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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38163	Great salvation by Jesus Christ tenderd to the greatest of sinners and in particular to such as have been refusers of it, if God shall now at last make them willing to receive it / by Richard Eedes ...	Eedes, Richard, d. 1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing E243; ESTC R17583	114,819	292

as Saints upon a charitable account I meane how few do walk exactly according to the Gospel-rule that their conversation may be an ornament to the Gospel and a Gospel becoming conversation their light shining before men that others seeing their good works may be stirred up to glorify our Father which is in Heaven Though they will not be the Children of gross darkness by tumbling and wallowing in notoriousness yet they walke but as it were by moon-shine and star-light that it may be well doubted whether the day-starr from on high hath visited them or whether their Sun be risen to make them Children of the light and of the day They will not be perswaded to shine like lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation nor so farr as visible Christianity requires deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and live holily justly and soberly in this present word 3 And among these professors at large that are not so properly of as in the Church how many revolters and backsliders do go out from us dayly of such the Apostle saith They went out from us because they were not of us for if they had been of us they would have continued with us 1 Iohn 2.19 Mistake me not I do not go about to shake the certainly of the Saints perseverance nor assure the falling away of any of the called according to Gods purpose Because Christians secundùm dici such as have but a name to live may loose their seeming It will not thereupon follow that Christians s●cundùm esse true Israelites indeed can he pluckt out of Christs and the Fathers hand There are principia cognoscendi and essendi Christianity affords us principles of knowing and being and though titular Christians may fall from their Principles of knowing yet such as are really possest of invisible Christianity cannot fall from their being Principles The gifts and calling of God being without repentance Rom. 11.29 And whom he loveth he loveth to the end Iohn 13.1 But the heart of man being deceitfull and wicked above all things Jer. 17.9 Men may think that they are standing when it is no such thing 1 Cor. 10.12 And this evill heart of unbeleife will cause men to depart from the ever living God Heb. 3.12 Therefore I speake of revolters and Apostles some going out unto one sect and some unto another railing against the Church and like bastard children calling their Mother whore reproaching their Bretheren with whom they formerly walked in the house of God as freinds looking asquint upon them as unbaptized Heathens and branding them to be limbs of Antichrist and the Divel vilifying the Ordinances as if they were meere arbitrary things or might be used or refused at pleasure forsaking the publick assemblies of Gods people and preferring their own Conventicles before them which the Apostle makes the rod to that grand Apostacy of despighting the Spirit of grace and sinning the sin unto death Heb. 10.25 And reviling the Ministry wherein they act the parts of such sick patients as are frantick that abuse their Phisitian that comes in love to cure them And as those devouring gulphs of Schism and Heresy do swallow thousands so those other two of world and selfe do murder ten thousands How many serve the Gospel as Demas did Paul forsake the Gospel to Embrace the world and the Gospel must give them leave to make provisions for the flesh or else it is no Gospel for them This is an argument that they did never love God and Christ with the prevailing degree of their love nor preferre their interests above the interests of the world and flesh this shews that the number of such is very few whose hearts are whole with God and which behave themselves stedfastly in his Covenant and all this will appear to be but Gospel-refusing when we come to application To draw towards a conclusion of the Reasons we need not wonder that it pulls down States and unchurches Churches for it was the great Sin that drowned the old world and its the firebrand that shall set this on a flame The old was drowned because iniquity did abound and the flames of lust aid wax hot and the new shall be burned because iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall wax cold The old was destroyd because Noah a preachers of righteousness could not worke upon them and the new shall be destroyed because Gods messengers cannot winne upon them The words of the Gospel are plaine As it was in the dayes of Noah so shall it be in the dayes when the Son of man shall come for as in the dayes of Noah they were eating and drinking and marrying so in the last dayes the same sinns of gluttony and drunkeness and lust shall abound Mat. 24.37 38 39. So that this is the condemnation all along of States and Churches of Jews and Gentiles of the old World and new that light is come into the World and men love darkness more than light because their deeds are evil Joh. 3.19 In the 51. Psalme where David laments his twin-sin of adultery and bloud-guiltiness its worth our notice that towards the close of it he puts up this petition O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build up the walls of Jerusalem Sion signifying the Church and Jerusalem the state of Israel as some have noted his meaning amounts to this Lord do well unto Church and State though I by my double sin have done enough to undo both and all such as have been guilty of this sin of setting light by the Gospel had need to turn from it with all speed and to turn to God with the like petition Lord be mercifull to the State and Church whereof we are members for we have done enough to ruine both 1. USE Shall be for Information Is setting light by the Gospel so notorious a sin Is it a setting light by God the greatest good An undervaluing of the length and bredth and height and depth of his love Is it a setting light by Christ in all his offices of King Priest and Prophet Is it a resisting of the Spirit of God that strives with man in the Ministry of the Gospel Is it 1. An Accumulated Sin 2. an Aggravated Sin 3. a State destroying Sin 4. a Church confounding Sin Then it behoves all such as live within the Call of the Gospel and within reach of the beams of this Sun to make diligent enquiry what this sin is and our use of Information shall be framed of purpose to give satisfaction to such an enquiry Besides what may be gathered by intent and meditational Readers from the handling of the Doctrine concerning the nature of this sin I shall further inform you in three particulars wherein this sin of neglecting so great Salvation doth mostly consist 1. In taking no care about it 2. In taking but little care conjunct with greater cares 3. In not making it our greatest care 1. In taking no care about it To live as if to mind

