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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95855	The way to true happinesse, or, the way to heaven open'd. In a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, Jan. 28. 1654/5 / By Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1655 (1655)	Wing V232; Thomason E830_8; ESTC R207438	31,836	56

die daily Know ye not that this night you may sleep the sleep of death And truly my beloved if you heare not God in this God will not hear you in that day Many shall say in that day Lord Lord but 't is too late See how Luke enlargeth this ch 13.24 c. Strive do your utmost to enter in at the strait gate for many will lasily with wouldings and wishings seek to enter but shall not be able which he enforceth by the argument now in hand When once the Master of the house is risen up and hath shut to the door and ye standing without begin to knock saying Lord Lord open to us but he shall answer and say unto you I know you not whence you are 'T is too late saith he there was a door of hope open but now it is shut then you would not now you shall not enter in Though you cry and shout he will shut out your cries yea though you cry Lord Lord your answer will be I know you not And if you begin to plead and say How Lord not know us that 's strange not know us why who are you that I should know you as he saith in Matthew I never knew you No Lord we have eaten and drunk in thy presence we have heard thee preach in our streets we were the greatest frequenters of Sermons in all the town or countrey and doest thou not know us No I professe saith Christ I know you not Well in Matthew they have something more to say for themselves we have prophesied in thy Name yea we have fought thy battels and cast out devils and in thy Name have done many wonderful works Is not this enough to be known by surely thou canst not but have taken notice how forward we were in and for thy cause But alas the answer is I never knew you Depart depart I know you not Oh beloved we think that now it may be we are known eminently known but if we be found workers of iniquity 't will be in vain to say when we knock and God fayes Who is there why here are they that have sate at the upper end of the world here are famous Citizens Common-Councel men yea it may be Aldermen of the City of London Alas we shall never be known under these notions upon these termes 't is not riches nor titles of honour by which men are known in the world that will make a man known of God when he comes to stand before the barre of his Tribunal God will invalidate all the pleas that can be made If you say Whenever saw we him an hungred or a thirst or stranger or naked or in prison or sick and did not minister to him He will answer Depart ye cursed for in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me If you say Open to us for we are Virgins we took our lamps and went out to meet the Bridegroom the rest slept as well as we we trimm'd our lamps and because we could not borrow we went to buy Lord Lord open to us No veri●y saith he I know you not The day of judgement will be a dreadful day upon this account that 't will be dies deceptionis a day of deceit not that it will deceive any but many will finde themselves deceiv'd Oh how will men be frustrated of their expectation 't will be to them as that day was to Esau wherein Jacob was blessed he came in merrily from his hunting and said without doubting of it blesse me my father but 't was too late he sought it yea carefully sought it and that with tears but found no place for repentance his father would not recal the blessing If men will not he are when God calls there is a time coming when men shall call and God will not hear How doth Christ mourn over Jerusalem who so long neglected her peace that at last it was hid from her eyes It s too late it s too late Jerusalem Oh therefore in this day in this your day in this the day of your visitation to day while 't is called to day before the night of death come and that may be this night I say in this day hear his voice or else in that day he will not hear your voice though you cry Lord Lord open unto us For a conclusion there are but three things which I would briefly commend to you in relation to this great work If they and none but they shall enter into heaven who do the Will of God on earth let me intreat you to study 1. The What 2. The How 3. The Why of Gods Will. 1. Study what the Will of God is for the matters to be believed and done Do not rest contented in general termes but study from the Scriptures what the Will of God is in particular There is notable advice given and as notable a promise made Prov. 2. My son if thou wilt receive my words and hide my Commandments with thee so that thou incline thine care unto wisdome and apply thine heart to understanding yea if thou criest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures what then why then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God and that not only in the general but as v. 9. then shalt thou understand righteousnesse and judgement and equity yea * Observe that every good path every good path Can there be a businesse of greater concernment to us then the saving of our soules can we take too much pains for that end is it not a shame that men should be more industrious to be wise for this world then to be wise for heaven Surely God requires diligence and delight in this work Every verse hath a double charge v. 1. receive and hide v. 2. incline thine eare and apply thine heart v. 3. cry and lift up the voice v. 4. seek her and search for her and that as for silver and gold Ah how do we look after silver and gold certainly if we did but look after the Will of God as we do after silver and gold how rich should we be in knowledge what treasures of wisdom would our soules be possessed of We need not doubt it for our Saviour hath said it John 7.17 If any man will do his Will he shall know the doctrine whether it be of God wherefore be not unwise Eph. 5.17 but understanding what the Will of the Lord is 2. Study the How of the Will of God not only what is to be done but how it is to be done 't is not enough that we do what is good but the good we do must be well done his Will according to his Will The Apostle in relation to walking worthy of God to all well-pleasing Col. 1.9 10. prayes that they might be filled with the knowledge of his

