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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07537	Wisdome crying out to sinners to returne from their evill wayes contained in three pious and learned treatises, viz. I. Of Christs fervent love to bloudy Jerusalem. II. Of Gods just hardening of Pharaoh, when he had filled up the measure of his iniquity. III. Of mans timely remembering of his creator. Heretofore communicated to some friends in written copies: but now published for the generall good.; Sapientia clamitans, wisdome crying out to sinners to returne from their evill wayes	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Donne, John, 1572-1631. aut; Milbourne, William, b. 1598 or 9.	1639 (1639)	STC 17919; ESTC S101127	68,892	346

againe how safe soever it seemes to be setled Offer at thy Easter whensoever thou hast any resurrection any sense of raising thy ●oule from the shadow of death offer thy confession to God that it is the sun-shine of his grace and not of thy moralitie Offer at thy Pentecost whensoever the hol● Ghost descends upon thee in a fierie ●ongue that thou feelest thy selfe melted by the powerfull preaching of the word of●er thy confession then that this is the proceeding of his grace and not the disposition or concurrence or tendernesse of thy nature For if thou deferre thine offering till September till thy Fall till thy winter till thy death howsoever those may be thy first-fruits because they be the first that ever thou gavest yet they are not such as are acceptable to God God hath no portion in them if they come so late Offer thy selfe now nay doe but offer to thy selfe now that is but an easie request and yet there is no more asked Viximus mundo vivamus reliquum nobis ipsis Thus long we have served the world let us serve our selves the rest of our time but this is the best part of our selves our soules Expectes ut febris te vocet ad poenitentiam Hadst thou rather a sicknesse should bring thee to God than a Sermon Hadst thou rather be beholding to a Physician for thy salvation than to a Preacher Thy businesse is to Remember stay not for thy last sicknesse which may be a Lethargie in which thou maist forget thine owne name and his that gave thee thy best name the name of a Christian Christ Iesus himselfe Thy businesse is to Remember and thy time is Now stay not till that Angell come that shall say and sweare that Time shall be no more Remember then and Remember Now Nunc in die Now whilst it is day The Lord will heare thee in die qua invocaveru sayes David in the day that thou callest upon him and in quacunque die velociter exaudiet in any day hee will heare thee quickly but still it is Opu● diei a worke of the day to call upon God For in the Night our last Night these thoughts that fall upon us are rather Dreames than Remembrings upon our death-bed wee rather dreame that wee repent than repent indeed To him that travels by Night a bush seemes a horse and a horse seemes a man and a man seemes a spirit nothing hath its proper shape to him that repents by Night on his death-bed neither his owne time nor the mercies of God have their t●ue proportion This night they shall fetch ●way thy soule saith Ch●ist to the secure man but hee neither tels him who they be that shall fetch it away nor whither they shall carry it Hee hath no light but lightning a sudden fl●sh of horrour and so is translated i●●o the fire which hath no light Nunquid Deus paravit nobis ignem i●●um Non nobis sed Diabolo Angelis e●us And yet we who ar● vessels so broken that there is not asheard left to fetch water at the pit as the Prophet expresseth an irreparable ruine no meanes in our selves to derive one drop of the blood of Christ Iesus upon us no meanes to wring out one teare of true contrition from us have plunged our selves into this dark this everlasting fire which was not prepared for us A wretched covetousnesse to be intruders upon the devill a wofull ambition to be usurpers upon damnation God did not make that fire for us much lesse did hee make us for that fire make us to damne us God forbid but yet though it were not made for us at first now it belongs to us the judgement takes hold of us Whosoever beleeveth not is already condemned there the fire belongeth to our infid●l●tie and the judgement takes hold of us Ite maledicti you have not fed mee nor cloathed mee nor harboured mee therefore goe yee cursed then that fire takes hold of our omission of necessarie duties and good workes What 's our remedy now why still this is the way of Gods justice and his proceeding ut sent●ntia lata ●it invalida That if hee publish his judgement his judgement is not executed The judgements of the Medes and Persians were irrevocable but the judgements of God if they be given and published are not executed The Ninivites had perished if the sentence of their destruction had not beene given and the sentence preserved them● by bringing them to repentance So in this cloud of ●te maledicti wee may see Day-breake and discerne beames of Sunning light in this judgement of Eternall darknesse If the contemplation of Gods judgements bring us to Remember him it is but a darke and stormie Day but yet spirituall affliction and the apprehension of Gods anger is one Day wherein wee may Remember God And this is Copiosa redemptio the overflowing mercy of God that hee affords us many dayes to remember him in for it is not in die but in diebus This Remembring which we intend is an inchoation yea it is a great step into our Conversion and Regen●ration whereby wee are New Creatures and therefore wee may well consider as m●ny dayes in this New creation as were in the ●irst Creation of the world In the ●irst day was the making of Light and our ●irst day is the knowledge of him who sayes of himselfe Ego sum Lux mundi I am the light of the world and of whom Saint Iohn testifies Erat Lux vera Hee was the true Light which lighteth every man that commeth into the world This is then our first day The Light the knowledge the profes●ion of the Gospell of Christ Iesus Now God made Light first ut operaretur in Luce saith Saint Augustine that hee might worke in the light in producing other creatures not that God needed Light to worke by but for our example God hath shed the beames of the light of his Gospell first upon us in our Baptisme that wee might have that Light to worke by and to produce our other Creatures and tha● in every enterprise wee might examine our selves our consciences whether we could not be better content that that Light went out or were Eclipsed than the light of our owne glory whether wee had not rather that the Gospell of Christ Iesus suffered a little than our owne ends and preferments God made Light●irst ●irst that hee might make his other creatures by the light saith Saint Augustine and hee made that first too ut cernerentur quae fecerat saith Saint Ambrose that these creatures might see one another for frustrà essent si non viderentur saith that Father It had been to no purpose for God to have made creatures if hee had not made Light that they might see one another and so glorifie him God hath given us this Light of the Gospell too that the wo●ld might see our actions by this Light For the noblest Creatures of Princes and the noblest actions of

