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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

travelling in the Broad-way like Fools going to the Stocks and crys after them How long will ye simple ones love simplicity 3. Is not he a Fool that takes no care to prevent afterclaps of Danger Wisdom consists in fore-sight and in prevention Is it not the property of a fool to say I had not thought my sins would have brought me to this Doth not the Lord in his Word and in his Rod cry out to poor sinners as Jonathan said to David As the Lord liveth there is but a step betwixt thee and death Oh! says God sinners sinners there are but a few steps betwixt you and death a few Years Months it may be Days betwixt you and Hell betwixt you and Ruine and yet such Fools are poor sinners that they are not solicitous to prevent their misery Oh how it will cut poor sinners to the Heart another day to sign out that dolesul note We had not thought the Great God was in good earnest with us We had not thought Divine Threatnings would have proved such Realities O this will be the Worm that will so wofully torment them We were told of all this before-hand and might have prevented it O then they will cry out what Fools they have been But all too late they see their folly by the light of that fire that so intollerably torments them 4. Is not he a Fool that doth not consult the end of his way The end in all wise Agents is first in Intention though the last in Execution Here is the difference betwixt Wisdom and Folly The one says What will this end in As the Apostle argues in that case What fruit had you in those things whereof you are now ashamed For the end of those things is death Rom. 6.21 But now a Soul that is not wise for Heaven and Salvation may say What will this Way this Course end in Will not this be bitterness in the latter end Will it not be Wrath eternal Death Damnation in the end This is a way that seems right to a man But what is the end of it The end of it is Death Prov. 14.12 Ah Sinner Sinner Art not thou a fool that never looks before thee Wast thou wise would'st thou not look before thou leapst Why dost not thou ask thy soul O my soul what will this sin of mine end in Whether will this Course and Way of mine at last lead me Is not sin the Devils high way to Hell And doth not this Course lead down to the Chambers of Death Ah poor fool All wise Men that have their Eyes in their Heads pity thee they see whether thou art going and thou wilt see too when it is too late 5. Is not he a Fool that cannot tell how to make a good choice Wisdom you know is much seen in choice The trial of a Fool hath sometimes been made thus Fools and Ideots are not to inherit Lands and when they come to try them they lay down Apples and Gold and if they chuse the Apples before the Gold they are concluded Ideots Oh doth not God put this to trial sinners foolish sinners Here is Gold and Apples laid before you Creature-Comforts the Accommodations of this Life What are these but so many Apples as Josephus tells of that grow about the Lake of Sodom that look bravely to the Eye but as soon as touched they crumble to dust And do not many thousand poor foolish Sinners choose these before the Gold Before the Gold tried in the Fire viz. Real Grace Such as make such a choice are fools and shall never Inherit Did not Moses tell the People of Israel he laid Life and Death before them Deut. 30.19 and put them to their choice And Oh! what folly sinners is it to choose Death rather than Life Oh! this will be the sting of thy eternal misery that thou like a foolish wretch didst make such a choice it was thy own choice thou art undone for ever but it was thy own doing Thou thy self art the cause of all this This will justifie God in thy own Conscience to all Eternity Oh what crying out is there Sinner in Hell What a fool was I to make such a choice I might have been happy for ever as I am now miserable if I had made a wise choice 6. Is not he a Fool that is afflicted day by day and still goes on and keeps his course of sinning still A reproof enters more into a wise Man than an hundred stripes into a Fool Prov. 17.10 A Fool will be a fool still give him one blow after another until you tell an hundred O how many blows have many sinners had Sometimes a blow in their Estates another while a blow in their Bodies another while a blow in their Families sometimes in their Trading nay added to all these sometimes in their Souls by Convictions under Ordinances And thus God lays on time after time But what comes of all these blows Alas the poor sinner is a fool still he goes on still Bray a fool in a Morter among Wheat with a Pestle yet will not his foolishness depart from him Prov. 27.22 These Fools are worse than Mad-men and Bedlams they are often restored to Reason again by Correction and Severity Poor sinner hast not thou been such a fool O how many blows hast thou laid under How many Rods hath God spent upon thee How often hath God made thee sick by smiting thee And yet Gods Rod hath not whipt out the bundle of Folly that is wrapt up in thine Heart As thou hast been so thou art a poor foolish one to this day O poor sinner what if upon thy incorrigibleness the Lord should say to thee as he did to them Why should you be smitten any more You rebel more and more O how sad would this be Sinners did you never read that word Prov. 19.29 Judgments are prepared for the scorners and stripes for the backs of Fools Thou art both whilst thou makest a mock at sin It is no wonder if the Lord have Rods for such backs 7. Is not he a Fool who hath a price put into his hand and hath no heart to use it Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get Wisdom seeing he hath no heart to it Prov. 17.16 Ah sinners how many opportunities have you had in your day to get Wisdom for your Souls for Heaven and Eternity and you have let them slip O what grand folly is this to play the fool for your precious souls Is this to redeem your time Is this to walk as wise ones As those that are wise to Salvation Is he a wise Mariner amongst you that when the Wind presents will stay on the Downs or drinking a shore and so loose his Voyage Is he a wise Man Merchant in your repute that doth not esteem his Seasons to buy his Goods and Commodities at the best hand Is he a wise Husbandman that doth not observe his Seasons for getting his Seed

