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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39934	Grace and mercy to a sinner in a time of afflictions, or, The serious meditations of M. Tho. Ford of Rochester during the time of his imprisonment, before his execution, faithfully delivered from his own copie : together with his funeral sermon, preached by Mr. Wil. Sandbrook, P.M. Rochester / set forth for the strengthning of our faith in Jesus Christ ... ; published for the satisfaction of his friends ... by John Plasse.	Ford, Thomas, d. 1656.; Sandbrooke, William.; Plasse, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1513; ESTC R40949	26,591	84

my Barbarism so as to swallow it down without chewing give me leave to lay open the heart of the fact with the chief incendiaries thereupon attending and that only in two particulars First laying before you the person on whom I acted it and the sudden deprivation of life in the action The person upon whom I acted this bloody tragedy it was not a stranger but an acquaintance and friend not a common acquaintance or friend but a sister an only sister by flesh and blood and I can shew no reason could incite me to it except it were for her over tender care and respect to me had of which I am now truly sensible other perswasions were nothing else but the jugglings and delusions of that old enemy of mankind Satan who hath been a lyar from the beginning The second Scene in this cruell and bloody Tragedy which much aggravates the fact was the suddenness of the action which robbed her of her life in a moment without giving her any warning to prepare for heaven so that as much as in me lay I did deprive her temporal and eternal happiness without Gods great mercy I might blaze this my cruelty with several other colours but let these suffice to let you know the horridness of the crime Gentlemen you know how for a long time my conversation amongst you hath been very inconsistent to the gospel of Jesus Christ I have plaied the Atheist in my practice though not in my profession I have acknowledged there is a God but in my works I have denyed him and Atheism in practise is the worst sort of Atheism I have been in the highest nature a rebel a traytor against the King of Kings endeavouring to unthrone God by not yeilding obedience to his commands and he that plucks the King out of his throne is as bad or worse than he that saith there is no King Now that you may be the better senseable how I have idolized my profession I will give you the Catalogue of sins which our Saviour gives you in the seventh of Mark the 21 22 23. verses for from within out of the heart of man proceeds evil thoughts adulteries fornications murthers thefts covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye blasphemies pride foolishness all these sins have lain lurking and been rooted in my heart originally being by nature the child of wrath and have in some kinde or other been put in execution though not in the same manner literally as they lye in the text yet circumstantially as they may be considered and applyed But one main sin which is not here rehearsed hath been my mother sin to wit drunkenness and excess the abuse of Gods creatures this hath been the engine of this cruelty and the door and inlet to all my misery Beware of this Lion-like sin least it command you to do the same cruelty give not the least entertainment to it as a cup and away for it is the greatest peece of witchcraft that I know to betray the soul to the Devil Thus I have given you a glimpse of my wounds now let me shew you my Physitian But Gentlemen I must not forget one sin which was almost slipt out of my memory namely the sin of uncleanness I do not mean with a woman Gentlemen there is other uncleanness than that with a woman and there be some young Gentlemen in company that looks upon me which are guilty of the same and know what I mean Then stooping to Mr. Rosewell he began upon the breach of Sabbath saying Gentlemen I have lived a long time amongst you and indeed frequented the Church but in all my time never kept one sabbath to the Lord aright as I ought to do I beseech you Gentlemen to have a special care of keeping the Sabbath and slight not the Ministers of God who are his Embassadours and truly I see apparently an imminent judgment hanging over the head of this Nation upon the account of the Ministers disagreeing for well may the sheep be scattered and the flock come to destruction when the Shepherds quarrel and go together by the ears Well but now to my Physitian It hath pleased the Father that in Jesus Christ all fulness should dwell and if all fulness then the fulness of power to effect and bring to pass the work of our redemption he is the horn the strength of our salvation Thus God the Father from all eternity foreseeing mans inability of standing did provide a remedy for his fall the Son of God the second person of the Trinity to take our nature upon him and to dy a cursed death on the cross that we might live eternally in heaven and now he sits at the right hand of God making intercession for us that by a lively faith joined with contrition and mortification of the old man and sin in us can lay hold of him the right way to see the aboundant mercy of God in Christ is to see our own misery by reason of sin how lost and undone we are without him Behold what love the Father hath shewed unto us that we should be called the Sons of God Seemeth it saith David being moved by the Courtiers to entertain the offer of Sauls daughter a light thing to be the Kings Son in law and it is registred as a fruit of Moses faith to prefer the rebuke of Christ before the title of the Sonne of Pharaohs daughter between God and Saul what comparison between the King of heaven and the Daughter of Pharaoh what proportion David might have been Son in law to Saul yet not entituled to the Crown Moses might have been the adopted Son of Pharaohs daughter yet but a subject still Seemeth it a light matter to us to be called the Sons of God or to be the Sons of God which is all one this Prerogative which we have by Christs blood makes us heirs every one Not onely sons but heirs joint heirs with Iesus Christ we are all made Kings and Princes by ●im all of us intituled to a Crown of ●lory an eternal weight of glory which ●s laid up for us in heaven a most ●nestimable benefit which the tongue of men and angels are not able to express O let I beseech you the serious Considerations of Gods mercies in Christ constrein us from sinful courses ●et the words of me a dying man work ●n your spirits that you may speedily ●xamine your own hearts how you ●●and affected to a Saviour that offers ●imself to be yours ●●on condition you will leave your sins and turn unto him ●y repentance Gentlemen he were a desperate man ●●at being condemned to dy would not ●ccept of the Kings pardon if it were ●ffered Behold here is a pardon from the King of Kings here Jesus Christ ●●ffereth his Blood if we do not wilfully ●efufe it in persisting and going on in a ●ourse of sin Gentlemen be perswaded I beseech you to make your title good to heven fo● temporal things we bend all