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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62905	A discourse of Christ's Second Coming and purging of his kingdom in two sermons on Matth. XIII, 41 / by Samuel Tomlyns.	Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.	1695 (1695)	Wing T1858; ESTC R25655	49,894	104

Soul An evil Man brings forth evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart Mat. 12.35 God accuses the Jews by Jeremiah That that they had done nothing of all that God commanded them That the Children of Judah had only done evil before the Lord That the Children of Israel had only provoked him to anger Jer. 32.23 30. 4. They persist continue and go on in this work Ezek. 23.43 I said unto her that was old in adulteries W●● they now commit adulteries with her and she with them Yet in ver 44. it is said She continued in her whoredom and did not give off Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may they that are accustomed to do evil learn to do well Jer. 13.2 The Hearts of Sinners are bent to backslide Hos 11.7 They have loved Strangers and after them they will go Jer. 2.25 They are of their Father the Devil and his lusts they will do Joh. 8.44 This they are sixed in this they are resolved on and tho● it be the Duty of Men to receive the Law from God's Mouth Job 22.22 yet they declare they will doe whatsoever proceeds out of their own mouth Jer. 44.17 and so they oppose their own mouth to the mouth of God 5. They rejoyce to doe Evil Jer. 11.17 When thou dost evil then thou rejoycest Sinners chuse their own ways and their Soul delights in their Abominations Isa 66.3 They count it pleasure to riot in the day-time 2 Pet. 2.13 Thus deceived Sinners imagin and conceit a Heaven in that which indeed fits them for Hell and prepareth them for everlasting Torments The day is coming when they that shall review all their sensual Delights and draw their greatest bitterness out of that which hath been most sweet to them Oh how terrible will it be to draw a Real Hell of Misery out of their Imaginary and Momentary Heaven of Felicity Their present Pleasures will be a seed of Pain and of eternal Torments 2dly I shall shew you what a hainous and provoking thing it is to work Iniquity in the Kingdom of Christ For 1. They that are of the Church they do profess and avow the Lord to be their God Hos 8.2 Israel shall cry unto me My God we know thee Yet in ver 3. it is said Israel hath cast off the thing that is good And Aholah saith God played the harlot when she was mine Ezek. 23.5 How treacherous are they that say God is their Father Joh. 8.41 We have one Father even God yet they partake of Satan's corrupt Nature bear his Image and do his Lusts John 8.44 Ye are of your Father the devil and the lusts of your Father ye will do How abominable is this to wear God's Livery and yet do Satan's drudgery How doth God complain and call Heaven and Earth to witness against Israel I have nourished and brought up Children yet they have rebelled against me Isaiah 1.2 The Heaven and the Earth and all the Creatures serve Man yet he denies Obedience to his Maker Those that are in the Church are under more Ties and Obligations than others Amos 3.2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth When it is said of the Gentiles That they were a People that Christ did not know Isa 55.5 Yet Christ came to his own and his own received him 〈◊〉 John 1.11 Who should welcome him 〈◊〉 open their Hearts and receive him if not his own Yet Christ's own rejected him Not only they shut the Door against hi● but also poured out their Fury on him and cut him off from the Land of the Livi●● God complains Psal 81.11 But my pe●● would not hearken to my voice Israel would b●● none of me And indeed would be none o● his 2. Those that are in Christ's Kingd●● they are near to God and in his special P●●sence and it is therefore more heinous 〈◊〉 such to work Iniquity 1. They are near 〈◊〉 God Jer. 13.2 God bids Jeremiah to ●e him a Linnen Girdle and put it on his Lo●●● and God expounds the meaning of this Sig● ver 11. For as the girdle cleaveth to the 〈◊〉 a man so have I caused to cleave unto me 〈◊〉 whole house of Israel that they might be 〈◊〉 me for a people and for a name and for a pra●e and for a glory but they would not hear God speaks here of Israel as his visible Church And by the Covenant that was between God and them they were as a Girdle put on bound to him and were to cleave to him both for God's Honour and Glory As a Girdle is an Ornament to a Man so those that are truly God's People are his Glory Isa 46.13 I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my Glory 2 Cor. 8.23 The Apostle speaks of the Messengers of the Churches that they were the Glory of Christ such Church-Members ought to be Yet those that work Iniquity in the Kingdom of Christ are a Dishonour a Disgrace a Reproach to Christ 2. A Girdle is put on and worn about the Loins of a Man and this is an Honour to the Girdle it self that it is so near to a Man and is worn as an Ornament by him So God is the Glory of Men Isa 60.13 Thy God shall be thy Glory For Men to be brought under a Covenant with God and by this means to be joined to God this is the Glory of Men Psal 50.5 Gather my Saints together that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice To be God's Confederates is the Honour of Men but those that work ●niquity in Christ's Kingdom do turn this Glory into Shame This is their Infamy To break the Marriage-Covenant Hos 4.12 to go a whoring from under their God to doat on Creatures and prostitute themselves to Idols Such shall bear the Reproach saith God Micah 6.16 of my People They shall be exposed to everlasting Infamy for mocking of God and lying to him Psal 50.16 17. What best thou to do to take my covenant into thy mouth Seeing thou hatest instruction and casteth my words behind thee Though they were call●● Saints by reason of their profession and coligation to be such yet Psal 50.16 they are called wicked by reason of their hating Instruction and casting God's Words beh●●d their Backs 2. Those that are in Christs Kingdom they are in God's special Presence For God dwelleth in Zion Joel 3.21 The Name of Spiritual Jerusalem is Jebo●● Shammah The Lord is there Ezek. 48 3● And this is a great Affront to provoke God to his Face to sin under his Eye and in 〈◊〉 special Presence Isa 65.3 A People that 〈◊〉 voketh me to anger continually to my face Go● Temple and Habitation was among the and thereby their Guilt was exceeding heightned and aggravated they did d● God and Affront him to his Face wh● as the Gentiles might be said comparati●ly to sin behind God's Back because 〈◊〉 special Presence was not among them 〈◊〉 Judah was his