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sin_n	iniquity_n	lord_n	transgression_n	7,467	5	9.6456	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41108	The danger of deferring repentance discovered by that reverend and faithfull minister of the word, William Fenner.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1654 (1654)	Wing F684; ESTC R24033	19,518	47

have answered and that the day of grace would ever remaine but God saith I will not hear them they would never have sought if they thought the Lord would not heare them but all their séeking was in vaine Ob. You will say at what time soever a sinner repenteth he shall have mercy An. It is true if thou repent from the bottom of thy heart but thou maist come with many a degrée of repentance and yet never repent whilest thou livest if thou repent from thy heart and root out thy sins then God will put away thy sins but thou maist go on in repentance and calling upon God and performing many duties of Religion and yet is hardened looke how much Religion will stand with selfe-love so much thou maiest have after the day of grace is gone selfe-love may make a man flie to prayer and run after Sermons and go on in many holy duties and give over many sins looke how farre selfe-love may drive thée unto holy duties so farre thou maist goe and yet notwithstanding remaine hardened O therefore let us not delay nor put off the time of grace nor let goe salvation while it may be had then shall they call but I will not answer he doth not set downe when this time is it may be 〈◊〉 is now it may be not this seven years it may be not till thy death Doct. 2. It may be this very day even this very Sermon this very houre may be thy day that art now in thy sins that if thou repent not at this very one Sermon thou neglectest eternall life for ever lose the benefit of this Sermon at this time and thou maiest lose eternall Salvation and never have it more The theife that rob'd this day how doth he know but this one robery may bring him to the gallows So the man that sins this day how doth he know but that this very dayes worke may bring him to hell Deuteronomy 32. 35. To God belongs vengance their feet shall slide in due time Therefore if a man sin against him he may stand to day and to morrow and many dayes but when the due time comes even the time which God hath set then up goes his héels he shall slide and break his neck thy houre-glasse runes in heaven and thou séest not when the sand comes to the bottome but when t is out then down thou goest to hell for euer There was one resolved to kill Julius Caesar such a day the night before a friend sent him a letter to acquaint him with it but being at supper and busie I will not look upon it now saith he to morrow is a new day The next day when he should have read his letter he was stab'd Whence this proverbe came in Gréece To morrow is a new day God sends thée a letter and a message from heaven to day repent and come out of your fins or for ever to hell to day he converted and sanctified or for ever be hardened Dost thou refuse to harken to day and puttest it off untill to morrow it may be to morrow may be a day of Gods wrath and then thou mayest be hardened seared and bound over unto the great day of Gods vengeance to morrow God may set the decrée upon thy soul that thou shalt never repent Therefore if thou refuse this thou refuseth all for what knowest thou but this very day may be thy day The reason is because Gods patience is in his owne breast and who can tell how long it will last Hast thou Momus his glasse-window to looke into Gods secret counsell hast thou a key-hole to looke into Gods treasurie canst thou stand on tiptoe to looke over Gods shoulder to looke into Gods decrée to sée how long his patience will last It may be God hath suffered thée till this day thou art guilty of ten thousand sinnes and yet he is patient towards thée God hath stayed thus long for thée that hast sworne I know not how many oaths God hath born thus long with thée that hast told I know not how many lyes prophaned I know not how many Sabbaths contemned I know not how many Ordinances and sleighted I know not how many Iudgements yet Gods patience is in his owne brest it is the long sufferance of God Thou maiest say I would faine have it to morrow and this seven yéeres but alasse it is his long sufferance and not thine and how dost thou know when he will conclude it it may be this day as well as to morrow Joel 2. 13. Rent your hearts and not your garments saith the Prophet for the LORD he is gracious and mercifull This word for hath a great deals of force in it First it is a descriptivum for he is gracious and a mercifull God therefore rent thy heart and let thy Soule burst within thée that thou hast sinned against him for he is a mercifull God and it may be he will pardon all thy sinns and heale all thy rebellions committed against him Secondly it is an upbraiding for upbraiding thée for thy sinnes rent thy heart therefore why he is a patient God wilt thou go on in thy sinns against such a patient God and rebell against such a loving Father that hath loved thée with so much compassion ●ent thy heart for he is patient Thirdly it is a comfort and incouraging for rent thy heart for there is encouragement for thée to repent give over thy sinns and goe to the Throne of grace For there is much mercie to welcome thée and great patience for to bid thée come home and aboundance of grace for to incourage thée therefore rent thy heart and come home unto the Lord for he is patient and long-suffering Fourthly it is a forewarning for rent your hearts for the Lord is gracious and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnesse yet his mercy lasteth yea his patience endureth yet he hath all his attributes and yet he is pleased to manifest the same still tendring grace and mercy unto thee Oh! turne unto him while these endure or else thou shalt perish for ever Fiftly it is a threatning for now he is gracious now he is mercifull but his mercy will end his patience will end and then if thou hast not rent thy heart before it will be too late then Therefore as ever thou lovest thine own soule now rent thy heart and turne unto God It is Gods own proclamation The Lord slow to anger and of great mercy forgiving iniquity and sin Yea what man soever he be that humbles his soule before him he shall find grace and mercy with him yea aboundance of mercie pardoning iniquity transgression and sinne yea any thing Let but a soule come prostrate before him humbling his soule he will pardon his sinné But as it followeth in the words He will by no meanes cleare the guiltie if notwithstanding all Gods patience and mercie thou goe on in thy sinnes the Lord will never forgive thee but will visit thy

