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A32052	Saints memorials, or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver being a collection of divine sentences / written and delivered by those late reverend and eminent ministers of the gospel, Mr. Edmund Calamy, Mr. Joseph Caryl, Mr. Ralph Venning, Mr. James Janeway.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.; Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.	1674 (1674)	Wing C263; ESTC R13259	89,295	292

thy Saviour is willing to save thee but it is thy sin and Satan that studieth to destroy thee When Satan's malice had produced mischief in our first Parents mischief brought forth misery and misery cried to heaven for mercie The God of mercie promised mercie unto mankind The seed of the woman shall break the Serpent's head When the fulness of Grace was come he that was covered in the Law became discovered in the Gospel When the fulness of time was come God sent his Son made of a woman made under the law that we might receive the adoption of Sons The Son of man had sinned against God and the Son of God satisfies for the sin of man Let admiration produce amazement that God should send his Son to suffer death for sinners that rebelled against him But man must dye unto Eternity unless the Son of Eternity would dye for him Therefore Christ the Messiah was slain but not for himself He was delivered to death for our offences He was delivered by his Father in Mercie by himself in Compassion by Iudas for Covetousness and by the Jews in Malice And all this to the end that God might effect what the Jews could not conjecture The Redemption of his people Israel He that was typified by the brazen Serpent is exalted on the Cross between two Thieves with this Title superscribed Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iews Thus Christ the immaculate Lamb refused no shame that he might purchase Glory to his faithful ones He that was the God of Glory becomes the Son of shame He that is the Righteous Redeemer was counted an Unjust Usurper He that is the Lord of Life was condemned to Death He that is honoured with the Acclamations of Angels was dishonoured with the Exclamations of Jews Pilate disgracefully shewed him to the people with an Ecce Homo Behold the man Stand O my Soul and with admiration bless the Author of all Blessedness Christ who to prevent thy shame suffered himself to be numbred among the wicked He was accounted sinful to purchase thy Salvation Adam by eating of the forbidden Tree made thee accursed had not Christ by dying on the cursed Tree restored thee to blessedness Christ's Cross is thy Comfort his dishonour is thy honour Christ's Cross is to the Iews a stumbling-block to the Gentiles foolishness But to thee O my Soul it is the power and the wisdome of God Then if Christ hath done this for thee follow thy Redeemer with a Cross at thy back and say with Paul God forbid that I should glory in any thing but in the Cross of Christ. But wo unto us sinners we run on in a course of pride though he humbled himself unto death even the death of the Cross. Pilate could not add to our Saviour's honour or dishonour in calling him Iesus for it was a name given him from Heaven for the Angel said unto Ioseph Thou shalt call his name Iesus for he shall save his people from their sins It was a sweet saying of an Antient Father The name of Jesus is Mel in Ore Melos in Aure Iubilus in Corde Honey in the Mouth Melody in the Ear and a Jubily or Joy in the Heart Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved This name is light unto the Soul Ye were darkness saith the Apostle but now ye are light in the Lord. This name is health to the Body In the name of Iesus of Nazareth rise up and walk All spiritual food is dry saith the aforesaid Father if this Oyl be not poured into it if it be not seasoned with this Salt There are several Titles that proclaim Christ's Glory but the name of Iesus imports our Redemption By others we know him to be God by this we know him to be our Mediator It is great misery to see man so proud and greater mercie to see God so humble God was the Creditor man was the Debtor but he that was both God and man the Pay-Master Wherefore Let Israel hope in the Lord for with him there is plenteous Redemption There is no sinner so great but after conversion he makes as great a Saint Though his sins be red as Scarlet Grace makes them white as Snow Come let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be white as Snow though they be red like Crimson they shall be as Wooll There is more pleasure in suffering than in sinning for a Saint of God may suffer and not sin but he cannot sin and not suffer If any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God on this behalf To walk as a Heathen walks only by the light of the Rush-candle of Nature is no better than to walk in darkness If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not but if he walk in the night he stumbleth because there is no light in him God never made a good promise but he made good that promise For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him Amen We should prize mercie if we knew its price Thy mercie O Lord is great unto the Heavens and thy truth unto the Clouds 'T is true that Christ is every where Then Hell 's no Hell if Christ be there In his presence is fulness of joy at his right hand are pleasures for evermore A Righteous man hates sin because