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A56447	Christs gracious intentions of peace and mercy towards sinners, freely tendred together with the necessity of observing the season, and accepting the offer of peace and reconciliation while it may be attained : evidenced in a sermon at St. Pauls, London, Martii 3, 1661 : from Luke 19 verse 41,42 / by Rich. Parr ...	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.	1661 (1661)	Wing P546; ESTC R32209	25,708	88

by faith in Christ Repentance from dead works Eccles 9.10 and holy living or else he shall never now or never while grace and the man live together in this present world so long there is hope but when grace is gone and thou art driven hence to thy long home thy day is lost and the poor sinner irrecoverable You had best consider in time what hour of the day 't is with you Note what is the date of thy life how many daies and years can each of you reckon you can tell how long you have lived and enjoied the means of grace but can you tell how long you shall live in this world or under the discipline of grace with a win-able heart You can neither command time or grace but you may in time accept the grace offered It may be some that are here present this day before the Lord can say with joy and thankfulness They had their day and knew it the Angel moved and they stept in their hearts were touched and they yielded the offer was made and they accepted Christ was near and they embraced him they stood not out but closed with him in the day of his power they were made willing and now Christ is theirs Psal 110.3 and they are Christs they love him heartilie and hate sin perfectlie and live holilie lift up your heads pretious soules and be thankful you have not lost your day you are happie now and in a fair way to heaven and if you continue in faith and love of Jesus and grow in grace you shall be for ever happie in glorie when you have finished your course It may be some others are here standing some young some aged with whom Gods Ministers have been treating and Gods Spirit striving formerlie and they have stood out untill now Who knows but that they have bin reserved for such a time as this now another prize is put into your hand this may be to them the acceptable time a day of reconciliation and peace a day you have now which thousands who now lay under wrath and final despaire would prize above Mountains of gold and Rocks of Rubies if they had once again such an opportunitie as this it may be God hath determined that hitherto to this day thou shalt come and grace and mercie shall wait on thee now but no farther Christ may be passing on by thee now Note and looks on thee and gives a secret touch and bids thee Come away after him and leave thy sins and follow him and saith as to Zacheus I will come to thy house and bring salvation this day Oh if there be any such among you who is touched at heart this minute let him not quench the spirit nor reject the motion let him take this opportunitie and make up the match now even now in this place ere he stirre hence and then he may conclude he hath not lost his day but whatever he hath been before yet now he may be be a converted man a pardoned man an happie man in this his day of visitation if he lay it now to heart and consider it It may be there are others here with whom there is no prevailing no mercie moves them no teares melts them no intreaties winne them no promises allure them in whom the custome of sin hath worne off the sense of sinne and miserie to whom nothing but the world and pleasures and sin is of any account to whom the Riches and treasures of grace and glories of heaven are accounted poor and mean and foolish things Such there may be here now who have had some impressions on them of good but now worn out again those who it may be were once almost perswaded but now again altogether as obstinate as ever who can make a mock of sin and scoffe of Religion who can laugh or sleep at a Sermon of life and death and scorn reproof and defie God to his face and are growing worse and worse filthie and more filthie and what may be thought of such Have they lost their day Alas Answ for such we know not what God will do with them yet but those are sad notices of men given over this we say Many dais they have lost many mercies have they abused many offers have they rejected many motions have they quenched much patience have they wronged and trulie if there be any day yet for them left but the day which they cannot avoid the day wherein God will judge the world all obstinate impenitent sinners to eternal flames they had best look to it that they may take it when it comes lest if that passe away too and be hid from their eyes also and they not converted in that day neither then must they lie down in sorrow saying Oh that I had but known but now it is hid from mine eyes I shall never see the day of salvation for I would not know nor lay to heart the day of visitation oh sinners think on this Note and trie your tempers and consider how long alreadie you have refused will you not henceforth from this time crie unto the Lord if peradventure he may yet be gracious to thee if thou return after thou hast done all these things even then turn turn unto the Lord Jer. 3.4 even now and put all out of doubt close now with Christ cast away your sins and the question will be best resolved by your practice So much toward resolving the quaerie as far as God hath given us any hints about particular times or seasons of getting or losing a mans interest in peace and