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A95855	The way to true happinesse, or, the way to heaven open'd. In a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, Jan. 28. 1654/5 / By Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1655 (1655)	Wing V232; Thomason E830_8; ESTC R207438	31,836	56

thistles Oh no Gal. 6.7 8. Be not deceiv'd mistake not your selves God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that he shall reap he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting And saith the Apostle Rom. 6.16 Know ye not that 's strange Know assuredly that to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousnesse that is unto life He that is now thy Lord and Master he that is now thy Soveraign and King will then pay thy wages 'T is a short question Whose Will do you do if the will of men verily you have your reward if the will of sin you shall have sins wages which is you may heare it but how will you bear eternal death Surely men that like sins work will never like sins wages But if thou do the Will of God thy wages shall be his gift eternal life Well then try for Gods sake and your soules sake try your selves for you may know whose you are and shall be The third word or head is for exhortation let every one then that names and calls upon the Name of the Lord as he loves his soule depart from iniquity alas if you will not depart from iniquity for Gods sake you must there 's no remedy you must depart from God for iniquities sake and shall iniquity be dearer to you then God and your souls Why call you me Lord Lord Le ts either lay aside the Name of the Lord or our iniquity for what hast thou to do thou bold impudent daring sinner to take Gods Name into thy mouth and hatest to be reformed doest thou think that he will hold thee guiltlesse that takest his Name in vain Oh no he will require his Name and glory at thy hands Because God keepeth silence doest thou think he gives consent thinkest thou that he is such an one as thy self No no he will reprove thee and set thy sins in order before thy face and ask thee how thou durst say Lord Lord by way of Profession Prayer ●nd Appeal and yet wouldest not depart from iniquity what wilt thou answer when he riseth up thou wilt then stand speechlesse as being self-condemned Oh let me then beseech you to do the Will of God be not hearers of the Word but doers also lest you deceive your selves What is it to make a good Profession and not to make good the Profession what is it to be a Christian as farre as if it be no further then a few good words will go what is it to speak Christ fair to say Haile Master and kisse him if thou kick with the heel against him Trust not in lying words which cannot profit you will ye steal murther commit adultery sweare falsely burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods your belly and your covetousnesse and come and stand before me in this house and say The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these Is this house which is called by my Name become a den of robbers in your eyes Behold saith God even I have seen it and will require it Good words will never engage God to be a Patron to bad works Think ye to lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us behold thou art called a Jew and restest in the Law and makest thy boast of God and knowest his Will Behold all this what will it come to if thou through breaking the Law dishonourest God and causest his Name to be blasphemed what wilt thou do in that day when God shall judge thee according to this Gospel My beloved let me beg you for your precious and immortal soules sake not to dally with God not to trifle away these few moments of yours on which eternity depends but up and be doing the Will of God that it may go well with you for ever 'T is said of some 2 Kings 17.33 That they feared the Lord but served their own gods but saith the text v. 34. They feared not God for they do not after the Commandments which God commanded Jacob. Alas my beloved how often must I say it 't is not a forme of Godlinesse 't is not saying Lord Lord 't is not quaint civility nor specious morality much lesse painted hypocrisie that will bear you out opinions will not passe for Religion in the day of judgement nay do not think as I may say to make Christ a pack-horse to lay thy sins on his shoulders and thou in the mean time to keep them in thy bosome to say he hath done the Will of God and thou carest not to do his Will Alas the losse will be your own God will lose nothing as he that is wise is wise for himself so he that sinneth wrongeth his own soul Be exhorted then and suffer the word of exhortation which speaketh on this wise Do the Will of God surrender resign your selves to him as ever you expect to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven There are these two provoking Arguments from the text 1 It is for no lesse then a Kingdome yea for no lesse then the Kingdome of Heaven and is that worth nothing The Gospel is called the Gospel of the Kingdom Matth. 4.23 And the Word of the Kingdome Matth. 