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A58034	A looking-glass for the wise and foolish, the godly & ungodly Wherein they may see, how much it concerns them to be wise unto salvation, before it be too late. By John Ryther, minister of the gospel in Wapping, near London.	Ryther, John, 1634?-1681.	1677 (1677)	Wing R2440; ESTC R222745	34,418	116

when he will Turn you out of your Clay Cottages at his pleasure Secondly Is it not folly to grieve him that can call you to an account when he will You must be accountable to him for your grieving of him at his own time and pleasure Thirdly Is it not a folly to grieve him that we cannot contend with Is there any standing out with God Did ever any harden himself against the Lord and prosper Job 9.4 Did you never Sinners read that word seriously over Can your hearts endure or your hands be made strong in that day that I shall deal with you saith the Lord Ezek. 22.14 You may it may be endure through the hardness of your hearts the day that Gods Servants deal with you But Oh Sinner God's day of dealing with thee will be another kind of Day Fourthly Is it not folly to grieve him that hath done you so many kindnesses Is not this great Ingratitude and is not this Folly O foolish People and unwise will you thus requite the Lord 4. Is not this Folly to mock at that which cost Jesus Christ his precious Blood What died the Lord Jesus Christ for Was it not the Remission of sins Without shedding of blood says the Apostle there is no Remission Heb. 1.3 When Christ had purged by himself our sins he sate down at the right Hand of the Majesty on high Ah poor sinners do not you tread the Blood of Christ under foot and account it an unclean thing while you make a mock at sin O hard hearted wretches can you make a mock at that which let out the Heart Blood of Christ Can you make that a matter of Laughter which made the Lord Jesus sorrowful even unto death Can you mock at the Gall and Vinegar that those cruel Jews that Crucified our Lord gave him to drink Would you have Laughed to have seen him hang upon the Cross You all that make a mock at sin do as much as if you Laught at him when he went to Execution And is it not Sinners to Crucifie him again and to put him to open shame 5. Is it not a Folly to mock at that which brought the Curse into the World until Sin entred into the World there was no such thing as the Curse known and to mock at sin is to mock at the Curse O what madness is this To mock at that which shortly you must feel the effects of which consists in two things First Death Temporal In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Would you know how Death that King of Terrours entred into the World and hath such an universal and uncontrollable Regency in the World The Apostle answers it Death entred into the World by sin Rom. 5.12 Ah sinners will you make a mock at Death Is dying a jesting matter with you Will you mock when this grim Serjeant shall Arrest you Will not then your mocking be turned into mourning Doth the guilty condemned Malefactor when ready to be turned off the Ladder use to die mocking at the Executioner I believe when you lie a dying you will tell another story Secondly The Curse that sin hath brought consists in eternal Death called the second Death The first Death that consists of separation betwixt Soul and Body but the second Death that consists in a seperation betwixt the Soul and God it is called Everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. 6. Is it not a Folly to make a mock at that which hath made many a poor Soul go groaning under the weight and burden of it many a Day yea many a Year Poor sinners you may sport at it for a while but if the Lord once make you feel the Load of it and lay upon you the Sense of it then your Note will be changed What was it that made David cry out Psal 38.4 5 6 7. My Wounds stink and are corrupt And at another time My Sores run day and night and ceaseth not I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart What was the matter What occasioned this tumult in the Soul of poor David He tells us For mine in quities are gone over mine head as a burden as too heavy a burden for me to bear c. And poor Sinner wilt thou mock at that which other gracious Souls have so sadly mourned over Poor penitent Souls are called weary and heavy laden Souls And shall it be to you a jesting mocking business 7. Is it not a great Folly to mock at that which Satan is so earnestly solicitous to draw Souls into It is the great design of Satan to draw Souls into Sin and Guilt It is called The work of the Devil O how industrious is he in tempting O how diligent is he in laying snares for poor Sinners And shall Sinners mock at Satans snares Are not Sinners his Vassals and Captives And is this a mocking