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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90059	The sinners hope: as his priviledge, and duty, in his worst condition, stated, cleared, and improved. Tending as well to the startling and inviting of the wicked from his sinfull and wretched course, upon the conditionall hopes that are layd out for him; as the confirming and directing of the truly humble and weak Christian in his duty and comfort, in the severall cases of darkness, sin, and affliction. Being the substance of severall sermons, / preached by Henry Newcome, M.A. and one of the ministers of the Gospell, at Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster.	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing N899; Thomason E1764_2; ESTC R209655	106,234	225

man I know not but this I am resolved I will never do as I have done So thou art resolved never to doe as thou hast done thou hast enough of thy swearing Sabbath breaking prayerlesness in family and in secret drinking opposing the good way sitting with the scornefull mocking Religion using any unjust way of living Thou wilt no more of that whatever comes of thee why sure this is something 2. Art thou not willing to doe now whatever the Lord would have thee to doe Art thou not reconciled to Christs way of Government the course that sometime thou couldst not agree unto by any meanes art thou not now pretty well minded towards it Canst thou not fancy an Holy life the time hath been when thou couldst not away with an Holy life of any thing but now thou art better perswaded towards it Acts. 9.9 canst thou not say as Paul Lord what wilt thou have me to do The time was when thou wantedst no Work of thine Own thou wouldst not have asked a Minister what course of life thou shouldst follow thou hadst a way of thine own thou likeedst better The high Priest and Elders should tell thee what to doe But now it is at this What God will have done And thou dost not stick at any of the Lords Commands If he will have thee give forgive take pains in Religion strive at the straight gate whatever it is thou art willing now of it so be it thou maist find favour in the Lords eyes Why a naturall heart sticks at many of the Lords precepts and would come to Christ but with reservations some things they have a mind of they will have liberty for whether they be right or no. And therefore if thou in thy troubles art brought to an universal desire after the wil of God that thou choosest the way of his statutes and art willing of every duty sure then there is some good thing wrought upon thee 3. Canst thou be contented without a Christ The time hath been that if thou hadst meat and fine cloathes and money and friends respect c thou couldst have been satisfied but now all those things will not content thee thou art troubled and unsatisfied What is the matter is any thing taken from thee of what thou hadst or must we have more of them or rather if one would make a bargain with thee can these things serve thee Alas thou sayest take them all for a Christ I can not live of them as heretofore If I have all these things and God frowne on me what availeth it me These are not the things will serve my turn these are toyes for children that know not what better things mean but I am undone if I be put off with these things I must have a Christ or I can have no ease Nay I would part with any or all these things for him rather than be without him None but Christ None but Christ why sure this is a great matter thou art arrived unto A naked Christ will serve a wounded soule Thou sayest thou knowest not whether ever thou must have him or no but thou art sicke for him thou keepest thy love for him and thou canst not live without him There is no offering to thee another match nor any other thing in the stead of him Now alas there are many an hundred can make a living of many another thing and would choose many a thing before they would speak of Christ 4. What dost think by this very trouble of thine Thy heart is no worse then it was before but thou seest it now and didst not see it before Thou didst as bad before as now but thou couldst swallow things better then than now why sure then there is an alteration in thee Once thou wouldst have said thy heart was good and still this was thy plea and now thou art fallen quite out with it I tell thee this conceite of our own goodness is a miserable destructive principle and that thou art thoroughly brought off that is no small beginning is noe little in thy way towards God I verily hope it is somewhat better with thy heart when thou art not so apt to speak one good word for it as heretofore Thy very trouble is an argument of thy mending condition Thou talkest there is nothing but what is of flesh in thee I would allude to that of the blind man Why herein is a marvelous thing Jo. 19.30 that ye know not from whence he is and he hath opened mine eyes And so this is a marvellous thing that ye know not whence this work upon you is that you conclude there is no thing of God in it when your eyes are thus opened when the things that before were not noted are now such loads and burthens to you that such thoughts as these are made at all conscience of Sure this is from above that you are thus troubled for such inward spirituall things as you at If grace would let you you might be at ease as heretofore for any thing I see If former principles prevailed this trouble would have no ground 5. Would you be willing to be as you were before though you never be better in respect of trouble then you are now If thou be not willing of Christ will you turn back again live in the careless regardless way you lived in heretofore If you be indifferent you will be ready enough to hearken to such a motion But out of thy very trouble and anguish thou settest up the head and sayest nay for the old way I will never turn backe again unto it I am sad now but this wilderness is better then Egypt I am troubled but this trouble is better then sin I had rather be in this condition by farr then be turned back to live in security and sin as heretofore sure thou art better inclined then thou thinkest of And if in these particulars thou canst make out thy willingness thy hopes are pretty cleare and thou maist believe it will end well with thee But 4. Suppose thou scruplest thy own willingness in some of these particulars sayst at least thou canst not say these things by thy selfe Thou canst not say thou art willing of all the Commands of God and dost not so soberly desire Christ c Thou hast a mind to be dejected and so thou wouldst put me off here and conclude there is yet no hope for thee But prethy stay suppose this yet there is still hope for thee For 1. Thou mayst have these things really in thee and yet not be able to apprehend them Grace is one thing and sense of grace is another It is one thing to know God and another thing to know that we know him 1. Jo. 2.3 Thou maiest be under a temptation a discouragement of soul under the prevalency of bodily melancholly and maist not be able to see what God hath done for the. Thy face may shine as Moses did to others and yet thou

