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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47086	A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an exposition of that metaphorical Scripture, Matth. III, 12 : lately delivered in two sermons ... / by Benjamin Keach ...	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1694 (1694)	Wing K102; ESTC R17228	65,082	74

Sense of their Minds or Principles I have said he made this World my God I have been guilty of Idolatry I have been guilty of Pride endeavouring to run every Man down in Dispute I have endeavoured to shake the Cross off my Shoulders how deplorable a thing is this that I that have preached so much of the glory of another World should now be deprived of it all You will as surely see me damned as you now see me stand here To others he said I have trifled in Religion trifled trifled I am lost there is no Hope no Hope At another time he said The black Tokens of Reprobation are upon me He said to Mr. Plant smiting on his Breast Sir I am Damn'd I am Damn'd it is so most certainly My day is over O that it was with me as in days past but it is too late the Decree is gone forth it is Sealed in Heaven and it is irreversible Jesus Christ cannot save me he will not he cannot Mediate for me I have so much offended him in maliciously abusing of his People O what a Wretch was I what a Spirit was I led by I have guilt enough said he to sink seventeen Kingdoms and I know the Earth would open its mouth and swallow me alive like Corah Dathan and Abiram were it not that God hath reserved me to be a more publick Spectacle of his Anger and Displeasure both to Angels and Men. I can neither Pray nor desire others to pray for me my Heart is perfectly hardened how should I when I cannot desire Jesus Christ to pray for me flouds of Tears flowing from him Dear bought Experience saith he hath taught me that it is no small thing to trifle with him in the great things of Religion and Eternity c. In one of his Letters sent to Mr. James Jones are these Expressions viz. Being possessed with Doubts Fears and Tremblings night and day the sad savour of Gall and Wormwood an horrible Relish of Gravel-stones the sad Apprehensions of Curses Blastings and Mildew the dismal sound of the mad Prophets words I shall see him but not now I shall behold him but not nigh had I been a Backslider of an ordinary size I have a Voice behind me or dire Texts to love and make a Lye is a qualification for the Lake His poor Wife as I remember intimated to me that the very Ends of the Halr of his Head in the Night-season did stand in Drops thro' the Anguish of his Soul Thus he continued for several Months under most dreadful horror and fearful desparation until the 13th of Octob. 1684. when to put an end to his miserable Life he hanged himself in his own hired house in Brick-lane near Spitlefields London leaving a sorrowful Widdow and several Children But she poor Woman lived not long after 'T is to be noted that there was a strange blast upon his Estate for tho' I understood by a Friend that was intimate with him he was little before his fall worth near a thousand pounds yet I can hear but of a little left to his Chidren his Eldest Son being but in a low and mean Condition I take not upon me to pass Judgment upon this miserable Man not knowing how God might deal with him whose Mercy is Infinite for I do not believe Self-murther is an unpardonable sin for if so there is more Sins unto Death than one certainly it is a Sin against the Father and the Son and not against the Holy Ghost and therefore may be forgiven unto men who may before their Life is quite gone have Repentance given to them But I am of the Opinion with a worthy Minister that visited him that if any Atheist in the World who had formerly known this man and had conversed with him in his bitter Agonies he would have seen sufficient Demonstrations to have convinced him that there is a dreadful God or a Power besides and above Nature who can touch shake and disorder and turn into Confusion the strongest constitution of body by ministring and fastning terrible things upon the Soul and as he saith let this Pillar of Salt tend to warn and season the People of this present and future Ages of the danger of sinning against the light of their understanding Moreover it doth I am sure serve with a witness to prove and fully to demonstrate the truth of that Proposition I am upon viz. That God doth sometimes let out his Wrath on the Consciences of some men for their horrid evil in this World which seems intollerable and hard to be born or undergone by any Mortal But Secondly To proceed by buring up the Chaff with unquenebable fire or by the Wrath of God in this place our Blessed Saviour doth intend casting the wicked into Hell it self Remarkable it is that no less than four or five times the Lord Christ positively affirms in Mark 9. that the fire of Hell into which Body and Soul of wicked men shall be cast cannot be quenched where the worm dies not and the fire is not quenched c. Why repeated so often is it not to assure all ungodly persons of the certainty of it Men are not willing to believe this great truth they are too ready to think that it is inconsistent with infinite goodness to inflict such Punishment on his Creatures but alas they forget that there is an infinite perfection in every one of the Divine Attributes and that as Gods mercy is infinite unsearchable and unconceivable so is his wrath and fury none are able to conceive much less to declare what pain and anguish the damned undergo What torments like fire and what fire is so hot and so tormenting as Hell-fire sad it is to burn half an hour in an Elementary fire yet the Martyrs have endured that for Christs sake God made it easie to some of them But alas who can bear the burnings of Hell-fire when wrath shall be let out upon the Soul to the utterermost O Sirs what a fearful thing will it be to be found chaff and false hypocritical Reasons such cannot escape the damnation of Hell No nor can any sinner whatsoever except they believe repent or are born again there is no avoiding being cast into unquenchable fire Thirdly I shall now endeavour to prove the point viz. That the Wrath of God in Hell is intollerable and far greater than any Wrath let out here either on the Bodies or Souls of men which will appear if we consider these particulars following First The extremity of their Torment will appear upon the Consideration that it is inconceivable beyond all mens understanding who knoweth the power of thy Anger who can apprehend it or is rightly and duely affected therewith we can conceive of all bodily pain or external Torment but cannot comprehend the Nature of infinite Wrath no more than we can conceive or apprehend the Nature of infinite Love and Goodness Secondly It is and will be intollerable because