reconciliation by Christ offered in a day During a mans life Now I know there are some would make a quick answer to to this demand and enough to gratifie the humours of many loose and vain persons but not at all to satisfie a sober soul that thinks of another world Tush say they What trouble you your self about these niceties take your pleasure now while you may and take your time of repentance at leisure a little time will do that work do you not remember that At what time soever And the Thief on the Crosse Answ Indeed here is a rare Example Answ and a short halfe-sentence which men abuse to their undoing I could answer this at large but this I onlie say now to you that have not debauch'd your Reason and lost Consideration When any of you can dispatch the whole dutie of man the All of Faith and Repentance and new Obedience in a trice and on your death-bed and can be assured withall that you shall have then time enough and grace enough and will enough and strength enough to perform all then you may deferre untill your dying day but untill this be made sure to you be not so foolish as to cast away your soules upon such desperate attempts and impossibilities And for the Thief when any of you or any bodie else you know can have the like opportunitie

yet consider how near you are to the last day will you quite forsake him and never return to whom will you goe then for eternal life Go thy way then proud Prodigal to the Swine and to the husks wallow there and die if that be better then thy fathers house Ah sinner stay and consider what thou leavest look upon Christ see how he wooes thee see how near he drawes to thee see how he bemoanes thee see how grace reconciliation and salvation courts thee canst thou find in thy heart to let him go away from thy soul and canst thou not find in thy heart to close with him this day and that he may leave a blessing behind him will nothing prevaile with thee shall Christ intreat and shall We intreat and shall the sinner remain still as he was oh can any Heart stand out against Christ but an heart of Adamant can any Bowels not yearn when Christ's bowels yearn but bowels of brasse O would to God it might be that some poor wearied sinner among you would come and lay down his burden at Christs feet and change Masters the worst for the best sin and Satan for Christ and grace oh that some one of you among so many that have gone so farre and stood out so long would stop here and stand out no longer what an happy day would this day prove to thee poor soul if it may prove a day of thy peace and reconciliation a day of thy translation from the regions of sin and death and Consecration to the service of Christ A day of thy new birth O how much better would this day be then the day of thy first birth or if were a day of advancement to all earthly honours and dignity oh sinner wilt thou not yet yield Oh that in this thy day thou wouldst lay this to heart Use II. of Counsell and Perswasion Exhortation Must I part with you so without an earnest exhortation I cannot I may not why may I not hope to prevaile with some one or other in this Numerous Congregation this day it may be I shall never see your faces more in this place and 't is oddes to lay all you that now are here may not live to see another such day all together again the thred may be cut the life spilt as water on the ground which cannot be gathered up again many of us may be ere to morrow in another world How doth it concern us all this day to lay some foundation on which we may build our hopes of happinesse in the other world Give me leave to try in the name of Christ what I can do to perswade you that I may leave something with you that you may remember hereafter that a poor Minister of Christ did beseech you in his name that you would know and lay to heart the things belonging to your peace in this your day O would to God I might prevail with you for your own good I exhort you I beseech you I conjure you in the name of God and if I had tears at command I would intreat you weeping this That you every one of you this day would let all your sins goe but let not Christ go let not grace go let not this day passe away without your hearty and reall closing with Christ as ever you look for any good in and by Christ give him leave to banish your sins and to bear rule in your hearts and lives Note He must be thy Lord or else he will never be thy Saviour Improve this hour of visitation and be happy throw away that with loathing and indignation which hath kept thee so long from being fully perswaded to be altogether a Christian and be happy and if any of you feel the door of your hearts now opening to Christ Psal 24 7 8. lift them open wide that the King of Glory may come in that he may have full possession let him rule and raign there and thou wilt be an happy man These three things I would counsel you to performe within your hearts and resolutions ere you stirre hence To make an end of all your sins this day ere you sleep in an unfeigned repentance and God will speak peace to thee 2. To make up that happy match between Christ and thy soul by receiving Christ by Faith and resigning up thy self to Christ by hear-consent love and obedience Christ is ready now if thou be ready now oh do not give him the denial now he is so near thee and canst thou do any thing better than this than to match with Christ will any thing in the world be of such concernment to thee as this 3. To Resolve this day upon a godly life to make Religion thy chiefest care and businesse and if you find it now in