if I do it not Bestow one look in the first place on your selvs upon your own most rueful 〈◊〉 Fears O ponder on the hideous doâ—â—ful plighâ— which by your Iniquities you have â—unk your selves into and with an Anguish of Soul speak to your selvs in such Soli-loquies as these Ah wo is me In the Fruition of God is enwrapped all my happiness without this O Lord what will become of me for evermore But never was there a more lamentably forsaken Soul than I. The Terrible God at whose Rebukeâ— the Everlaâ—â—ing Rocks are tumbled down and the mountainous Pillars of heaven tremble He is such an Adversary to me that if I do not agree quickly with â—lim never-ceasing Tormentors will take me into their unpittying hands I have like a Fool in whom folly was exalted horribly provoked him by my sins that are as many as the Sands as mighty as the Hills that over-top the Clouds I am hereupon justly already smitten with spiritual plagues justly given over into the clutches of the red roaring Dragons devouring Lions whom I have most fondly hearkned unto Yea I see the dreadful Gulf below gaping for me I see my self ready to be prey'd upon by the worm that dyes not by the fire which never shall be quenched Nor can I by any means pluck my self out from this horrible Pit this miery clay Alas What shall I do O wretchman that I am who shall deliver me Let your second Head of Meditation hereupon be an I May. Think with your selvs I May look to Jesus Christ O hear him crying to you from the fragrant Tops of the Spicy Mountains as in Hos 13. 9. O Soul thou hast destroy'd thy self but in Me is thy help Don't let your Imaginations be that There is no hope No reserve now anothâ—â— look for Jesus Christ as the Moses sent by God to draw you out from black floods of your perplexâ—â—â—â—s Now refresh your selvs with this Reflection That there is such an one as the God-man Jesus Christ to goe unto and so say t is possible that I may live Say now with your selvs But is there no hope in Israel concerning me yes I see a door of hope My God may become my Friend and His Foe MAY become His child yet for all this Yet may I glorify Him enjoy Him forever The Son of God is become the Son of man a Dayes-man between God man. It has pleas'd the Father that in him should all fulness dwell and it hath pleased Himself to engage in the blessed work of bringing God and man together Neither will I undervalue Him so much as to count that any of my streights are too difficult for Him to meddle with or that any of my Faults will cause him to reject the Supplications that his Spirit shall help me to come before him with No No when I am about to say unto him Lord If thou wilt thoâ— canst save me His preventing Goodness sayes to me Soul if thou wilt I will. Then I will no longer pine away in mine Iniquities but look unto Him immediately Having got thus far Then 2. Cry to Heaven that you may be Enabled to Look unto the Lord Jesus Christ The Case is so that you cannot look unto Jesus Christ until you see that you cannot look Never will you aright look unto Jesus Christ if you do it not with Sentiments a kin to that in Joh. 6. 44. No man 〈◊〉 come or look unto Jesus Christ except the Father draw him No we have bin told by the heavenly Records concerning this Look of Faith that it is the gift of God. That it is the Operation of GOD and that it is caused by the mighty power of God. It was asked of old in Joh. 6. 44. How can ye believe Such an humbling Quaere should you put unto your selves How can I look unto Jesus Christ Certainly you can as easily make Iron swim and ponderous Mountains to fly like Atoms about the Air and bulky Rocks to place themselves among the shining stars in the Firmament of God as look unto Jesus Christ by any Abilities of your own If you would not have your Faith prove a Cobweb in the day when the fiery Beesom of Destruction shall sweep the world you must first say with him in 1 sal 40. 12. I am not able to look up Now with a bleeding soul on the precipeice of an inevitable Hell make your moans as the man did in Mar. 9. 24. Lord help my unbelief Now say O Lord I must believe or dy I may believe and live but I cannot O I cannot Do thou draw me do thou turn me or I shall yet miscarry Doe thou work this work of thine own in me and for me so the whole of my Salvation will at length redound to thy Honour Not unto me not unto me but unto Thee O Lord will be all the Glory Hereupon Labour to look as well as you can unto Jesus Christ for All that Salvation which He has to confer upon you There is a probable likelyhood that the issue of your struggling after faith may be this That the Lord Jesus Christ will say unto you as once unto deceased Lazarus O thou dead Soul arise Watch now to follow him as Peter did the Angel in Act 12. 9. till you have got out of the Goal which you have on a Light fire over your heads T is possible and more than so that Jesus Christ may now do by you as he did to that man in Marc. 8. 25. when He put His hands upon his eyes and made him look up Now now profess unto the Lord Jesus Christ as did Jehoshaphat long ago in 2. Chron. 