matter to be tied to his Chariot Wheels To be lead in triumph by this devourer and destroyer of Souls Would you make a mock at a company of poor Captives that are taken by the Turks and there put into the Galleys or cruelly beaten and abused by their hard hearted Patroons And is not this the case Ah poor Soul thou art Captive to Satan for all thy mocking Thou art in a worse condition than any Galley-Slave in the World though thou art not sensible of it 8. Is it any mocking matter to mock at that which degraded Angels and Men How came Angels to be degraded from that Dignity and Honour in which they were Created We read an Answer to the Question 2 Pet. 2.4 God spared not Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell and delivered them into Chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgment These Angels were glorious Courtiers once though condemned Prisoners now What was then the matter for which they were thus severely dealt with They rebelled against God and so were degraded from their first Station Jude tells us They kept not their first Station their first Estate Jude ver 6. Secondly Sin degraded Man and shall we mock at that which degraded us from that excellent State in which we were Created Man being in Honour abideth not he is like the Beast that perisheth Psal 49.12 Or Adam ledged not in Honour no not one night as the Hebrew reads it And the Septuagint He understood not He understood not the Excellency of that Estate in which he was Created and so was degraded And 〈◊〉 this a mocking matter Sinners To be degraded and stript of that glorious Robe of Original Righteousness with which he was in his Primitive State clothed To be rob'd of Communion with God and Conformity to God in which consisted his Excellency and to be degraded of this Glory O sinners is this a mocking matter Put all these Particulars together and weigh them in the Ballance of the Sanctuary and lay them to your

travelling in the Broad-way like Fools going to the Stocks and crys after them How long will ye simple ones love simplicity 3. Is not he a Fool that takes no care to prevent afterclaps of Danger Wisdom consists in fore-sight and in prevention Is it not the property of a fool to say I had not thought my sins would have brought me to this Doth not the Lord in his Word and in his Rod cry out to poor sinners as Jonathan said to David As the Lord liveth there is but a step betwixt thee and death Oh! says God sinners sinners there are but a few steps betwixt you and death a few Years Months it may be Days betwixt you and Hell betwixt you and Ruine and yet such Fools are poor sinners that they are not solicitous to prevent their misery Oh how it will cut poor sinners to the Heart another day to sign out that dolesul note We had not thought the Great God was in good earnest with us We had not thought Divine Threatnings would have proved such Realities O this will be the Worm that will so wofully torment them We were told of all this before-hand and might have prevented it O then they will cry out what Fools they have been But all too late they see their folly by the light of that fire that so intollerably torments them 4. Is not he a Fool that doth not consult the end of his way The end in all wise Agents is first in Intention though the last in Execution Here is the difference betwixt Wisdom and Folly The one says What will this end in As the Apostle argues in that case What fruit had you in those things whereof you are now ashamed For the end of those things is death Rom. 6.21 But now a Soul that is not wise for Heaven and Salvation may say What will this Way this Course end in Will not this be bitterness in the latter end Will it not be Wrath eternal Death Damnation in the end This is a way that seems right to a man But what is the end of it The end of it is Death Prov. 14.12 Ah Sinner Sinner Art not thou a fool that never looks before thee Wast thou wise would'st thou not look before thou leapst Why dost not thou ask thy soul O my soul what will this sin of mine end in Whether will this Course and Way of mine at last lead me Is not sin the Devils high way to Hell And doth not this Course lead down to the Chambers of Death Ah poor fool All wise Men that have their Eyes in their Heads pity thee they see whether thou art going and thou wilt see too when it is too late 5. Is not he a Fool that cannot tell how to make a good choice Wisdom you know is much seen in choice The trial of a Fool hath sometimes been made thus Fools and Ideots are not to inherit Lands and when they come to try them they lay down Apples and Gold and if they chuse the Apples before the Gold they are concluded Ideots Oh doth not God put this to trial sinners foolish sinners Here is Gold and Apples laid before you Creature-Comforts the