13.19 For by it we are called to his Kingdome and glory Shall not a Kingdome shall not of all Kingdomes this Kingdome be glorious in our eyes which is the Kingdome of glory The devil offered Christ as his greatest argument of hope to prevaile by the Kingdomes of this world and their glory but what 's that to this what 's time to eternity what 's earth to Heaven what are visibles to invisibles what the things of sense to things of saith what this glory to that which is to be revealed We all naturally love greatnesse and glory and can there be greater glory or more glorious greatnesse then this to be Kings to God here Kings with God hereafter and to reign with him more then a thousand years You see what a do there is in the world and I wish there be no evil done in the world for Crowns Scepters and Kingdomes do all the Kingdomes of the earth suffer violence and do the violent take them by force and shall not the Kingdome of Heaven suffer seeing 't is willing to suffer violence Oh that the violent would take it by force The nature of this Kingdome is to keepe thee from evil the Kingdomes of the earth are not I feare they are not had without much evil Well will you consider this to engage you to do the Will of God 'T is for a Kingdom 2. Consider this argument too if you neglect to day it may be too late to morrow Now or never now or never for what is your life but as a vapour that passeth away Do not you

Will and that in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that they might know not only what to do but how and when to do it The Hebrewes have a saying that Deus magìs delectatur adverbiis quàm nominibus God is more delighted in adverbs then in nounes 'T is not so much the thing done as the manner of doing it its several requisite qualifications that God mindes Not how much but how well 'T is not barely a good act that God requires of us but that this act be well done lest our good be turned into evil and our holy things into iniquity Thirdly and lastly let me beseech you to study the Why of the Will of God the end of all our actions Why should we do the Will of God to please him not barely to pleasure our selves but to please him we should not so seek our own good and salvation in seeking God as to serve him meerly that we may serve our selves of him but the great thing in our eye should be that which was in Christs not only to do the things that please him or only to do them so that they may be pleasing but to do them * To that very end to please him This saith Paul 2 Cor. 5.9 is our ambition so we may reade it that whether absent or present i. e. whether we live or die we may be we reade it accepted of him I would rather reade it actively acceptable to him which is as Paul elsewhere expresseth it Rom. 14.8 Whether we live we live to him or whether we die we die to him whether it be life or death all I aime at is that he may be magnified or glorified I shall conclude all with what Christ concludes this very discourse v. 24. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon a rock the rain descended the floods came the windes blew and they they all beat upon that house fell upon it with all their force and violence but it fell not for it was founded upon a rock even that against which the gates of hell shall not prevaile But every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man who built his house upon the sand the raine descended the floods came the windes blew and we reade it as before beat upon that house but the word is not the same nor of the like force in signification with the former it stumbled on that house or only kick't at that house and down it fell without much ado but great was the fall thereof I wish you better And that is that now you have heard you may do the Word and Will of God which that you may do and be blessed The God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his Will working in you that vhich is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen Heb. 13.20 21. FINIS These BOOKS are printed by J. Rothwell at the Fountain and Beare in Cheap-side Mr. Venuing hath these other Peeces extant Orthodox Paradoxes 8o. New Command renewed 8o. Mysteries and Revelations 8o. Milk and Honey in Divine Sentences 8o. Second Part of Sentences 8o. The Warning to Back-sliders in a Sermon 8o. Mr. Bohemus 100. Script opened and applied Mr. Carter of Baptisme 4o. Mr. Howe and Dr. Kendall against Mr. Goodwins Pagans Debt and Dowry 4o. Dr. Tuckney None but Christ with an enquiry what hopes to be had of Heathens Jewes and Idiots 12o. The Saints Security drawn from these two Questions 1. Whether a man hath rightly received Christ 2. How a man may be safe in a case of danger By that excellent Text-man Mr. Jeremy Dyke Minister of Epping

