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A58032 The hue and cry of conscience after secure sinners; or The alarm of conscience in order to the discovery of hidden guilt by John Ryther minister of the gospel Ryther, John, 1634?-1681. 1680 (1680) Wing R2439; ESTC R218576 38,947 164

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you here reade A smiting checking Conscience is a very great Mercy tho little priz'd or esteemed by the most 3. Remember how bitter Sin was to you before you came to know what peace of Conscience meant how many a bitter Tear it fetched from your Eyes how many deep and bitter sighs from your Hearts yea even to the breaking of your Loins O what Gall and Wormwood was it to your Souls How often did you say will it not be bitterness in the latter end How often did you take up that Language to your own Souls This is thy way and thy doings because it is bitter it reaches to thy Heart c. But yet as you reade do you remember how sweetly all this ended in God's speaking peace to your Souls and you no more turning to Folly 4. Tremble to think of losing the Peace that God hath spoken to your Consciences under sense of Guilt when you meet with that guilt which concerns you O let the loss of your peace be like Hell to your Souls O blot not that Pardon your Redeemer hath written so legibly in his own Blood Blurring off your Pardon may cost you dear 5. Be afraid of the least Guilt the least Sin because it is Sin When Satan cannot prevail with you to venture upon greater Sins then he will tempt to lesser Sins But know you not that the least Sin is Soul defiling yea the least Sin is Soul damning unless the Blood of Christ sprinkle your Consciences How have many Souls groaned under the guilt of such Sins for many Years when God hath set them home upon your Consciences The third sort of Readers into whose hands this little piece may fall are such whose Consciences are seared such the Apostle mentions these are in sensible 1 Tim. 4.2 Truths make no impression upon them Ephes 4.19 they are be nummed The Apostle expresses it by being past feeling And when they are arrived at such an height of Sin what do such do The Text tells you They commit all Uncleanness with greediness Now to such I would say 1. The day is coming thy seared and insensible Conscience shall condemn and rise up in judgment against thee And O then who can stand before the witness of an awakned Conscience You may as well think to dwell with everlasting Burnings and tormenting Flames as avoid or evade the Testimony of a tormented and awakened Conscience Nay know that sometimes this Hell hath begun here Will not Cain tell you while he crys out My punishment is greater than I can bear No torment like the torment of a guilty Conscience Nay ask Adam and he will tell you when he was afraid and hid himself from the presence of God O Guilt you know cannot endure the presence of the Judge O doth not Pashur's case speak forth this truth What a terror to himself was he Did not Judas preach this Doctrine when he cri'd out I have finned in betraying innocent Blood Nero that Monster when he had killed his Mother Agrippina and his Wife and set Rome on fire after all this Guilt at last felt an Hell in his Conscience and could not rest Day nor Night so that when he died he cried out his Mother Wife and Father all will'd him to die Richard the 3d O what a guilty tormenting Conscience had he after the Murder of his Nephews in the Tower and the Night before he was slain at Bosworth he dreamed he thought all the Devils in Hell were halling him in most hideous and ugly Shapes What says Judge Morgan to this case after he had unrighteously passed Sentence upon the Lady Jane afterwards feeling an Hell in his Conscience cried out O take away the Lady Jane take away the Lady Jane Which made one say The Guilt which from unseen Pollution springs Pale sweating Horror in the Bosom brings 2. What tho your Consciences be seared upon the account of your Guilt being undiscovered Yet know God many times hath found out Guilt in an extraordinary way Providence treads not always the same Paths in discovering hidden Guilt Eccles 10. ult he can cause a Bird of the Air to carry the Voice and that which hath Wings to tell the matter He can reveal In quity from Heaven The Heavens shall reveal his Iniquity Job 20.7 and the Earth shall rise up against him One of our * Lord St. John Judges riding his Circuit of late Years met with this Passage One being Murdered and the Murderer not being discovered the Murderer being brought to the dead Corps the Corps opened his Eyes at the Murderer and fell into a Sweat This the Judge related to a godly Minister then living History is full of such Providential bringing hidden Guilt to light 3. Know poor Sinners while your Consciences are seared you are Satans marked Slaves In Ancient Times they used to mark their Slaves and the Holy Ghost alludes to it when we reade of the Mark of the Beast in the Forehead or in the Hand This Searing-Iron puts Satan's Brand upon you you are his And O poor Sinners did you but as you reade this believe it what restless Days and Nights would you have until you had some hopes of your escape from this House of Bondage Can you be content to live and die in the Devil's Drudgery Can you be content to be his bored and marked Slaves his Servants for ever Then you must have the Wages of such Servants and such a Service The Wages of Sin is Death Death Spiritual Death Eternal 4. Know poor Sinners there is not so much as one seared Conscience in Hell they are sadly awakened that are awakened with Hells flames about their Ears If you could hear the Crys and Shrieks of tormented Souls you would say Hell is full of sense of Guilt But alas now it is too late then Repentance is too late They are all saying This and this hath their own Ways and Doings procured unto them O it is bitter O it reaches to their Heart But O Sinners this should have been sooner 5. Know poor Sinners what you reade here if you go on in Sin you will feel another day for an aggravation of Sin yea and Condemnation too What reade what may prevent your Ruine and yet run on What split your Souls upon these Rocks and Sands you saw such Sea-marks before to keep you off O is not this to be wilful in your Perdition Is not this to run headlong to Destruction O Sinners hear God calling out of Heaven to you by his Servants Preaching to you Printing for you why will you die why will you perish why will you run on in Sin when you know that when Lust hath conceived it brings forth Sin Jam. 1.15 and Sin when it is finished bringeth forth Death O then poor Soul Reade and Hear and Pray that thou may'st prosit by all bless God for all and bring forth the Fruits of all Thus prays thy Servant for thy Soul J. R. Gen. 42.21