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A48424	England's fair warning to a speedy repentance: being an earnest exhortation to a holy life: or The only deliverer from eternal death and destruction Wherein is plainly laid down the great duty of speedy repentance; with the wretched state of a sinner, and the blessed state of a saint: shewing how the one (after death) will be cast for ever into the dreadful flames of Hell-fire: and the other will be received up into Heaven, to celebrate eternal halelujah's to the Lord of Lords, who (sitting at the right-hand of his father) will shortly come to judge the world. Likewise, some pithy arguments to persuade men to close with Christ. Preached by R. Liford, a B.D. since the dreadful earthquakes that have lately happen'd; ... And now published, to awaken drowsie sinners, who still lye in security, whilst God's judgements are on the earth.	Liford, R.	1693 (1693)	Wing L2043; ESTC R216530	7,156	17

lost there is no regaining of it O fall down upon your Knees and bless God that you have yet the Light of the Gospel and that you have Time left to secure your Souls and get an Interest in Jesus Christ First Consider how dreadful it will be to you when you come to die if you do not Repent and turn to the Lord while you are in health O how will you cry out when your Hour of Death approaches when you shall see all the things of the Earth fail you and take their leaves of you for ever All your outward Enjoyments Parts Parentage Birth Breeding Wealth Crowns Kingdoms Pearls Diamonds Houses Lands Wife Children and Friends when once your Breath is gone all these are gone Prov. 27.24 Hear now this you that are given to Pleasure that feast your selves in doing evil you that put far from you the Day of the Lord you that say It is time enough to Repent when we come to die Ah Fools how do you know whether God will give you Repentance then or no. Sirs I beseech you Repent while it is called to Day for you know not whether you shall live till to morrow O consider with a trembling heart how much depends upon this Repenting and turning to God namely the gaining or losing thy dear and precious Soul gaining or losing of God's Favour the Fruition of God the Joys of Heaven or the Torments or Sorrows of Hell depend upon it Poor Souls I pity you with my very heart to see how ignorant you are of so great Concernments you Eat and Drink Sleep Lye Sell and get Gain in the World but little do you mind to accumulate heavenly Treasure to get your sinking Souls safe a-shore You consider not the evil day woe be unto him that is alone in Life and alone in Death that has no Christ to befriend him or stand by him in that day that cometh to lye down in his Grave without Peace or Pardon without hearty Contrition without Repenting of his Sins and shall Rise again and stand at the Bar of God's Justice without an Advocate to plead for him 7. And Lastly Try your Repentance by the Word of God see whether it be true Repentance or no for the Devil hath many Cheats search your own Hearts to see whe●her those Sins you formerly loved be now hated and shunned by you Make ready for the other World think ●pon the other World think upon Death ●nd Judgment Death that King of Ter●ors will e're long terminate your Days ●nd then all your Opportunities will be gone for ever Let me ask you as in the Presence of the Great Judge of Quick and Dead at whose Tribunal you must all shortly stand and giving an Account of your Deeds be either Received up into Heaven or plunged into Hell I have some Queries to ask you First Are not they in a very happy Condition that Repenting turns to the Lord with their whole Hearts living a Life of Grace ●nd truly preparing for Death for fear of ●osing their own Souls being in a hazzard of ●osing Heaven Rom. 8.7 Psal 37.37 Secondly Do you believe that Death will come and that Sin that cursed thing will sting and that the Case of all impenitent Sinners at the hour of Death will be sad and terrible and desperate Let me say to all such there is not a Night you lie down on your Beds but you run a very great hazard if Death should call and you not ready you must go though you are ruin'd to all Eternity though you be damned for ever Mat. 25.10 11 12 13. Thirdly Can you cheerfully entertain the thoughts of Death and Judgments all you hard hearted Sinners that have not Repented Suppose the dreadful Judge should at this instant send Death with the Names of Five or Six of you in a Writ or Forehead and Death should say You and you this Man and that Woman must go along with me I have received a Command from the great terrible God who hath the Power of Death and Hell to bring you this Day or Night before the Judgement-Seat I have often warned you by sending my Deputies this Ten or Twenty years Every Grave