20. 12. I know not what to do O Lord but my eyes are up unto thee O say to him Lord I look unto Thee for for thy Salvation yea as the Hart panteth after the water brooks so does my soul after Thee O Saviour I do heartily close with Thee as the Surety of the New everlasting Covenant which is made between the Frst Being my soul and I wait upon Thee for the Communication of all the sure mercies which belong unto it But in doing thus have a special Regard to this That you do not retain a Prejudice against any part Part of the Salvation which you ought to be desireous of O don't look a squint when you look unto Jesus Christ Don't divide his saving Offices His saving Kindnesses but with a single eye say Lord be all that to me which thou art to any of thy chosen ones Hath the Lord said of Him in Psal 110 4. Thou art a Priest forever Now do you answer Lord I consent to have Jesus Christ on my behalf a Priest whose Obedience Inetrcession shall take away all Controversies between Thee me Has the Lord said of him in Act. 3. 22. A Prophet shall the Lord raise up unto you Do you answer Lord let Jesus Christ be my
for being wicked over much There is hardly any sort of Wickedness which you have not wallowed in-That sin particularly which you are now to die for is a most monstrous Crime I can't possibly describe or declare the sins whereby you have made your self an astonishing Example of Impiety punishment Mor. O Sir I have bin a most hellish sinner I am sorry for what I have bin Min. Sorry you say well tell me which of all your sins you are now most sorry for which lyes most heavy Mor. I hope I am sorry for all my sins but I must especially bewail my neglect of the means of grace On Sabbath dayes I us'd to lye at home or be ill imploy'd elsewhere when I should have bin at Church This has undone me Min. And let me seriously tell you Your Despiseing of Christ is a most dreadful sin indeed You have for whole years together had the Call of Jesus Christ to seek an Interest in him you would now give all the world for that interest but you would take no notice of him The Jews of Old put him to a worse death than yours will be this afternoon and by your contempt of Christ you have said the Jews did well to do so How justly might he now Laugh at your Calamity And for these sins of yours besides the direful woes plagues that have already come upon you you are now expos'd unto the Vengeance of eternal fire You are in danger of being now quickly cast into those exquisite amazing Torments in comparison of which the anguishes which your body ever did feel or shall feel before night or can ever feel are just nothing at all and these dolorous torments are such as never have an End as many sands as could lie between this earth the Stars in Heaven would not be near so many as the Ages the end-less Ages of these Torments Mor. But is there not Mercy for me in Christ Min. Yes and its a wonderful thing that I have now further to tell you Mind I entreat you The SON of GOD is become the Son of Man the Lord Jesus Christ is both God man in one Person he is both sufficiently able willing also to be your Saviour He lived a most righteous life and this was that such as you I might be able to say before God Lord accept of me as if I had liv'd righteously He died at length a most cursed death and this was that we might be able to say unto God Lord let not me die for sin since thy Son has died in my room This glorious Redeemer is now in the highest heaven pleading with God for the Salvation of His chosen ones And He pours out his Spirit continually upon them that do believe on him might you then be enabled by his grace to carry your poor guilty condemned enslaved ignorant soul unto Jesus Christ and humbly put your trust in him for deliverance from the whole bad state which you are brought into Oh then his voice is to you the same that was to the penitent Thief This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Mor. Oh that I might be so Sir I would hear more of these things I think I can't better fit my self for my death than by hearkning to these things Min. Attend then The never-dying spirit that lodges within you must now within a few minutes appear before the Tribunal of the Great GOD in what or in whose Righteousness will you then appear will you have this to be your Plea Lord I experienced many good Motions Desires in my soul many Sorrows for my sin before I dy'd or will you expect to have no other Plea but This Lord I am vile but thy Son is a Surety for the worst of sinners that believe in him for his sake alone have MERCY on me Morg. I thank God for what He has wrought in my Soul Min. But be very careful about this matter if you build on your own good Affections instead of Jesus Christ the only Rock if you think they shall recommend you to God He that made you will not have mercy on you Mor. I would be clothed with the Righteousness of JESUS CHRIST Min But you can't sincerely desire that Christ should