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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91476	Christian reformation: being an earnest perswasion to the speedy practise of it. Proposed to all, but especially designed for the serious consideration of my dear kindred and country-men of the county of Cork in Ireland, and the people of Reigat and Camerwell in the county of Surry. / By Richard Parr A.M. pastor of Camerwell in Surry.	Parr, Richard, 1617-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing P545; Thomason E1749_2; ESTC R209662	151,065	320

redeemed ones Heb. 12.22 23 24. and never come to that heavenly Mount Sion the City of the living God to that innumerable company of Angels to the generall assembly of the first-born which are written in heaven shall I hinder my self of the happy condition of the spirits of just men made perfect Oh shall I disappoint my soul of the sight fruition and eternall enjoyment of my Jesus my Lord my redeemer who loved me and died forme and is in heaven preparing a place for his followers all true believers shall I miss him whom my soul loveth can I endure to be any where but where he is will any place content me for my rest and hapess but his armes and eternall embracements Oh Jesus how can I now without breaking my heart once think of being separated from thee one moment it would be an hell upon earth to think that it should be a separation for ever from that lovely loving melting heart and bosome of my Lord and Saviour Yea cursed be that tempter and temptation that would make me do that again that might deprive my poor soul of the enjoyment of my Lord Christ which is all the heaven and happiness I desire so I may be with him for ever with thee dear Jesus for ever And this is enough I crave no more and with less then this enough I cannot be satisfied I must have Christ for my heaven and my heaven where Christ is or I am undone give me saith my soul Christ or I die let me have him let my portion be Christ and then I shall be richly satisfied dear Lord bring me home to thy kingdome where thou dwellest where thou reignest that I may be where thou art for ever I desire I say no more and thus much I cannot be without Now sin will not only deprive me of this happiness S. 64.4 and put me under this irreparable loss but it will if I continue in a state of sinning bring me into and leave me for ever under INSUPPORTABLE TORMENTS my sin will infallibly bring me to HELL I must be damned for it 't is a quick word a severe word and a terrible word DAMNATION is and yet the expression is not so significantly dreadfull as the thing the term pincheth not the sinner but the thing will hell is a place of torment as well as darkness not one drop of water to cool the inflamed tongue or to quench those everlasting flames not one accent of comfort shall ever be heard spoken to a damned sinner nor one moment of ease shall ever be had After Christ hath once said Mat. 25.41 Depart from me thou cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his Angels then immediatly is the miserable sinner clapt into prison and put into the same state with devils how doth every word of that sentence pierce the heart of a condemned sinner DEPART alas whither shall I go mu●● I depart whether I will or no is there no remedy for me alas from thee Lord why to whom should I go then if I must depart from thee I am lost and undone what from my Lord in whose presence is joy in whose favour is life only no happiness but with thee and must I depart from THEE may I not be admitted to stay so much as in thy sight where I may have a glimpse of THEE and be blessed sometimes with a crumb of thy favour among thy meanest servants No! depart from me ye CURSED oh killing accent what must I depart and from thee and not have thy blessing not so much as I blesse thee in the name of the Lord and go in peace what not a kind word from thee to comfort me in my distresses must I have thy curse with me too oh this is wounding my Lord can say no more to the very devills then to call them ACCURSED and must I fare no better Oh cursed the day that I was born why did I ever see a day to come to this dark and dismall day to be CURSED and banished with a CURSE why if it must be so that I must depart from thee and with a curse at my back let me be banished into some corner of the earth let me be buried under some mountain let me lie as one forgotten let me hear no more of my faults nor feel my misery No no depart from me ye cursed into EVERLASTING FIRE Oh terrible what into fire must I burn and be tormented why who can endure to be burnt must I lie down in flames oh that I might be quickly consumed then and cease to be that I might feel no pain then 't is a thousand times better not to be then to be thus miserable may I not have the favour to be turned into nothing rather then into burnings or let me be tormented but for ten thousand years and then gain at length thy favour Voluisset reprobus si potuisset sine fine vivere ut posset sine fine peccare Greg. No 't is too easie a punishment for such a sinner who wouldest sin eternally if thou hadst been to live eternally on the earth thou didst continue in sin all thy life-time which was all the eternity thou hadst and wouldest do so alway if thou hadst been to live always therefore now thy lot is an eternal curse an everlasting fire without mitigation without limitation no ease there no redemption thence no end of that torment 't is everlasting fire But will not the Lord abate somewhat of the heat and fierceness of that fire S. 65. No 't is PREPARED and prepared for Gods greatest enemies 't is such and alltogether such as is prepared for the torments of devills Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire PREPARED for the DEVIL and his ANGELS what must a vile sinner have no better company in his misery then the cursed devils and his cursed crew to all eternity No! no other they that were thy companions in evil will be thy tormentors thou wilt curse them and they will curse thee and all will curse themselves and Jesus Christ will curse them all and to all eternity shall those wretches that live in their sin and will not be in time reformed be cursed and shut up into that condition with finall despair for the reprobate wretch shall be tormented to all eternity and they shall know so much and despair shall seife upon them as a part of their torment O sinner whoever thou art that readest this reflect on thy self now S. 66. and seriously consider what 't is to live in sin here and to refuse amendment and to despise admonition and not to reform thy life and get thy sins pardoned and soul sanctified and thy self throughly converted ere it be too late Consider I say what thy sin will bring thee to it will bring thee to hell-torments S. 67. to the region of horror to flames unquenchable to Legions of devils to the spirits of wicked men made most

