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A30579	Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6076A; ESTC R213106	221,498	277

out of his den 4. A man may come to know the evil of sin by some dreadful judgments that God hath executed upon sinners here in this world and by the terrors of conscience that there are upon the wicked as on Cain Saul and Judas c. men many times here for their sins by the wrath of God that is reveal'd from Heaven against sin in the execution of it but take all those together yea did we see the woful execution of the wrath of God in Hell its self did the Lord open unto us a door into the chambers of death to discover the torments that are there and to hear all the shreeks and cries of the damned in everlasting burnings yet all this the threats of the Law the terrors of it the agonies of Conscience the torments of the damned in Hell I say put all together and they would not so much nor so cleerly discover Gods infinit hatred of sin as what we find in the Gospel the red Glasse of the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for sin doth discover more of Gods hatred against it than all the torments of Hell can do or all the threats of the Law can do God doth in inflicting his wrath upon his Son for mans sin thus preach unto the world Wel I see that you cannot be brought to understand how I hate sin with a perfect hatred but I 'le have one way of argument to convince you that it is impossible you should stand against I will therefore send my Son to take your nature upon him and to stand charged with your debt and you shall see how I 'le deal with him who is your Surety I 'le not spare him I 'le powr out the vials of my wrath upon him to the last drop I 'le make him a curse for sin though he be infinitly blessed and equal with my self yet I 'le make him cry out in the anguish and trouble of his soul My God my God why hast thou forsaken me He shal tread the winepress of my wrath I 'le make the burden of sin heavy to Him that shall make Him fall groveling upon His face and sweat great clodders of blood in a winter season that shall run down from His body upon the cold ground I 'le do this to that end that all the world to whom the preaching of the Gospel shall come may see how infinitely I hate sin This is one of Gods ends though it 's true that the principal end of the death of Christ it was to satisfie Divine Justice But there is another end that God aims at in the death of his Son To declare to all the world to men and Angels how infinitly the Lord doth abominate all sin Now this is held forth in the Gospel more than in all the execution of the Law if the Law were executed to the full upon all the world it would not hold forth Gods hatred of sin so much as this doth Do you beleeve this Gospel Hath God let you live under this Gospel that you hear it it your ears And do you profess that the Lord hath enlightened you by his holy Spirit to understand the certainty and reality of this Oh then let your Conversation be as becomes this Evangelical truth Quest What Conversation doth become this Answ Hence then your own reason cannot but make a consequence from this that the Gospel holds forth Hence then Cast away al sin as an abominable thing from you What have I to do any more with Idols Hence then Call no sin little which so much provokes the Lord. Indeed if you were only acted by the light of reason reason perhaps will tell you that such things are but little and smal and you need make no such great matter about them But now Art not thou a Christian A follower of Christ A friend to the Gospel For shame call no sin little for in the Gospel you see the infinit hatred of God against all sin yea there is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction whatsoever that 's a point that hath been long since opened to you at large and this will shew it cleerly there is more evil in any sin than in the greatest affliction by the dealing of God the Father with his Son and therefore if you will be willing to live as becomes the Gospel of Christ rather be willing to bear any affliction in the world than wilfully to commit the least sin Are these two in the ballance Here is a great and a sore cross you think how shall I endure that On the other side Here 's a sin to be committed if I venture upon this sin it may be I shall be delivered from this affliction Now would this become the Gospel of Christ for one that professes that he doth beleeve that God the Father dealt thus with His Son that had sin but by imputation upon Him that He let out the vials of His wrath upon Him and made Him a curse for sin and if Christ had but undertaken for to have satisfied for one sin though the least sin He must have died for it For the wages of sin is death of sin indefinitly it 's death And do I beleeve this and yet shall I rather chuse the commission of a sin than the bearing of any affliction Oh this is infinitly unbeseeming the Gospel of Jesus Christ do I beleeve this and is it real unto my soul Oh let me then manifest in my whol course and life that I tremble at the very thought of a sin at the appearance of evil and am as much afraid of the least spark of lusts as of the fire of Hell let me discover the temptation to sin that I may endeavour to avoid all temptations to sin because God hath given such a testimony from Heaven against sin Oh it is a loud testimony indeed that God hath given from heaven