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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41649	A word to sinners, and a word to saints The former tending to the awakening the consciences of secure sinners, unto a lively sense and apprehension of the dreadfull condition they are in, so long as they live in their natural and unregenerate estate. The latter tending to the directing and perswading of the godly and regenerate unto several singular duties. As also a word to housholders stirring them up to the good old way of serving God in and with their families, from Joshuah's resolution, Josh. 24. 15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Set forth especially for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of St. Sepulchres Parish, London by Tho. Gouge, late pastor thereof.	Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.	1668 (1668)	Wing G1371; ESTC R222576	207,485	324

Thereby the Lord sheweth himself to be the true God Q. What things did God so make A. All things This the Apostle expresly avouchet Col. 1.16 By him were all things Created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth Visible and Invisible If the excellency of many Creatures the greatness of others the multitude of all together be duly considered it must needs be granted that herein the Lord sheweth himself to be a God indeed the only true God None else can do the like Q. By what did God make all things A. By his Word Gen. 1.3 6. God said let there be light and let there be a Firmament and it was so And Psal. 33.6 By the Word of the Lord were things made By Gods Word we understand the manifestation of his will For God is said to speak not properly but after the manner of man Men use most commonly to express their mind and will by speaking When God did manifest and declare his will that such and such things should be instantly they were and they were so as God would have them Q. What was that estate wherein God made all things A. Very good The holy Ghost expresly noteth that at the end of every day God took a thorow view of the particular works which he had made and found them to be good Gen. 1.4 10 c. This is to be noted to justifie God against all the evil that is in the World Many Creatures are now evil But as God made them they were not so All evil hath risen from the Creatures Q. Wherein consisteth the Providence of God A. 1. In preserving Creatures 2. In well ordering them For the preserving of Creatures if God did not sustain and maintain them they would soon come to nought In this respect it is said In him we live and move and have our being Act. 17.28 Q. What doth God by his providence order A. All things whatsoever Psal. 113.6 The providence of God extends as far as his Creation as all things were Created by God so all things are ordered by him As the high and great things in the highest Heaven So the greatest things on earth Dan. 2.21 He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings Yea and the meanest things also as the very colour of hairs Mat. 5.36 Q. What is that end whereunto God directeth all things A. 1. His own Glory 2. His Childrens good Gods glory is the most principal and supream end of all At that he aimed in giving the first being to his creatures And at that also he aimeth in all things that are done at any time in any place Yea also as at the next subordinate end he aimeth at his Childrens good In regard whereof all things work together for their good Rom. 8.28 Q. In what estate did God make man at first A. In a very good and happy estate Gen. 1.31 It is said After God had made man he overlooked every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Q. Wherein did mans happiness especially consist in which he was at first made A. In that he was made after the image of God which consisted in perfect knowledge true holiness and righteousness Gen. 1.26 27. Col. 3.10 Man at first had knowledge of all things necessary for the glory of God and his own good and was likewise made holy and righteous and without sin Q Did man alwayes continue in that holy and happy estate A. No he fell from it by transgressing that commandment of God in eating the forbidden fruit Gen. 3.3 c. The sin especially lay in disobeying the command of God which commandment he gave him for the tryal of his obedience Many may possibly think this sin a light matter and are apt to charge God with severity for punishing man so sorely for so small an offence But if they shall consider the manifold sins infolded in that transgression they must acknowledge it a very hainous sin For 1. There was infidelity therein in that they believed not Gods word For though God had said In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Gen. 2.17 yet they believed not that they should dye but made some question and doubt thereof 2. Sottish credulity in giving credit to the Devil God had said ye shall surely dye And the Devil said ye shall not surely dye Yet the Woman and so also the Man thorow her perswasion gave more credit to the Devil the Father of lyes than to God the father of truth 3. Horrible Idolatry in doting upon and loving the creature more than God the Creator who is blessed for ever For this is one way of committing idolatry namely by Deifying the Creature and loving it more than God 4. Pride and Ambition desiring to be as Gods For when the Devil said ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evil