and Coffin you have seen was so many Intimations of my coming Now saith Death I am come see my Dart this Dart must kill thy Body and send thy Soul into Eternity I command you this moment to bid adieu to this World Luk. 12.19 20. How can you think of your dying and the Worlds burning the Trumpets sounding the Dead Corps raising and standing at the Bar of God's Justice and not fear and tremble you that have not Repented you Sons and Daughters of Pleasure did you consider what horror and astonishment doggs you at the Heels which will inevitably come upon you as Travel on a Woman with Child you would not say unto God depart Fourthly And lastly Oh! what a killing and amasing sight will Christ's coming in the Clouds be to all that either deny his com●ng or will not prepare for it by speedy Repentance His Incarnation was terrible Mat. 2.3 His Crucifixion was more terrible Luk. 23.44 45.46 47 48. But his Judging the World at the Great Day will be most terrible then shall the Tribes of the Earth mourn Mat. 24.30 And men shall cry to the Rocks to fall on them Rev. 6.15 16. When they shall see so many Thousands and Millions of Men and Women dragged down to that burning Lake of Fire and Brimstone there to be tormented for ever How will they then cry Oh that we had Repented they will howl for vexation of Spirit and in the bitterness of their Souls wish that they had never heard of a Christ that they had been born among Heathens or never had a Being or enjoyed a Life of Pleasure upon Earth How will the wretched Sinner beat his Breast pluck off his Hair tear his Bowels crying when he is past Hopes Oh that I had now no Soul or that this immortal Soul were mortal that I might not be tormented in these dreadful Faines for ever

ENGLAND's Fair Warning TO A Speedy Repentance BEING An Earnest Exhortation to a Holy Life Or The only Deliverer from Eternal Death and Destruction Wherein is plainly laid down The great Duty of Speedy Repentance with the Wretched State of a Sinner and the Blessed State of a Saint Shewing how the one after Death will be cast for ever into the dreadful Flames of Hell-Fire And the other will be received up into Heaven to celebrate Eternal Halelujah's to the Lord of Lords who sitting at the Right-Hand of his Father will shortly come to Judge the World Likewise Some Pithy Arguments to persuade Men to close with Christ Preached by R. Liford B. D. since the dreadful Earthquakes that have lately happen●● particularly that in Cicily near Mount Etna where Seventy Six Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty Persons were destroyed And now published to awaken drowsie Sinners who still lye in Security whilst God's Judgments are of the Earth 2 Pet. 3.9 The Lord is not slack concerning his pro●● as some men count slackness but is long-suffering ●…us-ward not willing that any should perish but 〈◊〉 should come to repentance LONDON Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge 1693. England's Fair Warning to Repentance c. LUKE 13.5 I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish IN the first Verse of this Chapter you have the sad piece of this News that was told Jesus concerning the Galileans whose Blood Pilate had mingled with their Sacrifices ●er 2. you have our blessed Saviour's Answer to his News saith he unto them Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans because ●hey suffer such things I tell you nay but except ●e Repent ye shall all likewise perish And yet further ●er 4. Or those eighteen upon whom the Tower of Siloe ●ell and slew them think you that they were sinners ●bove all men that dwelt in Jerusalem I tell you ●ay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise ●erish This former part of the Chapter con●ains the Sermon of Repentance that was ●reached by our blessed Saviour Repentance is a pure Gospel-Grace it comes 〈◊〉 by Jesus Christ he hath purchased by his ●lood that repenting Sinners shall be saved The Doctrine I shall raise from these Words is That it is a great Duty incumbent upon Christians to Repent and turn to the Lord Or It doth highly concern a People whom the Lord visiteth with his Judgments to strive to turn 〈◊〉 him by Repentance and Faith in Jesus Christ Repentance and Conversion is the only way to Salvation I need not stay to open the Text to you and to prove it by Scripture For if thou beest a Man or Woman that do'st believe the Word of God then thou believest that without Repentance none can be saved as the Text has it But I say unto you Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Well then What sayest thou Sinner Do'st thou believe or no Thou must either confess that this is true or say plainly that you will not believe the Word of God and if once you are come to that pass there is but small hopes of you Look to your