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grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54483	Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ...	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing P1675; ESTC R39086	197,074	355

Of his wrath who is a consuming fire and will come so inflaming fire to render vengeance with strange effects the Sun obscur'd the Moon lost Stars fallen Powers of Heaven shaken the Heavens themselves passing away with a noyse Elements melting with fervent heat Earth and all her works burnt up 2 Pet. 3. with the great sound of a Trumpet which even the dead shall hear Graves shall fling open their marble doors and Seas vomit up Millions of drowned Carcases Hell it self shaking thereat and yet all this passing in a moment in a twinkling falling on the world as a snare stealing as a thief rowling as the flood confounding like lightning from the East Then for strictness in this Judges proceedings as for reward first wherein mens Laws are lame defective there 's a Kingdom his own thy Masters joy the same Throne Rev. 13. and then the Purity of that Bliss which Angels enjoying adore and last The Eternity in Psal 16. at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore So contrary those four conditions of hell torments for variety the most greatness insufferable for Purity unmixt with least allay of comfort or hope of mitigation and for continuance everlasting Is it not high time to debate Answer and thither we are come Consider this you that forget God that is you that would forget him that would damp out your own light you that say in your hearts that is you that wish in your hearts there were none what will you do what answer him He hath answered me already that you shall not be able to answer him not able to stand when he stands up in Judgement for the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped your answer may be a vain cry to the hils and rocks to fall and cover you from the presence of that Judge But I preach not I hope to Atheists and Desperates But when St. Peter saith The righteous shall scarce be saved Doth he not enforce a necessity of debating Had we a tryal in law or Debts on Interest we would fall to reckoning This is more The title of our souls and eternal salvation is at trial a Debt doubled and re-doubled in sins of Youth of Age of Ignorance of Presumption and are our Purses neerer then our souls But is there no avoiding None not for the young men that are least touched with remorse He will bring thee to Judgement Eccle. 11. We must all appear There are wayes and those wayes are trodden too many go those wayes to elude the temporal Judgement of men But in Rom. 14.12 it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every one must account and every one for himself no Atturneyes no Proxies Think too think of our distance shall I speak to the Lord that am but dust and ashes What words shall I chuse saith he Job 9.15 Alas all thought of answer then will be in vain for besides that we are not able to answer him one thing of a thousand that day is his day his day of wrath the time of mercy is over past irrevocably past his day of Doom is come 't is come to sentence and therefore what shall we do Why while we have time put in our answer yet the Chancery and Court of Request is open Now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation My Text is future yet He shall come he shall visit Here is a latitude for Repentance yet he expects calls for our answer and we know to what we have his Bill his Articles Interrogatories that is his Law written and engraven in our hearts we must now frame and put in our answer What is it Repentance first For so may that of the Apostle be understood in Eph. 6. where he enjoyns the Christian souldier to have his feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace I know some take that preparation of the Gospel for a readiness to preach that Gospel which should then belong alone to us Ministers others for a promptness in profession others Evangelical Obedience and some take it to be Patience and not unlikely But may it not also endure this meaning of Repentance too considering it is made the first step in the way of Life and so the first entrance into the field against Satan by John first the day-star who rose before the Sun and came to prepare the way How Repent c. And our Saviour in the same mind upon the same Text Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven it at hand Sad sighs and prayers and tears make up the first part of Repentance and make up so the sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart which God will not despise And hast thou this Is the rock cloven Come drops of warm blood in anguish from thy heart Break there floode of bitter weeping from thine eyes This is a fair piece of an answer Such tears have a voice that reaches Heaven and not from David only The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping but from Manasseth too a fearfull sinner because thou hast wept before me I have heard it 'T is Musick to the Almighties-self and raises a joy in Heaven Can the Prodigal that had wasted all his stock of Grace say but Father I have sinned See before he can came to say so God he meets him on the way and receives him to Mercy But this Answer hath a second part Take beed lest your hearts be hardened by sins deceitfulness It is a Circe a Syren we must stop our ears and resolve to be deaf to all her charms charm she never so wisely never so worldly wisely giving not a faint and cold but a peremptory final Answer with the Psalmist Away from me for I will keep the Commandments of my God Will keep them I that is I have sworn and am stedfastly purposed This is the meaning of the Apostle Tit. 3. The Grace of God hath appeared teaching us What Our Answer And how that by denying Ungodliness and worldly Lusts The best Answer is a flat denyal a round Refusal like our Head Christ Jesus who being tempted had his Answer ready And this is our first Answer in a full Repentance made up of grief and resolution 2. A second Answer is Obedience our Works for words will not carry it Not every one that saith Lord Lord And some Answers we read of shall nor serve the turn Some will answer Lord thou hast preached in our streets and we have preached in thy name Tell not me of preaching said our Saviour unless your lives have preacht too Away from me ye workers of iniquity God will have this Answer complexioned of Piety and Honesty when these are marryed they are crowned with the Grace and Blessing of God A number deceive themselves as the Jews when they cry Corban once as the Papists crack of Ecclesia Catholica Romana so these conclude all lies in being Professors zealous magnifying themselves and despising others But what were the

