time a sinner returns from his sins from the bottom of his Heart he shall have mercy Ezek. 18.22 Not at what time soever but at that time when the door of mercy is not shut against Sinners for if once the Master is risen and hath shut the door there is no entring 't is in vain to knock or call for if you will go on in sin and never come to be acquainted with God in the time of youth health or prosperity which is the onlieât time that God regardeth and let your âamps of Oyl burn out suffer it to be spent upon delight pleasure in the time of youth health and prosperity it will âe dark finding of Christ when the inward light is darkned and the Oyl of the spirit quite wasted God will not be found in adversity by those that seeks him not in prosperity nor in sickness ãâã will not hear him who denies his helps in ãâã health For the spirit of God and Christ is liâ⦠to a skilful Physician that knows your wounâ too deep and your disease most desperate anâ that you are past recovery or very dangerous for strong Physick is not fit for a weak soul foâ the spirit of God is powerful in its working ãâã that creature whom he is pleased to applâ it ãâã to and therefore I beseech you to seek thâ Lord. Are you not yet stirred up to the amendment of life and cannot you spare a little time from your worldly affairs to hear the Trumpet sounded in Sion and calling to Repentance and to know the excellent joy of the righteous and the damnable torments of sinners for saith Job The wicked is reâerved for tâe day of dâstruction They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath though here you have Pleasure Honour or Riches yet for you is reserved Eternal Destruction and though the righteous are destitute of all Comfort and suffer hunger and cold or adversity yet they have prepared for them a Crown of Righteousness which shall be given them by the Righteous Iudge at the last day when the hearts of all men shall be laid open and their works good and bad shall be tryed O how the wicked flourish in the world and are pampered up with pleasure and delight like Dives in the Gospel Luk. 16.16 In what âleasure did he live yet how was his heart hardâed against distressed Lazarus But Lazarus âyeth and is carried to Heaven by Angels and âhe rich man dyed and was carried by Devils to ãâã punished in the fiery flames of Hell Who can ãâã this small evidence lay open in full the miseây of one and the felicity of the other Now âould the worldly man chuse to be Lazarus so he might enjoy with him the felicity that he enjoyed It cannot be layed open what joy the Lord hath prepared for them that love him âow hath the people of God suffered for the sake of Christ as for example Moses chose rather affliction with the people of God than to be in favour with Kings or to be seated in the Royal Court of Pharaoh Exod. 2.15 And Ioseph fled from the hand of his Mistriss and threw himself into Prison rather than to commit Adultery with his Mistriss Gen. 39.20 And so all along hath the people of God counted a miserable Life better than a merry Life for they are even enamoured with the worth of the felicity in Heaven for it far excéeds the misery on Earth Joâ counted his misery nothing nor the loss of all his earthly gains the killing of his sons the discomfort of his Wife yet this could not make him forsake his God the Apostle Paul counts the misery of this life but light in comparison to the worth which should be revealed hereafter Sure such men as have undergone such haâ⦠conflicts of misery for the sake of Christ will bâ swift Witness against this Rebellious aâ untoward Generation and thus all along hâ⦠the people of God undergone extream misâ in the World to this very day while the wicâ⦠rests secure in ease pomp and pleasure free the highest to the lowest they all walk in ãâã paths of vanity and will be by no means callâ⦠from this wretched state of life they think vârily that God will carry them to Heaven in theâ⦠pleasure but I pray God he throws not sucâ misunderstanding wretches to hellish flames iâ his displeasure for he is a consuming fire which will devour the wicked and reserve the infernal pit to burn both body and soul for ever ãâã my Friends that those things might convincâ you they are in your ears but as warning-pieces to rattle you which if you are not perswaded by will surely bring Gods Iudgments on you and will prove a severe murthering-piece to your poor souls Why do you think the Apostles and Prophets before us hath suffered such great conflicts of misery and counted the greatest joy but light in comparison to the World hereafter because they are fully perswaded that the pâeasure and injoyment of Heaven greatly exceeds the miserable sorrows on Earth for as the joy ãâã one is finite the felicity and happiness of ââ¦e other infinite past all mens imagination ââ¦s no lost labour to follow Christ who sufferâ⦠his own body to be pierced âis blood to be ââ¦lt for the Redemption of sinners will he that ãâã a Sinner for whom Christ dyed think it hard ãâã forsake the pleasures of this Life the desires ãâã the flesh and the vain delights and glory of the World O esteem this nothing