justify you if you don 't also desire that He should sanctify you those 2 alwaies go together Is evry lust that has hitherto had possession of your heart become so loathsom to you that it would fill your soul with joy to hear Jesus Christ say I will subdue those Iniquities of thine I will make a holy heavenly a spiritually minded person of thee Mor. I would sin against God no more Min. But I must deal plainly with you You have made it sadly suspicious that your repentance is not yet as it ought to be when men truly throughly repent of sin they use to be in a special manner watchful against that Sin which has bin their chief Sin one of your principal sins which has indeed brought you to the Death of a Murderer is Passion unmortifi'd outragious Passionateness Now I have been this day informed that no longer since than the last night upon some Dissatisfaction about the place which the Authority hath ordered you by and by to be buried in you did express your self with a most unruly Passionateness Mor. Sir I confess it and I was quickly sorry for it tho' for the present I was too much disturbed 'T was my folly to be so careful about the place where my body should be laid when my precious SOUL was in such a Condition Min. Truly you have cause to mourn for it Secure the welfarre of your soul and this now pinion'd hang'd vile body of yours will shortly be raised unto glory glory forevermore And let me put you in mind of one thing more I doubt you han't yet laid aside your unjust Grudges against the Persons concerned in your Conviction Condemnation You have no cause to complain of them and you are not fit to pray much less are you fit to dye till you heartily wish them as well as your own soul if you die malicious you die miserable Mor. I heartily wish them all well I bear Ill-will to none What a lamentable thing is this Ah this is that which has brought me hither Min. What do you mean Mor. I over-heard a man mocking scoffing at me when I stumbled just now he does very ill I have done so my self I have mock'd scoff'd like that man and see what it hath brought me to he may come to the like Min. The Lord forgive that foolish hard-hearted creature But be not too much disturbed Mor. Yonder I am now come in sight of the place where I must immediately end my dayes Oh what a huge Multitude of people is come together on this occasion O Lord O Lord I pray thee to make my Death profitable to all this Multitude of People that they may not sin
like that of Despising the Word of God. For this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the world and men love Darkness rather than Light. And How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation They that shall be found guilty of neglecting the great Salvation offered in the Gospel cannot escape the wrath of God to the utmost of it And this is true not only concerning such as have lived under the constant Preaching of the Gospel and yet remain and live dye in a natural unconverted estate but of them also that might hear the Word of God but will not concerning Such Christ saith It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah at the day of Judgment than for them Mat. 10. 15. This dying man now that his Conscience is awaken d saith It is a terrour to him to think I might have heard the Word of God preached many a time but refused it He neglected to hear Sermons not only on Lecture dayes but on Lords-Dayes too when he was a Servant he was wont as himself saith on Sabbath-Days to go out into the Fields and there to profane the Lords Dayes at the very time when he might and ought to have bin hearing the Word of God and since he had a Family his custom was to keep at home when others were attending the publick Worship of God. And he told me that he did foolishly please himself in thinking that he had sufficient reason to stay at home because he had not clothes good enough to appear publickly in whenas the mony that he mis-spent in drink would have procur'd him Cloatheing Let others then by his Example be warned against this evil lest they provoke God and feel sorrow for it as he has done I doubt there are very many in this great Town guilty of his sin in this particular perhaps some that are professors of Religion which is dreadful to think on I hear some say that there are many Hundreds nay some Thousands in this place that seldom hear a Sermon preached from one end of the year to the other if that be so it is very lamentable What is like to become of the souls of such profane persons If they that are in place of power be they Superior or Inferior Officers can possibly redress this evil they will certainly do a Service acceptable to GOD and to our Lord JESUS CHRIST But I proceed to the Second Exhortation If Murder be such a Crime as has bin declared then Let whoever has been guilty of this Sin be humbled for it and repent of it As for Interpretative Murder many are guilty of that O how many have by Debauchery Intemperance shortened the lives of themselvs or others let such repent and turn from