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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61222	Practical discourses on sundry texts of Scripture wherein is shewed and made known the absolute necessity for all people to turn immediately unto the Lord their God / by Richard Stafford ...	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5129; ESTC R34590	179,430	348

have not I do not say could not accomplished and brought to pass How it will be all done suddenly and at an instant by the pouring out of the Spirit upon us from on High may be seen in Page 295. As also that there will be an end of all Wars and of all Persecution is shewed in Page 285 288. which will be a very great Good to Mankind So that the ●…king known these things will tend ●…re to the real Benefit of Man than spending their Money for that which is not Bread and their Labour for that which satisfieth not or consuming so much time in other and vain Things I need not say much more by way of Preface and Introduction But here I shall only add this further That according as God is now pleased to accompany and Seal these Truths with the droppings and distillings of that same Spirit which hereafter he will pour out And according as that self-same Spirit giveth Understanding for it is too common that the Works and Things of God are not understood Psal 106. 7. Acts 7. 25. for these things are Spiritually discerned As also there is a need of a distinguishing Judgment as to discern and know which are the real Truths of God from the Imaginations or Sayings of other meer Humane Writers Again According as the following Words of Truth do approve themselves to the Hearts and Consciences of the Real and Inward see Rom. 2. 29. and not so much to the Nominal and outward Christians And according as Care Endeavour Industry and Diligence are used in the publishing and making them known so accordingly they will meet with Acceptance or Rejection from the World THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. THE Introduction to the following Book Page 1 CHAP. II. Wherein that Proposition is at large discussed That People are not forced and compelled to the Obedience of God but they are left herein to their own Free Choice or Refusal p. 15 CHAP. III. That Surmise and Imagination is spoken unto whereby some People think that they have so Grievously offended God that they dare not come unto him p. 118 CHAP. IV. Therein it is discoursed of that false Thought in the Hearts of many People That if they should submit Presently unto the Obedience of God they shall be losers and disappointed of so much Pleasure and Conveniency in the mean while They shall miss of so much imagined Happiness and fall into Vexation Trouble and Misery p. 183 CHAP. V. Herein sundry things are written against them who will not be persuaded by nor live according to Words and also against following the Multitude p. 244 CHAP. VI. It is made known in the general from the Scriptures of Truth without any Reflections on Particular Nations or Governments that at length there will be an end of all Wars p. 285 CHAP. VII As also that there will be an end of all manner of Persecuting the Servants of God p. 288 CHAP. VIII Towards the end of Time and in the latter Days All the Inhabitants of the Earth will be turned and brought over unto God Which will be done and accomplished by the Pouring out of the Spirit upon us from on High p. 295 CHAP. IX A Paraphrase on some of the most Remarkable Verses of Psal 18. Shewing the Design and Connexion of that whole Psalm p. 310 Whereunto is subjoyned the shutting up and Conclusion of the whole Book p. 314 Practical Discourses OR AN Earnest Call to all the Inhabitants of the Earth to turn immediately unto the Lord their God As the same is opened and alledged from what is written Psal 18. 43 44 45. Thou hast delivered me from the Strivings of the People thou hast made me the Head of the Heathen A People whom I have not known shall serve me As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me The Strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their close Places CHAP. I. The Introduction IF all Mankind of all Generations and Countries were now summoned together and there was a Voice that could reach them all as God will at the last Day gather all Nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there Joel 3. 2. By his own Power and uttering forth his Voice It would be proper to preach and make known these Words unto them But in the mean time he hath shewed the Way and he doth require it of us under the Danger and Penalty of Disobedience that all we should publish the Word Psal 68. 11. which he hath given us as far as we can And he hath so ordered that the still Voice of his Spirit should be sent forth into the Hearts of many People All things are to be done as far as he hath pointed out and put into our Power All we should help whatever we can towards the Furtherance thereof for the Work of the Lord is common and should be the joint Endeavour of all his Servants Ever since the World began and down until this Time and what futher remains on the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth Violence and the violent take it by Force According to our Ability we ought severally to the utmost of yea and beyond our Power to be continually doing the Will of God bring Glory unto his Name to further and carry on with all our Might and Diligence the common Salvation to endeavour by all Means possible yea our selves are to act and suffer an holy Violence that People may be more brought over and added unto the Lord. As God is to be loved with all the Soul and with all the Strength and with all the Heart and with all the Mind So all things we have or can do are to be laid out and resolutely put forth without any more Intermission or Weariness than what is absolutely necessary and requisite in his Service and doing good unto others None are to be idle but as we are warned of so ought we to avoid to our utmost that we fall not under the Doom of the unprofitable Servant For behold I come quickly and my Reward is with me to give to every Man according as his Work shall be Rev. 22. 12. And we having but a short Time might learn this Wisdom from the Serpent to improve this our Time to the utmost Advantage to oppose and destroy his Kingdom to turn People from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto God and to recover those that are already taken captive at his Will As he walketh about seeking whom he may devour so is the Will of the most high God that his Servants should run to and fro that knowledge may be increased Dan. 12. 4. that many may be converted and saved And when each Person is converted then he is to strengthen his Brethren and to endeavour what lieth in him that others may be converted also and so on The like Care and Endeavour is to be used and spread abroad that all Men may be saved and come to the

