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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	believe_v	lord_n	unbelief_n	5,320	5	10.6764	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65421	The great gospel sumonds, to close with Christ under the pain of the highest rebellion against the God of heaven, being the substance of a preface and sermon at Hemphlar-bank in the parish of Lanrick Feb. 20, 1676 / by Mr. John Welsh ...	Welch, John, ca. 1624-1681.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1311; ESTC R39037	22,011	33

Way to satisfie him to close with him And then Fourthly Ye have many Calls to call you I tell you sirs Ye are called by your frequent Sick-beds Sickness in your Persons and Sickness in your Families all these things is calling you The Mercies of GOD is calling you The Judgements of GOD is calling you and ye have the Torments of Hell calling you Ye have your Vnbelieving Sinfull Hearts calling you your Backsliden Hearts calling you What then Sirs Will ye not give 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your Lust and close with him and imbrace him Ye have the Angels calling you It s said that the Angels they rejoyce at the Conversion of one Soul And ye have the Devil by all his Temptations calling you so ye have many Calls to close with this Suffering LORD JESUS CHRIST Fifthly Close with him Why Because he takes it as a great Proof of your Sincerity even when once ye begin to say My Lord and my God Therefore close with him and then I would have you closing with him as ye would not be found Guilty of Trampling Vnder foot the Blood of the Covenant and counting it an Vnholy Thing Even that Blood by which Sinners are to be saved But now I come to the Last Thing that I proposed and that is To speir what ye have to say to it What say ye to it Have ye any thing to say against what we have been speaking to you Have ye any thing to say against what He suffered Of against what he did after He suffered When he said Thrust in your hands in my Side and be not Faithless but Believing Or will ye be like Thomas after he had gart him see him he crys My Lord and my God Well Sirs What will ye all do Tell me what ye think of all that has been said of a Suffering CHRIST this Day What Effect has it now upon you And what Effect shall it have afterwards Will ye leave this Place without Closing with JESUS CHRIST What say ye to it What say ye Have ye any Objections Yes says some I have Three Objections What is these Objections that hinders me I have many Doubts in my Bosom that I dar not presume Wherefore dar ye not I have been such a Great Sinner I tell you then Sinners in the Name of the LORD ye that have these Fears and Doubts come away and let not that hinder you but let it put you to make the more use of the Master Come away to Him Though your Sins were as Scarlet and as Crimson ye shall be made White as Snow in that first of Isaiah 18. verse Therefore let none speak that He is Vnwilling He is not Vnwilling to help any of the Elect for whom he suffered so many things I say never think that ye have that of your selves and that it belongs to Free-will as the Blasphemous Quakers says ye have GODs Command for it and ye have GODs Warrand for it and ye have GODs Intimation and these are his Revealed Duties that he bids you do But what will ye say further What shall I do Let me see what I shall do Be serious in going about that which you have Revealed in the Word of GOD to be your Duty and that is all that the Gospel calls for and that you close with JESUS CHRIST Secondly Say ye I would fain close with him but I fear I break to Him again this ye had spoken to in the forenoon I have closed with him but I have broken again and I never ingage in that Duty but I break in some thing I never put my hand to that but I am crossed in it I like you all that berter of that that it is so Resolve in CHRISTs strength and he will keep you and all the Devils in Hell shall not get you to break it O! but say ye I have been trysted to make many Promises and I have broken them all and I fear that I do so again I say ye must Resolve again in CHRISTs strength and the hand of Zerubabel that hath laid the foundation he shall finish it Go not from this Place till you close with him We dow not leave you till ye give your Consent Turn again unto Me saith the LORD and I will Heal your Backslidings Well Sirs What have ye more for your Discouragements Will ye come and Close with him He hath sent me this Day to bid you come and Close with Him He who hath stopped so low as to make Offer of Himself to Sinners and has undergone such Great Sufferings It shall be counted the Greatest Rebellion against The GOD that made you that can be done when he has done all this to purchase Salvation and has brought it to your hands I pray you Sirs sit down there or I will speak no more and ye would not take it But there is a second Objection Says some I cannot close with him ye bid us close with him ●ut we cannot it is al 's far from us as to touch these Skyes we call do nothing in it Wa What says the LORD to that Poor Man that had the wothered hand He bids him stretch it out I cannot wad he say but yet what says the LORD to him Stretch out thy hand And we bid you in his Name make a Mint and shew your Good-will a●d he will help you to do it and ye would but make a Mint at it and ye would but say LORD I believe with the Faith that I have and as I can I believe LORD help my unbelief It s a strange matter Sirs ye will not try The Man might have said What needs me stretch but my wothered hand I ken that I cannot stretch it out But yet CHRIST bids him stretch it out as he can and he makes his Mint Effectual Ye that says ye cannot do so meikle as to make a Mint make the Mint and GOD will make these Mints Effectual Ye that says ye cannot do so meikle as to make a Mint make the Mint and GOD will make these Mints Effectual and ye may find him And therefore and ye dar not or think ye ca●not get Grips of Him yet will ye give Him a Look Look unto Me all ye Ends of the Earth and be saved Isaiah 45.22 For I am GOD and there is none else This is all that he requires that ye would give him a Look Well What have ye to say in the Third Place I will not close with him that is the Truth of the Matter I will not part with the World I will not Serve Him I will not Obey his Commands I am not Resolved upon that yet I will not leave the World that I have had so meikle Advantage in no no I will not close with him let you say what you will Woes me that is a sore Matter will ye not have him Let Ministers say what they will will ye not have him What 's the Reason or that Have ye any thing to say against him He is

