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A58347 A call and patern for true and speedy repentance being an abridgment of those many severe sermons by Thomas Reeve ... intituled God's plea for Nineveh. Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672. 1683 (1683) Wing R692; ESTC R33984 87,424 108

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one must learn viz. To know God and our selves which short Lesson we must be exact in for by the knowledg of thy self there is distilled into thee the Fear of God and by the Fear of God there is distilled into thee a Love of the Promises if thou knowest not thy self there 's nothing but Pride if thou knowest not God there 's nothing but Despair and having got this Compendious Divinity and all things necessary for this prime Art where high sublime things may be dispensed with if we have not Means Opportunities Qualifications and Endowments to attain them The Substance we are ty'd to but not the Apurtenances especially where God denyes Faculties Therefore if thou understandest Necessary Faith and Duty trouble not thy self if thou canst not understand Mysteries for God doth not judge the Ignorant but plead for them Which cannot discern 2. This might serve to spring Compassion in mens Breasts toward the Ignorant Tully never got more Credit than by defending the young Noble men of Rome for not performing all things according to Martial Discipline Oh Severe Sentences has made the world a Slaughter-house Damasippus kill'd the Citizens of Rome like Sacrifices because Marius jun. did but tarry alittle among them Usuncassan kill'd his Son Masubius tho young and not capable of Treason because he suspected in time he would take part with his Mother Thodosius jun. sending an Apple which cost him an hundred pieces of Silver to his Empress and she sending it to Paulinus and he presenting it again the Emperour he thinking there was too much Familiarity between Paulinus and the Empress took off Paulinus's head Domitian executed Hermoge●es Tarsensis because he put strange Pictures in a History and crucified the Artists that drew them He also destroy'd Metius Pompusianus because he kept but a Globe of the World in his House and had certain Orations taken out of Livy of Kings and Captains By an antient Law in Rome Virgins were note to be put to Dea h while Virgins Therefore this Emperour caused th Executioner to deflour them and then execute them guiltlessness was no Protection Oh that Christianity had taught us more Justice Are there none in our Land though Christian that dye upon Suspicion and suffer for such things as they know not of are not many made Transgressors for a Word or if some do transgress is not a Community oftentimes endangered which never heard or knew any thing of the Design Christendom is large and it seemeth to teach all the World Truth but I doubt all her Pulpets have not sanctified the Judgment seats the Souls under the Altar do cry and the Blood under the Tribunals ●o cry If so What is this but to turn Judgment into Gall Am●s 5.7 O let the Judge pity let the Jury tender all them that are not conscious of the Fact Let the Foxes and the Tygers be destroy'd but slaughter not the innocent Lambs 3. This shews what is justifiable Ignorance viz. That which cannot discern not that which may and will not but that which would but cannot discern There is a difference between them that understand not God's wayes and those that desire not the Knowledge of his wayes Job 21 14. between those which are deprived of their sight and those which close their eyes Take heed how thou dost drink thy damnation draught out of this inchanted Cup. 4. This doth reprove them which sin against their own Discernings which can discern and do discern and yet their words are stout against God Oh If wilful Ignorance be a sin what is wilful Presumption What as bright as a Scraphim in Knowledg and as black as Belzebub in Behaviour if I know any thing This is the Sea of the Scornful the Conscience feared with a● hot Iron with such 't is enough to deserve Fetters to urge Scripture Oh Adulterers and Adulteresses Blasphemers Epicures Oppressors Persecutors Tyrants hear afar off the last Trump blowing behold at a distance the sign of the Son of man appearing in the Clouds set up Christ Jesus is Tribunal in your Consciences before you make your Impartial Account before that white Throne Oh that you would not pluck your Eyes our of your heads whilst you are living that you would not draw up the Sentence in Self damning Letters that you would not begin Dooms day in Covictions If our hearts condemn us God is greates than our hearts and knoweth all things If the man be spech less the next words are Take him bind him hand and foot and throw him into utter Darkness Oh that I could warn you from these gilts and separate you from presumptuous sin What will you say when 't will be urg'd That you knew both the Crime and the Curse Ye did discern Thoughs accusing are unanswerable Witnesses If ye were blind ye should have no Sin bu● now ye say We se● therefore your sin remaineth They cannot desire better Light no they say We see nor wish for a better Interpreter for Christ hath spoken to them The knowing Sinner is a prodigious Sinner a fighting Conscience is more terrible than a Goliah to encounter with God hath no Mercy for obstinate Sinners which do commit Sin though they do discern it no he will only spare them which cannot discern Should not I spare c. Between their right hand and their left 3. We come now to the Degree between their right hand and their left By such are understood Infants Besides men of ripe Age and intelligent there are six score thousand and more of other men So that Infants and simple men are highly cared for by God saith Chelmannus Simple men we had before and now God doth proceed to Children which cannot discern between the right hand and the left This Observation naturally arises from the Text That Knowledg is incompatible with Infancy for they cannot discern between the right hand and the left As the man is so is his strength Judg. 8.21 so as the Child is so is his Judgment We to thee O Land when thy King is a Child Eccl. 10.16 i.e. when he doth want not years but wisdom which intimates that a Child is not come to years of Discretion I confess I have read That the Son of Craesus spake at six Months and saved his fathers life and That Sigebert the Son of Dugobert the fortieth day after his Birth being baptized by Amandus plainly answered Amen And that Anno 1117. there was an Infant lying in the Cradle made a long continued Speech to his Mother busied in her Family Cares wishing her not to be too intent upon worldly things for God was ready to be reveng'd on the world instantly if c. But these things were done by miracle and not by ordinary course of nature Petrarch gives solid Comfort to a Parent bewailing the death of his Infant wishing him not only not to be dismayed seeing his Child had escaped these afflictions but chiefly to rejoyce because the state of a dying Infant is without any