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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45703	The Christians blessed choice, or, The godly mans resolution to cleave fast to God and his truth, notwithstanding trials, troubles, and persecutions very seasonable for these times / by J.H.	Hart, John, D.D.	1668 (1668)	Wing H932; ESTC R40135	15,783	46

rather than they would sin against God by worshipping of Nebuchadnezzars golden Image would undergo the furious flames of his burning fiery furnace So the blessed Apostles as you heard before rathen than they would obey the wicked commands of men in not preaching the Gospel willingly rejoyced in suffering affliction for so doing Many more examples I might give you but these I hope may suffice and if there had been no other example than what is set down in the words of the Text this heavenly truth had been sufficiently confirmed In the fourth place I come to prove the vanity of all sinful pleasures and that may appear first from the shortness of them and secondly from the bitternesse of their end They are but for a season they come to an end nay they shall end in endless woe and misery Though sin be sweet for the present yet its bitter yea bitternesse it self in the latter end Though sin may be pleasant for a season yet remember I beseech you it will be painful to eternity The pleasures of sin they have an end but the pains and torments which sin procures they have no end When sinners have undergone the wrath of God ten thousand times ten thousand millions of years yet then are their torments as far off from having an end as they were at first The torments for sin are eternal and I beseech you remember enternity hath no end what pleasure then can there be in that which brings eternal pains with it Sinners even when they delight themselves in their sins even then are they pulling destruction upon themselves even eternal destruction Every step in sin how sweet how delightful soever it be in the eyes of the sinner is a stop to misery enternal misery They that hasten to sin hasten to sorrow yea they run to hell As Solomon saith They love death he doth not mean that sinners love death as death there is no beauty or amiableness at all in death simply considered in it self but yet they may be truly said to love death who love sin and delight in sin and live in sin The wages of sin ye know is death Rom. 6.23 Delight in sin is a hasting into the armes of death Sinners by their delight in sin do as it were woe death and invite death and the grave even hell and destruction so that even sinners themselves though now for a while Satan blindes their eyes yet at last when it is too too late they shall be forced to confess and say that there is neither pleasure nor profit in sin The Devil makes the sinner believe that there is a great deal of pleasure and profit in sin you shall get by it saith the Devil but let sinners once truly cast up their accounts how that eternal damnation will be their wages and then let them see what they have gotten by sin It is possible I confess that some may say they have gotten hundreds and thousands by it they have gotten Houses and Lands Honour Esteem among men pleasure and profit in the world but what a miserable gain is that which is gotten with the loss of the soul Read that dreadful Scripture in St. Matthews Gospel Mat. 16.26 and then see if there be any thing gotten by sin What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Will thy Riches which thou hast gotten by sin by oppressing the poor and defrauding thy neighbour redeem thy soul from death surely no. Thou mayest delight thy self in enlarging thy barns as that rich Fool did But thou Fool this night shall thy Soul be required of thee then whose shall they be There is no loss like the loss of the soul There is nothing to be gotten by sin thou mayest lose thy soul by sin and lose heaven by thy sin and lose the love and favour of God by sin Sin may pretend pleasure and profit but surely it brings ruine and destruction Those rich men which Saint James speaks of James 5.1 2 3 4 5. Versses they thought that gain which they got by defrauding their labourers of their wages to be very sweet they lived in pleasures they inriched themselves by the sweat of other mens labours but what have they any cause to rejoyce in this No saith the Apostle Go too now ye rich men weep and howl for your misery which shall come upon you They thought to heap up riches by their injustice and cruelty but they heaped up onely a little fuel for the eternal fire Dives he thought himself altogether happy when he enjoyed the world at will when he fared deliciously every day but what did this profit Dives death robs him of all and he himself is taken away from his sinful pleasures and thrown headlong into eternal torments he would enjoy the pleasure of sin while he lived and now he must undergo the torments of sin for ever O consider this you that delight in sin canst thou endure to dwell for ever in the everlasting burning if thou canst endure the wrath of God for ever if thou art able to stand before the Lord in the day of his fierce anger then take pleasure in sin if thou canst prevent God from bringing thee to judgement then let thy heat rejoyce in sin but if after all thou must come to judgement then take heed of sin Do not conceit