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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65421	The great gospel sumonds, to close with Christ under the pain of the highest rebellion against the God of heaven, being the substance of a preface and sermon at Hemphlar-bank in the parish of Lanrick Feb. 20, 1676 / by Mr. John Welsh ...	Welch, John, ca. 1624-1681.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1311; ESTC R39037	22,011	33

as to Die for Sinners We cannot tell what calls for wondering and this calls not for wondering from us O the height O the bredth O the length O the depth of this Mystery That the Son of GOD should have been put so sore to it as to die for Sinners and not only to die but to drink the Cup of the Fathers Wrath Who can hear this declared and no wonder at the hearing of it O wonder O wonder at it Sirs wonder at the hearing of it And Secondly I shall say this from it by way 〈◊〉 ●xhortation Is it so That our LORD JESVS CHRIST was put to so Great Sufferings Wa then I would Exhort you to look how ye should look upon Sin if sin should not be very Detestable to you and very abominable if ye should not be at very much Pains to forsake Sin that brought our Blessed LORD JESUS CHRIST to undergo such Great Sufferings which would have brought you to such sad Condemnation and ly under the Wrath of GOD Eternally and Eternally And therefore Sinners we think and there were no more to be a Motive to press you to forsake your Sins and to hate every False Way and to hate the very least Word and Thought of it that this might be a Motive that it brought out LORD JESUS CHRIST to undergo such Great Sufferings Sirs Love to Him will call for this call ye that Love the LORD hate Evil Psalms 97.10 But then there is another Vse that I would make of Exhortation Was our LORD JESVS CHRIST brought to so many and Great Sufferings and has be undergone them so cheerfully Yea He has undergone it And is He satisfied to see the Travel of his Soul O Sirs Do not yet then do what ye can do to Disappoint him while he is making offer of his Blood to Wash you Do not that which will make him rew that he shed his Blood for the like of you For when it is so that ye do nor give him a suitable Meeting ye give him just ground to rew for ye have done what in you lyes to make his Sufferings of none Effect But the Vse that I shall mainly insist on at this time is another of Exhortation and that is Our LORD JEVSVS CHRIST is doing now as he did after his Resurrection when he came out of the Grave when his Disciples gathered together in a Chamber for fear of the Jews he came in there among them and says Peace be unto you in that 20 of John 21 verse in the beginning of that Chapter there was some word of his Resurrection Now there was some of them that affirmed that he was risen yet still they thought it was but a Notion and a Mistake although there was Angels come down from Heaven and gave Testimony that He was risen yet some of them could not believe that but when he comes in among them What says he to Thomas even that which he says to us the day He holds out his Hands and the Hole that is in his Side he shews forth his Hands and his Side and says Be not Faithless but Believe and that is the thing reach hither your Hands into the Hole of my Side and be not Faithless but Believe and that is the thing that I am come here for the day as a Messenger of the Living GOD to let you see this Day the Wonderfull Condescending Love of CHRIST and to say unto you Reach hither the Hand of your Faith and take a look of this Bloody Saviour who was Crucified come put in your Fingers put in your Hand in the Hole of that Bloody Side of his and be not Faithless but Believe That is the Great Thing that CHRIST calls for that is the Great End wherefore he would have his Sufferings told us Wherefore That it might bring his People to a close with Him to give Him Credit and to Believe in Him Therefore now we come here and that which we say to you we bid you reach hither your hand and be not Faithless but Believe that is the Great End wherefore he would have his Sufferings told to close with this Suffering LORD JESUS CHRIST Come to him and be no more Faithless but Believe and say with that Man Thomas my Lord and my God Whenever that was presented to him he could no longer stand out And this Argument prevail not with you I wonder what will prevail with you when the Sufferings of CHRIST is laid out unto you Therefore says Thomas my Lord and my God I can stand no longer for now I have seen the Wonderfull Love of GOD now I see the Wonderfull Love of CHRIST which made him undergo all these Great Sufferings now I have seen the wonderfull excellency of a Saviour Now therefore Sirs ye man give me leave to insist here a little for this is the Great Scope wherefore CHRIST keeps up a Preached Gospel that ye might believe that ye may be saved and brought to a Closing with JESUS CHRIST Therefore In the First Place I do here summond you of all Ranks of Persons unto a scrious Frame and unto a Composure of Spirit suitable unto the Message that I am to Declare unto you I summond you Men and Women and I come now to you and I present before you a Bloody CHRIST a Suffering Saviour I come to you as he did to his Disciples I say unto you as he said to his Disciples Reach forth your hands unto a Bloody Saviour take a look of him beleevingly Look unto him and Close with him Look to him who hath said Look unto Metall ye Ends of the Earth and be saved Isaiah 45.22 O Sirs Come and take a Look of this suffering CHRIST take a Look of him Therefore I shall First tell what sort of Persons I summond I summond you Old Persons that has even had a Profession all your Time and yet never Closed with him ye that has even made a fashon of closing with JESUS CHRIST and yet to this Day has never done it I summond them at this Day at this present Time that they come and take a Look of this suffering JESUS CHRIST that they stretch out the hand of their Faith and close with him and that they come and say my Lord and my God Secondly I summond them that is without that has never yet been hankering about to do it and them that has made many Mints but never came cleanly off in the doing of it I summond you to come hither and stretch out your hands and be not Faithless but Believe I summond you Whoremongers Adulterers Drunkards or whateve ye be as ye heard in the Forenoon come to him O sinners come hither and reach hither your hands and be not Faithless but Believe and close with this suffering JESUS CHRIST Will ye let him go away and not take the Offer off his hand and he no get meikle Thanks for his Offer Shall he have that to say that ye would not take the Offer and