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soul_n	body_n	fear_v	kill_v	17,966	5	8.7616	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64950	The coblers sermon cryed downe, as a cruell cup-shot counterfeit, or, The summe of Mr. Humfrey Vincents sermon as it was preached and penned by his owne month and hand confuting the matter and confounding the authour of that base-blasphemous pamphlet called The coblers sermon, Mr. Vincent who hath been a preacher these five and twenty yeeres, preached these two sermons at Saint Georges Church in Southwarke in the yeere 1641, the one on Friday the 10, the other on the Lords day, the 12 of December in the morning.	Vincent, Humfrey.	1641 (1641)	Wing V398A; ESTC R3159	49,140	72

loose or leave that heaven which without these our lusts would even be loathsome But as from the doctrine now delivered I would tell them if I heard them say to their souls we will rather resolve to live unmarried though we walke in our uncleannesse then marry wives and so having children be and be accounted beggarly and base as I would then I say say to them as Paul saith in another case It is better to marry then burne 1 Cor. 7. So I say to them from this doctrine that if they be not carried to heaven they must of necessity be hurried to hell where are inutterable unceaseable torments which when they consider O would they did consider it they will cease to wonder why our sweet Saviour Jesus who in one place calleth the way to heaven a strait gate Luke 13. 24. In another place calleth it easie saying my yoke is easie my burden light Matth. 11. 29. For as it is straight foure wayes or in foure respects In respect of 1. Corruption 2. Custome 3. Company 4. Combats So it is easie also four wayes or in four respects to Christians 1. In regard of the love which they have to the Lord Jesus Christ which love makes all things delightfull desireable 2. In regard of the hope of heaven which they expect to enjoy when they have finished their worke in faith 3. In regard of the oyntment which they have received and which enables them to runne with willingnesse the way of Gods most good commandements 4. Chiefly by way of comparison In regard of the terrible torments of hell which will seize with all severity upon all that will not wet their feet or fingers in walking the narrow way which leads to life everlasting O what what would not be musick mellodious to the eare mellifluous to the mouth to those who are now in that place of torments if it were tendred to them as a condition of their coming out of it againe to the earth How sweetly would the motion sound the matter seeme as indeed it would be if it should be said to the souls in hell you shall come out of your places of torments so that you will be due and diligent hearers carefull doers of the word of the Lord and will submit your selves to suffer scoffes and scornes slanders and scourges fires and fagots and all exquisite tortures that the wits and malice of men and Devils could invent against them impose upon them And thus much for terrifying of the Furious now for the Curious whom this Text also thunders against they are such as cannot be Sober-wise but Over-wise who are alwayes prying into the Arke asking and that often with scorne and contempt what God was doing in all that time before he made the world in the first creation of it Now these men must be answered thus and that from the words in this very verse the beginning of it that is to say that this Tophet this place of torments was prepared and that of old for such false foolish fellows as they are This old Tophet was God preparing all that time before the Creation for them even for them unlesse they leave their disdaine and derision and leave their carnall love to unedifying quirks and quiddities and love sound and solid discourses to speake of things that belong to their Peace As our Saviour saith to his servants Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdome of God have no part or portion at all in it when they as we see in the words foregoing were asking him a curious question Who should be chiefe in the Kingdome of God And surely as he intimates that men would rather seeke to get to heaven then enquire who shall be greatest in heauen So doe I advise and admonish you remembring that I doe not aime at dooming or damning you but at doing what I can that you may escape that dreadfull damnation that you busie your minds and mouths in enquiring of God and men what course must be taken that old Tophet may not torment you then in asking what he did ere the world was made at which time he was ordaining it And thus much for the use of terrour Now I come to a Use of reproofe and herein I reprove two sorts of persons 1. The Impenitent 2. The Impatient For the first I call them Impenitent who would willingly doe good duties whereof they are convinced though they will by no means be converted nor fall about them for feare of the threatnings and terrours of men O that these men would but think of this Tophet that they would but hearken to the words of our Saviour who when he had said Beware of Hypocrisie addeth immediately after another like instruction And I say unto you my Friends feare not them that kill the Body and then can do no more but I will shew you whom yee shall feare feare him that can cast both body and soule to hell yea I say unto you feare him Luke 12. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. And surely as our sweet Saviour saith to his hearers if you cannot conceive Matth. 13. this Parable how will you understand all Parables So say I to those that dare not doe their duties for feare of humane punishments if ye cannot endure the breath of a man who carrieth his breath in his very nostrils how will ye be able to endure the breath of the living God who spans the heavens And sure as the Prophet saith If thou canst not run with footmen how will ye over-run horsemen when a man feels himselfe unable to encounter the fury and frown of a mortall and therfore startles and stands at a stay not daring to doe what his conscience cryes out for it should make him set about it and see that he be not by any means drawn from it considering that otherwise he must for ever be tormented in that Tophet where no prayer can be heard no pity be had And you verily are sharply to be reproved as forgetters of this Text as neglecters of this truth which speaks of hels extremitie and eternitie which will seize upon all those souls who live and lye and dye in their sinnes as many as are drawne from the doing of what you are convinced that it is the great Gods commandment or driven to any thing which you are perswaded God hath prohibited for fear of any thing that any man all men can doe to you for the doing of the one and refusing the other Secondly this doctrine of hels extreme everlasting torments reproveth such as are so Impatient that they say none are so troubled as they are whereas alas there are millions of millions who are already in the place of torments and would give a world of worlds as they have not a drop of water for themselves that they might change estates with you that they were on earth with all their misery with all their trouble and terrour of spirit yea there