their sins unto God. But I hope there is none in this vast Assembly that has bin guilty of that Murder which is by the Law of God and of the Land a Capital Crime excepting one man and one such person there is here present unto whom I shall now particularly apply my self Do you then hear that your soul may live This is the Last Sermon that ever you shall hear Time was when you might have heard Sermons but would not and now you shall not hear them tho' you would For as God said to him This night thy soul shall be required of thee so I say to you in His Name This night thy soul shall be taken from thee This night your soul shall be in Heaven or Hell for ever You are appointed to dye this day and after death commeth the Judgment As soon as your Body is dead your immortal soul must appear before the great GOD and Judg of all and a Sentence of everlasting Life or Everlasting Death shall be passed upon you Are you willing when those Chains which are about you shall be taken off that your immortal soul should be hang'd in everlasting Chains Are you willing that when your Body is removed from the Prison your Soul should go to the Spirits that are in prison You have complain'd that you have bin in a Dungeon and had little light there but are you willing to go where you shall never see light Are you willing that when your Body is delivered from this Dungeon your Soul should go into that Dungeon where is Blackness of darkness for ever If not I charge you in the Name of God to hear and obey his Word yea that Word which you have many a time despised I have spoken so often to you in private since your being Apprehended that I shall not need to say much now only a few words 1. Consider what a sinner you have bin The Sin which you are to die for is as red as Scarlet and many other sins hath your wicked life been filled with You have been a stranger to me I never saw you I never heard of you till you had committed the Murder for which you must dye this day but I hear by others that have known you how wicked you have been and you have your self confessed to the world that you have been guilty of Drunkenness guilty of Cursing Swearing guilty of Sabbath-breaking guilty of Lying guilty of secret Uncleanness as Solomon said to Shimei Thou knowest the wickedness which thine own heart is privy unto so I say to you And that which aggravates your Guiltiness not a little is That since you have been in Prison you have done wickedly you have made your self drunk several times since your Imprisonment yea and you have bin guilty of Lying since your Condemnation It was said to a dying man Dost not thou fear God seeing thou art under Condemnation Oh what a sinner have you bin for since you have bin under Condemnation you have not feared God. And how have you sinned against the Gospel What Unbelief what Impenitency have you bin guilty of Consider 2. What Misery you have brought upon your self on your Body that must dye an 〈◊〉 ed death you must hang between Heaven and Earth as it were forsaken of both and unworthy to be in either And what Misery have you brought upon your poor Children you have brought an everlasting Reproach upon them How great will their Shame be when it shall be said to them that their Father was hang'd not for his goodness as many in the world have bin but for his wickedness not as a Martyr but as a Malefactor truly so But that which is Ten Thousand Thousand times worse than all this is That you have without Repentance brought undoing Misery upon your poor yet precious Soul not only Death on your Body but a Second Death on your never-dying Soul. It is said in the Scripture That Murderers shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the Second Death Rev. 21. 8. O tremble at that I remember a Man that was condemned and Executed in this place some years ago that had been a Souldier and as stout a spirited
Egyptian darkness for evermore On the heel of the former this second Proposition taketh hold 2. SALVATION will most undoubledly be the Fruit of a Believer's Looking unto the Lord Jesus Christ The great God who once said unto upright man Obey and live now saith unto lapsed man Believe be saved and truly an Exceeding great multitude whom no man can number have bin happy witnesses to the Fulfilment of it It is that which our Lord has ordered to be proclaimed unto every creature I mean as the Hebrews do by that Phrase unto every man in the world Marc. 16. 16. He that believeth shall be saved And when a convinced Jayler was solicitous about his everlasting Weal the Messengers of heaven gave him this Testimony which surely the convinced Prisoner that I have before me may very reasonably look upon himself as concerned in Act. 16. 31. Believe on the Lord. Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved Thus also it is represented as the Property the Priviledge of true Believers in Heb 10. 