means if they had repented the flood had not come or if more had repented they had been saved But these eight did believe and they were saved by water the rest had as good means as they but they did not repent upon it they did not believe upon it This should be an awakening Consideration to us that though God does afford the means of Salvation to multitudes yet there are a very few that do make use of those means and are saved by them I say 't is an awakening Consideration Here is England a great and populous Country here is London a great City a City that hath some hundred thousands of souls in it they have all the means as the old World had the Gospel is preached up and down the City and up and down the Suburbs the voice is every where throughout all your streets Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand repent for there is a day of judgment and Christ is made the Judg of quick and dead that will give to every man according to his works You have all the means but alas how few of England how few of London or of Southwark are like to be saved by these means for how few do believe what we preach How few do repent upon their seeming profession of repentance and believing How few reform their lives how few are converted in Southwark in London in England so as to be healed by the grace of God! How few Many are called as Christ saith but few chosen Why here is perhaps three or four hundred people here you have been called every one of you to repent but when God that searcheth the heart cometh for to examine the truth of our repentance and of our faith how few how few in likelihood will there be found penitent how few alas it was always so Many called a whole world called to repent but eight believed But perhaps you will say that was an notorious wicked world that old world but surely the world is grown better since Truly there is reason it should because they have that judgment to awaken them but we will show you that the hearts of men have been desperately wicked all along to this day yea under the richest means that ever God hath afforded the world from the beginning to this very day And we will take the seed of Abraham and give you several instances thereof God promised Abraham that he would give him a seed that should be as the stars of heaven and would take that seed into a Covenant with himself and that he would be their God and they should be his people What a wonderful blessing was this for the great God to marry himself to a people And he gave them the Covenant of Circumcision for a memorial of this Covenant of this betrothing he gave them the Oracles and the Promises and was with them in the midst of them he was the King of them he made War and Peace for them fought for them and defended them They had all the means of Salvation the best means that the world had in those days But you will see how few of them made use of those means of grace that God afforded them We will begin with this great people of Jacob coming out of Egypt The Lord help you to consider what I am speaking for many because they are Christians and are baptized they believe they shall be saved but you are deceived Just like the old World they eat and they drank they married and gave in marriage and never dreamt that God was angry with them and would drown them and so do these people of England never think that God does intend to burn them Now you shall see what advantage they made of the means and you may read as in a glass the condition of England and the most parts of the world at this day Numb 1.45 46 So were all those that were numbred of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war in Israel Even all they that were numbred were six hundred thousand and three thousand five hundred and fifty These were the people that God brought out of Egypt into the Wilderness and afterwards led to Canaan the seed of Jacob six hundred thousand all men from twenty years old and upward How vast must be the number of Women and Children and young men also that were below twenty years old above six hundred thousand fighting men An Army of twenty thousand is a great Army but a hundred thousand that is much more But here was an Army of six hundred thousand fighting men besides Women and Children What had God done for this people I will tell you what God had done for them why they were in Egypt under a cruel hard-hearted Pharaoh they were groaning under their burden and God remembers his Promise made to Abraham That he would visit his seed and bring them into Canaan God cometh by Moses and commanded them to go They are my people saith God let them go and serve me I will not let them go saith Pharaoh why who is your God that I should obey him God at length sends one plague upon him and then another and then another and then a fourth a fifth a sixth a seventh an eighth a ninth a tenth ten Plagues God sent upon him before Pharaoh would let them go When they were gone they came to a Red Sea I am telling you my Brethren the works of God for his people in the days of old remember them my Brethren they are written for your example they came