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A64961	A funeral sermon occasioned by the death of Mr. George Baker first preached and then published, at the earnest desire of his relations, by Nathanael Vincent ...	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1679 (1679)	Wing V407; ESTC R34724	16,769	28

may this present time be called an accepted time for while this lasts Christ may be accepted by the Sinner and the Sinner returning with his whole heart will be accepted and received by the Father 1. Christ may be accepted by the Sinner He is seriously and generally offered the Gospel is to be preached to every creature All this day long he stretches forth his hand even to them that are disobedient and gainsaying Rom. 10. ult The Fountain in the Gospel is an open Fountain all that thirst are invited to come Rev. 22. 17. The Spirit and the Bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him that is athirst come and whosoever will let him drink of the waters of life freely And as the thirsty may come for Satisfaction so the defiled may come for Sanctification Christ is now preached Christ is now tendered and to as many as receive him he will be made Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption 2. During this accepted time the sinner returning will be accepted and received by the Father Prodigals though they come home in Raggs and urged by Necessity being ready to perish in the farr Country yet shall not find the door shut against them The Father exceedingly rejoiced when his Riotous Son first came to himself and then came home Luk. 15. 32. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad for this thy Brother was dead and is alive again he was lost and he is found The greatness of Guilt the most abominable Defilements shall not be an impediment unto a sinners reception if he confesses his Wickedness and looks to Jesus and consents to be cleansed as well as pardoned Isa 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him be willing to be made Holy in his Conversation and pure in his very Heart also and let him return to the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God and he will abundantly Pardon 4. The Time that is afforded us is a time of Salvation 2 Cor. 6. 2. Behold now is the day of Salvation therefore receive not the Grace of God in vain the tidings of salvation should be very welcom to lost sinners nothing more suitable nothing more needful unto such then salvation and the more sad it is to be lost and to perish to Eternity the more should that Everlasting salvation which the Gospel does reveal be valued Now is the onely time to repent and believe and receive the onely Saviour who delivers from sin and wrath to come if once any dye in their sins there is no comming unto Christ to make peace afterwards We read in Scripture of a middle wall of partition and of a gulph fixed the middle wall of partition that sin has made between God and the sinner though it be high and great yet upon Faith and Repentance it will be broken down Ezra acknowledges that their Iniquities were increased over their heads and their Trespass was grown up to the Heavens Ezra 9. and yet they were pardoned But hereafter a gulph will be fixed and fixed Eternally and then salvation will be impossible Luk. 16. 26. And besides this there is a great gulph fixed between us and you so that they who would passe from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from thence 5. The Time that is afforded us is the last time 1 John 2. 18. Little Children it is the last time Oh be not so spiritually childish as to play and sin it all away In the Original it runs thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is the last hour to shew how quickly it will be at a perpetual end so as no more is to be expected Shortly the Oath will be swore that there shall be time no longer Rev. 10. 6. If you prodigally lavish out your present time of Life and Grace you will indeed have an Eternity to lament your Folly and Madness in but you shall never be turned into the World again nor trusted with a season and means of Grace and Salvation any more And since it is the last time we should conclude that we have none to spare for sin and that we have none to spend in vain In the Second place I am to inform you to what end Time is afforded us in this World 1. That we may seek the Lord. He looks down from Heaven to see if any do understand and seek God Psal 14. 2. And surely all that do understand God or themselves will seek him with their whole Heart Now he is near and may be found this is great encouragement to seek Isa 55. 6. Seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near Psal 105. 4. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore Time is given us to seek his favour to turn to him in whom our health and happiness lies What is there in this world that deserves our pursuit Methinks when we are eager after wealth and pleasures we are just like Children runing after Feathers and Bubbles blown up in the air But if we seek the Lord we shall find that he is good nay that he is Best Communion with him will cause the fullest joy they shall have abundant cause to praise the Lord that seek him and their hearts shall live for ever Psal 22. 26. 2dly Time is given us that we may obtain liberty by Jesus Christ And if he make us free we shall be free indeed He can deliver us from condemnation and from the guilt of sin which makes us liable thereunto He can redeem us from the curse of the law and rescue us out of the hand of Satan who is compared to a strong man armed and who leads all impenitent Sinners captive at his pleasure He can redeem us from the bondage of Corruption which is worse than the bondage in Egypt or Babylon And now is the time to obtain redemption The price is already paid all that we have to doe is to come to Christ to receive him and to resign our selves to him that the redemption which he has purchased may be applied 3dly Time is given us that we may seek an inheritance in another world that we may seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality A Kingdom is revealed to us on purpose that we may be violent and take it by force In a short time how many Kingdoms did Alexander the Great Conquer But a better and more Glorious and Lasting Kingdom should be in our Eye And it should be our great design that our time may end in a blessed Eternity 4thly Time is given us that by Grace and Holiness we may be made meet for Glory Grace does not indeed merit Heaven but it makes us meet to be admitted thither When we are delivered from the Power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of the Son of God when we walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being