their iniquities which were so grievous and provoked him so much that they hasted him to come before he would have done In all this space if they had Repented they should have found Mercy from the Lord but when his time was gone and the day of grace was out the deluge came in upon them and God by his judgements overthrew the whole World Object You may aske me when this day or season of grace doth end or cease Answ. I answer that neither men nor Angels can tell but this I say it may be yet this day of grace lasteth unto thee now it may be God speaketh whom to thy soul now it may be God warnms thy heart and gives thee good purposes and resolutions now it may be the Lord Iesus passeth by thée in a good thought and desire lay hold on it for thy day may cease this very night for ought thou knoweth Luke 17. 22. The time shal come saith Christ when you shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Sonne of man and shall not see it Now is the day of Christ upon you now is Christ offering and preaching himselfe to you but if you let this day passe thou maist desire to have one of the drops of that Blood that hath béen offered to thée and yet never have it thou maist desire to féele one rap of that Spiret that hath knockt at thy heart and yet goe without it thou maist intreat for one dram of that mercy that hath béen offered and thou hast rejected but it shall never be granted to thée God may clap that fearefull sentence upon thée Now henceforth never grow fruit more on thee never Repentance come into thy heart more If now thou wilt not repent and be converted the Lord may set it down in his decrée from this day forward that thou maist fumble about thy sinnes but shalt never get victory over them thou maist ever be mourning for thy corruptions but never mourne aright for them thou maist blunder about Repentance but never doe the worke Ezekiel 24. 23. You shall not mourne nor weepe but you shall pine away for your iniquities and mourne one towards another There is many a soule for contemning of God and not taking up Repentance while they may have it this plague of God is come upon them that they are ever repenting and are never able to Repent ever poring upon their sinnes but never able to come out of them they pray and pray against them but their prayers moulder away under them for they shall pine away for their iniquities What is the reason He sheweth in the 13. verse Because I would have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged any more Because I gave thée line upon line precept upon precept motion upon motion Sacrament upon Sacrament Sabbath vpon Sabbath and Ordinance upon Ordinance because I used all faire means and foule means I awaked thy conscience and stirred up the motions of Grace in thée but bec●use I would have cleansed thée and thou wast not cleansed thou shalt never be cleansed A fearfull sentence it is if mens hearts were soundly oppened to consider rightly of it And as there is a Personall day so there is a Nationall day if the Nation turne unto God during that time then that Nation shall find mercy but if they neglect that day then God will hide those things from their eyes that belong to their peace as Christ saith of Ierusalem Luke 19. 42. O Ierusalem if that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that did belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eies in this thy day if thou hadst known it during that day it had béen happy for thée but now the day of grace is gone the Lord hath concealed it from thée and thou shalt never perceive it more Some mens day of grace God endeth even in their very child-hood therefore if there be any little ones any Children here in this congregation that are of age to know what belongs to an exortation to them I spake that they take héed how they rebell against the commandement of a Father or a Mother or Master against the teaching of Gods word for though you be children yet God may inflict judgments upon your heads for not only the day of grace but also the day of lfe may be cut off from children as 2 Kings 2. 24. Four and twenty children were torne in pieces for mocking the Lords Prophet Some mens day of grace is not shut up untill their youth some not untill their old age some not untill they are a dying and if they refuse then they are like yea sure to perish for ever I know the day of grace may have severall returns but at last Gods Exchequer will be finally shut up Object May not a man be called at the eleventh or twelfth houre of the day The day of grace lasteth alwayes and doth not the Apostle call the day of life the day of grace 2 Cor. 6. 2. Answ. It is true the Lord calleth men at the eleventh twelfth houre but yet looke and you shall sée in the twentieth of Matthew that they were not called at the first houre nor at the second nor third houre nor at the sixt and ninth houre he doth not say he found the same men that he found at the first and third sixth and ninth houres but he saw others standing jdle No those that were called at the first houre came in at the first houre and they that were called at the third houre came in at the third houre and they that were called at the sixth and ninth houre came in at ye sixth and ninth houre Well doth God call thée in thy childhood in thy youth or in thy middle age now at the first or sixth or ninth houre now come in and labour in Gods vineyard and work out your salvation with feare and trembling and make use of the season of grace now whilst it is upon you for if thou be called at the first houre the sixt is for another and not for thée if thou be called the sixt hour the ninth hour is for others and not for thée if thou be called the ninth hour the eleventh hour is for others not for thée The text saith He came found others standing jdle in the market place and said unto them Why stand ye here jdle and they say unto him no man hath hired us as if they should say We never had any means of salvation we have had no Ministers to preach unto us but now God calls upon thée to come in this is thy houre look unto it If God call thée sée thou come in whether it be at the first or third houre at the sixth or ninth houre lest the Lord in his wrath clap hardnesse of heart upon thy soule Object But you will say that the day of life and the day of grace are paralleld and likened one to another and