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enemy_n	death_n	reconcile_v	reconciliation_n	1,075	5	11.0013	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95931	Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street, London	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing V452A; ESTC R230467	50,841	90

of damnation and did not know it I have been dancing about the brinks of Hell and did not perceive it I have been affronting God all my daies by my sins now I see that God is highly offended with me for those sins I made light of I am the covetous person whom the Lord abhorreth Psal 10. 3. I am the deceiver whom he curseth Mal. 1. 14. I am the Adulterer whom he will judge Heb 11. 4. I have greatly sinned and now I see God is greatly angry and his anger burns like fire he frowns and his frowns are most dreadfull and I fear he will cast me to Hell and make me feel the power of his anger in my everlasting ruine I fear I must dwell with devouring fire and take up mine eternal abode with the Devil and my fellow-damned sinners O I fear I am damned I am damned O happy is the Dog and the Horse yea the Worm and the Toad who ere long shall be anihilated but I am cursed and I fear that I shall eternally be tormented O I am lost I have lost my God and I fear I am lost and shall be lost for ever O I am undone undone vile and miserable sinner O wo be to me that ever I was born that ever I sinned and provoked God to such displeasure But is there no spark of hope yet is there no escaping no reconciliation attainable O what shall I do to be saved I cannot save my self and no creature can help me but is there no other way Thus you must see and be sensible that you are lost in your selves if you would be saved Direction 2. You must mourn for sin if you would be saved except ye repent saith our Saviour ye shall all likewise perish Luk. 13. 3. Those that laugh and rejoyce now in a way of sin shall mourn and weep for it for ever to no purpose Luk 6. 25. But blessed are they that mourn for sin now for they shall be comforted and saved Matth. 5. 4. The seed time of repentance accompanied with the showers of tears will return with the harvest of salvation and sheaves of joy and comfort Psal 126. 5 6. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoycing bringing his sheaves with him Therefore see what the Apostle exhorteth unto which is necessary to your salvation Jam. 4. 9. Be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into heaviness Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up Sinners you have delighted your selves in sin you must now be afflicted for it sin hath been sweet in your mouth it must now be bitter to your heart God calls you to salvation by his Son but withall he calls you to weeping and mourning and deep humiliation in order hereunto not that your tears can wash off the guilt of your sins nothing can do this but the blood of Christ not that God delights in your griefs and sorrows as such but because mourning is needful for you to prepare you for Christ and Salvation by him whilst sin is sweet unto your taste you will roll it under your tongue and hug it in your bosom you will spare it and nothing will perswade you to part with it but when you taste the bitterness of sin in compunction and sorrow for it then you will spit it out when you perceive the gall and the worm wood then your mouth will be put out of rellish then you will desire no longer to suck at the breast of sin whilst you are insensible of sin you will be insensible of your need of a Saviour None but sick persons do prize and send for the Physitian and none but such as are sick of sin and groan and mourn under the burden of this sickness do prize a Christ who is the soul-Physician Matth. 9. 12. Were you made sensible of sin indeed you would eagerly enquire after Christ and greedily hearken unto the glad tydings of salvation which he hath purchased what shall I do to get an interest in Christ where is he to be found how is he to be received what are his terms what are his commands do any thing part with any thing you would not then think much to lay down your selves and all that you have at his feet so you might have him none but Christ none but Christ would you then desire and if you might have all the world without him you would not be contented Sinners would you be saved by Christ get your hearts affected with godly sorrow for sin and that you may mourn deeply and kindly you must get not only a conviction of the guilt of sin and the punishment which is due for it which you cannot escape but you must look further into the nature of sin and get a sight and sense of the evil of sin you must look not only to the consequential evil of sin but also to the intrinsecal evil of sin not only to the Hell which is like to follow upon it but also to that Hell which there is in it look to the evil of sin not only as it is like to burn you but as it hath blackt and smutted you as it hath depraved and deformed your souls which are of heavenly original as it hath degraded and debased you polluted and defiled you But chiefly look upon the evil of sin as it reflecteth dishonour upon God upon God that is so holy and glorious and that is so good and gracious as it displeaseth that God that made you that hath exercised so much patience towards you when he could so easily have cut you off in the act of sin and appointed you your place and portion amongst the damned in Hell long ago and that hath moreover been so bountiful to you though sinners and his enemies that he hath maintained you at his cost and charges all your daies but especially see the evil of sin as it offendeth that God who is ready to be reconciled and hath made such provision for reconciliation which you could never have thought of namely through the death and mediation of his Son whom he hath given for you and proffers to give to you and in him doth treat with you and by us Ministers doth send intreaties to you that you would accept of this reconciliation lay down your weapons and be reconciled unto him 2 Cor. 5. 20. Break break ye rocky hearts at this what is God willing indeed to put up such high affronts and to forgive such great sins and doth he stoop to entreat and beseech such mean creatures and wretched sinners as you to be reconciled O be filled with astonishment and admiration and go cast your selves down at his feet with self-loathing and abhorrency at the hideous nature and monstrous ingratitude and baseness of your sins let your hearts melt within you like Wax or Snow when