against sin in the death of his Son Oh then let my Conversation be such as I may make it appear that I am afraid of the beginnings of sin of the first whispering and motions to sin Oh set me not stand dandling of sin in my thoughts and roul it as a sweet morsel under my tongue let me not entertain it in my affections in the least degree as to love it to approve it to delight in it but as soon as ever it enters into thy heart cast it out presently let it not lodge within thy doors one moment raise up all the power of thy soul against it follow it with Hue and Cry till thou hast overtaken it and then do justice and judgment upon it what though it may be a Delilah yet cut it off Oh let me take heed of lying in any sin have I bin overtaken in my sin Oh let me be willing rather to shame and condemn my self to deny any thing in the world rather than to continue in that sin the Lord forbid that if I have been once drawn

21 Institution is the rule of Worship 141 Justice Gods Justice is no loser by His Mercy 74 K King Wherein the Kings of the earth ar not like Christ 137 See Christ Subjects Kingdom Christs Kingdom is not of this world 116 Why Christs Kingdom is not of this world 157 When the Kingdoms of this world shall be submitted to Christ 150 See Dependance L Latimer Latimers story 339 Law The Law of God goes higher than the light of Nature and how 41 The Law considered under two Considerations 42 The Law given to Adam what it was 43 Difference between the Law of Adam and the Law given by Moses 47 Difference between the Law given by Moses and the Gospel ibid They under the Law had somthing of the Gospel ibid See Gospel Christ Worship and Beleevers Leturgie True Leturgie what it is 355 Liberty see Conscience Light of Nature see Nature Life see Spirit Looseness see profession Love The love of God is more to men than to Angels 53 The love of God should work an answerable love in us 54 See Testimony Christ Lusts see Flesh Luther Luthers opinion of the Turkish Empire 306 Luthers's Protestation 334 M Magistrates How Magistrates are helpful to the Church 140 Malice Malice is unbeseeming the Gospel 58 Man see World Mercy Mercy must be real not verbal 71 Gods infinit mercy 286 Gods Mercy undervalued by worldly men ibid See Transcendant Christ Bowels Ministers Ministers of the Gospel what they are 4 Ministers ought to rule over none but those they teach 30 Ministers should be eminent in their Conversations every way ibid Ministers Charge over soules 88 Mixture What mixture is in worldly portions 336 Monsters Hard-hearted Christians are monsters 71 Moses see Law N Nature Light of Nature its extent 33 Difference between the light of Nature before the fall and since 41 Light of Nature shews something of the mercie of God 69 Necessity see Faith O Obedience The Obedience of a Beleever is of an higher nature than Adams in his innocency 44 Observing Observing daies forbidden 98 Old see Customs Opinions What Opinions are not to be tollerated 327 Opposed World opposed to Saints 272 Overseeing see Visitation P Papists Papists reproved 287 Parliament The PARLIAMENT defended 324 Partition The partition wall between Jew and Gentile taken down 66 Peace We should love peace 65 Peace with our Brethren what it should be 68 Difference between the worlds peace and Christs 155 Why men should have peace upon any terms 323 See God and Seek People Why Gods People are mean in this world 277 Perfection Perfection comes by suffering 279 Persecution Persecution unlawful 283 Persecution opposed 326 Pope A mortal choice of Popes 328 Portion Why wicked men have a portion 304 The worlds portion described 329 Rules to know who hath his portion only in this life 341 See Excellency Power What the power of the Gospel is 123 Prelates Prelates reproved 287 Priviledges Priviledges of the Saints 152 Profession The reason why some mens profession vanisheth 14 Loosness of profession what mischief it doth 16 The miseries attending a loose profession 18 Why forward professors turn persecutors 19 See Eyes Promises Difference between the promises of the Gospel and Adams promises 45 R Reason We are not to live altogether according to reason 67 Reason discovers some sin 80 Reconciliation Reconciliation to God 65 Rebels How the Saints are Rebells 280 Redemption What the Redemption of a soul is 86 Religion Religion comes to nothing without consideration of the duties of relation 25 Why Religion is so little regarded by great ones 319 See Honor Weapons Repentance Repentance is a mighty work 87 Repentance is out of our power 85 Root see Christ S Saints The Saints shall condemn the world 12 The Saints may come to the Throne of grace with boldness 50 The Saints shall judge the world 272 See Rebels Difference Seek Seek for peace 66 Self-denial see Christ Selvishness Selvishness unbeseeming a Saint 94 Schism What Schism is 108 Services Gods services are choice services 356 Sin Sin harboured in thought produceth sinful actions 29 No sin is little 82 The wages of sin is death ib. See Hatred Beginings Socrates Socrates his rebuke 331 Soul Souls Immortallity proved 1 Souls pawn'd to the Devil 86 See Worth Redemption Strength Strength drawn from Christ 45 Strive We must strive together not asunder 105 Spirit The life of the Spirit what it is 102 Subjects Difference between Christs subjects and the subjects of other Kings 138 Suffering see Perfection T Temptations Particular temptations must be looked