or sweeten my voyce with Ambrosia to allay the harshnesse of this position That God should so earnestly desire the conversion of such as perish Howbeit the surest ground of that charitie which God requires should be in every one of us towards all our greatest enemies not excepted is firme beleefe of this his unspeakable love towards all even towards such as kill his Prophets and stone the Messengers of his Peace I exhort saith the Apostle that first of all Supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thankes be made for all men For Kings and all that are in Authority Yet did such in those dayes most oppresse all Christians draw them before the Iudgement Seats even because they did pray to the true God for them For they did blaspheme that worthy name by which wee were called This duty notwithstanding which was so odious unto those great and rich men for whose good it was performed Saint Paul tels us was good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour why acceptable in his sight Because he would have all men and therefore even the sworne enemies of his Gospell to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth which they oppugned Or if the expresse authority of the Apostle suffice not his reasons drawne from the principles of Nature will perswade such as have not quenched the light of Nature by setting not the corruptions onely but the very Essence of Nature and Grace at ods and faction For there is one God Had there beene moe every one might have been conceived as partiall for his owne Creature But in as much as all of us have but one Father his love to every one must needs be greater than any earthly parents love unto their Children in as much as we are more truly his than children are their parents But here as the Apostle foreseeth might be replyed That albeit God be one and the onely Creator of all yet in as much as wee are seeds of Rebels with whom he is displeased our Mediatour might be more partiall and commend some to Gods love neglecting others To prevent this scruple the Apostle ads As there is but one God so there is but one Mediatour betweene God and Man and Hee of the same Nature with us A man but Men are partiall yet so is not the Man Christ Iesus that is the Man anointed by the holy Ghost to be the Saviour of the world As he truly tooke our flesh upon him that hee might be a faithfull and affectionate High Priest so that wee might conceive of him as of an unpartiall Sollicitour or Mediatour betwixt God and us hee tooke not our Nature instampt with any individuall properties characters or references to any one tribe or kindred Father according to the flesh hee had none but was framed by the sole immediate hand of God to the end that as the eye because it hath no set colour is apt to receive the impression of every colour so Christ because hee hath not these carnall references which others have but was without father without brother without sister on earth might be unpartiall towards all and account every one that doth the will of his father which is in Heaven as Sister Mother and Brother Thus saith the Lord to the Eunuchs that keepe my Sabbaths and choose the things that please mee and take hold of my Covenant even unto them will I give in min● house and within my walls a place and a Name better than of Sonnes and Daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off Briefly Hee is a Brother to all mankinde more loving and more affectionate than Brothers of entire bloud are one towards another The very ground of the Apostles reason thus bared will of it owne accord reverberate that Distinction which hath beene laid against his meaning by some otherwise most worthie Defendants of the Truth The distinction is that when the Apostle saith God will have all men to be saved he means Genera singulorum not Singula generum some few of all sorts not al of every sort some rich some poor some learned some unlearned some Iewes some Gentiles some Italians some English c. The illustrations which they bring to justifie this manner of speech did the time permit I could retort upon themselves and make them speake more plainly for my opinion than for theirs It shall be sufficient by the way to note the impertinencie of the application supposing the instances brought were in themselves justifiable by the illustrations they bring or how little it could weaken our assertion although it might intercept all the strength or aid this place affords for the fortification of it What can it helpe them to turne these words because they make towards us from their ordinary or usuall meaning or to restraine Gods love only unto such as are saved when as the current of it in other passages of Scripture is evidently extended unto such as perish In stead of many words uttered by him that cannot lie unto this purpose those few Ezek. 33. 11. shall content mee As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turne from his way and live turne yee turne yee from your evill wayes for why will yee die Oh house of Israel If God minde the safety of such as perish yea even of most desperate and stubborne sinners no question but he wils all should be saved and come to the knowledge of his truth The former distinction then will not stop this passage Howbeit some learned among the Schoolemen and other most religious Writers of later times have sought out another for intercepting all succour this or the like places might afford to the maintenance of that truth which they oppugne and wee defend That God doth not will the death of a sinner Voluntate signi they grant but that hee wils it Voluntate ●eneplaciti they take as granted That is in other termes God doth not will the death of him that dies by his revealed will but by his secret will Not to urge them to a better declaration than hitherto they have made in what sense God being but one may be said to have two Wils That hee wils many things which wee know not that hee hath divers secret purposes wee grant and beleeve as most true indefinitely taken But because these Wils or Purposes are secret man may not without presumption dete●mine the particular matters which hee so wils o● purposes Otherwise they should not bee secret but revealed to us where●as things secret as secret belong only to God In that they oppose thi● Secret will to Gods revealed will they doe as it were put in a Caveat that we should not belee●● it in those par●iculars whereto they apply it For wee ma● not beleeve any thing concer●ning the salvation or damnatio● of mankind or the meane which lead to either but