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A27042	A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the setling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1413; ESTC R209398	26,650	54

that hath a cause to be heard to morrow in which his life or honour is concerned cannot forget it A wretch that is condemned to die to morrow cannot forget it And yet poor sinners that are continually uncertain to live an hour and certain speedily to see the Majesty of the Lord to their unconceivable joy or terrour as sure as now they live on earth can forget these things for which they have their memory and which one would think should drown the matters of this world as the report of a Canon doth a whisper or as the Sun obscureth the poorest glow-worm O wonderful stupidity of an unrenewed soul O wonderful folly and distractedness of the ungodly That ever men can forget I say again that they can forget eternal joy eternal woe and the eternal God and the place of their eternal unchangeable abode when they stand even at the door and are passing in and there is but the thin vail of flesh between them and that amazing sight that eternal gulf and they are daily dying and even stepping in O could you keep your honours here for ever could you ever wear that gay attire and gratifie your flesh with meats and drinks and sports and lusts could you ever keep your rule and dignity or your earthly life in any state you had some little poor excuse for not remembring the eternal things as a man hath that preferreth his candle before the Sun But when death is near and inexorable and you are sure to die as you are sure you live when every man of you that sitteth in these seats to day can say I must shortly be in another world where all the pomp and pleasure of this world will be forgotten or remembred but as my sin and folly one would think it were impossible for any of you to be ungodly and to Remember the trifles and nothings of the world while you forget that everlasting All whose reality necessity magnitude excellency concernment and duration are such as should take up all the powers of your souls and continually command the service and attendance of your thoughts against all Seekers and contemptible competitors whatsover But alas though you have the greatest helps in subserviency to these commanding objects yet will you not Remember the matters which alone deserve remembrance Sometimes the Preachers of the Gospel do call on you to Remember to Remember your God your souls your Saviour your ends and everlasting state and to remember your misdoings that you may loath your selves and in Returning may find life But some either scorn them or quarrel with them or sleep under their most serious and importunate solicitations or carelesly and stupidly give them the hearing as if they spoke but words of course or treated about uncertain things and spoke not to them from the God of heaven and about the things that every man of you shall very shortly see or feel Sometime you are called on by the voice of conscience within to remember the unreasonableness and evil of your wayes but conscience is silenced because it will not be conformable to your lusts But little do you think what a part your too-late-awakened conscience hath yet to play if you give it not a more sober hearing in time Sometime the voice of common calamities and National or local judgements do call on you to remember the evil of your wayes But that which is spoken to all or many doth seem to most of them as spoken unto none Sometime the voice of particular judgements seizing upon your families persons or estates doth call on you to remember the evil of your wayes And one would think the rod should make you hear And yet you most disregardfully go on or are only frightened into a few good purposes and promises that die when health and prosperity revive Sometime God joyneth all these together and pleadeth both by word and rod and addeth also the inward pleadings of his Spirit He sets your sins in order before you Psal. 50. 21. and expostulateth with you the cause of his abused love despised Soveraignty and provoked Justice and asketh the poor sinner Hast thou done well to waste thy life in vanity to serve thy flesh to forget thy God thy soul thy happiness and to thrust his service into corners and give him but the odious leavings of the flesh But these pleas of God cannot be heard O horrible impiety by his own creatures by reasonable creatures that would scorn to be called fools or mad men the God of heaven cannot be heard The brutish passionate furious sinners will not Remember They will not Remember what they have done and with whom it is that they have to do and what God thinks and saith of men in their condition and whither it is that the flesh will lead them and what will be the fruit and end of all their lusts and vanities and how they will look back on all at last and whether an holy or a sensual life will be sweetest to a dying man and what judgement it is that they will all be of in the controversie between the flesh and spirit at the later end Though they have life and time and reason for these uses we cannot entreate them to consider of these things in time If our lives lay on it as their salvation which is more lyeth on it we cannot intreate them If we should kneel to them and with tears beseech them but once a day or once a week to bestow one hour in serious consideration of their latter end and the everlasting state of Saints and sinners and of the equity of the holy wayes of God and the iniquity of their own we cannot prevail with them Till the God of heaven doth over-rule them we cannot prevail The witness that we are forc't to bear is sad It is sad to us but it will be sadder to these rebels that shall one day know that God will not be out-faced and that they may sooner shake the stable earth and darken the Sun by their reproaches then out-brave the Judge of all the world or by all their cavils wranglings or scorns escape the hands of his revenging Justice But if ever the Lord will save these souls he will bring their misdoings to their remembrance He will make them think of that which they were so loth to think on You cannot now abide these troubling and severe meditations The thoughts of God and Heaven and Hell the thoughts of your sins and of your duties are melancholly unwelcome thoughts to you But O that you could foreknow the thoughts that you shall have of all these things Even the proudest scornful hardened sinner that heareth me this day shall shortly have such a Remembrance as will make him wonder at his present blockishness O when the unresistible power of heaven shall open all your sins before you and command you to remember them and to remember the time and place and persons and all the circumstances of them What a