righteous and the wicked between him that serveth the Lord and him that serveth him not There shall not e're long be a Cannanite in the House of God any more 4. Nay and remember my Text The Chaff shall be burned with unquenchable fire into Hell at last all false-hearted light and loose Professors shall be thrown O Take heed for your Souls sake that you rest not upon a bare Profession or on a name of Christians This may inform us also that Christ hath a gracious end in bringing Persecutions and Trials on his People it shews us why he uses the Fan of severe Providences Judgments and Afflictions It is you have heard to purge to purifie them and to separate the Chaff from them O do not then think it strange concerning fiery trials as if some strange thing had befallen you Exhort Let me exhort you to see to it in time that you are not deceived and so prove Chaff and Vain Persons empty and foolish Virgins at last Motives 1. O how far may men go and yet be but almost Christians Remember this 2. Many when Christ comes shall have great Confidence and go forth to meet him and yet be found foolish ones Some deceive their own Hearts and others have Hearts that deceive them by trusting in them and never examine how matters are between God and their own Souls 3. Men may Preach and Prophesie yea speak as if they had the Tongue of Men and Angels and Cast out Devils in Christs Name and yet he nothing they may Preach no doubt to the Conversion of others and yet may not be Converted themselves 4. Wheat is commonly weighed to know the goodness of it so God weighs Men he weighs the Actions of Men Thou art weighed in the ballance and art found wanting Weighed in a Ballance alluding to the weighing of Gold or Goods exactly in Scales God tries Men and Women that all may know he will proceed Justly and Righteously with them he weighs them in the ballance of the sanctuary or trys them by the Touch-stone of his Word and if found full weight or pure Gold then he declares that they are his and he owns them as his People as his Wheat but if too light or not hold weight but are greatly wanting there being no worth in them but are Dross Chaff light and empty Persons unsound and unsanctified ones then he rejects them as none of his but are as reprobate Silver false Coin People of no value with him As he weighs Men so he weighs their Works their Graces their Gifts their Duties to see whether they hold weight whether true and righteous or not whether the Grace be true Grace special Grace not common Grace and their Gifts not Counterfeit Gifts or meer Natural Gifts or only humane and acquired Gifts Some boast of false Gifts which as Solomon tells us is like Clouds and Wind without rain What a stir doth a vain Person make of a strong Memory crying it up as if it was a Spiritual Gift and as if none were true Ministers but such who have a great Memory and can deliver all they have got by their Study by the strength of their Memory alas all men of any sense know that is but a Natural Gift which some wicked men have as well as some good men but let him know God knows what mens Hearts are what their Ends and Designs are what their Gifts are and what their Duties are as well as what the matter of their Worship is which they perform to God that is whether it hath his Image stampt upon it or is of his Authority his own Appointment his own Institution or but Humane Inventions he also weighs the manner how they perform all Divine Worship towards him from what Principle Life Power End and Design whether 't is from a changed Heart from unfeigned Faith and Love to Christ in sincerity with Zeal and to glorify God if not he will discover them weigh them and they will be found wanting and be found no better than Chaff at last Though they may seek ways to hide and cover their Wickedness and false Spirits and base designs yet let them know he that weighs the hill in scales and the mountains in balances doth and will weigh them and find out all their Cursed Deeds their Pride their Malice and put a rebuke upon their back-sliding and detracting Tongues Talk saith Hannah no more so exeeding proudly let not arrogancy come out of thy mouth for God is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed Thou Peninnah as our Aunotators note speak no more so insolently and reproachfully of me as thou hast done he knoweth thy Heart and all that Pride Envy and Contempt of me which thy own Conscience knows and thy perverse Carriage towards me God pondereth and tryeth all mens Thoughts and Actions as a Just Judge to give to every one according to their works Oh what a Motive should this be to us all God weighs our Persons our Graces our Gifts our Dutys and all our Services in Scales Take heed you are not found too light found wanting as be sure you will if you be found Chaff when put into the Ballance of the Sanctuary Direction 1. If you would not be found Chaff try and weigh your Spirits your Persons your Faith your Love see if it holds weight by the Kings standard see on what Foundation you are built have you dugg deep and laid your foundation on a Rock what Love have you to Christ is he precious to your Souls the chiefest of ten thousand what Love have you to the Children of God how do you carry it at home and abroad do you feed the Hungry Visit the Sick and Cloath the naked is Christs Family Christs Servants Christs Poor more in your esteem love and affections than Sons and Daughters than Brethren and Sisters that are not his Children if you do not love Christ more than Father and Mother more than Son or Daughter you may justly fear whether you are Wheat or no And if it be so that you do so Love him and his Saints Ministers and People it will appear whilst you live and when you come to die you will not forget Christ then his People and Interest then O think on this 2. And to you Sinners if you would be found Wheat in the day of Christ then receive Christs true Doctrine labour to distinguish between Truth and Error beware of that strange and new Scheme that darkens the Free-Grace of God and tends to destroy the Covenant of Grace Remember to exalt Christ alone in your Salvation How do some turn the Gospel of Gods Free-Grace into a Law by the performance of which as the Conditions of Life and Justification tell thee thy Salvation doth depend See what subtle Opposers of the clearest Gospel are risen up amongst us and labour to avoid them though their Tongues should seem to be tipp'd with Silver yet their Doctrine is Copper 3. Be sure