you as persons unconcerned in Prayer Sermons and compassionate workings of his soul for you God knows and you shall know there hath been a Prophet amongst you he hath washt his hands from the guilt of your blood by faithful warnings your blood be upon your own heads yea may not his blood come to be upon your heads Yea may not the guilt of the blood of the Son of God be required at your hands And have you worn out man are you not content to weary men but will you weary out God also Shall Christ weep over you as over Jerusalem and say as Luk. 19.42 If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes Though you cannot hear your former Minister's living voice yet I send you one summons more to your eyes in his own words if this will not prevail expect to hear another manner of message from the great Jehovah Cut them down for they cumber the ground bind them hand and foot and cast them into the fire 1. Is there not yet some ignorant souls among you that have not the knowledg of God Christ Gospel mysteries And if you know not this gift of God no wonder you slight it if you know not the worth of this jewel or your need of it you cannot esteem or desire it a blind man cannot distinguish colours swallows many a gnat knows not whither he goeth God complains His people are destroyed for lack of knowledg Hos. 4 6. Solomon saith Without it the heart is not good Prov. 19.2 The Apostle saith If our Gospel be hid 't is hid to them that are lost 2 Cor. 4.3 And the Prophet saith He will have no mercy on a people that have no understanding Isa. 27.11 Alas the whole soul is misguided with this blind guide the will is perverted affections ranging conscience dictates amiss for its a witness but to what it knows and thy clock cannot go if the weights be taken off God Almighty pity you it's a shameful thing to be ignorant but it 's damnning to be wilfully ignorant yea it will aggravate damnation 1 Cor. 15.34 Oh now at last ply your work read pray confer meditate One would think the poor prisoner should take pains to learn to read that knows he must be hanged if he cannot read his neck-verse but if you be negligent God may seal you up in darkness and say if any be ignorant let him be ignorant 1 Cor. 14.38 2. Is any among you an hypocrite that makes a fair shew in the flesh that paint your outsides with a goodly garnish of common gifts and outside duties that have owned your godly Minister living and honour his memorial now dead but have not obeyed from the heart the Doctrine which he delivered or have not been delivered into the form of Gospel-doctrine that are one thing before others in meetings another thing alone and in your families that can down with some common acts of religiousness but slight self-denying flesh-displeasing duties totally unacquainted with heart-work and mortifying special lusts yea rather use duties as a cloak to cover sin than spiritual armour to fight against it Alas how many is there that were baptized in infancy join with Christians as with a party or faction slide into a profession that never came in by the door of regeneration and so deceive themselves and others Ministers judg charitably of Professors know not mens hearts and though they express their jealousie and so give faithful cautions yet encourage good beginnings and hopeful shews in such an evil day as this is but may be mistaken for who would judg him an enemy that marcheth after Christ in duties wears his colours learneth his postures hath got the word keeps his rank converseth with Saints in a religious habit and language yet such may be hypocrites and prove apostates witness Judas Simon Magus Demas Himeneus Philetus c. Oh Sirs as you love your souls see to the truth of grace the root of the matter be as good or better than you seem the heart-searching God knows your home-behaviour and sees how your principles are stated and as you would see Gods face and meet your godly Minister with comfort be sincere and single-spirited 3. Are any amongst you worldlings addicting your selves to pursue and dote upon the profits of the world That spend most of your time in lading your selves with thick clay and panting after the dust of the earth are these things satisfactory Have you ever weighed them in the ballance of rectified reason did you never hear of better things Did you ever hear that riches made men happy Have you not seen riches take wings and leave the possessor Or have you not seen the rich die as well as poor and leave their wealth behind them Alas the world was never true to any that trusted to it It 's a sad thing to see men almost pressed to death still call for more weight to see persons full of drink greedy of more and complaining they die for thirst Oh but saith Christ I am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth in me shall never thirst Ioh. 6.35 The enjoyment of Christ quencheth worldly thirst the Lord awake your spirits to see how vast a distance there is betwixt earth and heaven and stir up your spirits to a proportionable care about soul-concernments 4. Is there a slothful careless or discouraged soul among you that loves his ease better than life that will not take the pains to be saved or that is not resolved for heaven but in suspense as halting bâ—twixt two opinions could have a months mind after Christ were it not for the inconveniences that attend him difficulties in Religion discourage them and having much sense which bears sway distrust prevails and shouts faith to the heart so that the poor soul falls stat at Satans feet grows listless to duty as one who sees the Well dry breaks or throws away his pitcher some are ready to say as those Jer. 2.25 when God saith With hold thy foot from being unshod i. e. do not by putting off thy shoos address thy self to a slothful or an adulterous bed and thy throat from thirst i. e. forbear thy sinful thirst and desires after idols and vanities but thou saidst there is no hope it's to no purpose past cure past care I have loved strangers and after them will I go you may save a labour I am too far gone to turn now God hath cast me off I am desperate and may as well take my fill of ease and sensual pleasures for this is all the heaven I am like to have This is a dreadful case and such sinners surely understand not what it is to be damned and have not learned Christs readiness to pardon and accept penitent sinners That was a wretched answer that that blasphemous Arrian made executed at Norwich in