to 27 Tenure The tenure men hold the world by 335 Testimonies Testimonies of Gods love to us 55 Testimonies of our love to God 56 Time The time sanctifies the duty 99 Transcendent The mercies of God are transcendent 69 Tribulation We have Companions in Tribulation 278 Turkish Empire see Luther U Unity Unity of the Saints 105 Visitation Visitation of the wicked what it is 10 W Wanton Wanton Conversation becomes not the Gospel 71 Well-doing Well-doing stops the mouthes of wicked men 11 Well-doing converts men ibid Weapons Carnal weapons not to be used in defence of Religion 145 Wicked Wicked men do something for God 305 See Portion Wickedness Wickedness is unbeseeming Professors 128 The wickednesse of the world 281 Works Our good works should shine before men 8 Difference between doing of good works that may be seen and doing good works that they may be seen ibid Women Women-Preachers in what sense lawful 9 Worship We must set up the Worship of God in our families 56 The worship of the world is carnal 96 God will have as much worship under the Gospel as under the Law ibid What worship becomes the Gospel 100 See Institution Worth The worth of the soul 85 World How to know a man of this world 263 See Peace Opposed Saints People Portion Worldly Why worldly men are cunning 118 Worldly men see Difference Worldly portion see Mixture Wronged We must seek peace of those that have wronged us 67 FINIS March 2. 1645. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 March 15. 1645 March ●2 1645 April 12 1646. 1. Pet. 2. 13. Humanae creationae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Preached on Easter Munday April 3. 1643. before Isaac Penington then Lord Major of London Mol. in Psal Doct. 1. Doct. 2.

God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Set the example of God before you what God hath done for you for Christs sake and let that be the great motive Do not only argue thus well I would be forgiven if I had offended and I would not have another to bear anger and malice against mee and therefore I will not be angrie with them nor malign them this is a low principle but if I find that this is revealed in the Gospel that the Lord for Christs sake hath forgiven me and it 's this that quiets my passion when I feel my corruption rising and stirring against any that hath offended me when I do but think of Gods mercie in forgiving me for Christs sake this quiets me I this is somewhat like as becomes the Gospel of Christ when we walk upon such principles as these are And so you have it in Col. 3. 13. Forbearing one another and forgiving one another If any man have a quarrel against any even as Christ forgive you so also do ye It is very unbeseeming such as profess the Gospel of Christ to be quarrelsome with their neighbours Now you shall have some that are of very meek and quiet dispositions naturally I love to live quiet say some men thus far thou maiest come by the light of Nature not to love to quarrel But now when any doth cause any quarrel doest thou labor to quiet the quarrel upon this ground Evn as Christ forgave me O I have found the Lord Jesus Christ notwithstanding my wretchedness against Him and all the wrong I have done Him He hath forgiven me and therefore seeing Christ will not take advantage against me as He might I will not take advantage against another Is it upon this ground And dost thou raise thy Conversation with thy Neighbor in keeping from quarrelsomness and contentiousness dost thou naise it to this height upon this ground so to forgive as Christ hath forgiven you I will not forgive only in this particular or in this lesse offence But as Christ hath forgiven me We shall still have further occasion to mention these things in opening the sutableness of our Conversations to the Gospel that is for the point of Justice it must rise higher than that of doing as we would be done by And then for grosse sins thou keepest from them thou thankest God thou art no Swearer no Drunkard no Whoremonger such kind of notorious sins thou art not guilty of but what art thou in respect of inward sins what art thou in respect of secret sins Mark that Scripture in Matth. 5. 10. saith Christ there I say unto you That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven We shall likewise speak further of this when we open that of the Law that our Conversations must rise higher than the Conversations of those did that lived under the Law or else it doth not become the Gospel of Christ You shall find further in the Chapter how Christ would raise them higher than meerly not to commit adulterie or to be openly prophane Verse 17. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time Thou shalt not commit adultery But I say unto you That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart And if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whol body should be cast into Hell And then If thy right hand offend thee cut it off And so in the point of Anger in the 21 22. verses Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the Judgment But I say unto you That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say unto his brother Racha shall be in danger of the councel but wosoever shall say Thou fool shal be in danger of hell fire That is liable to the same judgment that you think murder is Now is your conversations as becometh the Gospel Here Christ is a great Preacher of the Gospel and shews that there is more strictness in the Gospel than ther is by the light of Nature or by the Law or by that that they understand by the Law This the light of Nature doth dictate that men should not Kill nor commit Adultrie but now If thy Conversation be such as becomes the Gospel then thou must make conscience of Anger and tremble at that as a natural man would tremble at Murder for that becomes the Gospel I say one that is a professor of the Gospel he should tremble at sinful anger as a natural man would tremble at murder for observe it here look what they said murder did make a man liable to the same thing Christ saith Anger would make a man liable to therefore one that would walk as becomes the Gospel must tremble at the inward sin of Anger as a natural man would tremble at the outward sin of Murder And so for Adultry Thou art no Whoremonger But one that professes the Gospel must look at the lusting of the eye and of the heart as a natural man that hath but the light of Nature would look upon the cōmission of Adultrie for Christlaies that upon the lust of the heart that they lay upon the commission of Adultrie This is as becometh the Gospel Further By the light of Nature a man may be consciencious That is make conscience of several sins Q. But now you will say Wherein should a man go beyond this as becomes the Gospel What can any man that professes the Gospel go beyond this of making conscience of a secret sin that though he knew that no bodie in the world did know his sin nay suppose he knew certainlie that it should never be known yet he dares not do it how can a man go beyond that Ans Yes You must labor for the mortification of the body of sin that is within you not onlie to make conscience to keep from the act of secret sins but thy work must be to labor for the mortification of the bodie of sin and death that is in thee that 's that that is reveal'd by the Gospel that no man by the light of Nature ever knew you shall never reade among all the Phylosophers of the point of Original sin nor of mortification of the body of sin and death this the light of Nature never tels So that now when a man come to his height that is first my conscience being enlightned by the Word so that I dare not commit any secret sin for the world though there be none but God and my conscience together but besides that Oh I carry about with me a body of sin and death a root of

bitterness that original corruption and this makes me cry out Oh wretched man Oh wretched woman who shall deliver me from this body of death and Oh that I could find this mortified in me this is that that is the strength and endeavor of my soul to get this bodie of sin to be mortified I this is as becomes the Gospel so to live in your Conversations as it may appear that you are not content meerly to keep from actual sins though in secret but it is your great care and endeavour to mortifie this verie bodie of death that is within you and by this a great manie of your Civil men and meer moral men will or at least may be convinced that their Conversations comes short of that that becomes the Gospel of Jesus Christ for they are not acquainted with this Lastly If you would have your Conversations such as becomes the Gospel of Christ you must not only think to make conscience of secret sins but that which you do you must manifest that it doth proceed out of Love not only that you do obey but that you love the Commandement that you do obey Now this neither any hypocrit or meer moral man doth if you take it universallie one Commandement as well as another Obj. You will say Love is a secret thing Ans But as you may know in your family the difference between your childrens obedience to you and your servants so there may appear a difference between the obedience of one that is meerly moral or doth it out of conscience and the other that doth it out of love therefore you must know that you do not rise beyond the light of Nature except that you do love the Command as well as obey the Command and so carrie things in your Conversations as you may make it appear that all those waie of God that you make conscience of that you likewise have a love unto them and do them out of a principle of love and thus you come beyond the light of Nature and in some measure it is as becomes the Gospel of Christ And that 's the first thing how we should walk in our Conversations as becomes the Gospel of Christ But now this is the lowest of all The second is That our Conversations must be such as is beyond such as live under the Law for the Law of God goes higher than the light of Nature for there 's more reveal'd there than in the light of Nature It 's true that that you call the moral Law the light of Nature if it be cleer it is sutable to it to the most part of it only there is some part that is positive but most part is but sutable to the principles of Nature if they were cleer and pure but now because since the fall of Man the light of Nature is darkned and the principles of Nature are much corrupted therefore God hath given His Law that is as it were a glass of His Will that is the cleer glass of what was written in the heart of man in Innocencie that 's the Law Only there is that of the limitation of the seventh Day particularly from the Creation that hath somewhat positive in it but take all the other and I say it is nothing but as a glass of what was written in the heart of man in the time of Innocency There was written in