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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64956	The conversion of the soul, or, A discourse explaining the nature of that conversion which is sincere and directing and perswading all to cease their loving sin and death, and to turn to God and live / by Nathanael Vincent ...	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing V403; ESTC R38014	195,915	409

when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in Victory 1 Cor. 15. 53 54. 4. Will there be a Judgment 't is wonderful there should be so much security in them that hear of it 〈◊〉 Really the very mentioning of Christs Tribunal before which all must stand should make all Criminals to tremble If a Man were seized for a Crime that 's capital deserving Death by the Law of God and Man and being in Bolts and Fetters in Newgate he should be secure and unconcerned though the Sessious were at hand you would conclude him to be very stupid and inconsiderate What Sinner secure and shortly to be Judged O Drunkard Whoremonger Swearer Sabbath-breaker Covetous Worldling what secure and speedily to appear at the Judgment-seat of Christ who has said That they that do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God! Sin is folly security in Sin is the folly of that folly Take heed of Security 't is not I only but Christ himself also that gives you this necessary caution Luk. 21. 34 35 36. And take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth Watch ye therefore and Pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man. VSE II. By way of Counsel Two words of Counsel I would give this Congregation The one is more firmly to believe a Judgment and more frequently to think of it The other is Be sure in time to prepare for eternal Judgment 1. More firmly believe more frequently think of Judgment You have reason to believe it for the Judge is ordained and though neither Men nor Angels know the day yet the day is appointed Act. 17. 30 31. The time of this ignorance God winked at but now commands all men every where to repent because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the World in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all in that he hath raised him from the dead The stronger your assent is unto this the more serious and often will be your Consideration of it To think of Judgment is proper for a Saint that he may be encouraged to fight the good fight of Faith and persevere in well doing to the end To think of Judgment is proper for a Wicked Man to awaken him and to make him with fear and trembling to work out his Salvation It 's proper for an Hypocrite to think of Judgment because then all Masks and Vizours will be pull'd off all shews will be at an end and naked Truth will appear at that day The Graves will be open'd and do ye think the whited painted Sepulchers will remain shut Oh! then all the concealed Pride and Filthiness and Selfishness and Sensuality and Injustice and earthliness of Professors will with all their aggravations be brought to light before Men and Angels Oh how many demure and serious Countenances that have been a covering to naughty Hearts will then be filled with Confusion 'T is proper for the Old to think of Judgment they have one foot in the Grave already and quickly the whole body must drop into it and the Spirit must return to God who gave it You also that are Young should think of Judgment have the youngest of you any assurance of your Lives Infants Children Youths do not many of them dye and step into Eternity and as you see them leave the World so certainly they appear before God and one way or other have their Doom Solomon tells you that Childhood and Youth are Vanity Would you that are Young be serious the Meditation of Judgment would conduce much to it Eccles 11. 9. Rejoyce O young Man in thy Youth and let thy heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the wayes of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes He says Rejoyce but speaks Ironically and means the quite contrary thou hast no reason at all to rejoyce whilst taken with things that are seen and whilst thou walkest in those evil ways which thy Heart naturally does like Then the Wise man speaks seriously But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment If you ask me What are the Benefits that will accrue by a firm Belief and frequent Meditation of Judgment I thus Answer to this momentous Question 1. This will be a great Preservative against Temptation Look beyond the present advantage and delight that Sin boasts of and see as far as the Judgment-seat this is the way to silence the Tempter and to avoid his snare Would the Lyar dare to speak falsly if he considered that all Lyars shall be adjudged to the lake that burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21. 8. Would the Unclean Person dare to defile himself and run to the Harlots house if he did but believe and consider that Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Improve Christs Cross and think of Christs Tribunal and this will cool and kill Corruptions and take away the force of your Temptations 2. The Belief and Meditation of Judgment will cause you to use this World as not abusing it to make a good improvement of it You that have this World in great abundance and have the clearest and largest Estates do you think you are Proprietors of what you have Do you think 't is given or only lent you for a time You are only Stewards intrusted with that which is Gods and not yours and are accountable at the last day for all you have received What sad accounts will most give up of their Stewardship when they must be no longer Stewards Imprimis So much daily for Eating and Drinking to Self and not to the Glory of God. Item So much for brave Apparel that Pride might be maintained and gratified Item So much for making provision for the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof Item So much for costly and vast Past-times a great deal of Wealth and much more precious Time being wasted together But unto good uses to maintain a Godly and laborious Ministry of the Gospel to the poor and needy given very little or nothing With what an Eye do you think that the Judge will look upon such accounts as these Think of Judgment that you may holily improve the unrighteous Mammon and Christ may say you have been Faithful Stewards even of worldly things 3. The Belief and Meditation of Judgment will make you exceeding diligent that you may be found of your Judge in peace without spot and blameless With what Seriousness and Fervency will he come