Sinners will you dare you make a mock of that which God keeps a Remembrance of which God Books down Sinners think what you will your sins are so far from being forgotten by God that your iniquity is marked before the Lord as he told them Jer. 2.22 No no the Day is coming God will reprove you and set your sins in order before you Psal 50.20 An Allusion to letters in a Book that are set in order all in a row before one The Lord hath Sinners such a Book where all your sins are Recorded and out of this Book you shall one day be forced to read all in their proper order you will then see God hath not forgotten any of them no not so much as the circumstances of them All is remembred 10. Another thing that leads Sinners to make a mock at sin is their stifling and strangling their Convictions of sin until they bring themselves under obduracy of heart Many sinners at first sinning are arrested with the Accusations of their own guilty tormenting Consciences but then they run into one Diversion or another to swallow up and drown their convictions and troubles as Cain did when he went out from the presence of God and dwelt in the Land of Nod and buildt a City Gen. 4.16 Which some think was to divert the troubles of an awakened guilty Conscience Many wounded Souls will run to their Pleasures for a little ease others to their Comforts others to their Callings and at last their Convictions wear off and then the Sinner comes to be hardned and now he arrives at the height of sin even to make a mock of it For usually Persons who have been under some common work and troubles for Sin and not being throughly wrought upon by them become Mockers and Scoffers afterwards O therefore Sinners look that your Convictions be through and through O beg of God they may not be transient like a flash of Lightning in a Room that makes it a little lighter for the present but leaves it dark when it is gone Now Sinners you have heard the occasions that leads you into making a mock of Sin Will you remember to pray against them that it may not be thus with you that you be not the Fools in the Text. Now to convince you poor Sinners that this is the greatest Folly in the World to make a mock at Sin 1. Is it not Folly to make a mock at that which you must certainly either mourn for here or hereafter As merry poor Sinner as thou art thy mirth is but madness I have said to Laughter thou art mad and to Mirth what doth it Eccles 2.2 It holds in this sense it lays a foundation for sorrow and bitter lamentation 1. Here if God have a design of love upon thee he will bring thee to mourn over that which thou hast so often mockt at Can you ever sinners expect to be pardoned if you have not repented Doth he comfort any that do not mourn Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Ah Sinner if thou didst but remember in thy Jollity and Madness when thou art making a mock of Sin ere long thou must be made to mourn over it and cry out of it as a burden too heavy for thee to bear Would not this check thee in thy careere of Madness and Folly 2. If thou mourn not over it here it will be worse thou wilt be made to mourn over it hereafter and then thou wilt mourn without hope Now thou mayest have hope of pardon there is hope concerning this thing but this afterwards mourning is altogether hopeless which makes me remember the sad condition of that poor sinner Prov. 5.11 12 13 14. And thou mourn at last when thy flesh and thy body is consumed and say How have I hated Instruction and my heart despised Reproof And have not obeyed the voice of my Teachers nor enclined mine ear to them that instructed me I was in all evil in the midst of the Congregation and Assembly Whether we took it of mourning here in old Age as some or of mourning in Hell as others yet it holds true O what a mourning will this be Some read it Quoniam Because I have hated Instruction Others read it Cur Why have I hated Instruction As being a Confession he had no Cause no Reason to do so We read it Quomodo How have I hated Instruction As being an acquitting Gods Justice in his punishment O how have I hated Instruction and it is but just with God I now should be thus dealt withal God is Righteous in all this that is come upon me And is not this folly great folly to lay the foundation of such mourning and such bitter mourning 2. Is not this Folly to mock at that which the Righteous God hates with a perfect hatred yea and will be revenged of Did poor Sinners see God hated sin would they make a mock at it That you make a matter of Mockery of God makes a matter of hatred of As in that case of Idolatry so in this he says Do not the abominable thing my soul hates Jer. 44.4 And it is said of Christ He loves Righteousness and hates Iniquity Heb. 1.9 And do you think this is a mocking business Sirs Nay God's hatred boyls up into Revenge Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this And is it not a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Everliving God Who hath said Vengeance is his and he will repay First God will either be avenged of Sin here or hereafter He often takes Vengeance of it here and shall Sinners make a mock at Gods Judgments How many thousands hath God taken Vengeance of in this Life How hath Gods Righteous Judgments often taken hold of this wicked Person or that wicked Family Secondly Hereafter we read o● Christ coming in flaming Fire 2 Thes 1.8 to take vengeance on poor Sinners that know him not nor have obeyed his Gospel And do not we read of the Vengeance of Eternal Fire Jude ver 7. And is this a mocking matter with you Will there be any Laughter any Mocking any Drollery in Hell Now you Sinners make a meer piece of Drollery about Sin but stay when you come under a sentence of Damnation that will be no Drollery with you 3. Is not that Folly yea great Folly to make a mock at that which grieves God We would not grieve the dearest Friend thy dear Father thy dear Husband thy dear Wife would you willingly grieve them And O what folly is this to grieve God! to grieve that God that thou daily livest upon that is thy dearest Friend in the World Do you know what you do Sinners when you grieve God First What grieve that God tha● you depend upon for your lives for the lives of your Souls for the lives of your Bodies who can both kill Body and Soul He that is Lord of your Lives and can seal a Lease of Ejectment