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A90059	The sinners hope: as his priviledge, and duty, in his worst condition, stated, cleared, and improved. Tending as well to the startling and inviting of the wicked from his sinfull and wretched course, upon the conditionall hopes that are layd out for him; as the confirming and directing of the truly humble and weak Christian in his duty and comfort, in the severall cases of darkness, sin, and affliction. Being the substance of severall sermons, / preached by Henry Newcome, M.A. and one of the ministers of the Gospell, at Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster.	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing N899; Thomason E1764_2; ESTC R209655	106,234	225

forbid but if any as I rather desire and hope do think of turning and since it is declared there is hopes if you turn you think of so doing and would know how you might partake of those hopes if you are of the mind and would know the next way over to a changed state what cours might be taken what is next to be done that you might set about the work of salvation which you have hitherto neglected if you would know how to begin and go on towards a change Take these directions Labour for sufficient knowledge of the principles of Religion this is necessarily to be laid where it is not alreadie as the first step Meanes How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and what are they the better for hearing of him if they get no knowledg by their hearing My people are destroyed for lack of knowledg If men be grosly Ignorant of those principles Hosea 4.6 which we take for granted in our pressing of duty on them how should they ever frame to do any thing Our Gospell is hid to them that are lost and men can never be in a way to escape as long as the Gospel remains hid to them 2. Cor. 4.3 There are many were brought up in Ignorance missed catechizing when they were young the special time of learning but it cannot be expected that God should be bound to make abatement to us for our parents neglect towards us we cannot think to skip learning the principles of Religion because the fittest time was neglected on our part for the attainment of the knowledge of them If thou art never so old and art ignorant thou must yet learn or thou canst not be safe Thou saiest thou art an ignorant bodie not book learned wer't never catechized c. beware you do not so by your children as your parents did by you but alas to all this we can onlie say why this is your losse but not your excuse the more wrong you had done you but you are not hereby discharged from a necessarie prerequisite if you intend salvation If thou be old Ignorant thou must learn as old as thou art Talk not of being too old to be Catechized if thou needest it thou must have it Thou art indeed too Old to be thus shamefully ignorant but sure if thou understandest thy danger thou shouldest not be too old to make hast to begin now in what thou art so sadlie cast behind and hast lost so much time in To say thou art too old to be instructed is as good as to say thou art too old to be saved For there is no way for salvation to those that are grosly Ignorant of the main principles of Christianity secret things belong to the Lord Deut. 29.29 but the things that are revealed to us and to our Children It is observed that this Latter clause in the Heb. is written with some extraordinarie pricks Aynsw in loc which the Jewish wrirers observe to signifie that extraordinary and necessarie care should be taken about the knowledge of what is revealed and that whether poor or rich young or old care should be taken that the knowledge of revealed things should abound among them and be transmitted to posteritie They are revealed and do belong to us and notice must be taken of them by us Since God in the riches of mercie and his condescention to us hath not kept al things secret from us and so all to himself as he might have done but consulting our good hath mercifully revealed things to us without which we could never be happie and never but by this revelation have come to the knowledg of we should not so far neglect this vast priviledg as to be ignorant of what we may thus be Instructed in They belong to us Our priviledge and dutie is to know the things that are revealed It is sad that many of you know not what is within you what sin is not how full you are of it and what Christ came for nor what Ministers work is in the world and it is impossible you should ever do better if you never know more then you do Levi did turn many from iniquity how was that Mal. 2.6.7 Why the Priests lips keep knowledge and they should seeke knowledge at his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts Ministers then turn men from sin when people seeke knowledge at their mouth when men inquire of them for the knowledge of the Lord and do desire and are willing to be instructed by them we have it in these parts in our hearts and have proposals of it to indeavour your personall instruction for the curing of your bloudie soul-killing ignorance and one would think the stop should not be in you if we are willing to put our selves on the paines If you intend salvation You will heartilie embrace it for there is no other way to salvation If a man should have followed a