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A58347 A call and patern for true and speedy repentance being an abridgment of those many severe sermons by Thomas Reeve ... intituled God's plea for Nineveh. Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672. 1683 (1683) Wing R692; ESTC R33984 87,424 108

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continuest such thou hast nothing from God in kindness but in the midst of thy Injoyments 't is with thee as with them in Psalm 78.31 while their Meat was in their Mouths the Wrath of God came upon them curst in all thy Concerns tho seemingly thou prosperest 'T is the like for Adversity you may know whether God reduceth thee to a meaner Condition in Mercy or in his Displeasure viz. by thy Behaviour to God in that Condition when God bringeth low one of his own for Tryal sake or for other Ends best known to himself oh with what Submissiveness Humility Love to God Patience Chearfulness c. doth he behave himself towards God! But another man how impatient is he he frets and fumes rages and storms swears and curses omits all Duty to God blaming this and t'other Instrument and is like a wild Bull in the net c. and without all Doubt thou wilt own Debasement as well as Advancement to be in Kindness to thy Soul if thou once becomest a right Ninevite i.e. a true Penitent But methinks I hear the Debauchees of this Age deride this innocencing Grace of Repentance and with their black Mouths ridiculing it saying What need of it now more than formerly and wickedly conclude by fulfilling that Prophecy in 2 Pet. 3.4 all things continue as they were from the Beginning of the Creation tho' they will be miserably mistaken as they may even in this Generation to their eternal confusion find Therefore I heartily wish that I could perswade men from living at a venture as though it were a piece of Policy and Discretion to live at uncertainties in Doubts and Fears either as if there were no Salvation or as tho' there were no right Directions how to obtain it therefore no such great need of this Duty of Repentance as is pretended to make them capable of it The Truth is Most men live the more 's the pity 't is so where Christianity is profest as if 't were hazardous or at least comfortless to be too zealous for the very Truths of the Gospel themselves and therefore they enervate the Power of every Commandment both Legal and Evangelical and to quiet their Consciences patch up Rules to themselves far short of the Power of Godliness thinking it impossible that any can live in truth to a higher degree of Holiness than themselves and by those home-spun Rules guide their Lives and so miscarry to all eternity That Threatning of our Saviour's in Matth. 5.20 That except your Righteousness shall exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven may be by the Blessing of God a Sin-confounding and a Soul-preserving Word if 't were every day sounded in the ears of the Debauches of this Age Nor can I conceive what kind of Construction Interpretation or Exposition their Teachers make thereof or they understand thereby What are they so foolish as to imagine that Debauchery and Hypocrisy divide the whole world c. surely they do else holier Lives would be the Consequent of better Thoughts They think thus or more wickedly That at the last day all being alike God Almighty will not respecting how men have lived in this World pick out some to eternal Salvation and possibly because they are in a sinful sense Self-lovers they hope they may be the Persons c. Looking upon Faith and Repentance which the Gospel directs to as improbable yea impossible tho' indeed in the true Believer they produce a holy Life which justifies them to be neither dead nor spurious and yet in point of Justification he renounces his Righteousness and counts it as a menstruous cloth as to any stead it can stand him in to the satisfying Divine Justice and wholy relies upon the Merits of JESUS CHRIST which for any other but a Child of God to do is impossible No others will look a-squint at their own Righteousness c. tho' in words they may own Christ but 't is impossible for them to go out of themselves and rely upon and another for eternal life Wherefore the whole life of a Christian in this Word is a Mystery to others and understood by none but such as are instructed by the Spirit of God And as there 's a Mystery in Godliness so there 's a Mystery of Iniquity a Child of God admires how Strangers and Enemies can have any rest and quiet in their own Bosoms how they can eat drink sleep or indeed do any thing till they have made their peace with God and got the pardon of their Sins in the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ lest in the interim because they carry their breath in their nostrils as well as others they should lye down in everlasting Flames where the Worm dyes not and the sire goes not out which undoubtedly must be to such who live and dye strangers to the Power of Faith and REPENTANCE Entred according to Order FINIS LICENS'D October 10. 1691. J. Fraser ERRATA Page 11. Line 16. for Nation read Notion p. 30. l. 1. read so tha● p. 30. l. 14. for trying r. saying p. 31 l. 23. for Majesties r Matters