S. 19. and give a check to his corruptions and first motions of lust must make his sins as heinous to his own view as they are in their own nature if he can for a man accustomed to sin will not be soon taken off nor daunted with it neither will he be brought to dislike much less to detest that way and practice wherein he hath found any thing of fleshly content or in which he is engaged unless he sees something that may change his mind and alter his course from evil to good There is a close confederacie between a natural mans heart and his sin that the league and cursed amity is not interrupted but by violence and that but for a season neither sin though it be banished will return again with its solicitations and promises the heart of man unregenerate is as ready open to receive and embrace those former motions and doth as easily do those acts of folly again and doth more greedily pursue the satisfaction of lusts desires if not hindred then ever and the reason that there are so few true converts and so many notorious sinners is because men either content themselves with a cessation for some little time that is while the temptation is at a distance and their opportunities not so frequent or some humane restraint either their laws their fear or their favours do awe them or because men doe not soberly consider why they should lothe their sin and detest it no man will be disswaded from that which is evil except he see evil in that thing he is disswaded from And now truly in every sin thou art guilty of there is so much evil S. 20. that a serious considerate soul would chuse to lie under the greatest affliction without sin rather then to commit the least sin to escape that temporary affliction or to gain by sinning all the advantages this world can procure to the flesh The want of the consideration of the heinousness of sin S. 21. Plas 51. was the occasion that let that good man David loose to a sin which afterward cost him many a salt tear and it was well for him he found place for repentance a melting heart and a weeping eye or else his sin had cost him dear had it not been pardoned upon his repentance Against thee onely have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight which if he had considered before as afterward he did he had not fallen into that which was so hard for him to get out of And on the other side the consideration of sin as sin notwithstanding the advantage might have accrued thereby was the occasion that Joseph withstood the solicitation of his Mistress to an experiment of folly namely with this Gen. 39.9 How can I doe this great wickedness and sin against-God and this consideration kept him from that act of folly which otherwise he might have committed to his wounding and endangering Now that you may no longer retain any the least love and liking of your sin whatever it be S. 22. Job 11.14 but forthwith renounce and cast it far from thee And if iniquity be in thine hand to put it away and never more let wickedness dwell in thy tabernacle then enter on these following considerations First S. 23. 1. I consider and so likewise doe you that sin in its self when it was first known by the creatures angels and men and by any of either of those two kinds of creatures committed and acted became the greatest downfall of each of those Actors as ever since and never before they became sinners was heard of Sin at the first made the first and great breach between God and sinning Angells God and sinning men Man had not known misery but for sin and the miseries and calamities and natural death of mankind are not half so dreadfull as sin is nor half so much evil as sin is and the devils had not felt torment and now their unspeakable misery but for their sin nay hell had not been hell a place of torment had it not been for sinners which was prepared and prepared onely for sinning angells and sinning men and all the Miseries that have befallen any since the creation or that ever shall be inflicted upon any are but the wofull consequences of sin the first and single transgression of a law of God and that by the most choise of the creation and by their single act and being but once committed there fell on them the immediate curse and misery which to this day and to the end of the world and will for ever continue as long as sin is sin and that will be for ever For Christ himself never undertook to abrogate the law of God nor to make it a law that transgression of those laws should be no sin nor that transgressors should be accounted innocent when they sin by disobedience and transgression nor that they should be approved of by God and saved eternally in a way of disobedience that is in a way of habituall and actuall rebellion against God Now when I consider the venome and perniciousness of sin in its first infection S. 24. and in one single act that it defiled and destroyed by rendering them for ever most miserable so great a number of once most glorious and happy angels that sinned but once before their fall and the first sin that ever was committed yet for that once sinning were cast down in disgrace presently from heaven and of glorious angels made wretched devills and reserved in chaines of darkness 2 Pet. 2.4 Jude v. 6. never to be restored upon any termes to the least hope of recovery and reconciliation with God Yet again when I consider that for one sin in our first parents S. 25. Adam and Eve which came upon them by the instigation and cheat of Satan in the time of their pure innocency and integrity what an hereditary misery it brought with it yea such an infection and pollution that not onely they which transgressed became miserable slaves wretched persons deprived of their excellency and paradise but even all the whole race of mankind are fallen under the misery of pollution in our very nature and thereby in a state of wrath and liable to eternal misery can I when I consider this the wofull consequences of one sin in such as those once glorious angels and these once most happy men chuse but I must entertain most dreadfull apprehensions of the nature of sin and flee from it and lotheit as a poisonous serpent and fiery dragon issuing out of the bottomless pit of hell pursuing thy soul to the death and destruction 2ly I consider the exceeding sinfulness of sin S. 26. and I think with Abhorrency of soul on that venome in it and detestableness that when the immaculate most innocent sinlesse lamb the holy and ever-blessed JESUS took mans nature and undertook to expiate the guilt and to satisfie the justice of God and to