that sin to be pleasant whose pains will be eternal in vain do men flatter themselves that they may sin and not suffer did ever any man rebel and enjoy peace can any offend God and have his blessing surely no sin shall not go unpunished if men will sin they shall suffer The soul that sinneth shall dye Sin destroyed the Angels those holy Spirits sin made them unholy devils Sin cast Adam out of Paradice Sin destroyed the old World Sin consumed Sodome and Gomorrah Sin brings Wars Plagues Famine Destruction upon Nations Sin ruins our names sears our Consciences and in a word it destroys body and soul for ever And then fifthly I observed That the reproaches of Christ are greater riches than all the honours of the world The best of Gods Saints have been reproached as holy Job and David was not onely reproached but was a reproach both to his enemies and to his neighbours He was made the song of the Drunkards The Apostles they were also reproached but here is that which sweetens all Christ hath born the brunt of all Christ accounts all our reproaches to be his The greatest part of Christs suffering for us was to bear our reproach so the greatest part of our sufferings is to bear the reproach of Christ Hence the Apostle in his Epistle to the Hebrews exhorts us to go forth unto him bearing his reproach Heb. 13.13 And Indeed reproach in it self is so great a burthen that were it not for his that Christ accounts it his we should never be able to bear it Hence Moses looked on his reproach as the reproach of Christ

I note from hence by way of Vse the great folly of sinners in neglecting eternal life for a few momentary pleasures Sinners spend their time in gathering pebbles and yet they trample upon pearls How many grievous sinners are there who with that wretched Cardinal are ready to say they will not lose their part in Paris for their parts in Paradice Sinners had rather lose heaven than part with their sins as if they could enjoy the pleasure of sin for ever never considering how soon death may come upon them and turn all their pleasures into pains Sinners are apt to flatter themselves in their own folly and to fancy that they shall live for ever or at leastwise that they may enjoy their pleasures till death come and yet go to heaven it is true God suffers many to go on in their sins and never awakes their souls at all but this he doth in judgement Sinners despise Christ now but Christ will hereafter despise sinners They who say unto God depart now we will have none of the fear of the Lord God will say unto them depart ye cursed hereafter When death comes sinners must bid farewel to all their pleasures they rejoyce in their worldly pleasures here but when death comes farewell pleasures not one laughter more then never another jovial meeting then no more ranting and singing then all pleasures will be turned into pains Consider I beseech you sinners will your pleasures profit you in the day of wrath surely no they may torment you as they did Dives How many are there now in hell who had as much pleasure as thou canst have who had as many merry méetings as much drinking and sporting and other sinful partimes as thou hast had Oh but what pleasure is it now to them to think of those things for which they are now tormented The Lord awaken every secure sinner for the Lords sake be not such fools as to damn your souls for such trifles as these are which are not only vanity but vexation of spirit also even horrour and dread to all eternity Fifthly Is it so that the reproaches of Christ are greater riches than all the honours in the world then I observe from hence that a Crown of life is more worth than all the Crowns and Kingdomes in the world Moses he looked upon Pharaohs crown and he sées that to be fading and tottering but Moses he looks upon the crown of life and sees that to be everlasting Kings by the permission of God for the sins of a Nation may be deprived of their earthly Crowns as by sad experience we have found in this Kingdome but the Crown of life which God shall give his people is beyond the reach either of men or devils to deprive them of God shall give it them and none shall be able to take it from them There shall be no Vsurpers in heaven to rob Gods people of their Crowns there shall be no petitioning nor remonstrating against the Saints in heaven the Devil who is now their accuser shall then be thrown down into the bottomlesse pit The Saints Crowns shall not be voted uselesse and dangerous in heaven God may for our sins suffer high Courts of Injustice here to take away the lives of Kings but it is beyond the power and policy either of them or devils to take away eternal life from the people of God Hereafter they are kept by the mighty power of God through faith unto salvation Men may take away the life of a Saint but this now takes not away their Crown Your joy no man taketh from you saith our Saviour John 16.22 Men cannot deprive the people of God of their joy here and certainly therefore neither men nor devils can take away their eternal joy which shall be without sorrow and without ceasing even for ever to all eternity Sixthly Is it so that the reproaches of Christ are such great riches yea greater riches than all the honors of the world how great then are the rewards of Christ If Christ crucified be so lovely how unspeakable lovely