they were so puffed up therewith that they transgressed 5. Theft For they took that which was none of their own but by a special reservation kept from them For God had expresly forbidden them to eat of that tree Gen. 2.17 6. Murther Our first Parents by eating that forbidden fruit brought death not only upon themselves but upon all their posterity Yea as much as in them lay they thereby implunged themselves and all their posterity into hell fire By these you may iudge of the greatness of the sin of our first parents Q. Is Adams posterity guilty of that sin A. Yea Adams sin is imputed to all his posterity By one mans disobedience many were made sinners Rom. 5.19 That is by the transgression of Adam the first man many even all that have or shall come from him are justly accounted sinners Q. How can Adams posterity be guilty of his sin A. 1. Adam was a publick person in that business He stood not in his own room alone but in the room of all mankind He was the great representative of the world so that he sinning we sinned in and with him 2. We were all in the loins of Adam when he sinned And so by the Law of generation sinned in him and in him deserved eternal condemnation Q. What is sin in general A. Sin is a transgression of the Law Thus doth an Apostle expresly define it 1 Ioh. 3.4 The law is a manifestation of the will of God declaring what he would have man to do or not to do therefore to transgress the law is to offend God and to sin against his express will Q What are the kinds of sin A. Original and Actual Q. What is Original sin A. That corruption of nature wherein all are conceived and born It is the immediate effect of Adams first sin and the principal cause of all other sins In which respect it is called Original because it is the spring from whence all actual sins issue and flow Of this Original corruption did David speak in Psal. 51.5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me Never was any that came from Adam

offering up a Morning Sacrifice of Prayer and thanksgiving Lord we acknowledge our great unworthiness to come into thy presence to present our Prayers and supplications unto thee But though we are unworthy yet Christ is worthy We beseech thee therefore for his sake to look graciously upon us to pass by our unworthiness and to strengthen our weakness To this end as we draw near unto thee so be thou pleased to draw near unto us enabling us to pray as with humility and sincerity so with zeal and fervency of spirit and with faith in Jesus Christ looking for audience and acceptance in and thorow him Blessed Lord God we cannot but acknowledge thou didst at first create us in a blessed and happy estate even after thine own image endowing us with true knowledge holiness and righteousness But we soon fell from that state of innocency and blessedness in the loynes of our first Father Adam and implunged our selves with him into a dreadfull gulf of sin and misery For O Lord besides the guilt of Adams sin we have contracted from him a Mass of corruption which hath poysoned our very natures polluted and defiled all the faculties of our souls with all the parts and members of our bodies So that we may more truly in regard of our spiritual uncleanness cry out Vnclean Vnclean than the Leper under the Law in regard of his bodily uncleanness And O Lord to this corruption of our natures we have added many many actual sins of our own which as they have been hainous in their quality so in their number and multitude have far exceeded the hairs of our heads and the sands on the Sea-shore which cannot be numbred The which we have committed through the whole course of our lives from our infancy to this present time So that we are now grown old in sin and overgrown with corruption Though the time thou hast allotted us here to live is very little even as a moment to Eternity yet alas how little of this little have we lived to thee our God or to the good of our own souls having mis-spent the greatest part of our dayes in vanity and pleasure We have continued ignorant of thee how much means of knowledge have we had and yet how little knowledge have we gotten oh how little have we done for our souls or the other World We have not considered what is like to become of us hereafter How little care and pains have we taken to make sure for Eternity we have taken the course to undo our selves for ever We have broken every one of thy most holy and righteous Laws ten thousand thousand times Yea we have sinned against thy Gospel in slighting the offers of grace Though thou hast sent unto us Ambassadour after Ambassadour to wooe and beseech us to abandon our sins and to receive Jesus Christ yet alas how have we slighted thy messengers and turned a deaf ear to all thy gracious invitations Though we are willing to take Christ for our Saviour to preserve us from hell and damnation yet alas how unwilling are we to take him for our Lord and King to yield obedience and subjection unto him Lord we cannot but acknowledge our great unthankfulness under those manifold favours and mercies thou hast in a plentiful measure conferred on us as also our unprofitableness under thy Fatherly chastis●ments laid upon us in love and for our good our discontentedness at our present state and condition And oh how careless and negligent have we been in the discharge of the duties of our places callings and relations Oh the