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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64955	The conversion of a sinner explained and applied from Ezek. 33. 11 ... part whereof was preached some while since at Saviours Southwark : The day of grace, discoursed of from Luke 19. 41,42 ... / by Nathaneal Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1669 (1669)	Wing V402; ESTC R39737	47,380	118

towards the unconverted Those who are turned have escaped danger and they cannot but be moved with others peril How can they chuse but mourn over their relations and acquaintance that are without Christ and God in the world Oh what hazard do such run when they go to sleep they know not but they may wake in the midst of flames that are unquenchable when they go out of their houses they may be in hell before they return They hang over the bottomless pit by the small thread of their lives and a thousand things may happen every day sufficient to break that thread asunder and then in they fall without redemption Oh doleful state of the ungodly If thou who art a religious Wife shouldst wake in the night and find thy Husband stone dead by thee would it not extreamly amaze and grieve thee Or if thou who art the Master of a family shouldst find all thy children and servants of a sudden dead before thy eyes would not thy heart be extreamly affected And surely if thy Husband thy Wife thy Children thy Servants are dead in sins in danger of being for ever damned much more reason hast thou to be concerned for them and to endeavour by advise and prayers and tears to have them turned and reconciled unto God Now Reader Try thy self by these signs of Conversion if thou findest them in thy self thou mayest rejoyce for these plainly shew that thy name is written in the Book of Life But if any sin be loved if thy mind and conscience and heart and life be all defiled and as thou art unrenewed so thou hast no desire after renewing grace if thou delightest in the carnal and art an hater of Saints This shews to conversion thou art a stranger and to this hour art in the gall of bitterness Use II. Of Terror Whoever thou art high or low rich or poor male or female that readest these lines and wast never turned I am sent to thee from God with heavy tydings such as if thou wert not a bruit a stock would make thee like Belshazzar when upon the view of the hand-writing upon the wall his countenance was changed his thoughts troubled him the joynts of his loyns were loosed and his knees smo●e one against another Dan. 5. 6. I am to prophecy not good concerning thee but evil I have a roll to deliver thee but 't is written within and without with lamentation and mourning and wo. Thou art perhaps jolly and secure but this is like the mirth and laughter of a sick man out of his senses which argues his distemper to be the sorer Alas sinner Thou hast not reason so much as once to smile while in a state of nature How many threatnings are denounced against thee And suppose thou wert surrounded with Cannons all ready at once to be discharged at thee these would be nothing neer so dreadful as the threatnings and curses which the just and jealous God has uttered Open thy eyes and look which way thou wilt enough may be perceived to cause thy heart to meditate terror above an angry God below a flaming Hell behind an innumerable host of sins pursuing thee before Satan and the world leading thee along in the broad way to destruction But more particularly I would have these following Truths laid to heart 1. Whilst thou art unconverted thou art also unpardoned Thou standest indebted many thousand talents and not so much as one mite of all that debt is paid The least transgression does make thee liable to the curse of the Law and guess then what an accursed wretch thy many and thy mighty sins have made thee Upon thy returning acknowledging of thy iniquity God has engaged to do it away he will lay the load upon the back of a Mediator but if thou wilt not consent to be turned thou alone must bear it Sin is another kind of thing than thou imaginest Adams first transgression in eating the forbidden fruit which was aggravated because he would have been as God and he believed the Serpent and made God a lyar and which was indeed a rejecting of the whole Covenant of life made with him Oh! how did it make himself to smart and not only himself but his whole progeny are the worse for it And if one sin has brought a curse upon all the children of men think O soul how thou wilt be able to stand under all the sins thou hast committed Sin does make the whole Creation groan it makes the damned to lament and to despair and will be an intolerable load for ever sin was found heavy by our Lord this caused his Agony and made his soul exceeding sorrowful even unto death Nay God himself complains that he is pressed with iniquity as a Cart is pressed which is full of sheaves And wilt thou sinner make light of it Oh! how heavy wilt thou one day feel it 2. Whilst unconverted thou art treasuring up more and more wrath against the day of wrath Thy scores are large already but every day thou runnest on the score afresh every day thou makest new wounds though conscience now be so stupid that it feels nothing As thy sin abounds proportionably the vials of divine indignation grow fuller which will at last be all emptied upon thy head Unnatural cruelty to be a Devil to thy self to be thy own souls murderer Thou art continually setting thy self at a greatter distance from God and engaging him more and more against thee who alone can be a refuge and salvation to thee Thou wilt perceive at last thou hast been thy own foe and acted to thy own confusion Jer. 7. 19. Do they provoke me to anger saith the Lord do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces 3. Whilst unconverted thou renderest thy self more and more unmeet for glory and blessedness The more impure thou art the more unfit also to see God The abominations which are loved and wrought by thee do make thee an improper inhabitant for the new Jerusalem The inheritance above is an inheritance of Saints 't is as an incorruptible so an undefiled inheritance 1 Pet. 1. 4. The company is all holy and so are the employments There is not a vain or sinful word spoken there nor an impure desire or thought to be found in any that are above And what wouldst thou do there among them unless a change be wrought in thee 4. If thou turnest not thou art sure to die As life is far off so death is neer The Psalmist tells us That God is angry with the wicked every day and if he turn not he hath wh●t his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready Psal 7. 11 12. And when the instruments of death are thus prepared 't is a sign God will make quick work and suddenly cut the offender off Death is called a King of Terrors and it well deserves that name in respect of the ungodly Then their good things are all received and the