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A90059	The sinners hope: as his priviledge, and duty, in his worst condition, stated, cleared, and improved. Tending as well to the startling and inviting of the wicked from his sinfull and wretched course, upon the conditionall hopes that are layd out for him; as the confirming and directing of the truly humble and weak Christian in his duty and comfort, in the severall cases of darkness, sin, and affliction. Being the substance of severall sermons, / preached by Henry Newcome, M.A. and one of the ministers of the Gospell, at Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster.	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing N899; Thomason E1764_2; ESTC R209655	106,234	225

they tell him he is in the way To be cast behind and loose the way were sad but this is comfortable that others can say I left him on the road he is in the right way though he drive somewhat heavily And when he is gotten to the City he forgets soon his lesse pleasant Travell he is glad he is There and they that rid faster easier can be no more So though thou thinkest others out goe thee in gifts parts and abilities for service yet Thou art in the road and if at last thou overtake Them in Heaven it will serve thy turne Thou may be as welcome at thy journeys end as he that came thither with more State and ease Then thou hast done 10. If thou hadst comfort it should not be to set thee at Liberty ease and idlenesse He that would faine have assurance That hee might unyoke in his Christian Course doth not desire it aright nor is like To have it surely thou must labour as much from comfort to improve it as Thou dost for comfort to attaine at Labour we must and Therefore resolve in it and patiently wait in this good way It is a great question whether be the harder work to get or to use comforts aright to keep from impatience in the want of them or security in the enjoyment of Them Each condition hath its Excercise Though the former hath lesse hazard in it It may suffice to have said all this to the clearing of the hopes in respect of comfort to those that are thus spiritually tosled at their first setting out CAP. X. The doubtfull cases of such as have made longer Profession briefly distressed from the Observation 2. TO those that have made longer profession that are walking in darknesse and have no light Many of these are severally troubled in doubts a bout their Estate This doctrine seasonably presses them to hope and it would find matter for them in their severall capacities but to speak to these particularly would swe the discourse I shall therefore speak something in the generall and the Spirit of God is able to melt it into the particular conditions of trobled Souls that are of this sort And soe 1. Take notice That whatever was urged as a ground of Hope to the prophane belongs to you much more You are as near as one of them if all be to begin now Thou cryest out of an Hypocrite as if his condition was worse then any one 's But 1. Take notice Every one is not an hypocrite that only wants strong grace many they try themselves for the truth of grace by the signs of the degrees of grace True grace is one thing and strong grown grace is another 2. He is not an Hypocrite that is not a compleat Christian A Christian may be in preparation for Christ and if not throughly come over yet still he is no impostor onely in the way to a true setled state 3. He is not an Hypocrite that hath some hypocrysie in him None complain so of a bad heart as they who have the best Heart But if Hypocrysie be found amongst other sins If it be not allowed nor ontertained with delight The soul shall not be accounted with as the Abettor of such a way Gal. 2.12.13 Peter for once dissembled yet not an Hypocrite for so doing 2. Though thou be an Hypocrite yet there is hope for thee what though nothing but an outside profession For that string many one is harpning on yet sure thou art as near as the Drunkard profane person can be Never tell me that profession should hinder you in your coming to Christ Athanasius wished all men were Hypocrites That they had been all so good as Hipocrites are For God hath more examplary honour from externall conformity then from open prophaness And further it cannot hinder your coming in 1. Profession hath kept you from many grosse sins which would have been heavy on you if now to reckon for Alas if thoughts of Evill have been so tedious to you what then would you have done if these thoughts had been words and these Words actions Therefore your profession hath not hindered you thus far 2. Profession hath intituled you to many serious Christians who would not cease to pray for you and would not easily lay their hands off you for the Hopes they once had of you you are hereby drawn to Gods children who will be sure to stick close to you and pull hard before they loose you 3. Profession hath inured you to the means This is the way to get comfort many a startled soul knows not dutys nor how to frame to them But now profession hath taught thee the manner of the God of the land and in this thou art aforehand For this is the way to have comfort or have the Heart brought over if yet thou fall short in this work Many a new convert knows not how to set upon the duties of Religion whence he might receive strength and comfort which is a great disadvantage to him Now thy profession befriends thee with this benefit Thou art well used to Prayer and reading and hearing c. which is a good Thing before hand in this matter 4. All the danger in profession this very fear of thine about it takes away That Hypocrites are in more danger then others is not as if this sin was more unlike to be pardoned then another but because this kind of Sinners seldome or never repent and come in as other sinners do Hypocrysie hinders not pardon so oft as it hinders repentance Now if this be thy fear and thy burthen there is not this danger of thee Profession if not sincere it is dangerous only in this when it is rested on when it is made a Christ when men are thereby whole and need not the Physitian and so are hindred from comming to Christ for thorough healing But when the soul is sensible of it and strives to come to Christ notwithstanding it there is no incapacity upon it more then on any other state for its acceptance with Christ The Harlots and Publicans that enter into the kingdome of Heaven before Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 21.31 It is not meant of Heaven above for Scribes and Pharisees as such and Harlots and Publicans as such stand at an equall distance to glory A prophane man dying so cannot be saved no more then an Hypocrite that dies so But the Kingdome of Heaven is taken here as frequently in the N. T. For the Kingdome of Grace for the Kingdome of the Gospel and so the meaning of it is Harlots and Publicans are sooner converted brought to repentance to close with the Gospell-Kingdome then the other are Now this doth not imply that no Pharisees should come in nor that they should be esse welcome if they did come in then Harlots and Publicans Nay sure if professors come to Christ to deny their own Righteousnesse come off the condition that it is so hard to come off from