multitude of worldly and covetous thoughts of proud and ambitious thoughts of wicked and prophane thoughts of wanton and unclean thoughts yea and of blasphemous and atheistical thoughts that lodge in the hearts of most of us and there revel it day and night And O Lord we cannot but acknowledge the deadness of our hearts the distractions of our minds in the performing holy duties We are active and lively about our worldly businesses but oh how dull and flat are we in our religious exercises praying as if we prayed not and hearing as if we heard not Lord make us truly apprehensive of our sins and misery that we may humble our selves under a sense of them and turn unto thee by true and unfained repentance Turn us O God and we shall be turned draw us and we will run after thee And O Lord whilest we are returning unto thee meet us we pray thee in the way and like a tender Father embrace us with the arms of thy mercy Our sins we confess are many and hainous yet we know and believe thy mercies are far more and the merits of Jesus Christ are far greater and therefore we are resolved to adventure our souls as upon the mercies of the● our God so upon the merits of Jesus Christ into whose arms we here cast our selves Oh be pleased to make us partakers both of the merit of Christs death in freeing us from the guilt of sin and of the virtue of Christs death in freeing us from the power and dominion of sin that it may not rule and raign in us as formerly Lord work in us a loathing and a true hatred of every sin especially of such we have been most addicted to and have most delighted in To this end convince us what a folly yea madness it is for the short fruition of a momentany pleasure here to implunge our selves into everlasting burnings Oh convert every unconverted soul among us bring us to Christ make us adventurers for the other World let us be resolved henceforth for an holy and righteous life instruct us in thy wayes and teach us thy S●atutes Break the power of our sins subdue our rebellion and make us willing to be the Lord's Change our evil natures and give us another Spirit Help us sincer●ly to choose thee as our portion to love and fear and trust in thee and to walk humbly with thee all the dayes of our life Help us to set our affections on things abov● and no longer on this earth let us dye daily to sin and this World let us exercise our selv●s in keeping a good Cons●i●nce towards God and men let us work out our Salvation with fear and trembling and give all diligence to make our calling and election sure and let not our labour herein be in vain Keep us O Lord from our iniquities keep us from the way of lying from all unrighteous and unjust dealing from wrath and evil speaking let us be true temperate peaceable and mercifull as the children of our heavenly Father Help us to be serious and savoury and tender and watchfull and hold us on constantly in our holy course to the end of our dayes Lord take us into thy keeping and protection this day keep us from all danger especially from sinning against thee To this end make us watchfull both against the occasions of sins and temptations thereunto Keep us we pray thee

for the spiritual and eternal good of our poor souls Help us to keep alwayes upon our hearts a deep sense as of the certainty of our death so of the uncertainty of the time thereof that we may live as those who believe we must shortly dye Lord take us into thy keeping and protection this night Grant we may lodge in the arms of Jesus that we may rest in his bosome Give unto us such sweet and comfortable rest and sleep that our bodies may be refreshed and we the better enabled to serve thee the next day in our several places and callings In mercy remember thine all the World over And in special we pray thee for this sinfull Land and Nation Pardon our sins be reconciled to us in Jesus Christ. Let thy Gospel have a free passage therein Pour the choicest of thy blessings upon the head of our King that he may be a blessing unto us Bless all our Magistrates with the Ministers of thy Word and Sacraments P●tty the afflicted members of Jesus Christ. Bless all Christian Families this in particular giving unto every member thereof all needfull saving sanctifying graces And now accept our Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving which we offer unto thee for thy manifold favours and mercies conferred on our souls and bodies especially and above all for that great gift of thine the Lord Jesus Christ and for all those great things he hath done and suffered for our redemption We bless thy name as for the enjoyment of the Gospel so for any spiritual good we have received thereby that any of us have fiducially and cordially closed with the tenders and offers of Jesus Christ. We bless thy name that thou hast withheld us from the company and wayes of those who live without God in the World giving themselves up to work all wickedness with greediness and hast set our hearts to seek the Lord and wait for thy Salvation For every other good thing whether temporal or spiritual concerning this life or a better blessed and praised be thy great and glorious name And now O Lord we beseech thee in mercy to overlook all the weaknesses and infirmities which have accompanied this holy duty Sprinkle both our Persons and our Services with the blood of that immaculate Lamb Christ Jesus To whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be