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A97266	Self-examination with the likeliest means of conversion and salvation, or, haypy [sic] and welcome advice, if it meets with a soul ingenious : the which being thought (by many) worth the transcribing, at no small charge, is now published for the good of all / by R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1663 (1663)	Wing Y181A; ESTC R43839	23,147	32

engagements CHAP. II. BUt wo is me How few of us are the better for all Yea what eyes can but run over to see for the most part what lives men lead The Holy Ghost tells us in the Word and we hear the same daily That every man shall be judged according to his works be they good or evil Rev. 20.13 That we shall give an account at the day of judgment for every idle word we speak Matth. 12.36 That there needs no other cause of our last and heaviest Doom then ye have not given ye have not visited c. Matth. 25.41 to 46. That the righteous shall scarcely be saved 1 Pet. 4.18 That many shall seek to enter in at the strait gate and shall not be able Luke 13.24 That no unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdom of God but shall have their part and portion in that Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death 1. Cor. 6.9 10 Gal. 5.21 Revel 21.8 That except our righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees who were no mean men for outward and formal performances we shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. 4.20 And that without holiness no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 Yet most men live as if the Gospel were quite contrary to the rule of the Law as if God were neither to be feared nor cared for as if they were neither beholding to him nor stood in awe of him both out of his debt and danger Yea as if there were no God to judge nor Hell to punish nor Heaven to reward I cannot think of it without astonishment Neither would men speak as they speak think as they think do as they do if they thought that their thoughts words and deeds should ever come to judgment Yea hear O heavens be astonished O earth and horribly afraid that such a Nation so blest and so long forborn should be so foolish and ingratefull as thus to requite the Lord. As consider with me God of his goodness hath bestowed so many and so great mercies upon us that it is not possible to express his bounty therein For if we look inward we finde our Creators mercies if we look upward his mercy reacheth unto the Heavens if downward the Earth is full of his goodness and so is the broad Sea if we look about us what is it that he hath not given us air to breathe in fire to warm us water to cool and cleanse us cloaths to cover us food to nourish us fruits to refresh us yea delicates to please us beasts to serve us Angels to attend us Heaven to receive us and which is above all Himself and his own Son to be enjoyed of us Yea God of his goodness hath removed so many evils from us and conferred so many good things upon us that they are beyond thought or imagination For if the whole World were turned into a Book and all the Angels deputed Writers therein they could not set down all the good which Gods love in Christ hath done us And as much do we owe unto God for the dangers from which he delivers us As for the great wealth and dignities whereunto he hath always raised us Now we are infinitely bound to bless God for his external temporal inferior earthly perishing benefits How much more then should we praise him for the lasting fruits of his eternal love and mercy as that we are not at this present frying in Hell flames never to be freed that we have the offer of Heaven and eternal salvation How thankful should we strive to be Nor could we possibly be unthankful if we seriously thought upon what God gives and what he forgives And certainly if a friend had given us but a thousand part of what God hath we should heartily love him all our lives and think no thanks sufficient But that we may the better consider what God hath done for us observe that when man was in a most miserable and undone condition by reason of original and actual sin and of the curse due to both being liable to all miseries in this life and adjudged to suffer eternal torments in hell fire after death having no possibity to escape the fierce wrath of Almighty God who had already passed sentence upon him When neither Heaven Earth nor Hell could have yielded any satisfactory thing besides Christ that could have satisfied Gods justice and merited Heaven for us Then O then God in his infinite wisdom and goodness did not onely find out a way to satisfie his justice and the Law but even gave us his own Son out of his bosom and his Son gave himself to die even the most shameful painful and cursed death of the Cross to redeem us that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3.16 A mercy bestowed and a way found out that may astonish all the sons of men on earth and Angels in Heaven Wherefore O wonder at this you that wonder at nothing that the eternal God should die to redeem our worse then lost souls that we might not die eternally and to bring salvation to us even against our wills 2 Cor. 8.9 O the deepness of Gods love O the unmeasurable measure of his bounty O Son of God who can sufficiently admire thy love or commend thy pity or extol thy praise It was a wonder that thou madest us for thy self more that thou madest thy self man for us but most of all that thou shouldest unmake thy self that thou shouldest die to save us But behold and stand amazed at the return we make of so many mercies For whereas God hath removed so many evils spiritual and corporal temporal and eternal from us and conferred so many good things upon us we by way of requital have striven to multiply offences against him and to make them as infinite in number as his blessings Loth I am to accuse my Nation but Conscience compels me for we are so far from loving and serving Christ for his unspeakable and unexpressible love towards us that what he commands we do the contrary Yea we have done nothing from our infancy but added sin unto sin as God hath added mercy to mercy There is no part power function or faculty either of our souls or bodies that is not become a ready instrument to dishonour their Maker Even every part dishonours Christ which yet would be glorified of him And as if we had contracted with the Devil that we would abuse all our heavenly Fathers gifts so fast as they come his blessings make us proud his riches covetous his peace wanton his meats intemperate his mercy secure and all his benefits serve us but as weapons to rebel against him As we have been fatted with Gods blessings we have spurned at his precepts Resembling the Leopard who wrongs him most that gives him most fodder O my brethren Englands unthankfulness hath striven ven with Gods goodness for the