it is opposite to God and Goodness Fools make a mock at sin but among the Righteous there is favour That Saint that grows in grace grows more a man and more than a man For with him Where sin aboundeth grace doth much more abound A rich man is poor without God but with him a poor man is rich Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you The pride of self-love is a folly in ones self For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted If a man would be ever good he should believe he was never good There is none good but one that is God God takes care of his Saints and they take care to be be cared for by him Cast your care upon him for he careth for you He that hath God hath all things for God is all in all A grain of Grace is of more value than many pounds of Gold God Created us and left us to our selves afterwards he Redeemed us and left himself to us Take heed of being self-conceited For the way of a fool is right in his own eyes True Christians are all for Christ and Christ is all-sufficient for them and their salvation It is the saying of holy Paul For me to

See see the day by sable Clouds orespread And bids us Weep for Caryl now is dead But by and by do's seem to say This Globe Could not detain him from his patient Job Calamy went before but there 's no odds Since each design'd to be a Child of God's Observe the hours how striving to retire Caryl and Comfort seeming to expire Bids Night and Nature hang the Vniverse With Black due Obsequies for such an Herse He ne'er was cruel to exhaust a Tear All Weeping was reserv'd to spend it here Those flattering Arts which Poets use to save Decaying Reputations in the Grave Are here but vain for no Hyperbole Can tell the World how great his Merits be And Chronicles themselves can say no more Than what his Learning told the World before His Pious Sermons did declare his worth His Expositions set his Learning forth And whilst we here lament his being gone Angels with Anthems welcome him at home And I my self a Catholick could be At least to Pray to such a Saint as he Caryl whose Conversation free from ill Can be express'd but by an Angel's quill As in some mirrour you might clearly see In him a perfect Map of Piety The Beauty of whose Vertues may incite The World to imitation and delight Let us lament our loss and blame his fate For not allowing Life a longer date Reverend Caryl may his Vertues shew As bright hereafter as they 're Glorious now Who when he through this Earthly Globe had past He dy'd left he should idle grow at last For when grown Ancient he would even then Both study Piety and use his Pen He like an Artist did true Patience paint To us on earth now to some Glorious Saint He shews the same who can no longer cease That to extol as Caryl's Masterpiece His EPITAPH HEre lies the Earthly Carkass of a man Whose life too justly may be call'd a span He liv'd converting those that went astray But Death now snatcht this Heav'nly Guide away Then careful Earth unto his Corps be just A Divine Soul was once within his trust But being call'd away it now is flown From hence to take Possession of a Throne A SPIRITUAL GARDEN OF Sweet-smelling FLOWERS OR Mr. VENNING's DIVINE SENTENCES THat Soul that is settled in the love of God is blessed in the peace of Christ. When such a Soul suffereth an outward War she looseth not her inward peace No troubles whatsoever which do outwardly make a noise do violently enter into the silence of her inward repose She coveteth nothing abroad and therefore resteth wholly within by love Such a Soul the Angels do visit and honour she being the Temple of the Lord and the Habitation of the Holy Ghost Happy is that Conscience in which Mercie and Truth are met together for there Justice and Peace have kissed each other God is a God of Mercie and will take pity on him that is truly sorrowful for his sins By Mercie and Truth Iniquity is purged and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil The Kiss of Justice is to love our Enemies to forsake Parents and Possessions for the love of God to endure with Patience injuries inflicted and in all places to flie from honours that are offered The Kiss of Peace is to invite Foes to friendship peaceably to sustain Adversaries lovingly to instruct such as do amiss meekly to comfort those that mourn and to be at amity with all men It is our Saviour's command Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you For all that will live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution The Almighty hath three degrees of Wrath his threatning Wrath his punishing Wrath and his condemning Wrath. Adam sinned and was cast out of Paradice the Angels sinned and were cast into Hell We have many sins to repent for viz. our Church-sins our Sermon-sins our Sacrament-sins and the sins of our very Prayers Is any man rich let him not put his trust in them for riches make themselves wings and flie away Lazarus was poor but was received into Heaven Dives was rich but however was carried into Hell Moses went up unto the Mount to pray and took the Rod of God in his hand because with that Rod God had formerly done wonderful things for his people If any mistake through a vain hope of Heaven let him be earnest in the examination of himself to be deceived in this necessitates damnation To hear Sermons to commend them or admire them and not to practice what we hear and understand is to make Sodom and Gomorrha's case at