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world_n	deny_v	lust_n	ungodliness_n	2,308	5	11.2023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61811	A sermon preached at the assizes held at Chester, September XX. 1681 by N. Stratford ...	Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707.	1681 (1681)	Wing S5939; ESTC R33811	14,271	40

braves himself as a Man of Wit and Parts for so doing How will he be at his Wits ends when too late he shall be convinc'd with a Vengeance that Honesty was the best Policy and that he was a wise Man who chose to part with his own rather than usurp another Man's Rights He that is now Mighty to drink Wine and a Man of Strength to pour down Strong Drink who leaves Trophies of his Victories at every drunken Meeting how will his Courage be cool'd and his Crest fall How will he sneak into a Den to hide his guilty Head when all his Rioting and Revelling and Swaggering and Swearing and Ribaldry for which he was here hugg'd and applauded by his dear Companions shall be exposed naked in all their Shame and Turpitude to the view of all the holy Angels and of all the good and wise Men that ever liv'd And when after their Sins have been made bare and held up to the View of all the World that dreadful Sentence shall thunder in their Ears Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting Fire prepar'd for the Devil and his Angels What inexpressible Horrours and Agonies will then possess them Methinks I hear their despairing Cry What! is this the end of my fleshly and worldly Lusts Is this that for which I have taken so much Pains and spent so much Time Have I so often resisted the Holy Ghost and offer'd Violence to my own Conscience to bring my self to this woful State Prodigious Sot had I done and suffer'd but half so much in mortifying my sinful Lusts as I did in gratifying them I had now been crown'd with an exceeding and eternal weight of Glory Magna est ejus severitas post Judicium cujus ante Judicium ineffabilis misericordia prorogata est Aug. de Verb. Dom. in Evang. secund Matth. Serm. 22. But alas 't is now too late the date of Mercy is out and the day of Vengeance is come the fatal Sentence is already past that will never be revok'd the Judge is now inexorable no Prayers nor Tears no Sighs nor Groans will move him to Pity nothing remains for me but Torments great and intolerable without End without Intermission without the allay of one Glimpse of Hope And who can dwell with devouring Fire Who can dwell with everlasting Burnings Oh! 't is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God! So fearful that the very pre-apprehensions of it is enough to make the sturdiest Sinner to tremble which was the effect wrought upon Felix by St. Paul's reasoning The third and last thing considerable in the Text. That Felix was as strongly fortifi'd against the Assaults of Conscience as most Men in the World we shall have no reason to doubt if we read the Character given of him by Josephus and Tacitus Joseph Antiqu Jud. l. 20. c. 6. Tacit. Annal 12. 11. Hist 5. 3. and yet being conscious to himself of a wicked Life the Voice of a poor despised Prisoner citing him to a Judgment to come sets him a Trembling By which we plainly see that the Arrows of an evil Conscience are so piercing that there is no Armour of Proof against them that its Assaults and Batteries are so strong and violent that no Bulwark is able to withstand them But be the Sinner never so Great and Powerful never so Daring and Resolute yet Wisd 〈…〉 Wickedness being condemned by its own Witness will be very timorous and being press'd with Conscience will always forecast Grievous Things Witness the most Potent and the most Insolent Sinners that ever were such as Tiberius Caligula and Nero in Heathen Story besides Cain Belshazzar and others recorded in Holy Scripture What then remains but that forthwith we reconcile our selves to our own Consciences That when they deal faithfully with us and tell us roundly of our Sins and of the Judgment to come for them we do not rudely shuffle them off as Felix did St. Paul to a more convenient Season that we no longer stifle our Convictions and check our Tremblings but suffer them to proceed to a sincere Conversion not only to the shaking of our vicious Habits but to the tearing them all up by the Roots and utterly destroying them that whatsoever we have done amiss heretofore we do so no more But for the future denying all Ungodliness and worldly Lusts that we live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World That so when we shall be Summon'd to appear before the Judge of all the Earth being first acquitted by our own Consciences we may also be absolv'd by the Judge and may be advanc'd to an Inheritance incorruptible and undefil'd and that fadeth not away reserv'd in Heaven for all those who by patient continuance in well-doing do seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Which God of his infinite Mercy grant for the Merits of our Blessed Saviour to whom be ascrib'd c. FINIS