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B09141	Of the conversion of sinners to God in Christ: The [bracket] 1. necessity, 2. nature, [double bracket] 3. means, 4. signs of it. With a concluding speech to the unconverted. / By Martin Fynch ...	Finch, Martin, 1628?-1698.	1680 (1680)	Wing F944B; ESTC R177058	74,683	192

Philistines die with us This makes poor Believers with Sampson desire to die that all their lusts may die too Neither do you call all into question because of outward afflictions how great and many so ever they are for whom the Lord loveth he chastneth and correcteth every son whom he receiveth But say in your hearts the Lord hath humbled us for our sins drawn us to Christ put his fear into our hearts and hath given us many times gracious hints of his favour to us in Christ and now though he seem to walk contrary to us in some outward dispensations and breaks us in our relations and breaks us in our estates and breaks us in our esteem and breaks us in our-health as it was thus with Jacob yet will we trust in him and say that still he is our Father and will not alwaies chide nor retain his anger for ever 3. Let those that are converted hate every false way and meddle with sin no more we may well say the time past suffices and yet we have had to much of sinning already The state of grace is so far from giving any liberty to sin that it layes more obligation to holiness have a care of the sins of the daies wherein we live worldliness mispending of time in unprofitable talk bitterness against those that differ never so little from us in judgment neglect of training up Children in the fear of God and reverence and subjection to their parents want of heavenly discourse pride in apparel false and long haire and abundance of other sins that are to rife amongst some that make a great profession of Religion 4. Shew forth the Praises of him that hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light shew forth his praises not only in words but in works glorifie him on the earth let not his high and holy Name be blasphemed through you Be exceeding tender of the Name and glory of God make not Religion to stink and the savour of it to be abhorred by your covetous practises proud carriage loose conversation adorn the profession of religion with a serious chearfulness a meak zeal a heavenly dilligence in your callings and with a loving and yet a convincing conversation to the World these things may well go together and should do so Christians should be serious and yet chearful they have most cause to rejoyce and shall do it when others shall weep and howl and gnash their teeth Christians should be meek peaceable gentle easiy to be entreated and yet zealous magnanimous and valiant for the truth Christians should be heavenly in their thoughts and affections and discourse and yet deligent in their outward callings heavenly mindedness makes the yoak of outward labour easier and the burden of it lighter Christians should be affable courteous loving to all yet so far from sinful compliance with the waies of the world that they should hold forth the grace of Christ in their conversations that others may be convinced that they are the Children of God and that though possibly they may rail at them with their mouths they may secretly commend them in their consciences and wish their death at last end might be like theirs A concluding Speech to the VNCONVERTED CHAP. VIII Containing advice and counsel to those who are yet unconverted HAving shewn the necessity of conversion the Nature and signs of it I shall now conclude with some advice and council to those who are strangers to any work of grace upon their hearts but are going on in ignorance and blindness and see not into what a gulph and bottomless pit of destruction they are going Wonder not that I am earnest in such a matter and tell you so much of Hell and damnation it is to stop them that being spiritually blind and desparate are running into the lake of fire and brimston which burneth for ever Well then let me direct my speech unto such if God peradventure will give them repentance that so they may be recovered out of the snare of the Devil and escape everlasting destruction Hearken and give ear to this Alarm that is now sounded to you that are yet ignorant and careless of the things that belong unto your everlasting peace Repent repent get into Christ the City of refuge quickly quickly before the Lord come forth against you in his wrath and fury and you be cast into Hell I shall endeavour to set before you the miserable condition you will be in to eternity if you die in your sins and to that end I shall shew you three things 1. The certainty of Hell 2. the misery of Hell 3. The eternity of Hell 1. Consider the certainty of Hell This is that which I would speak of first That there is a place of torment and extream misery into which the wicked are cast their souls entring first into this woful place as soon as they depart this life and at the Day of Judgment their bodies being raised by the Almighty power of God shall be united again with their souls that so both in body and soul they may bear the wrath of God for ever It may be some that may read this may be so ignorant and prophane that they may think that Hell is a fable devised to keep me in awe and think them fools that are scar'd with it therefore let me endeavour to convince them of it for it doth appear indeed by the lives of too many that they believe neither Heaven nor Hell yet there are such fools that say in their hearts there is no God too Psal 14.1 They say so in their hearts and say so in their lives though few of them are so impudent as to say it with their mouths To prove that there is a Hell I might shew that the very heathens as they have a Notion that there is a God so they have a Nation that there is a Hell a state and place of misery into which evil men go after this life likewise I might shew that the boldest Athiests are sometimes struck with a Pannick fear of Hell all which proves that it is an universal Notion of mankind that the soul is immortal and that there is happiness or misery after this life though Atheists smother this conviction what they can But I shall onely insist upon Scripture proof of this point The wicked shall be turned into Hell Psal 9.18 How can ye escape the damnation of Hell Mat. 23.33 Fear him that is able to destroy Soul and body in Hell Mat. 10.28 God speared not the Angels that sinned but thrust them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2.4 To name no more particular places when ye read in the Scripture of everlasting punishment the wrath to come unquenchable fire all those expressions point at the same thing As there is a real Hell as well as there is a real Heaven so there is a local Hell as well as there is a local Heaven Hell and Heaven are not expressions onely to set forth the