Accommodations of this Life What are these but so many Apples as Josephus tells of that grow about the Lake of Sodom that look bravely to the Eye but as soon as touched they crumble to dust And do not many thousand poor foolish Sinners choose these before the Gold Before the Gold tried in the Fire viz. Real Grace Such as make such a choice are fools and shall never Inherit Did not Moses tell the People of Israel he laid Life and Death before them Deut. 30.19 and put them to their choice And Oh! what folly sinners is it to choose Death rather than Life Oh! this will be the sting of thy eternal misery that thou like a foolish wretch didst make such a choice it was thy own choice thou art undone for ever but it was thy own doing Thou thy self art the cause of all this This will justifie God in thy own Conscience to all Eternity Oh what crying out is there Sinner in Hell What a fool was I to make such a choice I might have been happy for ever as I am now miserable if I had made a wise choice 6. Is not he a Fool that is afflicted day by day and still goes on and keeps his course of sinning still A reproof enters more into a wise Man than an hundred stripes into a Fool Prov. 17.10 A Fool will be a fool still give him one blow after another until you tell an hundred O how many blows have many sinners had Sometimes a blow in their Estates another while a blow in their Bodies another while a blow in their Families sometimes in their Trading nay added to all these sometimes in their Souls by Convictions under Ordinances And thus God lays on time after time But what comes of all these blows Alas the poor sinner is a fool still he goes on still Bray a fool in a Morter among Wheat with a Pestle yet will not his foolishness depart from him Prov. 27.22 These Fools are worse than Mad-men and Bedlams they are often restored to Reason again by Correction and Severity Poor sinner hast not thou been such a fool O how many blows hast thou laid under How many Rods hath God spent upon thee How often hath God made thee sick by smiting thee And yet Gods Rod hath not whipt out the bundle of Folly that is wrapt up in thine Heart As thou hast been so thou art a poor foolish one to this day O poor sinner what if upon thy incorrigibleness the Lord should say to thee as he did to them Why should you be smitten any more You rebel more and more O how sad would this be Sinners did you never read that word Prov. 19.29 Judgments are prepared for the scorners and stripes for the backs of Fools Thou art both whilst thou makest a mock at sin It is no wonder if the Lord have Rods for such backs 7. Is not he a Fool who hath a price put into his hand and hath no heart to use it Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get Wisdom seeing he hath no heart to it Prov. 17.16 Ah sinners how many opportunities have you had in your day to get Wisdom for your Souls for Heaven and Eternity and you have let them slip O what grand folly is this to play the fool for your precious souls Is this to redeem your time Is this to walk as wise ones As those that are wise to Salvation Is he a wise Mariner amongst you that when the Wind presents will stay on the Downs or drinking a shore and so loose his Voyage Is he a wise Man Merchant in your repute that doth not esteem his Seasons to buy his Goods and Commodities at the best hand Is he a wise Husbandman that doth not observe his Seasons for getting his Seed

is not yet done O says a wise Man I have been often about such a Business and Concernment and one thing or other doth put me off and I have neglected and delayed it but I will no longer defer it O Wisdom will say thus for the soul Have not you been often resolving solving to break off your sin often thinking you would turn from the evil of your ways Saying with the Prodigal I will arise and go to my Father But O sinner is it not yet to do Have you to this day been as good as your word O poor souls what if Death should clap an Arrest upon you before you get it done Have you any lease of your Lives May not you be sought for in the Morning and not be found Is it not then wisdom to put off that no longer which you have put off too long already 7. Is it not wisdom to do that now which is impossible to be done afterwards A wise Man will not hang a Business of Concernment upon may-be's and uncertainties O no! Thus will a wise Man argue It is certain it may now be done but it is certain it cannot be done afterwards if it be not done now There is no wisdom nor work in the Grave He that dies a fool shall be damned for a fool He will have more wisdom in Hell or however he will there see his folly but he must bear it and the merit of it to all Eternity Now is the day of Salvation and wise Men I have told you take Time by the fore-lock they redeem it It cannot be