the Sun shineth upon it with heat and brightness let your eyes drop down tears as the morning doth drop dew upon the flowers What! have I affronted such greatness dared such power trampled upon such patience and abused such goodness too and after all doth God beseech me to be reconciled was it such a God whom I offended vile wreth O that I had never committed such sins O that I had never been drunk or unclean or profane O that I had never sworn nor lyed nor stoln nor offended God in any of my actions It repents me it grieves me at the very heart that I have sinned and that I can grieve no more for it Direction 3. You must turn from sin if you would be saved see Psal 7. 11 12 13. God is angry with the wicked every day if he turn not he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready he hath prepared for him the instruments of death And God threatneth Psal 88. 21. that he will wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such as go on still in their trespasses Therefore men must turn from all their transgressions otherwise iniquity will be their ruine Ezek. 18. 30. They must cast away their sins as a menstruous cloth saying unto them get ye hence if they would be received into favour Isa 30. 22. They must not only confess their sins but also forsake them if they would find mercy Prov. 28. 13. The wicked must forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and turn to the Lord and then he shall have pardoning mercy abundantly Isa 55. 7. When men cease to do evil and learn to do well then though their sins have been as scarlet they shall be white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be like wooll Isa 1. 16 17 18. Sinners turn from your evil waies you have done iniquity do so no more you have gone on hitherto in a way of sin proceed no further it is the way to Hell turn out of it Let him that hath stoln steal no more and him that hath been filthy be filthy no more and him that hath been unjust be unjust no more Drunkards forbear your drinking swearers refrain swearing lyars teach your tongues to speak truth Break off your course of sin turn from all gross sins as to the practice and turn from all sins as to the affection Direction 4. You must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ if you would be saved This is the direction which Paul gave to the Jaylor when under conviction of sin he came in to him and cryed What shall I do to be saved he saith to him Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved Act. 16. 30 31. So in Peter's Sermon Act. 10. 43. To him gave all the Prophets witness that through his Name whosoever believeth in him should receive remission of sins There is no Saviour but by Christ and there is no salvation by Christ but by faith and therefore we are said to be saved through faith Ephes 2. 8. As faith is the instrument to apply the merits and righteousness of Jesus Christ Let me then exhort you to get faith which is absolutely necessary unto salvation Get faith of the right kind there is a general common historical temporary hypocritical dead and ineffectual faith but do you labour after a special lively unfeigned effectual justifying and saving faith and that you may not be mistaken in this great point on which your salvation doth depend I shall describe that faith which is of the right kind and will certainly save you if you obtain it Faith is a grace wrought in the heart by the Spirit of God whereby a poor sinner being made sensible of the guilt and power of his sins and the utter insufficiency of himself or any creature in the world to give him any help or succour and having in the Gospel a discovery and proffer made unto him of the Lord Jesus Christ as an all sufficient most merciful and faithful Advocate and Saviour doth go quite out of himself and accept lay hold rely and rest upon him and him alone for pardon and grace and everlasting happiness Or more briefly thus Faith is a grace of God whereby the humbled sinner doth accept and rely upon Christ alone for salvation as he is held forth in the Promises of the Gospel If you would attain this grace of Faith take these Directions 1. You must be fully perswaded that the Scriptures which reveal Christ are indeed the word of God this is the foundation of all faith therefore I shall briefly suggest some Arguments to prove the divine Authority of the Scriptures As 1. Because of that majesty purity holiness heavenliness which doth appear in the Scriptures beyond all other writings 2. Because of the design and drift of the Scriptures to debase man and exalt God and his glory above all 3. Because of the admirable contexture and contrivance and sweet harmony of the Scriptures in all the parts thereof though written by so many several men in several ages and places which sheweth that they were all acted by the same Spirit of God 4. Because of the wonderfull work of mans Redemption there set forth at first more darkly afterwards more clearly which no mortal brain could have invented much less could any created power have effected 5. Because of the great power which this word hath to convince convert and comfort 6. Because of the confirmation of the Scriptures by miracles 7. Because of the acknowledgement of the Scriptures to be Gods Word in all ages 8. Because of the many millions of Martyrs who have sealed the Truths of the word with their blood 9. Because of the witness of the Spirit in and with the word which doth bear testimony to the hearts of Gods people that the Scriptures are his Word and were indited by his Spirit Whence it followeth that the Scriptures are true because God the Author of them is true and cannot lye and whatever is there revealed is as certain as those things which are most demonstrable to sense or reason This is the first step to your believing in Christ who is made known in the Scriptures to believe that the Scriptures are Gods Word 2. If you would attain a saving faith in Christ you must be convinced and fully perswaded of your lost estate without Christ and your absolute need of him of which before 3. You must be perswaded that it is not in your own power to believe that it is not of your selves but is the gift of God Ephes 2. 8. and therefore must apply your selves to God that he would not only give you his Son but also give you the hand of faith to lay hold on him that he would work in you this grace of faith by his Spirit 4. You must consider those Arguments of Scripture which encourage faith As for instance I shall mention four heads of Arguments for