the day of Judgment better than our's Then will the world discern the Blessed from the Wretched when the wrath of God is throughly kindled Those that are now so idly busie in heaping up their Treasures of an Ant-Hillock and building up the tottering Fabricks of a child remember not that the foot of death is coming to spurn it all abroad and to trample down both you and it Let us study how to answer the great and last Question Hast thou performed the condition of the Gospel Let us search our hearts that God may finde them in a condition to receive him For thus faith the Lord I the Lord search the heart I try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruits of his doings Make not sale of Heaven for the false pleasure of a few sins for a little delight and ease that vanisheth in a moment Repent before thou becomest Old left thy Repentance should come too late for thou leftst not thy sin but thy sin left thee Take heed of dissembling with thy God lest he so discover thy craft that thou shalt not be trusted by man Accommodate Nature withthings convenient but beware of nourishing a lust for that is to hug a Devil in thy bosom To acknowledge God to be just is good and it is just we likewise acknowledge him to be good When thou Prayest rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without an heart Prayer will make a man to cease from sin or sin will intice a man to cease from Prayer It is good to have a good Name but it is better to have a good Conscience It is good to be great but it is better to be good Teach thy heart to walk wholly with thy God as well as holily Only a profession of Christianity is not the only profession of a Christian Your words and works may satisfie the judgments of men but God is the great Judge of our hearts Pray for mercie before you receive and forget not to praise when you have received It is common to have the name of Christ in common The Swearer swears by it the Begger begs by it the Jester joyns it to his jest but wo be to them that shall tremble at it Vain sinner

believeth that Iesus is the Son of God Why is it that sinners so rarely confess their sins it is because they are in them we use not to declare our dreams till we wake Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober To represent a Christian is only to act a part on the stage of this world but to be a real Christian is to depart this stage and enter into a world of Bliss He that hath children ought to correct them with discretion But he that spareth his Rod hateth his Son and he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes To be truly sensible of sin is to sorrow for displeasing God more than for the displeasure of God to be afflicted that he is displeased by us more than that he is displeased with us Mirth and Mourning are opposites to each other Mirth is burthensome in the time of Mourning and Mourning is likewise burthensome in the time of Mirth Love the Saints for Christ's sake and Christ will love you for his Saints sake Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God but he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love The Old Testament veils the New the New Testament reveals the Old Beautiful upon the Mountains are the feet of him which bringeth good tidings but how much more beautiful are the good tidings which are brought by those feet The works of our life is the best demonstration that we are acquainted with the words of our life The Saint hath the motion of grace whilst the Hypocrite hath but the notion the Saint sees tasts and feels it whilst the Hypocrite only reads hears and speaks of it The Saint hath the experience of grace and the Hypocrite the expression Be modest in your desires so shall your cup over-flow but the covetous man never hath enough Take heed and beware of covetousness There is a time for all things but no time when all things may be spoken To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven When you give thanks let the strings of your Heart and the strings of your Tongue be tun'd to Unisons it is the musick that God himself delighteth in What a vain thing is man when the best of men are but vanity at best Verily every man in his best estate is altogether vanity The wife of a man's bosom is better than the portions of the purse House and riches are the inheritance of fathers but a prudent wife is from the Lord. Marry not where you love not lest you are tempted to love where you marry not Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge If Nature be defective it is not the act of the creature but of God and since it is his will it should be so we ought to submit to his pleasure and not to blame the handy-work of God Hath not the Potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one Vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour To please all is hard to displease any may be inconvenient the Christians surest way is to please him who is all in all When a man's ways please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him The Righteous man will venture his Credit to secure his Conscience but will not venture his Conscience for the sake of his Credit The Saints are visited by Christ here by way of invitation that they should visit him hereafter Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people A Christian should like all God's commands because they are all alike Holy Iust and Good The Statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart the Commandment of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes It is our Master's pleasure to let his joy enter into us here that it may teach us how to enter into our Master's joy hereafter In whose presence is fulness of joy at his right hand are pleasures for evermore No sin against God can be said to be little because it is against the great God of Heaven and Earth but if the sinner can finde out a little God it may be easie then to finde out little sins Our Mediator Jesus Christ the Righteous is the sinners Righteousness unto God and the Righteousness of God to sinners But we are all as an unclean thing and all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our Iniquities like the wind have taken us away If any man findes the want of Comforts Content will make them comfortable wants It was a rare experience which Paul had got who saith I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content Destruction giveth way to pride for pride goeth before destruction Be sober in advice and moderate in reproofs some hearts are sooner humbled with stroaks than with stripes As an ear-ring of gold and an ornament of fine-gold so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear Pride soars aloft but patience walketh humbly with his God God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble The mercie of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting Let not that incourage sinners to the commission of sin but from thence let them sue for a remission of sin It is the will of every Saint that the will of the Lord should be done and he is content that all things should be so done so as to content God The Holy Prophet confirms it saying I delight to do thy will O my God yea thy law is within my heart Though our good works will not carry us to heaven yet they shall finde a reward in heaven Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according a● his work shall be The life of the wicked is abominable they sin with content and are content with sin Miserable Wretches Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the Prophet unto our Fathers saying Go to this people and say Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand and Seeing ye shall see and not perceive For the heart of this people is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they closed lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them Till we get Christ within us we are without Christ. The Lord's bottle and basket are never empty he bountifully invites us with this free offer of grace Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea come buy wine and milk without money and without price He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich

let Religion be your business for he is most capable of rejoycing in the evening that watcheth his words thoughts and deeds in the day To despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by Prayer What folly can be greater than to labour for the meat that perisheth and to neglect the food of Eternal Life God or the World must be neglected at the parting-time for then is the time of Tryal then shall the Righteous continue Righteous and be Blessed To seek your self in this world is to be lost and to be humble is to be exalted First study to believe there is a life of Blessedness hereafter then will you be the better strengthned to hunger and thirst after Righteousness If you would have the Lord receive you into Heaven you must give your self unto Prayer Prayer is defined by Gregory Nyssen to be a Discourse between the Soul and God it is of two sorts Vocal and Mental that is outward expressions of the Voice and an inward lifting up of the Mind to the Throne of Grace Before you enter into Prayer ask your Conscience these Questions with a resolution to return an Answer 1. To what end O my Soul art thou retired into this place 2. Art thou not come to discourse with the Lord in Prayer 3. Is he present will he hear thee 4. Is he merciful will he help thee 5. Is thy business slight is it not concerning the welfare of thy Soul 6. What words and reverence wilt thou use to move him to Compassion Let these Interrogatories be considered Discoursing with thy self will prepare thee the better to discourse with God To make thy preparation compleat consider thy condition thou art but dust and ashes and he the great God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that cloatheth himself with Light as with a Garment Remember these or such like devout expressions O let my Prayer enter into thy presence Let my Prayer be set before thee as Incense and the lifting up of my hands as the Evening Sacrifice As the clay is in the Potters hand to fashion it at his pleasure so man is in the hand of him that made him to render to them as liketh him best I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth thy marvellous works The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and a contrite Heart O God thou wilt not despise Let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord. If your hearts condemn us God is greater than our hearts and knoweth all things Such Expressions as these from a devout Soul open the windows of Heaven and prevail with God to hear its Prayers In your Prayers or Meditations beware of Satan's devices of which these are some He endeavours to intice sinners to presumption by lessening a sin and making it seem to be slight On