of that glory which the Saints enjoy much less that full enjoyment which is laid up for those that repent and believe and live holily here and so persevere to the end of their dayes And now let me consider had I best leave my sin or my claim and hopes of heaven I may not keep both I must forgoe one either my sin here or my happiness hereafter will my sin be a sufficient compensation for the losse of heaven or heaven for the parting with my lusts will a base lust be of greater advantage to thy soul then heaven that thou makest so much of it and so little of salvation canst not brook the thoughts of parting with thy sin and yet canst well enough endure the thoughts of the loss of heaven is sin so pleasing a thing and holiness and heaven so uncomfortable that thou shouldest take such pleasure in unrighteousness and account grace and salvation such a burthen and loss canst thou not sustain with patience the loss of a child a friend the disappointment of a little carnall contentment or to be crossed in thy gratifying a vile lust and canst bear with contentedness the loss of thy God and Saviour thy joy and felicity for ever O sordid stupidity O stupid folly O desperate madness is it imaginable that such a thing as this should ever enter into the heart of any man that hath not forfeited his reason and sold himself to work wickedness or resolved to throw away his soul and undoe himself for ever and resolves to continue in his sin though it be with the loss of his salvation But consider S. 61. is the loss of heaven nothing is it no great matter that thy sin deprives thee of when it shuts fast the gate of heaven against thee can I think those five foolish virgins mentioned in the parable sustained no loss when they lost that opportunity of going in with the Bridegroom did they think their condition as happy as that of the other five that passed into heaven seeing they knocked so earnestly but too late and in vain the door was shut was it no trouble think you to them that they had lost their opportunity that now they could not enter into those joys will it be no trouble to a sinner at last when he shall see the Saints in glory in the kingdome of heaven and the vile hard-hearted impenitent unconverted wretch shut out for ever Alas who can brook or bear the dreadfull apprehensions of the loss of heaven that hath but the least regard to his own precious soul and the worth of heavens happiness Can a man think of any loss so great as the loss of heaven is or is there any such a loss again that which comprehendeth so fully a misery for a man to think on as this May I not safely guess that the greater part of horror and misery of the damned is their reflecting thoughts of their not improving their opportunities in their day of grace in this world for the attainment of heaven and their poor afflicted souls lying under those deep endless agonies of their loss their loss their loss Once I had a fair offer of heaven but I would not now I would but may not that opportunity is lost heaven is lost and I am lost and lost for ever O happy souls that are in heaven O miserable we that are excluded thence Think and think again sinner on this and then know that if thou continue in thy sin as they did that thou must be as they are even as they were once deluded with sin and are now banished from all hopes of happiness for ever think seriously on this and then continue in thy sin if thou canst thou canst not think of living any longer in thy wickedness unless thou meanest to take thy lot with them that have passed to those regions of misery and there with them to abide with weeping and gnashing of teeth to all eternity Mat. 8.12 Is it nothing to lose heaven that I put it every day to the hazard by my complying with sin S. 62. and venter my interest there purchased with the blood of Christ for penitent believing holy men and to be conferred on such when they goe out of this stage of the world as the crown of all happiness to their immortall souls is it a trifle I lay at stake when by the next act of sin I put it to a doubt whether I shall be saved or no shall I commit this sin and take the pleasure and the profit of it and forgoe my hopes of heaven or shall I not Men do not well consider that every time they consent to and obey a lust and execute its command they put their salvation to the hazard and do I do well or wisely in so doing are the joys of heaven no more to be accounted of then to be so prodigall of them and all thy happiness with them doest thou know what thou losest when thou hast lost salvation or canst thou be any where else so well or well at all any where else but in heaven when thou goest hence Is it nothing to miss of heaven or to come short of salvation S. 63. where only my soul can be fully and completely happy where there is onely and nothing else but soul-satisfying ioys and contentments where only I can neither sin nor die any more where I can neither fear nor feel pain sickness sorrow want reproch nor any thing that can in the least interrupt diminish or suspend my happiness much less put an end to my full and perfect bliss There is more fulness of joy then I can be expressed Psal 16.11 and more pleasures then can be numbred and these joys at Gods right hand are for evermore more and for ever And is it a small matter to miss of all these Oh who would live in sin that must suffer such losse for it Surely he loves his lusts too well that will part with heaven and happiness to gratifie the devill and satisfie the lusts of his flesh as every wilfull finner doth But shall I continue in my sin and lose this happiness God forbid Shall I deprive my self and rob my soul of that unspeakable comfort rich enjoyment and reall filling contentment and endless happiness I may have above in heaven rather then crosse my lusts and part with my folly my shame my sin no no let all go let my sinfull pleasures go let the world go let my life go let all go rather then those joys which are in prospect in heaven passe by me and go beside me Lord what shall I do if I miss of heaven I am undone for ever if I do go without it shall I keep a sin which is worse then nothing and lose the bliss of Angells the vision of the All-glorious God whose presence favour and everlasting love fills the soul with most admirable delights and ravishing pleasures shall I lose the portion of Christs