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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56447	Christs gracious intentions of peace and mercy towards sinners, freely tendred together with the necessity of observing the season, and accepting the offer of peace and reconciliation while it may be attained : evidenced in a sermon at St. Pauls, London, Martii 3, 1661 : from Luke 19 verse 41,42 / by Rich. Parr ...	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.	1661 (1661)	Wing P546; ESTC R32209	25,708	88

might have had it the blessing was lost to him and totally lost for afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected though he sought it when too late with tears There is a sad Instance of the case though no person named in Prov. 1.13 Turn you at my Reproof behold I will pour out my Spirit upon you and this be it known unto you Because I have called and ye have refused I have stretched out my hands and no man regarded but ye have set at nought all my counsell I will also mock at your calamity for then shall they call upon me and I will not answer they shall seek me but shall not find me and so they are served in their own kind The like to this for event you have in the instance of the five foolish virgins Carelesse they were and waited not their opportunity they lost their happinesse they came too late the dore was shut they cryed for entrance but none granted Watch therefore Ma. 23.1 for the know neither the day nor hour wherein the Son of man cometh And so here in the Text Jerusalem had a day as fair an opportunity for their peace and mercy as could be desired but lost it and with it their mercy and their souls And the amount is this Note that if men will consume their dayes in sinning they shall lose their day of saving It may be now at a Sermon God is treating with thy soul and he hath been formerly speaking to thee this is not the first time but who knoweth but this may be the last time after so many past God may hold his peace and stay his hand and withhold his grace and you may hear an hundred Sermons more yet never feel one touch of the Spirit more Preachers may not be hid from your eyes yet grace may be hid from thine heart And to be sure if not till then yet when this life is at an end Note thou shalt live no more to hear nor see this day and alas how many men are dead while they live dead in sins and dead and stiffe and cold to grace and the intreaties of Christ Therefore let every soul that prizeth his peace and salvation take heed and lay to heart the offers of mercy in the day of Gods gracious visitation look to it Sirs and trifle no longer to day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts Now as all those hints and instances do bespeak your care and watchfulnesse lest you should misse your opportunities So in the next you shall do well seriously to consider for your imitation while we instance in some recorded in Scripture which took the season obeyed in due time and were successefull and became happy in this that in that their day they knew and accepted the things that belonged to their peace And mark as you hear How they took the first opportunity was offered them though some came in later than others In the Parable of the labourers hired Matth. 20.1 to 8. Some were called in the morning early obeyed presently and were entertained they put not off nor made excuse 2. Others the third hour and they likewise went and did what they were called unto and delayed not 3. Others the sixth hour and ninth and they yielded as soon as called and did not make excuse nor demanded longer time 4. And some others that had loytered to the eleventh hour of the day yet they refused not but presently set themselves to their businesse they said not We will stay till to morrow or some other time and they were accepted also but all this while you must note that each of these took their first opportunity You have likewise to remember the good successe the five wise Virgins had Mar. 25. They were ready at the first approach of Christ and went in with him to the marriage So the Prodigal so farre as he went and so idle as he had been yet as soon as he was touched and had his eyes open and came unto himself to his wits again he no sooner thinks of his Father's house and love but leaves his swine and husks and makes homeward and he was met with joy imbraces pardon and mercy And one instance more in this Chapter where the Text is Luke 19.5 6. Zacheus Oh how happy 't was for him that Christ called him on a day and that same day he answered and accepted and was converted for he made haste and received Christ joyfully into his heart as well as his house and that was the happiest day he ever had seen and Jesus said unto him Verse 9. This day is salvation come to this house Thus you have this point demonstrated by Scripture proof and example and by this you may perceive that though God in mercy hath appointed poor sinners a certain time as well as means for their conversion and reconciliation and some have been so happy and blessed as to take their opportunity yet 't is possible and 't is proved that many have had their day for the like mercies but have lost it for they did not lay to heart the things belonging to their peace in that their day and afterward were hid from their eyes This hath been the case of verie many and still is Pray God no man here present put off this day's intreaties again as formerly lest he hazzard his peace and reconciliation again and so lose this day and never live to see another for the purpose of salvation for himself Quest If any man ask me when is this day Quest How shall I know it which is mine and which is thine when is it gone and lost Answ When and wheresoever Christ is preached Answ and the Gospel is published then and there to that people Christ is near and grace is offered and this hath been many yeares in England and in London and all this while have been continued these glad tidings of peace and reconciliation to soules but when this shall be removed out of this place then it will be hid from your eyes Christ is gone grace is gone light is gone darknesse comes and the day is lost and God only knowes how long it will continue or how quicklie it will be removed out of our sight Would to God men would not deal unkindly with it and drive it away but repent and believe Note yield and obey accept and love it that Christ and his Gospel of grace might stay with us Quest But secondly 2. Quest If you would know what time God hath set for thy coming in beyond which he will not wait to be gracious any longer in which if thou despisest the Call or refusest the Offer God will put a bolt and grace shall strive no more with thee Answ This no man knoweth Answ whether this or the next be the time but surelie it must be before the day of death everie man must be reconciled to God ere he die