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A05350	A warning for Israel in a sermon preached at Christ-Church, in Dublin, the 30. of October, 1625. By Henry Leslie, one of his Majesties chaplaines in ordinary.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1625 (1625)	STC 15502; ESTC S102370	30,258	50

first wee must returne from our sinnes This is expressed Isai 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his way in and the unrighteous his owne imaginations and returne unto the Lord. Let the wicked forsake his wayes there is Terminus à quo This turning from sinne is called Mortification and it contaynes five things First a sense and sorrow for sinne Secondly a hatred and detestation of sinne Thirdly a purpose in minde to leave sinne Fourthly an inclination in will to doe the same Fiftly an indeavour in life and conversation to forsake sinne altogether This must hee doe that will returne unto the Lord First hee must bee cast downe with a deepe sight and sense of his sinne Psalm 38.18 saying with David I agnize my sinne Psal 119.128 and am sorry for mine iniquite He must hate and abhorre sinne as the greatest evill in the world saying with the same Prophet Doe I not hate everie evill vvay He must resolve with himselfe never to commit any sinne This must bee also the desire of his heart and the indeavour of his whole life Otherwise hee cannot returne unto the Lord for God will not take a wicked man by the hand nor have fellowship with the throne of iniquitie Againe To whom must wee turne To the Lord according to that Ierem. 4.1 O Israel if thou returne returne unto me saith the Lord not to any other not to my Angels not to my Saints not to my Martyres not to my Mother but to my owne selfe In the 7. Chap vers 16. this people is accused that They did returne but not to the most high They had some beginning of repentance but it fayled by the way and brought them not so farre as home to the Lord. They were like a deceitfull bow for after all their aymes and offers of turning to the Lord they started back and returned not to the Lord but to their Idols they returned to their sinnes as a Dogge to his vomite It is not enough then to cease from sinne but withall wee must turne unto the Lord that is wee must turne our hearts upward to heaven setting our affections on things that are above wee must fixe our eye upon God and make towards him with the foote walking in the way of his Commandements that all men may see that wee are not of this world but that our conversation is in heaven This turning to the Lord is called a rising to newnesse of life and it hath three parts First a resolution in the minde Secondly a lust in the will Thirdly an indeavour in life and conversation to obey God Iosh 24.15 Psal 119.106 Every man ought to resolve as Ioshua I and myne house will serve the Lord. And as David I have sworne and I will performe it Aeh 13 1● Act 11 2● that I will keepe thy righteous judgements This must bee his desire also as it was Pauls hee desired to live honestly Hereunto Barnabas exhorted the Antiochians that with their heart they would cleave unto the Lord. And finally hereunto must wee indeavour our selves throughout the whole course of our life So did the blessed Apostle Act. 24.16 Psal 119.6 Herein I indeavour my selfe to have alway a cleare conscience towards God and towards Men. And David I have a respect to all thy commandements Whosoever hath these is turned from sinne unto the Lord. The manner how wee must returne Ioel 2.12 is expressed by the Prophet Ioel. Turne unto me with all your heart and with fasting weeping and mourning Whence yee may observe foure properties of our conversion First wee must turne with the heart therefore our conversion must be voluntarie there is a reformation which is not voluntarie but rather against the will when a man turnes not from sinne but sinne turnes from him because eyther hee cannot practise it for want of strength or dare not for feare of punishment Such a man may seeme to turne from sinne but it is not with his heart Wee must turne with the heart even so willingly that it be our chiefe delight to use all meanes for to set forward this worke for nothing is done well but that which is done with the will Secondly wee must turne not onely with our heart but with all our heart therefore our conversion must be sincere for as in Scripture the Phrases of a double heart 1 Chron. 12.33 a devided heart Hos 10.2 A heart and a heart Psal 12. a are used to signifie hypocrisie So this phrase With all the heart doth signifie sinceritie Then wee must turne unto the Lord with all our heart that is to say sincerly and not for shew onely wee must draw neere unto God not onely with the lips Psalm 51.6 but with the heart also for Hee loveth trueth in the inward affections In this sense it is said of David that hee followed God with all his heart 1. King 14.8 And of Iosiah that Hee turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his might 2. King 23.25 And of the people in the time of King Asa that the oath which they made before the Lord was With all their heart 2. Chron. 15.15 But Ierem. 3.10 The Lord accuseth his people for want of this sinceritie Her rebellious sister Iudah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart but faynedly Thirdly wee must turne with all our heart therefore our conversion must be a thorow change of the whole man of the whole life though it be imperfect in degrees yet it must be perfect in regard of parts Wee must not halt betweene God and Baal Wee cannot serve both God and Mammon God will not be content with a part of the heart he will eyther have all or none It is said of Iehu that he did not walke in the Law of the Lord with his whole heart for why Albeit hee obeyed God in some things cutting off the house of Achab Yet hee departed not from the sinne of Ieroboam 2. King 10.31 And so there be many that give but the halfe turne like to Agrippa who was not altogether but almost perswaded to become a Christian. Some turning their wordes not their deeds as our verball professors And others againe turning from many sinnes and yet with Herod remaine unturned from one speciall beloved sinne These be but false turnings our conversion must bee a thorow change wee must turne with all our hearts Finally wee must turne not onely with all our hearts but also with fasting weeping and mourning therefore our conversion must not be inward onely but it must bee expressed outwardly in these things wherein consists the practise of humiliation namely fasting c. And that especially in the time of any great affliction such as this was when the Prophet Ioel had foretold the people of the comming of the Chaldeans Esther when shee heard of the intended destruction of the Iewes appointed a fast Esth. 4 10. Nehem. 1.4 2. Chr●n 20 3 2. Sam.

