of his journey and can go no further then he sits down and lives there and would not go back againe especially if he considers how many are out of doors and under tempests he may now bless God they have a shelter So if the Lord had never revealed his grace to you in the Gospel and you were not yet drawn by it nor drawn to it but were lost in your sins or selves or world and had miseries upon you then you might be unquiet but now when laid â—n the bosome of Christ when suckâ—ng the breasts of the grace of Christ when you can go no further though thou wereâ—in Heaven for there 's no other happiness there Now sit â—till câ—ntented and be glad of this as under thy Vine and shadow especially considering the woes of them that are yet farre from this grace and mercy in Jesus Christ and under Clouds of blood Men that faile upon the Sea if they see nothing but waves and vast raging of waters about them they keep themselves close in their Ship though their Cabbins be but little tell me one thing that is good where Christs love is not shew me any thing but misery death and eternal sorrows out of it oh therefore sit still quietly meekly contentedly though you be tossed as high as Heaven and go down as deep as Hell again You are troubled sometimes with losses of outward things Cattel dye and Rachels Children and Husband are not increase little decayes many and Iobs wife bids him bless God and give glory to him by confessing he is an Hypocrite because so much afflicted and dye and David sees the ungodly flourish and he thinks he hath washt his hands in vain and 't is good to fare and live here as they live Oh consider suppose the Lord should give thee these things as he doth to others to be snares and at last say I know you not when thy soul shall come trembling out of a sick and weary body before the Tribunal of God Almighty as these was that portion then so good Oh therefore take your portion and be thankful for it Oh therefore be glad in this and say I have these miseries but Christs love to sweeten them these sorrows but Christs love to sanctifie them I see Floods of Fire arising but oh here 's this shelter to be a Refuge to me You have heard what it is not to be beloved what a misery it is by that contrary see this viz. 1. For the Lord to have thoughts of peace to thee when thou wert nothing but death and misery before his eyes to bear thee in his heart ever since he was God 2. For the Lord to speak to thee and make an eternal Covenant and every promise thine Davids dying words are This was enough even all his desire and not one tittle but shall be accomplished one day 3. For the Lord to â—hed his blood beare thy sins curse and tread down death and sin and teare away the hand-writing of the Law against thee rather than the least evil befall thee 4. For the Lord to be working for thee by all good things all evil things all providences all Ordinances night and day and you may find it in part and shall find it hereafter 5. For the Lord to accept all thy poor endeavours desires prayers Isaiâ—h 56. 6. For the Lord to pity thee in all thy misery and worst times then to shew his greatest love when death and powers of darkness put forth their greatest malice truly thus it is Oh let this love be enough considering especially the woful condition of them that want it who shall cry for one smile and cannot get it See this love and doubt not of it how could you love him if he did not love you first especially if you have been satiated with it tray for it Psalme 90. 14. I speak this the rather because of the sad miseries which make men lame in their Christian course that they are ready to lie down disconsolate because they Remember not this Do not alwayes doubt but once at last get through the Crowde to this Love Let those who want this love mourn for it though the Lord gives you and doth for you never so much in regard of other things Suppose he doth not smite thy body with sickness thy name with disgrace thy estate with losses yet if he doth not love thee this is woe enough It was the misery of Israel Ier. 15. 1. with 5. My minde is not to this people cast them out and as the Lord there said so I say If the Lord deal thus who shall pity thee or bemoane thee or ask how thou dost Ioel. 1. 8 9 10. They lament when the Fig-tree was wasted much more now the Lords love is not towards thee Lam. 1. 16. The Church there laments that the Comforter which should refresh was farre off Quest. How shall I know that Answ. If he never did affect thy heart with loss and want of his love and abusing of it but hath let you go on in peace all your life you were borne out of his love cast out to the loathing of thy person and have lived so though he hath been pitiful to thee now if you were never troubled with loss of this and wrongs done against this you are as yet out of love Look as it is with a Father if he hath a Childe froward and cannot restraine him he lets him alone he loves him not else he would chastiâ—e and correct him and make him shake at his frownes so here as it is Heb. 12. 