die daily Know ye not that this night you may sleep the sleep of death And truly my beloved if you heare not God in this God will not hear you in that day Many shall say in that day Lord Lord but 't is too late See how Luke enlargeth this ch 13.24 c. Strive do your utmost to enter in at the strait gate for many will lasily with wouldings and wishings seek to enter but shall not be able which he enforceth by the argument now in hand When once the Master of the house is risen up and hath shut to the door and ye standing without begin to knock saying Lord Lord open to us but he shall answer and say unto you I know you not whence you are 'T is too late saith he there was a door of hope open but now it is shut then you would not now you shall not enter in Though you cry and shout he will shut out your cries yea though you cry Lord Lord your answer will be I know you not And if you begin to plead and say How Lord not know us that 's strange not know us why who are you that I should know you as he saith in Matthew I never knew you No Lord we have eaten and drunk in thy presence we have heard thee preach in our streets we were the greatest frequenters of Sermons in all the town or countrey and doest thou not know us No I professe saith Christ I know you not Well in Matthew they have something more to say for themselves we have prophesied in thy Name yea we have fought thy battels and cast out devils and in thy Name have done many wonderful works Is not this enough to be known by surely thou canst not but have taken notice how forward we were in and for thy cause But alas the answer is I never knew you Depart depart I know you not Oh beloved we think that now it may be we are known eminently known but if we be found workers of iniquity 't will be in vain to say when we knock and God fayes Who is there why here are they that have sate at the upper end of the world here are famous Citizens Common-Councel men yea it may be Aldermen of the City of London Alas we shall never be known under these notions upon these termes 't is not riches nor titles of honour by which men are known in the world that will make a man known of God when he comes to stand before the barre of his Tribunal God will invalidate all the pleas that can be made If you say Whenever saw we him an hungred or a thirst or stranger or naked or in prison or sick and did not minister to him He will answer Depart ye cursed for in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me If you say Open to us for we are Virgins we took our lamps and went out to meet the Bridegroom the rest slept as well as we we trimm'd our lamps and because we could not borrow we went to buy Lord Lord open to us No veri●y saith he I know you not The day of judgement will be a dreadful day upon this account that 't will be dies deceptionis a day of deceit not that it will deceive any but many will finde themselves deceiv'd Oh how will men be frustrated of their expectation 't will be to them as that day was to Esau wherein Jacob was blessed he came in merrily from his hunting and said without doubting of it blesse me my father but 't was too late he sought it yea carefully sought it and that with tears but found no place for repentance his father would not recal the blessing If men will not he are when God calls there is a time coming when men shall call and God will not hear How doth Christ mourn over Jerusalem who so long neglected her peace that at last it was hid from her eyes It s too late it s too late Jerusalem Oh therefore in this day in this your day in this the day of your visitation to day while 't is called to day before the night of death come and that may be this night I say in this day hear his voice or else in that day he will not hear your voice though you cry Lord Lord open unto us For a conclusion there are but three things which I would briefly commend to you in relation to this great work If they and none but they shall enter into heaven who do the Will of God on earth let me intreat you to study 1. The What 2. The How 3. The Why of Gods Will. 1. Study what the Will of God is for the matters to be believed and done Do not rest contented in general termes but study from the Scriptures what the Will of God is in particular There is notable advice given and as notable a promise made Prov. 2. My son if thou wilt receive my words and hide my Commandments with thee so that thou incline thine care unto wisdome and apply thine heart to understanding yea if thou criest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures what then why then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God and that not only in the general but as v. 9. then shalt thou understand righteousnesse and judgement and equity yea * Observe that every good path every good path Can there be a businesse of greater concernment to us then the saving of our soules can we take too much pains for that end is it not a shame that men should be more industrious to be wise for this world then to be wise for heaven Surely God requires diligence and delight in this work Every verse hath a double charge v. 1. receive and hide v. 2. incline thine eare and apply thine heart v. 3. cry and lift up the voice v. 4. seek her and search for her and that as for silver and gold Ah how do we look after silver and gold certainly if we did but look after the Will of God as we do after silver and gold how rich should we be in knowledge what treasures of wisdom would our soules be possessed of We need not doubt it for our Saviour hath said it John 7.17 If any man will do his Will he shall know the doctrine whether it be of God wherefore be not unwise Eph. 5.17 but understanding what the Will of the Lord is 2. Study the How of the Will of God not only what is to be done but how it is to be done 't is not enough that we do what is good but the good we do must be well done his Will according to his Will The Apostle in relation to walking worthy of God to all well-pleasing Col. 1.9 10. prayes that they might be filled with the knowledge of his