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sin_n	body_n	death_n	separation_n	3,748	5	10.7337	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58034	A looking-glass for the wise and foolish, the godly & ungodly Wherein they may see, how much it concerns them to be wise unto salvation, before it be too late. By John Ryther, minister of the gospel in Wapping, near London.	Ryther, John, 1634?-1681.	1677 (1677)	Wing R2440; ESTC R222745	34,418	116

when he will Turn you out of your Clay Cottages at his pleasure Secondly Is it not folly to grieve him that can call you to an account when he will You must be accountable to him for your grieving of him at his own time and pleasure Thirdly Is it not a folly to grieve him that we cannot contend with Is there any standing out with God Did ever any harden himself against the Lord and prosper Job 9.4 Did you never Sinners read that word seriously over Can your hearts endure or your hands be made strong in that day that I shall deal with you saith the Lord Ezek. 22.14 You may it may be endure through the hardness of your hearts the day that Gods Servants deal with you But Oh Sinner God's day of dealing with thee will be another kind of Day Fourthly Is it not folly to grieve him that hath done you so many kindnesses Is not this great Ingratitude and is not this Folly O foolish People and unwise will you thus requite the Lord 4. Is not this Folly to mock at that which cost Jesus Christ his precious Blood What died the Lord Jesus Christ for Was it not the Remission of sins Without shedding of blood says the Apostle there is no Remission Heb. 1.3 When Christ had purged by himself our sins he sate down at the right Hand of the Majesty on high Ah poor sinners do not you tread the Blood of Christ under foot and account it an unclean thing while you make a mock at sin O hard hearted wretches can you make a mock at that which let out the Heart Blood of Christ Can you make that a matter of Laughter which made the Lord Jesus sorrowful even unto death Can you mock at the Gall and Vinegar that those cruel Jews that Crucified our Lord gave him to drink Would you have Laughed to have seen him hang upon the Cross You all that make a mock at sin do as much as if you Laught at him when he went to Execution And is it not Sinners to Crucifie him again and to put him to open shame 5. Is it not a Folly to mock at that which brought the Curse into the World until Sin entred into the World there was no such thing as the Curse known and to mock at sin is to mock at the Curse O what madness is this To mock at that which shortly you must feel the effects of which consists in two things First Death Temporal In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Would you know how Death that King of Terrours entred into the World and hath such an universal and uncontrollable Regency in the World The Apostle answers it Death entred into the World by sin Rom. 5.12 Ah sinners will you make a mock at Death Is dying a jesting matter with you Will you mock when this grim Serjeant shall Arrest you Will not then your mocking be turned into mourning Doth the guilty condemned Malefactor when ready to be turned off the Ladder use to die mocking at the Executioner I believe when you lie a dying you will tell another story Secondly The Curse that sin hath brought consists in eternal Death called the second Death The first Death that consists of separation betwixt Soul and Body but the second Death that consists in a seperation betwixt the Soul and God it is called Everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. 6. Is it not a Folly to make a mock at that which hath made many a poor Soul go groaning under the weight and burden of it many a Day yea many a Year Poor sinners you may sport at it for a while but if the Lord once make you feel the Load of it and lay upon you the Sense of it then your Note will be changed What was it that made David cry out Psal 38.4 5 6 7. My Wounds stink and are corrupt And at another time My Sores run day and night and ceaseth not I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart What was the matter What occasioned this tumult in the Soul of poor David He tells us For mine in quities are gone over mine head as a burden as too heavy a burden for me to bear c. And poor Sinner wilt thou mock at that which other gracious Souls have so sadly mourned over Poor penitent Souls are called weary and heavy laden Souls And shall it be to you a jesting mocking business 7. Is it not a great Folly to mock at that which Satan is so earnestly solicitous to draw Souls into It is the great design of Satan to draw Souls into Sin and Guilt It is called The work of the Devil O how industrious is he in tempting O how diligent is he in laying snares for poor Sinners And shall Sinners mock at Satans snares Are not Sinners his Vassals and Captives And is this a mocking matter to be tied to his Chariot Wheels To be lead in triumph by this devourer and destroyer of Souls Would you make a mock at a company of poor Captives that are taken by the Turks and there put into the Galleys or cruelly beaten and abused by their hard hearted Patroons And is not this the case Ah poor Soul thou art Captive to Satan for all thy mocking Thou art in a worse condition than any Galley-Slave in the World though thou art not sensible of it 8. Is it any mocking matter to mock at that which degraded Angels and Men How came Angels to be degraded from that Dignity and Honour in which they were Created We read an Answer to the Question 2 Pet. 2.4 God spared not Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell and delivered them into Chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgment These Angels were glorious Courtiers once though condemned Prisoners now What was then the matter for which they were thus severely dealt with They rebelled against God and so were degraded from their first Station Jude tells us They kept not their first Station their first Estate Jude ver 6. Secondly Sin degraded Man and shall we mock at that which degraded us from that excellent State in which we were Created Man being in Honour abideth not he is like the Beast that perisheth Psal 49.12 Or Adam ledged not in Honour no not one night as the Hebrew reads it And the Septuagint He understood not He understood not the Excellency of that Estate in which he was Created and so was degraded And 〈◊〉 this a mocking matter Sinners To be degraded and stript of that glorious Robe of Original Righteousness with which he was in his Primitive State clothed To be rob'd of Communion with God and Conformity to God in which consisted his Excellency and to be degraded of this Glory O sinners is this a mocking matter Put all these Particulars together and weigh them in the Ballance of the Sanctuary and lay them to your

