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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15010	The oyle of gladnesse. Or, Comfort for dejected sinners First preached in the parish church of Banbury in certaine sermons, and now published in this present treatise. By William Whately minister there.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1637 (1637)	STC 25314; ESTC S100737	35,116	224

boundlesnesse of his compassion to thinke that thou canst possibly exceed his goodnesse with thy badnesse but go unto him and acknowledge saying O Lord the multitude of thy mercies doe farre surmount the multitude of my rebellions O therefore be gratious to mee according to the multitude of thy mercies and so thou shalt bee safe But thou wilt say perhaps how can I tell that God will shew mercy to me I answer Art not thou one of those to whom he hath sealed up mercy in baptisme yea but thou wilt say many are baptized that never finde mercy I answer not one that in sence of want of mercy and in a perswasion that God can bee mercifull to him doth seeke to the throne of grace for it And for a fuller answer to this doubt now proceed to the third meditation § 5. This is of the widenesse and largenesse of Gods promises to sinners which are of such an unlimited extent that they exclude no sinner for no sinne and in no time of comming to him For in all these respects are his promises wondrous large and of great extent J say first they shut not out any sinner but runne in this generality Come unto me All that are heavie laden even all all without any exception so that whosoever he be that is heavy laden hee sees the gate of Gods goodnesse standing open to him and wide enough to receive even him also among the rest of sinners next hee excepts not any sinne but telleth us thus The bloud of Christ purgeth us from all sinne 1 Joh. 1.7 And againe if your sinnes were as red as scarlet they shall bee as white as snow Isa 1.18 And againe Ezek. 18.22 I will blot all his iniquities out of my remembrance and he bids them pray thus Take away all iniquity Hos 14.2 and allowed David to cry and say Psal 51.9 Blot out all mine iniquities Doe you not heare how generall these promises bee not narrowed with any exception but alone to be understood with this qualification of the persons if they be humbled for sin And in like manner for the time of comming lies not the promise in the day that the sinner turneth Ezek. 33.12 meaning when so ever sooner or later first or last so that hee turne in truth you see no time excepted for the grant of pardon of sinne Indeed in regard of crosses it may fall out that a man may seek to God for freedome of them and not find it but for pardon of sinnes he that comes in truth comes never too late And here now is the right use of those universall promises which are set downe in Scripture God would have no man perish but would have all men saved and come to the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2.4 and He is a propitiation for the sinnes of the whole world 1 Ioh. 2.2 and Hee gave himselfe a ransome for all 1 Tim. 2.6 and He tasted death for every man Heb. 2.9 Which the Lord hath of set purpose conceived in this ample forme of words that there might bee sure and certaine ground and footing for the faith of any man whatsoever that being tyred with his sinnes doth runne unto this grace of God in Christ to finde helpe in time of need Seeing God hath not excepted thy person or thy faults or thy time of comming doe not thou except thy selfe make not the gate of Gods promises scanter or narrower then it is He hath opened both the leaves of these dores as wide as may bee and thinkes it not fit to cloze them up against any humbled and confessing sinner at any time O doe no thou put a distrustfull hand upon them to shut them against thy selfe but let them stand wide open and enter boldly and aske mercy and looke for mercy and finde it § 6. Now followes the last meditation which must be of the examples of Gods grace in performing these promises to other sinners as bad if not worse then any of us can be For the Lord hath made good these words of his in his Son to as great hainous willfull presumptuous offendors as any have beene are or can bee in the world that will come unto him No man can name so great a sinne or sinnes with so great aggravations but that the Scriptures affoord us examples of as grievous sinnes pardoned and as grievous sinners saved if they have framed themselves to humiliation and conversion For what may thy sin bee or thine obstinacy in sin Is it murder and adultery runne into with fore-resolved deliberation continued in with great hardnesse and obduration behold these were Davids faults and thou seest him pardoned and comforted yea though he ran unto them in old age after many benefits received and after a long time of forwardnesse in the true religion and service of God Hast thou beene an Idolater a Buggerer a Drunkard a Rayler an Extortioner why such were some of the Corinthians as Paul remembers them and yet they were washed sanctified justified as he also telleth them Hast thou besides Idolatry followed Sorcerers and Witches and practised inchantments and sorceries and that with so much and so long obstinacy as to kill those that should admonish thee of these faults Why so did Manasses too and yet he is pardoned Hast thou persecuted Christ blasphemed him made others to blaspheme and put them to death that would not why so did Paul also and that after divers yeares spent in those places where many wonders and miracles were wrought to confirme the Gospell of Christ and yet he is pardoned Hast thou beene an harlot so was Rahab and the sinnefull woman in the Gospell Hast thou beene a theefe so was hee that defended Christ on the Crosse Hast thou denied and foresworne Christ so did Peter also after hee had beene diverse yeares his disciple and yet all these are pardoned Yea verily brethren the first sinne that ever was committed was in many respects the greatest of all particular acts of sin that ever were committed since It was virtually radically causally all sinne and yet loe Adam and Evah that did commit it they are saved The smalnesse of the matter makes the fault farre greater being a light and easie thing propounded meerely for a triall and as a signe and profession of their obedience as if a man should forbid his childe a very slender thing and that which hee might easily forbeare to testifie his obedience unto him he would be more offended against him in this case by how much hee had made choyce of a more triviall matter to proove his obedience withall Now for such persons at such a time in such a place in such a state on such motives to disobey their maker in such a thing so easie to bee observed and given to them onely to proove their obedience surely a greater disobedience and therefore a greater sinne can hardly be named and yet as I said before this sinne is