8. If no correction you are Bastards So here you have gone on and never have been yet troubled in minde with the frowns of Christ never lamented your wrongs done to Christ are you loved I know the Lord may let you go Prodigals for a time but he will bring you back if he loves you I never knew any whom the Lord brought home but this broke their hearts O that the Lord was so patient and I all my life abused him nay he would oft have gathered me he did oft strive and I was likâ— a Ballock unaccustomed to the yoke Jer. 31. 18. and he might have cut me off or given me up to my stubborn heart Many are troubled for want of memory ignorance and want of power to pray or some sin and then God is merciful to them and this eases them againe but this is nothing till you come to this viz. feares of the eternal los of this love and this lies heavy If this be thy condition that for the present thou art not loved of the Lord tell me but one thing which thou hast to comfort thee thou hast friends peace health but they are all without love if without love then thou hast them with a curse and wrath of God Suppose thou wert dying and the Lord should say to thee when thou cryest I know thee not would it not be sad Lie upon thy Pillow and sleep quietly if
THE PARABLE OF THE Ten Virgins OPENED APPLIED Being the Substance of divers SERMONS on Matth. 25. 1 13. Wherein the Difference between the Sincere Christian and the most Refined Hypocrite the Nature and Characters of Saving and of Common Grace the Dangers and Diseases incident to most flourishing Churches or Christians and other Spiritual TRUTHS of greatest importance are clearly discovered and practically Improved BY THOMAS SHEPARD late Worthy and Faithfull Pastor of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in NEW-ENGLAND Now Published from the Authours own Notes at the desires of many for the common Benefit of the Lords people BY Ionathan Mitchell Minister at Cambridge in NEW ENGLAND The Shepard Son to the Reverend Author now Minister at Charles-Town in NEW ENGLAND LUKE 21. 36. Watch ye therefore and pray alwaies that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and to stand before the Son of man LONDON Printed by I. Hayes for Iohn Rothwell at the Sign of the Fountain in Gold smiths-Row in Cheap-side 1660. TO THE READER And Especially to the Inhabitants of CAMBRIDGE IN NEW-ENGLAND THat to make sure of Life Eternal is the one necessary Businesse that we Sons of death have to do in this world and without which all our time here is worse than lost every enlightned mind will easily acknowledge This present life being by the Rule of it appointed but to this end to be preparation-time spent in a continual care to make ready that we might have a good meeting with him who shall be seen in this Aire one day And whether we look up to Heaven or down to Hell whether we reflect upon our own immortal souls or turn our eyes toward the Greatnesse and Goodnesse of that God in Christ with whom we have to do whether we pace over the time between this and Judgment-day or send our thoughts to view the Eternity that is to follow after All things put a Necessity a Solemnity a Glory upon this work But Difficilia quae Pulchra It is one of the Oracles uttered by our Lord with his own mouth Strait is the Gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that find it It is not so easie a thing to get to Heaven nor so broad a way thither as the slight and loose Opinions of some and Practises of more would make it nor as the carnal hearts of all would have it Though thâ—t if it be examined is the common Scope of all Erroneous Conceits and how restlesly have the corrupt minds of men laboured therein in all ages and do in these our daies to widen the way to Life to break down the Boundaries of this narrow Path and make it broader than ever God made it Mans carnal heart finds it self pinioned and straitned in the way the good old way of effectual Faith and obedience that God hath laid out hence it breaks out on this hand and on that and will rather pluck up the ancient Land-marks of Gods Truth than not make it broader The Gospel will not afford men a way broad enough unlesse the Law be quite removed not only as a Covenant but as a commanding Rule of Life too and laid flat like an old Hedge that they may go over it at pleasure and not attend it any further than their spirit listeth Justification by Faith is too narrow a path unlesse they may be justified before and without Faith it is not free enough they complain of it as if it laid them under a Covenant of works Conditional Promises are of too straight a size they must be all absolute and give us peace without any qualification in us or else they are not large enough To be solicitous about Sanctification and inherent Grace is too troublesom to seek God diligently in the use of all means in a daily and hearty performance of holy Duties in a strict Sanctifying of Sabbaths in constant watchfulnesse c. this must be laid by as a Legal Businesse And if the Spirit immediatly will act us and carry us in a Bed of ease to Heaven without troubling us to act and strive well and good otherwise men will shake hands with the power of Godlinesse and run a drift before their own Corruptions But when all Stones are turned the way to Heaven is and will be found to be a straight way Truth hath said it is so God hath laid it out so and it is not all the Notions of men that will make it otherwise And hence those solemn Counsels of the Scripture