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A60543	A patern of free grace, or, The exceeding riches of the free grace and mercy of God in Christ to believing and repenting sinners by the example of that admirable convert, or rather miraculous mirror of Gods wonderful love and mercy in saving the repenting thief on the cross : wherein is excellently handled the doctrine of true repentance, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, with the desperate danger of final impenitency, with the certainty of Salvation to repenting sinners by Christ / by Samuel Smith.	Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4190; ESTC R25767	152,510	534

and shew that wee are children of such a Father by our long sufferance towards our brethren that iniure vs. There is no one thing that doth more manifestly declare the image of God to be renewed within vs then this propensenesse and ready disposition to forgiue the iniuries of our brethren How carnestly doth the Apostle perswade vnto this duty when he saith Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloued bowels of mercy kindenesse humblenesse of minde meekenesse long-suffering forbearing one another c. And to this end Christ propoundeth that parable in the Gospell of the King taking account of his seruants and therein shewes the mercifull dealing of him that had ten thousand talents forgiuen him yet would take his fellow by the throate for tenne talents and therein will teach vs that if we would haue pardon at Gods hand for the greater wee must forgiue the lesser whereas such as wil not forgiue the iniuries of others this shewes that they are stamped with the very image of Sathan who was malitious and a murtherer from the beginning and indeed there shall be iudgement mercilesse to him that sheweth not mercy Shalt be with me Text. Here wee haue the promise it selfe Promise it selfe which is to be with Christ in his glorious kingdome That in as much as by faith he was able to discerne Christs Deity in this base and low degree of his humiliation and by a liuely faith did rest on him alone for life and saluation Christ will not suffer his faith to faile nor himselfe to bee disappointed of the end thereof but grants him his hearts desire Verily thou shalt be with me The Instruction is That they that in miserie seeke vnto God Doct. i. They that in misery wait vpon God shall not misse of comfort in the end and rest on him shall bee sure of comfort in the end There is no labour lost in seeking and seruing of him but howsoeuer their present miseries are great yet as Mordecai said to Hester Deliuerance will come Let thy heart be in the feare of the Lord continually saith Solomon for surely there is an end Pro. 23.17 and thy hope shall not bee cut off Psal 37.37 So Dauid Marke the vpright man and behold the iust the latter end of that man shall bee peace Pro. 11.7 Whereas the hope of the wicked shall perish And as Iob saith Iob 17.8 What hope hath the hypocrite when God shall take away his soule Meaning indeed hee hath no hope And againe There is no peace to the wicked Isa 48.21 saith my God So that the condition of Gods people euen in their deepest aduersities and miseries is farre better then the condition of the wicked in their chiefest prosperitie For the one is sure that the end of his life will end his misery and finish his sorrow and enter his possession of euerlasting felicitie Whereas the candle of the wicked at last shall be put out and their fleeting pleasures which they haue had for a time heere shall bring at last an eternall weight of torment as our Sauiour saith Woe to you that laugh Luk. 6. for you shall waile and weepe Would we haue some examples for the further clearing of this truth How many miseries did the Israelites go vnder and that for the space of foure hundred and thirtie yeares yet at last the Lord gaue them rest in the promised Canaan How long was Dauid persecuted before he came to the kingdome and after yet at last the Lord gaue him rest Againe how sore were his inward feares and terrours by reason of sinne yet at the last filled with comfort How dealt the Lord with Iob both in respect of his outward man and temporall estate of a great Prince the Lord brought him to the dunghill And for his soule doth hee not often complaine that God Had set him as a But to shoote at And that the Arrowes of the Almighty had drunke vp his spirits yet at last dyed peaceably And there is reason for it First Reas 1 the Lords owne promise Call vpon mee in the time of thy trouble Psal 50.15 and I will heare thee and deliuer thee Which promise of his the Lord hath euer made good from time to time putting an end at last vnto the miseries of his seruants and giuing them rest and in this regard there is nothing in all the world more sure and certaine then the good successe of the hope of Christians it neuer misseth of that it aymeth at for their hope which is the Anchor of the soule hath faith for the ground of it Rom. 5.5 whereupon it fasteneth it selfe And further Gods truth and faithfulnesse