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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lord_n	people_n	way_n	3,983	5	4.6149	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79186	A call from Heaven to the unconverted A sermon preached at the f[un]eral of Mr. John Gaspine. If these weighty considerations are not worth your reading, keep it clean, and return it when calld [sic] for.		1698 (1698)	Wing C296A; ESTC R229576	9,972	16

A Call from Heaven to the Unconverted A SERMON Preached at the F●●ERAL OF Mr. JOHN GASPINE 〈…〉 IF these weighty Considerations are not worth your R●ading keep it clean and return it when calld for LONDON Printed by John Williams REV. ii v. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent IN these Words there is a severe threatning I will come u●to thee quickly and I will remove thy candlestick out of his place A Candlestick signifies the Church of God or a Company or a Society of People met together to worship God in Spirit and in Truth As if he should say I will smite thy Shephe●ds and scatter thy Flocks I will take away thy Lights and I will leave ●hee in Egyptian darkness I will cut off my Ordinances which are my golden Pipes to convey the Water of Life unto you But you will say Why is the Lord so angry with Ephesus It is because of the Churches sins it is because thou hast not loved me as once thou didst Want of love to Christ is a Sin that deserveth to be unchurched that deserveth that God should take away your Ministers For what is our preaching for but to gain your Lo●● 〈◊〉 Christ and to hate the Devil Secondly In the second Place the Works o●●●is Church of Ephesus were they had been very labourious in the external Principles of R●ligion in promoting the Salvation of Souls but yet notwithstanding they had gone so far yet they had not done what they did out of a right Principle that is out of pure Love to Christ this makes the Lord so angry tha● he threatened to unchurch them Well but is there no remedy to prevent this heavy Judgement He that holds forth the Rod tells you a Remedy As if he should say Oh you Ephesians if you will love me better and if you will be more painfu● in the great Work of your Salvation if you will but repent of your sins I will not bring those heavy Judgements upon you which I threatned to bring upon you When the Gospel goes God goes and when God goes Christ goes and when Christ goes the ministring Angels of the Covenant go the Candlestick goes and the Lights they go along with it What then follows when God goes Then the Devil he comes yea legions of Devils come and then there follow the Plague Pestilence Famine Sword and all other manner of evils God doth not go alone neither doth God remove his Candlestick alone I do not tell you that God threatens you to pull down all your Lights I would not terrifie you by telling you that God is a departing from you when he puts out some of your Lights But yet I must needs tell you that when God doth deprive you of so many hundreds of as Pious and as Laborious and as Learned some of them as any are in the Vineyard I say when God deals thus by you I cannot think that it is in mercy to you but in Judgement The Church of England is a great People and there are many poor Souls in it that are as Fire-brands in the Fire that have great need to be pluckt out and as there are blessed be God many eminent Ministers at this Day in England to snatch such poor Souls as Fire-brands out of the Fire yet I say that where there is one we have need of ten But though our disease is dangerous yet it is not desperate there is one way for us to prevent those he●vy Judgements that the Lord doth threaten to inflict upon us and that is by repentance by a serious repenting of the Sins past of our lives and to amend what hath been amiss in us I shall now come to make some Application Vse 1. In the first Place is this a Truth that Repentance is the only Way and Means to prevent the Judgments of God that are th●eatned against a People by God for sin Then first of all 〈◊〉 would have you to observe the cursed nature of this cursed thing called sin Sin must be repented of or it will destroy us it will destroy our Bodies it will destroy our Souls it will destroy our Kingdom this is the cursed nature of this thing called sin My beloved I think it is one of the hardest that is to understand the exceeding sinfulness of sin to understand that deadly Poison that is in it it is for want of the true Knowledge of it that causeth that deadness of Heart that you so much groan under Thus you see that sin that thing we so much slight what a terrible thing it is Alas what think many of us of a vain Word or an idle thought or swearing an Oath what a trifling thing it is to neglect Prayer But let me ask you that think sin to be so slight a matter what is the reason that God is so angry that he made Man what is the reason that many a sinful Church hath made God repent that ever he made a Church I say therefore consider the exceeding Venom that there is in sin Oh! take heed of sin it is a Child that although it be conceived in joy yet it shall bring forth sorrow in the End Cursed be the Day that ever sin was born into the World Sin it is so vile a thing that it makes God for to cry out at it and Jesus Christ for to cry out at it and makes them to say they will be gone If you continue in your sins I will take away my Ministers and leave you in darkness Tush say you what is sin I say it is the Venom and Poison of our Natures it is that which is as the Hand to unsheath the Sword and to thrust it into our own Bowels Sin it is as a Milstone that is tied about our Necks that will pull us both Soul and Body into the bottom of that Sea of the wrath of God from whence there will be no recovery sin is a Plague that will follow our Posterity after we are gone out of this World sin it is a worm upon the Tree of Life that eats up the fruit of it sin it is which makes the Lord to take away the Gospel from amongst us sin it is a Devilish Charm within us that drives away God and Christ and the Gospel from amongst us This is the Evil of that cursed thing called sin Oh! do not you make a little matter of it Do not you say when you have been drunk what harm is there that I have drunk a Cup too much do not say whan harm is there in my telling a lie or swearing an Oath Oh my beloved what a sad thing is this sin that it should cause God for to throw Angels out of Heaven into Hell Pride cast Angels into Hell take heed it doth not so by you Sin made God to destroy all the Old World