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An exhortation to youth to prepare for judgment A sermon occasion'd by the late repentance and funeral of a young man. Deceased September 29. 1681.
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Shower, John, 1657-1715.
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life eternal life and begs your acceptance of it but he will then revenge your ungrateful refusal of his offered mercy Now he entreats you to be happy and have compassion on your selves But then he will be as deaf to your entreaties as you have been to his and that though you should urge him with the greatest importunity possible though you beseech him by the mercifulness of his Nature by the freeness of his Invitation by the Compassion of his Death by the merit of his sufferings by the kindness of his Sacrifice by the Grace of his Gospel c. Now you wil not believe his promises but then you shall experience the execution of his Threatnings Now you will not hearken to his advice and warning but you shall shortly feel the sad effects of your contempt and obstinacy Now you will not be constrained by his dying love but ere long you shall know the power of his wrath whether you will or no for though at present he offer you life yet upon your refusal he will shortly pronounce the Sentence of Eternal Death as yet he Invites you to him but then he will bid you depart Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels From that God after whose Image you were Created from that Saviour who redeemed you by his blood and from that Holy Spirit who would have sanctified you by his Grace Depart from me and all hopes of Salvation by me From me and all the blessed Company of Saints and Angels that shall live with me for ever Depart from me abandoned to an everlasting curse of which both Souls and bodies shall be the wretched unhappy Subjects into Inquisite Torments set forth by fire and such as were originally design'd for the Apostate Spirits of whom the Scripture doth suppose one to be the principal Ring leader of all the rest and who are therefore termed his Angels They who tempted you to Sin shall deride your folly and triumph in your Rain and be your Constant perpetual Tormentors since the fire is unquenchable and never goeth out Nevertheless how dreadful soever this Sentence must needs be it is not more intolerable in it self than unavoidable to the Sinner For where will you hide from his Alseeing eye or how will you resist the force of his Almighty arm as it will be in vain to think of supporting his wrath so every whit as vain to Imagine a possibility of escaping it Will the tears of a desparing Sinner extinguish the fire of Gods wrath and quench the flames of Hell will his wishing he had been wiser in the least avail when the Charge is proved and the Sentence past whither would you flee from the justice of the judge whither but to the mercy of a Saviour But this Saviour is now the Judge and become your Enemy A sight of whom shall awaken the most slumbering Conscience and make the never-dying worm gnaw your very heart when it shall mind you of the calls and invitations you refused and the warnings you slighted revive the convictons you stifled and remember you of the vows you broke and force you to reflect on the vanities of your youth and sadly look back on the time past of your ignorance and folly When for a light temptation you run the hazard of this heavy punishment when for a temporal pleasure you ventured an endless Torment for a mixt delight an unmixed pain for a momentary satisfaction an eternal Wrath for a short Sin an everlasting Sorrow O Eternity Eternity is it true or rather can it possibly be false that after millions of ages under the wrath of God it will not then be past the beginning of Sorrows but an everlasting vengeance will be yet to come and will ever be to come O cursed be my wicked Companions that inticed me to Sin and so to ruine or rather Curst be my own stupidity and folly that I would not be perswaded to believe what now I know and feel Oh that I were now on Earth again and had the benefit of one months space in order to a second trial Oh that I had never seen the light or that the Earth had open'd and and swallowed me up in my Cradle or rather Oh that in time I had received instruction and harkened to reproof that in time I had believed what I was told so plainly and warned of so Faithfully concerning God and his Righteous Judgment Now that this may never be the case of any one of us let me conclude with the advice of the Prophet Jer. 13.16 Give Glory to the Lord your God before he cause darkness and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains and while ye look for light he turn it into the shadow of Death and make it gross darkness FINIS