selves as well as you can for 't is like you will not be long out of Hell You would be ready to flie in the face of him that give you the Lye and dare you give the Lye to God If you will not believe the words of our blessed Saviour whose will you And doth not he say That except ye repent ye shall perish He doth not say you may perish but you shall Nay there is no doubt of it let God be True and every Man a Lyar Christ hath spoken it Luke 10.12 I say unto you It shall be more tolerable for Sodom at the day of of judgment than it shall be for that people o● Nation that believe not these words of our Saviour Vse 1. Is this a truth That Repentance is the only way to prevent the Judgments of God that hang over our Heads because of our Sin then first of all I would entreat you observe the cursed nature of this cursed thing called Sin you see Sin must be repented of or we shall all perish or we shall all be damned Sin will utterly destroy both our Bodies and Souls I think it is one of the hardest things that is to understand the deadly Poyson that is in Sin Sin is that which the Lord hates The soul that sins shall surely die This was the Old Law But the Gospel of Christ saith Repent and forsake your sins Or Repent and believe and you shall be saved Vse 2. Is Repentance the way and means to prevent a People or Nation from perishing Then from hence you may learn the Excellency and the Usefulness of that Grace of Repentance Oh! What an Omnipotent Grace is this It is a Grace that can do any thing with God This Grace of Repentance can redeem our mortgag'd Blessings it can make us a happy People Jer. 31.18 19 20. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke Turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art my Lord my God Surely after I was turned I repented and after I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth Is Ephraim my dear Son is he a pleasant Child for since I speak against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are turned for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith th● Lord. From hence you may observe That Repenting Sinners are exceeding precious in the sight of the Lord his heart is turned toward them Oh! What an excellent Privilege hath penitent heart with God! My Beloved How can you live without such a Grace your Soul● want it your Families want it and the Nation stands in need of it The greatest Want thi● day in England is a broken Heart Vse 3. Is Repentance the only way to prevent Judgments Then from hence gather That when God either hath his Plagues upon a People or continues threatning his Judgments towards them it is a sign that those People are very guilty of Impenitency If God threatens thee O England to give thee up to hardness of heart and blindness of mind Doth God do it at this day They say O England thou art an impenitent People at this day O England this is my Charge against thee You have been a stiff-necked People O London London How long shall the Lord wait upon thee before thou wilt repent What can you expect but that God will yet visit England with his Judgment till we be humbled and heartily repent us of our Sins 'T is for Sin that the Nation mourns Oh the Swearing Whoring and Sabbath-breaking Schism and Disobedience to Magistrates is this day in London O you sinful Generation is this your requiting of God for all his

Mercies Deut. 32.6 Do ye thus requite the Lord O ye foolish and unwise What say ye Will you repent or not This is my Question which ● have to ask you this day Will you Repent Do not flatter your selves about Matters of so great concernment as your Immortal Souls Con●ider this O Sinners if you will repent then you may live happy in the Land of your Nativity and go to your Death-beds in peace But if you will not Repent of your Sins then I say you must instead of Blessings expect nothing but Curses It is plain that God is angry with you for God would never have sent so many Judgments after one another Once more Will you repent or will you not If you will not your sins lye at your own doors Do not think it is a hard Question when I ask you to Repent but consider there are two places where there is no repenting the one is in the Grave the other in Hell It were a vain thing for me to go to the Gates of Hell and cry to them Repent for the Day of Grace is past and their Doom is passed upon them I do verily think that there is more sorrowing in Hell for sin than there is this Day in England but their sorrow is not a sanctified sorrow If the Damned in Hell were delivered out of Hell they would sin again if they lived eternally they would sin eternally But I am not a speaking to Men in Hell but to you Sinners in England 1. I say unto you Repent Because Jesus Christ hath commanded you under great Penalties if you do not Consider