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A59748 A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. William Ladson, Junior, at Tichmarsh in the county of Northampton by William Sheppard ... Sheppard, William, d. 1675? 1694 (1694) Wing S3220; ESTC R9656 20,694 29

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will have a Christ take him now before the evil days come Old Age is called evil days when you will not be so fit to seek him Now you are more fit to read the Scriptures than when your eyes are dim and you cannot see Now you are more fit to pray than when your knees are stiff and will not bend Prov. 6. 6 7 8 9. God sends thee to the Ant to get Wisdom The Ant Provides her meat in the Summer against Winter thy youth is thy Summer if thou wilt have a Christ get him now in thy youth Eccles 11. 9. Rejoyce O Young Man in thy Youth and let thine heart chear thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the sight of thine eyes and in the way of thine heart but know thou that for these things God will bring thee into Judgment God by this Ironical expression would turn young ones hearts from their sins to himself As if God had said Young Men if you think it your best way to go on in your sins and to walk in the ways of your own hearts go on but be it at your own peril for know ye that I will bring you to Judgment for all your ways and doings Consider how you shall be able to stand before me in judgment for these ways you now walk in and how you shall come off in that day There will be no standing for you without a Christ in that day Art thou a young one that readest these lines then remember that now is thy time to get a Christ but it may be Satan and thy Companions tell thee thou art young and needest not trouble thy self about these things yet but mayest follow thy pleasures and have time enough to get a Christ seven years hence mark what God says to this Prov. 27. 1. Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth If you will have a Christ take him to day make sure of him to day go and cry to God for him to night thou knowest not but thou mayest be in Hell before to morrow Remember the Man in the Gospel Luke 12. 19 20. who talked of many years but God said to him Thou Fool this Night shall thy Soul be required of thee Oh it is folly and madness to put off the getting of Christ 'till to morrow There is great danger in delaying 1. It is a certain danger You that are the youngest are every moment liable to the stroke of Death You may talk of living many years but what is your life but a Vapour that appeareth but for a little time and then vanisheth away James 4. 13 14. 2. Here may be sudden danger Job 21. 13. They spend their days in Wealth in Mirth and in a moment go down to the Grave Young ones consider this seriously what a dangerous thing it is to be Christless you may live in mirth and pleasure and have nothing trouble you but this doth not secure you from the grave Death comes of a sudden and knocks you down and you fall down in a moment not only into the Grave but if you be Christless into Hell-fire 1 Thes 5. 3. when they shall say Peace and safety sudden destruction cometh upon them as travel upon a Woman with Child and they shall not escape Mark this young one thou mayst flatter thy self saying thou shalt have peace and mercy but thou art never the better for flattering thy self for this will not help thee to escape nay thou art the worse for thou art in the greater danger For when is the time that destruction cometh The Text answers it and tells you the destruction cometh when they flatter themselves with false peace The Man in the Gospel promised himself many years but God brands him for a Fool for it This Night shall thy Soul be required of thee Who shall require his Soul the Devils they come and claim him because he is theirs not having an interest in Jesus Christ Take him Devils Devils take this Christless Soul away to Hell with it 3. It will be irrecoverable danger If thou art taken by Death out of Christ thy danger is irrecoverable thou enterest upon a state that is unchangeable that is if thou hast not got a Christ then there will be no getting him for ever there will be no change of your state for ever if then Christless you shall be for ever Christless therefore it is a dangerous thing to be found out of Christ Young one consider and lay it to heart Job 14. 14. if a Man dye shall he live again that is If things are amiss with him when he dyes shall he come into this World again to mend them If a Man dyes out of Christ shall he come again to get him No no therefore saith Job all my days I will wait prepare provide for my change by Death As the Tree falls so it lies as a Man's state is when Death comes so it finds and leaves him and as Death leaves him so Judgment finds him and so Sentence passeth upon him for ever Then the Sinner if it be not seared and past feeling will cry Lord give me a Christ mercy Lord I will have a Christ now let my sins go now Lord now I will be godly No now it is too late now the Lord proceeds to the Sentence if the Soul be in Christ happy is it then the Sentence is Come ye blessed enter into the Kingdom if the Soul be out of Christ then miserable for ever then the Sentence is Depart Cursed into Everlasting Fire with the Devil and his Angels Mat. 25. 41. Depart from me O this is dreadful though the Sinner doth not value God's presence now it will be for his presence then O Lord thy presence is the only happiness I had better never have been born than shut out of thy presence Lord if I must depart from thee bless me before I go No depart Cursed cursed Lord if I must depart let me go into some good place No depart Cursed into Everlasting Fire Lord then let me have some good Company No depart with the Devil and his Angels Devils and Damned Wretches shall be your Companions You were not for the Company of the Godly in the World but were for the Company of the Wicked therefore Devils and Damned ones shall be your Company in Hell then you will cry But Lord if I must go to such a miserable place and Company let it be but for a little time No depart Cursed into Everlasting Fire You were never weary of sinning therefore there shall never be end of your misery Oh this word will break the heart never never never You shall burn and be tormented burn and roar burn and howl ever ever ever There the Worm dyeth not there the Fire is not quenched Mark 9. 43 44. O therefore young ones look about you and labour to get a Christ while you may is not this good news that there is yet a