Luk. 2.13 14. A multitude of the heavenly host was praising God saying Glory to God in the highest on earth peace and good will towards men Good Zachary so soon as his mouth was opened begun his Prophecy with Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath visited and redeemed his people Luk. 1.68 69. And old Simeon ended his life with praise and blessing God Luk. 1.19 'T is the duty of all Christians in every thing to give thanks 1 Thes. 5.18 because this is the will of God in Christ much more should every soul give thanks for Christ the top of all blessings the flower of all enjoyments think much of this threefold cord of obligation to praise 1. When a gift is free 2. When it is great 3. When special thanks is most due for though a man receive a benefit from another yet if he have in any measure deserved it before or it be in lieu of something to be done after it abates the thankfulness But though it be free yet if it be not much worth that lessens thanks but if it be a thing of worth yet if it be commonly to be had or given to all this will take off somewhat of the edg of thankfulness But now 1. Christ is an absolutely free gift not only undeserved but undesired and expected kindness by the rules of friendship and love in the heathens judgment doth challenge either recompence if we deal with our matches or acknowledgment where the distance is great and the greater this the greater that Now betwixt God and us the distance is infinite and if it were possible our love and thankfulness should fill up that distance and extend it self to infiniteness Let Angels and men adore and praise God for this gift to eternity in Heaven yet they must be ashamed and blush at the imagination of merit The dignity and worth of this gift must lay an infinite though sinless debt for ever on all the Citizens of Glory whether home-born and natives of the Country as elect Angels or adopted strangers as glorified Saints Christ is the flower glory and crown of free Grace 2 The gift is of unspeakable worth and excellency than which none could ever be greater none better the only begotten Son God blessed for evermore the brightness of his Fathers Glory co-equal and co-essential with the Father there could be no addition at all made to his Glory he was so high he could not be higher so great so good c. He is better than wealth or health than peace or life 3. There 's distinguishing favour in bestowing Christ on thee and not on others that which is common to all will never leave such an impression of wonder and praise but when it comes to me and us that makes deepest impression The passing by of my Father and Mother my Brother my Sister Husband or Wife Neighbour or Friend and taking me is a most endearing favour Two lye in the same womb sit in the same seat hear the same Sermon and one is taken and another left Psal. 147.12 19 20. Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Zion Among many other grounds and reasons that 's one in the 19. verse He shews his wâ—rd unto Iacob his statutes and his judgments to Israel he hath not dealt so with any Nation Here he speaks not of the measure as if others had the same grace revealed in nature but in inferiour degrees for he saith as for his judgments they have not known them and being full of it he concludes Praise ye the Lord Christ esteemeth this the flower of Grace and blesseth his Father for it Mat. 11.25 I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes To consider that of all England all Europe all Adam's posterity that ever were masters of a living soul the Lord passed by so many thousands and millions and the lot of free grace fell upon me precisely by name and not on many besides no less eligible than I was O how should it ravish our hearts into admiration and praise Blessed are your eyes for they see such things that many Kings and Prophets have desired to see and have not seen them Luk. 10.23 O what thoughts will ye have of this mercy in Heaven when you shall have your souls laden with a massy weight of glory and thousands of souls spitting out blasphemies on the Majesty of Heaven out of the sense of the torment of the gnawing-worm that never dies and you consider the soul of Iudas might have been in my souls stead and my soul in the same place of torment that he is now in O the unsearchable riches of the free grace of God in Christ How should we now sing that new Song that properly belongs to all redeemed ones Rev. 14.3 and to say with a loud voice Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth on the Throne for ever and ever Rev. 5.8 ad finem and Rev 7.12 O how should we extol and shew forth his praises had we as many tongues as members or joints or hairs were our whole body turned into that one member yet should we not be able for this high and glorious mercy sufficiently to celebrate the praises of the most high God 5. Fifth and last Branch of Exhortation Be fruitful in Christ True thankfulness improves the gift to the Donors honour A friend gives me a token I 'le receive it for his sake a jewel I 'le keep it for his sake a Book I 'le use it for his sake a Ring I 'le wear it for his sake that is so as may best express my love and report his goodness Were we truly thankful to our God we would use and improve this gift for his sake to his glory O let it be our chief care to improve this transcendently excellent gift to his glory who gave it Let me press this Exhortation on â—ou in the words of the Apostle Col. 2.6 As ye have therefore received Christ Iesus the Lord so walk ye in him It is not enough to have or to know that we have received Christ but we are to see that we walk in him or according to him 'T is not sufficient for us to take Jesus Christ this gift of God offered in the Gospel but our deportment and carriage must be such as becomes them that have received so great a favour Christ was the greatest Legacy that ever was bequeathed to poor creatures and he and his benefits that come with him is matter of greatest weight and concernment that ever God be-trusted in the hands of dust and ashes the most rich glorious and perfect gift that ever came out of the hands of God Wherefore let us gird up the loyns of our mind and be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto us at the revelation of Iesus Christ as obedient
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