then is Christ in Glory If the Saints be so glorious here under reproaches how glorious than shall they be in heaven when Christ himself shall put his glory unto them If the people of God are so glorious here what shall they be when they come to their kingdom where they shall be clothed with the glorious white robes of Christ For when Christ who is our life shall appear saith the Apostle we shall also appear with him in glory At the day of judgement O how glorious shall the people of God then appear they shall have Crowns upon their heads yea they shall be clothed with glory and honour immortality and life eternal for ever Rom. 2.7 Seventhly Is it so then that God hath a recompence of reward for his people hereafter then let me exhort you all to make choice of the Lord for your God they that make choice of the Lord for their God here shall be sure to have him for their reward hereafter It was a good resolution that of Joshua as you may read Joshua 24.15 As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Let the men of the world run after Idols and inventions of their own fancies a child of God a Joshua he will worship God in spirit and in truth And if ever we would be rewarded with Christ the let us chuse Christ and the wayes of Christ Labour to grow in grace and to abound in holiness for godliness is the way to glory Godliness saith the Apostle is great gain Godlinesse hath the promise not onely of this life but of the life to come Were the wades of God never so hard and difficult yet they have a glorious reward Godlinesse brings the best gain eternal life and glory Wouldst thou in the day of Iudgement chuse heaven rather than hell then chuse God and walk in his ways imbrace holiness although it be never so much despised by profane sinners if ever thou wouldst be imbraced by Christ in heaven Eightly is it so that there is such a glorious reward for the people of God then let us live and dye as becomes the heirs of Glory Let us then walk worthy of God as the Apostle saith 1 Thes 2.12 that hath called us to his Kingdom and glory Is it so that the Saints of God shall shine as the stars in heaven then let the people of God labour to shine as lights in the world If thy inheritance be in heaven then let thy conversation be in heaven if your reward your treasure be there then let your hearts be there also Is thy name written in heaven let the world sée it then in the legible Character of Holinesse Think of that Crown of Glory which thou shalt everlastingly enjoy in heaven and then so live that thou mayest be in a readinesse to receive it Get oyl in your lamps grace in your souls that when Christ who is your life shall appear ye also may appear with him in glory receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls Lastly is there such a reward for the people of God hereafter than be content with what God gives thée in this life be thy portion what it will if heaven be thine thou hast that which is better than all the world they that have Christ for their portion have no want The Lord is my portion saith David Psalm 23.1 therefore I shall not want Saint Paul accounted all things but dross and dung in comparison of Christ Remember it is better to be poor and godly than rich and miserable Riches never made one soul happy they have made many a soul miserable Let the people of God then take off their affections from the world it becomes not the heirs of glory to look after such trifles it is enough for Swine to be routing in the earth Children who are fed at their fathers table will never regard the bones that are thrown to the dogs they that are daily fed with the fat things of grace and glory should never regard the vain and transitory things of the world The glory of this world is but the portion of a reprobate take them at the best they are but uncertain here to day and gone to morrow they may be destroyed by fire they may be stoln away by thieves thou mayest lay up treasures here and when thou hast done all they may be cousumed by rust and moths Therefore take Saint Pauls counsel and set your affections on things that are above and not on things below Let your conversation then be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have for God hath said I will never leave you nor forsake you Heb. 13.5 So to conclude I beséech you fear the Lord all ye his Saints for there is no want to them that fear him FINIS Courteous Reader THere is lately published an excellent and profitable Sermon called Christs last Sermon or The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come Likewise the Christians best Garment Christs first Sermon The Christians Blessed Choice Heavens Glory and Hells Horror And a warning-piece to the Sloathful Idle Careless Drunken and Secure Ones of these last and worst of times Very godly Books and are but three pence price Likewise 1. The Fathers last Blessing to his Children 2. This Devils disease or the Sin of Pride arraigned and condemned 3. Englands faithful Physician 4. Death Triumphant 5. Peters Sermon of Repentance 6. The dreadful charecter of a drunkard 7. Dooms-day at hand 8. The Charitable Christian 9. The Plain Mans Plain Path-way to Heaven 10. The Black Book of Conscience All very necessary for these Licentious times They are to be sold by Elizabeth Andrews in Little St. Bartholmews Court West-Smithfield