down dead immediately they fall into Hell and there are crying and roaring scrieching and howling cursing and banning Oh! hath my secure Godless life brought me hither Hath my false peace brought me hither Is this the end of my Christless Prayerless Life O that I had spent all my days and nights in the World in mourning for my sins crying for a Christ O that I had been a Dog or a Toad then when I had dyed my misery had been ended but now this is but the beginning of my woe which will never end Man Woman Child that readest these Lines do these things affect thy heart and bring thee down at the foot of Christ O labour to do now as thou wilt then wish that thou hadst done or as damned Souls now wish that they had done 6 Deluding Hopes Now the Word tells Men and Ministers tell them of their danger and call upon them to seek a Christ repent believe be godly but they flatter themselves and they have sometimes some convictions and stirrings in their Souls but they lick themselves whole with false hopes we hope we may be saved without so much adoe God is merciful Christ dyed for Sinners Is not this thycase thou that readest these lines Know thou that these are but vain hopes as long as thou art out of Christ and these hopes of thine will fail thee Hear what God saith about it It is not I but God that speaks it Prov. 11. 7. When a wicked Man dyeth his expectation shall perish And the hope of unjust Men perisheth Hear this Sinner old or young thou mayst keep thy false hope as long as thou livest but thou canst keep it no longer Job 11. 20. The eyes of the Wicked shall fail and they shall not escape and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost O what terrour this speaks to Christless Souls The giving up of the ghost is sudden in a moment so these false hopes when Death comes shall be gone in a moment The Life is not given up without great pain so when these false hopes are gone the Soul will be full of horrour the Soul and Body part and never meet here more to live in this World so then Sinners lose their hopes and shall never have hope more Then Oh what cries and howlings will there be that the hopes are gone and gone for ever Oh the cries and howlings I was told of this but I mad wretch would not believe it but I see now I am most miserable Now I have no hope of a dram of Mercy for ever As it was with Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. 31 32 33 34. Israel fled at their cry when they went down into the Pit It is now with Men and Women as it was with them in the days of Noah Mat. 24. 37 38 39. They were eating drinking marrying 'till Noah entred into the Ark and the floud came and took them all away Noah was a Preacher of Righteousness moved with fear prepared an Ark gave them warning but they would not take warning what cryes do you think there were when the Floud came Then they would have got into the Ark but could not they might climb upon Trees or Mountains but all in vain Sinners are now warned by the preachers of the word to get into the Ark Christ but will not Oh then the horror when the deluge of misery overflows them I might have had the Ark Christ and would not What cries were there in Sodom when the Storm of Brimstone and Fire came upon them Oh the cries and howlings when you are tormented with fire and brimstone in Hell Oh mad Wretch I was offered a Christ and I would not Now you say let us say what we will you will hope if it were not for hope the heart would break now your false hopes keep your hearts whole but then your hearts will break in pieces and break for ever Vse 2. Be Exhorted then to get a Christ while you may To the Old To the Young 1. To the Old You are greatly concern'd to get a Christ you cannot have much time before you you have one foot in the Grave therefore you have need to bestir you Ecl. 11. 8. If a Man live many years and rejoice in them all yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many The days of darkness which follow shall be more than the years of joy which went before Hosea 7. 9 10. It is said of Ephraim Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not yea gray hairs are here and there upon him yet he knoweth not And they do not return to the Lord nor seek him for all this Oh what a wretched thing is this Strange lusts strange practices strange ways are found with him Gray hairs Old Age is found with him yet he considers it no What an Old Man and a graceless Man an Old Man and yet a prayerless Man and yet not seek the Lord for a Christ What a vile thing is this what a miserable condition is this Isa 65. 20. The Sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed What a miserable case is this for a Man to have many years given him to get a Christ in and yet at last dye Christless he must needs be cursed When Alexander Besieged a City he was wont to set up an inch of Candle and if they came in and made their peace in that time well and good if not there was no quarter for them Just so it is here with you Old Men you have an inch of time given you to get a Christ and Mercy if you now get a Christ make your peace with God while this inch of time lasts happy are you but if not there is no peace to be made for you no Christ to be had nor mercy for ever O therefore as you love your Souls close in with the Apostle's Councel Heb. 3. 7. To day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts This is the voice of God to you get a Christ to day Christ offers himself to you if you will take him take him to day cry to God for him and if you do not it is the hardness of your hearts And that is an hard heart indeed that will not have a Christ when offered to him though he must be damned for ever without him Jerom said Whether I eat or drink or sleep methinks I hear the Trumpet sound Arise ye dead and come to Judgment Old ones let this awaken you to set to your work speedily and ply it in good earnest day and night to get a Christ while you may and account it infinite mercy that it is not too late 2. To the Young Now the Lord speaks to you labour to get a Christ while you may Eccles 12. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth remember to get Christ now in thy Youth God saith Now do not drive it off 'till hereafter If you