to a Red Sea now thinks Pharaoh I have got them in a trap I will follow them I will pursue I will overtake I will destroy them but God makes the Red-Sea divide and bringeth them all through but Pharaoh and his Host assayed to follow and God makes the Sea to close and drowned them all Well God carries them from thence to Mount Sinai and there was thundrings and lightnings and gave them his Law and his Covenants and did as it were solemnly marry that people to himself promisiing them if they did but do what he bid them he would be their God and fight their battels and give them counsel in all their straits and be a defence round about them Away he leads them then and gives them a Symbol of himself for if they marched by night there was a pillar of Fire if by day there was a Cloud went with them A wonderful condescension that God should do so with them They come into a Wilderness they want bread they begin to murmur Well saith God they shall see what it is to be my people he gives them bread from Heaven rains down Manna They want water Well saith God they shall not want water he commandeth Moses to strike a Rock and there came streams out of it and those streams followed them where ever they went up and down
have led them to repentance and at length the threatned Judgment came upon them and they were drowned all but eight persons This is not all God did not only destroy their bodies but likewise we read here in the Apostle Peter their Spirits were laid in prison in the infernal Prison of Hell for their disobedience to the voice of Christ Having already spoken to this The Doctrine that I raised from this was That those wicked men while they are in their bodies that will not obey the voice of Christ in his Ministers but live and die impenitently their souls by the righteous judgment of God shall be condemned unto the prison of Hell For what is said of this old world will be verified of every impenitent sinner here that dieth in his impenitent state Lord who is it that does believe thy report Few sinners the Lord knows do regard it God knows his word is little believed We do as little believe these things now as the old world did and as the flood came upon them before they were aware so the spirits of some here God knows as Jeremy said I do not desire to see that evil day may be in these Prisons before they believe them Death sinners is coming which will drag you to the Tribunal of Christ and assuredly Christ will do you justice I say he will do you justice He that will be faithful to his promises that he makes to believers that obey the Gospel he will be faithful to do justice to those that are disobedient He will give you all your Mittimus's he will lay you fast enough and when he hath laid the Chains on take them off if you can I know through your unbelief what I say seems to you but as a Fable So did the drowning of the world appear to be but they found it true and so will you if ye repent not It amazeth me my Brethren when my faith at any time is but raised to the close of these truths of God it amazeth me to look upon your faces to see how indifferently you look how carelesly you look you look up-and-down this place as if these things did not concern you but the reason of it is you do not believe your unbelief ruins you and will ruin you for ever What man that really was in his wits and did believe a Hell would venture upon those sins that will certainly bring him thither But you slatter your selves in your unbelief that there is no punishment to the wicked nor reward to the godly and so you go on in sin These things are true my Brethren your Consciences must bear me witness they are true No man or woman that are in their wits and did really believe an eternal Torment that is laid up for the disobedient to the Gospel but they would obey be-times they would not go on hardening their hearts against God but you do not believe We shall presently make some enquiry into the reasons of it We come now to the other part wherein you have an account of a few that are saved A few Lord What a few Eight persons out of a world of men and women I do not know but the world at that time was as full of men and women as it is now for the world was at that time about Fifteen hundred years old and they lived many years so that it is likely that there was a very numerous company of people and that there were great Cities and great Kingdoms upon the earth What a strange thing is it that of a world of people there should be found but eight persons that would believe a God! And yet 't is certainly so there was but eight persons saved all the rest were drowned for their disobedience to the voice of the Spirit of Christ in Noah Why were no more saved Because there did no more believe They did not believe that God was in good-earnest they did not believe that God would send the flood as Noah threatned they looked upon Noah as a mad-man to build an Ark they knew not for what Just so does the world now they look upon poor humble believing Christians as a company of melancholy distracted persons that look sadly and pray much and weep much and