snow Isa 1. 18. Which whiteness is an emblem of Innocency or whatever harm they have done they shall be as wool which hurts none but warms and cherishes There are abundant Examples which do ratifie and confirm the same God was often displeased with his own People the Israelites and yet he was appeased and reconciled again The time would fail me to speak of the Harlot Rahab Sampson and Manasseh the Idolatrous King as also of those who came and confessed their deeds and were baptized of John in Jordan of Mary Magdalen whose sins were many and yet they were forgiven yea even the wicked Jews who delivered up our Saviour Christ to be Crucified Yet these are called upon to repent and be converted that their sins may be blotted out Acts 3. 19. And so persecuting Saul obtained Mercy These things are written not to give license or presumption to Sin but who heretofore have sinned ignorantly or unadvisedly they are hereby shewed and exhorted to come out quickly lest they be swallowed up with over-much sorrow and they sink under the burthen of their sins They may cast off the burthen of sin or get from under it as soon as they will It is hard to state and apply those many gracious Texts in Holy Sccipture in such manner that on the one hand the Grace of God may not be turned into Lasciviousness or be a further occasion of continuance in sin so on the other hand that all may be invited and have assured Hope and Comfort to be Reconciled unto God Many People are apt to think that they have an allowed time of Transgression that they have a space of disobedience and refusal of Subjection unto Almighty God wherein they may walk in their own ways and according to their own thoughts yea and they are angry to be intrenched upon and to be deprived of that To maintain and keep up this Liberty and Privilege as they imagine it they are unwilling to hearken and come over immediately unto God but they do not withal consider that God knoweth those and alike thoughts every imagination in the mind and also those sudden conceits which are presently hushed and stopped but the Man is resolved to act by them God discerns all these and can point them out by their names who are for being rebellious setting up of themselves and would live without God in the World and though they will submit at last to save themselves yet God understandeth why they would not in the mean time before And it may be there is so much provocation and contempt therein that God will not accept of what is offered unto him as a refuse at last who stand out they may stay away and not come at all For if you would indeed have the Favour of God if you have not done it heretofore you must Repent and do his Will and if when first his Will is made known unto you you have an Aversation and Backwardness to it you must shake off that and do it nevertheless So if you make an hasty and sudden Promise to one of God's Servants or to himself immediately that you will live obediently according to his Word and keep his Commandments but afterwards you dissemble like those in Jer. 42. 20. with him because they will be out of Sight and Knowledge or forget and not mind your Vows which you have made to the Almighty yet he sits above and also searches your Heart to see and know whatever you do as pertaining to this Nothing can be hid or concealed from God who in his appointed Time will manifest the Counsels of the Heart and bring forth the most reserved and strange Imaginations The Prophet did intend somewhat alike what is afore-mentioned when he useth that Phrase and Kind of Words Hearken unto me ye stout-hearted that are far from Righteousness Isa 46. 12. that will not submit as it were out of a Piece of Pride and Bravery and they do of set Purpose keep off I bring near my Righteousness it shall not be far off and my Salvation shall not tarry Vers 13. But they will go further off and stand more at a Distance and delay the more that they may not see it A Perverse and contrary Manner of act●ng which God doth behold and will also recompence it upon them There are some who let God do what he will send forth his Light and make further Manifestations of Truth give more pressing Motives and Arguments send his several Sorts of Judgments yet they will not return to the ●…ord And so notwithstanding all his Methods of Mercy and Truth when there are already great Multitudes brought over and converted yet they reckon it as it were a greater Piece of Gallantry and Honour that for all that they will not be perswaded In that exceeding Glory of the Church by the vast Multitude of the Gentiles coming in yet some will still be rebellious yea and refuse to come And therefore it is that a Denunciation and Threatning is put as it were just in the Middle of all those Blessings and Promises for the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted Isa 60. 12. If that be their Humour and Resolution so it may be to kick against the Pricks to run their Heads violently against a Stone-Wall to set themselves as it were against their God VVhen he hath prophesied and foretold of such an universal Reformation they will what lieth in them make God a Liar for themselves will yet still refuse to be reformed O wicked Fools Poor ignorant Souls This you cannot do but confirm his Word the more For his holy Spirit doth foresee this Stubbornness and Refractoriness of yours and even speaks of it some Thousands of Years before your selves practice it That the Purpose of God might stand and what himself hath said shall be fulfilled Nevertheless for your evil Intent and Malice of Heart you shall smart and be punished for the same They shall perish yea and be utterly wasted and then themselves shall know whether it would not have been better for them to have served God than as they did to have went on in their Perversness and Opposition There are two main Ends the Glory of the great God and the Good of his Creatures This last is dependant and consequent to the other and with respect to himself Man is to reflect all back from whence it first came God doth make those precious Promises of good and continuance unto us They shall inherit the Land for ever the Branch of my planting the Work of my Hands that I may be glorified Isa 60. 21. Now if any should act ignorantly out of a selfish but mistaken Spirit consult only for their own Good and Safety not thinking so much of the Glory of God This is to alter and transverse his Method and by their thus doing themselves will have the less Good if they do not miss of all These act unworthily and