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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

will make no difference between thee and the rest of his subjects thou shalt not be opprest with suspitions and jealousies nor upon every occasion be attached but shalt have the freedom of another subject Micah 7 18 19. He 1.8.12 I will be mercifull to their unrighteousnesse and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more Oh! what a mercy would this be to you to have all these fearfull scores cancelled all these debts payd which if you come to reckon for your selves would prove your undoings It is such an opportunity of freedome as you may not meet with againe The Lord is as ready to forget the sins of a convert as the righteousness of an apostate you shall not be admitted to have your old services all revived upon every new transgression but the Lord will pardon all What a rare thing would this be Psal 32.1.2 they that feele the weight of their sins know how blessed he is whose iniquities are pardoned whose sins are covered that blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not his sin and this state if thou wilt come in may be thine 3. 2 Cor. 5.20 This matter is committed to the ministers to deale in the office is on purpose to make tenders of mercy and reconciliation by Jesus Christ unto you We are ambassadors for God and we are to entreat you in Christs stead as though God did beseech you by us to be reconciled unto God they are sent on purpose to drive on the match between Christ and your soules they have full letters of evidence what they bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and what they loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven Jo. 20.23 They are men of your own selves subject to like passions as your selves are that are to minister between God and you who are kept by Christ on purpose in every place where his Church is and it is to looke to your soules to hear and gather the lambs in their armes to invite you to come in and to helpe you in your Christian course this is the Ministers very business and by that you may perceive that God is in earnest in the work he sets them on and that you might be received if you came in for otherwise this officer was needless and our preaching were in vaine It would do well if some would thinke wel at it that if their lives can be right it were to small purpose for God to keepe up his Ministers as he doth for such lives are besides the councell and designe of the Ministry altogether But come in to these officers appoynted on purpose to invite and entertaine you the cities of refuge were all amongst the Levites still so Christ is to be found amongst the Ministers and happy is that poore soule that hath been pursued by the avenger of bloud that is gotten among the Levites but as long as the Levites have a City Num. 35. there will not be a place of refuge wanting for humbled guilty soules this for the Hopes of reconciliation 2 For the consequents of this reconciliation or hopes from it Oh! turne you little thinke what will follow upon it First In respect of others or the Latitude of this reconciliation Turne and 1. 2 Cor. 6.17.18 The Father will be reconciled unto you Come out of her touch no uncleane thing and I will receive you you shall not want a place if you leave that nor want a Father if you leave your Fathers house for goodnesse sake But I will be your Father and you shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord the Almighty of Rebells you shal be made the Kings Sons God will be at peace with you a friend nay a Father to you 2. The Son will be reconciled so as to undertake your patronage to be your advocate with the Father Oh! this is the Jonathan when the father calls thee in will love thee Like David as his own soule he will be thy advocate put his robe on thee thy pretious saviour surety and brother and speake a word for thee when thou art away 3. The spirit will be reconciled to be thy comforter Let men keepe Christs commandements and God will manifest himselfe unto them nay Christ and the father will by the spirit come into that man Joh. 14.21.23 26. and make their abode with him A sacred place shall that polluted heart of thine be even a Temple for the Holy Ghost to dwell in 4. 1. Cor. 6.19 The Angells will be reconciled so as to be friends with you Some interpret that of reconciling things in Heaven and things on earth Cameron Col. 1.19 to be thus that the Angells are against men while they are sinners not that sin reacheth them but because of their perfect conjuction with Christ and as all that are for the King in a City are against all that are against him so the Angells are against all the Enemies of Christ but when a soule is converted then there is joy in Heaven then they are reconciled before they stood ready if God but speake the word to destroy any notorious sinner but now they are friends with them The Angells are ministring Spirits to all that are Heirs of salvation Heb. 1. ult all that are for Heaven though never so poore so young ones in this way the Angells of God care not what service they do for them and unto them their Angells called so because ready to attend on them upon occasion Mat. 18.11 even on the very littles one the same Angells that behold the face of the Father in Heaven are ready to come forth and atend on any of these little ones If you turne you little thinke what joy there will be in Heaven about it and what a Guard of Angels of the heavenly hoast shal be mmediately setabout you or frequently be imployed from and to Heaven on dispatches for you Oh! a rare alliance this is 5. Good Ministers will be reconciled unto you Alas while you live as you do be it known we cannot be friends to our Master and to you too and therefore know it that while you live as you do we are not satisfied in you our hearts cannot be towards you we are not friends with you we dare not but save our Masters quarrell however you oblige us or we carry fairly towards you you are not the men that we can repose in or go away from you at any time without regret and sorrow but if you will turne you will find us your joyfull friends ready to embrace you councell you pray for you and more hearty towards you then any relations can be When Saul was converted though they were terrified to hear but of his name Act. 9.17 yet when Ananias understood that he was coming in it was brother Saul at first word lay down the enmity of your hearts against Christ and our scruple towards you falls therewith but otherwise we