hear much and are afraid of sinning and all this while they are but busie about their Ark and they cry what a stir is here that these people make I will tell you what the meaning of it is why this world is to be burned and these poor souls are providing against the burning of the world The wicked must be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God and these poor praying humble Christians do believe fear and tremble and that is the reason that they live not as you live but take that care that they do to prepare against that great day of the Lord. And were not you desperately blind and foolish you would do so too There were eight persons saith Peter saved Which were they All of one Family Noah and his Wife there was the three Sons of Noah and their three Wives Gen. 7.7 eight persons in one family they were saved they were saved from the deluge they were saved from being drowned God knows whether all these were saved from hell too of these eight For of these Shem Ham and Japhet there was one of these Sons Ham that did laugh at his fathers nakedness and God afterwards cursed him so that whether he was eternally saved is not a thing certain unto us But this is sure all these eight persons did believe the deluge would come or else they would not have entred into the Ark for if any of them had looked upon it as a meer old doting fancy of their father they would have been ashamed to have gone into the Ark but at the set-time before it began to rain they all went therefore they all did believe the word of the Lord that the deluge would come It 's true they received an encouragement by the miraculous bringing of all creatures into the Ark to save them alive Wherein few eight persons were saved by water Saved by water there may be a double sense By water as an instrument for that very water that was the instrument of destruction to the enemies of God became a means of salvation to these eight persons for it bore up that Ark wherein the lives of these eight persons were It may be rendered Thus again But they were saved by or through water saved through the danger of water carried in the Ark through or upon the water The Observation that I raise from it is this That though many have the means of Salvation offered them yet there are but few that make use of these means and do obtain Salvation by them The old World had the means as those eight persons had the same means they were told of it they were a hundred years told of it God waited long enough there were many had the
the Wilderness they wanted Water no more What now became of this People Here is a good God he lets them want nothing he works wonders for them and delivers them with a mighty hand and gives them Angels food to eat and water out of a Rock to drink and here he numbreth them in the Wilderness Six hundred thousand fighting men What did these people do Do Surely they loved God and were obedient to his Law and would never murmur against him more But did they do so No you shall see how that before Forty years came about God cut off all these Six hundred thousand men and left their carcases to rot in the Wilderness and swore in his wrath they should never enter into his rest Notwithstanding he had done all this for them they so provoked him to wrath and so abused all the means of mercy that God cut them all off See also Numb 14.28 29 30 Say unto them saith God As truly as I live saith the Lord as ye have spoken in mine ears so will I do to you What had they said in his ears They had murmured against God and said God hath brought us and our children into the wilderness to destroy us Well saith he I have heard your murmuring and for your murmuring against me your carcases shall fall in the Wilderness and all that were numbred of you according to your whole number from twenty years old and upward which you have murmured against me Doubtless ye shall not come into the Land concerning which I sware to possess you of save Caleb the son of Jephuneh and Joshuah the son of Nun. There were six hundred thousand men and amongst them there was but two men that did believe that Promise that God made to Abraham that he would give them Canaan for an Inheritance O read to day as in a glass here the infidelity of England and the World for as face answers to face in a glass so does the face of the generality of the men of the world answer to the faces of the unbelieving Israelites and old unbelieving World But saith he For your little ones which ye say shall be a prey No saith God your little ones shall go into the Land and shall possess it for they knew nothing of your murmuring But as for you there is not a man of you shall enter into the Land Well go a little farther for the instances are many I will pass by all the dealings of God with this very people under the Judges where you may read that they were as many times captivated for their rebellion against God as they had a Judg raised up among them but we will pass by the time of this people under those Judges because the time will be short for me to relate all the dealings of Christ with this Church and we will come