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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15826	The saints sufferings, and sinners sorrowes. Or, The evident tokens of the salvation of the one, and the perdition of the other Phil. I.28, 2 Thes. I.6,7	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.	1631 (1631)	STC 26087; ESTC S101332	67,289	372

time for thou knowest not when thy appearance shall be he deliver thee to the Iudge the Iudge to the laylor the laylor to the prison where thou must lye for ever But in the close of this verse and that which followeth mention is made of the true cause of all this misery that is especially the disobedience of the Gospel The Law is added as a light of former sinnes consisting of impiety against God and cruelty against man The Iewes crucified Christ a legall sinne but they crucified themselves in rejecting his bloud and the Gospell that offered them pardon for that sinne and all others The fault was foule enough to murther Christ but to murther their soules in denying salvation by his blood was of all sinnes the greatest They are branded for ungodly persons by the testimony of the Law and their owne wicked actions of Idolatrie and obstinacy They are sinners deepe seyzed in singular bloodshed and butchery of Christ and his Saints but the transcendent sinne is here fairely characterized by a speciall act and by a speciall object The act is Evangelicall disobedience and the object the Gospell it selfe The Gospell In giving the Gospell to a Nation it is more than he does to all Nations where the Gospell is given faith and obedience are but given to some in that Nation The Gospell distinguisheth Nations faith and the gift thereof the men that professe it Grace is given where it is not received Given to a Nation of which it may more easily bee rejected than embraced Psal 147.19 20. here the Word is not revealed alike to all Psal 81.11 here rejected by them to whom it was given Psal 119.70 Davids heart being pined with want takes pleasure in the Word others having their hearts fat and greasie despise it Isai 6.9 10. Men have hearts too fatte to beleeve eares too heavy to heare and eyes closed up from seeing The Gospell is as strange to some that heare it as those that never heard it Hos 8.12 Christ came to his owne and yet was not owned by them Iohn 1.11 Some received him vers 12. when the nation rejected him These 1. had power to beleeve 2. to receive 3. to be sonnes In the mysteries of the Gospell prudent men come short of Infants Luke 10.12 and receive in parrables what others receive in power Luke 8.10 yea finde that savour death unto death which to others is life unto life 2 Cor. 2.15 16. Gods free Grace Shall wee say this is the worke of our owne wils and the good use of our owne freedome This were to render more than wee receive and to glory in our owne power and praise Thus to differ were to disgrace the Gospell that grants unto us deliverance from enemies and obedience unto friends Luke 1.74 Our good friends in heaven mutually conspired our victory and obedience God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost bound not up the hands of our enemies but gave us also hearts to obey for this gift 1 Cor. 4.7 presseth upon the pride of us all Physically Politically Theologically Who made man or man to differ from a beast He were a beast that would not acknowledge God for the Author of both Who raiseth man to honour or distinction of civill order Surely the same God that made him preferres him But above all grace is least in our command and most in the power of God nay wholly from him as appeares by the gift of faith a new principle nature never acknowledged by righteousnesse a purchase that never came out of our vertues by holynesse a worke not of our wils but the sanctifying Spirit Faith is a firme principle of the Gospell and keepes us by the power of God and not our owne unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 I know what advantage is taken Ier. 32.40 by turning the text from They shall not depart into They may not depart Loath the words should be more peremptory than possible Possible they would have it runne and then raise their answer against Gods grace that faith or feare is not so certainely placed in the heart but as it may stay so depart if wee will forward either God puts in our hearts a new principle and that for this end that we might bee assured of the new Covenant and of our cleaving to God and therefore fuller assurance than of a possibilitie and power in our selves The Legall and Evangelicall principles of well living as we shall afterwards declare differ much in nature office and end God by originall righteousnesse left man to the tryall of his owne power But by Faith or the new principle hath cast man upon himselfe and a holy and happy dependencie upon his power for salvation The Gospel is his best law for life and surest power of God Rom. 1.16 to save him yet with this caution that wee beleeve Promises are generall and must bee received as they are propounded Faith makes them particular to us and in our deeds and determinations wee may presume no further than the generall evidence applied we must silence all search of further secrets and Gods will revealed must bee our rule and to reach higher by his decrees is to outreach our selves and rove about the truth If any say why have some the Gospel and not Faith I silence his presumption with Gods freedome and say why hath hee either His Gospell is a pledge of his love and thy faith of his favour thou hast no wrong whē he counts thee worthy of neither If he have a list to leave thee an Infidel thou art but thy selfe His Law containes wonders and workes them daily in preaching All heare the same word yet have not the same affection Hee speakes too boldly of Gods counsels that will reason by our dispositions O the depth of the riches both of the wisedome and wayes of God! His judgements must bee past our finding and fadoming Wee must feare to search too much and take heed of an evill eye because his is good Hee cals and commands by his word and of them he chooseth as few or many as hee pleaseth Hee makes some last in Vocation first in Election some he cals first that hee never chooseth The Iewes by Peter in my text are divided and the nation differenced in receiving and rejecting the Gospell 70. Famous yeeres Foure things would further bee unfolded 1. the time of this end 2. the persons 3. the judgement 4. the cause The time is the last yeere or at least the last weeke of the 70. weekes of Daniel Dan. 9.24 The Gentiles Luke 21.24 have times to fulfill and from former times they come to latter times 1 Tim. 4.1 which divide themselves Dan. 7.25 12.7 Rev. 12.14 into a time times and halfe a time So the Iewes have the like account and computation and falling upon their last times have them by Daniel determined in the number of 70. weekes These make seaven points or periods of their time every period containing 70. yeares and six of

