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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80865	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, January the 9th 1675[/]6 By Thomas Cartwright, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty. Published by His Majesties special command.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1676 (1676)	Wing C702B; ESTC R4730	14,227	36

condolendo quod non potestis eos salvare Alas 1 Cor. 2. 14. The Natural Man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him neither can he know them because they are Spiritually discerned But he that is Spiritual judgeth all things He sees by Faith the Heaven which you neglect and those Blessed Souls now in Glory whose Everlasting Companions you might be if you pleas'd and he sees also your Brethrens despairing Souls now in Hell among those Devils that deceived them who came thither the same way you are going in and with his Bodily Eyes doth he also see at the same time a multitude of Senceless and Sensual Sinners living round about him who lay none of these things to heart but damn and defile not only their own but their Brethrens Souls by their Errours Seductions and Ungodly Examples as if they were the Devils Factors under Commission from him to make Proselytes for Hell and accordingly he cannot but compassionate their sad Condition and wonder at their Stupidity Oh! What a Besotting Thing is Sin which can thus petrifie the Reasonable Soul and make Men more insensible than Beasts which perish What a Bedlam is this wicked World wherein Thousands are so distracted as to make it their Business to undo themselves and others to all Eternity Can we not bring you to some sober thoughts of your condition Can we not perswade you to take Christ's part and your own against the Devil the World and the Flesh ●hich you have renounc'd in your Baptism If Importunity could prevail with an unrighteous Judge to do good to another how much more should it prevail with you to do good to your selves Have Mercy therefore upon your own Souls and do not render it impossible for us to be any farther serviceable to them God himself will not save you against your Wills much less can we do it which will the better appear when I shall have given you a satisfactory answer to the second Inquiry viz. 2. How far we may be instrumental to the Salvation of other Men and with what fear and caution we must attempt it As there is no good so great as that which respects the Souls of Men so certainly to be a Fellow-worker with Christ as an Agent in it or Instrument of it must needs out-vie all other Priviledges And if the Heathens mistook Paul and Barnabas for Gods in the likeness of Men for restoring the Criple of Lystra to his Limbs again with much better reason may we magnifie them who have so much Communion with God upon Earth as to become Coadjutors with him in the Salvation of a Soul from Sin Dionys Carthus Divinarum omnium perfectionum divinissima est perfectio cooperatorum esse in reduc●…ne animarum ad suum creatorem Now God hath given all Men some special Powers and Ministries whereby they may Charitably advance the great Interest of Souls St. Paul 1 Cor. 7. 16. asserts the possibility of the Christian Wives saving her Vnbelieving Husband and he tells Timothy 1 Tim. 4. 16. that in taking heed to himself and his Doctrine he should both save himself and them that heard him and he himself 1 Cor. 9. 22. became all things to all men that he might by all means save some And The Salvation of a Soul from death is attributed to the Instruments of their Conversion by St. James to perswade them to diligence in their Office Save them that is Aquin. Quantum in vobis est ut salventur orate Pray for their Conversion and if by any means you can Rom. 11. 14. provoke them to emulation bring them to Faith and Repentance that you may save them Alas it is God alone who can pierce the scales of this Leviathan and make the hearts of obdurate Sinners feel which are harder than the nether Milstone We are but as Striplings against that Goliah Our Commission is indeed from the Almighty and in his Name we are come forth to wrestle not with Flesh and Blood but with Principalities and Powers and the Rulers of the darkness of this World and it is our God who must choose out the Stones that we sling and carry them to the mark and make them sink not into the forehead but into the hearts of these uncircumcised Philistins and smite them to the ground that with Saul they may get strength by their very falls We can but Woo and Warn you we cannot Compel you to be happy I wish we could Cornel. a Lapide A Medico Pastore requiritur cura non curatio utpote cum morbus non raro sit incurabilis If you will follow our Prescriptions your Diseases are not incurable have pity therefore on your perishing Souls and close with the present Overtures of Mercy God hath sent Vs to You as he did his Holy Angel to Lot to lay the Merciful Hands of an Holy Violence upon you that you may not stay any longer in your Sins but escape for your Lives lest you be consumed If you are afraid of these ensuing Judgments we are afraid with you if not we are afraid for you and we are the more afraid for you the less you are for your selves Psal 119. 120. Our Flesh trembles for fear of you and we are afraid of God's Judgments 'T is with an aking Heart and trembling Hand that the Chirurgion cuts off the Gangreen'd Member of his Bosom-Friend and it is also with great Compassion and no less Fear that we endeavour to recover you out of that Fire which will singe you if you stay but one moment longer in it and devour you as infallibly if you do not whilst it is called To Day escape it the great importance and difficulty of which undertaking of yours will appear if you consider in the third place III. What is meant by Pulling them out of the Fire and how we must do it What the phrase implies and what it requires of us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Save them by snatching them out of the Fire is a Proverbial speech for those who get hardly out of danger Amos 4. 11. I have overthrown some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and ye were as a Fire brand pluck'd out of the Burning And Zac. 3. 2. Is not this a Brand pluckt out of the Fire 1 Cor. 3. 18. He himself shall be saved yet so as by Fire that is He shall awake and leap out of Danger as a Man at Midnight doth naked out of his Bed at the Door or Window when his House is on Fire which words do accordingly import these four things 1. The great Danger of Impenitent Sinners 2. The Possibility of their Deliverance 3. The Difficulty of escaping their Imminent and Everlasting Destruction 4. By what Means it is that we may Charitably assist them in their escape and which will be the only possible way of doing it 1. The condition of every impenitent