to those Twelve Tribes after they came into Canaan and were divided into two great Kingdoms Ten Tribes under Jeroboam and Two Tribes under the Posterity of David two mighty Kingdoms all of them that had or might have had the Oracles Promises and Covenants all of them had the Bible and might have used it But what did they do with it They cri'd themselves up just like England The Church the Church The Temple of the Lord and boasted of their priviledges that there was no people in the world like them and that if God should cut them off he knew not where to find another people See now what became of them We will consider the Ten Tribes first In the first of Kings the 19 and the 11 and 14 Verses And it was so that when Elijah heard it he wrapped his face in a mantle and went out and stood in the entring in of the Cave and behold there came a voice unto him and said What dost thou here Elijah And he said Elijah said I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts because the children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant thrown down thine Altars and slain thy Prophets with the sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away Here were Ten Tribes a great Kingdom a people of the Lord that had the word of the Lord and the great Prophet of the Lord Elijah among them who called them to Repentance and told them God was angry with them for forsaking Him and his Covenant Why but how many of this Kingdom did so Why truly for what Elijah could see he could not see one man that did keep Covenant with God I only am left alone Why what did the rest do Why they have all forsaken thee This is strange What! the seed of Abraham all gone What they whose fathers God delivered out of Egypt and brought them through the Red-Sea and fed them with Manna and gave them water out of a Rock What forget it all Ai forget it all They have left the Lord and forsaken his Covenant What have they done with the Prophets of the Lord Knockt them o' the head slain them kill'd them thrown down his Altars and no worshipping of God and yet these were the men that were the seed of Abraham that had all the means of grace offered them God had given them many a call they had the word to do it and his Prophets to do it and yet we see they all left him It is true as God said afterwards in reproving Elijahs judgment in the case I have a few more my Kingdom are not all gone saith God I have reserved seven thousand that keep Covenant with me Ai but my Brethren what are seven thousand to a whole Kingdom What if God may have seven thousand in England to keep Covenant with God What if twenty thousand What are they to compare to those many hundred thousands that are in England Here you see many are called but few chosen many are taken visibly into a Covenant but there are few that are spiritually in Covenant with God Well what became of these Ten Tribes these that had the Oracles Covenant and Promises among them What became of them Why you shall see what became of them no good you may be sure God pays them off their old scores at length God is a long time in reckoning but be sure he will do them justice in the end He will do it 2 King 17.18 there you shall see the destruction of them In the 15 vers And they rejected his statutes and his covenants that he made with their fathers and they followed vanity Therefore Vers 18. the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight there was none left but the Tribe of Judah only 22. For the children of Israel walked in the sins of Jeroboam which he did they departed not from them 23 Vntil the Lord removed Israel out of his sight as he said by all his servants the Prophets The word of God spoken by his servants and Ministers though but men he will make it
theirs who have made a covenant with hell and with death and cry a short life and a sweet who forget they have souls while they thus speak and resolve and will not believe there is a God till they wish for rocks and mountains to fall upon them to hide them from him nor believe there is a hell till they feel it O what a deep sense had the Apostle Paul of the misery and immergent ruins of his Country-men Rom. 10.1 His hearts desire unto God for them was that they might be saved he could wish himself accursed that they might escape I know no man more like-minded to him than this Servant of God who is with the Lord who delighted in nothing no work in the world like plucking brands out of the fire saving men from hell and sending men and women before him to heaven if he could I hope the impression upon my heart from the consideration of that incomparable transport of his Soul in the Preaching the last Sermon as if he had known his time was so short and that Sermon his last shall still remain fresh upon me After Sermon I told him of it and he told me His heart was carried out with zeal and pity that he could not keep to method but he could not help it All that knew him can bear him witness that he was able to write or speak for matter and form gratefully to any but he studied plainness and therefore purposely declined great Auditories to my