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A38163 Great salvation by Jesus Christ tenderd to the greatest of sinners and in particular to such as have been refusers of it, if God shall now at last make them willing to receive it / by Richard Eedes ... Eedes, Richard, d. 1686. 1659 (1659) Wing E243; ESTC R17583 114,819 292

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and rendered it more obscure to such whose eyes the God of this world hath blinded that the light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ should not shine unto them To conclude the point it is in the dispensation of the Gospel that the Lord Christ doth excercise all his offices Propheticall and Kingly as well as Priestly and those that are Refusers of the Gospel are such as slight Christ in all 2 Reason proving the sin of setting light by the Gospel to be great sin is Because it is an aggravated sin That is a sin monstrously great further greatned and made notoriously sinfull by circumstances It s enquired which sinns are most sinfull those that are committed against the first table or the second and it s agreed that sinns against the first are if other circumstances of weight concurre not to make the other the heaviest Scale But this sin of Gospel-refusing is greater than all because the administration of the Gospel doth excell in glory that of the Law as farr as Christ doth excell Moses I might here enumerate a multitude of circumstances to aggravate the guilt of this sin but because I intend as much brevity as a subject so momentous will well allow of I shall satisfy my selfe to enlarge a little upon three Circumstances The circumstances 1 Of Person 2. Of Time 3. Of Place 1. The Circumstance of the Person adds sinfullness to the sin otherwise Nathan had been deceived in pleading the greatness of Davids sin by the eminency of his person and Gods munificence towards him 2. Sam. 12.7 8 9. Thus saith the Lord God of Jsrael I anointed thee King over Jsrael and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul and I gave thee thy Masters house and thy Masters wives into thy bosome and gave thee the house of Jsrael and Judah and if that had been too little I would moreover have given thee such and such things Wherefore hast thou despised the commandement of the Lord to do evill in his sight Much like that of David to his false freind had it been mine Adversary that had magnified himselfe against me perhaps I could have borne it but it was thou my Companion and mine own familiar freind Joseph interposes this consideration betwixt him and sin Quomodo ego how can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39.9 And religious Nehemiah fortified himselfe against flying when Tobia and Sandballat were plotting his discouragment with the very like argument should such a man as I fly I will not go into the temple to save my life Nehem 6.11 Oh let the covenant-servants of the Lord and such as retaine to his Family consider this that those dishonours wound him most which he receives from his favorites and pretended freinds And as the abusers of grace given do sin with an high hand so the refusers of grace offered do sin with a hard heart and their sinns are also aggravated by the circumstance of the person None are capable of being guilty of this sin but such as live in the sound and sunshine of the Gospel those whom the day star from one high hath visited and to whom Christ is tendered in all his fullness The rebellious Jewes were guilty of it for it s said that Christ came to his own and his own received him not Iohn 1.11 And the Gentiles to whom the Gospel was sent upon their refusall they that receive it not are guilty of refusing it but Heathens and Infidels to whom the word of God is a stranger they cannot be guilty of this sin though sinning without Law they shall perish without Law Rom. 2.12 Yet sinning without Gospel they cannot be judged for contemning the Gospel Those Nations and people to whom the sound of the Gospel is gone out as it was into Jsrael of whom David said In Jury is God known his name is great in Jsrael c. He hath not dealt so with any Nation neither have the heathen such knowledge of his wayes and concerning whom Moses makes enquiry What Nation is so great to have the Lord nigh unto them as the Lord our God is nigh unto us in all that we call upon him for and the like may be said of England that it is a Land like Canaan the glory of all Lands a Land flowing not only with milk and hony but with better mercies the bread and water of life the wine and milk of consolation where the King that hath made a marriage for his Son keepes open house and the Lord of hoasts hath made for the faithfull of the Land a feast of fat things and wine upon the lees of fat things full of marrow and wines upon the lees well refined For such to be found here that shall undervalue the Lords bounty and run after their Oxen and Farmes and wives their profits and pleasures and lusts when they should thankfully embrace and rejoyce in the riches of Gods mercy and be meditating and studying some suitable returnes when they should be coveting better profits and solacing themselves with better pleasures and their hearts should be set upon better honours than the world can afford them what unthankfullness can be comparable to this what sinns or sinners can be more notorious 2. The circumstance of the time also doth aggravate the sin Paul said to the Athenians that were exceeding superstitious and given to idolatry Acts 17.30 The times of former ignorance God winked at but now saith he he commandeth all men every where to repent God did not require much from the darke times of heathenish superstitions nor so much from the duske glimmering or star-light of legall dispensations as he doth from us under the clear sunshine of the Gospel now life immortality is brought to light and brought neerer and made clearer than ever before Had we lived in the time of