the pursuit of his chiefest good he walks in darknesse and knowes not whither he goes he stumbles and falls yea in seeking to save he loseth himself It is with him as it was with the blinde Sodomites who groping to finde the doore went further from it then they were at first Or like the Dove when it left the Ark alwayes upon the wing ever flying and fluttering up and down but never found where to fix the sole of her foot just thus 't is with man since he left God he knowes not where to rest the foot of his soule Nunc hîc nunc vertitur illîc he goet forward and then back again to the right hand and to the left as Job in another and Solomon in thi● case to see if he can finde out what is that good for the soules of the sons of men which they should do under the Heaven all the dayes of their life that after this life of dayes is ended they may enjoy life eternal with God in Heaven But alas I must say it again Man is still at a losse Now man being in this pitifully sad and miserable condition it pleased God who is a lover of the souls and the Preserver of men in tender mercy to mankinde to speak * Heb. 1.1 at undry times or by peece-meal and in divers manners unto the Fathers by the Prophets but in the fulness of time to send and in these last dayes to speak to us by his Son he hath discovered his Will fully and wholly by him so that we may not look for another there being no name under heaven but him by which we can be saved whither then should we go for the discovery seeing he only hath the words of eternal life him I say hath God sent to guide our feet into the way of peace yea that he might be the way and the truth and the life unto us He sent Christ from Heaven to earth that Christ might send men from earth to Heaven Accordingly Christ hath acquitted himself like a faithful Steward he hath finished the work which his Father gave him to do He hath done and suffered all that was commanded him for the good of men so that he is pure from the blood of all men having declared unto them the whole counsel of God and chalked out the way wherein they are to walk that they may be happy The summe whereof he hath given us in the text and that is the doing of his Fathers Will. Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven Christ Jesus having in the thirteenth verse exhorted them to enter in that is as Luke expounds it chap. 13. verse 24. to strive to enter in at the strait gate with forcible arguments to provoke thereunto he doth in the fifteenth verse advise them to beware of false Prophets that they might not be misled and miscarry in a businesse of so great importance to them and therefore tells them verse 16. which is again repeated verse 20. how they may know them viz. by their fruits by their works not by their words happily they may speak as others so that they may not be known by their words but saith he by their fruits ye shall know them Having done this he layes down this position in the text as of greatest concernment not only to them but to all Not every one that saith Lord Lord c. I shall a little open the expressions and then draw the Point which I intend to handle Not every one that is not any one Non omnis est ne unus not every one is as much as if he had said no not one 't is a universal negative without exception Not any one that saith and doth not that saith I go Sir but goeth not that saith and but saith Lord Lord. Lord Lord admits of a threefold explication Not every one that saith Lord Lord 1. By way of Profession 2. By way of Prayer 3. By way of Appeal 1. Not every one that saith Lord Lord by way of Profession that professeth me to be his Lord as Joh. 13.13 Ye call me Lord and Master and ye do well that is so far ye do well for so I am but if I am your Lord and Master where is mine honour or as he saith Luke 6.46 Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say Why that is to what end and purpose viz. to none in vain do ye professe me to be your Lord unless you practise obedience to me your Lord. 'T is not Profession but practice at least not Profession without practice It will not do any man any good to be but a Pretender to Religion He that in words confesseth Christ and in works denieth him hath but a forme of Godlinesse without the power and such a man will not be justified by his good words but condemned by his bad works What will it avail to have the name to live and to be dead while we live to have the name of a Christian and not to be as our name is Many a ship hath had the name of Safeguard and Good speed that yet hath miscarried and been cast away Many a man hath had a good name and yet alas hath made a bad end a very bad end whose end hath been to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of him whom they have called Lord Lord for not every one that saith c. 2. Not every one that saith Lord Lord by way of prayer as they Matth. 25.11 Lord Lord open to us and they Luke 13.25 Lord Lord open to us Though it be and be truly said that every one that calleth on the Name of the Lord shall be saved yet you see that a man may call upon the Name of the Lord I and that again and again he may call Lord Lord and yet be damned His repetitions will be in vain because they are vain repetitions A man may adde prayers to his Profession and yet notwithstanding all his Professions and his Prayers may go to hell for Not every one that saith Lord Lord either by way of Profession or Prayer or both shall enter c. 3. Not every one that saith Lord Lord by way of Appeal as in verse 22. Many shall say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy Name have we not we make our appeal to thee we call thee to witnesse and make thee our Judge Thus the Name of the Lord is often called too too often called upon as by them in Jerem. 42.5 The Lord say they be witnesse between thee and us But Appeales made for Justification do not alwayes justifie nor are they justified For saith Jeremiah to them Ye did at that time at that very time when you appeal'd to God ye did dissemble in your hearts And saith Christ at this time though you say unto me