to the worth I ââ¦w set before you and lay open the pierced âdes of Christ whose blood runs freely to sinâers and to the broken hearts that mourn in Siâ⦠consider I say how your sanctifier was pierâed who was buffeted and shamefully reproached and barbarously Crucified lay three days in the jaws of Death from whence he went to Glory where he daily makes our peace to God the Father so that we will give Glory to his blessed Name turn therefore out of this cursed fate of life work wickedness no more but speak every one truth to his neighbour for he who maketh a Lye and worketh deceit is abomination before the Lord and shall surely be destroyed The Soul that sinneth saith God in Ezek. 18.20 shall surely dye The death of the soul is everlasting but God is not willing to leave your souls in Hell as in the 21. verse If the wicked will but turn and do that which is right before God he shall not dye he shall surely live nor his former sins once mentioned in his righteousnesâ What a blessed expression is here what a genâral act of oblivion is here that the Peniteâ⦠may have mercy O you sinners of the worâ⦠if you would but Arm your selves with faith aâ⦠come holdlâ to the Throne of Grace and plâ⦠with the Lord thou house of Israel so iniquâ shall not be your ruine yea cast off the worâ⦠of darkness and put on the Armour
of ligâ⦠and create in your selves a new heart and ãâã new spirit For why will you dye O house ãâã Israel Romans 13 12. Ezek 18.31 Caâ⦠thereâore one another to turn for saith St. Paul Romans 3.12 You are all gone out of the way and altogether unprofitable whose Throat is an open Sepulchre who uses their tongues to deceit and your mouâhs full of cursing and bitterness with feet swift to shed blood Destruction calamities are in your ways who ââ¦ws not the way of peace nor no fear of God âefore your eyes O cleanse your minds within ãâã and make preparation to entertain the Lord âf life What Royal entertainment is made for âorporal Princes you 'l make every Room clean ãâã his Royal entertainment but how much âreater is the King of Kings who would feign ãâã you make preparation to entertain him and cleanse and purifie your hearts and minds for ââ¦cept you be cleansed you cannot receive the Holy Ghost and Christ must live in you except you be Reprobates but he lives with none that acteth wickedness Be you therefore holy ãâã Christ our Lord is holy 1 Pet. 1.15 And ãâã no more to the state of the wicked as a Dog returns to his Vomit or like a Hog to the wallowing in the mire for your conversation is an unexpressible joy to the Host of Heaven for there is more joy in one sinners returning than ninety nine iust persons that need no repentance Luk. 15.7 O but mark the Sentence to those that return not âaith the Lord Luk. 13.27 Depart ye cursed you love the world and the pleasures of it more than God and his Kingdome but the World passes away and that therein is 1 John 2.17 Chuse rather misery with the righteous than joy with the wicked and pleasures of sin for a moment Heb. 11 2â The rebuke of Christ is greater Riches thaâ Treasures of the World Weep therefore ãâã worldlings and howl for your life of pleasure in wantonness have nourished your hearts to day of slaughter Gen. 5.5 For behold the is coming you shall burn as the stubble and proud and all that doth wickedly shall be ãâã up Mal. 4,1 For at the last day the ãâã will be revealed whom the Lord will ãâã with the brightness of his coming and all the deceiveableness of the wicked shall perish becaâ⦠they will not receive the ove of the truth ãâã they might be saved 1 Thess 1.8 O what a dreââ¦ful thing it is to refuse salvation where it ãâã be had how worse than mad are the bewitâ men of the World who might have Life Liberty if they would receive it but ãâã will not they choose death rather than ãâã because their déeds are evil I have spread ãâã my hands all the day long to a Rebellioâ⦠people saith the Lord which walks not in thâ ways that are good but in their own imagination a people that provokes me to anger exceedingly who blaspheme me to my face ãâã with fury and wrath will I recompence the iâniquity into their bosoms O that these Iudgments might but waken you out of sin and security and open your eyes to behold the danger ãâã walk in whom the God of this world blinds ãâã you cannot discern the light of the Gospel ãâã shine upon you 2 Cor. 4,4 From whence âiâes contention but through your pleasures at fight in your members you crave yet not ãâã ye ask by Prayer and receive not beââ¦se you ask amiss that you might lay the same ãâã on your pleasures O the amity of the world ãâã enmity with God Whosoever therefore is a ââ¦end to the World is an enemy to God let ââ¦ur laughter be turned into mourning your ãâã into heaviness and cast down your selves to ãâã Lord and he will lift you up James 4.6 By ãâã time are some of you resolved to turn and ãâã up your selves to know God for except you ââ¦ent God will presently strike he hath wherâ⦠Sword he hath bent his Bow and is ready to shoot he hath prepared deadly weapons ãâã hath ordained Arrows to persente you Psal 7,12 O make a speedy turn and be