a little O Sinner who 't is that calls for Repentance it is not I but the great God it is Jesus Christ and doubtless Christ could never have pressed you to this work if it were not necessary He saith unto you Repent and saith unto you If you do not your sins shall not be blotted out Wo be unto that Man or Woman that repenteth not better i● were that he had never been born that he had never seen the Light the Parents that bar● thee they may repent that ever thou wert been It would grieve your Parents to see you carried to the Gallows to be hanged and will i● not much more grieve them to see you cast Body and Soul into everlasting Burnings ther● to be tormented with the Devil and his Angels for ever 2. Repent for Christ hath encouraged yo● with many precious Promises he will heal a● your back-sliding and love you freely thoug● your Sins be as Mountains he will make ther● as Mole-hills though as Red as Scarlet he wi● make them as White as Milk But some will Object and say This is a ha● Work What! shall we always go with Tear● in our Eyes What will God give us for our Reward Ah! poor Sinner fear not do not questio● your Reward for as sure as God is true so sur● thou shalt have Christ Heaven and Glory and be happy for ever Sinners methinks it should make you to quake to think how God will deal with you at the great and dreadful Day of Judgment when he shall say Take him Devils bind him hand and foot and fling him into everlasting burning where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth Oh! it is a dreadful Sentence to be adjudged to Everlasting Fire and look for it Sinner if thou wilt not repent these are the words that thou shalt hear Christ pronounce against thee Depart from me I know you not And thou may'st be sure O Sinner if thou art not with Christ thou must be with the Devil thou must be either in Heaven or Hell 3. Repent because the Lord hath long waited upon you How long hath God stood at the Doors of your Hearts wooing and beseeching you to repent How long O thou proud Man or Woman hath God called unto thee How often hath he knocked at your hard Hearts but you would not let him in Oh thou grey-headed Sinner God hath long waited on thee it may be ever since thou wast Fifteen or Sixteen Years of age to see if thou wouldest repent Rom. 2.4 Or despisest thou the Righteous of his Goodness and Forbearance and Long-suffering not knowing that the Goodness of God ●endeth thee to Repentance There is not a Blessing that thou hast from God but it hath this writ upon it Repent of thy Sins Wilt thou think of this When God puts the Bread into ●hy Hands he saith unto thee Sinner Take this Bread Eat and Repent And when God puts the Cup of Beer into thy Hands he saith unto the Sinner Take this Cup of Beer and Repent When thou risest in the Morning he faith unto thee Sinner Take this Suit of Cloaths put it on and Repent Every Mercy that thou receivest from God calls to thee for Repentance 4. If you will Repent and leave your Sins God will not be angry with you My Beloved you have heard the Parable of the Prodigal Son who when he had spent all he returned home to his Father's House so my Beloved God is your Father but you are Prodigals all the Sin you have committed against him is Prodigality But let me tell you If you are willing to come to God's Feet he will take you about the Neck If you are willing to forsake your sins God is willing and ready to pardon your sins though you have been a wicked rebellious and sinful People yet if you will turn to the Lord he will turn to you 5. Repent because the Lord sendeth his Messengers unto you for to intreat you to Repent Woe be unto you therefore if you neglect this great Salvation You know that it was one main Reason why God took away his Prophets and Ministers from Jerusalem because they would not hearken to their Messengers as you may read Mat. 23.37 38 39. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that were sent unto thee How often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not Behold your houses are left unto you desolate For I say unto you Ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. I may very well apply this to London Oh! how often would the Lord have gathered you even as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but ye would not What say you now England O London will you Repent or will you not Will not all this that hath been said prevail with you Alas I am heartily sorry to see that nothing will prevail with you but the Flames of Hell Oh then you would say Oh! if we had but hearkened unto the Voice of God's Messengers that were sent unto us to call us to Repentance 6. O England Repent to day and turn to the Lord. O! delay not an hour longer Time is a precious Jewel more worth than the whole World and if Time be once