are all heads upon the same string fastened with our faith in Vitis here for our principal Jewel which if any of these fall loose is lost for ever and then all our preaching and ministring and your hearing and receiving vain and we be stript of our whole Creed even from God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth along to Christ crucified and on to life everlasting But we have not so weakly learned Christ to be shaken from our botome with such wind and waves of wicked Disputants Let us take heed of infection from a second sort such as in deeds deny him having a shew but no power of godliness such as may be tract like the snail by their unclean and slimy passages and yet dare resolve it in the Imparative Let us leave some Tokens of our wantoness so of our prophaness blasphemie drunkenness in every place This is a large field and a common place but for I am upon an health suffer me to single him out and say a coolword or two this morning next his heart unto the drunkard such especially as in a more then barbarous custom for in Est 1. no man might compell by forcing healths make it yet a more sickly and disorderly drunkenness First I commend to their consideration St. Pauls Epiphany where the Grace of God comes it appears saith he and how teaching us to denie ungodliness c. and to live soberly So then where sobrieey is not learnt the Grace of Christ hath appeared in vain Then that Caveat of our Saviour which he gave even to his own Apostles Take heed lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness Why What 's the danger and so that day come upon you unwares My next is that Redoubt and Barricado rather of St. Peter wherewith he makes out the enemie the Lion At one end he plants the great Ordinance of Faith Whom resist stedfast in the faith At the other he makes it sure and sets good guard Be sober and watch as if all our faith without sobriety would not keep out the devil that roaring Adversary who can out-roar these roars and devour these Devourers of drink My close shall be that terrible sentence of the great Judge of heaven and earth gone out against them That they shall never inherit the Kingdom of heaven It now remains I should press for faith in the foundation and furnishing a Believer with reasons of his faith against the A●heist Jew and Mahumetan and then for the super structure of Good works But these are fitter for large Treatises in books then short notes in a Sermon Let us come then to the last trial how we receive Christ by receiving his Receivers Persons deputed to take our homage and receive our reward in his stead 1. AND first The Poor With him I shall deal as usually men do dispatch him briefly Yet such are near and dear unto the Vine and sent as Leiger-Embassadours and à Latere too cut like another Eve out of his own bleeding side Members of that mistical Body whereof he is supream Head and whoever wrongs oppresses grinds or pares them to the blood He cries in Heaven Non cruor hic de stipite manat I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest It will come all to one in the end In as much as you have done it to them you have done it to me On the other side Do them good relieve them and he will reward it and make them able to requite it in proportion Receive them to harbour and those friends shall stand at heaven-gate to receive you into everlasting habitations 2. The Priest would be received too For Is not he in Vitis He that receives you receives me And is not our Ministry Vitis laetificans chearing God and man Did not the first Preachers receive largely for themselves and you when they received the holy Ghost and received power from on high at Christs ascension and gifts for men and were not the Apostles an odour of a sweet smelling savour to God and to men that received it even the savour of life unto life And is there not a Botrus of Blessing still received in receiving our Ministry If it be saith which is receiving Christ it is the word of God which we preach Nay May we not in a sober sense ask What have you that you have not received if it concern your spiritual state Christendom matriculation ablution from sin at one Receipt in baptism The body and blood and spirit of your Saviour by frequent receivings of the Eucharist which by the way now let me tell you in a word in verbo Sacerdotis if you should change for the mass it would lessen your receipts for whereas no lay-person hath a drop of the chalice allowed yet they have a Missale case that if any of the Consecrate-wine fall on the floore or pavement in that case a lay body may be permitted to lick it up left the dog should A fair reward it will be for such as decline to that Religion that Religion which hides away and denies the use of the word it self which is the power and wisedom of God to mans salvation But to fall back to our reckoning and Receipts is there nothing else Remember at night when you go to bed what is she if any be that sleeps in your bosome if you have not received her at the hand of some ordered and lawful Minister And when you shall go to your latest bed the Grave what difference from brute animals if we assist not to make it an honest and honourable Sepulture strange that mankind cannot well come in nor well stay nor well go out of this world without us and yet the world hates us Doth not this deserve a Torcular And I need not here press the cup of Comfort all apt enough to receive that benefits of Light and Salt and few so sensless but perceive it would be a very dark and a flash unsavoury dwelling here without the Gospel even stony ground will take in the Seed and gladly But where 's the Consideration of what is due to us And here I spare you I will not press that in the old Testament of Honouring God with your substance and first fruits and tithe of all that you possess I know the evasion you would turn over a new leaf and turn me to the new Priesthood in the New Testament yet take heed what you do for what is the news there How soon in that primitive Church do you meet with fellers of Possessions and laying all at the Apostles feet that 's a Torcular indeed and puts me in mind of a pretty passage in Tannerns a Jesuit who wishes withall his heart that all the Kings in Christendom would come and bring in all that ever they have and put it in their Churches treasury and henceforth be ruled by her but his Conclusion I like best Hoc in aeternum nunqua●fiet this will never be while the world stands saith