39. We are of them that believe unto the saving of the soul Verily a man does no sooner look unto Jesus Christ in away of Beleeving than a Sentence of Salvation is passed upon him and all the Promises yea and all the Attributes of the Eternal Jehovah are engaged for the execution of it ¶ Shall we descend unto some Particulars Every part of that Salvation which Jesus Christ is the Author of ever follows upon Looking Believing for it As those three comprehensible and inexhaustible Treasures of life in 2. Cor. 13. 14. even the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Communion of the Holy Spirit are to be got by Booking So particularly the voice the sweet soul-melâ—â—ng voâ—ce of the Lord Jesus Christ unto Sinners is LOOK unto Me and you shall be Justified Hence not to speak of the large Discourses on this point in the Epistle to the Romans concerning whom the spirit of Prophecy fore-saw that they would apostatize from their Orthodox Perswasion and Professions herein It is said in Joh. 3. 18. He that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ is not condemned No he is in Christ and there shall not one Condemnation fall upon him as the Appostle else-where has it tho' he may have deserved a Thousand Million He is saved from the horrendous Wrath Curse of God. The Free Grace of God forgives all his transgressions and accepts him as righteous imputing the Righteousness of Jesus Christ unto him the just holy God that was once angry with him every day now sayes unto him Fury is not in me Fury is not in me And he rejoices with such a white stone put into his hand as that Paralitick had unto whom it was said Son be of good theer thy sins â—re forgiven thee Yet again The voice of the Lord Jesus unto sinners is Look unto Me and you shall be Adopted Hence is it averr'd in Gal. â— 10. Yâ— are the children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus Thus these blessed believing Lookers shall be saved from the doleful Family of the Devil they shall be taken into the number they shall have a Title to the Felicity and Dignity of them that are the sons of God the Angels now call them Brethren and the Almighty Magnificent Governor of the world saies unto them Ye are my sons my daughters Besides all this the Voice of the Lord Jesus unto sinners moreover is Look unto Me and you shall be Sanctified in regard of this it is that He has said in Joh. 3 36. He that believeth hath everlafling life the Seed the Spring of it is in Him. Truly such a man shall be saved from his slavery to the Enemies of his soul He shall be renewed in his whole man after the Image of God and be enabled more more unto a dying to sin and a living in Grace his spirit his soul his body his All is now under an enobling Dedication unto the Service of shewing forth the praises of God a curious Needle-work made by the fingers of the eternal Spirit covers him adorns him makes him more excellent than his neighbour And Oh what peace even the peace of God that passeth all understanding O what Joh even Joy unspeakable full of glory Oh what Assurance Oh what Perseverance in this life will flow from these unto the saved Believer Finally the Voice of the Lord Jesus unto sinners likewise is Look unto Me and you shall be Glorified On this score has the beloved Disciple said in 1. Joh. 5. 13. You that believe on the Name of the Son of God may know that ye have eternal life Oh how firmly is Eternal Life ensured unto Believers Certainly those Christ-prizing Ones shall be saved from the second Death they shall awake in the upper world in the future world they shall behold the Face of God and Christ in Righteousness and be satisfied with His likeness The Lamh shall feed them and lead them to Fountains of Living water they shall enter into the Joy of their LORD they shall drink of the Rivers of pleasure at the right hand of GOD for ever more they shall so partly at their Dissolution they shall so fully at their Resurrection they shall so in the Heaven of Heavens until the very Heavens be no more Such is a little of the Be ye saved which all Believers hear from their heavenly Friend from their Undertaker on high So great Salvation will a Believing LOOK procure But that this Gospel may have a fit and fult dwelling in your hearts there is one Proposition more to be laid into your Understandings 3. The Lord Jesus Christ in His Gospel does graciously earnestly INVITE all men thus to Look unto Him and be saved That ever-glorious One whom God has exalted to be a Prince and Saviour to give Repentance unto His Elect with Remission of sins He hath with a matchless degree of Favour and Fervour too adâ—isâ—â— Man-kind about this matter He hath reviv'd a dying world with such sweet words of his mouth as these O ye perishing Out-casts I am a Saviour infinitely able ready to relieve the Distresses which you are plung'd into I require you and entreat you therefore that you don't keep at a distance from me And for this cause it is that in Isa 65. 1. he makes according to the Apostolical Interpretation in Rom. 10. this proffer even to the very Heathen O let the blackest blindest Negroe at the further end of this Assembly count himself bound to answer such a Call Behold me behold me q. d. O that you would LOOK at me for my SALVATION We have indeed a most precious Bible in our hands that Book of Life I see in those hands too that must dye pinion'd before many dayes have roll'd away man do you first look downward upon that and so look upward unto Him from whom it comes it is a Bible iudited by the Spirit of