Work out your salvation with fear and trembling Give all diligence to make all sure Strâ—ve to enter in at the Straight Gate So run that you may obtain c. though they be little attended by the loosenesse of these times yet they are of endlesse Moment and use and had need be awfully regarded by all that love their everlasting peace He therefore that is in earnest about this great businesse will be glad of any good help to guide him in this way this straight way to Life And though there be many choice helps herein already extant in the precious Labours of sundry of the Lords Faithful Servants for which this Age hath cause on bended Knees to blesse the Lord and which will be such a testimony against the wantonnesse thereof as it will never be able to answer Yet of those that do clearly particularly livelily and searchingly discover and mark out this straight way with the several practical turns thereof and shew where they that miss of the end at last do turn out of it although they go far therein of those that Pilot us when we come into the narrow Channel unto the very point of entrance into life and shew us the Rocks and Shoals on either hand distinctly of these I say there is not too great a number For to speak any good and useful Truths is good and commendable but yet it is another and a further matter to hold the Candle to the poor people of God even to the meanest to light them to Heaven or to take the soul by the hand and lead if from step to step through all the difficulties deceits and turnings at which the closest Hypocrites do misse their way and lose themselves and to do this so convincingly throughly and distinctly as that the secrets of hearts may be made manifest the secure self-deceiver discovered and awakened and yet the humble upright Christian confirmed and encouraged In this Skill and Work as the Author of the following Sermous was known to be among the first Three so these Lectures of his up on the Parable of the Virgins have been esteemed to excel in this kind having left such a relish upon the Hearers as that they have not forgotten the Taâ—t of them to this day It hath therefore been the instant desire of many that heard them and of some that have but heard of them that they might be imparted to the
but she before imagined but that which now she saw with her own eyes and that wrapt her out of her self Here we hear of the Lord Jesus of his beauty and glory and this draws Saints to him and when come they see that which they never saw before especially when in Heaven then fall down in everlasting admiration at this mystery for the blessedness of Saints is to see Christ in his glory Iohn 17. 24. Now this lies in an infinite good this cannot be seen in a finite time hence Saints shall be piercing their eyes deeper and deeper into this mystery and shall ever see more and more but never see all and this is their joy and glory in Heaven Is it so what think you is Christ worthy of your love or no look upon all the glory of the field of this world you may see an end of all perfection but never here 5. He is the delights and bosome love of God himself Prov. 8. 30. Hence Iohn when he came to set Christ out Iohn 3. 35. The Father loveth the Son Now is it so surely though you see not taste not this good yet there 't is now tell me if this person do not challenge love would you not be glad to have him you will say can he look upon such a VVretch embrace such a Leper as I no surely he will never do it SECT II. 2. COnsider he makes love to thee not one soul that hears me this day but the Lord Jesus is a Suitor unto that now you would be espoused to him He came unto his own and they received him not Whatever the secret purpose of Christ is I regard not In this Evangelical dispensation of Grace he makes love to all Iohn 1. 12. 'T is clear Mat. 22. 2 3. If there be a Gospel in the world there is this love of Christ yearning towards all especially all that have this Gospel of peace sent to them Luke 2. 10. 'T is tidings of great joy to all people as Law is tidings of great sorrow to all people Luke 2. 14. Angels from Heaven preacht this good will towards men For if the challenge of love from men should be founded on his actual love to some having died for some then the offer would be particular But 't is grounded 1. On his own worth and Glory and hence he challengeth love 2. On this for ought I know he hath loved me So that thou art not so vile but the Lord Jesus his heart is toward thee and his eye is upon thee for love But 't is not all love but only some that overcomes 1. Now 't is real love 2. Fervent love 3. Constant. 4. Pure love he makes to thee 1. 'T is real love when the Gospel and Ministers seek for love the Lord is real in his desires there is no collusion or dissembling 2 Cor. 5. 20. in Christs stead He that receiveth you receiveth me thou thinkest the Lord cares not for thee not doth not desire thee though he doth others but 1. Either the Lord would have thee loath him or love him what think you 2. If the Lord did not really make love to thee he would not be really angry for rejecting of this love but the Lord is really angry for rejecting it and wroth with nothing so much as that Psal. 2. 12. here he swears in his wrath Psal. 95. 