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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86549	Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ: or, The doctrine of sanctification (which is the greater part of our salvation) founded upon Christ, who is both the meritorious, and and efficient cause of sanctifying grace, purchasing it for, working & perfecting it in his people. Applied (as it was specially intended) for the better information of our judgements, and quickning of our affections in holiness, wherein our everlasting our everlasting happiness chiefly consisteth. / Preached in the weekly lecture at Evesham in the county of Worcester, by George Hopkins, M.A. minister of the Gospel there.; Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ	Hopkins, George, 1620-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing H2743; Thomason E1608_1; ESTC R208454	135,124	325

enemy therefore when Sathan had overcome Eve he makes use of her to tempt her husband as being a more likely way to prevaile than to treat with him himself Thus he made use of Solomons wives to draw him to Idolatry For this cause the Lord forbad the Israelits to make marriages with Idolaters Deut. 7.3 4. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son For they will turne away thy son from following me that they may serve other Gods And Paul giveth the like admonition to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 6.14 Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers And as the Lord warned the Israelites of the danger that would insue upon the making of such Marriages so accordingly it befell them when they transgressed this command Their strange wives became a snare to them Judges 3.5 6. And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites Hittites Amorites Perisites Hivites and Jebusites And they tooke their daughters to be their wives and they gave their daughters to their sons served their gods It was Sampsons Delilah that betrayed him into the hands of the Philistims And how is it found by sad experience that such as yoke themselves unequally for carnall advantages are much insnared in their spirituall condition When Marriages are made the infidelity or prophanenesse of the one party is not sufficient to make a necessary divorce but the believing and spirituall are to do what they can to win the unbelieving and carnall yet when persons are free they had best take heed how they intangle themselves And wo to that person that becomes a snare Thou that art an inticing husband canst thou not be content to perish alone but thou must needs draw thy wife to the same eternall ruine with thee Thou that art an inticing wife canst thou not be satisfied to perish alone but thou must draw thy husband to the same everlasting torment with thee must you needs go to hell by couples As those that have been happy instruments in saving their yoke-fellows shall reap the everlasting comfort of it So on the contrary it will be an everlasting torment to those husbands and wives who have been Sathans instruments in destroying each others soules O consider this and lay it to heart before it be too late The last way I shall mention of hindring the saving of people from their sins is by persecution Although now there is not blessed be God such open persecution with violence as in the dayes of Popish Kings and Rulers with fire and faggot and other waies of torture Yet the scornes decisions and abuses that have been offered to the waies and servants of God have been a great means to hinder some by discouraging them in the way to turn others out of the good way wherein they were going In these times I confess a slight forme of godlinesse and some smooth words About matters of Religion especially the arguing of controversies in divers opinions is in great credit and much in fashion and the upper garment of Saint ship is the very livery of the times we live in But the power of godlinesse is but here and there found and serious Christian practice hath little savour and acceptance He that will be a Christian indeed shall be reviled by the profane party on the one hand for his precisenesse and scorned and vilified by our Novelists on the other hand as a Legallist and Formalist as one that trusts to and hopes to be saved by his duties Is not ancient serious christian practice every where spoken against by the wantons of our age who account old stedfast professors no better than Pharisees and Selfe-justitiaries It was a cruell practice of Paul before his conversion that he persecuted the Saints shutting many of them up in prison and gave his voyce against them when they were to be put to death and that he punished them oft in every Synagogue and being exceedingly mad against them persecuted them even to strong cities but the most mischievous of all was that he compelled them to blaspheme Acts 26 10 11. The other were but temporal sufferings this a spirituall mischief So now may we say it was a murtherous practice in Bonner and others that burned the Saints in the daies of Queen Mary but of far more evil consequence is the sin of those that by scoffs and scornes at the power of godlinesse under specious pretences have deluded many simple soules causing them to blaspheme the ancient tried and approved wayes of God and rejoice in it as if they had done God good service O how doth this confirm the ungodly in the midst of their wickednesse and cause many that began to minde Religion to take up with a slight Antinomian profession and go no further And how sad is it to heare many talk of Gospel liberty and Saints priviledges applying all to themselves while they are in the gall of bitternesse and bond of iniquity their lives conversations plainly declaring that they are as great strangers to the worth of Regeneration as ever Nichodemus was And while they promise liberty they bring themselves into real bondage 2 Pet. 2.18 19. Whosoever thou art that hast had a hand in managing this will of the Devil to secure poor Soules in the midst of their sins as it were bidding them sleep on and take their rest crying peace peace where there is no peace know that a fearfull woe belongs to thee the blood of those soules which thou hast destroyed will be required at thy hands Suppose thou hadst seen the vision of John in the opening of the fifth Seal Rev. 6.9 10. and hadst beheld under the Altar the Soules of them that were slain for the Word of God and for the Testimony which they held and hadst heard them crying with a loud voyce saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwel on the Earth wouldst thou not have blessed thy selfe from being of the number of them that should have a hand in their blood But there will a louder and more direfull cry from poor damned soules in hell be lifted up for vengeance against thee even those whom thou hast destroyed by teaching them to spurn at the power of godlinesse The Martyrs that were slain died but temporally to live eternally but those poor Soules whom thou hast taught to score at holinesse indeed must die eternally and without recovery O that all these sorts of hinderers of the work of Christ in saving people from their sinnes had but this reproof set home upon their hearts O that seducing Teachers mischievous Dividers scandalous Ministers and others exemplary for wickednesse that enticing Sinners and self-admiring Scorners at Godlinesse had but the loud cry of dying souls that by their means perish in their wickedness continually ringing in their eares that it might be a means to recover them out