wandring from God is the onely way and meanes to bring us to God Notitia peccati initium salutis The right understanding and true acknowledgement of our owne miserie is the first steppe to salvation for if Israel must returne to the Lord then she must be possessed with an opinion of her owne wandring from the Lord shee must see that shee hath gone astray and that there is no true comfort to be found in those pathes of sinne in which shee walked For How can a man frame himselfe to enter into a right course till hee bee fully resolved and perswaded within himselfe that hee hath beene mistaken in his former course of life So the prodigall sonne a true patterne of a penitent sinner never seekes to his father till that hee came to himselfe Luke ●● then hee saw his error and resolved to returne to his father The Prophet Chap. 5.15 bringeth in God coupling these two together Till they acknowledge their offence and seeke my face because wee must first acknowledge our offence before wee can seeke Gods face the full stomacke of a Pharisee will never thirst to drinke of the cup of salvation Luke 1.53 onely the hungrie and the thirstie therefore God filleth the hungrie with good things and sendeth away the full emptie You see who they are that CHRIST calleth to bee eased of their sinnes even the wearie and laden Math. 11 28. Come unto mee yee that are wearie and laden that is yee who finde your consciences to be laden with the burden of the Law and the burden of sinne and are so weary of these burdens that they are grievous to you to beare Such also bee they whom hee calleth sinners and sicke Matth. 9.12.13 The whole neede not a Physitian but the sicke I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance What Is there any whole Is there any righteous No indeed all are sinners all are sicke but hee calleth onely those sinners and sicke who feele and acknowledge themselves to be such as for the rest whose eyes are not opened to see the miserable estate wherein they stand by nature he termes them righteous and whole Such are they whom he calleth lost Matth. 15.24 Luke 19.10 I am sent but unto the lost sheepe that is unto such as are lost in their owne opinion It is onely those whom hee seeketh and saveth as is well set forth in the Parables of the lost Sheepe lost Groate and lost Childe Luke 15 Matth. 5 3. Such also are they who are called poore Blessed are the poore in spirit namely these who finde themselves to abound with many inward wants finally they are called fatherlesse In the fourth verse of this Chap. With thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie as if hee should say when as a man is brought to the straights of a poore desolate shiftlesse Orphan then is he a subject fit for mercie So that if wee would returne unto the Lord first wee must see our straying from the Lord If wee would seeke Gods face first wee must acknowledge knowledge our offence If wee would have God to fill us with good things first wee must bee hungrie even emptied of our evill liquor If wee would have CHRIST to refresh us with rivers of water and flagons of wine then wee must be thirstie that is pained through the sense of our want of spirituall drinke If wee would have CHRIST to ease us of our burdens first wee must bee wearie of them that is wee must feele our burdens to lye heavie upon us and be grieved with the sense of them If wee would have the Saviour to save us wee must bee sinners that is humbled with the sight and sense of our sinnes If wee would have that great Physitian to cure us wee must first be sicke that is sensible of our disease for he will not cure any of us till first hee have launced our wounds unto the very bottome If wee would have the good Sheepheard to finde us wee must bee lost in our selves even out of all hope of salvation in respect of anie thing that is in us Finally If wee would have the God of mercie to shew mercie unto us then first wee must be fatherlesse that is hopelesse and helpelesse in our selves For hee is the God that resisteth the proud Jam. s. 5. but giveth grace to the humble Hereby then may a man judge of himselfe whether or no hee bee in the way of salvation Didst thou never see thy wofull miserie and the wretched estate wherein thou art by reason of sinne how thou hast turned thy backe upon God and art out of his favour Then hast thou just cause to suspect thy selfe that thou hast not yet entred at the straight gate to walke towards the Lord for as there can be no birth without the paines of the travaile going before so neyther any true cōversion without some terrours of the Law and straits of conscience The Infant that hath beene layd onely nine Moneths in the wombe of the mother is not delivered without paine suppose shee conceived it with pleasure and Thinkest thou to part with sinne which in thee was conceived with thee and which since so often thou hast nourished with pleasure and not to prove the dolours of the second birth No not assuredly there is the humbled soule the wounded conscience the contrite spirit the broken heart the mourning weede the melting eye the pale countenance the voyce of lamentation these are the dolours of the second birth which wee meete with so soone as wee begin to returne to the Lord. On the other part Hast thou found in thy selfe these inward wrestlings and humiliations Hast thou groaned under the burden of thy sinne and under the burden of Gods wrath Hast thou felt the terrours of God fighting against thee and the invenomed arrowes of the Almightie sticking fast in thy ribbes Then may thou conceive good hope that thou art in the way of salvation If thou bee possessed with an opinion of thine owne wandring from the Lord If thou be convicted that thou hast strayed from him Then it is like thou wilt seeke to returne Therefore doth God oftentimes call upon men to consider their wayes to call their lives to account that so they may see how farre their soule is averted from God Know thy sinnes O Ierusalem Iere. 3.13 The like speech is used by the Prophet Zephanie Fan your selves oh my people Yea Zeph 2● the Prophet Ieremie doth oftentimes put us in minde of this dutie Oh let us search and trie our wayes Lam. 3 20. and turne unto the Lord. First wee must search our wayes to finde out our owne wandrings and then returne unto the Lord. And that yee may understand what is the dutie here required because this word Returne doth expresse a change not of place but of qualities I will shew unto you First from whence Secondly to whom Thirdly how wee must turne As for the