worthy the glory which shal be revealed When we are inticed to sin let us sit down and count the cost it may cost our lives it may cost our precious Souls it may loose us Heaven and Salvation for eternity and when we are discouraged in the waies of God in laying out our selves to be wail our sins to treasure up grace to perform duty and not be weary of well doing to suffer patiently whatsoever can befall us for Christ's sake then let us sit down and count our gain It will make us live comfortably it will give us hope in death it will give us boldness in Judgement it will save us from hell it will advance us to Heaven To wind up all let me speak close to you as once Paul did to Agrippa as if he would offer violence to force his belief O Agrippa believest thou the Scriptures I know thou believest you that have read or heard these Lines do you believe these things I know you believe them they are so set out in the demonstration of the Spirit and in power that you cannot gain-say them and if you cannot contradict them will you not believe them 1. Do you believe Gospel-Salvation to be great Salvation The Angels believe it and admire it 1 Pet. 1.12 The Saints believe it and adore it Revel 5.11 13. The number of them that gave glory to God was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands and every creature in Heaven and earth and sea were heard to say Blessing Honour Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lambe for ever and ever The Devils believe and envy it The damned believe it and the loss of it is that never-dying worm that renders them restless and whether you will now believe it or no the time is coming when you will believe and confess it with hearts as full of anguish as ever they can hold O believe it now and be happy for ever and the Lord help your unbelief and make you believers by the exceeding greatness of his Omnipotent Power and according to the working of his mighty power Oh that the King of Saints would command those everlasting doors of your understandings and wills to be opened to give entrance to the King of glory that you may imbrace and receive thankfully this great Salvation that you may live and dye upon the faithfulness and truth of that acceptable and accepted saying That Jesus Christ came into the World to save sinners 2. Do you believe Gospel neglecting to be great sin Those that are truely inlightned touched with the fear of God do think so those that are under the convictions and compunctions of the Spirit of bondage for this sin do think so they are ready to depend and give up themselves as lost and utterly undone under the load of it this is still ready at hand to make up the sum totall of their confessions we have added to all our transgressions of thy law this Monster that we have resisted and slighted thy gracious Gospel Against thee thee have we sinned and done this evil O be mercifull to our sin to this of all sins for it is great The infinite mercy of God and merit of Christ and mighty Spirit of grace and adoption revealing offering and applying that mercy and merit as balsome to the wounded Spirit hath much ado to bear it up from sinking under so insupportable a burden Inlightned sinners will believe it at the last when they are under the arrest of death then they will be ready with Cain and Spira to fill all the ears about them with their despairing complaints then they could seek the blessing with tears as Esau did could be content to fill heaven and earth with their roarings if that would help them Believe it Sirs the Devil that tempts you to make light of this Salvation now and presents it as a Molehill will then turn the other end of the prospective and make it as bigg as a Mountain and perswade you it is greater than that it can be forgiven How much better were it that you should now believingly receive in this truth in the power of it that where sin hath abounded grace may super-abound and that you may in time leave and loath this sin before it be your everlasting undoing 3. Do you believe that Great Damnation remains for such as dye in this sin that the wrath of God abides on them here and a sorer punishment and more fiery indignation will abide on them if conversion prevent not world without end Those that are in hell already do believe it yea they know not how to evade the believing it They do curse those Mountebank Preachers that heal mens wound with oyly words that speak Placentia things that may please itching ears rather than things that may profit unbelieving hearts Yea they do charge it heavily upon their deceiv'd own deceitful hearts that when they heard the words of the Curse and threats of Damnation caused them to bless themselves in their cursed practises though they added drunkenness to thirst and Gospel-refusing to Law-transgressing till all curses written and unwritten came in tumbling upon them like mighty waters How much better were it for men to carry about with them a hell in their consciences than to be carryed captive by the Devils into this hell of torments How much easier were it for them to descend every day into hell by meditation than at their dying day to be doom'd unto hell by condemnation Pliny writes of the Lions whelps that he is at first much given to Sleeping but being once awakened scared with the hideous roaring of the old Lion sleeps ever after with his eyes open The application is to our present purpose very pertinent Those that set light by Salvation are much given to sleeping they hear in the Text Damnation thundred out against such sleepers like the roaring of a Lion Rampant I heartily wish that this use may be made of it that our consciences may be so throughly awakened to see our sin and danger and duty that we may alwaies sleep with the eye of conscience open and that we may resolve not to suffer our eyes to sleep nor our eye-lids to slumber nor the temples of our heads to take any rest till we have made this great sin our great Lamentation till we have great and grounded probability of escaping this great Damnation and till we have believed and prayed and lived our selves into some setled and imfalliable perswasions of our obtaining of this great Salvation All which the Lord give grace unto his chosen people effectually to perform for his great names sake for his beloved Sons sake for his gracious Spirits sake And the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all 2 Cor. 13.14 Amen Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end Amen FINIS