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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23637	Serious advice to delivered ones from sickness or any other dangers threatning death, how they ought to carry it that their mercyes may be continued, and other misery prevented, or, The healed ones prophulacticon or healthfull diet delivered in several sermons on John 5: 14 by James Allin.	Allen, James, 1632-1710.	1679 (1679)	Wing A1030; ESTC W22141	43,058	40

improvement hereof by way of Exhortation that I may set home this Counsel of Jesus Christ on all your hearts and upon my own that we take good heed that we sin no more There are five or six Motives or considerations to further our acceptance and improvement of this Counsel If it were no more then that it is the Counsel of Christ from his own blessed mouth who is a true lover of mens Souls that were enough to further any that have love to Jesus Christ and to their own Souls to be careful to attend to his Counsel Christ never advised any to their own hurt Suppose you had been hearing Christ himself and that he had spoken in particular to you do not you think his words would have been of weight to you why this is Christs advice and not to that man only but to all in like case therefore for your furtherance Consider 1. That sinning again will disappoint you of the good of your deliverance I say it will eat out the good and sweet of it The outward mercy of healing or whatever the Salvation of God is to you it is not a mercy alone Such is mans misery since the fall that there is no outward mercy or dispensation of God to him but if it comes alone it comes under the curse and it proves a greater misery then a mercy and where you enjoy any mercy from God if it do not deliver you from sin it is not in favour but comes under the influence of the old Covenant 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. As the Apostle saith of every Creature of God it is good if it be received with Thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of God and Prayer i. e. if it be received with a heart truly Thankful it is sanctified without this you have no good in any Creature enjoyment because it is unsanctified as whatever the sinner doth is defiled because himself is defiled so whatever he enjoys is defiled he himself being unsanctified Then mercy and outward deliverance carries a great deal of good in it when it fits you for Gods service then it tends to the end of its first Institution to further the Service of God but sinning again destroys this end of it If a mercy makes you better then it is a choice mercy but if it do not better you in your Souls it is far from being good to you I may say of such mercies as of Jonahs goard Jon. 4. 5 6. When he was in great distress and the Sun beat upon him and greatly afflicted him and the Lord made a goard to come up over Jonah to be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief and Jonah was exceeding glad of the goard But Jonah was not sanctified hereby in his heart by obedience to God therefore there was a worm that smote the Goard that it withered You may be glad of your deliverances but if sin remain it will be as a worm in them to destroy the shadow the comforts of them therefore take heed that you sin no more for that will spoyle you of the best good of your mercyes the flower and sweetness of a mercy will be eaten out thereby that is the first Motive 2. Consider that sinning after deliverance will hinder you from the enjoyment of other mercyes which God intends you together with your deliverance for that is not all God intends in shewing poor sinners a common bounty Christ seems to tell this healed man here this is not all my meaning in coming to heal thee I have Soul healing to bestow upon thee but sin stops and prevents this as the Lord said to David If that had been too little I would have done so and so for thee 2 Sam. 12. 8. the outward mercy is the least God is inclined to do more but as Jer. 5. 25. Your iniquities have turned away his Ear from you and your sins have withheld good things from you Are you not made better by mercyes are you not changed renewed by repentance under mercyes what is the matter why your sins have hindred your iniquityes have kept good things from you As it is said God makes a way for his anger so sometimes he doth for his mercy in removing a present Judgement but Impenitency unreformedness that stands in the way God had made for his mercy as it is said of Christ at Capernaum he could do no great works there because of their Vnbelief So to speak with reverence God cannot proceed in mercy when sin is renewed Christ tells them Luk. 16 11. If you have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon who will commit to your trust the true Riches if you carry it not well to God in a common mercy do you think that God will bestow and betrust you with more and better mercyes 3. Consider that sinning after deliverance it is a greater sin then your sins before you received the mercy you cannot sin now at so easy a Rate as before you sin with a higher hand Your mercy puts an aggravation upon your sin for to him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin Iam. 4. ult that is he sinneth at a higher Rate then another because he sinneth against light yea and against love Gods love therefore his sin is of a deeper dye then the sins of others are 4. Consider they that sin after Deliverance they are a greater provocation to God God is more angry with such for such sins then others 2 Sam. 12. 8. the Lord by the Prophet reckons up great things to David he did for him I anointed thee King over Israel I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul I gave thee thy Masters house and thy Masters wives into thy bosome and I gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah and if that had been too little I would moreover have given thee such and such things wherefore hast thou despised the Commandment of the Lord for it is said Chap. 11. ver ult The thing that David had done displeased the Lord so that the Sword should not depart from his house c. Sins after Deliverances and great Mercyes are a great provocation 5. Consider sins after deliverance they are sins against your special engagements and Covenants I doubt not but many of you in time of distress have made that prayer which David did Psal 119. 175. Let my Soul live and it shall praise thee have not many of your prayers and cryes in sickness been that you might live to praise God to be better in Gods Service Now to live in sin to Gods dishonour after deliverance how contrary is this to your Ingagements to reproach and blaspheme his holy Name afterward 6. Consider the great advantage of not sinning any more this is preserving Diet of an healed sinner Christ as a wise and faithful Phisitian prescribes this as health preserving Diet. This is the way to preserve and continue the mercyes you have received and