that in Christ that answereth to this great difficulty to save it from wrath and in the receiving and applying Christ as a Saviour and propitiation for our sins the Soul is also secretly and powerfully wrought upon to desire heartily to be turned from sin and to live to Christ for evermore 2. Because although where true Faith is there is a principle of new Obedience also yet Faith as 't is said to justify doth onely apprehend and receive Christ as our perfect righteousness and attonement with God and is to be carefully distinguished from new Obedience which in that respect is but the effect and concomitant thereof 3. Because this is a great a very great work of the Spirit greater then most think to bring a poor convinced sinner to venture his soul and eternall condition upon the Mediation and righteousness of Jesus Christ Not but they that know him may well put their trust in him who is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him but for a poor Sinner that seeth what a holy and righteous Law he hath broken what a great and holy God he hath offended what great and sore punishment he hath deserved and which is infflicted upon the generality of his fellow sinners to all eternity when these things are realized to a Man as they are to those that are brought to Christ and that he is also convinced that he hath no righteousness of his own to make satisfaction to the justice of God and to give unto God a ransom that he should be delivered from going down to the pit For this Man thus enlightned awakened and convinced to put his trust in the righteousness of another one whom he never saw when he manifested himself in the flesh and suffred for sin the just for the unjust for a poor sinner to reject all other confidences pitched on by the Sons of men and to flee onely to this City of refuge and his heart to trust fasely there is an eminent work of the Spirit And so it will appeare when God shall be glorified in his Saints and be admired in all them that do believe not onely for giving such a sure object of Faith as Jesus Christ is but for drawing poor sinners to him 'T is an any easy thing for ignorant un-convinced sinners to say they have Faith and say they believe on Christ but no Man can come to Christ and truly believe on his Name except he heare and learn of the Father and be drawn by an Almighty Power unto him 4. Believing in Christ is called in the Scripture Our coming to Christ But I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not all that the Father giveth me shall come to me Joh. 6.36 37. If any man thirst let him come unto mee and drink Joh. 3.7 Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life Joh. 5.40 By this coming is not meant a local coming but a spiritual unto Christ He that truly cometh to Christ doth come indeed from the power and filth of Sin to put himself under the government and obedience of the Lord Jesus but that which is principally held forth by this coming unto Christ is the coming unto him as a Saviour from the guilt of sin to be washed and made white in his blood and be pardoned and justified through him 5. B lieving in Christ is called in the Scripture our receiving of Christ to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to as many as believed on his Name John 1.12 Now although every one that truely believeth receiveth Christ in all his Offices as a King to rule him as a Priest to save him and as a Prophet to teach him yet when believing is set out by receiving Christ it is meant especially of our receiving and embracing him as a Saviour who is in a peculiar manner received into and dwells in our hearts by faith Ephes 3.17 If any desire that I should speak a little more to open the Nature of saving Faith and so to distinguish it from a common notional and historical Faith it may be done by shewing the special properties thereof 1. 'T is a knowing Faith 't is accompanied with so much light and knowledge as is necessary to let Christ into the Soul knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ We have believed on him that we might be justified by the Faith of him saith the Apostle Galat. 2.16 So that except there be some knowledge of the greatness and holiness of God with whom we have to do some knowledge of our Fall in Adam some knowledge of Christ the Mediatour our estate cannot be good for how shall we believe on him of whom we have no knowledge I speak not here of degrees of knowledge as if every one that truly believeth in Christ had a great measure thereof but that there must be some competent knowledge This doth distinguish true Faith from that ignorant Faith that many have who while they think they believe on Christ know nothing of their lost estate by Nature and of the Person and Mediation of the Son of God for if men do not know Christ in some measure neither do they believe on him But here let me be understood not to speak of Infants nor of Ideots or deaf and dumb persons born so whose Ignorance is invincible as to any outward means to bring them to the knowledge of Christ through their natural incapacity of receiving information by the Scriptures and Ministery of the Word we are not to have such hard thoughts of their condition as if none such could be saved for doubtless some of them are saved and even by the blood of Christ as well as others and have the seed and habit of Faith and Repentance and the habit of spiritual knowledge infused into them also by the Holy Ghost though in a way altogether undiscernable to us And what should hinder or why should it be thought incredible that God who quickneth all things and infuses a rational soul into Infants in the Womb and hath given a rational soul to Idcots however the actings of it are obstructed by some defects of the Organs of the Body I say what should hinder but that God can and doth when it pleaseth him infuse spiritual life and the habit of all grace into Infants and Ideots But for persons that are growne up to years and have the exercise of reason it is the way of God if he please to convert them so to enlighten them as to exercise their thoughts about the matters of Salvation and to give them a sight of their Sins and make known sensibly unto them that Jesus Christ is the only way of help and salvation for them So that though there may be knowledge without Faith yet in grown persons and those that have the exercise of reason there cannot be Faith