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Warnings to the unclean in a discourse from Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield lecture, August 25th. 1698. At the execution of Sarah Smith. By Mr. John Williams pastor of the Church at Deerfield.
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Williams, John, 1664-1729.
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guilty and in very great hazard and danger of being filled with the Wrath of God Rom. 1.32 Rom. 3.1 2 3 these â—o as it were Justifie those that have been guilty after God hath punished them and slight the Justice of God therefore you find God so sharply reproving these and declaring these more abominable in his sight Ezek. 16.47 53. Jer. 3.7 12. God is not wont to suffer such that harden their hearts against Examples of Wrath on others to escape his Wrath. Dan. 5.22 6. To them that live in Uncleanness whilst they make a high profession of Godliness they come and sit at the Table of the Lord and yet wallow in Uncleanness God that sees what they do in Secret sayes Shall not my Soul be Avenged of such as these Oh! in what great danger are Church Member Unclean persons If God will answer them according to their Abominations who set up their Idols in their hearts and put the stumbling block of their Iniquity beforâ— their face when they come to enquire of a Prophet Ezek. 14 4. What will the end of these â—e 〈◊〉 These have had impressions made by the Spiriâ— of God from the word on their Consciences and have been like the Earth that drinketh iâ— the Rain that cometh oft upon it and iâ— they do after all this continue to bring â—ortâ— briars and thorns may they not look upoâ— themselves nigh to cursing Heb. 6.8 7 To all those whom God hath suffered to escape long Unpunished in the pursuit of Unclean delights an awful symptome and grounâ— of fear that God intends to punish them Eternally Oh! many are glad at heart that they can sin unpunished and not be brought to shame and smart for it here truly such have awful ground to fear that God intends to Damn them Eternally The letting of Sinnerâ— go unpunished is threatned as one of the foresâ— Calamities inflicted in this world for the preparing of the Sinner for endless Torment Hosâ— 4.14 17. Let such read Rom. 9.22 23. And seâ— if they have any reason to account it any part of their happiness that they are suffered of God to escape long unpunished in such a way of sinning 8. To all those who cover their Uncleannesses with Lies to the doubling of their guiltiness These take a course to carry the guilt of their doings into another world with them Those that commit Adultery and walk in Lies will be as Sodom to God Jer. 23.14 Prov. 19.5 They are doubly an Abomination to God the Text doth once and again threaten those persons Here 's nothing but matter of awakening and terrour to all Unclean persons older or younger God saith that he will punish such as you are He will take you into his own hands Heb. 13.4 Oh! what reason have you to tremble and be afraid your Sin is Damning The damage it doth you is not only in this life and on your bodies but it destroyes your Souls and that Eternally Consider that Eternal Separation from God and every act of disobedience receiving a meet reward will make you perfectly miserable Here consider for your awakening 1. That the pleasures of sin will be dear bought You are now resolved to live a life of pleasure You are doubly guilty of folly as well as wickedness you make choice of pleasures that lye in common with bruits and refuse the joys of holiness and communion with God You chuse also those that you can enjoy but for a season they will be but as the crackling of thorns under a pot and they will cost you the loss of all happiness and the sustaining all misery You live a jolly jocund life now but what will you do in the end thereof Madness in your hearts whilst you live and after that you go to the dead 2. That God wont punish you for one sin only or but for a few but for all He will remember all your Iniquities and visit all your sins Eccles. 11.9 Amos 3.2 All your Uncleanness all your Sabbath Pollutions all your Sinful thoughts words and actions Oh! you will find it a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God under the guilt of Innumerable sins Can your hands and hearts indure under this Can you bear the wrath of God for numberless transgressions 3 God wont only bring you into misery but the Cup shall be full of wrath without any mixture of mercy that he will make you take and drink down Wrath wont fall heavily only on one member of the body but all not only on the body but Soul and Body too No friends to pitty you pray for you no comforts of this life to comfort you Rev. 14.10 Oh! how hard do afflictions sometimes come upon you now you say you can't live long under them if they are continued and yet you have many mercies mixt with your bitterest afflictions many comforts But then forsaken of all nothing but wrath not one single mercy 4. God will have no regard to any thing you can devise to alleviate your pain He will take no notice of any of the prayers you made or profession you made of Religion If you took lamps and went forth to meet the Bridgroom if you eat and drunk at his Table if in his Name you cast out Devils if you gave of your Estate to charitable uses if your Estate were laid out for the maintaining and upholding the Ordinances of God Worship and your natural or acquired parts and abilities were improved for the good of Gods Church your wisdom and your courage improved many years for the preservation and defence of Gods people it would not be Esteemed by God to prevent your Torment Matt. 7.21 22 23. and Matt. 25.12 God wont regard the Prayers of the most holy Ministers and Relations that prayed for you to ease you of your pains Jer. 15.1 Ezek. 14.14 God wont regard your earnest pleadings Matt. 25.11 12. Dives can't get one drop of water with all his pleadings Your descending from Godly Parents and that you were the Children of the Covenant won't procure any abatement of pain The rich man crying out in torment though he crys Father Abraham and is called Son yet hath no ease Luk. 16.25 5. God won't only rank your sins before your eyes but he will make them manifest to your contempt before the world God will reprove you and set your sins in order before your eyes when he comes to execute Vengeance as Matt. 25 41. Psal. 50.21 22. He will also make known to the world what manner of persons you were to your disgrace and reproach Psal. 52.6 7. Luk. 12.2 3. All your Secret sins wicked thoughts your Hypocrisy and Apostacy will all be proclaimed before all the world You would be ashamed to be seen in any company if the wickedness of your hearts and thoughts if the wickedness committed by you in Secret were known to all Oh! how do those that seemed to be without shame hang down their heads How shy are they of