11. when he opens his bosom for thee to rest in and thou wilt not 3. Look but upon the dealings of God with thee 1. Hast not oft thought some in Hell better than thee why the ruine of millions of men is to win love from thee Ier. 3. 8 9 10. 2. Hath not the Lord sent many a mercy to thee not one but was to win thee Psal. 81. 10 11 12. 3. Hath not the Lord with-held many from thee as here in this wildernesse Ier. 3. 3 4. 4. Hath not the Lord sent many sorrows terrors fears cares wearisome businesses that thou hast wished an end of life this is love Hos. 2. 6. 5. Hath not the Lord moved thy heart many a time-toward him by perswasions arguments which have a power to move the heart this is love Hos. 11. 4. Cords of a man 6. Hath not the Lord oft melted thy heart for mercies as David when he might have killed Saul truly you may feel his love which is much towards you that which keeps off thy heart from love is the Lord intends it not to me he is not plain with me But he sends to thee his plain Gospel which thou art to attend unto and he takes fittest seasons to speak to thee now in the time of thy heath and doth he not oft visit thy heart when thou art alone 2. 'T is servent vehement earnest love sometimes a Suitor is real but he is not earnest now thus the Lord is 1. The Lord longs for this Deut. 5. 29. 2. Pleads for this Ier. 2. 5. What iniquity c. 3. Thinks long for this time Ier. 13. 27. Ierusalem will not be made clean when shall it once be 4. Mourns when he hath not this Ezek. 6. 9. Broken with their whorish heart 5. Content to give away any thing for it all the love of Christ is founded on this 6. If thou comest not presently he is content to wait that he may be gracious 3. 'T is constant and continual there is not a moment thou dost not so oft breath as thou maist see and taste love Isai. 27. 3. Isai. 65. 2. 1. After all thy whorish departing from God that if man should do so no man would own yet he saith Return to me thou seest never a creature but thou hast loved more than Christ yet return 2. When God threatens most terribly and sets his fury on record yet then there he minds nothing but love Ier. 36. 2 3. 3. When none else will own and pitty thee thou art so vile yet Ezek. 16. 2 3. the Lord saith live then is a time of love 4. Nay when thou hast cast away thy self as a forlorn creature yet Hos. 14. 3. In thee the Fatherless find mercy 5. When he hath thee in his arms ready to give thee up yet then How shall I give thee up O Ephraim Hos. 11. 8. I tell thee if one sparkle of his eternal blasting displeasure should fall upon thee it would be so intollerable that it would sink thee his love is as strong as death no water can quench it oh 't is not so with man or great men once repulsed is enough why should the Lord do so here many think time is past 't is not so 't is the temptation of them that have time not of them that want it take heed this make thee not despise him 4. 'T is a pure love others make love for their own ends but the Lord hath no need of thee or of thy love he could raise up of stones children of praise he could have gone to others he could have and can fetch his
up before profession as all manner of ignorance and hardness and lasciviousness and vanity now many grow terrified for these and comforted by the Gospel against these and now peace is made Oh but there are some mens natures like some fields which when they are mowen and weeded yet they have a second growth it may be as with other kinde of Weeds you may never fall to those sins you lived in once but other sins more close more spiritual like the House Luke 11. 24. swept and emptied but seven other spirits worse than the former may at last enter in Oh take heed of these for they will make your latter end miserable you know habitations of Satan are not fit mansions for the Spirit of Christ you know Vessels not only of Wood but of Gold if filthy and poysoned are unfit for Princes use till cleansed and look through all the Scriptures on the faces of the best hypocrites you shall finde some filth growing up after their Profession or together with it like blood and sacrifice mixt together Matth. 7. 23. Luke 13. 27. Not those that have iniquity but those that work it not those that work against it and are destroyers of it by little and little but workers of it If you ask me what these sins be I answer These tares and choaking Thornes as they are sown and grown whiles you be asleep so they may be seen when they are grown up if you walk in your fields and meditate on your hearts I 'le only name some 1. Pride affecting some excellency above others and thinking your self some body 2. Spiritual fulness and secret loathing of Ordinances when men are clogged with them 3. Despising known truths which like flowers were notwithstanding sweet at first gathering either concerning your misery or Christ if the Gospel were preacht to the ignorant they would take heaven with violence but thy soul now is not moved and the messengers of God that bring them despised as Galatia and Corinth did Paul 4. A spirit of contention with good people Now you cannot bear unkindnesses and they offend you c. Alexander at first stood for Paul and he opposeth Paul to his face at last 5. Boldness to 〈◊〉 in small matters commonly without sorrow begot by