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A41842 The great salvation offered and tendered first, by Christ himself, and then by his holy apostles, with the inevitable destruction of all that neglect it : in the sermons, reprinted / by that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. Andrew Gray ... Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656. 1694 (1694) Wing G1614; ESTC R39448 32,015 57

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THE Great Salvation Offered and Tendered First by Christ himself and then by his Holy Apostles with the inevitable Destruction of all that neglect it In two Sermons Reprinted By that eminent Servant of Christ Mr. Andrew Gray formerly Minister of the Gospel in Glasgow Isaiah 52. 7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth Salvation London Printed for H. Barnard in the Poultrey 1694. TO THE READER Christian Reader BLessed were those days when Christians whether frown'd or smil'd upon by the World lived by Faith and walked in Holiness and Love and Ministers sought the things of their Lord and Master Iesus Christ and not their own When Gospel-Truth was plainly declared by the Preachers and Reverendly received and not wantonly debated by Hearers When Gospel Ordinances were prised and used for the Enjoyment of God in them When Iesus Christ was all in all in Mens Religion And when the Holy Ghost went forth sensibly in Calling Furnishing and Countenancing Ministers in their Work A great measure of this Blessedness did the Western Parts of Scotland Enjoy especially from the Year 1651 to 1660. Amongst the many bright and shining Stars in Christs Right Hand which he set upon his Candlesticks in that part of Brittain two Youths deserve everlasting Remembrance in the Church Mr. Hugh Binning and Mr. Andrew Gray The former Lived but to the twenty sixth year of his Age of whose Labours though several excellent things are Published his Discourses of some of the Principles of Christian Religion deserve Special Regard They have been often Printed and their Depth Gravity and Excellency deserves a larger Commendation than I can give them Mr. Andrew Gray his Contemporary dyed in the twenty second year of his Age. He was Born of a Noble Family bred up at the Vniversity where he profited signularly in Learning and Polished the excellent Parts God had given him The Saving Grace of God reacht him about the nineteenth year of his Age and at twenty he was called and setled in the Ministry of the Gospel at Glasgow a bright Candlestick in that day with Mr. James Durham and Mr. John Carstairs Ministers of the New Testament of singular Worth After two years painful and successful Labours there the Lord called him to his Rest. His singular Gifts for Preaching his charming way of Delivery both in Voice and Action the power he was endowed with and the great success on Mens Hearts that commonly attended his Labours were so Eminent that he was followed by Multitudes wherever he Preached more than any other Minister in that Land in his Day and became the blessed Instrument of the Converting of many to the Faith of Christ. What is Printed of his Sermons was principally by the Notes taken by some of his Hearers sometimes compared with what he Wrote himself which render them but lean Sceletons of the Discourses of a Minister under such singular Influences and Assistance of the Holy Ghost as he usually was in his Work It is well known what Imperfections attend such posthumous writings and what allowances judicious persons read them with How these two came forth alone thou shalt know A worthy Christian in Lancashire being much taken with Mr. Gray's Sermons he design'd to reprint these two concerning The Great Salvation and to give some hundreds of them to his poor Neighbours for their Souls good This Gentleman finding that the first Publishers of them were two Ministers in Edinburgh one of them being my honoured Father and I also bearing his Name he did not know but that I was one of the persons that first sent them to the Press and therefore he desired me to Preface to them I told him his mistake and that I being very young when Mr. Gray dyed could Testify no more of my own Knowledg but that I had seen him in my Fathers House and Pulpit and that I do well remember the high Character be had from all the godly Ministers and Christians that knew him and that his Death was lamented bitterly as a publick Calamity and a Prognostick of evil to come Although another might be more fit than I to Commend them to the Publick and if it had been put to my cheice I might have pitched on something else of this Author or of another for that Chritable end driven at yet seeing every one is to be left to their own Liberty in good works of this nature I would neither divert his design nor deny his request These two Sermons now again published contain no matters or point of Controversy except the main things of the Gospel be so accounted in this Age wherein angry contention is more minded by many than solid Believing and Holy walking They hold forth the greatest of Truths and best of Tidings The great Salvation wrought out compleatly by the Son of God our Saviour They warn gravely of the greatest commonest and most Damning of all Sins the neglecting thereof They earnestly call to the most important of all Gospel-Duties the believing acceptance of this Saviour with his great Salvation May some of the same Power from on High accompany thy Reading of them that did attend the Preaching of them is the desire of Thy Servant in the Gospel Ro. Trail A SERMON Concerning the GREAT SALVATION Heb. 2. 3. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him THis everlasting Gospel which is preached unto you is that glorious Star which must lead us to the place where blessed Christ doth lye This Gospel and glad tidings of the great salvation is come near unto you And Christ is standing at the everlasting doors of your hearts desiring that ye would open unto him There is that one great request which Heaven this day hath to present unto you and it is that ye would at last embrace this great salvation freely offered by him It is the thing for which ye are called to mourn this day that since the dayes of your fathers and since the beginning of your own dayes ye have stopped your ears from the sweet and chaunting voice of this blessed Chamber Ye would never dance to Christ when he piped Neither would ye weep to him when he lamented But to come to the words which we have read unto you The Apostle in the former Chapter had been discoursing most Divinely of the matchless and incomparable excellencies which are in our Lord Jesus And in the first verse of this second Chapter he draweth forth an Exhortation from his former Doctrine which in short is this That they would take heed to the Blessed Doctrine of the Gospel and not at any time to let it slip out of their minds and that they would keep this Gospel as a jewel of great price and would not sell it but that they would be induced to buy