mans heart to keep some solemn time for the worship of God only the specification was by revelation but the substance of all those ten Commandements I say is the glass of what was written in the heart of man in Innocency And because God saw that this writing was so much blotted out almost all obliterated therefore God wrote it in Tables of stone whereas it was written in the Table of mans heart at first But now when He comes to bring men to the Gospel there He writes over that Law again in the Tables of their hearts At first it was written in the heart of Adam but he falling doth blot it out in a great measure then God writes it over fair again but how He writes it over in a fair Copie but it is in Tables of stone but when God receives any soul in the Gospel He writes it over again in the Tables of their hearts Now this gives you a little hint of the difference between the Law and the Gospel between the Conversations of men that were meerly Legal and the Conversation that is Evangelical but the opening of it to shew the difference between the Law and the Gospel in reference to this and to shew how low the Conversation was that was meerly Legal and how high raised the Conversation of a Christian ought to be if he would make it Evangelical such as becomes the Gospel of Christ would ask more time and therefore we must defer that to the next day SERMON III. PHIL. 1. 27. Only let your Conversation be as becomes the Gospel of Christ A Conversation becoming the Gospel of Christ it must be beyond what the Law can inable one to attain to or else it doth not become the Gospel I have shewed you already what the Gospel of Christ is But now we are upon the point of Conversation That it must be higher than can be by the Law those that live under the Gospel must live in a higher way of holiness than those that lived under the Law Now for this we are to consider of the Law under these two considerations First As it is a Covenant of works for life so it was made at first to Adam It was a Covenant of works for eternal life to Adam and so to man kind in him Secondly We are to consider the Law as in the Ministration of it by Moses Take it either of these two waies Those that live under the Gospel and profess the Gospel must live in a more holy Conversation or aim or endeavour at least after a more holy Conversation than that Conversation could be that was under the Law As now I say thus the Law as the Covenant of life to Adam But what was his Conversation First It was obedience to God meerly as Creator no further Adam in innocency he lookt upon God as Creator of al things as the First being of all and so Adam tendered up his service to God meerly as the Creator and First-being That was his obedience Secondly The Law to Adam had promise only of natural things of a natural life to be continued We do not reade of Gods promising Adam to live in Heaven if he had obeyed but Do this and live that was the Tenour of the Covenant with him that is he should have continued in Paradise and so have lived a natural life but yet continued eternally God would have upheld that natural life of his that 's all we reade of that ever God promised to Adam if he had stood by vertue of that Covenant of the Law That 's the second thing considerable in

to any sin that I should think to cover it by another sin by adding one sin to another to think to shift for my credit or esteem by adding more sin to that already committed Oh no the Lord in his mercie hath made known unto me in the Gospel of Christ what sin means the evil of sin and therefore I have learned rather to endure any thing than to multiply iniquity Indeed before I came to understand Jesus Christ I thought sin was an evil thing and I abstain'd from gross sins by that dim light of Nature that is within me but since I came to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ the great mystery of godliness in his Son the dealings of the Father with his Son the Lord knows now I abhor a sin in secret though I were sure no body in the world should ever know it more than I do abhor Hell its self I such a Conversation as would manifest such a work of God upon the heart as this is would become the Gospel of Christ indeed Whereas otherwise brethren if any of you that do profess the Gospel of Christ shall make sin but as a slight thing and shall be ready to entertain sin in thy bosom know that by this means you do no other but trample under foot the Blood of Jesus Christ as a cōmon thing as a thing that had no worth at all in it This doth despight to the Gospel of Christ you do dishonor Jesus Christ and you do put him to open shame whose Name you have taken upon you by your profession I 'le give you a Scripture now for this in Heb. 6. 4. c. He speaks of some that were once enlightned and had tasted of the Heavenly gift and were made partakers of the holy Ghost and tasted of the good word of God that 's the Gospel and the powers of the world to come if they should fall away it were impossible to renew them to repentance Mark the reason Seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame Such as fall off after the profession of the Gospel into sinful waies they are said here to crucifie the Son of God afresh and to put him to open shame This is far from walking as becomes the Gospel And so you have another text in Heb. 10. 