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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59669	The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true beleevers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepheard ....	Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1641 (1641)	Wing S3118; ESTC R9618	105,576	306

Sermon shall ever doe them good hee robs them of all they get in Gods ordinances within three houres after the market the Sermon is ended 4. He is a strong enemy Luk. 11. 21. So that if all the devills in hell are able to keepe men from comming out of their sinnes he will so strong an enemy that he keepes men from so much as sighing or groaning under their burthens and bondage Luke 11. 21. When the strong man keepes the palace his goods are in peace Fiftly He is cast into utter darknesse as cruell Jaylors put their prisoners into the worst dungeons so Sathan doth naturall men 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. they see no God no Christ they see not the happinesse of the Saints in light they see not these dreadfull torments that should now in this day of grace awaken them and humble them Oh those by paths which thousands wander from God in they have no lamp to their feet to shew them where they erre Thou that art in thy naturall estate art borne blind and the Devill hath blinded thine eyes more by sin and God in justice hath blinded them worse for sinne so that thou art in a corner of hell because thou art in utter darknesse where thou hast not a glimpse of any saving Truth Sixtly They are bound hand and foote in this estate and cannot come out Rom. 5 6. 1 Cor. 2. 14. for all kind of sinnes like chaines have bound every part and faculty of man so that he is sure for stirring and those are very strong in him they being as deare as his members nay his life Col. 3. 7. so that when a man begins to forsake his vile courses and purposeth to become a new man Devils fetch him back world enticeth him and locketh him up and flesh saith oh it is too strict a course and then farewell merry dayes and good fellowship Oh thou mayest wish and desire to come out sometime but canst not put strength to thy desire nor indure to doe it Thou mayest hang downe thy head like a bulrush for sin but thou canst not repent of sinne thou mayst presume but thou canst not beleeve thou mayest come halfe way and forsake some sinnes not all sinnes thou mayest come and knocke at heaven gate as the foolish virgins did but not enter in and passe through the gate thou mayest see the land of Canaan and take much paines to goe into Canaan and thou mayst taste of the bunches of grapes of that good land but never enter into Canaan into heaven but thou lyest bound hand and foot in this woefull estate and here thou must lye rot like a dead carkasse in his grave untill the Lord come and rowle away the stone and bid thee come out and live Lastly They are ready every moment to drop into hell God is a consuming fire against thee and there is but one paper wall of thy body betweene thy soule and eternall flames How soone may God stop thy breath there is nothing but that betweene thee and hell if that were gone then farewell all Thou art condemned and the mufflter is before thine eyes God knowes how soone the ladder may be turned thou hangest but by one rotten● twined thread of thy life over the flames of hell every houre Thus much of mans present miseries Now followeth his future miseries which are to come upon him hereafter They must die either by a suddaine sullen or desperate death Psal. 89. 48. which though it is to a childe of God a sweet sleepe yet to the wicked it is a fearefull curse proceeding from Gods wrath whence like a Lyon he teares body and soule asunder death commeth hissing upon them like a fiery Dragon with the sting of vengeance in the mouth of it it puts a period to all their worldly contentments which then they must forsake and carry nothing away with them but a rotten winding sheet It 's the beginning of all their woe it 's the captaine that first strikes the stroke and then armies of endlesse woes follow after Revel 6. 2. Oh thou hadst better be a toade or a dogge then a man for ther 's an end of their troubles when they are dead and gone they fall now as men from a sleepe they know not where they shall goe now Repentance is too late especially if thou hast lived under meanes before it 's either a cold Repentance when the body is weake and the heart sicke or an hypocriticall repentance onely for feare of Hell and therefore thou sayest Lord Jesus receive my soule Nay commonly then mens hearts are most hard and therefore men dye like Lambes and cry not out Then it 's hard plucking thy soule from the Devils hands to whom thou hast given it all thy life by sinne and if thou dost get it back dost thou thinke that God will take the devils leavings Now thy day is past and darknesse begins to over-spread thy soule now flocks of Devils come into thy chamber waiting for thy soul to flye upon it as a Mastive Dog when the doore is opened And this is the reason why most men dye quietly that lived wickedly because Satan then hath them as his own prey like Pirats that let a Ship passe by that is empty of goods they shout cōmonly at them that are richly loaden The Christians in some parts of the Primitive Church tooke the Sacrament every day because they did looke to die every day But these times where in we live are so poysoned and glutted with their ease that it is a rare thing to see the man that lookes death stedfastly in the face one houre together but Death will lay a bitter stroake on these one day II. After death they appeare before the Lord to judgement Heb. 9. 27. their bodies indeed rot in their graves but their soules returne before the Lord to judgement Eccles. 12. 7. The generall judgement is at the end of the world when both body and soule appeares before God and all the world to an account But there is a particular judgement that every man meets with after this life immediately at the end of his life where the soule is condemned onely before the Lord. You may perceive what this particular judgement is thus by these 4. conclusions 1. That every man should dye the first day he was borne is cleare for the wages of sinne is death in justice therefore it should be paid a sinfull creature as soone as he is borne 2. That it should be thus with wicked men but that Christ begs their lives for a season 1 Tim. 4. He is the Saviour of all men that is not a Saviour of eternall preservation out of hell but a Saviour of temporall reservation from dropping into Hell 3. That this space of time thus begged by Christ is that season wherein onely a man can make his peace with a displeased God 2 Cor. 6. 2. 4. That if men doe not thus within this cut of time when Death hath