trade wherein he is gotten behind and finds he cannot subsist feeles himself broken and undone and one comes and tells him there is such an emploiment men live finely on there is much gain and little hazard though some paines and if he fell into that way he might recover his ruins he might supply his necessities and live plenteously would he not hearken to it But then this would be an objection I know not the mysterie of the trade I was not an apprentice to it and know not how to set about it but if one should tel him that there is such a one would teach him all instruct him in everie particular sure if the stick was not in the friend that should doe the courtesie it should never stick at the partie that needs but he would gladly imbrace the motion and without delay set upon the matter which so much concerns him This is the case of many ignorant soules it is easie for You to see that in the way You are in You can never subsist If you saw your own condition you might easilie be aware of it that this life will never hold this way will not serve the turn The way of Sin will undo you You can never be quiet while You drive this trade every Sermon will fright you as wo to us if we speak any comfort to him that goes on in his wicked way be it knowne to You it is against our will and besides our commission and intention if You have any thing from us in this state You are in to minister comfort unto You. You might fear like a broken tradseman every creature might arrest You for Hell You are in a sad condition for death that in these sicklie times may come within these 3. Or 4 daies You can never be quiet as long as this life lasts that You live in O that you might feele your selves utterlie broken of of the trade of sin that you would go on no longer in it Well then there is a course

not only broken the iron yoak of Episcopacy and superstitious ceremonies so pinching and pressing but hath blessed us with a Covenant and beginnings of desired reformation at first the wonder and still the support of the faithful in the Covenant since which time the presse hath been fruitfull in practicall treatiess wherein as a Token of Covenant friendship The Lord hath made a Feast of fat things a feast of Wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow Is 25.6 of wines on the lees well refined That the spirit of Truth and Holyness might secretly and powerfully increase the power and practise of Godliness in the truly Godly the only ready way to perfect reformation by sound and spiritual food choisly provided and severally dished not only publickly and weekly in Gods own house where he is liberall and open-handed but privately and dayly in their own Houses in their families and closets where this Heavenly Manna is ever ready for them to take and feed upon whilst others have been fast turning their sometimes forward profession of the power of Godliness into a liveless and lawless forme and the unclean Spirit hath been every way active in practicall errors as separation first from Churches of Gods making and after of mans casting down authorities and trampling upon them as mire in the street forging commissions for publick preaching cashiering the Christian Sabbath and listing the Jewish puddle dipping the rightly baptized in infancy cole-blacking the starres in Christs right hand as worthy to loose their light and place and openly contradicting and blaspheming that clear dazling light of truth streaming from them all and especially the last tending to Gospell banishment This is one of the rare if not unobserved providences of these late reling and rolling times Acts. 3.45.46 the lively workings of gods spirit to bring the hidden and deep mysteries of the Word written and copied out into the hearts of gods Ministers into Sermons Sermons into printed volumes printed volumes into the Houses of the godly that after they have read the exceeding great and pretious promises of God in his own Book they may read the reality of them in the books of them in the books of his Messengers who have believed and proved and spoken and written what themselves have read and heard and seen and learned that the faith of true believers might be strong and their joy full This providence minds us of the seven years of so great plenty in Egypt when god fitted and raised up Joseph to gather together that plenty and to lay it up in store-houses for a supply in the succeeding answerable years of famine These late years have been years of plenty for heavenly Manna Gods steps have dropped fatness there have been showers of blessing Jo. 12.23.24 the Ministers of God as the chiefe sheapherds dying as the corn sown have born much fruit God hath fitted and raised up many Josephs to gather this plenty into store-houses I pray God that years of famine be not to follow when there will be no food or but little food but in such store-houses when the witnesses shall have finished their testimony and be slain Certainly books are dishes wherein Christ serves in food to his Church in the wildernesse to his scattered Church to single Saints However providence may order matters This storehouse and such like are worthy the Christian mans entertainment and welcome having this priviledge there can be no wast of this spirituall store by the use of it here is fulness in time of