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A55344 A sermon preach'd to young people January the first, 1697. And now publish'd at their request. By Samuel Pomfret. Pomfret, Samuel, d. 1722. 1698 (1698) Wing P2798A; ESTC R217924 45,878 51

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For the former nothing can be more unquestionable and plain if you do but survey what hath been largely spoken of the Nature of Christ's Yoke and the bearing of it All which amounts to this viz. That on his part it is no other than a restoring Apostate Man to the Image and Favour of God again the bringing you under the Gospel and there by his Word and Spirit to open your Eyes to renew you in the Spirit of your Minds to slay the Enmity to circumcise your Hearts to love the Lord your God to alter and change that Hellish Bias that was on your Wills whereas otherwise you would run upon your own Ruine and soon be made the deplorable Spectacle of a Sin-revenging Justice So that the very Nature and Use of Christ's Yoke on his part is a main part of your Happiness and true Felicity for pray tell me what miserable Wretches were you continuing under the Power of a carnal Mind that is not cannot be while such subject to the Holy Law of God the most material Branch of which Law is to love and delight in the Blessed God wherein so much of Heaven it self lieth that without it Heaven would be a kind of Hell for their could be no Agreement and so no Enjoyment what Communion can Light have with Darkness Or Christ with Belial Can two walk together i. e. take delight in living together that are not agreed I have read of the Irish Earth that no Venemous Creature can endure to to live upon it But my Brethren the Irish Earth would better brook a Toad than Heaven a carnal Mind or a carnal Mind Heaven O young Man What wilt thou do with that carnal corrupt Heart of thine It is impossible while such to obey this Law of Love which if thou can'st not obey Woe to thee living Woe to the dying for enter Heaven and enjoy God thou never can'st if thy Heart before hand be not fram'd to love and take Complacency and Delight in him and this can never be till Christ's Yoke and Government take place in and over you the first and chief Branch whereof on his Part Is to circumcise your Hearts to love the Lord your God Deut. 30. 6. And therefore nothing can be more evident than this that to bear the Yoke of Christ is the summary of all that is truly good And it will be no less evident if you survey on our part the nature of coming under and bearing this Yoke which is no other than a yielding our whole selves to God Rom. 6. 13. Or a cordial unfeigned surrendring upon the Gospel-Proclamation which may be shadowed forth thus suppose in a well-govern'd State there should be a Conspiracy among the Subjects and instead of continuing in a Dutiful Subjection they hatch Rebellion and it breaks out openly Now in this Case the Law proclaims them Rebels and justly condemns them to a shameful Death but the Prince out of his Grace and Mercy puts forth a Proclamation of Pardon upon their throwing down their rebellious Arms and returning to their Obedience Now as in all Similitudes some difference is allowed so it must be here be sure for amongst Men it may so happen that the Rebelling Party may be the stronger or upon equal ground and so may stand upon their own Terms treat and capitulate with their Swords in their Hands having Strength to defend themselves and subsist without Peace with or a Pardon from their Prince But now here it is otherwise between the Great and Almighty God and poor sorry rebellious Man God is infinitely powerful justly provoked able to destroy wretched Rebels both Soul and Body in a Moment Now in this State of Things I demand of thee poor Sinner art thou able to contend with the Almighty Can'st thou subsist or live without Peace with him Should he come forth in a way of Wrath and Vengeance where would'st thou appear or shew thy Traitrous Head Surely in thy State of utter Impotency thou darest not say thou art in any capacity of meeting God in the Field well notwithstanding all this Disparity yet the High and Lofty One whose Name is Holy against whom you have sinned he who stands in no need of you nor your Subjection nor your Salvation it is he that sendeth forth a Proclamation of Pardon and Peace founded in the Blood of his own Son and that at a time when you lay in your own Blood and Filth of Sin and all was lost and when you were Enemies whom in Justice he might have sent to Hell in all you Gore and Guilt Rom. 5 6 7 8. And when there could have been no remission without the effusion of the Blood of Jesus then did he commend his Love to you and spared not his one and only Son but delivered him up to the Death for poor Sinners and entereth a new Covenant issueth out the Gospel-Proclamation viz. That notwithstanding all your Sin and Unworthiness and that dreadful Charge and Sentence of the Law that lieth against you yet hath the Great God made rich Provisions of Mercy upon your Return and Submission for your gracious Reception and Remission he hath found out a Ransom viz. the Price of his own dear Son's Blood and hath set him forth in the Gospel To be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood Rom. 3. 25. So that let the Wicked now forsake his evil ways and turn in unto this strong Hold and make Peace and he shall make Peace I will have Mercy I will abundantly pardon tho his Sins be as Scarlet I will make them as white as Snow I will not only forego all the Advantages my Justice had against him but will be pacified towards him and embrace and receive him to favour and reward him with an eternal weight of Glory as if he had never offended and rebelled against me O Infinite astonishing Condescention of the Blessed God! thus to beseech rebellious Sinners to be reconciled to him in his Son Certainly you will say if there be the least spark of Ingenuity towards God or drop of Tenderness and Care left in you towards your own Souls O wonderous O joyful News enough to melt down a Stone unspeakable are the sweet Bonds and dear Obligations lying on us to surrender our selves upon this Proclamation Why now be it known to you ye young Ones that your coming under and bearing this Yoke is no other thing in the nature of it on your part Thus an hearty yielding subjecting of your Minds to Christ as your Prophet saying Lord Jesus I yield here is my Mind bring into it what Light thou pleasest and so of your Wills and Life subjecting the same to him as Priest and King to be your Atonement and Peace to save you from your Sins and govern and rule you by the gracious Scepter and Yoke of his sacred and sweet Precepts I now refer it to your selves whether this be not the Summary of all that is truly good If any should object