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A66437 Warnings to the unclean in a discourse from Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield lecture, August 25th. 1698. At the execution of Sarah Smith. By Mr. John Williams pastor of the Church at Deerfield. Williams, John, 1664-1729. 1699 (1699) Wing W2743; ESTC W15452 28,591 67

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any company or society when but a little of their sin is made known or but a few of their ungodly pranks brought to light but now all shall be made manifest to their everlasting disgrace 6. God won't design any good to you in any in all those sorrows and torments that you shall indure Here when God chastens he aims at profit he puts into the Furnace to puri●y but then his wrath will be a confirming fire Reprobate silver shall they be called God who was so long abused slighted and disregarded will not have one thought or intention to do you any good or to prepare you by these miseries for his favour He sentenceth to everlasting fire prepared for Devils You will be separated from all those that God designs good to the Judgments of God will be to make you miserable Oh! Consider of these things you that forget God least he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you It s an ease to the Spirits of many a man and woman under afflictions to have comfortable hopes and perswasions that God is carrying on a design of Love Grace to their Souls by such Dispensations that by these he is preventing worse Judgments 1 Cor. 11.32 but no ease can come to the Damned from any such consideration God never designs to bring them out of torment but the Smoke of their torment will ascend for ever and ever USE III. Of Warning To Warn all to take heed of those sin and to warn them that are guilty of them speedily to repent and fly to Christ for pardon and forgiveness 1. To warn every one of you to take heed of these sins 1. Or God may justly suffer you to be punished in the same way that you abuse others Job 30.10 God permits this many times by way of retaliation 2 Sam. 12.11 Hos. 4.12.15 they themselves had been unclean You would be far from taking pleasure in having these sins paid back into your own botomes to have Husbands or Wives to have Children Sons or Daughters left of God to Uncleanness but it would be a righteous thing with God to permit you to be exercised after such a sort 2. Or you will take a course to bring an unremoveable reproach blemish and spot on your selves Prov. 6.33 If you get a pardon as to everlasting punishment yet a spot will remain 1 King 15.5 Solomon tells you a Good Name is better than precious Oyntment I am sure they justly forfeit the reputation of wisdom that will part with a good name for the pleasures that are to be enjoyed in this way 3. Or the best that can be expected is sorrow unspeakably greater than any pleasure you can reap in this way of sinning Sorrow from the Judgments of God and that will be sure to overtake you in this life and rottenness of bones being brought to a morsel of bread How many heart distressing troubles was David followed with after he fell into these sins how was he punished in and from his own Children and how by his Subjects revolting Sorrows from the Influences of Gods Spirit in bringing to a sound repentance He tells of broken bones his moisture turned into the drought of Summer he lost the joy of Gods salvation Oh how will Conscience accuse and perplex who would undergo the horrors of Conscience that will fill the Soul of such to the causing of them to have a dreadful sound in their ears for all the delight that is this way to be enjoyed the Psalmist Psal 51. acquaints us how such pleasures bite at the last Cain says his punishment is greater then he can bear his guilty conscience makes him fear that every one that meets him is Gods Executioner 4. Or it 's to be feared that if once you yield that you will hold on in such wayes till Death overtake you Sinners are stupified that are left to these wayes of Sin You have heard that few are recovered by unfeigned repentance Stollen waters are so sweet and pleasant to ignorant carnal men who know not that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of hell that they oftimes go on till a dart strike thro' their liver Prov. 7.23 the young man had so much conscience left him that he would not yield till with much fair speaking he was sollicited and then he goes on till death these are oftimes so far besotted by their lusts that reproofs will be slighted by them Hos. 4.4 5. They are Sins that bring great wrath upon a Land Hos. 4.23 when the Sons of Eli had given themselves to these sins God was wrath and Thirty four thousand men fell in the Battle and the Ark of God was taken The wrath of God distresseth a Land where such Iniquities abound Wars Impoverishing Dispensations to many Families and Towns are the effects of Gods Anger stirred up 〈◊〉 kindled by such provocations Why should you rebel thus against the Lord and so provoke God to be wroth with the whole Congregation 6. Or you may fear that God will destroy you for defiling his Temple 1 Cor. 13.17 Direction 1. Don't disobey Gods Counsels and walk contrary to them in refusing Christ Psal. 81.11 12. they take a direct course to fall into these abominations to their everlasting contempt that cast contempt upon the Word of God and on his Son A Christless Soul can have no assurance that he shall not be left finally to the worst abominations Prov. 2 10.16● Prov. 5.12 13. 2. Don't rely on your own wisdom to be security to you from these abominations but endeavour to have your ways such as may please God Eccl. 7.22 Some are ready to say as Hazael are we Doggs that we should do such things and yet both do them and have pleasure in them that do them Yea though they know the Judgments of God against them who do such things Solomons Wisdom was no preventive grace it self is no preservative from foul acts of sin where persons are carnally confident of their own strength Peter after his boasts is so scared by a sorry dams●l that he denies Christ and Curses and Swears See that your wayes are well pleasing to God that you may be kept by the mighty power of God through faith to Salvation 3. Abstain from all appearance and leading causes to such sins don't come ●igh the door of her house don't be out in evenings among foolish vain jolly company when you should be in your Closets and on your knees before God Prov. 5.8 9. Prov. 4.14 1● the young man spoken of Prov. 7.1 was going the way to her house in the black and dark night he is insnared Prov. 17.18 19 21. beware and take heed of Idleness as that which will occasion your sinning after this sort Usually Unclean persons are idle persons there was abundance of Uncleanness in Sodom and that because there was abundance of Idleness Ezek. 16.49 beware of drinking away your precious time Drunkenness ushers in Murder and