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A59669	The sincere convert discovering the paucity of true beleevers and the great difficulty of saving conversion by Tho. Shepheard ....	Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1641 (1641)	Wing S3118; ESTC R9618	105,576	306

the roome of God aswell by making himselfe his finis uttimus as if he should make himself primum principium Sin is a forsaking or departing from God Now every naturall man remaining alwayes in a state of separation from God because hee alwayes wants the bond of union which is Faith is alwaies sinning Gods curse lyes upon him therefore hee brings out nothing but briers and thornes Object But thou wilt say if our praying and hearing bee sinne why should we doe these duties wee must not sinne Answer 1. Good duties are good in themselves although comming from thy vile heart they are sinnes 2. It is lesse sinne to doe them than to omit them therefore it thou wilt go to hell goe in the fairest path thou canst in thither 3. Venture and try it may be God may heare not for thy prayers sake but for his names sake The unjust Iudge holpe the poore widow not because hee loved her or her suite but because of her importunitie and so be sure thou shalt have nothing if thou doest not seeke what though thou beest a dog yet thou art alive and art for the present under the Table Catch not at Christ snatch not at his bread but waite till God give thee him it may be thou maiest have him one day Oh wonder then at Gods patience that thou livest one day longer who hast all thy lifetime like a filthy Toade spet thy venome in the face of God that hee hath never beene quiet for thee oh looke upon that black bill that will one day be put in against thee at the great day of account where thou must answer with flames of fire about thine eares not only for thy drunkennesse thy bloody oathes and whoring but for all the actions of thy short life and just so many actions so many fins Thou hast painted thy face over now with good dueties and good desires and a little honesty amongst some men is of that worth and raritie that they thinke God is beholding to them if hee can get any good action from them But when thy painted face shall be brought before the fire of Gods wrath then thy vilenesse shall appeare before men and Angels Oh know it that as thou doest nothing else but sinne so God heapes up wrath against the dreadfull day of wrath Thus much for mans misery in regard of sinne Now followeth his misery in regard of the consequents or miseries that follow upon sinne And these are 1. Present 2. Future First Mans present miseries that already lie on him for sinne are these seven that is First God is his dreadfull enemy Psal. 5. 5. Quest. How may one know another to be his enemy Ans. 1. By their lookes 2. By their threats 3. By their blowes So God 1. Hides his face from every naturall man and will not looke upon him Isay 59. 2. 2. God threatens nay curseth every naturall man Gal. 3. 10. 3. God gives them heavie bloudie lashes on their soules and bodies Never tell me therefore that God blesseth thee in thine outward estate no greater signe of Gods wrath then for the Lord to give thee thy swinge as a Father never lookes after a desperate Sonne but lets him run where he pleases And if God be thine enemy then every creature is so too both in Heaven and Earth Secondly God hath forsaken them and they have lost God Ephes. 2. 12. It 's said that in the grievous famine of Samaria Doves dung was sold at a large price because they wanted bread Oh! men live and pine away without GOD without bread and therefore the dung of worldly contentments are efteemed so much of Thou hast lost the sight of God and the favour of God and the speciall protection of God and the government of God Caines punishment lyes upon thee in thy naturall estate thou art a Runagate from the face of God and from his face thou art hid Many have growne madde to see their houses burnt and all their goods lost Oh but God the greatest good is lost This losse made Saul cry out in distresse of conscience 1. Sam. 28. 15. The Philistians make warre against me and God is departed from me the losse of the sweetnesse of whose presence for a little while onely made the Lord Jesus himselfe cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me whereas thou hast lost God all thy life time Oh thou hast an heart of brasse that canst not mourne for his absence so long The damned in hell have lost God and know it and so the plague of desperate horrour lyeth upon them thou hast lost God here but knowest it not and the plague of an hard heart lyeth upon thee that thou canst not mourne for this losse Thirdly They are condemned men cōdemned in the court of Gods justice by the law which cryes treason treason against the most high God condemned by justice merey by the Gospel which cryes murder murder against the sonne of God Iohn 3. 18. so that every naturall man is damned in Heaven and damned on earth God is thy all●seeing terrible Iudge Conscience is thine accuser an heavie witnesse His word is thy Iayle thy lusts are thy Fetters In this Bible is pronounced and writ thy doome thy sentence Death is thy hangman and that fire that shall never goe out thy torment The Lord hath in his infinite patience reprived thee for a time O take heed and get a pardon before the day of execution come Fourthly being condemned take him Iaylor he is a bondslave to Satan Eph. 2. 3. for his servants yee are whom ye obey saith Christ. Now every naturall man doth the Devills●drudgery and carries the Devillspack and howsoever he saith he defyeth the Devill yet he sinnes and so doth his worke Satan hath overcome and conquered all men in Adam and therefore under his bondage and dominion And though he cannot compell a man to sin against his will yet he hath 1 Power First to present and allure a mans heart by a sinfull temptation Secondly to follow him with it if at first he be something shie of it Thirdly to disquiet and wrack him if he will not yeeld as might be made to appeare in many instances Fourthly besides he knowes mens humours as poore wandering beggerly Gentlemen doe their friends in necessitie yet in seeming courtesie he visits and applyes himselfe unto them and so gaines them as his owne Oh he is in a fearefull slavery who is under Satans dominion who is 1. A secret enemy to thee 2. A deceitfull enemy to thee that will make a man beleeve as he did Evah even in her integrity that he is in a faire way yet most miserable 3. He is a cruell enemy or Lord over them that be his slaves 2 Cor. 4. 3. he gaggs them so that they cannot speake as that man that had a dumbe devill neither for God nor to God in prayer he starves them so as no