all might be hazarded thereby yet there was Hopes because they had to do with a gratious God one that is slow to anger of great kindnesse that is ready to forgive J●el 2.13 ●o●ah 4 2 If we were in any ones hands but Gods we were gone there were no hopes for us But we have infinite compassions to hope in There are termes of pardon on Gods part tendered to sinners that have got themselves into plagues for such like miscarriages If they had sinned and gotten into captivity for it and yet should bethinke themselves and turne to the Lord the Lord would yet shew favour to them why then much more 1. K 8.46 10.51 if we repent and reforme we may prevent the judgement his infinite bowels and goodnesse makes me hope He is a God that can overlook transgressions Mic. 7.18 that can put up great injuries passe by great offences And therefore there is Hope he hath been used to forgive ever since he had a people he knew what adoe he should have with the sons of men when he took any of them to be in covenant with him He is armed with infinite mercy and patience when he goes about to deal with us he is not deceived in us when he findes much untowardnesse and frowardnesse in us He will forgive us for he hath been used to forgive in many the like cases and is a God that can do it 2. There is Hope in respect of our selves I looke upon the matter as much more hopefull now then lately or before there are some signs of good amongst us 1. In that the people are generally sensible of the sin Women and Children are here flockt about thee it should seeme they are sensible of the miscarriage and willing to mourne with thee 2. Psal 78.34 In that they are gotten thus forward without a judgment people that have sinned themselves into the judgment have yet by repentance gotten off though they have not sought him till he shew them yet upon their repentance he hath tried them and shewed mercy to them but we have the advantage to seek mercy on this side of the judgement We may better discern the truth of the repentance in that no judgment is on us to force it from us we were not quite shut up though the execution had been served but there is more hope if we make our peace before the Writ be broken up and we attached it cannot but save us much charge There is very much in it in turning betime some they seek God when they have no soar no sickness no judgment on them and yet they tremble before the Lord assuredly it is a very good signe If you were afflicted in sorrow yet your condition might be hopefull but when onely convinced into sorrow when you have ways enough besides to take if your hearts would let you it is much better 3. Lam. 3.33 There is hopes in that I believe the people are willing to amend The Lord that doth not willingly afflict the Sons of Men if he see us so willing to reform without judgment is very ready to spare the Rod. I do judge from these grounds that our hopes are yet alive that there is yet Hopes in Israel concerning this Thing CAP. II. The Observation and the severall cases wherein Sinners may Hope THe Observation from the example of this good man in the text which I shall raise hence is this That men in the greatest straights about sin should yet take notice of and cherish the hopes which God hath left them about their State Matters that are dangerous should not be counted desperate It was a commendable practise in Schecaniah that he yet took notice of the Hopes God had left in Israel about this thing I shall insist on this doctrine in these three heads Shewing 1. In what case sinners should yet count of their Hopes 2. How farr or in what sense this is to be understood 3. The reasons why they should thus take notice of their Hopes in the straits they are in about their State 1. In what cases sinners should yet count of their Hopes We shall briefly hint at some heads in the generall to cleare the scope of the discourse till we come to the application where we shall resume the most materiall of them and endeavour to lay more particular weight on them These cases therefore may be considered 1. In respect of their outward estate 2. In respect of their inward estate Outwardly and that 1. Nationally 2. Personally 1. Nationally Things may be dangerous in respect of the Church Matters may be out of order be hindered gone back yet if the work be the Lords there should be hopes in such cases The work here went poorly on First they set up an altar then begin the Temple that with much adoe is gotten up at two bouts When that was up many years after Ezra would restore the sacrifices this is heavily clogged with the great sin of the strange Wives after all this Nehemiah comes and gets but up the wals so difficultly goes the worke on and yet it is all this while going on God hath it on foot and is secretly bringing it on for all this And so in Davids case He as soone as he was made King though Saul in all his raigne would never thinke of bringing up the Arke he makes it his first designe 2. Sa. 6. But now behold in the way God makes a breach upon Vzzah upon which David is displeased he thinks it is too sacred a businesse for him ever to meddle with so as to have hopes to effect it he can not be able to bring it up it turnes aside to the house of Obed-Edom yet God blesses that house where it was makes David see the Arke lovely and they enquire into the matter of the right order and after all these breaches and discouragements 1 Chr. 13.15.13 they bring up this Arke with shouting to its place And so the work of reformation though by the meanes of enemies and false brethren it seeme to receive obstruction that God seemes to refuse the service that his poor Ministers would do him therein hath made breaches upon us on some eminent reformers in the very worke yet there is Hope in this thing Reformation hath a blessing with it where it is 2 Chr. 20.33 and when God hath prepared the heart of his people to seek him in the right way the Arke of God may yet rest in his own place in the midst of us This matter hath yet life in it and there is hopes in Israel it will revive 2. Personally If in great outward afflictions what ever thy straight is 1 Cor. 10. there is yet a way out God will with the temptation whatever it is find out a way to escape he can still find a way for thee to get out of it David was in a great straight yet he encouraged himselfe in the Lord his God 1 Sa. 30.6

