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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64959	The day of grace in which the chief of sinners may be turn'd and healed / by Nathanael Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1669 (1669)	Wing V406; ESTC R26347	73,032	192

THE Day of Grace In which the Chief of SINNERS MAY BE Turn'd and healed By Nathanael Vincent 2 Cor. 6. 2. Behold now is the accepted time Behold now is the day of salvation LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Golden Bible on London-Bridge next the Gate 1669. To the Reader 'T Is not at all improper to add a Treatise of the Day of Grace to a Discourse concerning Conversion This is the only time wherein he that turns will be accepted Oh therefore receive not the Grace of God in vain Though the sinner by his iniquity is removed far away from God the Gulph notwithstanding is not yet fixed We are cast out by Nature in a far Country indeed but this Country is not Hell though just upon the borders of Hell a return is possible unto our Fathers house and upon our return how joyfully shall we be embraced One principal reason why Time is so exceeding precious is because it contains the Day of Grace This present time though so very short is of greater value then an whole Eternity hereafter for then mercy will be out of reach and Reprobates unalterably concluded in sin and under the heavy load of divine vengeance and indignation This is the Day of thy gracious visitation Waste it not away in doing nothing or which is worse in doing wickedly for there is another day a coming which will be a day of darkness and of gloominess a day of distress and destruction if Grace and Salvation be neglected N. V. The Day of Grace Luke 19. 41 42. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes THe time was now approaching in which our Lord was to make his Soul an offering for sin and to testifie his love to his Sheep by laying down his life to redeem theirs from death which by going astray they had deserved And Jerusalem is appointed the Stage on which Christ was to act the greatest part both of sorrow and affection Well might he cry out Behold ye that pass by Was ever Grief and Was ever Love like Mine Unto Jerusalem he comes most willingly though he soresaw the Cross and shame The Head was forward to suffer himself that hereby the sufferings of the Members might be prevented And according as it was foretold by the Prophet his approach is not with outward pomp and splendour but he is meek and lowly riding upon an Asses Foal Thus he that thought it not robbery to be equal with God made himself of no reputation and humbled himself to this end that we might be raised and exalted When he was just at the descent of the Mount of Olives the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoyce and to praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen v. 37. They cry Hosanna to the Son of David and bless the King that cometh in the name of the Lord saying Peace in heaven and glory in the highest v. 38. Even through the darkest cloud of Christs Humiliation some beams and rayes of this Sun of Righteousness of this Lord of glory did break forth The Pharisees are offended at the Disciples acclamations and desire Jesus to rebuke them v. 39. Unto which unreasonable request of theirs he makes this reply That if these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out v. 40. As if he had said My Person my Doctrine my Actions my Wonders are so evident that they who are not as stupid as the stoues themselves must needs be convinced At last he comes within view of Jerusalem and the sight of this faithless ungrateful and obstinate City where so many Prophets had been kill'd and which now it self was so near to desolation raises a sorrow in his sacred breast so that in the midst of his Disciples triumph he bursts out into tears saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes Which words express how our Lord was affected towards Jerusalems Inhabitants His commiseration is very great and 't is joyned with a kind of exprobration or upbraiding of them he pitties their sad estate and upbraids their ignorance and folly in not minding the things which would have conduced to their peace and welfare The text may be thus divided 1. Our Saviour mourns When he came near he beheld and wept 2. The persons over whom The City of Jerusalem 3. The causes why and they are these 1. They know not no not they who had so much means of knowledge the things that belonged to their peace 2. They improved not but neglected Their day of visitation 3. This neglect and ignorance of theirs being wilful was punished with a greater degree of blindness Now they are hid from thine ●yes and that was a judgment most deplorable Beloved I am to speak-of the Day of Grade I wish you may all know the things which concern your peace else Jerusalems punishment may be also yours the day may be gone the lights of the Sanctuary may be put out and the things of your peace may be hid from your eyes I shall illustrate the words of the Text by this ensuing Commentary upon them And when he was come near he beheld the City The nearness of a miserable object does affect the sight and heart And as with his eyes he saw the City so by the eyes of Prophesie he saw the City besieged the enemy casting a trench about it and keeping it in on every side he foresaw how it would be laid even with the ground by Roman Armies and not so much as one stone left upon another And he wept over it These tears shewed the truth of his humane nature and how iniquity excepted he was in all things made like unto his brethren Our Lord could hunger and groan and weep and dye but sin indeed he could not Heb. 4. 15. It was the desire of Christ to execute th● office which his Father had put him in which was to be a Gatherer and a Saviour of the lost Sheep of the house of Israel But when he perceived those Sheep transformed into Wolves ready to devour their own Shepherd peremptorily resolved to perish and to refuse the salvation which he brought them 't is no wonder if he did not hold his tears Saying If thou hadst known even thou There is a mixture of grief and indignation in Christ at the ignorance and perversness of miserable Jerusalem and this made his speech to be abrupt and imperfect Calvin translates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O si cognovisses Our Lord wishes that they had known what so highly and nearly concerned them But 't is plainly implied that they knew not and this is that of which the Prophet long ago complained Isa 1. 3. The Ox