to assure them of the truth thereof Secondly it is God that inclineth the heart to seeke him and causeth the soule so to hunger and thirst after him All which are cleare demonstrations that the Lord hath a purpose to giue them comfort at last Vpon this verie ground Dauid concludeth the helpe and deliuerance of Gods people in distresse Psal 10.17 Lord saith he thou hearest the desire of the poore thou preparest their heart and thine eare inclineth thereunto Thirdly God delaying to helpe his seruants by and by in time of miserie and distresse doth prouoke them to pray so much the more earnestly and frequently vnto him drawing away the heart from the world and causing the soule to haue the more secret communion with the Almightie and so must needs bring comfort in the end Seeing then that those that seeke vnto God Vse 1 and wait vpon him shall haue comfort in the end as we see in this poore Penitent here This may serue then in the first place to stay the godly in the time of their sorest trials not to despaire not to murmure repine and complaine as if their case were desperate For in due time they shall reape if they faint not What though for a time they beare the burthen and the heate of the day when the Euening commeth they shall not misse of their reward and then they shall see and acknowledge with the Apostle Luk. 21.18 That these light and momentany afflictions which are but for a season shall bring with them an eternall recompence of reward In the meane time let vs possesse our soules in patience tarrie the Lords leasure and waite vpon him our labour shall not bee in vaine in the Lord. After all the boysterous stormes in this life wrestlings against sinne Sathan and our owne corruptions and against malitious and wick●d men Deliuerance will come and the godly shall find it most true in the end that they that waite vpon him shall not bee ashamed Secondly it may serue to admonish vs that we take heed that we do not preuent the Lord and forestall that comfortable issue we might haue of our miseries and afflictions either by not seeking of him when miserie is vpon vs or by vnlawfull wayes and means to seeke to come out

ground must haue some time to roote to battle to spring and to bring forth fruite and according as the seede is so is the crop we must sow in teares if we wil reape in ioy And largly in the one Modica sementi detractio est magnum messis detrimentum Bern. if we will reape abundantly in the other Againe men doe not sowe tares and looke to reape wheate Besides neuer was there seene a Seed-time Spring Sommer and Haruest come together O then why should Sathan and our owne sinfull hearts thus delude vs to thinke that wee may reape the crop of glory in heauen neuer sowed the seede of grace on earth Whereas God hath ioyned these two together grace glory Without holinesse no man shall see the Lord. To returne now to the vses Vse 1 Seeing this is so then that an euill life hath commonly an euill death then the madnesse of those men is to bee mourned for as Samuel mourned for Saul that flatter themselues in their sinfull courses that they shall at last dye happily when they haue had no care nor conscience in their liues to liue holily Indeed I confesse that heauen hath many well willers who would not goe to heaven auoid the torments of hell Cursed Balam himselfe can wish that his soule might dye the death of the righteous Numb 23. though he had no regard at all to liue the life of the righteous But these are but bare wishes in the wicked they cannot properly be called desires because they come but from some sudaine passion in the heart when the thoughts of death Iudgement or Hell possesse them Whereas the desires of the godly are euer ioyned with the meanes conducing thereunto such as are the daily hatred of sinne grouth in mortification daily increase of heauenly knowledge faith repentance and the like But these men separate those whom God hath ioyned together grace and glory And though their liues be neuer so vile wretched and sinfull presume that it shall go well with them in death No question this Impenitent Thief could not but see that his sinfull course of life and his heart must needs smite him somtimes for the same And what might be the answer he gaue his heart euery man may iudge that though he ran a sinfull course for a time yet he would repent at last and become a new man Thus is it now with the drunkard swearer vsurer yea the prophanest liuing for none can be so desperately sinfull but sometimes their hearts smite them and they answer them still with a late repentance as if repentance were in their power But at last comes death and ouertakes the sinner and now is he taken as a Bird in the snare Now he sees when it is too late how Sathan and his owne cursed heart haue kept him hudwinkt and now in stead of confession of sinne and sorrow of heart for their former abhominations and calling on God by earnest and hearty prayer all which they promised vnto themselues at this time Behold here in this Impenitent Thiefe hardnesse of heart