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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50229	A sermon, occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder, preached at Boston in N.E., March 11th, 1685/6 (together with the confession, last expressions, & solemn warning of the murderer to all persons, especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end) / by Increase Mather ...	Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. Exhortation to a condemned malefactor.	1687 (1687)	Wing M1248; ESTC W19800	66,053	133

us who dwell in houses of Clay whose Foundation is in the dust which are crushed before the moth did I say so Nay this is not the worst of our Character we are not only undeserving creatures but also Hell-deserving s●inners When our first Father began a desperate War against the Omnipotent God we were part of the mad Regiment involved in his persidious Treason and our Emnity against our Maker has from our very Cradles been so enormous that we should long ere now have bin Devils-in-flesh if the checks of Restraining Grace had bin taken away And what unreasonably vitious lives have we been leading ever since a Rational Soul apparently acted in us How have we bin every moment sinning against the Law of God transgressing every precept of Love to God to man Yea how grievous●ly have we bin sinning against the Gospel too fearfully grieving sleighting and shamefully affronting a Redeemer that for many a day besought us to be reconciled unto God! This have we been done And Ah Lord doest thou open thine eyes upon such ones What if the Lord Jesus Christ had now only spoken unto us such fiery wrathful words as those in Isa 1. 23. Aha I will ease me of mine enemies avenge me of mine Adversaries or those in Luc. 19. 27. Those mine enemies bring hither and slay before me Verily I say unto you he would be clear in his speaking and just in his judging so What if he should appear unto us in the black garments of all-desolating indignation with keen Darts consuming Thunder-bolts in his hand What if he should appear in flaming fire to take vengeance on us that have not known God nor obeyed his Gospel Surely this would be no more than a proper and a proportionable Dispensation But instead of this the winning Language which with bowels full of such Philanthropy as this King's wedding a Queen out of our poor Family His taking our Nature to subsist in his Second Person doth evince and encline Him to have unto us he speakes unto us is O Look in o Me and be SAVED Yea and in this thing he doth with a Riddle of Free Grace destinguish us from by dignifying us above uncountable Multitudes of our Fellow-creatures our Fellow-criminals If we do look through the earth and into Hell we shall soon see our selves lifted up to heaven by the Invitation which our Lord Jesus has given to us to Look unto Him for Salvation Let us we especeally in this Wilderness that that like Gideon's Fleece enjoyes these Dewes of Heaven when the rest of the world is dry may do it take a view of all the Visible World and see what incredible Millions in every Generation there are that either never had one beam from the Sun of Righteousness falling on them but drop down into the Land of Darkness without hearing a word of Him or at least are by their blind Guides muffled up in such Ignorance as proves to them the Mother of Destruction Alas Alas for the people that perish for lack of vision that sit in the region of the shadow of death But here in a little Spot of ground that t other day the Devil was worshiped in there now are the Colonies whom the Invitations of Jesus Christ have known above all the Families of earth This is much But take a view likewise of the howling people in the Invisible world Who are there in the fiery dismal Vault below There are vast Legions of Devils in that place of torment but unto which of those apostate spirits has our Lord Jesus said I would have thee to look unto me There is an innumerable number of our Race too gone down into that formidable Pit but unto none of those does the Lord Christ ever say Thou mayst be saved by me if thou wilt No those Invitations are our Prerogative Wonderments where are you Halleluiahs where are you Syrs let us place the utmost of them upon this misterious Love. But we are sottish our unaffected rocky hearts are insensible of our obligations to the Lord Jesus Christ Then wonder O ye Angels give Thanks O all ye ministring Spirits Let the Morning stars in the upper Regions throughout eternal Ages think honourably of the Saviour whom we are unapt to acknowledge for his remembring us in our low estate because his mercy endures for ever O how how shall we enough extol the mer●iful High-Priest whose Look unto me and be saved has bin vouchsaved unto us Is this the manner of men O Lord No no. Then Let the people praise the O Lord let all the people praise thee since Thy way is known upon the earth and Thy SAVING Health among all Nations But This is not all the Good-Speech of our Lord Jesus Christ unto us There 's some-what more that remains to be said unto us all and particularly unto that Condemned Malefactor here who is never to see the Light of another Sabbath in the world It was a pathetic word of the Apostle to his Corinthians in 2. Cor. 6. 1. We beseech you that receive not the grace of God in vain Wherefore VSE I I. O Let every one of us now Look unto Jesus Christ by Faith for SALVATION If he say unto us Look unto me let not us be such prodigies of madness as to reply No we will not look unto thee It is a sweet intercourse between God and man which the prophet prescribes in Jer. 3. 22. where the Call of God is Return ye backsliding children and I will heal your backslidings and the Echo of man is Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God. O that there might now be such a Communion between Christ and us His Call is Look unto Mee and be saved let our Return be Behold we look unto thee for thou art the Lord our Saviour Do not I entreat you do not give unto the Lord Jesus Christ such a daring and damning Answer as that in Jer. 44. 16. As for the word spoken to us in the Name of the Lord we will not hearken thereunto It is a thing declared by the Lord Jesus Christ concerning these Gospel-times Zech. 12. 10. Men shall look upon me and morn Now shall a like thing be brought to pass within these walls this day How shall so great a thing as this be gained A sad part of this Congregation t is to be doubted are too much like the Leviathan Their hearts are as firm as a stone as hard as a peice of the nether Milstone The sword of him that layeth at them cannot hold Alas what shall be done for them Unto Thee O Lord do I how my knee O Father of spirits and of mercies look down with thy tender mercies on the spirits of the unperswadeable Children And O Thou that hast the keyes of David in thy hand Open open our hearts as thou didst Lydia ' s of old and effect by thy mighty power that we may look unto thee believe God forbid that