the other side he studies to betray some to the sin of despair insinuating such a crime is Haynous and beyond pardon But thus saith the Lord Though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be white as Snow Though they be red as Crimson they shall be as Wooll He shewed to our Parents a golden Cup but discovered not the Poyson hid therein when he said God doth know in the day that ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evil Thus he attempted to betray Christ when he tempted him with the glories of the World saying All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me He hath likewise the art to put false glosses on particular sins as Pride that he pretends is Neatness Covetousness is good husbandry Drunkenness he calls good fellowship and Extravagancies the effects of a liberal Spirit He extenuates sins by whispering to the credulous wretch To be Drunk to Swear c. are but little sins and repentance is no hard task it is but to ask pardon and cry Lord have mercie upon me He insinuates these delusions into the sinner You may walk by the Harlots yet not enter you may drink with the Drunkard yet not be drunk you may handle a bag of Gold yet not steal it He assures the Soul that the wicked man is happier than the devout Soul for the former enjoys all the delights of the world whilst the others are Persecuted Imprisoned and oftentimes undone One chief designe of Satan to delude the Soul is to conduct him into evil company Beware of false Teachers that lead your Judgment astray They reproach the Embassadors of Christ so did Korah Dathan and Abiram to Moses and Aaron Good Michaiah was likewise aspersed by Ahabs false Prophets They are devisers of false Prophesies The Lord said The Prophets prophesie lies in my name I sent them not neither have I commanded them neither spake I unto them they prophesie unto you a false Vision and Divination a thing of nought and the deceit of the heart They are stiled blind guides That strain at a Gnat and swallow a Camel They are counterfeit and unclean Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites that make clean the outside of the cup and platter but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness They endeavour to delude men to their opinions rather to carry on their own Interests than to better their Conversations Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye compass Sea and Land to make one Proselyte and when he is made ye make him twofold more the Child of Hell than your selves Wo unto you blind guides which say Whosoever shall swear by the Temple it is nothing but whosoever shall swear by the Gold of the Temple he is a debtor Ye fools and blind whether is better the Gold or the Temple that sanctifieth the Gold He that sweareth by the Temple sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth therein False Prophets privily bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction Since then Satan is so busie what remains but that we Arm our selves with spiritual Weapons Wherefore take unto you the whole Armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day For the Weapons of our Warfare are not Carnal but Mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds David said to the Philistin Thou comest to me with a Sword and with a Spear and with a Sheild but I come unto thee in the Name of the Lord of Hosts the God of the Armies of Israel whom thou hast defied Let a Christian keep his Faith firm for that will carry his Heart through many difficulties Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God prepareth for them that love him The

either crucifie our sins or we shall dye in them Our hope of glory is not only Christ without but Christ within us What is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you the hope of glory Many men are at one and the same time both alive and dead for they that wallow in the deceitful pleasures of sin are dead though they live You hath he quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins When man is most idle then is the Devil most busie It was Latimer's saying that one holy day produced more service to Satan than many working days This was the Iniquity of Sodom Pride fulness of Bread and abundance of Idleness was in her and in her daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy The Righteous man saith What is lawful that will I but the unrighteous man saith What I will is lawful or to me all things are lawful All the wayes of man are clean in his own eyes but the Lord weigheth the spirit It is the pleasure of Almighty God to bless us without any cause given him How much then are we to bless him who hath given us the cause so to do Praise waiteth for thee O God in Zion Sing forth the honour of his Name make his praise glorious The devout Soul should so live as that the Gospel should not be ashamed of him nor he of that As he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation Where no assurance is there may be grace but no assurance can be where there is no grace Let us draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and our bodies washed with pure Water The godly man sets a greater value by far upon the motions than the notions of grace All the blessings that a Saint receives are the more dear welcom because they savour of a Saviour Christ is our treasure as David saith With thee is the Fountain of Life and in thy light we shall see light He that denies himself