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A79186 A call from Heaven to the unconverted A sermon preached at the f[un]eral of Mr. John Gaspine. If these weighty considerations are not worth your reading, keep it clean, and return it when calld [sic] for. 1698 (1698) Wing C296A; ESTC R229576 9,972 16

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sin made God to repent that he had made the World sin made God for to burn Sodom and Gomorrah sin made God for to threaten Ephesus to remove his Candlestick from among them Therefore I say do not think sin to be a small matter make Conscience of the least of sins believe God that it is a vile thing consider with thy self what a vain labour this labour of sin is it is a vain troublesome work when you commit it you must resolve for to die the Death or to undo it again Sin it may well be called the labour in vain When thou art a doing any thing that is Evil thou must repent of it or else it will undo thee Sin is a long thread of the sinners spinning that when he hath spun it out he must sit down in sorrow and labour to undo his work again While thou art a sinning I can compare it to nothing better than to the journey that Joseph and Mary made to Jerusalem and left Jesus Christ behind them My beloved it is a sad journeying without Christ in your Company when you go on in your sin you must return again or else you will lose your Souls This I say is the labour in vain of sinners they are doing a work that they undo again they are running a race that they must run back again or else it will undo them You are gathering up of sticks that will help to burn you you are whetting a knife that must cut your own throats you are spinning a thread that must hang you Oh my beloved little do you think that you are doing this when you are sinning Do not you say therefore that sin is a little matter for God will damn the Soul and Body for it He that will damn thee for lying he that will damn thee for neglect of praying he doth think that these sins are great matters Will you lay these things to heart I say take heed of sin and do not you go away with light thoughts of it Vse 2. Is repentance the only way and means for to prevent the Judgments of God which are threatned by God for sin Then from hence you may learn the excellency and the usefulness of that grace of Repentance Oh what an Omnipotent grace is this it is a grace that can do any thing with God Why what can this grace do what can it not do This grace of Redemption it can redeem your mortgaged Blessings it can repossess you of those Blessings that you have foolishly played away Repentance can make God to stay here in our Kingdom when he is a departing Repentance it is a heart-breaking for sin and it breaks the heart of God likewise when thy heart yearns for sin his heart yearns towards thee as thou mayest see in the yearnings of God's Bowels towards Ephraim Jer. xxxi 18 19 20. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth Is ●phraim my dear Son is he a pleasant child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord. Ephraim that was a Tribe one of the Tribes of Israel you here have the Voice of a p●nitent Sinner he smites upon his thigh which is a Sign of great anguish of Spirit here you have the ●enitent here you have the weeping shame-fac'd Sinner But in the Verse following you have God standing and looking on saith God Is Ephraim my dear Son is he a pleasant child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him If thy Heart breaks thou seest that God's Heart will turn towards thee Oh the excellency of Repentance that doth so much prevail with the God of Heaven It is these Dews and heavenly Showers that must revive your almost dying withering Blessings Repentance it is that holy Oyl that must recover our Lamps that are going out Oh the excellency of Repentance From hence you may gather what an excellent priviledge a penitent Heart hath with God It is the mourning lamenting Sinner that is like to do England good these hard-hearred Sinners they cannot recover an almost lost Gospel they cannot fetch God again but a penitent Heart can My beloved how can you live without such a Grace Your Souls want it your Families want it three Kingdoms want it the great want in England is broken-heartedness Vse 3. Is Repentance the only Way to prevent the Judgments of God Then you may from hence gather That when God either hath his Plagues upon a people or continues in threatning his Judgment upon a people it is a sign that those people are ●ery guilty of impenitency and that this people have not yet repented of their sins If God threaten● you O England Scotland and Ireland If God threatens ●ou to give you up to hardness of Heart and blindness of Mind doth God do it at this Day then I say O England Scotland and Ireland you are impenitent People at this Day If you see a Kin dom groaning under the Judgments of God it is a Sign that they have not made use of those Remedies that would have cured them This is a Charge against England we have been a stiff-necked People Oh England England how long shall God wait on you before you repent how often hath God threatned to remove the Gospel from among you How often hath God visited you with great and grievous Sicknesses How many thousands have been killed by the Sword How many Widows and fatherless Children have there been left desolate God hath visited you with Mercy and yet you repent not Oh my beloved is not this sad If God come to punish you after you have received so many mercies from him take heed that God doth not rid his Hands of you Why sit you as if you had no Hand in these Things you careless Masters that never Pray in your Families nor never Teach your Families to Pray It is for your Sins that God doth threaten to remove the Gospel and to take away his Ministers Will you repent of your Sins If you do not sad will be your Ends God may cut you off from the Face of the Earth and raise up unto himself a Generation out of your Loyns that may serve him better than ever you have yet done and God may cause you to die in a Wilderness Oh the hard-heartedness of the People of England Oh the Swearing the Wickedness the Superstition and Prophaneness that is grown up amongst us that I may say as the World was once drowned