dispatched them judgement onely remaines for them that is when their doome is read their date of repentance is out then their sentence of everlasting death is passed upon them that never can be recalled againe And this is judgement after death Hee that judgeth himselfe saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 11. 31. shall not be judged of the Lord. Now wicked men will not judge and condemne themselves in this life therefore at the end of it God will judge them All naturall men are lost in this life but they may be found and recovered againe but a mans losse by death is irr●coverable because there is no meanes after death to restore them there is no Friend to perswade no Minister to preach by which Faith is wrought and men get Christ There is no power of returning or repenting then for night is come and the day is past Againe the punishment is so heavy that they can onely beare wrath so that all their thoughts and affections are taken up with the burden And therefore Dives cryes out I am tormented Oh that the consideration of this point might a waken every secure sinner What will become of thine immortall soule when thou art dead thou sayest I know not I hope well I tell thee therefore that which may send thee mourning to thy house and quaking to thy grave if thou dyest in this estate thou shalt not dye like a Dogge nor yet like a Toad but after death comes judgement then farewell Friends when dying and farewell God for ever when thou art dead Now the Lord open your eyes to see the terrours of this particular judgment which if you could see unlesse you were mad it would make you spend whose nights and dayes in seeking to set all even with God I will shew you briefly the manner and nature of it in these particulars 1. Thy soule shall be dragged out of thy body as out of a st●●king prison by the Devill the Jaylor into some place within the bowels of the third Heavens and there thou shalt stand stript of all Friends all comfort all creatures before the presence of God Luk. 19. 27. as at the Assizes first the Jaylor brings the prisoners out 2. Then thy soule shall have a new light put into it wherby it shall see the glorious presence of God as prisoners brought with guilty eyes looke with terrour upon the Judge Now thou seest no God abroad in the world but then thou shalt see the Almighty Jeho vah which sight shall strike thee with that Hellish terrour and dreadfull horrour that thou shalt call to the mountaines to cover thee ô Rocks Rocks hide me from the face of the Lambe Rev. 6. ult 3. Then all the sinnes that ever thou hast or shalt commit shall come fresh to thy minde as when the prisoner is come before the face of the Judge then his accusers bring in their evidence thy sleepy Conscience then will be instead of a thousand witnesses and every sinne then with all the circumstances of it shall be set in order armed with Gods wrath round about thee Psal. 50. 21. as letters writ with juice of Oranges cannot be read untill it be brought unto the fire and then they appeare thou canst not read that bloudy bill of indiotment thy conscience hath against thee now but when thou shalt stand neere unto God a consuming fire then what an heavy reckoning will app●are It may bee thou hast left many sinnes now and goest so farre and profitest so much that no Christian can discerne thee nay thou thinkest thy selfe in a safe estate but yet there is one leake in thy Ship that will sinke thee there is one secret hidden sinne in thine heart which thou livest in as all unsound people doe that will damne thee I tell thee as soone as ever thou art dead and gone then thou shalt see where the knot did bind thee where thy sin was that now hath spoiled thee for ever and then thou shalt grow mad to thinke ô that I never saw this sinne I loved lived in plotted perfected mine owne eternall ruine by untill now when it is too late to amend 4. Then the Lord shall take his everlasting farewell of thee and make thee know it too Now God is departed from thee in this life but he may returne in mercy to thee againe but then the Lord departs with all his patience to wait for thee more nor Christ shall be offered thee any more no spirit to strive with thee any more and so shall passesentence though haply not vocally yet effectually upon thy soule and say Depart thou cursed Thou shalt see indeede the glory of God that others finde but to thy greater sorrow shalt never taste the same Luke 13. 28. 5. Then shall God surrender up thy forsaken soule into the hands of Devils who being thy Iaylors must keep thee till the great day of account so that as thy friends are scrambling for thy goods and wormes for thy body so Devils shall scramble for thy soule For as soone as ever a wicked man is dead he is either in heaven or in hell Not in heaven for no uncleane thing comes there if in hell then among Devills there shall bee thine eternall lodging 1 Pet. 3. 19. and hence thy forlorne soule shall lie mourning for the time past now too late amazed at the eternity of sorrow that is to come waiting for that fearefull houre when the last trump shall blow and then body and soule meete to beare that wrath that fire that shall never goe out Oh therefore suspect and feare the worst of thy selfe now thou hast seldome or never or very little troubled thine head about this matter whether Christ will save thee or not thou hast such strong hopes and confidences already that he will know that it is possible thou mayest be deceived and if so when thou shalt know thy doome after death thou canst not get an houre more to make thy peace in with God although thou shouldest weepe teares of blood If either the muffler of ignorance shall be before thine eyes like an handkercher about the face of one condemned or if thou art pinioned with any lust or if thou makest thine owne pardon proclaimest because thou art sorry a little for thy sinnes and resolvest never to doe the like againe peace to thy soule thou art one that after death shalt appeare before the Lord to judgement thou that art thus condemned now dying so shalt come to thy fearefull execution after death There shall be a generall Iudgement of soule and body at the end of the world wherein they shall be arraigned and condemned before the great Tribunall seat of Iesus Christ Iude 14 15. 2 Cor. 5. 10. The heating of Iudgement to come made Felix to tremble nothing of more efficacy to awaken a secure sinner then sad thoughts of this siery day But thou wilt aske me how it may bee proved that there will be such a day I answer