shall be saved but he that denies his Saviour shall be damned It is Christ himself that saith He that taketh not his Cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me He that findeth his life shall loose it and he that looseth his life for my sake shall finde it When God sends us an evil visitation even then God is good to us for he sends that evil for our good The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works When a sinner repenteth of his sin his sorrow speaks it self to be great when he cannot speak for sorrow A Saint will keep to the Doctrine of his life that he may keep life in his Doctrine God loves us not for what we have but for what we are and we are bound to love God were it for no other reason but because he loveth us The wicked man mindeth not the God that made him but sets his affections upon the God of his own making But your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire ye have heaped treasure together for the last days It is more honourable to purchase fame from a low degree than to become contemptible and infamous though sprang from an honourable Family The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom and before honour is humility Most men are naturally lovers of Gold yet that came but from the earth from the Gold comes Dross yet few men mind that so is it with good and bad men the Vertuous though they come from a mean stock are honoured and the Vicious though of splendid families are despised Wherefore Adde to your Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledge Why should we rejoyce in the pleasures of this world for we no sooner set our affections on them but of a sudden they are blasted or we are taken from them or by sickness disabled to enjoy them Wherefore seek ye the Lord Jesus Christ in whom is hid all the treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge And the Lord give thee understanding in all things THE SINNER'S Character Arraignment and Punishment BY Mr. RALPH VENNING IN Divers Sentential and Experimental DIVINE SAYINGS SIn is contrary to God Sinners are called enemies to God And sin is called enmity it self as being contrary to God It makes men walk contrary to God revelling rising up against and contending with God Hence men hate God resist God sight and blasphame God And Atheistically say there is no God Sin would ungod God Sin is by some of the Antients called God-murther or God-killing All these are in the nature of every sin more or less but are all of them in the heart of all sinners in their Seed and Root c. Hence sin is not onely High-Treason against the Majesty of God but it scorns to confess its Crime God is glorious in Holiness● Sin on the contrary is all sinful only sinful altogether sinful As in God there is no evil so in sin there is no good God is the chiefest of goods and sin is the chiefest of evils As no good can be compared with God for goodness so no evil can be compared with sin for evil Sin opposes all Gods Names and Attributes It deposeth God's Soveraignty it will not that the King of Kings should be in the Throne Pharaoh spake the Language of sin I know no Lord above me Sin denies God's all-sufficiencie as if there were more in sinful pleasures than in him Sin dares God's justice and challenges God to do his worst it provokes the Lord to jealousie and tempts him to wrath Sin disowns God's omniscience Tush say sinners God sees not Sin despises the Riches of God's goodness Sin turns all God's Grace into wantonness sin is the dare of God's Justice the rape of his Mercie the jear of his Patience the slight of his Power and the contempt of his Love Sin is the upbraid of his Providence the scoff of his Promise and the reproach of his Wisdom Sin is contrary to God's works and is called the Devil's work God's works were good and exceedingly beautiful But the works of sin are deformed and monstrous ugly Sin may be impleaded for all the mischiefs and villanies that have been done in the world 'T is the Master of Mis-Rule the Author of Sedition the Builder of Babel the Troubler of Israel and all mankind Sin is contrary to God's Law and Will to all the Rules and Orders of his appointment Sin is not only a transgression of but a contradiction also of the Will of God Sin is an Anti-Will to God's Will David in fulfilling of God's Will was said to be a man after God's own heart and they that obey the will of sin are said to

the other Oh who knows the Power of God's Wrath None but damned ones Damnation is a denial of good to and inflicting of evil upon sinners Woe unto you says God when I depart from you but woe woe woe will it be when sinners depart from God! Sinner's company are the Devil and his Angels tormented in everlasting fire with a curse Neither shall the sinner nor the fire know an end When once a man is damned he may bid adieu to all good Stately Houses spread Tables full Cups soft Beds pleasant Walks delightful Gardens fill'd with fragrant and odoriferous Fruits and Flowers none of these will descend with them When Devils fetch away their Souls whose shall all these things be To have a Portion of this world may be a Mercie but to have the world for a Portion is a Misery To have all good things in this life and but for this life is a Misery indeed The impenitent sinner goes from all his good to all evil but the Saint goes from all his evil and but from a little good to all good Who would not part with Counters for Gold