rendred as is most due all honour and praise and glory both now and for evermore Amen A Prayer for a single Person O Eternal and ever-living Lord God the fountain of all blessing the Father of Mercy and God of all Consolation I thy poor creature altogether unworthy to appear in thy sight to present my Prayer and supplication unto thee do yet in the name and mediation of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ prostrate my self at the footstool of thy grace looking for acceptance and assistance in and through him For his sake look graciously upon me pardon my sins which are many and hainous Lord I cannot but acknowledge that besides the guilt of Adam's sin there is in me a fountain of corruption which I brought with me into the World from whence hath plentifully flowed many poisonous streams of actual transgressions and that in evil thoughts evil words and evil actions which I have committed through the whole course of my life from my tender infancy to this present time I have been alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in me I have walked after the course of this World fulfilling the desires of my flesh and of my mind minding earthly things I have broken thy Law neglected thy Gospel refused the offers of Christ and am in great doubt that to this day there hath been no good work wrought upon me but that I continue in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity Lord I cannot but acknowledge I have shamefully abused the ric●es of thy goodness forbearance and long-suffering which should have led me to repentance as also thy Fatherly corrections and chasti●ements laid upon me in love and for my good oh how little have I been bettered thereby How do I spend my time and strength for the getting of earthly riches and satisfying my self with sensual pleasures and in the mean time am careless of my precious and immortal soul Lord I have often for my profit and pleasure sake omitted and put off the holy exercises of Religion which ought to have been performed by me and have been exceeding dead and dull lifeless and heartless in performing those good duties I have taken in hand I have been unfruitfull under a plentiful dispensation of the means of grace unthankfull under those favours and mercies thou hast conferred on me unfaithfull to those manifold vows and promises I have made unto thee my God Truth Lord my sins are many and hainous but this is my comfort that Jesus Christ came into the World to save sinners and why not me why not me I acknowledge my self to be a great sinner but yet again thy Word testifieth That Jesus Christ came to save the chief of sinners Therefore will I not despair of mercy but am resolved to cast my self and the burden of my sins into the arms and upon the shoulders of Jesus Christ. Be pleased to accept of what Christ hath done and suffered for me and to accept of me in him Turn me O Lord unto thee and through him let me be reconciled unto thee Slay the enmity and subdue the rebellion of mine heart against thee Wash my polluted soul with his most precious blood cloath my nakedness with the long white robe of his righteousness fill my emptiness out of that fulness which is in Jesus Christ. Enrich my soul with all needfull saving sanctifying graces Let the faith of Gods Elect let the love and fear of thy name be shed abroad in my heart Oh that every grace may more and more flourish in me and my lusts more and more wither and decay in me Let my covetousness dye let my pride and envy and passion and sensuality dye let the whole body of death be destroyed that I may no longer serve sin Oh give me grace in this my day to know the things that belong to my peace to make a right use of this time of my visitation As Christ is now frequently tendred in the Ministry of the Gospel as a Saviour to poor sinners So Lord give me grace fiducially to close with the offers and tenders of him that Christ may be mine and I his And as thou hast been pleased to afford unto me the means of grace so I pray thee help me to carry my self in some measure suitable and answerable thereunto that I may not be a shame but rather a credit to Religion and my profession thereof To this end teach me to deny all ungodliness and Worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World Blessed Lord seeing without thy blessing it will be in vain to put forth my own

Christ only excepted who was conceived by the holy Ghost free from this sin As every other creature receiveth the nature and disposition of their kind and stock thus Lyons a ravenous disposition Doggs a doggish disposition so the Children of sinfull man a sinfull disposition an inclination rooted in their natures to all kinds of sin which continueth in them as long as they live and is never quite rooted out of any so long as he continueth here on earth Which the Lord in his wisdom hath so ordered 1. That thereby they may be the more humbled and kept from spiritual pride 2. That they might have more frequent occasions of going to God by prayer for help and strength against the working of corruptions in them Q. What is actual sin A. A particular breach of Gods Law Q. How many wayes do men fall into actual sins A. 1. By omitting or not doing the good which God in his Word requireth 2. By committing or doing the evil which God in his Word hath forbidden 3. By a sinfull manner of performing that which