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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66020	The arraignment of a sinner at the bar of divine justice delivered in a sermon in St. Maries Church at Oxford, March the 5. 1655 before the Right Honourable, the Judges of Assize, &c. / by Robert Wilde ...	Wild, Robert, 1609-1679.	1656 (1656)	Wing W2165; ESTC R22649	25,661	46

for Christ he came down in the similitude of sinfull flesh for the nonce to destroy sinne in the flesh to save the sinner and slay his sinnes He lived without preacht against it prescribed antidotes to prevent remedies to cure it He raised forces armed his Souldiers against it and Himselfe at last by hanging upon the Tree the most sad and gastly spectacle in the eyes of God Angels Men and Devils that ever was or shall be seen full of the stings of this Serpent for his poore sinfull peoples sake gave thereby an incomparable Record to the world of his Fathers wrath against it and also at that time and encounter broke the head of it and yet it lives and is lively though this was above 1600 yeares agoe 3. When Christ in his person went off the field he presently dispatched away the Holy Ghost what to doe why to begin there where he had left and to convince the world of sinne and of righteousnesse and of judgement John 16. 8. And accordingly this good spirit of God hath been striving pleading perswading arguing threatning using sinners now gently and kindly anon roughly and sharply The South winde hath breathed the North blustred all windes blewn and yet sinne though chaffe is not winnowed out 4. What shall be yet farther done peradventure sinners had rather deale with Moses than with God Man it may be will heare reason from Man like himselfe God hath therefore gone that way to worke and hath set up the Office of Ministers and Leger-Ambassadors whose very businesse in the world is to Reprove Instruct correct exhort knowing the terrours of the Lord to perswade men To be overseers and watchmen To haunt and follow and cry after and give sinners no rest Nay yet further because Ministers words may and doe too often prove winde and be slighted he hath raised up and ordained Magistrates and given them power from himselfe Rom. 13. to be Avengers of Evill as farre as to life it self and ever and anon besides all this he fights against sinne himselfe even from Heaven by Plagues Famines Warres desolations of Countryes throwing down mighty ones for their mighty provocations from their places of Dignity and lifting up others in their steads to try conclusions who have neverthelesse dared to succeed them and sometimes out-sin them in their vices as well as places And still Iniquity abounds and Sinne lives Vivit vivit non ad deponendam sed ad confirmandam audaciam as was said of Catiline And now therefore seeing I have proved it that the point I have pitcht upon is so needfull to be preacht suffer me to furbush it and make it glitter in your eyes like a sword and let it like that flaming sword that turned every waies move round about this Congregation 1. In the first place I beseech you All Saints and Sinners in the fear of God To be more and more convinced of and confirmed in this truth which flesh and bloud would faine have disputed and confuted Keep it as fixt and immoveable in your soules as the Sun is in Heaven and let it have its influence Oh be satisfied concerning the true nature of Sin against God and God against Sin that one Heart can never hold them here no more than one Heaven above Oh good people stop your eares and blesse your selves from all those cursed hellish opinions of Epicures of old and of Atheists now raised up afresh out of the bottomlesse pit by Rebellious Ranters Hectors and Hereticks To extenuate sin to apologize for sin yea to finde out Arguments Providences Successes to make a plea for sin and would fain finde out a Gospell to reconcile not a sinner to God our Gospel doth that but God to sin Oh beware of the witchcraft all you young Students that is in books take heed of those which beat about for Arguments to gratifie the flesh and accommodate broken and corrupt nature as all Familisme Antinomianisme Arminianisme and Popery doe But especially that cursed devilisme of Socinianisme which goes deeper into the heart of Christ than the Spear which let out his life-blood and in comparison of which all other Heresies are but as the nailes in his hands and feet And which in a word stands more in need of an Arraignment than any Argument Secondly be alarmd awakned and look about you all Christlesse gracelesse and unsanctified natures who have attained to more clear and distinct knowledge of sin and what it deserves then these poor Heathens in my Text had but no more minde will or power to forsake it though it cost you the life of your Souls than they and yet have more to answer for and for want of grace the meanes of which you slight and the worke of which in your hearts you resist are like if there come no change to goe to Hell with this Gospell of Mercy like a Mill-stone about your necks Alas my Brother as safe and civill as thou thinkest thy self because of thy ingenious nature and well-educated Soule Thou art very tender to any spark of sin that falls There is no safety on this side of Regeneration no man gentle or simple untill God hath made him and created him a new can tell what kinde of sinner he himselfe shall prove ere he dies A Cain an Esau a Pharoah an Hezael a Iudas a Demas a Iulian an incarnate Devill Well might Austin say after his conversion He would not be an unregenerate man againe no not for halfe an houre for the whole world 3. Is it the voice of Divine Iustice death to every sinner double death to every knowing sinner Then let me be true to my trust who am sent hither to be the voice of a Cryer Oh suffer me to cry aloud and not spare Tremble at your condition and station all ye bold and impenitent sinners who came in hither to judge the Sermon and little thought of an attachment tremble at your fickle hold at your slippery standing You cannot set your feet upon one foot of safe ground you are sinking every moment though you are not like Corah and his company swallowed up in a moment yet a little while and you are gone Oh how can you buy or sell worke or play eat drink or sleep what poppy stuffes your pillowes what opium is in your cups seeing you know that Judgement sleeps not and your Damnation slumbers not The Philistims are upon you look about you the wrath of God abides upon you it is like Fire already upon your cloaths which as yet you feel not but it will burn through and be at your flesh presently Death is gone out against you to apprehend you and carry you away and why he may not doe his office at the next turning I know not If you be in your sinnes there is nothing betwixt your Bodies and the Grave your Soules and Hell but Gods Patience and you have abused that too much already and cannot be sure of it a