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A64950 The coblers sermon cryed downe, as a cruell cup-shot counterfeit, or, The summe of Mr. Humfrey Vincents sermon as it was preached and penned by his owne month and hand confuting the matter and confounding the authour of that base-blasphemous pamphlet called The coblers sermon, Mr. Vincent who hath been a preacher these five and twenty yeeres, preached these two sermons at Saint Georges Church in Southwarke in the yeere 1641, the one on Friday the 10, the other on the Lords day, the 12 of December in the morning. Vincent, Humfrey. 1641 (1641) Wing V398A; ESTC R3159 49,140 72

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from an evill conscience and your bodies washed with pure water And I Heb. 10. 22 beseech you as you would not suffer these unspeakeable unquenchable flames doe as our Saviour bids and binds you that is to say Aske Seeke and Knock for that holy water Mat. 7. 7. and the Spirit without which he telleth and teacheth us that there is no comming to the glorious Kingdome and so by consequence no escaping of hell Aske earnestly and if no answer seeme to come Seeke more earnestly and if you heare no answer yet Knock most earnestly for the water of the Spirit to regenerate renew and restore you from the death of sinne and the danger of death eternall death and dreadfull damnation Yea I would Knock downe the gates of heaven why should not I doe a thing impossible to escape the lake of fire and brimstone at well as the Lord bids us doe a thing impossible to be free from eternall damnation saying Make Eze. 18. 31. you a new heart and a new spirit for why will ye die though he knoweth that we cannot move an hand towards making new hearts therfore promiseth by the same Prophet yea and that Eze. 11. 19 and 36. 26. once and again that he will give us new hearts and new spirits rather then feele the fury of God in the fiercenesse and fulnesse of it in that Tophet that place of torments that hell of hels which hath such fire in it that The breath of the Lord like a streame of brimstone doth kindle it And thus much be spoken to such as have hitherto abode in darkenesse by not thinking on the place of torments too much considering the time not halfe enough in regard of the thing you may now depart at your pleasure I having shewed you the case you are in and the course you must take to come out of it I have onely two words to speak now to you who have such knowledge and such obedience wrought with in you either before this day it some good and Christian perfection or on this day in the beginnings of it in the seeds or desires of it or sound preparations to it Now to you who are soundly wrought on and so are freed from those extreme everlasting torments I am to perswade with you 1. To praise the Lord for your owne mercy 2. To pitty others in their misery For the first of these as oft as you thinke on the extremitie and eternitie of the torments of hell it must make you one by one cry with the sweet Singer of Israel Psal 86. 12. 13. I will praise thee O Lord my God with all my heart and I will glorifie thy Name for evermore For great is thy mercy towards me and thou hast delivered my soule from the lowest hell And to provoke you to this duty of praise which when we come to heaven and shall see that we cannot to hell we shall continually be employed in and which we are so more backward to bring our hearts to whiles we are in earth let us briefly think on these things 1. First if our Graces be well grounded strongthned and stablished we shall be sure without peradventures that wee shall not be thrown to the lake of brimstone Revel 21. 7. 8. 2. If we had been dead only and revived recovered to life again yea if we had been but deadly sick and had been restored to health again we should say with good Hezekiah The living Isai 38. 19. the living they shall praise thee How much more are we bound to doe it at the freeing our souls from the place of torments 3. Consider how many millions nobler richer learneder then we are are left to themselves and their soules to Satan to be extremely eternally damned And God hath made choise of us filly simple wormes who were first Elected and then Selected and after Neglected of all meere morall men and often in our owne soules Dejected in our owne apprehensions 1 Cor. 1. 26. 27. 4. Consider how many times how many thousand times the God of heaven did call and cry to us and yet we refused and often resisted He sent not only his Son and after his Son his Word to reveale his Sonne but also his Spirit from Sabbath to Sabbath from Sermon to Sermon and still we withstood our owne escape our owne deliverance our own freedome from those flames which have none end or ease at all in them 5. He fetched us from it called culled converted our soules from it when we were loath to come out of hell loathest of all to come out of the way to it loather it may be some of us then ever in all our lives before O the Lord dealt with us as he did in fetching Lot from Sodome whiles we lingred hee laid hands on us the Lord being exceedingly mercifull to us saying Fly for your lives Escape towards the mountaine lest ye be consumed in the lake of fire and brimstone And the cause why we so contemned our owne mercy in that our misery was our ignorance our not knowing what case we were in our thinking our selves safe and in the way to the Kingdome of Heaven when alas we were almost in hell in the very path the very porch of it 6. And lastly that as he sent when we never sought pardon so he hath not only knockt off the bolts and bonds not onely freed us from hels most fierce and fiery flames but also fitted us in some measure for the wearing of Royall Crownes of Glory So that now we can think on hell without horrour without astonishment because we can say with Paul to his Thessalonians God hath not appointed us to wrath but to ab●●in● Salvation by Iesus Christ 1 Thess 5. 9. The thought of these things should fill us full of joy and comfort and make us breathe out holy praises and breake forth into blessing the blessed Majesty crying with Paul Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings in heavenly places in Ephes 1. 3. Christ According as he hath chosen us before the foundation of the world when he rejected millions of millions to be extremely eternally damned And with Peter Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy in freeing us from those torments which know neither end nor ease hath begotten us again to a lively hope of an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for us 1 Pet. 1. 3. 4. And wherein we shall shine as the Sunne in the Kingdome of our Father when all the wicked of the world shall be cast into Matth. 13. 42. 43. that furnace of fire which The breath of the Lord like a streame of brimstone doth kindle it And thus much be spoken to you concerning your owne mercie Now a word of Information concerning others misery The Prophet Ieremie in one verse Ier.
