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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44418	A sermon preach'd before the King at Kensington, Sunday, Jan. 20. 1695 by Geo. Hooper ...	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2709; ESTC R228924	11,718	30

judgment of their hearts they have appear'd indeed as condemn'd Men and their own evil Spirit has sufficiently tormented them so sensible were they of what they had deserv'd that none but their God could afflict them more but his terrors were Greater still and they felt not yet his Almighty Arm. Some indeed scape better here they have the Address to Over-rule the Sentence of their hearts or divert the Execution find other entertainment for their thoughts and by new guilt deliver themselves from the past call in Company for their help against themselves to rescue or to intercede will not be at leisure to hear nor suffer the Soul to speak drown the Voice of Nature with a noise of Musick and its fears in Wine But these are but methods to practise upon themselves Arts that can succeed only on our own weak Minds God is Greater that Judge is not in our power nor to be diverted by such Amusements The Sentence therefore aggravated by these unprofitable criminal Delays will at last be pronounc'd and as certainly executed whisper'd before but then spoke out by the glorious God that maketh the Thunder by the God that speaks to the Dead and they hearken to the old Criminals of Ages past and they rise up and appear Then our Maker must be own'd when He has twice form'd us must be confess'd at least by Torture Then the Difference of Good and Ill will be sensibly felt the wide difference plainly discern'd wide as the great Gulph betwixt Heaven and Hell Let us therefore now begin to consider and timely enter upon the necessary Review let us examine our selves for the Reflections we have neglected and for those we have been able to prevent let us recover the Notices we have stifled and restore the Judicature to GOD within us Let us judge our selves that we be not judged and prevent the Condemnation to come Let our Apprehensions of GOD be as Great as His Majesty and let us think of reconciling our selves to a Power we must obey For if our hearts condemn us and we persist to offend where is our Hope Or who is it that shall give the Pardon Will GOD be less Holy than our selves and our Sins less disagreeable to Him Or will His Judgment want of the Righteousness of ours And is Iniquity like to find favour there To practise what we cannot but condemn is the highest disingenuity but to expect that what we can't but condemn should not be condemned by GOD is a Blasphemous Presumption And if in the Course of a vicious Life our hearts condemn us not a Supposition St. John would not make we have then more yet to dread lest we should have been already condemn'd by the Almighty and given up to this reprobate Mind lest our Consciences sear'd so as with a hot Iron should have been branded by a Judicial Sentence from above Our Case is desperate indeed abandon'd by our selves and given over by our Maker We hear no more of the Inferiour Judge deputed to fit in our hearts to enquire and to determine but we shall not so escape he is assaulted and slain by our Treason a Treason added to our other Crimes committed against the Sovereign the proper Conusance of the Great and Terrible Day But if when our hearts have condemned us we repent and amend are griev'd for what we cannot recall and resolv'd hereafter to obey the Directions of our Reason Our future good Deeds cannot indeed blot out the committed Ill nor our Hearts pardon us and reverse the Sentence it has justly pass'd but to our Comfort God is greater He can pardon our Faults and will do away our fences by Him we are restor'd as at the beginning and it is the part then of Satan not of our Hearts to accuse us Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's Elect is the Challenge then of St. Paul It is God that justifieth who is he that condemneth And then when a New Life shall have proceeded from this Beginning a Life clear of Vnjustice Intemperance Profaneness Actions always unnatural to Man but at last his surest Aversion and most dreaded Horrour when Temperance in our selves Charity to Men Services and Duty to our GOD shall have traced out a fair and happy way to Heaven a course upon the Reflection the most delightful and agreeable sight to a Humane Mind when at the Even of our Days we shall come to review our Actions and see with a satisfaction like to that of our Creatour That all is Good with Him we shall enter into a Sabbath too and on our Death-beds be in a State of Rest and unspeakable Joy greater than Voluptuousness Honour and Riches ever afforded the ungodly Offender the same Instinct that prompted us before to our Duty assuring us now of a Reward and adding to the pleasing View of the past time the glorious Prospect of an infinitely happy Eternity to come With those then who have so liv'd like the Creatures of GOD and according to the Truth of their Humane Nature He will likewise deal according to the infinite Goodness and Kindness of his own acknowledging them for His whom He finds after his Image and advancing them to a greater Likeness and nearer Approach Well done thou Good thou Faithful and Obedient Creature enter thou into the Joy of thy Maker Thither may He please to bring us all by the Merits of His Son and the Assistance of His Spirit and to Them in their Trinity c. 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