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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28587	Man's great duty, or, A discourse of the care every man should take to make sure the salvation of his own Soul by Samuel Bold, rector of Styple in Dorsetshire.	Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3481; ESTC R34369	57,671	141

Meditate and think in any degree and yet believe you shall be able to vindicate your tenacious adhering to a Notion which Cancels all the Authority of God's Commands devests him of his Truth and Faithfulness and transforms his whole Revelation into a plain piece of Falshod and Imposture How wretchedly does Satan infatuate and befool you when he perswades you to put off your concerning your selves for the Salvation of your Souls to a more convenient Season And prevails with you to stifle efface and vanquish your present Convictions by pretending you may do it with a better Grace hereafter and that a riper and more mature Age will be much more proper for and agreeable to so Austere and Grave a Business Whom do you gratifie in neglecting to mind your Salvation but your worst and most mischievous Enemy And will you humor him when you cannot do it any other way than by running the most Dismal Risk and rendring your Salvation at least next to Impossible Can any time be so convenient for this Work as the present seeing the present is the only Season you can call your own Seeing you are not sure of more time to mind it in Seeing the present Season is the only time wherein you can truly hope to attend it with good Success Are you so destitute of Reason and good Sense as not to perceive that if you allow Satan to have such an ascendent over you as to wheedle you at this rate he will drill you on so long you will have no time at last to concern your selves for the Salvation of your Souls to any purpose Sirs what do you mean What is your Purpose What are you resolved on Sure you will not say you fully determin to destroy those precious Souls you are entrusted with and make an Experiment how much your abusing Divine Patience contemning infinite Mercy and despising the Riches of God's Grace will add to the Horror and Anguish of the Damned Oh! that you would seriously consider of Matters and shew your selves Men yea shew your selves what according to your Profession you should be Christians before the door of Hope be quite shut whilst there remains a possibility of escaping that Vengeance and fiery Indignation which shall devour the Adversaries Do you think you are able to contend with the Almighty Are you equal Matches for that God who is a Consuming Fire Can you with calm and serene Minds dwell with Everlasting Burnings Alas how soon may God begin to write against you Bitter things How soon can he throw your Consciences into Convnlsions and wound your Souls by causing the Invenomed Darts of his Fury to stick fast in them In what a case will you be When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming Fire taking vengeance on them who know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting Destructiou from the presence of the Lord and from the power of his Glory 2 Thess 1.7 8 9 What will you do when the Great and terrible day of the Lord shall come Whether will you then fly How will you then be able to appear before and look your incensed Judge in the Face What will you then plead for your selves Where do you think to hide your selves Rocks and Mountains cannot then conceal you What can screen you from irresistible Power How do you think you shall escape the effects of Impartial Justice Now consider this ye that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Psal 50.22 But alas how difficultly are such People brought to consider the things which belong to their Peace What multitudes are there every where who have so habituated themselves to neglect their Salvation and to those courses which have the plainest tendency to ruin their Souls Everlastingly they have hardned themselves against all Reproof whose Consciences are so canteriz'd or seared they can hear the most dreadful threatnings Recorded in the Word of God and their Hearts not be moved or affected at all with them yea in express defiance of those Menaces can Bless themselves in their Iniquities What so strange and so amazing as that People should be in so forlorn a State and yet will not be prevailed with by any means to take notice of it They are sensible of Hunger Cold Sickness any Corporal wants and pains of troublesome Times worldly Losses unreasonable Weather c. But have no sense of their spiritual Wants and the great danger their Souls are in Tho they are under the wrath of God stand on the very brink of Hell and are not certain of being one Hour out of unquenchable Flames yet they are altogether unconcerned can Eat and Drink and Sleep and follow their Sports and worldly Businesses with Eagerness as if they were in no danger nor had any reason at all to be afraid There is a way that seemeth right unto a Man but the end thereof are the ways of Death Prov. 14.12 O that the carnally secure and presumptuous would ponder believe and faithfully apply this Scripture to themselves I do not only pity multitudes of ignorant poor People who mind nothing but a present Livelyhood but a great many who live in pomp have huge worldly Possessions do fair Deliciously every day bestow the most of their thoughts and the greatest portions of their time and their Wealth upon their Bodies which must in a little time be laid in the Grave and at last unless they come to be of another Mind and to alter their course in due time before they Die together with their miserable guilty neglected Souls be Tormented in Hell Fire for ever Fifthly It is very fit and meet that every one should make a serious strict and impartial Enquiry into himself whether he has been duly concerned for the Salvation of his own Soul or have hitherto been regardless of and neglected this most necessary and important Business Let us speedily set apart some portion of our time for this Work and employ our calmest and most penetrating Thoughts in searching out the State and Condition of our Souls In considering what we have been doing Whether we are going What will become of us if we should presently be Summoned to appear before God's Tribunal Whither we must be Sentenced to that unquenchable Fire which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels or to dwell with Christ in Glory Whether we shall see the Face of God with Comfort and Joy or have our Souls filled with Astonishment and Confusion Whether we shall hear those joyful Words Well done thou good and faithful Servant or that terrible Thunder Depart thou Cursed I know thee not thou wicked doer It doth behove us to enquire seriously and to get speedily a sound knowledge of the Estate of our Souls lest Death and Hell should surprize us Death and Judgment are hastning a pace and it will be too late to think of amending