fruitfull in every good work and increase in the knowledge of God then we are making meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1. 10 11 12 13. Now follows the Application Vse I. Is time afforded us Let us be thankfull for 't is a talent of great value Oh how much may be gain'd in time So much as may cause praises and rejoycing to Eternity Peace may be now made with God Sanctifying grace may be now wrought and a title unto and assurance of Glory may be now obtained The triumphant Saints what improvement did they make of time when they were in the world and what bright Crowns do they now wear God hath dealt otherwise with Man then he did with the Apostate Angels no time at all between their Sin and Punishment He spared not the Angels that sinned but immediately cast them down to Hell and delivered them into chains and darkness to be reserved unto the Judgment of the great day 2 Pet. 2. 4. There was no door of hope opened to them no offer of grace no reprieve granted no time or season of mercy allowed them but they fell like lightning suddenly remarkably and by such a force that they could not withstand and that from the highest Heaven to the lowest Hell The Devil envies sinfull man his time and would fain steal it from him therefore Man should be the more thankfull for it and be the better Husband of it Vse II. If time be afforded us here in this world then we should be the more vigilant least it be stolen away from us A great many theives of time there are which we should watch against The works of darkness require time to do them in Ungodly company how much time do they consume Impertinent and corrupt communication causes hours to pass away unsensibly which can never be recalled Sinfull thoughts unruly passions wicked projects worldly cares speculative filthiness and uncleanness ambitious and covetous designes oh what insatiable cormorants are all these of precious time Most lose both time and souls by such things as these therefore Watch and Pray that your time may be better employed then to be wasted all of it so contrary unto the end for which it was vouchsafed namely unto Gods dishonour and your own destruction Vse III. If time only be afforded here in this world then surely we have enough to do with it The Favour of God is to be intreated The Nature is to be changed innumerable lusts are to be mortified Satan is to be resisted who is subtle powerful and unwearied in his assaults The World is to be Conquered Self is to be denied and overcome The Heart is to be watch'd and kept with all diligence because so Treacherous and Deceitfull Many Ordinances are to be engaged in and in every ordinance we should be sincere and spiritual The Commands of God are exceeding broad and yet we must have respect unto them all Every Relation calls for Duty and every Duty should be filled with Grace We have Souls that are of great worth and in great danger to save We have Hell to escape Heaven to secure and Eternity to provide for Surely Here 's work enough to do Hippocrates of old complained in the beginning of his Aphorisms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Art was long but Life was short but much more to the purpose may it be said that a Christians work is long and great but his time is short to do it in Where is loytering then it is excluded Surely foolish as well as cursed is he that wasts his time and neglects to do his main work or does it negligently Doct. 2. The second Doctrine follows which is this A Christians time is a time of Sojourning David lookt upon himself as no other then a Sojourner and confesses that all his Fathers were so before him Psal 39. 12. Hear my prayer O Lord give ear unto my cry hold not thy peace at my tears for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my Fathers were A Christians time may well be called a time of Sojourning For while he is in this World He is absent from his own Country His heart is upon his Country He is going towards his Country And it will not be long ere he be arrived safe in his Country 1. While the Christian lives here he is absent from his Country The time of Sojourning is in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now they are said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to sojourn who are Strangers in another country and are not yet come to their desired home Christians are not of this World but in regard of their new Nature they are born 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from above Joh. 3. 3. Christ speaks thus concerning his Disciples They are not of the World even as I am not of the World Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth Joh. 17. 16 17. The Christian before his Conversion is a stranger to God and a forreigner but assoon as ever he is regenerated he is chosen out of the World and becomes a stranger in it and is made a Fellow-citizen with the Saints and of the houshold of God Eph. 2. 19. In regard of his new Birth he is of Heavenly extraction God is his Father the Heavenly Jerusalem his Mother his Inheritance and Mansion is above and while at home in the body he is absent from the Lord and from his Mansion and can never be at rest till he has left the body and is present with the Lord in those Mansions which he is gone to prepare 2. While the Christian lives in this World his Heart is upon his Country His Treasure is there no wonder if his heart be there also Mat. 6. 21. There are many indeed who walk as Enemies to the cross of Christ whose end is Destruction whose God is their Belly whose glory is in their shame and who mind earthly things But the sincere Christian his Conversation is in Heaven Phil. 3. 18 19 20. His Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen and by the eye of Faith he looks within the Vail and rejoyceth in hope of the Glory of God He sees his Salvation approaching nearer and nearer every day under all his heaviness he comforts himself with that joy which is set before him and he patiently labours and is unwearied though he abounds in the work of the Lord knowing that his labour will not be in vain for all his pains will be fully and for ever recompenced by that rest that remains for the People of God Heb. 4. 9. 3. The Christian is continually going towards his Country This World is the Inn where he lodges the way where he passes but his face is towards Zion Just like our Lord who though he passed through a Village of the Samaritanes yet set his face stedfastly towards Jerusalem Luk. 9. 51 52 53. All the good actions of a