29. c. he speaks of those that had fallen off from their profession into sinful waies Of how much s●rer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy of who hath troden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and hath done despight unto the Spirit of Grace See how the holy Ghost speaks of such as fall from their profession into sinful waies again And there 's a great deal of reason for it for 't is not so much for those that never made profession of the Gospel to fall to sin not such a horrid thing for them but for those that have made profession of the Gospel that they hold forth thus much this is the language of their actions though they dare not say so Lord I acknowledge that I have seen the fruit of thy hatred of sin in the death of thy Son that thou didst so hate sin that thou madest thy Son to be a curse for sin but yet for all this such is the strength of my lusts I must have my lusts though it be so vile in thine eyes as the blood of thy Son went for it yet I must have it rather than deny my lusts Oh what a dreadful thing is this how provoking must it needs be to the holy God Oh happy had it been for such men and women that they had never heard of the Gospel of Jesus Christ But of the evil of walking unbeseeming the Gospel of Jesus Christ we shall speak to after when we come to the application That 's then the sixt particular of what the Gospel holds forth The infinite hatred of God against sin Now the seventh thing that is held forth in the Gospel that cals for a Conversation beseeming is this The great price of souls There 's nothing in the world that ever God did that doth discover the worth of mans immortal soul so as the Gospel of Jesus Christ doth there God manifests to all the world what a price he puts upon mans soul the Lord saw that men by sin had undone themselves and that those souls that he made were like to perish to all eternity yea were under the sentence of eternal death and must certainly perish eternally if so be that some way were not found out by an infinit wisdom for to ransome them now saith the Lord rather than I will have all souls perish it 's true the love that I have unto my Justice is such as for many souls I 'le let them go and they shall perish but yet that I might shew that I have an high esteem of the souls of the children of men for the ransoming of that number that I have appointed from all eternity to save I 'le send my Son and he shall die for the saving of souls that souls may not perish If the Lord should have said concerning any one soul I do so highly prize this soul and account the worth of it to be such as rather than it shall perish I 'le disolve heaven and earth heaven and earth shall perish rather than this soul shall perish you will say this had been a great testimony of Gods esteem of a soul But know that the Gospel holds forth a higher esteem of a soul than this comes to when God shal say Rather than this and the other soul shall perish I 'le send my Son to be made a Curse This the Gospel holds forth this is infinitly a higher price that God puts upon a soul You know therfore what the Apostle saith in 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed saith he with corruptible things as silver and gold Then in the 19. verse But with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish or without spot 'T is not silver and gold or any corruptible thing that can redeem you but the precious blood of Jesus Christ Oh that blood that 's more precious than the world even all the world must let the redemption of a soul alone for ever all the Angels in Heaven if they would have joyned together to have redeem'd a soul and would have ventured themselves to have been destroyed for ever that they might have redeem'd a soul it would not have been they must all let the redemption of a soul alone for ever the matter then of the redemption of a soul is more than we are aware of and we could never have come to have known this but by the Gospel of Jesus Christ The full price of a soul is writ down by the finger of Gods Spirit in the Gospel of Christ

which is only this The Blood of the Son of God the Blood of the Son of God Well then let our Conversation be as becomes this that is held forth in this Gospel that 's thus Manifesting in your Conversation that you set a high price upon your souls do not venture your souls upon nothing Oh how unbeseeming is this that when God shall set such a price upon a soul as to give for the redemption of it more than ten thousand thousand worlds are worth yet that a man or woman that professes themselves to be Christians shall venture the loss of their souls for the getting of sixpence or twelvepence hazard those immortal Jewels for one or two minutes of sensual pleasure to satisfie the lusts of the flesh what is it else when such will lye or cosen for a little while for thick clay For the Lords sake do not lay down thy everlasting soul at stake for a little gain some for a little credit art thou a Christian didst ever reade the Gospel man or woman didst thou ever hear of Christ and dost thou know what the death of Christ meant and wherefore Christ came into the world must Heaven and earth be mov'd to provide a way to ransom souls and dost thou set them at so low a rate Oh how unbeseeming is this to the Gospel And others pawn away their souls when God manifests what a price he sets upon them yet will pawn their souls to the very Devil Quest You will say Is any man so wicked as to pawn away his soul to the Devil Ans Yes When any man will venture upon sin but upon this condition I will repent before I die that is as if I should say thus Here I give my soul to pawn if I do repent then I 'l have it again if I do not repent before I die then it 's gone for ever As when you give a pawn you give it upon these terms Wel I give you this and if I bring you by such a time so much money then I 'le have it again and if not then 't is gone So do men and women they say thus Here Devil thou shalt have the possession of my soul all this while so long as I am in a way of sin if I do repent then I must have it again but if I do not repent before I die then thou shalt have it for ever Now dost thou know the price of a soul Oh! is this to shew the high price of a soul that wil pawn your souls thus And mark to whom you pawn it you pawn it to the Devil he hath it all this time it 's in his custody al the while that any one sins upon hope of repentance I say til they repent the Devil hath their souls in his possession in his hands as when you pawn a piece of houshold-stuff til the time that you bring the money so long the man you pawn it to hath the possession of it And thus do people you put your souls into the Devils hands and upon such a condition that you are not able to perform that is if you repent you will have it again if not he must have it for ever Oh friends you little know what repentance means What is it to repent it requires a mighty work of God the same power of God that made the world is required to break the heart of a sinner so that you put it to pawn upon that that is impossible for you your selves to perform by all the power that you have Now if a man put a thing to pawn for that which is impossible for him to redeem it may be if he should have a great many friends that will do some great matter for him then he may redeem it but it is beyond his power you will say there is a great deal of danger then that that pawn shall never be redeemed So know when you pawn your souls you put it into the hands of Satan and lock it up in the powers of darknesse and pawn it for that that you have no power to bring Do you prize the Gospel and know what a price God hath set upon souls O then take heed and set a greater prise upon your souls than to pawn them away for every trifle a thing of naught And then If this be held forth in the Gospel O then do not pollute and defile you souls with sin as you do from time to time God hath a high esteem of them have you a high esteem of them likewise Do not make your souls drudges and scuullions to your bodies only to make use of your souls to provide for the satisfying of the lusts of the flesh as many men and women have no other use of their precious immortal souls all their lives but only their souls are imployed to be slaves for the lusts of their flesh Oh! are these the souls that must cost the blood of Christ that God hath put such a price upon surely you do not know the Gospel nor Jesus Christ If I should tel you what Phylosophers say of the soul of mens immortal eternal souls though this be now doubted yet it was plentifully known among the Heathens these would be but dry things to you in comparison of this to tell you that Jesus Christ hath died to redeem souls there 's more in this than in al the arguments that possibly can be brought to shew the excellency of the soul of man Oh then likewise let your Conversation be as becomes this of the Gospel in your care of the souls of those that are committed to your care and charge Do you profess the Gospel then you profess withal that God so esteemed of a soul that he gave the life and blood of his Son to ransom a soul Oh then really demonstrate that you do highly esteem of the souls of your children and servants by walking convincingly before them that you may do all the good you can to them by instructing of them by praying for them and with them and so before all your friends and acquaintance let such kind of meditations work thus in you as these Oh Lord since I came to know the Gospel I have learn'd what a high price thou hast put upon souls Lord this shall make me for evermore to value souls at a higher rate than heretofore I have done Oh it were an excellent point to urge upon Ministers who are charged with many souls Oh let them so watch over them pray for them and preach to them all the Counsels of God both in season and out of season that in the great Day of Christ they may be cleer of the blood of all men as Paul was And that 's the seventh thing that the Gospel holds forth unto us The preciousness of souls and let your Conversations be as becomes this great point of the Gospel But then Eighthly which is as principal a one almost as any and neerly concerns us and that 's this

