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A66437 Warnings to the unclean in a discourse from Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield lecture, August 25th. 1698. At the execution of Sarah Smith. By Mr. John Williams pastor of the Church at Deerfield. Williams, John, 1664-1729. 1699 (1699) Wing W2743; ESTC W15452 28,591 67

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never I would offer some things to your consideration for your conviction of guiltiness and need you have to get your peace made with God You are by nature a Child of Wrath and guilty of Adams Sin you brought a guilty defiled Soul into the world with you You were shapen in Iniquity and in Sin did your Mother conceive you You have long refused and slighted Jesus Christ and would none of him as your Prophet your Priests and your King and so are under a Sentence of Death from the Gospel as well as the Law by your unbelief you have sealed down the Wrath of God upon your own Soul you have fallen also into great Land-polluting moral evils Lying Stealing Adultery and Murder You would not hearken to the voice of your eminently pious Father-in law warning of you You have accustomed your self to these ways of sin tho' you Lived under the convincing preaching of the Gospel You closed your eyes and would not see tho' for many years you Lived under an eminently Soul-searching Ministry you have given up your self to these sins in the day that God was pleading his Controversie and hedging up your ways with thorns in the day of the Lords anger you have sinned more and more when God had driven you out of one Plantation into another by the Enemy when God had taken away your first Husband by Death and suffered your second to be carried into Captivity when he was in bondage you were wantonly doting on your Lovers yea though you could not look out an your door but the Garrison and Souldiers before your eyes proclaimed it to be a day of Gods anger your sin is very great in your violating your Marriage Covenant You have relapsed after God filled your Soul with horror for these abominations and turned again as a Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire You refused to be prevented from Murder by covering your Adultery with lying though so solemnly admonished and cautioned You have unnaturally murdered the fruit of your own body what in you lay its Soul have abused patience and long suffering exercised towards you of God multiplying lying and hardening your heart have not feared God being under a righteous Condemnation and Sentence of Death but to this day continued in lying You have slighted the Word of God quenched the Spirit of God refused Christ and have by these things filled up the measure of your sins so that you must Dye that the Land be not guilty None may stay you from death and suffer you to live least the Land be greatly polluted And you are now Enjoying your last Opportunity in Gods House you that have idled slept away yea whored away part of so many Sabbaths and Lectures shall have no more You that have disregarded Gods Counsels how righteously might God say I will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear comes● Yet he sayes after all these things turn Jer. 3.7 For the life of your body your case is hopeless Your sin is so heinous that your life can't be saved without injustice Well then since you can't live guiltless labour to die penitent since your Body can't be saved alive endeavour that your Soul may be saved alive in death there is yet a possibility that your Soul may be saved See Prov. 1.20 22 23 24. Jesus Christ the essential wisdom calls after such an one as you to come to him though you have been long sinning lov'd and delighted in sinning yea tho' you have hated knowledge you are called upon encouraged to come God in Christ is shewing how ready he is to show you mercy upon your repentance and to help you in your repentance he offers you the best help and help suitable Oh then come away to Jesus Christ now left upon your refusal the after verses be made good against your Soul Direction Come away to Christ now upon the call and encouragement of the Gospel Stay away no longer Don't think your Prayers good promises and others praying for you will save you But hasten away to Christ There is no other Name given whereby you can be saved Act. 4.12 And no other way of being saved by Christ than by coming to him or believing on him You are called this day in an Ordinance of Christ to come for Reconciliation 1 Cor. 5.19 Christ came to save guilty sinners It s a faithful saying and worthy of your acceptation that Christ came into the World to save Sinners chief of Sinners The greatest sinners have been justified in this way 1 Cor. 6.11 So Manasseh that shed much innocent blood Consider for your encouragement that Christ fully accepts of them that ran far from him that refused to come as long as they could retain any hopes of being saved in any other way upon their coming to him Luke 15. God won't upbraid you upon your coming Jam. 1.5 Yea he that comes unto me I will in no wise cast out though he have been a great and an old Sinner though he have sinned away many Convictions yet if he come he shall have mercy Christ Jesus calls you to come not to sell you pardon but give you Grace Matth. 11.29 I will give you rest Christ aimes at your present gain and not at his own and therefore if you have no money yet you may have the mercy you want Isa. 55.1 Consider 1. That Christ don't call you to come to him to be Punished but Pardoned Christ in the Gospel comes to you to save you calls you to come to him to be pardoned It s true if you refuse the calls of Christ in this life he will call you in the next life to be punished and condemned Oh! Christ calls you and you need not be afraid to come to him now for he doth not call you to come to be punished for sins al●eady committed but that he may pardon and forgive them blot o●t the hand-writing of Ordinances that was against you May you have a free and full pardon of so many and great sins upon coming then delay no longer 2. Jesus Christ calls you to come not to pass a Sentence of Death upon you but to take it off from you There will be no Condemnation against your Soul when once you are gotten into Christ. Rom. 8.1 yea Christ says such shall not enter into Condemnation for they are passed from death to life there is a sentence of death gone out against you in the Law 't is a holy and righteous sentence too now the Gospel offers no mercy to the repealing and taking off this Sentence of Condemnation without coming to Christ. 3. Christ calls you to come to him not to shut you up in the Prison of Hell but to set you at liberty Oh! Christ would bring you out of the pit wherein is no water for Christ received a Commission from the Father to proclaim liberty and the opening of the prison doors to them that are shut up Isa. 61.1 2.