Rev. 10. 9. And here thou shalt lie and weepe and gnash thy teeth in spight against God and thy selfe and roare and stamp and grow madde that there thou must lie under the curse of God for ever Thus I say thou shalt lie blaspheming with Gods wrath like a pile of fire on thy soule burning and flouds nay seas nay more seas of teares for thou shalt for ever lie weeping shall never quench it And here which way so ever thou lookest thou shalt see matter of everlasting griefe Look up to heaven there thou shalt see oh that God is for ever gone Looke about thee thou shalt see Devills quaking cursing God and thousands nay millions of sinfull damned creatures crying and roaring out with dolefull shrikings Oh the day that ever I was borne Looke within thee there is a guilty conscience gnawing Looke to time past oh those golden dayes of grace and sweet seasons of mercy are quite lost and gone Looke to time to come there thou shalt behold evills troupes and swarmes of sorrowes and woes and raging waves and billowes of wrath comming roaring upon thee Looke to time present O not one houre or moment of ease or refreshing but all curses meet together and seeding upon one poore lost immortall soule that never can be recovered againe No God no Christ no Spirit to comfort thee no Minister to preach unto thee no friend to wipe away thy continuall teares no Sunne to shine upon thee not a bit of bread not one drop of water to coole thy tongue This is the misery of every naturall man Now doe not thou shift it from thy selfe and say God is mercifull True But it is to very few as shall be proved T is a thousand to one if ever thou bee one of that small number whom God hath picked out to escape this wrath to come If thou doe not get the Lord Jesus to beare this wrath farewell God Christ and Gods mercy for ever And I am sure that it 's no common evill which God gives to every wicked man if Christ had shed seas of bloud set thine heart at rest there is not one drop of it for thee untill thou comest to see and feele and groane under this miserable estate I tell thee Christ is so farre from saving thee that he is thine enemy If Christ were here and should say here is my bloud for thee if thou wilt but lye downe and mourne under the burden of thy misery and yet for all his speeches thy dry eyes weepe not thy stout heart yeelds not thy hard heart mournes not as to say oh I am a sinfull lost condemned cursed dead creature what shall I doe dost not thinke but he would turne away his face from thee and say oh thou stony hard-hearted creature wouldst thou have mee save thee from thy misery and yet thou wilt not groane sigh and mourne for deliverance to me out of thy misery if thou likest thine estate so well and prizest me so little perish in thy misery for ever Oh labour to be humbled day and night under this thy woefull estate Thou art guilty of Adams grievous sin will this breake thine heart No Thou art dead in sinne and top-full of all sinne will this breake thine heart No Whatsoever thou dost hast done shalt doe remaining in this estate is sinne will this breake thine heart No. God is thine enemy and thou hast lost him will this breake thine heart No. Thou art condemned to die eternally Sathan is thy Iaylor thou art bound hand and foote in the bolts of thy sinnes and cast into utter darknesse and ready every moment to drop into hell will this breake thine heart No. Thou must dye and after that appeare before the Lord to judgement and then beare Gods everlasting insupportable wrath which rents the rocks and burnes downe to the bottome of hell will this breake thine hard heart man No. Then fare well Christ for ever never look to see a Christ untill thou dost come to feele thy misery out of Christ. Labour therefore for this and the Lord will reveale the brazen Serpent when thou art in thine owne sense and feeling stung to death with thy fiery Serpents So I come to open the Fourth Principall point v●z CHAP. IIII. THat the Lord Jesus Christ is the onely means of Redemption and deliverance out of this estate Eph. 1. 7. In whom wee have redemption through his bloud which plainly demonstrates that Iesus Christ is the onely means of mans Redemption and deliverance out of his bondage and miserable estate And this is the Doctrine I shall now insist upon When the Israelites were in bondage and misery he sends Moses to deliver them When they were in Babylon he stirreth up Cyrus to open the prison-gates to them But when man is in misery he sends the Lord Jesus God and man to redeeme him Act. 4. 12. Quest. How doth Christ redeeme men out of this misery Answ. By paying a price for them 1. Cor. 6. ult Gods mercy will be manifested in saving some and his justice must be satisfied by having satisfaction or price made and paid for mans sinne Hence Christ sa●●sfieth Gods Justice First by standing in the roome of all them whom mercy decreeth to save A Surety standeth in the roome of a debter Heb. 7. 22. As the first Adam stood in the roome of all mankinde fallen So Christ standeth in the roome of all men rising or to be restored againe Secondly by taking from them in whose roome he stood the eternall guilt of all their sinnes and by assuming the guilt of all those sinnes unto himselfe 2 Cor. 5. 22. Hence Luther said Christ was the greatest sinner by imputation Thirdly by bearing the curse and wrath of God kindled against sinne God is so holy that when he seeth sin sticking onely by imputation to his owne Sonne he will not spare him but his wrath and curse must he beare Gal. 3. 13. Christ drinks up the cup of all the Elect at one draught which they should have beene sipping and drinking and swilling and tormented with millions of yeares Fourthly by bringing into the presence of God perfect righteousnesse Rom. 5. 11. for this also Gods Justice required perfection conformity to the Law as well as perfect satisfaction suffering for the wrong offered to the Law-giver Justice thus requiring these foure things Christ satisfies Justice by performing them and so payes the price II. Christ is a Redeemer by strong hand The first Redemption by price is finished in Christs person at his resurrection the second is begun by the Spirit in mans vocation and ended at the day of Judgement as money is first paid for a Captive in Turkey and then because he cannot come to his owne Prince himselfe he is fetcht away by strong hand Here is incouragement to the vilest sinner and comfort to the selfe-succourlesse and lost sinner who have spent all their money their time and endeavours