Prophet leading me evermore in the way wherein I should go Has the Lord said of him in Psal 2. 6. I have set him as my King upon my holy hill Do you answer Lord I would have Jesus Christ be my King forever Governing Strengthening defending of me whilest I have any being Do this And then labour to rest with glorious Transports and Triumphs now saying Why are thou cast down O my soul Hope in the Lord for thou shalt praise Him who is thy Salvation This is the good way walk therein and you shall find Rest for your souls But O ye souls in peril what is the Resolution that you intend to go out of this House withal Is your answer like theirs in Jer. 6. 16. we will not walk therein Shall yonder Doors anon bear witness against you Here passes by a person that will still neglect â—â— look unto Jesus Christ Alas has all this Rain fallen upon the Rocks Will none of us now with full purpose of heart say before the heart-searching One with him in Marc. 7. 7. I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my Salvation how strangely besotted must that Israelite have been who should have declined to have given a Look unto the Remedy which the Almighty had provided for him when the mortal spreading Venome of a Scorpion had set his bloud in a torturing flame Epecially when all the world as I perceive by â—hat the Roman Poet Lucan wrote many Ages after could not help to any other cure of the stinging Strokes which the Tayls of these Presters gave Every Unbeliever here is to be charged with a more bruitish stupid Madness Indeed the Jewish Talmud affirms that a Look mith the eye to the brazen Serpent did the people in the Desart no good unless there were at the same time a look with the heart unto the heavenly Father also But most assuredly without your Look unto Jesus Christ it is impossible that your Souls should do any other than Welter and languish under dolours more scorching than Rivers of burning Brimstone or of running Bell-metal world without end 'T is uncertain what your esteem of Salvation is but surely Salvation should be worth a Look My Friend if the Saviour had bid thee do some great thing wouldst thou not have done it yea thou shouldst have reckoned Salvation to be worth Rocks of Diamonds Thousands of Rams and ten Thousands of Rivers of oyl are not too much to be parted with by him that would have SALVATION What an obdurate heart of Adamant must he then have that shall be disobedient when our Lord only saith LOOK and be saved You have now a season to secure Salvation at so cheap a rate but I may not break off till I have most vehemently and faithfully protested unto you that you shall not alwayes have so You are here mourning over a man in Irons whose life will be done before this week be out and yet who among you can say that your Great Change is not nearer unto you but I do with utmost ardour of spirit declare unto you That if your souls are found Faithless Christless when they are required of you Wo wo unto you ten thousand times for insinitely more than ten thousand Ages He that made you will not have mercy on you He that formed you will shew you no Favour You shall be banished from the light of his countenance for evermore Because you would not look unto the Son of God while the day of His patience did continue you shall miserably perish when his wrath is kindled more than a little Then instead of the delightful sound which the High-Priests Bells do now make of Look be saved or the silver Trumpets wherewith the Lord Christ doth proclaim a Jubilee of Liberty to Captives and opening of the prison to them that arâ— bound you shall hear nothing but the Thunder of his exasperated Jealousy Now you have him offering of Salvation for a Look but if you are such deaf Adders as to disregard the same you shall hearafter look unto him and see nothing but Frowns fierce Lightennings and flagrant sparkling Coals of Juniper about him Alas in the room thereof you shall have from him only those bitter angry astonishing Words in Matt. 25. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting sire Then O then all your looks unto him will meet with such confusion as the Lord speaks of in Zech. 7. 