your hearts to perform these three acts you may be sure your day is not lost Oh Sirs do this now as you tender your life and eternal happinesse do not put Christ off again with any excuse or denial but take your opportunity this hour of visitation and blesse God that you have it Is there never a poor lost sheep here will be fetcht home to the Lord this day shall not this days light bring home one Prodigal will you all go away and not any bodies soul be brought nearer to Christ nor one jot the more resolved then before Why then the Sermon is lost and the day is lost and God knowes whether we shall see another Sabbath or hear another Sermon with any profit to any purpose of good to our souls Oh that you who have not hitherto been at all perswaded would now you were almost resolved and you who are almost resolved would to God you were altogether perswaded to become the Lords 1. You young ones May one prevaile with you you are tender yet will you remember your Creatour Eccles 12.1 2. You men of age and strength have you yet considered your greater Concernment may you not be perswaded You are or should be wise and hearken to counsel you have reason Will you go away without yielding to be happy by embracing of Christ and devoting your selves to be truly Religious 3. You old men What say you to Christ now is it time for you to lay to heart the things of your peace and to look to your interest in Christ you have but little time before you surely you had best to make all sure and fast this day look to your Evidence for you have but a very little time to live ere your Sun be set oh that among these hundreds here this day some-one or other at least would be wonne to Christ that it might not be said Not one would yield to Christ nor close with him this day of so many that it may never be said those marbles and your hearts are of one make and temper How gladly would a servant that invites for Christ hear of though but one whose heart is opening and yielding to Christ that were but about to repent and believe how would he follow him with intreaties untill the match were fully made and concluded 'twixt Christ and his soul But I shall leave all with you that I have to perswade withall in these six Considerations for Conclusion 1. Consider What if you saw our blessed Lord Jesus drawing near you in mercy beholding and weeping over you would you leave him would you slight him no you would not Why then do not now 2. Consider Can you do better then close with Christ this day or if you will not now when do you intend Oh surely you will do worse if you do not this and if you do this now you cannot do better 3. Consider Is it fit you should wait and begge and cry henceforth after Christ or that He should after you Who will be the losers who will have the worst of it If you lose grace and salvation how will you get this again or such another 4. Consider Are the things belonging to your peace worth the looking after or not Alas what will you do when you are undone 5. Consider what if you were certainly perswaded that the next time you slighted grace intreating and closed with sinne tempting that God would withdraw his mercy and clap damnation on thee and never look on thee more for good would you then slight what now is offered 6. Consider if this were the last day you had to live the last Sermon you had to heare and shortly to go to the other world would you put off the mercies of this day How can you tell but that to morrow or very shortly you must be sent for to the other world arrested by death that spares no body Why then pretious soules be perswaded now once for all to lay to heart this day the things that belong to your peace before they be hid from your eyes The Lord set it home that you may be wise and happie Oh what will it profit you to gain the whole world and lose your own souls FINIS

CHRISTS GRACIOUS INTENTIONS OF Peace and Mercy towards sinners freely tendred TOGETHER With the necessity of observing the season and accepting the offer of Peace and Reconciliation while it may be attained Evidenced in a Sermon at St. Pauls London Martii 3. 1661. From Luke 19. verse 41 42. By Rich. Parr D. D. Pastor of Camerwell Heb. 2 3. How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation 2 Cor. 6.2 Behold now is the accepted time Behold now is the day of Salvation .. Qui voluntatem Dei spreverunt invitantem Voluntatem Dei sentient vindicantem Aug. London Printed for Nathanael Brook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Angel in Corn-Hill 1661. TO THE READER I Have no Design in publishing this Sermon but Thy good that readest it When I preached at Saint Pauls the Text put me in mind of Jerusalem and the sad aspect it had on London made me the more earnest and particular in the application It had hen the Lot as all publique Discourses have to be censured as mens humours and apprehensions are which are various and they judge of things for the most part as they affect But with some among those many present then this Sermon had successe and acceptance To the Truths in the Doctrines some bore Testimony and others were convinced And I am sure it concerned every one as well as any one And now Reader you see I make the Dedication to none but thee because none but he that will vouchsafe the serious perusall is capable of it I beg not Patronage from any body but if the Truths therein and the Cause in hand and honest Intentions cannot secure it and justifie its walk abroad let it fall and if it fall into thy hand heart and practice it cannot be lost The Designe