plenty and will be fulnesse in time of famine this plenty though on the incresing hand breeds no surfeit in healthfull and hungry soules I doubt not the providence and pains of this our Joseph gathering together and storing up the hopes of all sorts that are not past hopes will be acceptable to the Church of God and especially to my good and loving neighbours in and about Manchester who have already savourily fed upon this store and for whose sake in a peculiar sort this provision is thus treasured up Their blessings both in Ordinances and providences have prevailed above the blessings of their neighbours God hath turned away the Sword from their gates limited the pestilence and other fore diseases amongst them translated their lights and again fild their candlesticks cured the pride and power of the spirit of error increased and twisted the cords of their union and heightned their hopes of the spreading and increasing of the power of godliness which God establish The God of their Mercy grant Phil. 2 22. that aged Paul and young Timothy who hitherto hath served with him in the Gospell as a Son with the Father may long and long live and love and labour together and be blessed in their labors and remain a blessing to that great congregation both sowing precious seed and reaping the labours of those men of God who have laboured with them and before them to the defeating of Satans policies the disappointing of the deluded hopes of the busy spirit of division the raising and establishing of the grounded hopes of the righteous and the united joy and glory of Ministers and people at that great day of gathering together unto Jesus Christ which for the churches sake is the hearty desire and prayer of Thy soules friend who doth rejoyce and bless God with thee for the love and labours of his Servants John Angier To the Reverend Mr. RICHARD HEYRICK Warden of the late Colledge at Manchester his much honoured Brother and faithful fellow labourer in the Congregation there Dear and much honoured Sir IF my appearing thus in print be no wonder it need be none to your self or any that knows us That I prefix your name to these papers you well know with what fear and sense of unfitness for it I undertook any part of the charge of this great congregation wherein God hath so long a time to mutuall comfort continued you upon the Death of that eminent servant of his and Dear Brother of Yours Mr. Hollinworth as judging the place too publick for one of my mean Abilities though incouraged thereunto by your affectionate invitation and the unanimous call of the congregation And that I should yet make this adventure to be more publick You are not unacquainted with being a principall accessary to the Occasion of it The importunity of fundry of this people whom the Lord hath made dear to your selfe as to me Headed and set on by your respective Letter having much against my own inclination and former intention pressed this from mee Their request was to you in the first place who have been their antient Pastour to have revised and published some of your many Elaborate discourses whereof they have been made pertakers in your constant ministry amongst them that they might have had the profit of your former paines by this meanes revived unto them You have declined at least at present waved the motion upon the

will serve you many live pretiouslie of it many thrive the only thriving trade the only happie life in the world and that is the way of holiness here is all the advantage sweetness convenience in this way that is immaginable none ever were ruined or brake of this trade that ever were perfect Masters of it There is such a common stock to trade on that it is impossible for thee to fail or break in this This way would helpe all your old scores a Christ would supplie all necessities and lay in blessedly for the time to come But now may such a poor creature say I but I was not born to this priviledge not brought up to this course I know not how to frame to it It is a way I cannot skill of I beleive thee Thou knowest not the manner of the God of the land 2 Kings 17. as the Lions made the Samaritanes feele they did not well now Ministers are sent on purpose to teach you they are willing to do it Offer to doe it enquire of the Law at their mouth they are the messengers of the Lord of Hosts for this very purpose They say Come unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord If any one should be appointed on purpose to teach all that were broken of other trades the mysterie of the gainfullest trade in the towne would it not be counted a great priviledge and could that Officerwant either love or custome Surely This if you knew your need was a thing to be greatly rejoiced in by You and we should be glad or be so imploied and have cause to be glad of the Offer all sides would be pleased If mens eies were but opened sure if things were rightly weighed the stick in personall Instruction would not be on the peoples side But this is your first step for any of you that are not come yet unto it you must labour for knowledg The knowledge of principles must be had in rich and poor of all sorts and Sexes where salvation is expected 2. Frequent the means diligently Be diligent at them and in them If you would doe well lie at the poole side still lie in