any company or society when but a little of their sin is made known or but a few of their ungodly pranks brought to light but now all shall be made manifest to their everlasting disgrace 6. God won't design any good to you in any in all those sorrows and torments that you shall indure Here when God chastens he aims at profit he puts into the Furnace to puriâ—y but then his wrath will be a confirming fire Reprobate silver shall they be called God who was so long abused slighted and disregarded will not have one thought or intention to do you any good or to prepare you by these miseries for his favour He sentenceth to everlasting fire prepared for Devils You will be separated from all those that God designs good to the Judgments of God will be to make you miserable Oh! Consider of these things you that forget God least he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you It s an ease to the Spirits of many a man and woman under afflictions to have comfortable hopes and perswasions that God is carrying on a design of Love Grace to their Souls by such Dispensations that by these he is preventing worse Judgments 1 Cor. 11.32 but no ease can come to the Damned from any such consideration God never designs to bring them out of torment but the Smoke of their torment will ascend for ever and ever USE III. Of Warning To Warn all to take heed of those sin and to warn them that are guilty of them speedily to repent and fly to Christ for pardon and forgiveness 1. To warn every one of you to take heed of these sins 1. Or God may justly suffer you to be punished in the same way that you abuse others Job 30.10 God permits this many times by way of retaliation 2 Sam. 12.11 Hos. 4.12.15 they themselves had been unclean You would be far from taking pleasure in having these sins paid back into your own botomes to have Husbands or Wives to have Children Sons or Daughters left of God to Uncleanness but it would be a righteous thing with God to permit you to be exercised after such a sort 2. Or you will take a course to bring an unremoveable reproach blemish and spot on your selves Prov. 6.33 If you get a pardon as to everlasting punishment yet a spot will remain 1 King 15.5 Solomon tells you a Good Name is better than precious Oyntment I am sure they justly forfeit the reputation of wisdom that will part with a good name for the pleasures that are to be enjoyed in this way 3. Or the best that can be expected is sorrow unspeakably greater than any pleasure you can reap in this way of sinning Sorrow from the Judgments of God and that will be sure to overtake you in this life and rottenness of bones being brought to a morsel of bread How many heart distressing troubles was David followed with after he fell into these sins how was he punished in and from his own Children and how by his Subjects revolting Sorrows from the Influences of Gods Spirit in bringing to a sound repentance He tells of broken bones his moisture turned into the drought of Summer he lost the joy of Gods salvation Oh how will Conscience accuse and perplex who would undergo the horrors of Conscience that will fill the Soul of such to the causing of them to have a dreadful sound in their ears for all the delight that is this way to be enjoyed the Psalmist Psal 51. acquaints us how such pleasures bite at the last Cain says his punishment is greater then he can bear his guilty conscience makes him fear that every one that meets him is Gods Executioner 4. Or it 's to be feared that if once you yield that you will hold on in such wayes till Death overtake you Sinners are stupified that are left to these wayes of Sin You have heard that few are recovered by unfeigned repentance Stollen waters are so sweet and pleasant to ignorant carnal men who know not that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of hell that they oftimes go on till a dart strike thro' their liver Prov. 7.23 the young man had so much conscience left him that he would not yield till with much fair speaking he was sollicited and then he goes on till death these are oftimes so far besotted by their lusts that reproofs will be slighted by them Hos. 4.4 5. They are Sins that bring great wrath upon a Land Hos. 4.23 when the Sons of Eli had given themselves to these sins God was wrath and Thirty four thousand men fell in the Battle and the Ark of God was taken The wrath of God distresseth a Land where such Iniquities abound Wars Impoverishing Dispensations to many Families and Towns are the effects of Gods Anger stirred up 〈◊〉 kindled by such provocations Why should you rebel thus against the Lord and so provoke God to be wroth with the whole Congregation 6. Or you may fear that God will destroy you for defiling his Temple 1 Cor. 13.17 Direction 1. Don't disobey Gods Counsels and walk contrary to them in refusing Christ Psal. 81.11 12. they take a direct course to fall into these abominations to their everlasting contempt that cast contempt upon the Word of God and on his Son A Christless Soul can have no assurance that he shall not be left finally to the worst abominations Prov. 2 10.16â— Prov. 5.12 13. 2. Don't rely on your own wisdom to be security to you from these abominations but endeavour to have your ways such as may please God Eccl. 7.22 Some are ready to say as Hazael are we Doggs that we should do such things and yet both do them and have pleasure in them that do them Yea though they know the Judgments of God against them who do such things Solomons Wisdom was no preventive grace it self is no preservative from foul acts of sin where persons are carnally confident of their own strength Peter after his boasts is so scared by a sorry damsâ—l that he denies Christ and Curses and Swears See that your wayes are well pleasing to God that you may be kept by the mighty power of God through faith to Salvation 3. Abstain from all appearance and leading causes to such sins don't come â—igh the door of her house don't be out in evenings among foolish vain jolly company when you should be in your Closets and on your knees before God Prov. 5.8 9. Prov. 4.14 1â— the young man spoken of Prov. 7.1 was going the way to her house in the black and dark night he is insnared Prov. 17.18 19 21. beware and take heed of Idleness as that which will occasion your sinning after this sort Usually Unclean persons are idle persons there was abundance of Uncleanness in Sodom and that because there was abundance of Idleness Ezek. 16.49 beware of drinking away your precious time Drunkenness ushers in Murder and