Bs. 1. Beleeve 2. Beware 3. Bewaile First carry the honey of this instruction and exhortation First the word bids us Beleeve thus S. Paul said to the Jaylor who put him and his fellow in the inner prison when he Acts 16. had a commission to put them in prison that Jaylor after his putting them in the inward prison was himselfe put in the inmost prison his very soul was set in the stocks he was afraid of the flames of hell and cryed out in the anguish thereof even to those whom he had misused Sirs what must I doe to bee saved O how how shall I doe I fear the terrible torments of hell what course must I take to escape them To this Paul answers as I doe to those of you if there are any here among you in the like case Beleeve in the Lord Iesus and then shall be saved from that lake of fire and brimstone which otherwise will destroy and devoure thee sinke thee swallow thee in for ever And I from this very ground call upon you to cleave the clouds to work wonders to reach the right hand of that Majesty on high passing by all the Apostles and Angels and there to single out him who is all in all with God to become all in all to us to apprehend him for your owne Saviour to apply him to your owne souls to take downe his person his passion his promises to make him your owne by the lively saith of Gods Elect. And I beseech you O ye who have soules and have a Saviour who shed his blood to redeeme those precious souls doe not despair for any of your sinnes be they never so many millions be they never such mighty mountains I cannot stand to shew you the order which God useth in working faith in you How first he tells you that it is possible and then probable that God will pardon you after fears falling in in the middest and after a while will say to you sweedy your faith hath saved you your sins are forgiven you But this I say to you that there is such infinite mercy in God and such infinite merits in Christ that if you can but beleeve in him and the Lord looke upon you to make you able to say hold on him you shall surely be saved from hell you shall not be over whelmed with those extreme everlasting torments shall not be cast to the fiery flames which the breath of the Lord like a river of brimstone kindles Secondly for there is no time to tell you how you must attaine to that Beleeving namely by hearing the word of God which is able to save your souls I say secondly if you would Rom. 10. James 1. escape the everlasting terrible torments you must Beware that you walk in the way which the Saints and the Saviour trod in So saith Iohn when he saw the Pharisees seek to avoid the wrath to come Bring forth fruits saith he unto them when their Consciences cryed against them and set the torments of hell Matth 3. before them Bring forth fruits fit for amendment saith he and begin not to say in your selves we have Abraham to our father And doe not you I beseech you dream that you can stop the cry of hell in your Consciences by any foolish frivolous fig-leaves or if you could so curb and crush them that yet you are able to avoid that brimstone by pleading Pedegrees pretending prerogatives No there is no way but one with you if ye walk not the way of fruitfulnesse be not carefull conscionable circumspect in all Conversation in all acts of Christianity Though it be Christ even Christ alone who hath freed us from hell and fitted us for heaven and for his sake shall all that be chosen be kept from those ever-burning flames yet it is they they alone none but they who are fruitfull as well as faithfull shall escape the lake of brimstone all the rest all that walk not warily worthily must be extremely and eternally hell-tormented That is the way and the means to escape those are the persons who must be preserved from that most terrible place of torments In that and after that men must fly from the wrath to come And therefore you must be such must be so fruitfull must bring forth fruits fit for a Christian calling if you would not be thrown to Tophet to that extremely tormenting fire of hell which the breath of the Lord like a river of brimstone kindles Thirdly whosoever of you would not be damned for ever and ever must look back with godly sorrow like those foure beasts in that fourth Chapter of Iohns Revelation who had Eyes behind as well as before on his former foolish false behaviour So saith Peter to those three thousand who when they had been pricked in their hearts frighted with feare of those fiery flames of hell feeling a kind of foretast of it in their very inwards cryed out what shall we doe with sighing soule and Acts 2. 37. 38. sorrowfull spirits Repent saith he be ye truely touched sincerely sweetly terrified troubled that ye were so proud and presumptuous that you duest provoke the mighty Jehovah who is able to tumble you down to hell to the place of torments Make your hearts bleed that your sinnes made him bleed who shed it to keep you from hells eternall flames And surely forgivenesse of sinnes and faith in Christ to conceive it and receive it without which to escaping of hell nothing at all but being extreamly eternally damned 〈◊〉 must be attained with any fruitfull force and feeling till a Converts soul become such an one as will suck it in and that it cannot be capable of till it be soked in brinish tears or bitterer terrours till is bee afraid of Tophet that so fearing it it might not feele that unquenchable fire of hell which the breath of the Lord as a river of brimstone kindles And these be the three Bs which have the honey These be the things which the sacred Scripture commends to such as have in their hearts wormwood and gall for feare of hells extreme eternalls when it counselleth them by comforting and comforteth them by counselling Now what the World would doe and that both lawfully and laudably if a noyse of fire should fright them we all know by much experience Suppose which the Lord keepe from you that there should be a noise of fire in your Towne what course would ye take for the quenching of it I know generally and negatively what you would doe that is to say what you would not doe for you world certainly hear mee no longer but would leave mee alone as they did Christ and his chosen vessel Paul and yet you should not for I would goe along with you remembring what is written I will have mercie and not sacrifice Hosea 6. 6. But what would you doe when you came to it and sought to quench it I suppose you would get three things 1. Company 2.