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A hopefull way to cure, that horrid sinne of svvearing. Or an helpe to save swearers, if willing to be saved: being an offer or message from him, whom they so daringly, and audatiously provoke. Also a curb against cursing.
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Younge, Richard.
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Wing Y160AB; Thomason E24_2; ESTC R211952
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As heare how the Holy Ghost delivers it Psal 109. As he loved cursing so shall it come unto him and as he loved not blessing so shall it be farre from him As hee cloathed himselfe with cursing like a garment so shall it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones let it be unto him as a garment to cover him and for a girdle wherewith he shall alwaies be girded ver 17 18 19. Here this all ye whose tongues tunne so fast one the devills arrand you loved cursing you shall have it both upon you about you and in you and that everlastingly if you persereve and goe on for Christ himselfe at the last day even he which came to save the world shall say unto all such depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angells Mat. 25.41 Where they shall doe nothing but curse for evermore for they no farther apprehending the goodnesse mercy and bounty of God then by the sense of their owne torments the effects of his justice shall hate him and hating him they shall curse him Revel 16.11.21 They suffer and they blaspheme there is in them a furious malice against him being cursed of him they recurse him they curse him for making them curse him for condemning them curse him because being ajudged to death they can never finde death they curse his punishments because they are so unsufferable curse his mercies because they may never tast them curse the blood of Christ shed on the Crosse becuse it hath satisfied for milions and done their unbeleeving soules no good curse the Angells and Saints in heaven because they see them in joy and themselves in torment Cursings shall be their sins and their chiefe ease Blasphemies their Prayers Lacrimae their notes Lamentation all their harmony these shall be their evening songes their morning songs their mourning songs for ever ever And indeede who shall go to hell if cursers should be left out Wherefore let all those learne to blesse that looke to be heirers of the blessing Swearer O But God is mercifull and Christ came into the world to save sinners witnesse the Theefe upon the Crosse who was heard by him at the last houre Messenger I grant the Lord is exceeding mercifull and gratious flow to anger and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sinne for he proclaimes himselfe so Exod. 34.6 7. But he will by no meanes cleare the ungodly but visit the iniquitie of their fathers upon their children and upon their childrens children unto the third and fourth generation as it followes in the very same verse Yea he will reward the wicked according to their workes Revel 20.12.13 and 22.12 Indeed a world of men beleeve with Orrigen that God is so mercifull that all shall be saved they presume that God must needs save them because he made them without any other ground though in another fit they are as apt to dispayre to say with the same Origen should all other sinners obtaine mercy yet not I. Wicked men are altogether in extreames at first they make question whether this or that be a sinne at last they apprehend it such a sinne that they make question whether it can be forgiven Either God is so mercifull that they may live how they list or so just that he will not pardon them upon their repentance No meane with them between the rock of presumption and the gulfe of dispayer But the tenure of the word of God runs thus Let the wicked forsake his wayes and the unrighteous his own imaginations and returne unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he is very ready to forgive As Esay hath it Chap. 55 7. And that we should not doubt of this the Lord redoubles his promise Ezek. 18. And confirmes the same with an oath Chap. 33.11 Yea he is more ready to shew mercy upon our repentance then we are to beg it as appeares in the example of the Prodigall Sonne Luke 15.20 Doe but repent and God will pardon you bee your sinnes never so many and innumerable for multitude never so haynous for qualitie and magnitude for repentance is alwayes blest with forgivenesse Yea sinnes upon repentance are so remitted as if they had never beene committed I have put away thy transgressions as a cloud and thy sinnes as a mist Esay 44.22 And what by corruption hath beene done by repentance is undone as a bundance of examples witnesse Hee pardoned Davids Murther and Adultery Solomons Idolatry Peters Apostacy Paul did not only deny Christ but persecuted him yet he obtained mercy upon his repentance yea amongst the worst of Gods enemies some are singled out for mercy witnesse Manasses Mary Magdalen the Theefe c. Many of the Jewes did not onely deny Christ the holy one and the just but crucified him yet were they pricked in there hearts at Peters Sermon gladly received the word were baptized Act. 2.41 But on the other side unlesse we repent and amend our lives we shall all perish as Christ himselfe affirmes Luk. 13.3.5 For though mercy rejoyceth against justice Iam 2.13 yet it destroyeth not God justice he is just as well as mercifull his mercy is a just mercy and his justice is not an unmercifull justice he is infinite in both and therefore in his word he hath equally promised all blessings spirituall temporall and eternall unto those that keepe his commandements and threatned all mannor of judgements to those that break them with their severall extreames according to the measure degree of every sin Deut. 28. which chapter together with the former I wish thee to reade if thou wilt know thy selfe and foreknow thy judgement Neither is salvation more promised to the godly then eternall death and destruction is threatned to the wicked both in the old and new Testament And as Christ is a Saviour so Moses is an accuser Iohn 5.45 Alasse though to all repentant sinners he is amost mercifull God yet to wilfull and inpenitente sinners hee is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 Deut. 4.24 Doth not the Apostle say that neither fornecators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor buggerers nor theeves nor coveteous nor drunkards nor raylers nor extortioners to which number Saint Iohn Revel 21.8 addeth the fearefull and unbeleeving murtherers and sorserers and all lyers shall not inherit the Kingdome of God but shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death 1. Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.21 And doth he not likewise affirme that all they shall bee damned which beleeved not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes 2.12 doth not the Lord say Ier. 16.13 that he will have no mercy for such as are deseparately wicked and againe Deut. 29.19.20 That if any man blesse himself in his heart saying I shall have peace although I walke according to the