of this Sermon was at preaching and now is in publishing To let every one know as well as London 1. How gracious the Lord Jesus is toward poor sinners And how ill he takes it to be slighted in his offers of grace and Termes of peace and reconciliation when sinners most need it And 2. To give warning from the Lord That you let not slip your season and day of grace and saving mercy while you may have it Alas how ill must it go with that soul when the day is lost as to it and the mercifull offer withdrawn And truly were it not a matter of the highest concernment in the whole world that herein is treated of I would not have let it gone beyond that Numerous Congregation where 't was preached But considering that deliberate Reading and serious Consideration may much improve the use more then hasty Preaching I am at length prevailed withall by some devout soules importunity to let it come forth without any more or lesse than what was delivered except what it got or lost in the presse which I must not own And now if the opening and applying these two dostrines may he acceptable to the Reader The first manifesting Christs reall free and most gracious intentions toward sinners in designing their conversion and eternall salvation most heartily most passionately most powerfully and fully on his part This is clearely proved And then the second which evidenceth the necessity of improving the mercy in due time by accepting the offer and complying with Christs demands on his own terms in the day of grace as it is the greatest concernment in the world to every one that makes any reckoning whether he be saved or damned eternally If those Two Points which are here discussed will draw the Reader on to the perusall with an honest heart and that he thinks them of any moment let him read on and consider If not then lay the Sermon by and despise thy mercies lose thy day cast away thy soul lye down in sorrow and lament thy irreparable and unrecoverable losse But if Thou hast a mind to be happy indeed and saved eternally Then whether thou read any more of this or not let me prevaile with thee as thou valuest thy eternall State delay no longer put not off again any more the intreaties of Christ and the offers made thee in the Gospel and brought to thee in the name of the Lord Jesus by them who are intrusted with the conditions of Reconciliation and are treating with you in the Ministery to this end and calling upon you to accept in time what may do you good for ever And doe not ah doe not put Christ and his Ministers to say of thee and mourn over thee with an O that thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy peace But now they are hid from thine eyes Know therefore thy day embrace Grace while tendred make up thy peace with God while it may be made lay in for thy interest by Christ lay up treasure in Heaven Let not Christ go force him not away from thy Soul as the Jewes did from their City but close with him cleave to him stedfastly take him for thy Saviour and for thy Lord leave him not and he will never leave thee comfortlesse let thy sinnes go cast them all away this day let not one day passe away again without thy hearty closing with Christ let him rule in thee and over thee improve the day of visitation and be happy resolve upon a godly life make Religion thy chiefest care and the glory of God and his free grace in the salvation of thy precious soul thy aime and ultimate end and lay to heart the things belonging to thy peace Read the rest and consider all and God blesse it to thee Thy friend and Servant in the faith of Jesus R. P. Luk. 19.41 42. And when he was come neer he beheld the City and wept over it Sayings If thou had'st known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace But now they are hid from thine eyes THis Scripture readd is a narrative about our blessed Lord Christ both of what Hee did and what Hee said in the day of his flesh a little before his departure hence to his Glory again And I hope the reading of the Text hath already prepared your attention and may the opening of it and Application affect your hearts The story is Sad in the Letter weeping and lamentation but more Dolefull in the Event It ends with a deplorable reflexion of misery upon the Jews for refusing their mercy together with their King and Saviour Christ meant them all good but they would not have it they would have none of his good things Christ wept over them and sought them with tears they cared not they regarded not He intreated them again and again but no Importunity nor love nor mercy could win them all is cast away upon them They refused and by refusing grieved the heart of Christ and undid themselves for ever they lost their day and lost their peace and lost their souls God had sent