knowledg a clear proof of his meek and self-denying spirit Gain-say it who can He sought not honour from men whilst alive and now he is dead let his own Works praise him in the gates If any should enquire why or who call'd me to interpose these few rude lines I only say It is pia fraus to steal an opportunity to testifie more publickly the great veneration I have for the name of this holy man who indeed was one of the Sons of Davids Worthies As also to signifie my longing after the Souls happiness of all that were his ordinary Hearers Whom again I beseech to read and afterwards to ponder who and what moved him to speak his heart in these last words unto them if peradventure God may give them repentance unto life by the Ministry of him who not only saved himself but shall then save also them that heard him A.P. 1 Peter III. the later part of the 18 the 19 and part of the 20 Verse Being put to death in the flesh but quickned by the Spirit By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison Which sometimes were disobedient when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the Ark was a preparing IN the opening of this portion of Scripture we will First Consider its Scope and then we will consider the words themselves and give you a short Explication thereof and then we shall draw that Practical Observation from them which the Lord bless unto your Edification As for the Scope of them in the former part of the 18 Verse I have shewed you how the Apostle was acquainting us with the great benefit that sinners do receive from the death of Christ that I have already opened to you Christ hath once sufferd for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God Now in the following Verses the Apostle passeth on from the death of Christ unto the life of Christ and shews that we have not only benefit by a Christ dying but by a Christ living For Christ is our Saviour both ways We are saved by his death meritoriously we are saved by his life as he lives for to see the purchased-blessings of his death made good to us Now the Apostle in these words I have already read considereth the life of Christ two ways First With respect to the world before he came in the flesh with respect to the old World above Two thousand years before he came in the flesh Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God was alive then yea before the World was he was alive and was God blessed for ever by him the World was made To the old World even that world that was destroyed by the Flood to that world he was a Saviour by designation and he took care of them The care of mankind from the fall hath been deposited in the hands of Christ he hath taken care of sinners from the fall of man into sin Then Secondly The Apostle does speak of the advantages that the Church hath by a living-Christ upon his Resurrection from the dead as he speaks in the 21 v. The figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us then there comes in a Parenthesis How does Baptism save us Why by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ When he was on earth he preached the Gospel promised pardon and salvation to the penitent believing sinner and died for him when he had done preaching and arose from the dead and is gone to Heaven to make good every word We are now upon the consideration of the benefits that the old World had from Christ above two thousand years before Christ was born in the flesh Why what was the benefit that the old World had Why Christ by his Spirit did send Noah a Preacher of righteousness to preach repentance to the old Word the Spirit of Christ was in Noah by which Spirit Noah Prophesied of the destruction of the world By which Spirit he was directed to build the Ark to prepare for himself and those that should repent for that time that the Floold should come upon the world Christ by his Spirit preached then to that world of sinners that were drowned then and not only drowned but their spirits damn'd which was for disobeying Christ for disobeying the Spirit of Christ in Noah Having now given you the Scope of the place we shall proceed according to that light I have to give you the understanding of the words and phrases of this Scripture for it seemeth to be a Scripture that is not without its difficulties We will begin at the First First What it is to be put to death in the flesh that we must enquire into Secondly What is it to be quickned by the Spirit What does the Apostle understand hereby Thirdly What is this preaching What are Fourthly These Spirits that are in prison And what 's the prison And so we shall take in what follows in its order Being put to death in the flesh Who put to death Christ By whom By the unbelieving wicked Jews they were his accusers Put to death in the flesh by whom By Pontius Pilate as his Judg. Put to death in the flesh by whom Why by those Executioners that were employed by Pontius Pilate to see him Crucified The Jews Pontius Pilate and the Soldiers put him to death Put to death in the flesh What 's that That is after he was made flesh he was put to death as he was man he hung