part of the work done here the other part is to be done by you And it is not for nothing that you have soe much time besides what is spent on a Sabbath in publike and if this other part of your worke be faithfully done there will be no time too much or to spare Consider what I have said saies Paul to Timothy and the Lord give thee understanding in all things 2 Tim. 2.7 This carnall worldly talke after Sermons spoiles all a Minister may come after and say where he heares no word of the Sermon mentioned Alas here will be no answer for me It will be a great while before such talk as this is wil bring a Sermon to the heart or that men should ever profit by Sermons that do on this manner The Minister speaks in publick and then we break off and now it is at you what say you Many complain of bad memories The truth is it may be it is not without cause but yet if you cannot remember all or so much as you would doe labour to take good notice of what did most touch you in a Sermon let that word speaks with you again He sitteth alone and keepeth silence when the word drives you into a corner to consider of things in secret there is more hopes by farre concerning you If the word once wound thee that it singles thee out from the heard there is hopes thou mayest be hunted downe as Naomi said of Boaz Ruth 3.18 The man will not be at rest till he hath finished the thing this day But as long as you can heard together after a Sermon the work will never forward with you was ever happy match made without private conference to get acquaintance and to settle the affections we listen to hear the voice of the Bridgroom with you under the canopy Dr. Hamonds notion on Jo. 3.29 this would make us rejoyce indeed Alas Christians we do not preach before you but to you It is not for you after a Sermon to say what we have said or done or how but what you intend to doe we preach not for approbation but for an Answer What availeth it us to have you cry us up here and curse us in Hell you might find something else to do after a Sermon more proper and immediate work for you then to say what you think of the Minister The woman thought she had obliged Christ much by giving so large a testimony of his doctrine Luke 11.27.28 as to say Blessed is the Womb that bare thee and the Paps that gave thee suck And she said no more then what was true and just for Christ yet he returnes her an answer wherein he insinuates what would better have becommed her to looke after Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keepe it The poorest Sermon that you can hear hath more in it I doubt then you will doe The Sermon that is not worth your writing will be worth your accounting for It is good if the word be repeated in your houses but it never workes till it singles you out and gets you into your closets Make use therefore of this direction observe wherein God strikes you at a Sermon and take good notice of it 4. If one sin be discovered search to the bottome of it There is a nest within whe e this is at the mouth some one sin is discovered to thee which thou art checked for and convinced of but it is not a matter of one sin that thou art to deal in If this was the word that was so bad or this the action that was so unreasonable what is the heart within that bred and brought forth this word and action Mat. 12 34. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh There is worse within all along O what an heart hast thou that would send forth such an unclean filthy word what an heart hast thou that would let thee lye What an heart hast thou that would let thee sin thus quietly live thus long without duties let thee do on this fashion and let thee sleepe quietly at night after all Paul when God opened his eies he saw the Law was spirituall but he was carnall Rom. 7.14 sold under sin a sad thing when a man sees this true of himself as it is said in this scripture famous Mr. Dod first saw himself this every sin thou art convinced of may be driven up into Mr. Cla●k in the life of Mr. Dod. the work never goes on to purpose til it be so alas no sin lies single an a carnal hart This one thou seest but it hath fellows labour to find the rest out By one sin labour to find out the sin and disease of nature or thou wilt never be throughly cured 5. Beg of God to humb le thee and to change thy heart move now thou art doing for a totall change They that are in Christ must be new creatures Old things are past away 2. Cor. 5.17 all things are become new Resolve upon it the Old heart will never do better the Old heart will not serve thou canst never get through to Heaven with the Old Heart A man that will repair an Old ruinous house he knows not what he enters on he may be at more charges and it neither handsome nor safe but still some peice out of Order a meet patcht businesse for a while It were better to pull down the Old one and build all new never think to leave only such and such a sin but beg of God to put another principle into your heart and you will find your self more easy for Duties and your standing will be much more likely Jer. 31.32 33 That promise of God giving a new heart and a new spirit and writing the Law in the Heart Lay that upon thy heart and beg of God to work it on thee or thou canst never make any thing of it God hath promised upon your turning at his reproofe Prov. 1.23 to powre forth his spirit upon you Move for that or you do nothing 6. Make choice of good company The very Heathen could say How can he be a good man that doth not hate bad company Psa 119.115 David saies Depart from me ye workers of iniquity For I will keep the commandements of my God I have work to doe which I cannot do in your company Therefore depart from me Acts. 9.26 Paul as soone as he was converted assayed to joine himselfe to the people of God still wherever he came Let those that fear thee turn in unto me Psa 119.79.63 and I am a companion of all those that fear thee This is the way to do well good company if the motion be weak will ripen nourish and help it on Bad company if it be strong are able to smother it He must be a strong Christian indeed that looses nothing in bad company It was Chrysostomes saying that bad company