with a World for Heaven This the Saint doth and 't is a good exchange I trow The wicked spend their days in mirth and have a brave time on 't as they think they sing Care away all the day long Heaven will not hold any of the wicked nor shall Hell have any of the righteous to hold The wicked must be not onely without their hopes of Heaven but without Heaven which they hoped for They gloried in their shame in this world and they shall have shame enough but no glory in the world to come They must suffer the loss of God himself who is the Heaven of Heaven All good things are but as a drop to the Ocean in comparison of him The sinner's estate is unalterable when once damned the door is shut 't is in vain to knock the day offers and means of grace is at an end God's long-suffering will suffer no longer though thou should'st weep out thine eyes in Hell 't will stand thee in no stead What think you sinner now is not sin exceeding sinful that separates from all good past present and to come Who that hath not been in Hell can tell what Hell is Who would go thither to try what ' t is Take the dregs of all the Miseries of this life and it will fall infinitely short of this misery Damnation A burning Feavour is nothing to burning in Hell Hell would be a kinde of Paradise if 't were no worse than the worst of this world The life that Saints obtain sinners go without and the misery that Saints are delivered from sinners are deliver'd to As different as grief is from joy as torment is from rest as terrour from peace so different is the state of sinners from that of Saints in the world to come 'T will be punishment without pity misery without mercie sorrow without succour crying without comfort and torment without ease Conscience accuses Devils torment Hope is departed and Time is for ever Hell is a place and state of Sorrow A place and state of Pains and Pangs To be in Hell is to be destroy'd 'T is a place and state of fire Damnation is in it 'T is the place of torment Hell is all these and much more Hell is call'd a Prison and the worst Hell is call'd the bottomless Pit into which sinners will be ever falling for there 's no bottom Hell is call'd a Furnace of fire they that are sin-makers by Trade shall be cast into it It 's call'd a Lake with fire and brimstone Hell is a place of darkness those flames will administer heat of Wrath but no light of Comfort Hell is a state of Damnation Hell is a place of Destruction Hell is an accursed State Damnation is call'd the second Death a living Death a Death that never dyes Hell-Torments will be exceeding great None but damned Souls know the power of God's Wrath. Hell is the Centre of all punishments Sorrow and Pain Wrath and Vengeance Fire and Darkness all are there The damned will be universally tormented not one or two parts but all and all over both Soul and Body the Eye with sight of Devils the Ear with hideous Cries the Smell with the sent of unsavoury Brimstone the Tast with the Dregs of the Cup of God's Wrath the Feeling with burning Flames The Soul and all its faculties will speed no better the Understanding will be tormented with Truth the Conscience with a gnawing Worm the Will that men think here a princely thing there they 'll finde it a devilish thing Hell-Torments will be without intermission there 's no sleeping there Needs there any more sinner to fright thee from sinning which is the way to damnation For thy Soul's sake hear and fear and do no more wickedly Oh if thou should'st go from reading of Hell into Hell thou would'st say there was a Prophet I would not believe it but now I feel it Praise the ALMIGHTY PSAL. 65.1 Praise waiteth for thee O God in Zion PRaise the most high Oh clap your hands Praise him for he the world commands Praise him Mount Zion praises sing Praise him that is your Cities King Praise him with loud and silent Air Praise ye the Lord that heareth Pray'r Praise him makes Morning hear his voice Praise him makes Ev'ning to rejoyce Praise him that doth prepare our Corn Praise him all ye that are Forlorn Praise him that duly sends us Rain Praise him for Fruits Herbs Flowr's and Grain Praise him for his refreshing Showrs Praise him for recreating Bowrs Praise him that doth our Pastures fill Praise and rejoyce each little Hill Praise him ye Birds and ev'ry Tree Praise him that did divide the Sea Praise him for Waters from the Fount Praise him for Grass grows on the Mount Praise him that gives and nothing owes Praise him with Sacrifice and Vows Praise him that form'd us in our Womb. Praise him that guides us to our Tomb. Praise him that makes us blest in Heaven Praise him from whom all Food is given Praise him his Holy Name adore Praise him O Praise him more and more Praise God the Father of the Iust Praise him that raiseth Poor from Dust. Praise him that makes the Barren bear Praise him with Duty Love and Fear Praise ye the Lord for dayly Food Praise ye the Lord for it is Good Praise him who gives success in Wars Praise him who numbereth the Stars Praise him that builds Jerusalem Praise him whose Word is more than Iem Praise him that lifteth up the Meek Praise him that doth support the Weak Praise him who doth the Ravens feed Praise him our meetly help at need Praise him causeth his Winds to blow Praise him that makes the Waters flow Praise him in his Angelick Coasts Praise him all ye his Mighty Hosts Praise ye his Name both Sun and Moon Praise him ye Lights that shine at Noon