13. It is come to pass as he cryed they would not hear so they cryed and I would not hear saith the Lord. And will you make such a choice as this ye children of Folly You that have a million times bin hearkning to the bloudy Devil when he has said serve me and take Hell for thy pains will you not hearken unto that altogether lovely Lord who saith unto you Look unto me and I with all my Salvation will be thine Verily the most black mouth'd Oathes and soul Uncleannesses and filthy Drunkennesses of the vilest Debauchee will not pull down sorer Punishment than this UNBELIEF will bring upon the UNLOOKING Sinners who will thus render themselves as the Fat of Lambs before the JVSTICE of the Almighty for their contemning the Lamb of Gods I pray you Brethren do not thus wickedly O do not for want of a Look make it more tolerable for Sodom Gomorrha in the day of Judgment than for you O that the eternal Spirit would rend the heavens come down to rend the hearts which are still shut against all the motions that Jesus Christ does make unto them It is foretold concerning the Day of the Lord 's working upon Israel in Isai 12. In that day shall a man look to his Maker O for the Dawns of such a day upon us wherein it may be said In this day many a man looks to his Redeemer O that every seat within these walls might be full of the believing souls who at this moment say unto the Lord Jesus Christ as he in Psal 5. 3. My voice shalt Thou hear O Lord and I will look up and who will evermore keep looking and looking and looking unto the Lord Jesus Christ until He do arise save them Amen BUt what is thus said unto All is now mainly to be said unto One. I see a Condemed Prisoner here to whom this CALL of the GOSPEL is most particulurly to be directed The Message which I have to bring unto You is like that which the Prophet once carried unto a better man O Set thy Soul in order for thou shalt DY and not live It is indeed a very sorrowful thing unto us to see that a man in his early dayes should thus dy before his time for his being wicked overmuch That when half the Age of a man has not pass'd over you a doelful dreadful Storm of God does hurry you away from your afflicted family Yea that men do clap their hands at you and hiss you out of your
against thee as I have done Min. Amen Amen ten thousand times the Lord GOD Allmighty say Amen to this Prayer of yours It would indeed be an excellent thing if you could now come to receive your death with some Satisfaction of soul in this thought That Much Glory is like to come to God by it I am verily perswaded God intends to do good to many souls by means of your Execution This is a greater honour than you are worthy of After the Discourse had been intermitted about a minute or two by reason of the miery way Mor. I beseech you Sir speak to me Do me all the good you can my time grows very short your discourse fits me for my Death more than any thing Min. I 'm sorry so small a thing as a plashy Street should make me loose one minute of this more-than-ordinary precious time a few paces more bring you to the place which you have now in your eye from whence you shall not come back alive Do you find your self afraid to dy there Mor. Sir If it were not for the Condition that my SOUL must by by be in I should not fear my death at all but I have a little comfort from some of Gods promises about that Min. And what shall I now say These are among the last words that I can have liberty to leave with you Poor man thou art now going to knock at the door of Heaven and to beg cry Lord Lord open to me The only way for thee to speed is to open the door of thy own soul now unto the Lord Jesus Christ Do this and thou shalt undoubtedly be admitted into the gloryes of His heavenly Kingdom You shall fare as well as Manasseh did before you leave this undone and there 's nothing remains for you but the Worm which dyeth not and the fire which shall not be quenched Mor. Sir show me then again what I have to do Min. The voice the sweet voice of the Lord Jesus Christ who was once hanged on a tree to take away the Sting and Curfe of even such a Death as yours unto all that close with him His heavenly voice now is Oh that I my Saving work might be entertained kindly entreated in that poor perishing soul of thine Are you willing Morg. I hope I am Min. His Voice further is If I am lodged in thy soul I 'll sprinkle my blood upon it and on my account thou shalt find Favour with GOD. Do you consent to this Mor. This I want Min. But this is not all that he saith His Voice further is If I come into thy soul I will chang it I will make all sin bitter to it I will make it an holy heavenly soul Do you value this above the proffers of all the World Mor. I think I doe and now Sir I must go no further Look here what a solemn sight is this Here lyes the Coffin which this Body of mine must presently be laid in I thank you dear Sir for what you have already done for me Min. When you are gone up this Ladder my last service for you before you are gone off will be to pray with you But I would here take my leave of you Oh that I might meet you at the right Hand of the LORD JESVS in the last Day Farewel poor heart Fare thee well The everlasting Armes receive thee The Lord JESUS the merciful SAVIOUR of Souls take possession of thy Spirit for himself The Great GOD who is a great Forgiver grant thee Repentance unto Life and glorify himself in the Salvation of such a wounded soul as thine forever With HIM and with His free rich marvellous infinite Grace I leave you Farewell FINIS