and finall impenitency yea he falls to mocking and blaspheming the Lord of life from whom saluation commeth Canst thou heare these things thou that art a drunkard swearer vncleane person that lyest and liuest in thy sinnes and not haue thy heart tremble within thee I will conclude with that of Moses O that men were wise Deut. 29. then would they consider their latter end Secondly seeing then that the late and last houres repentance the common refuge of wicked men as it falls short of holinesse in life so it seldome reacheth to happinesse in death It shall bee our wisedome then betimes to lay for this worke of repentance and to liue an holy life that hath the promise of an happie death Get we grace in life we shall not misse of glory in death Psal 73. Marke the vpright man and behold the iust the latter end saith Dauid of that man is peace They shall enter vpon peace Isa 57.2 and shall rest in their beds Who Euery one walking before the Lord in righteousnesse So Paul I haue kept the faith 2. Tim. 4. henceforth there is laid vp for me a crowne of righteousnesse Thus runne then the promises of blessednesse in death to such and such onely who walke with God in a holy life Obiect 5 But we see sometimes euen of those holy Brethren that haue liued so purely and so godly in death they haue raged and blasphemed yea and behaued themselues as men in desperation T is true Resp this hath beene the case and so may bee of the most holy and sanctified seruants of Christ and yet this concludeth not that their deaths must needs therefore be miserable For such may be the nature of the disease as the Strangury Colique burning Feauer and the like that may cause this distemper in the best Now they are but the words of distemper and not spoken out of reason or iudgement neither will the Lord impute them vnto his seruants Rom. 11.1 For will God cast away his people God forbid Neither can mans changeable tongue alter Gods vnchangeable decree Or at the most such distempered words vttered by the godly at last are but forced through some violent temptation of Sathan which the diuell shall answer for and not the godly neither conclude the want of loue to God or deliberate purpose to sinne but rather humane frailty which shall not hinder true happinesse On him That is on Christ On whom hee rayled not on his fellow that was a Malefactour with himselfe no they were as Simeon and Leui brethren in iniquitie But vpon the most innocent the Lord Iesus Christ himselfe Herein teaching vs That none are more obnoxious and liable vnto disgrace and reproach then the godly are Doct. 1 None more liable to disgrace then the Godly are yea the better the Christian the more subiect to the reproach of wicked men Let no man then that is religious and godly indeed thinke that he can escape the mockeries and derisions of the wicked it is the portion of the Lord Iesus Christ himselfe he vndergoeth this at the hands of sinners yet doth patiently beare it This was Dauids case Psal 21.7 All they that see me laugh me to scorne They shoot out the lip they shake the head saying he trusted in God Psal 69.12 c. And againe They that sate in the gate spake against me and the drunkards made songs of me This was Iobs case Iob 30.1 They that are younger then I mocke me This was the case of the Prophet Esay Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath giuen me Isa 8.18 are for signes and for wonders in Israel Thus complaineth the Prophet Ieremy Ier. 20.7 I am a derision daily euery one mocketh me And this was the complaint of the Apostles of Christ We are made a spectacle vnto the world 1. Cor. 4.9.13 to

to escape Exod. 15. Now was it a seasonable time for the Lord to steppe in that his owne power and stretched-out arme might be seene At what a low ebbe did the Lord bring Daniel Dan. 3. and those three worthies when one in the Lyons den the other in the fieric fornace when all hope of deliuerance was past and humane help failed then was his power most seene and then was deliuerance most seasonable Thirdly in Gods delayes then is there a seasonable time for the exercise of all those graces that hee hath betrusted his seruants withall such as are patience faith hope c. For it is the storme that proues the Mariner and the battell the Souldier whose experience and valour till then cannot be knowne If the prayers of Gods seruants be thus powerfull and effectuall with him Vse 1 This may be a notable incouragement for all Gods people to be frequent in this dutie and to be incessant in their prayers and not to giue him ouer though wee be not answered at first No doubt Hanna and Zachary had often prayed for children yet obtained not Notwithstanding they prayed still and at last the Lord heard them So Daniel he was in heauinesse three weekes of dayes Dan. 10.12 and to his thinking God heard him not yet the Lord heard him indeed from the first day as hee said to Daniel From the first day that he had set his heart to vnderstand Paul when the pricke of the flesh was giuen vnto him the messenger of Sathan was sent to