done afterwards O how positive is God in the case Luke 13.25 26. When once the Master of the House is risen up and hath shut to the Door and you begin to stand without and to knock at the Door c. But what was the answer Depart from me I know you not whence you are Yet they plead priviledges We have eaten and drunk in thy presene and thou hast Taught in our streets O they would not be said nay but doth Christ call his first words in again O no! I tell you I know you not depart from me Be gone you wretched and damned souls be gone O cutting words Were these wise Souls or Fools judg you 8. Is it not wisdom to do that which we have but a little time to do it in Were you to live the age of Methusalem or the age of the Patriarchs before the Flood you then might have something to say for your folly in delaying the great work of your sou's But alas what is your Age before God David answers the case Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth and mine age is as nothing before thee Psal 39.4 5. Suppose sinners that you should live threescore Years and ten a full Age what is this You have an hundred Years work to do in this time and what is a days time to a weeks work Or a weeks time for a years work This is the case poor sinners Time is short And is not he a foolish Traveller that hath a Journey that is large to go and only a Winter day to do it in and yet he will have it Noon ere he set out In short days you say it is now Noon and now Night Alas poor sinners It is not only Noon with many of you and the Sun of your Life may set at Noon-day but at four a Clock or five of the Clock in some of your days of Grace And is it not wisdom to make haste before it be night a night of utter Darkness eternal Darkness with you O sinners spur on put on and mend your pace else you will be nighted 9. Is it not wisdom to do that now which will bring great returns of wisdom when you die when you come to your Journeys end Wise Men will be doing that for the present which will turn to good account though they see not good of it for the present So a wise soul for Eternity for Heaven this soul will be doing that which will bring great returns Wise Merchants and wise Mariners study to make good returns Here come your returns you wise Christians when you come to die O then the soul will have returns of Peace and Comfort This was the return that Hezekiah had Lord remember me how I have walked before thee with an upright and a perfect heart O that is a sweet word of Peters Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure For so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly unto the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.10 11. Is it not greatly your wisdom to make this sure to have Peace Joy and Comfort upon a Death-bed at last 10. Is it not wisdom to do that now which you shall not have to do afterwards Now thou art moved breathed upon convinced inclined and hast a good will to repent and to return from the evil of thy ways O do it speedily for it may be neglect this time and thy Heart may be hardened Jezebel had space given her to repent in but she repented not Alas poor sinner it may be thou wilt be judicially hardned instead of mourning repenting or believing afterwards Now if thou put these together and compare them with the other ten in the Doctrinal part I think sinners you may easily see who is the Fool and who is the Wise Man and which of these you belong unto Come sinners rouze up your selves if you have plaid the fool thus long for the Lords sake for your souls sake for Christ's sake let me beg of you let me prevail with you that you play the Fools no longer lest as you have lived you shall die lest you die Fools And let me tell you sinners there is no fool like the dying fool for the dying fool will be the damned fool Prov. 14.9 Fools make a mock at Sin WE have done with the Description of the Persons in my Text the ungodly Man the Fool. We are now come to the Discovery of his Practice He makes a mock at Sin What he is you have heard but now we must enquire what he doth The Text tells us He makes a mock at Sin He is not only a Fool but he manifests his folly according to that word Prov. 13.16 A fool layeth open his folly Or spreadeth his folly layeth open the dung of his own foolishness Some read it The shame of his folly shall be spread abroad one reads it The heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness Prov. 12.23 Wherein doth this discovery of this folly consist The Text tells us They make a mock at Sin Some think the sense of it to be this * Thus some carry it They make a sport of it Seek not to appease the wrath of God kindled against them for it but amongst the Righteous there is favour viz. Among them the favour of God when they have offended is sought for by all