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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66682	The great evil of procrastination, or, The sinfulness and danger of defering repentance in several discourses / by Anthony Walker ...	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing W304; ESTC R39412	176,678	430

lose nothing by conferring it upon us Our Hearts would sink and fail within us and our Hands our Faith could not be strong if God were to lose by what we hope to gain if the receiving us to glory must be by the eclipsing of his own glory For he will never diminish that for the advancement of which all things were made by him and for the sake of which he doth all that he doth or ever will do that therefore his Mercy may be thus magnified safely he hath provided how his Justice may be satisfied fully and all his other Attributes retain their lustre and their brightness He hath therefore raised up for us a mighty salvation in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of all his Holy Prophets since the world began And to give us the clear knowledge of salvation by the remission of our sins through the tender mercies of our God the day spring from on high hath visited us He hath devised means to bring home his banished that they should not for ever be expelled from himself that we may be delivered from going down to the pit He hath found a ransom He hath laid help upon one that is mighty able to save to the utmost all those that come to God by him He spared not his own Son but gave him to be a ransom for us made him to be sin that is a sin offering for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him yea made him a curse for us bear that curse of the Law which we had deserved that we might be delivered from it God hath set forth his Son Jesus Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his blood And he is gone into Heaven to appear in the presence of God for us so that if any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous who is a propitiation for our sin and therefore If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin And he hath revealed him to us and publisht these glad tidings to us in his Gospel which takes its name its denomination hence because in it and by it is made known to us those glad tidings of great joy that the Son of God is become the Son of man is now Emanuel God with us to be a Saviour to us Fifthly He makes us the most free kind pathetick invitations to come to him to look unto him and be saved He bids us to a Feast of fat things which he hath slain and prepared and of choice Wine Wine upon the lees well refined You shall scarce any where amongst men tho the dearest to one another and most delighted in each others conversation meet with so passionate so restless an importunity as is exprest to bring in Guests to the Wedding Feast Matth. xxii and Luk. xiv First a previous invitation before hand then a liberal and sumptuous preparation which might allure any man to partake of it Then a sending forth servants to call them who were before bidden then a sending forth other servants to inform them what an extraordinary entertainment was provided and again to let them know the meat was on the Table and their Lord staid for them and would not sit down till they were come and then other servants are posted away some into the Streets and Lanes of the City to search the very Lanes and by Allies where none but persons of the meanest rank dwell or converse others into the Country into the Highways where may be met Passengers of all degrees and qualities and to the Hedges where the Beggers lye basking or the Robbers lye sculking to hide themselves or look and wait to catch their prey and not only tell them they may come if they please and shall be very welcome but invite them heartily press them earnestly to come along wich them immediately and if they be indifferent whether they come or no urge them and persuade them till you have made them willing and if they continue still unwilling even constrain and compel them to come in and if when all this is done some of them make such excuses that nothing will prevail with them find out others in their room and give not over till the House be full and the Table be furnished as plentifully with Guests as 't is nobly stored and even loaden with provisions Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no mony come ye buy and eat come and buy wine and milk without mony and without price Isa lv 1. Come unto me all ye that are weary and h●●vy laden and I will refresh you and you shall find rest Matth. xi 28. And the whole Bible is as it were concluded and shut up with that large and free and earnest invitation which is so proclaimed that the whole world is made to ring of it He that hears first as being nearest to the first sound having charge to tell it unto others and call to them that are remote and out of hearing of the first publishers of it The Spirit and the bride God from Heaven the Church on Earth say come And let him that heareth say come And let him that is a thirst come And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely Rev. xxii 17. And lest any should enlarge what God hath streitned or streiten what God hath enlarged and take off from the encouragement which this invitation gives so universally to all sinners to repent and turn and come in to God the words next following may seem to have a peculiar aspect on what is immediately before declared in this 17. verse now set down tho I would not confine them to that only verse 18. For I testifie to every one that heareth the words of the prophesie of this book if any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book that is if any man shall add to the conditions of this invitation which assures acceptance to them who thirst and so thirsting come to God by Faith and Repentance if I may inoffensively subjoyn such a gloss as if it were so free as even to exempt sinners from these terms as necessary for their peace and safety God will plague that man then vers 19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of life and out of the Holy City and from the things which are written in this Book that is if any man shall deny any one to be capable of the benefit offered in this so large and free and universal an invitation who doth thirst after these waters of life and so thirsting shall come to them repenting and believing and willing and desirous to drink of them He himself shall have no part

