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A call to sinners such as are under sentence of death and such as are under any prospect of it from the long-suffering and gracious, but most righteous God / by His servant, Daniel Burgess.
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Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.
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it made And know thou tho' all we can say of Hell is but a flea-bite in comparison of what thou wilt feel it to be if thou come therein yet for all that There 's more Joy in Heaven than Torment in Hell. Go thou then and do all that is enjoyned for Conviction for Compunction for Vnion unto Jesus Christ and to God by Him. Pray and beg Prayers Hear and Read Directions and follow them Lose no time not a moment Convinced sufficiently thou art not till thou art able sincerely to say these twelve particulars P. 1. There is a Law and Covenant of perfect Obedience which I was under ever since I was a Child of Adam As soon as I was a Man I was bound personally perfectly and perpetually to Obey and Love the Father Son and Spirit I and as soon as my Soul and Body came together I was a Man in the Language of the Scripture P. 2. That Law of Perfect Obedience that Covenant of works is broke by my first Parent and that Breach is imputed unto me and the cursed Quality of it is inherent in me even from the womb It has also bin breaking continually by my vile Person in all my Thoughts Words and Deeds throughout all my days P. 3. For that double Breach I am under God's wrath the Laws Curse liable to all miseries to Death to Hell. I am bound over as the Devils to the Judgment of the great day And as with them so with me God is angry all the day long P. 4. Yet can I not in the least find fault with the Law or blame the Lord and Law-giver Tho' I am undone he has done me no wrong He doth but right and natural necessary right for naturally he hateth Sin as I hate Hell. Nay and the equity and the honour of his Government require that such Sinners as I am receive such sentence as I am under P. 5. My offended God is also my absolute Soveraign and not at all a Debtor unto me that I can commence no action against him nor charge him with any Injustice if he let me perish under his damnatory sentence and deny me Salvation P. 6. No nor can I excuse my self from being my own self-destroyer by laying the blame of my sin upon any Creature They but Tempt they Force not All my formerly used shifts Cavils and Contradictions I have done with for very shame My Mouth is stopped and I am Dumb before God. P. 7. Yet I hear and I believe a doctrine of Grace and Salvation even for such sinners as I am A Salvation purposed by God. A Salvation purchased by Jesus Christ A salvation attested and publish'd by the Holy Ghost A salvation for sinners of all ranks and degrees A salvation through a New Covenant and New Birth P. 8. This Salvation I perceive God never meant nor made any man's but in the way of Repentance Faith New obedience The way of Children's salvation is extraordinary I speak of grown Persons P. 9. My self I find utterly unable to Repent to Believe and to obey the Gospel I to will or desire aright any good Tho I must perish if I do not Yet without the Holy Spirit of Liberty Life and Power put into me I cannot Repent Believe and Obey P. 10. God who was not at first bound to Create me is now as little bound to New-Create me by putting his Holy Spirit into me and by working in me the Habits of Repentance Faith and Obedience and by Exciting the same habits unto Act and Exercise If he doth freely New-Create me he is Gracious if not he is Righteous P. 11. Nevertheless God in the Gospel Licenseth yea Invites and Commands in general all sinners to Repent Believe and Obey i. e. to use all the means of these by God appointed and of which we are capacitated And I conclude it my duty and interest to use the said means P. 12. Lastly I take for granted that 't is my Duty and interest to wait unto my very last gasp what the Lord will say unto me and do with me And this will I do if God enable Stop Sinner stop here and over again with these twelve Particulars very seriously And now let me tell thee vain is thy Conviction of all without that Compunction or being prick'd through the Heart which we place in three things Fear Grief Separation from Sin Go labour therefore to get able to say as follows P. 1. I fear the Spiritual and Eternal Judgments of God that heretofore I fear'd but little if at all Hitherto I fear'd but only Poverty Reproach Sickness c. now I fear a dark Mind an hard Heart and a Wrath to come P. 2. I grieve for all I have been and done against God and Christ and the Holy Spirit I grieve more for this than I do for ought beside more than ought beside is worthy to be grieved for P. 3. I separate and turn me from every sin to the best of my Skill and Power Tho I cannot say all Sin in my will is dead I dare say all my Will to sin is dead I and of all the good gifts of God I should now chuse his CHRIST and his H. SPIRIT This indeed is somewhat sinner Yet is one thing and the greatest lacking For ought that yet appears 't is lacking Dost thou turn from every sin to the best of thy skill and power Thou doest well to do thy all tho' it be next to nothing that as yet thou canst do Is all thy will to sin dead This is a good hearing tho' it be to be feared 't is a very improper death that it hath died Trees are said to be dead when Life is gone out of the root of them and they are said to be dead when Winter-weather hath but driven their life unto their root And hath hindred nothing but their Growing and Fruit-bearing nor them neither but until the Spring-season Now is thy will to sin any otherwise dead than the Trees in thy Garden be dead in Winter Or is this Death thinkest thou a true or a sufficient Thou now chusest of all God's gifts both CHRIST and his H. SPIRIT Welcome news this is But all is not Gold that glisters and it should be enquired whether it be a good choice thou makest of these so good gifts A choice of meer Compulsion thou dost not thy self believe a good one Such a choice rebelliously-disposed subjects may make of a King whom they loath and wish under ground such a choice ill Women may make of men for their Husbands while they hate their tempers and their Persons A choice of inward free Disposition is the only one that truly praiseth an Object chosen and that can commend the soul that makes the choice Speak man of which sort is thy choice What is thy considerate Judgment and thy Free Disposition how standest thou affected toward these divine Persons and their holy Nature Their saving Benefits I question not thy desire of And say