had and bought it Matth. 13. 46. 2. When the Soul is Converted the Judgment is rectified The Judgment of the natural Man is wofully perverted He judges aright of nothing he judges amiss of every thing Wo to him he calls evil good and good evil he puts darkness for Light and Light for darkness bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter as the Prophet speaks Isa 5. 20. The Wisdom of God he ealls by the Name of foolishness and the folly of the VVorld he will needs have to be the shrewdest and best sort of wisdom He errs on both hands valuing what is vile and sleighting what is excellent But the Apostle in 1 Cor. 2. 15. telleth us That he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he himself is judged of no Man. The Convert hath a faculty of spiritual discerning and can pass a right judgment upon things One Angel can see another though the bodily Eye can see neither One that is a Convert having a spiritual faculty of discerning can see the excellency of spiritual things which the natural Man cannot behold And when it is said that the Spiritual Man is judged of no Man the meaning is this that no natural Man is a competent judge concerning him Censure him he may as if he were regardless of and beside himself but really this Censure is without reason Not judging but missjudging this is to be called The Converts judgment is very sound he takes the right ballance even those of the Sanctuary to weigh all things in He compares God and the Creature together the righteousness and strength of Man and the righteousness and strength of Christ together things temporal and things eternal together and weighing these things together the difference between them is apparent He writes Takel upon what is Mammons and upon what is Mans and the weightiest and most excellent things he doth approve as such especially a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 17. And as the Converts Judgment is sound so let me tell you it is very grave and serious in propounding what is good unto the Will. It is deliberate in its determination what is good and then with greatest evidence and strength of Reason nay with Demonstration of the Spirit it urges the Soul that this which is so good may be followed and embraced My beloved a Judgment thus rectified and set right it is one of the greatest Blessings from Heaven and comes down from the Father of Lights who manifests himself to be the Father of Mercies in bestowing such a Gift Now the Soul is Light when the Judgment is rectified and the whole Man is under better conduct and this Light proves Armour and Defence against the Works of Darkness Rom. 13. 12 13 14. Let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof 3. When the Soul is converted the Conscience is made very faithful and very tender The Soul of Man is endued with a Power of Self-reflection it can with a great deal of delight take notice of what of God and what of good is in it self and it can terribly recoyl upon it self and prove a selfpunisher at the commission of what is evil The Conscience of an unconverted Sinner is usually in a dead sleep How many sleepy Consciences are here God awaken them to day Usually the Conscience of an unconverted Sinner is in a dead sleep He takes little or no notice at all of that God that is by him of his Presence of the Purity of his Law and of the Sinners obligation to obey it And Conscience being thus asleep talks in its sleep and what doth it talk in its sleep it doth say Peace and it doth dream of Safety and thus it goes on crying Peace and dreaming of Safety untill suddain destruction doth prove that Peace and that Safety to be nothing else but a meer delusion 1 Thess 5. 3. When men shall say Peace and Safety then suddain destruction cometh upon them as travel upon a woman with Child and they shall not escape But the Convert his Conscience is awakened it is awakened so thoroughly that it keeps more or less awake ever after The Conscience doth understand the Authority that it hath from God. And it doth improve that Authority for God. The Conscience of a Convert doth understand the Authority that it hath from God. The God of Heaven hath allowed the Conscience a Negative Voice To sin contrary to the Light and to the Dictates of Conscience it is to sin with a great Aggravation and it is to incurr great danger 1 Joh. 3. 20. If our hearts condemn us God is greater than our hearts and knows all things Nay supposing that Conscience doth but doubt concerning an Action that Action must not be ventured upon untill Conscience be fully satisfied about it Rom. 14. ult He that doubts of the lawfulness of a Meat is damned if he eats because he eateth not of Faith that is being not fully perswaded of the lawfulness of what he eats he eats not of Faith and that which is not of Faith is sin And as Conscience knows the Authority it hath of God so it doth improve and exercise this Authority that it hath from God for Him. The Converts Conscience urges that the Will of God may be done still tho' it never so much thwarts the inclination and grain of mans it urges that God may be alwayes pleased whoever is offended and herein it does consult the Converts truest Interest The sharper the Sight the clearer the Light the greater the force of Conscience is there will be a departing from evil with the greater fear and care and hatred and there will be a doing of good with the greater diligence exactness and perseverance and all this is for the good of Converts in more Worlds than one Psal 37. 27. Depart from evil and do good and dwell for evermore 4. When the Soul is Converted the Thoughts have not a lawless Liberty allowed them but there is a Conflict with them and great care to govern them well The Mind of Man is a busie and an Active thing thoughts are continually issuing from it as Sparks from a Furnace or Waters from a Fountain and naturally all these are evil Gen. 6. 5. God saw that the wickedness of Man was great upon the Earth and every Imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually When the Soul is converted the nature of the Thoughts is changed vain and sinful thoughts presently become burthensome The Heart is made new and a new heart will have new kind of thoughts The thoughts will be pure and clean if the Heart be sanctified and cleansed Jerusalem did shew her self a Stranger to Conversion