as to Die for Sinners We cannot tell what calls for wondering and this calls not for wondering from us O the height O the bredth O the length O the depth of this Mystery That the Son of GOD should have been put so sore to it as to die for Sinners and not only to die but to drink the Cup of the Fathers Wrath Who can hear this declared and no wonder at the hearing of it O wonder O wonder at it Sirs wonder at the hearing of it And Secondly I shall say this from it by way 〈◊〉 ●xhortation Is it so That our LORD JESVS CHRIST was put to so Great Sufferings Wa then I would Exhort you to look how ye should look upon Sin if sin should not be very Detestable to you and very abominable if ye should not be at very much Pains to forsake Sin that brought our Blessed LORD JESUS CHRIST to undergo such Great Sufferings which would have brought you to such sad Condemnation and ly under the Wrath of GOD Eternally and Eternally And therefore Sinners we think and there were no more to be a Motive to press you to forsake your Sins and to hate every False Way and to hate the very least Word and Thought of it that this might be a Motive that it brought out LORD JESUS CHRIST to undergo such Great Sufferings Sirs Love to Him will call for this call ye that Love the LORD hate Evil Psalms 97.10 But then there is another Vse that I would make of Exhortation Was our LORD JESVS CHRIST brought to so many and Great Sufferings and has be undergone them so cheerfully Yea He has undergone it And is He satisfied to see the Travel of his Soul O Sirs Do not yet then do what ye can do to Disappoint him while he is making offer of his Blood to Wash you Do not that which will make him rew that he shed his Blood for the like of you For when it is so that ye do nor give him a suitable Meeting ye give him just ground to rew for ye have done what in you lyes to make his Sufferings of none Effect But the Vse that I shall mainly insist on at this time is another of Exhortation and that is Our LORD JEVSVS CHRIST is doing now as he did after his Resurrection when he came out of the Grave when his Disciples gathered together in a Chamber for fear of the Jews he came in there among them and says Peace be unto you in that 20 of John 21 verse in the beginning of that Chapter there was some word of his Resurrection Now there was some of them that affirmed that he was risen yet still they thought it was but a Notion and a Mistake although there was Angels come down from Heaven and gave Testimony that He was risen yet some of them could not believe that but when he comes in among them What says he to Thomas even that which he says to us the day He holds out his Hands and the Hole that is in his Side he shews forth his Hands and his Side and says Be not Faithless but Believe and that is the thing reach hither your Hands into the Hole of my Side and be not Faithless but Believe and that is the thing that I am come here for the day as a Messenger of the Living GOD to let you see this Day the Wonderfull Condescending Love of CHRIST and to say unto you Reach hither the Hand of your Faith and take a look of this Bloody Saviour who was Crucified come put in your Fingers put in your Hand in the Hole of that Bloody Side of his and be not Faithless but Believe That is the Great Thing that CHRIST calls for that is the Great End wherefore he would have his Sufferings told us Wherefore That it might bring his People to a close with Him to give Him Credit and to Believe in Him Therefore now we come here and that which we say to you we bid you reach hither your hand and be not Faithless but Believe that is the Great End wherefore he would have his Sufferings told to close with this Suffering LORD JESUS CHRIST Come to him and be no more Faithless but Believe and say with that Man Thomas my Lord and my God Whenever that was presented to him he could no longer stand out And this Argument prevail not with you I wonder what will prevail with you when the Sufferings of CHRIST is laid out unto you Therefore says Thomas my Lord and my God I can stand no longer for now I have seen the Wonderfull Love of GOD now I see the Wonderfull Love of CHRIST which made him undergo all these Great Sufferings now I have seen the wonderfull excellency of a Saviour Now therefore Sirs ye man give me leave to insist here a little for this is the Great Scope wherefore CHRIST keeps up a Preached Gospel that ye might believe that ye may be saved and brought to a Closing with JESUS CHRIST Therefore In the First Place I do here summond you of all Ranks of Persons unto a scrious Frame and unto a Composure of Spirit suitable unto the Message that I am to Declare unto you I summond you Men and Women and I come now to you and I present before you a Bloody CHRIST a Suffering Saviour I come to you as he did to his Disciples I say unto you as he said to his Disciples Reach forth your hands unto a Bloody Saviour take a look of him beleevingly Look unto him and Close with him Look to him who hath said Look unto Metall ye Ends of the Earth and be saved Isaiah 45.22 O Sirs Come and take a Look of this suffering CHRIST take a Look of him Therefore I shall First tell what sort of Persons I summond I summond you Old Persons that has even had a Profession all your Time and yet never Closed with him ye that has even made a fashon of closing with JESUS CHRIST and yet to this Day has never done it I summond them at this Day at this present Time that they come and take a Look of this suffering JESUS CHRIST that they stretch out the hand of their Faith and close with him and that they come and say my Lord and my God Secondly I summond them that is without that has never yet been hankering about to do it and them that has made many Mints but never came cleanly off in the doing of it I summond you to come hither and stretch out your hands and be not Faithless but Believe I summond you Whoremongers Adulterers Drunkards or whateve ye be as ye heard in the Forenoon come to him O sinners come hither and reach hither your hands and be not Faithless but Believe and close with this suffering JESUS CHRIST Will ye let him go away and not take the Offer off his hand and he no get meikle Thanks for his Offer Shall he have that to say that ye would not take the Offer and