othermatters it is best to speake from self experience but for the torments of hell and the Pestilence the Lord grant that we never know further then what wee learn from Gods book and mans reports And so much for the Cautions save onely that I make profession that what I speake of the torments of hell is to preserve and keep you out of hell that you knowing the danger may strive to escape the damnation 1. Now I come to answer a question 2. And then to remove an objection 3. And then to render a reason 4. And then to make application Quest. For the first of these the question is whether there be not degrees of torments Answ To which I answer that of the least degree of all that is true which is taught in my text that as long and as strong as God breaths so long and so strong hels torments abide But yet on these grounds or for these reasons there are degrees in that lake of fire and brimstone First Some commit more sinnes then others and so shall be sure to have more torments then others according to those texts Revel 18. Rom. 2. 4 5 6. And therefore I would not have you sinne at all yet as oft as I thinke on this I cry with Solomon Be not over wicked Ecclesiastes 2. Some have more meanes to restraine them then others have and so shall have a deeper damnation then others have according to that of our blessed Saviour Matth. 11. when he speaking of Bethsaida Chorazin and Capernaum who had abounded with means and mercies It shall bee easier for the land of Sodome in the day of Iudgement then for thee And herein as our Saviour informs us that if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch we may say applyingly and that most properly the people if they be blind shall fall up to the knees in it the Minister if he be blind shall fall up to the middle in it the Bishop if he be blind shall fall over head and eares in it 3. There are some who not onely have more means but also more formall knowledge according to that of our blessed Saviour Luke 12. That servant who knoweth his Masters will and doth things contrary thereto shall be beaten with many stripes Many internall stripes in their spirits whiles they abide here on earth many infernall stripes in hell in the lake of fire and brimstone 4 Some have more hypocrisie then others and accordingly shall have more torments as our Saviour hath also told us Matth. 23. Woe to you Hypocrites who under colour of long prayers devoure Widows houses you shall receive greater damnation A Covetous fellow would faine cover and cloake his Covetousnesse and how I pray thee wilt thou doe it why I le become a professour of Religion and so cover and cloake it entirely And see how fairly thou hast covered it before thou wast a professour thou hadst a great C written in thy forehead but now thou hast two Capitall letters written there even a great C and a great H a Covetous Hypocrite And when death and doome appears thou shalt have one degree of Torments for being a covetous person another for being an Hypocrite according to that of Ambrose Dissembled Pietie is double iniquitie 5 Some have more censoriousnesse then others and accordingly shall have deeper damnation as it is said by that son of Thunder Iames 3. 1. My Brethren be not many masters knowing that ye shall receive the greater damnation There are some such medling masters that they will tattle of and taske every one one is precise in their opinion because he loves not but loaths a Ceremonie another is prophane in their esteeme because he can endure a controverted circumstance Nay there are some so divilized that when they cannot impeach mens practises they will implead and improve their purposes as the Devil though he saw his good works and heard his good words would yet affirme that he did it for his hedge Iob. 1. But let us know that whosoever when his neighbour hath done good actions will yet suspect evil affections whereas in the same Chapter wherein Christ saith Iudge not he saith afterwards Ye shall know them by their fruits Matth. 7. 1. 15 16 shall as censurers as condemners have a deeper degree of torments Sixthly Some have more authority then others more power more high places and of these especially my Text speaketh as we may see by these words in the context It is even prepared for the King as I said at first so I say still let us praise God that we have a good King and not such an one as this was Now for the Objection it is of two sorts for First Some object their Persons Secondly Some object their Professions for the escaping of hell torments though they live lye and dye in their sinnes Concerning Persons First Some object their Prosperity Secondly Some object their Poverty The Divel perswadeth rich men that howsoever they live as they list yet they never shall be damned because they have place or power But they must know that for these causes they must needs be damned if they dye in their sinnes Remember still that I therefore shew you the danger that you may so escape the damnation First Because their consolation is received Secondly Because their conversation is perceived Thirdly Because Gods expectation is deceived Fourthly Because the Divel their master is damned already I say first hearken ye rich men you who are rich must needs be damned if you be not blest with a second birth because your portion is paid you already according to the speech of Abraham to Dives Remember sonne thou hast had thy good things and that of our blessed Saviour Woe to you who are Luke 16. rich for you have received your consolation And this I thinke makes many Gentlemen turne Papists that so proving a purgatory Luke 6. if it were possible they might escape the lake of fire sith living in their sinnes they cannot to heaven I say secondly give eare still you rich men you of power and place must needs be cast to that lake of fire unlesse you be cast in a new mould because the Divel through your sides draweth after him millions of souls if Dives give the poore man nothing the text will tell us that no man gave him And so if rich men give no bread of life to their poore souls will not hear repeat and read the Scriptures none of their family friends or familiars will feed their poore souls but make them fast and quite famish them Let Saul kill himselfe and his armour bearer will kill himselfe let rich men kill their souls and all their neighbours will kill theirs also if it be but for cursed company And this doth make the Divel so desirous to get Landlords and great ones on his side And this made Dives in hell so cager to have one sent to warn his five Brethren that they come