is a very brief yet full Description of all ungodly Persons who they are They are fools 1. We have the Persons described They are fools 2. We have the Practice They make a mock at Sin I. Their Persons They are fools 1. They may think themselves Wise they may be wise in their own Conceit but they are nevertheless Fools Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit There is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 26.12 2. They may be wise in other mens Conceits and be cried up for Wise Men in the World yet Fools in Gods account Their Posterity approve their sayings they are written down in other Mens Kalenders for Wise Men but what says God How are they written down in Gods Kalender This their way is their folly Psal 49.13 3. Probably these Men may be wise for the World The Children of the World are wiser than the Children of Light in their Generations yet they are Fools He that getteth Riches and not by right he leaveth them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a Fool Jer. 17.11 He is a Fool for Eternity though a Wise Man for this present World 4. These Men may be wise to do evil and yet the greater Fools For my People is foolish they have not known me they are sottish Children they have no understanding they are wise to do evil Jer. 4.22 There are two words in the Hebrew for a Fool and they are both given to ungodly Men in Scripture Nabal Foolish or Evil such a Fool as hath his understanding faded and depraved whereupon he becomes vile and wicked The other word for a Fool is Moreh which signifies one Rebellious If a man have a stubborn and rebellious Son c. Deut. 21.18 there we have the word Such an one is a Fool it signifies as * Mr. Answ from this comes the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one observes one that changeth and turneth to the worse yea in Heart and Action and in particular turneth from and opposeth the Word of God It seems Fool and Rebels are the same with God II. We have the description of their Practice in the Text they make a mock at Sin Thus is their Folly made manifest Thus they proclaim their Folly they make a mock and scorn of that which is the Object of Gods wrath and vengeance they sport themselves with it Fools sport themselves in doing mischief It is a sport to a fool to do mischief But a Man of understanding hath wisdom Prov. 10.23 O what Fools are these to mock at that which cast the Angels out of Heaven Adam out of Paradise which brought Christ an Errand from Heaven to Earth and which without Repentance will send them on an errand from Earth to Hell And what Sinner make a mock at Sin thou mayst as well make a mock of God of Christ of Heaven of Hell of Damnation And art thou so hardned that thou canst find in thy heart to laugh in the face of all these What Sinner not one spark of Reason nor Religion left thee At what a rate hast thou sinned that canst make a mock at Sin Such an one as thou art in the highest form of the Devils school Thou sittest in the seat of the scornful Psal 1.1 Or in the chair of Pestilence as the Septuagint reads it Observ 1. Then ungodly ones or Sinners are Fools in Gods account in Scripture account which is Gods Kalender Observ 2. To mock at Sin is the greatest discovery of Folly in the World Fools make a mock at Sin First That ungodly Sinners are Fools You may see God calls them so every where in Scripture where they are mentioned Prov. 1.7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom but Fools despise Wisdom and Instruction There are natural Fools who are defective in principles of Reason but it is meant of Spiritual Fools or Fools in a Spiritual sense who are defective in principles of Religion The whole body of the Apostate Children of Israel are called a foolish and unwise People Deut. 32.6 Sin is called madness and folly Eccles 7.25 The wickedness of folly even of foolishness and madness 2 Chap. 12. It is not only folly but madness When God brought the poor Prodigal home he is said first to come to himself he had play'd the fool and the madman before to leave such a Fathers house Nay the highest Acts of Sin are called Folly in Scripture As that act of Shechem defiling Dinah it is called working folly in Israel Gen. 34.7 and that act of Amnon to Thamar 1 Sam. 13.12 13. Thou wilt be as one of the fools in Israel But we shall now demonstrate to the sinner what a fool what an arrant fool an ungodly Man is be he who he will 1. Is not he a fool that neither fears nor foresees evil and danger when they are fast approaching Doth not Wisdom consist in foresight Are not the wise Mans eyes in his head while the fool walks in darkness Eccles 2.4 viz. He acts rationally and judiciously while the sinner the fool walks on without either fear or wit The prudent Man saith Solomon foresees evil Oh says he yonder is a Storm I must prepare for it this is Wisdom and he hides himself But the sinner goes on blunders on and is punished Prov. 22.3 He blunders on until he blunder himself into Hell at last by taking no warning He considers not sees not his danger therefore fears not He sees no Wrath nor Hell nor Damnation to lie before him He doth not foresee therefore he doth not fear He doth not foresee his miscarrying to all Eternity he doth not foresee that if he goes on he is lost for ever therefore he doth not foresee it But now a wise Man foresees it will be thus and therefore he sets himself to work out his Salvation with fear and trembling 2. Is not he a Fool that understands not his way The wisdom of the Prudent is to understand his way But the folly of Fools is deceit Prov. 9.13 They think they understand their ways and think they are right their ways are right in their own eyes But alas they deceive their own Souls they walk in darkness and know not whither they go they think they are going to Heaven and alas poor fools they are going to Hell In their folly they go rstray Prov. 5. ult O poor sinners that are walking into Hell are not you fools What could you say if an Angel should meet you and ask you this question Whither go you poor sinners What art thou bound to Hell What meanest thou to run so fast Wilt not thou be there soon enough Take up sinner take up Why dost thou thus spur on What couldst thou answer to such Questions thou poor foolish sinner If thou be right why doth Wisdom cry after thee to turn thee Ho every one that is simple turn in hither Prov. 1.22 O how doth Wisdom see poor Souls