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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

have say Sinners gotten a custome of it I cannot leave it Tell a sinner of his Drunkenness of his Uncleanness c. O h●● hath gotten a custome of it Is this any Plea thou foolish sinner Suppose a Malefactor before a Judg of Assize should plead thus My Lord the Indictment is true I confess the Fact but I have gotten such a custome to Steal and play the Thief or I have gotten such a custome of it to cut Purses that I cannot leave it therefore I crave your Lordships favour Would this pleading Mittigate or Aggravate the Offence think you And yet is not this the Case of Thousands of sinners Some have Allegorized that passage of Lazarus being dead four days as though it set out a sinner dead in his sins and trespasses dead the first day ●y conceiving sin the second day by consenting to sin the third day by committing sin the fourth day by ●ustome in sin so that a Sinner accustomed to sin is not only dead ●ut buried in sin and a Grave-stone ●olled upon it and now no sense being left in this sinner being dead in sin he becomes a mocker at sin 6. Another thing that leads foolish ones into mocking at sin is because it doth not appear to them at present in its proper colours it appears to them in Disguises in Masks Sinners do not look at sin in two Glasses and so have not a right view and prospect of it 1. The Glass of the Law this will make sin● to appear in its proper colours Si● says Paul that it might appear sin● it did not appear sin before it did not look like it self before it had a painted Face but now it hath death in the Face of it yea Hell and Damnation in the Face of it Sin revived and I died Rom. 7.9 10 11 12 13. The Apparition of it th● sight of it kill'd him O what 〈◊〉 thing is sin that thou mockst a● poor sinner The sight of it will ki●● a man He had been looking upon his sin in the Glass of the Law th● Commandment Alas Do not the most of sinners in the World look upon sin like a painted Lion that cannot take a Man by the Throat O but the Law of God will let you see it is a real Roaring Lion and will tear you to pieces if you get it not pardoned 2. There is the Glass of the Gospel to shew you sin in its proper colours The Gospel lets you see sin is the Knife that cut the Throat of Gods Isaac viz. the Lord Jesus Christ This was the Dagger that stab'd the Son of God ●o the Heart This was the Spear that let Water and Blood out of his side The Nailes that fastned his Sacred Hands to the Cross And if ●hou hadst such a sight of sin couldst ●hou nay durst thou make a mock 〈◊〉 sin 7. Another thing that leads Fools 〈◊〉 make a mock at sin is their unbelief of the severe Threatnings of ●od against it Though the Lord hath threatned it with Eternal Condemnation with Destruction yea everlasting Destruction from his Presence and the Glory of his Power to lie under Wrath to come without the least hopes of Mercy to all Eternity But alas these sinners are such fools that they put them far from them and so make a mock at that they should mourn over Did they believe the soul that sins shall die Did they believe that the wages of sin is death Did they believe that the wayes of sin do lead down unto death Did they believe that Jesus Christ will come in flaming fire rendring Vengeance to them that know him not and obey not the Gospel Could it be that they durst make a mock at sin But alas Do not all these severe Threatnings seem to them like so many idle Tales as things spoken they think meerly in Terrorem and that God will never make the● good upon them But what a dream what a delusion is this God will as surely perform his Threatnings as he will his Promises Not one Threatning shall fall to the ground no more than one Promise 8. Another thing that leads Fools to make a mock at sin is this A secret apprehension that they have taken up that God will never call them to an account hereafter for what sin they run into now O if poor sinners did but reckon of a day of Account of standing before a Judgment Seat of being called before Gods Bar could they durst they make a mock at sin Did the Thief in the act consider I must answer for this before the Judg would it not strike him with dread and terrour while he is about it Would he then make a mock at it What at that which he must answer for And sinner hath not God said we must all appear at his Judgment Seat And that to give an account of all the deeds done in the Body whether they be good or evil And hath not he told us after death we must come to Judgment And that we must give an account for every idle word at the great Audit-Day Then surely we must for every action Mat. 12.36 1 Pet. 4.5 Is not Christ Judg of the Quick and the Dead before whom we must all appear And sinner is all this in Jest can the Holy God thus dally with guilty sinners What is all this an idle story Is this only a Romance Are these only big words Come come poor sinners you will find every syllable of this to be true and will you go on mocking at that which you must be accountable for to an Impartial Judg Will the Judgment Day be a mocking matter Is the dreadful Tribunal of God a jesting Business Then go on like Fools and make a mock of sin 9. Thing that leads Fools to make a mock at sin is a wretched Conceit sinners have taken up that God will forget sin as fast as they commit it Tush say they will God remember He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see it Psal 10.11 And so poor deluded souls go on making a mock at it Ah poor sinner what a madness is this in thee to harbour such a Conceit God did foresee such a piece of Atheism as this in the hearts of the Sons of Men therefore he hath laid us in with plentiful Texts of Scripture against it Deut. 32.34 Is not this laid up in store with me and sealed among my Treasures God hath laid them up to bring them out when occasion serves Therefore you read that in Job Job 14.17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag thou sowest up mine iniquity Some read it Thou packest up mine iniquity Others complicate them together Lays one of them upon the top of another Former sins with present sins to make up the pack and aggravate one another When the great Assizes come we read how sinners must be proceeded against out of the Books which are written says the Text Rev. 20.15 O poor

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