is good The best duties we take in hand are exceedingly corrupted through our failing in the manner of performing them Q. What is the punishment of sin A. All curses and plagues in this life at the end death and after that eternal torment in hell Deut. 28.16 17. Rom. 6.23 2 Thes. 1.8 9. Q. Is any man able to free himself out of that wofull plight whereinto he hath implunged himself by sin A. Surely No. 2 Cor. 3.5 We are not sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves Much less can we do any thing of our selves to free our selves from so great a misery as sin hath brought us into We are dead in sin Eph. 2.1 And dead men cannot raise themselves to life Q Can any other creature deliver man A. No meer Creature Psalm 49.7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give unto God a ransome for him This may be applyed to all the Creatures in the World to all the Saints and Angels in the World none of them can by any means redeem his brother So that in regard of mans own power or in regard of succour from any meer creature there remaineth nothing but matter of despair Q. Is there any means to free man out of his corrupt and miserable estate A. Yes God himself hath given unto man a Saviour Act. 5.31 When it was manifested none could help God himself gave an helper and a Saviour unto us Q. Who is mans Saviour A. Jesus Christ. 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Iesus Christ came into the World to save sinners Iesus is an Hebrew word and signifieth a Saviour The Angel that gave this name addeth this reason thereof He shall save his people from their sins The other name Christ is a Greek Word and signifieth anointed Iesus shews him to be a Saviour Christ an able Saviour because anointed that is set apart by God and endowed with all fulness for the work of our redemption Q. What is Iesus Christ. A. He is the eternal Son of God who in the fulness of time took mans nature The only begotten Son of God the second Person in the Trinity who in the fulness of time took mans Nature upon him This is Jesus Christ. He is called the only begotten Son of God because he is the alone Son of God by nature For though others be Sons of God by Creation as Adam was and the Angels Others by adoption and regeneration as the Saints of God Yet none is his Son by nature but Jesus Christ who is therefore called the only begotten Son of God Joh. 1.14 which is to be understood of an eternal and incomprehensible generation which would rather be admired than enquired into Q. Why must mans Redeemer be man A. 1. In general that he might suffer and dye for mans Redemption Heb. 9.22 Without shedding of blood is no remission of sin ● Christ therefore that he might dye for our Redemption took upon him our Nature for as God he could not dye 2. That he might satisfie the justice of God in the same manner wherein it was offended For the justice of God did require that satisfaction should be made in the same nature which had sinned Man therefore having sinned it was requisite that man should dye for the satisfying Gods justice and appeasing his wrath Whereupon saith the Apostle Since by man came Death by man came the Resurrection of the dead 1 Cor. 15.21 3. That he might feel our frailties and from sense and experience learn pitty and compassion Which reason the Apostle rendreth Heb. 2.16 17. He took on him the seed of Abraham that he might be a merciful and faithfull High-Priest that is that he might be merciful as one man is to another And in Heb. 4.15 We have not an High-Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin Q. Why must mans Redeemer be also God A. 1. That he might be able and sufficient to endure that which for mans sin he undertook The burden which he underwent was the wrath of an infinite God and there was need of a divine power to support under the divine wrath His humane nature would have been overwhelmed with the heavy weight of Gods wrath had not the divine nature strengthned and upheld it 2. That he might vanquish all the enemies of our Salvation and overcome Satan hell and death which no meer creature could do Christ being God by his death he overcame death and him that had the power of death that is the Devil 3. That his obedience and sufferings might be of an infinite price and value That which made the Obedience and the Death of Christ to be of such an infinite value was that it was the obedience and the death of the Son of God of him who was God as well as man The Deity being one nature in the person of our Redeemer an infinite dignity accompanyed his person and every thing that was done and suffered by him Which affords a singular ground of comfort to all humbled sinners sensible of their sins and misery due unto them for the same in that the death and sufferings of Jesus Christ is of infinite worth and merit far above the merit of their sins being the death and sufferings of him who was God as well as man Oh what comfort yea what matter of triumph did this afford unto the Apostle Paul as appeareth in Rom. 8.33.34 For treating of the fulness and a●sufficiency of Christs satisfaction by his death in the former part of the Chapter in the latter part he speaks as one ravished with abundance of comfort and thereupon presently challengeth a dispute with any concerning the fulness of Christs satisfaction by his death Let conscience saith he and carnal reason let Law and sin Hell and Devil