counterfeit assurance of Gods love 6. Seeking of God in Ordinances and working of iniquity out of them fits men have of good affections but healthful constitutions of bad ones 7. Thinking you are indeed what you would be and yet indeed would not be There be other sins but these are some of the most special which I shall now mention take heed of letting these grow or dealing gently with them for Saints may feel these but they put their hook to the roots of these Weeds and would faine pull them quite up but if you deal gently as David with the young Absolom and think God must do all I cannot part with them and hence you give way to them and though there be these sins yet I have many good signes and promises too I shall be saved and so long as they cannot destroy my soule what though they grow in my soul You perish 1 Cor. 9. 26 27. if thus it be with you Take heed you do not run away with such comforts arising from your feeding upon the promise and person of Christ without refrâ—shing the soule also with the good Will and Commands of Christ do not think your selves ready to enjoy Christ when his promise person and love is sweet which is good but his will is bitter and a burden to thy soul even thy whole soul I know 't is so to the â—nregenerate part of godly men for such men there be 1 Iohn 1. 6. To the Saints Christs love is sweet and promise sweet and therefore his Will his Work Iohn 4. 34. Bread you know not of to do the Will of him that sent me and to finish it so it is their food to do the Will of him that loves them and to finish it If a man is to remove from one Countrey to another and he cannot live upon the Bread of the Countrey nor water where he goes he is then unfit for such a Journey because he cannot live upon the bread of it Now what is that which feeds the life of Saints in glory not only Christ but living unto Christ to be perfected under the Government and Kingdom of Christ can you live upon this now in part and the first fruits of it if you can know it is then prepared for thee and thou for it if not but you live as you say upon the present sweet of the promise nay it may be upon the thoughts of old comforts but to do the Will of Christ is death not life to you and it is meerly your task for wages to do his Will not part of your Inheritance you are unfit to be with Christ Acts 21. 13. Why break you my heart saith Paul I am ready to die for the sake of Christ and to do much more So think thus Was Paul ready to die and I not ready to do my heart loaths thy Commands Lord but what the Law makes heavy the Gospel makes sweet for thy sake Lord I love thy will pray Oh thy love is sweet but let thy will be so also Labour to grow poor in spirit that when you cannot honour the Lords Will yet you may be gathering somâ—thing out of all sinnes and weaknesses to honour Gods grace the glory of grace is the last end those that be prepared for it shall enjoy it Who are those The poore who when they see they have lost their lives their soules their comforts in not doing his Will which is bitter to them yet the Lord shall not lose the honour of his grace Psalme 74. 21. The poor will be thankful What doth Paul that Vessel of grace Persecutor Blasphemer but a Saint now say Oh but the least of them but he was an Apostle but I deserve not that name but yet he is received to mercy 't is very true yet never such an example as he thinks and therefore saith he To the King immutable c. when Iacob had seen the Lord Gen. 26. ult if he shall give me food and rayment he shall be my God i. e. I shall then magnifie him he having said he would be so before and he had it in plenty So say If the Lord shall pity pardon I shall then give all to him if I had a thousand hearts tongues truly as Psalme 40. ult The Lord now thinketh on you When a Servant hath spent and lost his Masters estate and he is to give up an Account truly then he may give it with comfort when as he gaines one way abundantly though he loseth another and makes the best gaines so here SECT XV. 2. TO those who are ready but yet not so ready as is meet The Lord hath given you warning to prepare by some sharp afflictions on thy self or by the
or that it would be a shame for you to begin now who have propt up your hearts with base comforts you that have been stirred but are now faln asleep beware of dying in your ditches and pits wherein you are faln you must stand before God shortly Though you never repented yet c. never was in bitterness never had any great mourning c. never knew the life of Christ peace of conscience never felt the Kingdome and mighty power of Christ yet despaire not for yet there is hope but if once death comes then thou art gone it is day yet and Christ holds open his wings yet but if death comes his time is out Object But I have a faire time yet before me Answ. 1. It may be not for thou art condemned already 2. If you have yet wilt abuse patience and forbearance of God wilt despise what leads thee to repentance as a man â—inking spits in the face of him that holds up his Head wilt thou be worse than a devil Objection But a little repentance will â—erve the turne 't is quickly lonâ— Answer Oh no! as Paul said I have fought a good fight thou hast â—ins as dear as thy life to forsake thou hast Devils World to wrestle with nâ—y God himself to wrestle with you cannot runne your Race in a day Object What if I be shut out Answ. I say no more but only what Solomon said Prov. 5. 11 12 13. O how have I hated reproof that shall be thy woful dirge another day when shut out oh never to have one look one word from Christ but to see him afar off this shall be thy fearful portion hereafter Truly we may take up that complaint of Christ You can discerne the times of the Weather not Christs coming VERSE 11 12. Afterward came also the oâ—her Virgins saying Lord Lord open unto us But he answered and said Vâ—rily I say unto you I know you not IN these two Verses is set down the entertainment Christ gives unto the foolish Virgins and his behaviour toward them and that is he did not own them as his but saith I know you not Their miserable rejection is aggravated from these particulars shewing their misery 1. The note of certainty of this Verily c. 2. Though they came afterward to the Lord it is not said with their Oyle in their Vessels c. 3. Though they prayed to the Lord to open when they came 4. Though they prayed earnestly Lord Lord 5. Though they sought thus with Arguments Lord Lord as if they should say Thou art our Lord and Saviour we look for life from none but thee That after the coming of Christ to death or judgement then shall those who are most secretly wicked know certainly that the gate is shut and their exclusâ—on and final separation from the face of Christ. These foolish Virgins had some hopes and assurances of mercy whiles the Bridegroom was absent in their life so men have in this world such hopes but when Christ came and shut the door upon them then they knew their miserable condition This life is compared unto a sleep and dreame Psalme 90. 5. wherein men understand and conceive of things with false shapes so here but when they awaken then they appeare otherwise after death men are awakened and then they see things as they are the Parable of the rich man Luke 16. proves this Because then God lets in a new light most full and cleare to see and know things as they are and so to know themselves and their estates it is an Atheists speech Ecclâ—s 9. 5 7 10. That the dead know not any thing and hence be as merry as you can eat thy bread with joy c. No now they do know c. as the Saints know their eternal acceptation by a most glorious light God walks darkly here but then this full light shall come in As it is with a man that is to be condemned before he be cast the Judge brings in full evidence so Heb. 9. ult After death cometh judgement there is full evidence when Aâ—am stood before God the Lord fuâ—ly convinced him when death comes then there is an end of mens Stewardships Luke 16. 2. and when an end comes to that what comes then Come give up thy account now those whose reckonings are naught must either deceive and blinde the all-searching eyes of God and so not be found out or they shall see wherein they have been faithless and false What is spoken of the general Judgement is true also of this particular it is the day of Revelation God himself will now cleare up matters as Christ here doth Verily I know you not Because then the soul will desire to know and have leisure to see and know it self as these foolish Virgins their souls were looking in a sort in their life-time for Christ but now they look and see indeed some know not themselves though having light nor their present misery because they desire not to know and hence reflect not upon themselves according to light now or if they desire so to-do yet they have not leisure the noise and multitude of cares keeps them from a cleare knowing of their estates but now men shall be brought to the Land of solitariness and shall have leisure to see having Gods light let in to see by there shall then be no business but only to consider Who am I and what have I done men shall have no Cities to build nor business to do as Faelix then and hence put out the light Because then conscience is throughly awakened because it is a time of judgement now and if so then the witnesses must appeare though they have been silent long before they shall be forced to speak Now it is wonderful to see what conscience will speak when God awakens it men many times will not see the evil which they have done but conscience will make them see it nay confess it when 't is awakened Three things conscience will do when it is awakened 1. It will shew a man his chief sins which he defended which he extenuated which he never suspected These things hast thou done 2. It can bring fresh to memory sins forgotten sleighted dead and buried a great number all of them as if new done Iohn 4. 29. all things that ever I did 3. It can and will aggravate all these things and sins and present them in the greatness of them that mens mouths shall pass their own Sentence upon them as Cain did that let all the world perswade them their case is good they cannot believe it now this we see in this life in some but when life is ended then these things shall be acted much more lively Psal. 50. 21. I will reprove thee even of what they thought God did approve and I will set them in order in their number and greatness before thy eyes i. e. of conscience all falshoods deceits loathsome tricks c. I did