reconciled to God and let this day be thy day of conversion let this sound of Salvation enter into the Closer of thine heart and throw by all busie affairs to hear of Salvation in Sion and the sinners Repentance let go the world and the pleasures and profits of it and take hold of Christ and let nothing hinder you from hearing this blessed Call of the Lord. O that you would but give me a serious hearing and it cannot chuse but work in your hearts for I come not to draâ you from obedience to God his worship ãâã run not into so many opinions for fear Gâ⦠should cut you off like Luke-warm creature which if he should he would even spue you oâ of his mouth pray âay and night I beseech ãâã that you may attain assurance of your salvation Gods promises are to the penitent in heart a humble and a broken heart God will not despise so you will but come to amendment of Life stir therefore and abide not a moment in the state of the wicked for the wicked are curse with curses and the Plagues of Hell attending them Tell them saith God three or four times of their sins but if they refuse your Admonition present them and there shall be to them no covering for sin but a fearful looking for Iudgment and in their earthly felicity these curses attend the Swearers the Lyers the drunkards the murtherers the stealers adulterers inchanters southsayers and all other wicked people you shall be cursed saith God Deut. 28.16 At some and abroad in your wealths and possessions and all that thou settest thy hand unto will perish the Lord will smite you with the pestilence and desperate diseases and your very Carcass shall be meat for Fowls you shall be struck with blindness that you shall grope at noon day as in the darksome night and thou ãâã not prosper in that thou takest in hand ãâã Calf shall be slain thy Goods shall be ââ¦sed and thy Children shall be given to other Nation and the Land wherein thou âest shall be plagued wonderfully even with ââ¦t Plagues and the Land shall burn with ârimstone like Sodom then shall all Nations ãâã Why hath God poured his wrath and ârce indignation on this Land who shall anââ¦er Because they forsake the Law of the ââ¦d and walk in the indignation of their ân hearts therefore will the Lord root out ãâã wicked out of the Land in his heavy displeasure O how the wicked live to the âorld and not to God how they worship themselves but not the Lord O how full â mirth and pleasures is their hearts as if ââ¦ey were purposely made for the World their hands and eyes they lift up but not âheir hearts to the Lord You confess me saith God with your mouths but your âearts are far from me O but in time lay ââ¦part all filthiness and put far from you all maliciousness and be doers of the word and not hearers only lest you enter into Condemnation James 1.22 Walk worthy of God âhat the knowledge of Christ may be increased in you Col. 1.10 How would this Nation be blessed if the wicked would repent as did Niniveh who lay in the dust be wailing their traâgressions and they would be greatly blessed home abroad whose wealth will multiply ãâã whose enemies would fly like dust before the The Heavens shall give Rain in Season and the increase shall multiply upon the earth Deut. 28. God will exceedingly bless you if you will glorifie his name in your Lives and Godly Conversations O but alas you are such who profess you know God but in works you deny him anâ are abominable and disobedient and unto ever good work are Reprobates Tit. 1.16 For whâ⦠is reserved eternal destruction with Devils hâ⦠the Righteous shall have all Tears wiped awâ⦠from their eyes and called by the Lamb to sing Come ye blessed inherit a Kingdom to the wicked saith God Go you cursed inherit destruction And now I am coming to the end of my work my heart trembles to think how I shall leavâ you lest the devil and the delights of the world should deceive you for he continually watches to make you his Bond-slave and to keep you in Hell to all Eternity O friends let timely repentance prevent this eminent danger And let Christ dwell in your hearts by Faith Eph. 2.17 O as I could desire that same of you Are you resolved to turn O that I could but win one Soul to Heaven this day and I wish that he that hears me not preach this Doctrine in my assembly may he ready to cover after my Books ââ¦t in Print do but read or hear them read you cannot chuse but profit by them let not that which is good seem too dear for you I have taken ãâã paines to pen it in the usual Volume that all âight come to the price of it but the worth that ãâã revealed it cannot be bought for Gold nor Silver for the price of Christ is above Rubies And now I have done my work what will beââ¦me of it I cannot tell I have thrown out the ââ¦eâ at Gods command but I cannot give thee increase If you will obey the call of God you ââ¦y have mercy but I cannot entertain it for âit I cannot shew you Heaven or Hell by Eyeââ¦ght but I herve shewed you the joy and sorrow ât both and I beseech the Lord to work in you what hath been said Heb. 13.20 And make you perfect in all works working in you that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS