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A39242 The great danger and uncertainty of death-bed repentance as it was deliver'd in a funeral sermon preach'd lately in the parish-church of Chiswick in Middlesex. Ellesby, James, b. 1644 or 5. 1693 (1693) Wing E538; ESTC R24951 18,514 33

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hath he not threatned to do it too Why than should you think your selves more safe and secure from danger then they were as long as you take so little care to prevent and avoid it Go too therefore ye hardned and impenitent Wretches ye mockers and deriders of all that is good and serious ye that are apt to tempt and encourage one another in an evil way take heed you do not provoke God to make you the next instance of his fierce Anger and Indignation take heed you do not draw down the Wrath and Vengeance of Heaven upon your heads and that sooner than now you think for For truth it self hath told us that great Plagues remain for the ungodly Psal 32.10 That to God the Lord belong the issues of Death but God will wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his Wickedness Psal 68.20 21. When they shall say Peace and Safety then sudden Destruction shall come upon them as Travail upon a Woman with Child and they shall not escape 1. Thes 5.3 But he that being often reprov'd doth harden his neck shall suddenly be destroy'd and that without Remedy Prov. 29.1 After all this can ye imagine that the Patience of God which hitherto hath been so forbearing and long-suffering will always wait in vain and suffer his goodness to be continually affronted and despised by the vilest of his Creatures No reason to think that Obstinacy and Impenitency shall always go unpunisht for you have but your time and others have had theirs before you who now reap the fruit of their Folly and find to their Grief and Sorrow what an evil and bitter thing it is for to sin against God Or suppose punishment should be delay'd and no remarkable Judgment should overtake you in this life but you die in as stupid and secure a manner as now you live Yet the less you are punisht here the more reason you have to fear that God doth but reserve you for greater punishment and vengeance hereafter For the Lord knows how to deliver the Godly out of Temptation but to reserve the wicked to the day of Judgment to be punisht 2 Pet. 2.9 The Lord hath made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of Evil Prov. 16.4 And again the wicked is reserv'd to the day of Destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of Wrath. Job 21.30 Therefore Sirs think often of these things and weigh them well in your Minds for as Moses told the Israelites it is for your Life for the Life of your precious and immortal Souls which are in danger to be lost and the loss so great as can never be recompenc'd by a whole Life of Sin and Pleasure much less by those Pleasures that last but for a moment and die away in the Enjoyment of them I shall conclude all with those Remarkable words of the Son of Sirach to this purpose Follow not thine own Mind and thy Strength to walk in the ways of thy Heart Say not who shall controul me for my Works for the Lord will surely revenge thy Pride Say not his Mercy is great he will be pacify'd for the multitude of my Sins for Mercy and Wrath come from him and his indignation resteth upon Sinners Make no tarrying to turn unto the Lord and put not off from day to day for suddenly shall the wrath of the Lord come forth and in thy Security thou shalt be destroyed and Perish in the day of Vengeance Eccles 5.2 3 6 7. Consider this all ye that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Psalm 50.22 FINIS