be found against thee to make thee stoop and be beholden dearly to a little hope Alas take carnall hearts in the wholes and there is nothing between them and the greatest terrour imaginable but a little blindness and ignorance of their miserable condition If you did but see your selves just as you are it is well if you could hope assure your selves the root of terrour and anguish is in you and that some are troubled it is not because their conditions are not so good as yours but their Consciences are more tender and they cannot swallow a bad and fearfull state as you can the matter of all terrour is ready with thee thou artready charged it is but Gods priming and putting fire to and thou needs not stir a foot to fetch in misery unutterable all thy mirth may be at an end there is enough done nothing but the dropping of a Scale from thine eye and thy Flames are ready about thee 2. Thou mayst be glad of the news of hope for at present I may blank thee thou art not in the way that thou canst possibly be saved in things are so far out with thee that there is not yet any shew of a foundation layd in thee for any hopes of thee thou dost not doubt at all of being saved and I say thou mayst be saved but let this startle thee towards a change this way thou art in will never do it men never went to Heaven this way it is a Road that will never lead thither there is nothing done yet that will secure thee from eternall ruine 1 Cor. 6.9 be not deceived what ever such as you may be so mad to think be it known to you you cannot inherit the Kingdome of God If you indulge your selves in known sin this way will put you besides all hopes Jo. 3.36 He that believeth not that is is not converted to believe he needs do no more for falling into wrath he is born to it already the wrath of God never removes from over that person his estate is of wrath The wrath of God abideth on him Rom. 1.18 the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all unrighteousness of men It is not confidence of your condition that will make it good sure that man hath no reason to sit still or to think he hath nothing to do when he hath yet nothing done towards his salvation and the way wherein he is will be his ruine thou hopest fairly for Heaven when thou art in the way that never any went to Heaven in 3. Thou mayst soon be at thy Journeys end and at thy reckoning to make use of all the hope thou hast there may be but a step for ought thou knowest between thee and death Alas 1 Sa. 20.3 it is but getting a Cold and falling sick and dying and then thou comst to tryall for all the things done in the flesh It may take thee with a diddering and shaking and thou mayst for any thing any body can tell begin to shake for Hell Oh! thou that art at peace and dwellest at ease how soon may thy misery come armed upon thee Thou despisest so low a rate as hope why Alas if God set but Death before thee thou wilt see thy self be-set as the Benjamites Thou knowest not that evill was neer thee Jud. 20.34 and behold thou art be-set on all sides an ill life behind thee and Hell before thee Oh! what will become of thee For the wicked man God hath whet his Sword he hath bent his Bow made all ready Psal 111. Thou mayst not yet be strucken The Bird yet alive but fire ready to strike Alas it is but Gods putting in any of the Creatures into the Writ to be his Officer to Arrest thee and to cast thee into prison and verily thou shalt not come out thence till thou hast payd the utmost Farthing and that will never be if you ever be so miserable as to make the Experiment of it therefore thou hast cause to startle thy death may be neer and thy Death may prove thy Hell 4. There is but one way in all the world for thee to come off upon and that a very narrow one you do not think your condition so dangerous that you are within one by many pleas for your salvation but so it is that if Conversion help not you are sure for escaping you are undone for ever thou art upon a narrow point if thou couldst see it It is Gods Record that he giveth eternall life 1 Jo. 5.11 12. and this life is in his Son No other way but by Christ to have eternall life Sure you must many of you either find many waies to Heaven and Happiness or else you must tremble to think your selves out of this way when there is none but this one Weigh these things well and see whether here be not cause for you to tremble and if that a message of hope would not do well CAP. VI. Further tending to enform severall sorts of Sinners especially of the dangerousness of their present station how little Hopes and upon what terms only there are any hopes of sundry sorts of Men. 2. THis may inform you of the truth about your Estate and Condition we may tell you 1. Of some Conditions that are very and much more dangerous then others 2. Of some that are very hopeless above others 3. What our hopes are of any of you 1. Of some Conditions that are very dangerous and less hopefull Oh! there is little hopes and therefore beware of these Sinners estates fly from the Tents of these men Num. 16.26 1. Of an old Sinner such are rarely converted sin rivetted and twice natured to them such as these are many times very ignorant and deeply conceited of their wisdome and their parts decayed and so out of a capacity of attaining saving knowledge old men are hardly turned rarely born again to take Nicodemus his doubt literally Can a man be born again when he is old Jo 3.4 God knows it seldome comes to pass Oh therefore look to it in your young time this is the sowing time this is the best season Prov. 10.5 little hopes of an old Sinner 2. Of a worldly Professor Oh much danger of such a one the world holds their heart from Christ and their Profession keeps convictions of their hearts the World steals the Soul for Hell and Profession keeps the Watch that the Theft is un-discovered till all be lost the World is enough to damn thee and thy Profession enough to secure thee in the way of damnation the World satisfies thy Lust and Profession thy Conscience and so thou art most certainly bound for destruction if God do not by strong hand fetch thee out Our Saviour saies Mat. 19.23 How hard is it for a rich man to enter into Heaven Easie for a rich man to profess Religion but hard for him savingly to be religious easie for him to do nothing so