Cruelty to that which flew to him for refuge Dost thou fly to Christ pursued by Sin Satan and thine own Conscience and dost think he will slay thee The Emperour that proclaimed Who ever would bring in such a Rebell should have so much money The man came in and demanded the Reward himself and the Emperour gave it him Can such Nobleness be found amongst the Creatures and will you think the Lord will not pardon and reward in like manner the Sinner that brings in himself the Rebell unto him If a man could afford to do thus bountifully God can much more Edward 1. King of England Faxe 's Acts and Monument when a Servant of his on the other side of the River crossed him in his sport and he said he would have rebuked him if he had him on that side the man seemed to set him at defiance in that he was on the other side Whereupon he makes his Horse take the River and ventures his life to revenge himself on him the man seeing his Rage never over-ran him but came and held his Neck to his Sword This submission of his cooled him which the River could not and he put up his Sword and touched him not Satis est prostrasse leoni And do you think the Father of Mercies Graciousness and Goodness will come so far behind as to slay the Soul that falls down at his Feet and humbly comes in unto him Certainlie you distrust that in God in the present case which you would not doubt to obtain from many a man in the like case Prov 19.11 It is mans Glory and what not Gods too to pass by a transgression 6. He hath shewed mercy when he hath declared Judgement and will he not shew mercy when he hath promised mercy He said plainly Jon. 3.4 Yet forty daies and Nineveh shall be over-thrown Joxah took it absolutelie thought much it was not over-thrown there was a reserve still for repentance a tacit exception if they repented not And do we think when he promises Mercie upon this condition expresly that he will refuse to shew it Mercie rejoices against Judgment The Penitent hath alwaies such influence on God that Judgments threatned still must be put by if repentance come in and shall Mercie promised to Repentance be denied Jonah saw God so inclined to Mercy that he saies he thought it was no going of a Message of Anger from him to say peremptorily Wrath should follow his prediction Sure then Jon. 4.3 if Jonah had been sent of our Message he would have gone merrily upon it to shew Mercy to the Penitent this was a Message of a matter of the right kind and that which the Lord hath evermore been famous for and never failed the Messenger in performance of it and fulfilling according to his word Mercy breaks forth when Judgments are threatned upon the tacit condition of repentance can we think Mercy will be denied where it is expresly promised to the Penitent Repentance is a thing the Lord hath alwaies so looked at that he hath abated of a Judgment threatned for but the shew of it Ahab did but humble himself in Sackcloath 1 Kin. 21.27.29 and walked softly and the Lord shews Elijah this and defers the Judgment for it to his Sons daies Certainly if he had seen Ahab repent in earnest he that delaied it for a shew would have taken it quite off for true repentance and would have said I will not bring this Judgment upon him at all O the gratious disposition of God to shew mercy may encourage the Penitent to hope in his mercy in this plain case he is in 7. Christ Jesus did never refuse any diseased person that came to him and needed his help when he was on Earth Mat. 8.7 He took on him our Infirmities and bare our sicknesses Though this was especially done when he suffered for our sins on the Cross as you have it applied elsewhere yet in this place Christ when he saw the sicknesses of our nature that came on us for sin 1 Pet. 2.24 in tending to satisfie for sin he was so pitifull that he took himself concerned in those pitifull Maladies he found upon the Nature which he had assumed and as fellowfeeling with us took part with us therin and stirred up his Divine Power for the release of the severall persons so affected Now if Christ did never turn back any poor diseased Creature that came to him with their Bodies but still healed them all Mat. 9.2 and this further usually began at pardon of sin with all his Patients and healed the Soul into the Bargain though seldome that was looked for by them Do we think that he will turn off thee Mat 9.2 that comest to him with a diseased Soul and further seekest for pardon of sin in the first and chief and only place If Jesus Christ turn a diseased Soul off that comes unto him for Cure he doth that which he hath said he will not do nay I may say he doth that which he never yet did And further thou findest him much changed from that gratious disposition that he had when he was here And sure that can never be He is not on the Throne of Mercy in Heaven an Advocate with the Father for his c. to have less pity and mercy then heretofore he had for poor Sinners It is triumphant Mercy now and therefore what he did before he will do that and much more now He ows not a Mite to Justice he is come through all the Demands goes to the Father released from the Grave sin having no more to charge upon him and therefore now he is in his Royalty of Mercy and Interest for us and so sure can want of nothing which ever he shewed of pity to poor Creatures while he was here Now did he ever do as thou fanciest he will do with thee 8. Will he not shew pity How come men to shew pity to you Ministers that see you in trouble that can pity you their hearts are turned towards you for all your Aversions and untowardness heretofore upon a change You are to them as if you had never rebelled and never been otherwise In our esteem and affection we look upon you in unregeneracy and converted as not the same persons Our hearts are opened to you upon your coming in and do you think that we that are but finite streightned hard-hearted Creatures can have so much affection towards you and God who is infinite in mercy that is the Fountain of all pity that he can want favour for you Sure if the Masters chief Stewards be so kind to you they have some Intimation from their Master of his good will towards you or they are not so good to be so forward of themselves or sure they do think it is not against their Masters mind or they durst never shew that favour to you which they do That men should pity you it is a sign that