merry meettings and jovialities I shall never have comfort more in you As it was the speech of Pope Adrian when he was to die O thou my soul my soul whither art thou going whither art thou going thou shalt never have more jests nor be merry nor be jocund any more where art thou going So may a man that hath his portion in this world here say at his death Where is this poor soul of mine going I have lived here thus many yeers and I have had many merry meetings and I have eaten of the fattest and drunk of the sweetest and gone in brave array but now my day is gone what shall become of me what peace have I now when all is gone I remember Latimer hath such a story in one of his Sermons that he preached before King Edward he tels a story of a rich man that when he lay upon his sick bed there came one to him and tels him that certainly by all reasons they can judg by That he was like to be a man for another world a dead man Assoon as ever he hearts but these words they are Latimers words I only repeat them as his words and they were before a King and so they will not be too broad words nor too rude to speak before you assoon as ever he did but hear this What must I die send for a Physitian wounds sides heart must I die wounds sides heart must I die and thus he goes on and there could be nothing got from him but wounds sides heart must I die must I die and go from all these here was all here is the end of this man that makes his portion to be in this world Another rich man that lived not far from the place that I my self lived in heretofore when he heard his sickness was deadly he sends for his bags of money and hugs them in his arms Oh! must I leave you Oh! must I leave you And another that when he lay upon his sick bed cals for his bags and laies a bag of gold to his heart and then bids them take it away it will not do it will not do Another when he lay upon his sick bed his friends came to him and said What lack you what would you have would you have any Beer want you any thing Oh no saith he I want only one thing Peace of Conscience that I would have it is not beer nor friends nor an easie pillow I want but ease of Conscience Oh consider now whether there be not like to be perplexity in your Spirits 2. You must be called to an Accompt for all though as I told you before not to accompt for the right to use but for not right-using and do but now think with your selves If you now have so much as you cannot reckon how then will you be able to reckon for it if you cannot now reckon it now you have so much as you cannot count how will you be able to give an accompt of what you have now especially when you have had no thoughts of this beforehand 3. There is at last a dreadful portion indeed at the day of Judgment Oh the shame and confusion that will be upon the faces of the men of the world especially when they shall see perhaps their poor neighbors have their portion with Christ in glory perhaps a poor boy a poor servant in the house advanced to glory and they stand on the left hand to be cast out perhaps some of these poor Hospital boyes shall be admitted to eternal glory when as some of you that are their great Masters shall be cast out eternally and what an infinit shame and confusion would this be to you Oh now I see what it is to trust in God and not to trust in him these are happy that would trust for the future but I miserable that dare not trust in him and then the conclusion what will it be in Psalm 11. 6. The Lord will rain snares and fire and brimstone and this shall be the portion of their cup here is the portion of the Ungodly at last and in Mat 24. 51. Appoint him his portion with Hypocrites where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth that is the portion of Hypocrites in the conclusion Now here thou seest the End of all what do'st thou think then of thy portion now Think but of one text and I have done this in Job 27. 8. What hope hath an Hypocrite though he hath gained when God takes away his soul Mark there were many Hypocrites that aimed to get in the world and cannot get in the world God crosses them here well but suppose thou aimest at gain and canst get what thou would'st have thou hast got all thou would'st desire but what hope hath an Hypocrite though he hath gained though he hath grown never so rich and got all he desires when God takes away his soul This time is coming it will be ere long and it may be ere long the portion of some that are here present and perhaps this Text of mine may then ring in their ears when they lie upon their sick beds perhaps within a month or six weeks or a quarter of a yeer when Gods time shall be and then this Sermon Conscience may repeat in your ears I heard such a day there were a generation of men that have their portion in this world and now I am afraid I am one of them and there is an end of my portion only I must go to my other portion that will be very dreadful But I must not make an end till I shall speak somwhat of the next I shall leave the Point very bare else I but who have you spoke to all this while Fifthly Who is the man that hath his Portion in this world It is a poor portion you have set it out to us but every one will go away and say I hope it is not I I hope it is not I I hope God hath a better portion for me than this therefore give me leave to speak in the Name of God to you and I 'le only speak from God and out of His Word to you to point out the man and woman that is like to have his portion here living and dying in such a Condition I now am speaking of that man that is in such a condition I shall open to you in the present condition wherein he is is certainly the man and the Lord pronounces it this day that his portion is in this world Who is he 1. That man to whom God gives in this life nothing but what belongs to this life that is the man apparently If God give thee thy estate and if He give thee not somewhat besides thy estate a principle that is a seed of Eternal life in thee here in this world certainly He never intends good to thee in the world to come There are many men have a great deal in this world and they say they hope God will