hardness of mens hearts I can Preach to them and take them in a room and sit an hour over a hard heart and make it no more stir than a rock No he does not believe turns away and laughs at perhaps all the counsel given him But whether you believe or believe not This day know God hath given you warning you are men as certainly set aside and designed to be eternally burned as the old wicked world was designed to be drowned And if you say why do I give you this notice Why The Lord in mercy gives it you that in time you may repent But if you repent not as the flood drowned the old world so Hell will burn and torment you But truly I have not come to the half of that which I intended The Question will be What is the reason that men will not believe What but eight persons believe in a whole world But one Elijah in a whole Ten Tribes What but one Elijah No truly for ought that he knew What but a remnant in the time of Christ No but a remnant So but a few a very few in England What is the reason of all this why the general reason of it all is this Neither would the old world believe that God was in good earnest neither would Israel believe neither will England believe they don't believe what is said No. What if God speaks by a Noah will you believe No. What if God speaks by a Moses will you believe No. VVhat if God appeareth upon a Mount and speaks signally will you believe now Yes for a little while but not long as they did not VVill you believe by a Christ No. Crucifie him Will you believe the Apostles No. Will you believe us that speak No No you will believe none What is the reason of it why wont you believe VVhy I think this is one reason In very truth saith the poor carnal wicked world we do not believe that God is in good earnest none of them did till they found the judgment upon them But why you poor sinners why do not you believe that God is in good earnest now VVhy I will tell you you flatter your selves thus surely God is a very good God and he hath done us good all our days he hath been my God twenty thirty forty years he hath fed me when hungry and when naked he hath clothed me and when sick he hath healed me and mine and when in danger he hath deliver'd and do you think that God will damn me and burn me as you talk of at last Ai but sinner hath not God said he will Ai but say you God is not in good earnest he threatens us but as we threaten our Children We threaten our Children sometimes what we will do and then lay down the rod again Ai but sinner God is not like a man that he should change But say you he is good 'T is true or else he would never have stayed so long but for you to say he is good and will not therefore be true to his Word that 's absurd Why should he not notwithstanding all his goodness damn such a rebel as thou art as well as damn an Angel Thou art his Creature so were the Angels Does God give thee abundance of the glory of the earth so God gave him abundance of the glory of Heaven and yet notwithstanding all this for sin he threw the Angels down into Hell and now they are Devils Why if God spared not an Angel dost thou think he will spare a man or woman Nay when thou hast provoked him to wrath more than the Devil dost thou think he will spare thee and not an Angel God never offered a Saviour to the Devil but he offered a Saviour to thee that if thou wilt repent and turn he will save thee and wilt thou abuse all and go on in thy wickedness Why certainly as thou sinnest more in this respect than the Devil thou wilt as sure go to hell as he did 't is not your relation to God as Creatures that will save you What I pray was the old World Did not God drown them all were not they men and women as you and had not they Children as well as you and had not God bowels to them as well as to you But was God loth to drown them Why first it repenteth me saith God that I made them I will drown them all Tush say they God is so good he will not But I will says God You say God hath done you good and heal'd you of many diseases and hath looked to you and blessed you and hath wrought wonders for you and that therefore he will never damn you O poor sinner how simply dost thou cheat thy self Single me out any blind Drunkard or unclean person or self-justiciary I would single thee out and reason with thee this day God hath wrought wonders for me he will not damn me saist thou Alas that 's true says a poor drunken Water-man I was at Sea and was in danger to be drown'd and God saved me and do you think that he will damn me And saith another such a time I was ready to fall off from a house and God prevented me Why I tell thee now that though God does give many signal mercies and tokens of his long suffering to sinners he does not intend therefore to save them When God brought Israel out of Egypt did God ever work such Miracles for you as he did for them Did God ever bring ten Plagues upon your enemies to deliver you from them Did God ever in a danger that you have been in make a Sea for you to pass through and your life saved And when you were hungry and had no bread did God ever rain bread down from heaven to you When you were