to you all the A●mour of God that you may resist the battery of this worst of Satans Engines and defeat the most dangerous of all his stratagems to involve you in Procrastination by giving up your selves speedyly to God and Christ according to what ever convictions have been upon you that you ought and resolutions that you would so do and be ready quickly I would add no more did not one word remain which may seem fit to clinch and rivet that Nail I have been forcing home with so many blows And I shall take it out of your own mouths Methinks I hear some say why so many Arguments in so clear a case and others ready to make the number occasion of their laughter and others 't was good if it had not been so long but it was cruel tedious Well be it so admit it had been delivered at this length which yet by the way it was not let me in cool blood debate the case with these Objectors before we part Is the case so clear in thy opinion that 't is superfluous to multiply Arguments to prove it Out of thy own mouth shalt thou be judged thou sloathful servant Why dost thou continue to Rebel against thy light Why dost thou still delay That 's enough which doth the work it is designed to but that 's too little which doth it not The Motives may be enough to leave thee inexcusable but they are not enow for thee till they effectually persuade thee to leave thy sin and escape thy danger And for the next must I bear your petulent scorn for remembring you of returning to God with such a number and shall it cost you nothing to forget him days without number Do you now laugh because the Motives are so many And what will you do when God shall laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh because these many were too few to make you take warning To make you wise to prevent them and escape them Is it so tedious to you to hear your sins Arraigned and Condemned a long hour And what is it to God to be dishonoured and provoked by them all thy life long Is it a load which breaks the back of thy Patience to hear Motives multiplyed to turn thee Speedily And is it no dangerous tryal of Gods Patience to load him with thy multiplyed sins as a Cart is loaden with Sheaves and pressed down If it be wearisome to hear thy sins reproved How much more Just is Gods complaint They have wearied me with iniquities and made me serve with their sins In a word if I have been thought long in calling you to turn to God how long doth God think your refusing to return And how tedious will it be to bear the eternal reproaches of thy own heart and lashes of thy own enraged Conscience for that refusal Which nothing can exempt thee from but taking the Councel I have so plainly given Consider what I have said and the Lord give us understandings and hearts to close with it that when ever Christ comes He may find us Ready Amen A DISCOURSE Shewing the Sinfulness and Danger of Putting-off our Great WORK BEING The Substance of a Sermon deliver'd at the Funeral of Mr. David Geer at St. Botolph's Aldgate Upon St. JOHN ix.iv. I must work the Works of Him that sent me while it is Day The Night cometh when no Man can work THis Chapter contains the History of one of the chief Miracles which our Blessed Saviour wrought whil'st He was in this World That is His opening the Eyes of the Man which was born Blind And it is Recorded more largely than any of his wonderful Works except his Raising Lazarus from the Dead for it fills a whole long Chapter to declare the Occasion of it the Work it self and what followed upon it and affords Matter of so many useful and choyce Observations 't is some difficulty to pass them by For it did not only Confirm his Mission and Doctrine to be from God but the very Miracle it self was Doctrinal the Man 's being born Blind figuring that Spiritual Blindness under which we are all Born and Christ's Healing him and the Manner of it shewing from whence we must expect the true Eye-Salve But I must confine my self to what the present Solemn Occasion directly minds us of The Words I have read were pronounced by our Lord as an Introduction to the Work when he address'd himself to the Performance of it and discover his Faithful Obedience and Excellent Wisdom in improving the Seasons for fulfilling the Works his Father sent him into this World for And commend to us a Truth of general Use and universal Obligation tho our Lord vouchsafes to apply it to Himself in this particular Case I confess the Words have not the Form of a Precept but they have the Force yea more than the Force of a single Command press the Duty more Home than if it had been said expresly Work while it is Day For First They are an Example given in the Person of him whom we are bound to imitate and follow whose Works are Vocal and whose Actions are our Instructions He being the Son of God and our Lord and Master saying I must work 't is as if a Son in the Family should say to the Servants or a Wealthy fore-handed Man to his poor Neighbours who have nothing but their Hands to Live on What ever you do I must mind my Business I must labour and not squander away one Day after another my Father will not suffer it in me and I should quickly be undone by such a Course Such Words spoken in their own Persons are more awakening more pungent than if they only bid them mind their Business For they smartly and sarcastically reproach their Sloath and upbraid them for their Loytering For if the Master of the Family will not bear it in a Son much less will he in a Servant and if he that 's well before-hand must be industrious to prevent Poverty and Want much more must he that hath but from Hand to Mouth But the quickning Influence of the Example is not all For Secondly The Reason by which it is inforced shews it extends to many For when He had said I must work c. while 't is Day when he comes to give the Reason of it he saith not The Night cometh when I can't work but When no Man can work 't is St. Chrysostome's Note thereby clearly implying that the Duty reaches all whom the Reason of the Duty reaches and amounts to thus much That every Man who hath Work to do which must be done by Day and cannot be done by Night must hasten to dispatch it while the Day lasts lest he be surprized and prevented by the Nights Approach Having thus briefly clear'd my Passage to what I design by shewing that the Words tho spoken by our Lord of Himself yet are fairly Applicable unto others and may have Efficacious Influence both upon