cause and not to cast away his confidence in the evill houre of tentation for the Devill will put hard to perswade him that hee is in worse case than other men and more hated of God because his hand is heavier upon him But know that in chastisements God begins with his best servants who therefore must take it as an argument of his love Sinners Sorrow Where God begins to judge hee makes not there an end The end of Iudgement is wofull and the last lash of Gods scourge workes the bitterest smart In the disobedient or rebellious here mentioned wee have a terrible patterne for ungodly men The Iewes wished the blood of Christ to be upon them and their children Reade but their end in story and it will suffice to move a heart of flint and make us compassionate to desperate sinners Besides this their end was eternall perdition for that is the end of ungodly men disobeying the Gospel It is noted in story that when the Romans had slaine a great number of them upon the bankes of Iordan and tumbled their carkeises into the river they never left swimming till they fell into the lake of Sodom where they were buried as in a grave a tipe of the sinking of their soules into the gulfe of hell for St. Iohn living to see their miserable end turnes the stile of hell and tearmes it the lake of fire and brimstone Rev. 19.20 where I beleeve that he alludes to this fearefull presage of the Iewes eternall perdition The better to conceive of the end mentioned in the text let us consult with our Saviour who by the end understands the destruction of Ierusalem Matth. 24.6.13.14 The end is not yet that is with the first signes foregoing Ierusalems destruction He that endures to the end shall be saved i.e. he that houlds out in other signes of persecution scandall apostacy shall bee saved even temporally when the end of Ierusalem is come as all the Christians were being warned by a voyce from heaven to remoove to Pella Then shall the end come that is no sooner shall the Gospell bee preached to the Gentiles and the Iewes rejected but the Romane Army shall come and destroy Ierusalem Dan. 9.26 Messiah being once cut off from the Iewes they shall no longer bee his people but another that he will choose shall come and spread over them the wing of abomination Notwithstanding with many shall he confirme his covenant and by seaven yeares labour gather a Church amongst the Iewes which hee will save when hee suffers the rest to perish This is likewise the end which Peter mentioneth vers 7. before the text by consideration whereof he exhorteth the Christian Iewes to sobriety watchfulnesse and prayer Iohn out living this Apostle points it out by an houre 1 Iohn 2.18 This example of the end of the Iewish Nation must become a rule to all Nations to take heed of rebellion against the Gospell God that spared not the Iewes will spare none that long provoke his patience And here let us observe foure things 1. All the wicked must have an end and that first of Gods patience 2. of their pleasures 3. of their lives God will not alwaies beare the reproaches of sinners neither shall they alwayes injoy their pleasures which at the best are but pleasures of sinne for a season and with their naturall lives all their jollities in this world come to their period 2. The end of the wicked is miserable for when it commeth it lasteth and continueth one misery overtaketh an other they must drinke and be drunke and spue and fall and rise no more Ier. 25.27 Neither can they refuse to drinke because Gods people have drunke before them And if they drinke whose sinnes are pardoned then such as have no pardon must needs have judgement endlesse easelesse and remedilesse Now the misery of this end of the wicked consists 1. In the extreamity of it hence compared to unquenchable fire utter darkenesse the never dying worme and everlasting perdition 2. In the place called hell a prison tartarus gehenna and bottomlesse pit Hell is beneath all comfort a prison is a streight custody of the soule tartarus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a place of horror and fearefull spectacles Gehenna a vally where Idolaters burnt their children with fire and to prevent all pitty drum● were beaten up to drowne the horrible hideous cryes of Infants No pitty in hell for all the yelling of damned spirits a bottomlesse pit out of which the damned shall never bee able to creepe or craule 3. In their lamentation they shall weepe their bellies full and bee never the better To weeping they shall adde wailing wringing of hands and the height of their lamentation shall be gnashing of teeth Their teeth shall chatter as if extremity of cold chilled them much weeping cools the heart daunts the spirits and sets the whole body in a shaking Such cooling shal the wicked finde in the hottest fire 3. Though the damned feele exquisite torments yet they shall never know their full extremity Peter stands amazed in expressing their end and smothers the terrour under a question as unutterable What shall the end be Good men can fathom the depth of their sorest calamities and Peter here determines their crosses with a beginning but when hee commeth to decipher the end of the wicked as being at a non plus hee stops the currant of his discourse and conceales the rest under a cloud of admiration A wicked mans end is unknowne from the capacity of the subject he shall never know what his strength is able to beare He might count himselfe happy if hee were as a stone in a rocke of flint which as it tasteth no joy so feeles no paine 2. It is not to bee expressed for the extremity of the torment So that a wicked man shall never know his worst 3. It cannot be knowne for the perpetuity of it whence wee may say of their torments as of the joyes of heaven The eye of man never saw them yea such as the eare hath not heard nor which surpasseth the highest straine they never entred into the heart of man which of all things created approacheth neerest to an infinite nature 4. That which shall bee knowne shall be enough to crush and confound every wicked sinner He shall not know where to appeare or hide his head Happy man if the mountaines would overlay and the rocks crush him in pieces no burthen would then be too heavy no waight or pressure too painefull no punishment too great that would shelter him from the piercing eye and revenging stroke of his angry judge Alasse how can men living contest with the Almighty outface his word outbrave his justice who when they are dead cannot brooke the frowne of his countenance nor put to silence the voyce of despaire I should now conclude this point with the counsell of Christ Math. 5.25 Agree with thy adversary quickely whilst thou art in the way least at any