unto them his Servants the Prophets formerly to treat with them about the things of their Peace and Eternall happiness things of the greatest concernment imaginable but all is one to them they were taken up with other imployments And because the servants of the high God were so Importunate these were violent they did not only slight the message but they beat the Prophets and abused them and killed them 'T is often the lot of those who come in the name of the Lord on Heavenly Errands to be most slighted and most abused so then so now Now Christ himself appears the Saviour of the World in Person from the bosome of Glory and Hee comes with tenders of the riche'st mercies and dearest love that ever was heard of draws neer bespeaks their acceptance but alas the saddest story that ever was told Hee the King of Glory is rejected too His offers slighted as wel as his servants The Jews will be Jews still they 'l have none of Christ neither no peace from him no redemption nor reconciliation by him We will not say they have this man to reign over us Vers 14. Poor wretches Did you know whom did you know what yee refused You will not have Christ and with him Grace and Salvation Why you shall not then Heaven shall not be forced upon you against your wills remember that I would but you would not Here is the price of your Redemption and Salvation brought home and laid at your doors freely and fully but if you will not open and stretch forth your hand to lay hold on it while 't is here at hand some others will hereafter be glad of what you refuse you shall go without it and when I am gone and the door of mercy and grace is shut against you you may knock but in vain You will then wish Oh that we could but see one of the daies of the Son of man Luk. 17.22 and ye shall not see it For now they are hid from thine eyes This is the cutting Sentence this is the saddest part of the story for the hardness of their hearts Christ was grieved knowing well enough what would come of it And when he saw them so indeed Hee wept and said If thou had'st known even thou in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid Now though there be a winning oratory in every accent of this Text in every motion and in every expression and Oh how powerfull was it and lively when Christ himself acted and said it who did as never man did and spake as never man spake Yet because these things were done and spoken at a distance from us a good while agoe in the Letter of the Text Dum narrat Scriptura gestum prodit Mysteriū c. I shall let that alone and consider it in the mystery of this Text and so much as belongs to us I shall apply These outward actions of Christs Body and words of his mouth are but so many expressions and notices by which men might perceive the heart of Christ towards sinners all as well as those us as well as them for Christ hath the same heart still in Heaven that he had on Earth He is brim-full of love pitty and compassion and men on earth have the same disposition still as they had alwaies sinning alwaies resisting and except the Lord prevail with us by his Word and Spirit in the day of his mercy we shall miss our happiness as they did theirs Do not say or think that then was then and now is now as though there were and are severall Dispensations and severall Administrations touching the means and manner of Conversion No Christ was then and Christ is now then in in the flesh now in the Spirit and Ministery Christ spake to them himself He speaks to you by us See 2 Cor. 5.20 Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be yereconciled unto God Which is the very same thing the Text imports that as Christ did treat with them about their Reconciliation and Salvation So we with you in his Name beseech and intreat you in this your day to lay to heart to know the things of your peace And if you do not hear us and yeild but do as they did Slight Resist and Disobey it will be your sad case as it was theirs Mercy will be hid from your eyes and Salvation from your souls as much as if Christ himself were now speaking to you and weeping over you and bleeding before your eyes Luk. 10.16 He that heareth you heareth me he that despiseth you despiseth me By this time Sirs you easily perceive what the design of your Monitor is this day with you from this deportment and this saying of our Saviour recorded in the Text. 'T is to let you know that you may in time consider how gracious the Lord Jesus is toward sinners and how ill he takes it if this mercy be despised when offered And to give you warning from the Lord that you let not slip the opportunity for then it must go ill with your souls you will be the loosers Christ may loose the Honor of your Conversion but you will loose the happiness of Reconciliation and Salvation The business we have in hand is of highest concernment life and death are laid before us this day Oh that you would in this your day consider the things which belong unto your peace before they be hid from your eyes I have two Doctrines ready from this Text to serve up this design unto you The first to evidence Christs reall and gracious intentions towards sinners The second to evidence the Necessity of Improving the mercy in due time by accepting the offer and complying with Christs demands on the day of grace as it is the greatest concernment in the world to us Then next and what we have else to do is to comply with grace and mercy and reduce all to practice this very day without any more delay or Procrastination and this wil be urged in the Application And that we may with lesse difficulty believe th truths propounded and without haesitation consent and imbrace the mercy offered Let us together review the expressions in the text and then we may perceive the mind and meaning of our blessed Lord by what he hath done and by what he hath said to evidence to us what desire he hath that poor sinners should partake of that he graciously offereth and so make peace and so make happy And while we descant upon the words think with your selves they are as much to you as any others Jerusalem the City then London now as great as rich as sinfull as wicked Christ in person there in Spirit here Christ was near to them as near to us he beheld that City and beholds this he sought them and intreated them and he seeks us and beseecheth us They had an