the way Christ walks in It is both a good signe and a good meanes of doing well It is said Pro. 8.34 Jo. 20.24 when Christ came to his disciples Thomas was not there when he came and you find Thomas that could not beleive unless he saw he was now away when he might have seen And so he was behind in his Faith to the rest of the Apostles and all was because Thomas was away when Christ came The way not to miss of Christ when he comes is not to be away at any time when he could have come Hanna departed not from the Temple and David desired that he might dwell in the House of the Lord Lu. 2.37 Psa 27.4 not as if there were any Mansions in the Temple for any to live in but it is only to signisie their constancie in attendance on the meanes they were never away when any good thing was stirring when any thing was to be done in the Temple and so were as constant as if they had dwelt there It is good to be one of the Temple dwellers to be away from no opportunitie that thou cannot excuse it to God himself for it may be thy part may be dealt when thou art away the Angell may trouble the waters and thou not readie something that nearly concerns thee may be likelist to be spoken when thou art away Some think when a Minister may aime at the curing of a particular soul or God may direct him to what may be sutable thereunto that the Devill may know by our notes or otherwise and prevent the mans coming to the meanes at that time when this thing is discoursed of that was so fit for him However to make sure wait upon God at all opportunities For this is the way thy healing must come and none knows by what Sermon it must be done Frequent all opportunities thou canst possibly for faith that is a good sure way Men ought not by the late Acts to travell on the Sabboth day or do any thing like a breach of those Laws unless their excuse be such as is to be allowed by a Justice of the peace doe you have a care how you pretend any Excuse for such neglect that will not be allowed by God himself the royall author of the Law and the searcher of all hearts And so for opportunities on other daies redeem time for them approve thy heart to God that no necessitie but what he will allow be pretended or practised upon to neglect a Sermon at any time when it might be heard God may do the more Good at some one Sermon then all but that may be the Sermon thou maiest be tempted to passe by and that good may not come by that one but for thy diligent and conscientious attendance upon all The life of thy soule may be wrapt up in the due management of one and thou knowest not which opportunity 3. When God touches you at a Sermon if ever you do well you must get into secret Take notice how the pulse of conscience beats let not the word have scope upon you ty it not just to the time of hearing walke with it alone and let it have further conference with you let it have time to settle and soake in upon you to water the very root of your soules and not be like water spilt upon the ground many are the highway hearers amongst us the word is but scatte-upon them not received and kept at all by them The Divell catcheth or taketh the word out of their hearts For it was never in it was but entring and is by this carelesness oft put by Reverend Mr. Hildersham as one saies pretiously we give advantage to Satan to steale as the loose laying of our goods doth to our servants to become thieve It is noted that the disciples were never the stronger in their faith notwithstanding the miracle and it is because they had not considered it Mar. 6.52 Many at Church are like sives in the water as full as they can hold and when out have just nothing men would count it a great judgment and be sensible enough of it in their temporall estate to get much and to put it into a bottomless purse but with many it is thus in the matter of their soules businesse in hearing the word they have little abiding with them after Sermons and that for want of digesting the word by secret meditation after hearing Christ after some parables asked his Disciples If they understood all those things Mat 13.51 your work begins when ours end we have all the scene in publick but yet it is in the nature of a Treatie and Parley with you and you are in secret to thinke of and to return an answer to what we propose to you There is but one

thou wilt do it at such a time when nothing else shall offer it selfe to be entertained beside Thou must break through some difficulties make some other matters stay to shew thy sincere preferring Christ above all delay it now Thou shalt have as much in the way the next day and thy heart lesse disposed to stand for it The design is to loose and put off the present heat and then a small occasion will do well enough with thee And therefore oh that while thou lingerest as Lot did when he was to go out of Sodom Gen. 19.6 the Angell of the Lord would lay his hand on thee the Lord being merciful to thee and lead thee out of this wretched condition before the fire and brimstone be about thy ears I have now done with what I shall say at this time to the unconverted sinner I have said what the Lord hath stored me with both by way of motive and direction for the recovering of thee that yet there might be some hopes of thee I shall say no more at present thou hast the same things now