thirsty did God ever bring water out of a Rock to quench your thirst These and such things as these did God do for Israel Here now was some ground for them to plead and yet though God did this did he love Israel so that he would not destroy them No. He laid their Carcases as dung in the wilderness and swore in his wrath that they should never enter into his rest I 'le tell thee sinner if thou livest for forty years together upon bread out of the Clouds yet if thou livest and diest in thy sins thou wilt most certainly be damned God can be good man for all thou art damned for God is good to the Angels that stand though the rest that fell are in Hell so he will be good in his mercy to Saints and Angels when the wicked are thrust down into Hell God can be good man and God can do thee good and when he hath done he can hang thee up in flames Alas you see that commonly among your malefactors Princes do allow their prisoners to have meat and drink while they are in prison they should not be starved and when condemned to be hanged there will be
what thou hast and besides it shall be blessed to thee that thou wilt say it is far better to thee than abundance Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things shall be added to you Do but set thy self to pray mightily to God that whatever he does he would save thy soul and then for thy care thou mightest cast thy care upon him your care distracts you it is Gods setting in with you that makes your care succesful O poor sinners if you were but acquainted with God and Christ you would have a God to cast your care upon You Masters of Families begin your day with God bring your Families to God make it your great business to serve God and then trust God for his blessing upon your endeavours There is another Reason What is the reason that you do not believe That you believe not God that speaks by his Son and by his Prophets Why truly I dare not believe For to speak plainly I am so in love with my sins that I cannot think to part wirh them and I do profess if I must be damn'd for them I must run the hazard Such desperate slaves are Satan's slaves though they see Hell before them and in they must if they repent not saith Christ Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light Why because their deeds are evil They love their evil deeds and love darkness and hate the light of the Gospel they hate my word because my word threatens their deeds of darkness with Hell they can't endure to see what is at the end of sinning I have kept you a long while and so God kept them above a hundred years I have spent one hour perhaps half an hour more but if it were possible that I could Preach an hundred years to an unbelieving heart it would never work upon him without Gods Grace O therefore resist not Crace When I have done all 't is God that singles out one at one time and another at another time and then another and sometimes many at once and opens their eyes and hearts and makes such a Sermon bear upon them and commandeth their hearts to strike in with the word And if the Lord does but bless the word to take hold of some poor youth whether man or maid it is worth all my labour that I have spent in Preaching If the Lord would but bring some poor soul to believe that the word of God is true and that it is as certain that they will be damn'd if they repent not as is was certain that the old world was drown'd This might be the beginning of a new life O 't is an hour well spent and thou wilt bless God for it if he will come in with light upon thee and make thee believe the Gospel that Christ is willing to save every penitent sinner that is brought thus to believe in him O that God would be pleased to convince you that he is in good earnest to damn the wicked and impenitent sinner but to bless and crown with eternal life every obedient soul I am forced to cut off many things that I have to say But the Lord in heaven bless this word unto you FINIS Books Printed for and are to be sold by Tho. 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The Fourth Psalm in eight Sermons The Forty second Psalm in ten Sermons The Fifty first Psalm in twenty Sermons The Sixty third Psalm in seven Sermons Books 4 to The Door of Salvation opened by the Key of Regeneration by George Swinnock M.A. An Exposition on the Five first Chapters of Ezekiel with useful Observations thereupon by William Greenhil The Gospel Covenant opened by Peter Bulkley Gods Holy-mind touching matters moral which he uttered in Ten Commandments Also an Exposition on the Lords-Prayer by Edward Eston B.D. The Fiery Jesuit or an Historical-Collection of the rise encrease doctrines and deeds of the Jesuits Horologiographia optica Dyaling universal and particular speculative and practical together with a description of the Court of Arts by a new Method by Sylvanus Morgan A seasonable Apology for Religion by Matthew Pool The practical Divinity of the Papists discovered to be destructive to true Religion and Mens souls by J. Clarkson The Creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hand and the good-mans mercy to the