buffet him hee therefore besought the Lord that it might depart from him But he receiued this answer 2. Cor. 12.7.8.9 My grace is sufficient for thee my power is made perfect in thy weaknesse Paul was heard though not at the first and therefore when wee shall pray for some blessing of the Lord which we stand in need of or when we shall craue power of the Lord ouer some vnruly affection of ours though we haue not answer by and by yet wee are not to leaue off This Christ teacheth vs when he saith Shall not God auenge the elect Luk. 18. that cry day and night vnto him Marke there Christs sweet application of that vnrighteous Iudge to teach vs to continue our suites and to hold out and then we shall not misse in the end Secondly this shewes the happie priuiledge of Gods Church and people that no man should say Ma● 3.14 It is in vaine to serue the Lord and what profit is it that we haue kept the commandements and haue walked humbly before him It is sure to go well with them they are in great credit esteeme in the Court of heauen they are all Fauourites to the great King of heauen and earth and he hath commanded such at all times to haue free accesse vnto him and to inlarge their desires with a promise of a gracious answer Ioh. 16.24 Aske saith our Sauiour and ye shall receiue that your ioy may bee full What though for a time they lie vnder troubles and sorrowes miseries and afflictions Rom. 8.37 Are they not herein more then conquerours through him that hath loued them The present miseries of the faithfull cannot hinder their happinesse but through the Lords goodnesse they shall make way to their euerlasting felicitie Let all Gods people then walk worthy of this calling and take heed that they no way forfeit his fauour and loue There is no comfort like vnto this in this life at all times to haue free accesse into Gods presence and to haue a comfortable returne of our prayers to obtaine health in sicknesse rest in trouble safetie in danger ioy in sorrow comfort in aduersitie yea hope in death and assurance of future happinesse with this Penitent here when wee depart hence then the which what greater royalties and priuiledges can there belong to any Thirdly seeing all the faithfull are thus sure of audience and a comfortable returne of their praiers at all times This may prouoke all Gods people to be frequent in this dutie The righteous cry and the Lord heareth and deliuereth them out of all their troubles And againe Psal 81.10 The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous flie vnto it and are helped The Lord doth call vpon vs that we should call vpon him Psal 50.15 Call vpon mee in the time of trouble and I will heare thee and deliuer thee This is the onely refuge of a Christian in time of trouble and distresse Onely care must be had that wee be earnest and constant in our sutes For the prayers of the righteous auailes much Iam. 5.16 if it be feruent God deliuereth the poore when hee crieth Psal 72.12 If wee would haue hearing there must bee crying God poureth forth flouds of grace But vpon whom Isa 44.3 On the thirstie ground Indeed many pray and preuaile not because they do it so drowsily and carelesly the Lord defers to keepe them because they are not fit for helpe they striue and wrestle not with God as Iacob did and this is the reason that the godly many times are not answered in prayer Thou shalt be with me Text. Many were the offences of this man and of long continuance yet mercy in a moment taketh them all away very sweet and comfortable may our lesson be That the sinnes of the Penitent cannot hinder their saluation Doct. 2 The sins of the Penitent cannot hinder saluation but the Lord is mercifull to great sinners when once they come to see their sinnes and truely conuert and turne vnto him wee may see the truth hereof in this present example Here we haue an example of humane frailtie of a man led by the sway and swinge of his owne corruptions one that had runne riot a long time liuing by rapine cruelty cutting of throats shedding of bloud and in all manner of excesse without God in this world led by the god of the world yet now at last receiued into fauour It skils not what our sinnes are or how great they haue beene but how true our sorrow and vnfained our repentance is repentance going before mercy euer followeth after This the Prophet teacheth in the name of the Lord Wash you make you cleane put away the euill of your doings from before my eyes cease from euill c. Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord Though your sinnes be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow and though they be red like crimson c. The same the Lord declareth by his Prophet Ezechiel Eze. 18 21 22.23 where he saith If the wicked will turne from the sinnes he hath committed and keepe my statutes and doe the thing that is lawfull and right he shall surely liue and not dye This truth is further cleared by that of Iob God saith hee looked vpon men Iob 33.27.28 and if one say I haue sinned and peruerted righteousnesse and it doth not