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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44439	A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...	Hopkins, Ezekiel, 1634-1690.	1693 (1693)	Wing H2735; ESTC R37910	158,868	429

Hell belches out Fire and Flames and Brimstone against thee stop therefore I here as God's Officer arrest thee If now when Conscience thus calls and cries and threatens Men will yet venture on this is most bold and daring Presumption To disobey the Arrest but of the King's Officer is a most presumptuous Crime how much more therefore to disobey the Arrest of Conscience which is the chief and supreme Officer of God and who commands in the name yea in the stead of God as it were in the Soul and yet truly who among us is not in some kind or other guilty of this Presumption Why Sirs if God should now come down in terrible Majesty in the midst of us and if he should ask every man's Conscience here one by one Conscience wert thou ever resisted wert thou ever opposed in executing thine Office to this and to that Soul Why where sits the Person whose Conscience must not answer Yes Lord I accuse him I testifie to his very face I have often warned and admonished him O do not venture upon this or that Action there 's Sin there 's Guilt lies under it there 's Wrath and Vengeance that will follow it Oh pity oh spare thine own Soul this Sin will everlastingly ruine thee if thou committest it And what didst thou commit it notwithstanding all this Yes Lord while I was laying before him all the arguments that the thoughts of Heaven and Hell of thy Glory and his own Happiness could administer yet so presumptuous was he as to fall upon me thine Officer and these Stabs these Gashes and Wounds I received while I was admonishing him and warning him in thy Name O Sirs a thousand times better were it for us that we never had Consciences better that our Consciences were utterly seared and become insensible better that they were struck for ever dumb and should never open their Mouths more to reprove or to rebuke us better that we never had had the least glimmering of Light to distinguish betwixt our Duty and what is Sin than thus desperately to out-face and stifle our convictions and to offer violence to our Consciences and presumptuously to rush into the commission of Sin in despight of all these better men had no Consciences at all or that they were given up to a seared and a reprobate Sense than to sin thus in despight of their Consciences What says our Saviour Luke 12.47 That Servant that knew his Lord's Will and did it not he shall be beaten with many stripes There are two Things wherein it appears that all Sins against Conscience Two Aggravations of sinning against Conscience and against Convictions are presumptuous Sins First 1. It is a Contempt of the Authority of God Because in all such Sins there is a most horrid Contempt of the Authority Sovereignty of the great God And what higher Presumption can there be than for vile Worms to set at nought the Authority of that God at whose Frown Heaven and Hell and Earth tremble The Voice of Conscience rightly informed by the Scripture it is the Voice of God himself it is God speaking in a man's Bowels and whispering to a man's very Heart As Moses was the Interpreter betwixt God and the Israelites so Conscience is the Interpreter betwixt God and us Why now would it not have been think you a most desperate Presumption and a most daring Affront against the Majesty and Sovereignty of God if while he was with his own voice pronouncing the Ten Commandments with Thundering and Lightening and Earth-quake from Mount Sinai at the same time the Israelites to have been notoriously breaking and sinning against every one of those Commandments as he spake them Truly though now God delivers his Will and Commands to us not immediately by his own mouth as then he did but by Conscience his Interpreter yet while we know that Conscience speaks to us in the Name of God it is as much fearful Presumption for us to slight the voice of Conscience as if we should slight the voice of God himself speaking from heaven immediately to us And that 's the first Thing Secondly 2. Is is an evident argument that we stand in no awe of Hell and Damnation By sinning against our Consciences and against our Convictions we make it very evident that we stand in no awe or dread of any such thing as Hell and eternal Damnation is and is not that Boldness Is not that Presumption You scorn possibly to be such puling whimpering Sinners as to be affrighted with such Bug-bears as everlasting Torments and everlasting Wrath and Vengeance is you know the Wages of Sin is Death and that the Ways you take lead down to the Chambers of Destruction and yet though God and Devil stand in the way you will through Are not these think you bold and presumptuous Sinners that will go on in Sin though Hell-Fire flashes in their Faces who though God should cleave the Ground upon which they walk and through that Chink should give them a view of Hell though they should see the Damned tumbling up and down in those Torments and hear their Yellings and Shriekings and Roarings yea though God should point them out a place in Hell and tell them Look Sinner yonder is a Place kept void and heated from the beginning of the World for thee yet are there some such bold and daring Wretches that they would out-brave all this and they would sin in despight either of Heaven or Hell yea and which is a most sad and dreadful consideration some there are whose Consciences are already brim-full of extreme horrour and anguish and yet they will venture upon those Sins that have caused that horrour and are not such presumptuous Sinners they give their Consciences wound upon wound and though sometimes they roar bitterly yet they will sin outragiously even then when they roar and smart for Sin So that this is a clear evidence of a presumptuous Sin when a Sin is committed against a Man's own Conscience against Knowledge against Conviction this makes a Sin to be a presumptuous Sin when Conscience cries out Murder Murder Soul-Murder when it beseeches with Tears of Blood that they draw from it to desist from their Sins and yet is not heard nor regarded this is presumptuous sinning sinning with a high hand and with a brazen Forehead Secondly To sin upon long deliberation is to sin presumptuously Then a Man sins presumptuously when he sins upon long deliberation and forecast plotting and contriving with himself how he may accomplish his Sin Some Sins are committed merely through a sudden Surprize a Temptation comes upon the Soul unawares and finds it unprovided to make any resistance and so it prevails So it was with the Apostle St. Peter his Apostacy and Perjury was indeed very dreadful yet he was overcome by a sudden Surprize he had no foregoing Thoughts and Purposes to deny his Master yea his Resolution was to own and confess him