more undiscorned God layes his plagues on some mens Souls when he layes them on other mens bodies He sends leanness into some mens Souls when he sends leanness on others Estates Ha●'t God let you alone and poured upon you a Spirit of deep sleep given you eyes that you should not see nor perceive nor be converted to this day To be left of God to go on stupidly in impenitency is a very great testimony of Divine Wrath. Soul plagues are the forest plagues 4. The longer ago your sins were committed the more hazardous your unconcernedness about ●epenting of them getting a Pardon of them God wont be patient alwayes though he is ●ometimes long suffering if he waites on Sinners till they bring forth briers and thornes he would have them know they are nigh to Cursing Yea such as are impenitent after much long suffering may fear that they are Vessels fitted to destruction Rom. 9.22 God sayes I come three years looking for fruit and find none cut it down why cumbereth it the ground Luk. 13.7 ult 2. Some are ready to argue that their sins are but little if they had been left to gross acts of Fornication or Adultery they acknowledge they should have had need to have haltened to Chrst for a pardon but they were only guilty of some wanton dalliances therefore they don't think God is very angry with them 1. Though some sins comparatively considered are little yet no sins absolutely considered are little and small because against an Infinite God and Violations and Transgressions of his holy Laws and Commands 2. Such little sins if your Consciences were awakened and enlightned would fill you with great perplexity and distress As long as the commandment did not come with Convictions of its exactness and spirituality on Pauls Conscience he was alive and could do well enough but when such an exposition as Christ put upon the Commandment came sin revived and ●e dyed he was slain and could justifie himself no longer 3. God finds stubbornness rebellion which are as that Sin of Witchraft where Sinners can see only humane frailty and sins of Infirmity 1 Sam. 15.23 Saul saith he had obeyed the● he had a good end in varying from the command or the people are to blame but God tell● him of rebellion and stubbornness which were to him as Witchcraft and Idolatry God tell● him that he had in so doing rejected the Word of the Lord. Christ tells us he that looks upon a Woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart Hear what account God makes of that which you call a look a cast o● the eye a little thing Isa. 3.16 17. 4. The more madness to break with God and expose your Souls to Hell Torment for these things that had but a little of pleasure to entice Ezek. 13.19 5. Little Sins make way for greater One Sin allowed stupifies and makes way for great ones the greatest Sinner began with that which you call little Eve first saw that the tree was good Cain was first wroth with Abel and then slew him 3. Some are arguing thus God is long-suffering and patient no hazzard of present danger Eccles. 11.8 If God strike Sinners dead presently they should be afraid to put off Repentance but God waits and forbears he waited long on the Old World on Sodom on many wicked men of old they don't doubt but God will yet wait on them they see no appearance of wrath as yet to this Consider 1. Is not this to despise the riches of Gods Grace and Patience to the treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath Rom. 2.4 5. can't you be content without a treasure of wrath that you can find in your heart thus to delay Repentance 2. God did not exercise any patience towards the Fallen Angels and he is under no obligation to exercise any towards you Jude 6. 2 Pet. 2.5 What reason can you give why God should wait any longer on you can you do him more Services God is very arbitrary in his waiting longer or shorter on Sinners 3. God doth not ordinarily wait so long on Gospel Sinners Rom. 9.28 no Sinners ripen sooner for cutting down in vengeance than Gospel Sinners God makes very quick work with some Acts 13.46 how quick and sudden was God with Ananias and Saphira 4. God threatens to make quick work with them that harden themselves in Sins in hopes of long-suffering Ezek. 12.27 28. So that you have no security in putting off repentance it s very hazzardous 4. Some will reason thus with themselves God is very gracious and merciful and pardons great Sins and Sinners God pardoned Manasseh and Mary Magdalen and other great Sinners If God had not proclaimed his Name to be gracious and merciful slow to anger forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sin they should be afraid of delaying repentance but inasmuch as God is so very merciful they hope it will be no very hard thing to perswade him to pardon afterwards To this consider 1. That he is a just and righteous God too and pardons no Sinners but such as are penitent it 's true God gives great Sinners encouragement to turn to him and upon their repentance he will forgive their iniquities yea multiply to pardon but remember he is a just God too when he proclaims his Name with so much encouragement to repenting Sinners he subjoyns that he will not at all acquit the guilty Nahum 1.3 as merciful as God is he will not shew mercy and grace to the wronging and injuring of his Justice 2. You take a course to be shut out of all mercy and to have God appear shutting up all bowels and pitty from you Deut. 29.19 Such reasonings are to be abominated Rom. 6.1 surely you turn the grace of God to wantonness when you improve it to encourage you on in ways of sin and rebellion 5. Some plead for themselves that they are weak and ignorant God hath not given them muck knowledge as others wherefore their sin is not so provoking to God as the sins of them that have more knowledge they hope God will pity their weakness and not be so very severe with them 1. One sin won't excuse you for another a gracious act presently after a sinful one will not excuse you before God surely the pleading of that which is a sin will be no security for a sin It 's true the more any sin against knowledge the more aggravated is their sin but ignorance is no defence against Gods anger especially in such as you that have had your Education in New-England under the plain convincing preaching of the Gospel You must of necessity have refused to attend to the Word preached that remain ignorant as to the plain principles of Religion you must have set at nought Gods Counsels and closed and shut your own eyes What excuse will it be for you if you are willingly ignorant you did not see because you shut your eyes and would not 2.