transmitted to thee that thou mayest look over them again and again and consider of them It may be you and I may live to deal of this business again in other words to the same purpose but salvation can be had upon no other terms but your conversion And if after all that is said nothing abide with thee God knows where and how sad Our last parting may be But I must needs pray and hope that God wil save you from your Lot according to Ps 49.14 15. as judging your impenitent state an hopeless a desperate and wretched estate If your delights in the world hinder these serious thoughts of yours and strengthen your impenitency I must needs pray as the Psalmist Psa 17.13 Deliver me O Lord from the men of this World who have a few vanishing smoaking trifles for their Portion in this life and have a dreadful portion of Fire and wrath remaining for them in the life to come We have thus done with the improvement of this poynt to the ungodly in all the 3 heads forementioned CAP. IX The Observation improved to the Godly in respect of Peace and Comfort and that to such as are but setting out towards God following their Fears and Scruples and clearing up their hopes unto them WE shall endeavour to improve this Doctrine to another sort Viz. To those that fear God and it is to press them to the duty of the Doctrine and that is to take notice of the hopes that God hath left them about the severall states which they may find themselves in and may be apt to think their Condition little otherwise then desperate beware of despairing where God hath left You hopes do not shut up Your selves when God hath yet left You a way out and that 1. In respect of Peace and Comfort 2. Of sin 3. Of Affliction 1. In respect of Comfort and this 1. To Souls that are but begining towards God For we shall desire to take the Work before us and leave none out which God would have us to speak unto You begin to be startled and the old life will serve no longer The time past suffices 1 Pet. 4.3 as the Apostle speaks You have sinned long enough You will have no more of it You think it is time to come in if it be not too sate You have had enough if not too much in the way of sin but You begin now to be affraid least You are the first that shall come too late You think of turning but are afraid You shall not now be received This is an ordinary temper of persons that begin to look towards Heaven Why 1. Consider here is a great change in Your mind erewhile You could hope for Heaven though you lived in sin and now You cannot hope for it though You forsake sin Then You had so much hope and saw so much Mercie in God that You left him neither Truth nor Justice and now You look so altogether at Justice that You leave him neither Truth nor Mercy Alas this is the malice of Satan and the crossness of Nature The Devill would hurrie thee into another extream but the Mean between these two is the right Sinners should not hope nor Penitents despair thy base heart would have no hope unless such an one as would let thee sin too As if because thy false hope is routed in anger thou wilt now have none And for Satan see his hand A long time when we perswaded for peace You were not willing now You are willing he would perswade You God is not willing The truth is he is not willing the Match should go forward and all his design is to break it but if You knew You humoured Corruption and gratified Satan in nursing these thoughts I think you would beware of them and look on them otherwise then You do But 2. There is no question in the World but God is willing if You be willing God will receive You if You come in Penitents shall find Mercie That you have no cause to doubt of Gods shewing Mercie on you upon your coming in take these Demonstrations of it 1. His solemn Word and Oath is gone out upon it 2 Cor. 6.17 Leave your base Companie part with every base thing come out from the way you are in and I will receive you nay he swears As I live I desire not the Death of the wicked but rather that he should repent Ezek. 33.11 Jo. 6.37 and live And Christ saies That those that come to him he will in no wise cast out In no wise he will make no fraudulent distinctions to evade his Promise he will not do it upon any terms in any case now thou saiest the Lord will not receive thee How darest thou say so When the Lord saies he will receive thee Thou saiest thou maiest go in but alas Christ wil pass thee by and Christ saies He will in no wise do it Will you not believe Truth it self when he speaks 2. If Christ should not receive Penitents what did Christ come into the World for or send his Ministers for if Penitents shall not find Mercie then we must say as the Apostle in another case Christ died in vain and our Preaching is also vain 1 Cor. 15.14 This is a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation That Jesus Christ came into the world to save Sinners What was his Incarnation 1 Tim. 1.15 his life of humiliation his painfull death for if penitent Sinners find no benesit by it Why did he take our Nature on him but to pity our Nature and that we might behold Mercie brought neerer to us and more like to be laid hold of by us and he hath employed us Ministers to invite you to come in nay we are Ambassdors for God and we entreat you as though God did beseech you by us We pray you in Christs stead