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A39928 An epistle to the Church of Christ in Chippin-Norton as also certaine scripture rules which Iesus Christ hath given to His churches to walke by, which are approved of and consented unto, by all the members of the said chvrch : published for their use and benefit, and for the satisfaction of such persons as desire to know the principles, and practices of the church aforesaid / by Stephen Ford ... Ford, Stephen, d. 1694. 1657 (1657) Wing F1507; ESTC R6260 38,085 48

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Have you been convinced of the Justice of God how justly God might have damned you for the least sinne that ever you were guilty of that the great God hath cast many thousands into Hell for farre lesse sins then you have committed that it was ten thousand to one that you had not been lost that God hath been infinitely patient and forbearing towards you Rom. 2.4 Gen ● 17 7. Have you been convinced of your unworthinesse that you deserve for ever to be rejected of God and never to be received into favour with him Jerem 32.10 Phil. 3.7 8 9. 8. Have you understood seriously considered what it will cost you to be Christians indeed many as I have often told you when they are a little startled and awaked by the terrors of the Almighty make some foolish desperate resolutions and attempts to change their course of life and go on so to doe for a while but when they meet with stormes and tempests they change their minds and go back with the dogge to their vomit 2 Pet. 2.22 Math. 13.21 Luk. 14.28 to 34. have you con●●dered that it will cost you the losse of Father and Mother wife and Children yea it may be your own lives also that you must take up Christs yoake and follow him Luk. 14.26.27 and are you resolved notwithstanding to be Christians can you say that none of these things move you you care not what you suffer or undergoe so that you may winne Christ and be found in him Phil. 3.7 8 9. 9. Hath God followed these convictions have they been revived againe when they have been dying or sleeping have they spurr'd you on to Christ and to a more dilligent and earnest enquiry after God and your selves Phil. 1.6 Phil. 2.13 Joh. 16.9 10. Did sinne lye so heavy upon your Consciences and the sence of Divine wrath as to make you restlessely and unweariedly to make out after Jesus Christ for rest and peace Math. 11.28.29 and when you went about to quiet your Consciences with your prayers or the good opinion of the Saints or your reformation or resting upon any other broken reeds or sparkes of your own kindling Did the blessed God fetch you off and continually pursue your Consciences untill he had brought your wills to choose and accept of Jesus Christ upon his own termes and that freely without looking back with reluctancy of Spirit c. finding a kind of loathnesse and unwillingnesse to foregoe your Idols but you could cherefully and heartily cast them all away can you remember that the Lord hath brought you so farre and is still carrying on the worke in your hearts can you find that your hearts were and still are drawn to go to the free grace and mercy of God in and by Iesus Christ by his blood and righteousnesse and in the sight and sense of your own lost miserable and woefull estate and condition being sinners and in the sense of your own vilenesse sinfullnesse unworthinesse insufficiency say sincerly heartily Oh Lord here is a poor wretched sinfull Creature come to thee for to be justifyed and pardoned Oh Lord I doe abhorre my selfe and all my own Righteousnesse I am a poor begger miserable blind naked Oh Lord I am a condemned person cast and lost and I am like to perish for ever by thy righteous Law but Oh I heare that there is another Court of Iustice and mercy erected for poor sinners to appeale unto and I am invited nay commanded to make my appeale there Lord I come unto thy free grace and mercy nay Lord I come to thy Justice in Ghrists name 1 Joh. 1.9 I believe that he came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 and that he hath satisfyed thy Justice that he obeyed thy Law that thou art well pleased with him Lord thou hast made thy Sonne to be sinne for some persons that they may be made Righteous by him he bore the sins of many yea for all that come unto thee by him with speciall Faith Oh Lord I desire to be made Righteous by his blood righteousnesse to have Redemption through his blood Oh Lord if it may please thee to Justify me for his sake Oh thou that justifies the ungodly own me and be well pleased with me use me in thy worke I shall account it my greatest happinesse Oh Lord whatever hath separated between me and thee heretofore I doe utterly and heartily renounce abhorre and forsake all my beloved sinnes all my beloved Righteousnesse that I may have Communion with thee that I may no more dishonour thee Oh Lord I have been a willing servant to sinne and the Divell but unwilling to serve thee but oh Lord now I am willing to cast of Sathan's service and to engage in thy service I preserre thy ways and thy Commandements tenthousand times before my old ways Oh Lord I have delighted in sinne but now in Holinesse to please my lusts but now to please my God Oh Lord I am willing to have an interest in Jesus Christ upon any termes send me where thou wilt do with me as it shall seem good unto thee only deny me not an interest in thy Son in thy speciall Love Oh for Christ for Christ am I come give me Christ else I dye I will hang upon thy invitation thy command thy promise Joh. 7.37 1 John 3.23 Joh. 6.37 Oh Lord thou hast invited sinners to come in and be reconciled unto thee O Lord thou hast intreated and beseeched sinners 2 Cor. 5.20 to accept of the termes of reconciliation Oh Lord I doe come I am a sinner I am one of them that is invited 't is true I am a great sinner oh yet I am but a sinner Oh I am willing now to be saved in the same way that Paul was Oh Lord why not I why not I seeeing that sinners are invited yea whoever will let him come O Lord thou hast commanded sinners such as see themselves lost to look upon thy mercy and Grace in Christ and be Saved Is 45.22 Oh Lord I come in Obedience to thy command I am resolved to hang here Yea Lord thou hast promised never to cast off such as come unto thee Oh Lord I 'll hang upon thy faithfullnesse and promise Oh let me find favour I am resolved to take no denyall I will not be put off without thee Lord Jesus I am resolved to be like the importunate Widdow Luk. 18.1 2 3 4. I will keep crying and praying Oh Lord 't is for my life Oh Lord thou hast been a long time waiting to be gracious unto me now I will wait for thee to answer my petition thou hast been many yeares wooing of me to gaine my Love and consent to marry thy Sonne Oh Lord now I 'll woe thee Oh now I consent freely Now with all my heart I am ready to contract with him here is my soule and body and all is ready for him Oh if I might but hear one comfortable word from