bruit-creatures in two Sermons by Tho. Hodges B.D. Certain considerations tending to promote Peace and Unity amongst Protestants The Saints triumph over the last enemy in a Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. James Janeway by Nath. Vincent The Morning-Lecture against Popery or the principal errors of the Church of Rome detected and confuted in a Morning-Lecture preached by several Ministers of the Gospel in or near London Four useful discourses by Jeremiah Burroughs A new Copy-Book of all sorts of useful hands The Saints priviledg by dying by Mr. Scot. The Vertuous Daughter a Funeral-Sermon by Mr. Brian The Miracle of Miracles or Christ in our Nature by Dr. Rich. Sibbs The unity and essence of the Cartholick Church-visible by Mr. Hudson The intercourse of Divine Love between Christ and the Church or the particular Believing soul in several Lectures on the whole second Chap. of Cant. by John Collins D.D. Large 8 vo The sure mercies of David or a second part of Heart-treasure Heaven or hell here in a Good or Bad Conscience by Nath. Vincent Closet-prayere a Christians duty by O. Heyword A practial discourse of Prayer wherein is handled the nature and duty of Prayer by Tho. Cobbet Of quenching the Spirit the evil of it by Theophilus Polwheile The sure way to Salvation or a Treatise of the Saints mystical Union with Christ by Richard Stedman M.A. Sober Singularity by the same Author Heaven taken by Storm The mischeif of sin both by Tho. Watson The Childs Delight together with an English-Grammar Reading and Spelling made easie both by Tho. Lye Asop's Fables with morals thereupon in English-Verse The Young-mans Instructor and the Old-mans Remembrancer Captives bourd in Chains made free by Christ their Surety both by Tho. Doolittle Eighteen Sermons preached upon several Texts of Scripture by William Whitaker The Saints care for Church-Communion declared in sundry Sermons preached at St. James Dukes-place by Zach. Crofton The life and death of Edmund Stanton D.D. To which is added a Treatise of Christian conference and a Dâ—alogue between a Minister and a Stranger Sin the Plague of plagues or sinful sin the worst of Evils by Ralph Venning M.A. Cases of Conscience practically resolved by J. Norman The immortality of the Soul explained and proved by Scripture and Reason to which is added Faiths-triumph over the fears of death by Tho. Wadsworth A Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his Being Attributes Works and Word by George Swinnock M.A. The generation of Seekers or the right manner of the Saints addresses to the throne of Grace with an Exposition on the Lords-Prayer An Essay to facilitate the Education of Youth by bringing down the rudiments of Grammar to the sense of seeing which ought to be improved by Syncresis by M. Lewis of Totenham An Artificial Vestibulum wherein the sense of Janua Linguarum is contained compiled into plain and short sentences in English for the great ease of Masters and Expeditious progress of Scholars by M. Lewis Baptism no bar to Communion by Jo. Bunnian The Dutch-dispensatory shewing the vertues qualities and properties of Simples the vertue and use of Compounds whereto is added the Compleat Herbalist Small Octavo A defence against the fear of Death by Zach. Crofton Gods Soveraignty displayed by William Gearing The godly mans Ark or a City of Refuge in the day of his distress in five Sermons with Mrs. Moors Evidences for Heaven by Edmund Calamy The Almost-Christian discovered or the false Professor tried and cast by M. Mead. A Plea for the godly or the Righteous mans Excellency The holy Eucharist or the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A Treatise of Self-denial All three by Tho. Watson The life and death of Tho. Wilson of Maidstone in Kent The life and death of Doctor Sam. Winter Worthy-walking press'd upon all that have heard the Call of the Gospel The Spirit of Prayer by Nath. Vincent The inseparable Union between Christ and a Believer by Tho. Peck A discourse of Excuses setting forth the variety and vanity of them the sin and misery brought in by them by John Sheffield Invisible realities demonstrated in the holy life and triumphant death of Mr. J. Janeway The Saints encouragement to diligence in Christs service by Mr. James Janeway Convivium caeleste a plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Supper by R. Kidder The Saints perseverance asserted in its Positive-ground against Mr. Ives A Wedding-ring fit for the Finger by Will. Secker An Explanation of the shorter Catechism of the Assembly of Divines by Tho. Lye The Childs Delight with Pictures by Tho Lye The life and death of Tho. Hall The flat opposition of Popery to Scripture by J.N. Chaplain to a Person of Honour The Weavers Pocket-book or Weaving spiritualiz'd by J.C.D.D. Two disputations of Original sin by Richard Baxter The ready way to prevent sin by William Bagshaw The Little-peace-maker discovering foolish Pride the Make-bate Philadelphia or a Treatise of Brotherly-love by Mr. Gearing Reformation or Ruine being certain Sermons on Levit. 26.23 24. by Tho. Hotchkis FINIS