what is amiss and flying from Wrath if we leave this World in an unreconciled Estate Yet you have time and means and encouragements and helps to discover the Truth of your Condition yet you may prevent your eternal Misery if you have been unconcerned for your Souls yet you may escape the Punishments you have deserved if you be truly sensible of your Sin Guilt and danger do humbly betake you unto Christ reform your Lives close with the offers of Mercy and lay hold of the Grace which is tendred You will say it may be you hope well and you trust that all will end well But I pray you what ground have you for that Hope and Trust Groundless Hope will not Save you Such Hope is but Presumption it hath ruin'd Thousands and Millions Examin your selves therefore impartially search out what your Estate is bring this matter to a full determinate Issue Awake careless drowsie Soul please not thy self with foolish Dreams any longer Lord of all Grace and Might pour down thy gracious Influences awake our drowsie sleepy senseless Consciences make us to attend to and obey the word of Exhortation Hearken every one listen to Advice and improve the present Opportunity Know that you are called on exhorted and warned and if you continue finally sturdy and disobedient you will be without Excuse If you Perish your Blood will be required at your own Hands Your Damnation will lye wholly upon your selves Consider therefore 1. If you have been unconcerned all your time for your Souls and their Salvation and are under the power of Sin and your Lusts and in an unreconciled Estate you are in a very evil and dangerous Estate You have been pulling down insupportable loads of Wrath upon your selves If you persist and die in this Estate it will be impossible for any thing to interpose and screen you from the terrible strokes of divine Vengeance or to support and bear you up under that mighty weight of Horror and Torment you have been hailing upon your Selves What trembling of Heart failing of Eyes and sorrow of Soul will then seize on you Is this an estate to be desired Is this an Estate to sleep and slumber and repose your selves quietly in 2. This was your Estate once We are all naturally concluded under Sin and Guilt Children of Wrath dead in Trespasses and Sins without Holiness unconcerned for our Souls Enemies to God and obnoxious unto his Displeasure And every Man continues in this evil Estate till he is effectually Regenerated and doth heartily entertain the word of Reconciliation by and through Jesus Christ Till a real spiritual gracious Change is wrought in him he is an Enemy to God is actually provoking of God and treasuring up Wrath for himself against that Great Day when the Disobedient and Unbelieving and those who are unconcerned for their precious Souls must be Destroyed with an utter and an everlasting Destruction Those who are now in the holiest and happiest Estate were once in this Guilty and wretched Estate Such were some of you c. 1 Cor. 6.11 We our selves were sometime foolish disobedient serving divers Lusts c. Tit. 3.3 3. You have too just ground to suspect and fear you are in this dreadful Estate till you make a faithful enquiry into your Estate You cannot ordinarily have a sound knowledge that your Souls are in a good condition without reflecting upon your selves and descending to a strict and faithful Examination If you entertain an opinion that all is well and safe as to your Souls you have no occasion to take any comfort in that Opinion because you have no ground or reason for it which you know of It may be meer Diabolical Delusion for any thing you know to the contrary having never duly enquired into the Matter Yea 4. The more secure and confident you are having never made a thorough enquiry into the State of your Souls the more sad and dangerous your Estate is For this argues you have sinned your selves out of a sense of all your spiritual and eternal Concernments and that you have so entirely committed your selves to Satan's Conduct as to rely on his Word for your Safety and Happiness 'T is his Interest to do what he can to support and heighten your Presumption and to prevent your being prevailed with to search seriously into your Estate He would deceive but few did he not flatter them with hopes of Heaven at last Could you see from one end and side of Hell to the other what a dreadful Spectacle would you behold And amongst those enumerable multitudes of Damned Wretches which have gone thither in every Age of the World how few would you see in comparison of those who were secure confident self-deluding Sinners when they were on Earth Who went thither Blindfold refusing to search into their Estate and consider whether they were going Who were resolved to Believe well and Hope well as they phras'd it of themselves without ever examining their Spiritual Estate in defiance of all Warnings and Exhortations that could be administred unto them What a deplorable thing is it to consider how People do at Satan's instigation harden themselves against Fear and all Consideration so that they will not suspect they may be in the way to Hell till they do irrecoverably drop into it And 5. In what a fearful Estate wilt thou be who obstinately refusest to consider what thy condition really is if at last thou be found an unreconciled Sinner utterly unconcerned for the Salvation of thy Soul If this be thy case when Death hath seized thee thou must presently sink into unquenchable Flames And then what a miserable helpless Wretch wilt thou be for ever What a dreadful thing will it be to be scared and rafted out of thy Spiritual Slumber and Sleep by the actual Pains and Agonies of Damnation Should a Man Sleeping at his own home be a little moved with the cry of Fire Fire but without enquiring whether his Dwelling-place were in Danger should compose himself again for Sleep and not awake till rasted out of his Sleep by the scorching heat and vehement noise of the Fire burning down his own House and should he as soon as his Eyes are open behold his Bed and all his Room in Flames how gastly would he look being thus affrighted out of his Sleep and seeing no way to escape those devouring Flames which have seized on every part of his Room What loud Outcries and dreadful Schrieks would he utter How deplorable should we conceive his condition should we see his gastly Looks and hear his Roarings and his mournful Groans whilst Burning and Roasting in the Flames of his own House not able to fly from that scorching Fire nor any able to come near to help him because compassed in by those furious and merciless Flames If this would be so full of Terror to that miserable unfortunate dying Person and would fill the Beholders with most affectionate Trouble and Grief what must the