saving Promises if thou lookest upwarde God is frowning and his wrath is revealed from Heaven

THE Door Of Salvation OPENED OR A Voice from Heaven to unregenerate Sinners Plainly shewing the necessity of opening your hearts to Christ or else he will open Hells mouth to devour you VVith many sweet invitations to come to him that they might have life and be hidden from the wrath of God which is worse then death Together with the dreadful condition of the stubborn and hard-hearted Sinners Dealing impartially with their souls propounding blessing and cursing life and death Salvation if you open to Christ Damnation if you refuse Christ By T. P. Mat. 4.1 For the day is coming that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day commeth that shall burn them up saith the Lord and shall leave them neither root nor branch Printed for Tho. Passinger on London-bridge THE Door of Salvation opened Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come into him and sup with him and he with me IT hath pleased the most Wise Disposer of all things out of the riches of his free Grace to tender Iesus Christ to poor lost and undone sinners and also it pleased the Lord Iesus not onely to dye for sinners to redeem them from Death and the Curse of the Law that he might open the way for poor lost sinners to return to God but he is also pleased to stand knocking at the door of their hearts to wooe to beseech and intreat poor souls to be reconciled to God These words now read are very full of matter upon each word might almost be written an intire Volume but my narrow scantling will not permit me to explain the terms onely come to the main intended I might hence raise many observations but I shall name but one and ensist on it Doct. That Jesus Christ waits and calls long upon Sinners and earnestly labours with them for admission he stands at the door and knocks A hundred and twenty years waited he upon the Old world thirty years upon the Jews forty years in the Wilderness by signs and wonders these one hundred years well nigh hath he waited upon England twenty years he waits upon one sinner forty years upon another how often doth he say to us Open to me my Sister my Love my Dove my undefiled for my head is filled with dew and my looks with the drops of the night Cant. 5.2 Mat. 23.27 How often would I have gathered thy children as a Hen gathereth her chickens but ye would not What do these passages hold forth but the love of Christ but to enlarge a little 1. Christ gives not sinners over though they have given him no answer at all though they lye in the bed of ignorance and mind not the dignity of his Person nor the heavenlinesse of his voice nor the excellency of his salvation and though he call louder and louder and knock harder and harder Rom. 13.11 It is high time to awake out of sleep the night is far spent the day is at hand yet Christ waits still to be gracious 2. Christ hath continued knocking and calling though sinners have made light of his invitations though the soul be lazy and hath put off his Coat and cannot put it on and hath washed his féet and is loath to defile them yet for all this Christ puts his hand by the hole of the Door 3. Christ hath not given over knocking though sinners have opened their mouths against him reviled him yet he stands thrusting at the posts of sinners hearts he waits and labours much to reconcile the soul to God he sends his Ministers who entreat and exhort though all to no purpose But to give you the Reasons why Christ is thus pleased to wait to be gracious to such graceless souls Reas 1. Christ continues knocking at the sinners heart that he might glorifie his frée Grace and rich Love in converting some poor soul to himself that the soul might be thereby brought to sée the tender care of Christ and his vehement desire to bestow himself upon him that he might at length sée the frée bounty of Christ in his long calling Open to me open to me that it might sée Salvation to be had no where else that the heart at length sées it must open to Christ or else it must perish that it might sée its lost condition without Christ that it might sée Christs travellings and sufferings torments and tortures and all to redéem and save him who was lost for ever without him Reas 2. Christ continues knocking and inviting that in the end he might gain the soul to esteem him as the onely and desireable object in the world that the sinner at length may confesse it is better to let Christ in then so keep Christ out that the soul may see him whom he hath reviled yea crucified all his life see him to be the swéetest Saviour and the loveliest object in the world and delight in him and as it were be ravished with his Excellenctes Reas 3. Christ knocks long at the door of sinners hearts that thereby he might magnifie the glory of his Iustice in their utter ruine and destruction for now Oh soul wilt thou be left without excuse thou stout Rebel that stood'st it out against the Lord that though he called again and again thou wast resolved thou would'st not hear though mercy were upon his knées before thée and begged thée to give admission to the Lord of life yet impenitent thou were and impenitent thou would'st be miserable thou wert and miserable thou wilt be Therefore will be magnifie the glory of his Iustice upon thee and make thée smart to purpose because thou would'st not hear the voice of the Charmer though he charmed never so wisely now you have no longer any cloak for your sins now take what falls expect a reward according to your works For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness but the wicked his soul hateth as it is in the 11. Psalm 5 6 7. Verses No marvel now if the Lord rain fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest for this shall be the portion of their Cup who have despised the rich grace of God and abused his Patience and long suffering towards them Mal. 4.1 For the day is comming that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day cometh that shall burn them up saith the Lord and shall leave them neither root nor branch But to procéed to Application the main thing intended the Vses I shall make are these thrée 1. Exhortation to Sinners 2. Terror and affrightment 3. Incouragement and then close all with some directions Use 1. Of Exhortation to exhort and stir up if it be possible every secure sinner to stand it out no longer but to set out your hearts that the King of glory may enter in Oh sinner now Christ is