the old world neer unto the deluge when the world was overwhelm'd first with ignorance and licentiousness and then with water They were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marryage i.e. Wallowing in drunkenness and gluttony and lust making provisions for the flesh to fullfill the lusts of it so that Noah the preacher of righteousness could not be heard Or if we had lived in the time of that great revolt of the old Israelites when the Prophet complained and I only am left and they seek my life to take it away 1. Kings 19.10 Or had we lived near unto the time of Christs coming in the flesh when the Gentiles were no people Or in the rise and reign of Antichrist that grand Apostacy of the Gentiles then there might have been some excuse and we had had somewhat to say for our selves But to live in the last age of the World when the Lord is a destroying that man of sin with the breath of his mouth and the brightness of his coming when the fullness of the Gentiles is to come in and the Jewes to be reduc'd unto Christs fold I mean when these
sweet a pardon would be to a condemned malefactor when he were at the place of execution and there you have a shadow of it 2 But how great it is I cannot tell you this I can tell you that it is so great that words cannot reach it neither can our dull intellects comprehend it we read that the love that saves us hath the largest dimensions of length and bredth and heigth and depth Eph. 3.18 19. But in the same breath we also read that it passeth knowledge and to be filled with it is to be filled with the fullnesse of God This Salvation must have the same dimensions and they must be as exactly fitted to each other as the arke and mercy-seat you have already heard of the depth of it in the evills that it saves us from which are as deep as the nethermost hell You have also heard of the heigth of it in the happiness that it advances unto which is a happiness as high as the third Heaven The bredth of it you have also measured unto you in the fullness of excellent meanes that conduce to the accomplishment of it The length of it remaines only to be supplyed and the Scripture is so full of that that you may even run and read it that this great Salvation hath no shorter date for its durance than Aeternity those that are saved are saved for ever and ever Or to help our selves herein by speaking after the manner of men 1 Men set great esteeme by that which is the gift of some great friend and such is this Salvation that we are speaking of we are not saved by our merit it is the gift of God The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6. ult Fear not little flock saith the purchaser of this great salvation for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdome Luke 12.32 Yea salvation and Saviour and all are the gift of God the Father Unto us a Son is given Isai 9.6 And God so loved the world that he gave his onely bogotten Son c. Joh. 3.16 2 Men count that great that hath been purchased at a dear rate and such is this Salvation less than the precious blood of Christ could never have purchased it we were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold and silver c. 1 Pet. 1.18 3 Men count that great that is hardly gained and such is this great Salvation The righteous are s●●rsly saved i. e. At a hard hand and with much ado 1 Pet. 4.18 And we are commanded to strive to enter in at the streight gate Luke 13.24 And to offer violence to the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 11 12. And to give all diligence to make our calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.5 4 Men count him great that hath a great retinue that is a great king that hath amultitude of subjects if we do but look back and recount the multitude of evills that we are saved from and the riches of grace and glory that we are advanced to and the multitude of excellent meanes by which both are brought to pass Salvation may also pass for great upon that account 2 USE Shall be a Proclamation to all that are willing to come in and challenge their part in this great Salvation Christ hath made a full purchase of it and he is a mighty Saviour able to save to the uttermost all that do come unto the Father by him God is a free bestower of it he expects not that we should bring any thing with us but a sense of our own blindness nakedness nothingness a sense of our own want of this great Salvation He is no respecter of persons he accepts none for his goodness nor excludes any for his badness provided that they will come in and accept of it upon the tearmes it is offered observe and study those sweetest invitations one in the old Testament the other in the new Isay 55.1 2. Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money Come ye buy cate yea come buy wine and milk without money and without price wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not hearken diligently unto me and eate ye that which is good let your soul delight it selfe in fatness Revel 22.17 The spirit the bride say come let him that heareth say come and let him that is athirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely O who can but admire at these gracious words if we do but also take into consideration those moving expostulations which we find in the word As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner turne ye turne ye why will ye die O house of Israel Ezek. 18.31 How often would Mat. 32.37 My very text hath the force of a most vehement expostulation how shall we escape c. how shall we answer it to God that we thus slight his mercy and undervalue his Son and destroy our owne Soules and refuse our owne mercies O let not any be guilty of such bedlam madness to exclude themselves when God excludes them not when God throws open his door of mercy to all comers what reason have poor lost undone sinners to barr it against themselves I may write a Noverint universi upon this Proclamation Be it known unto all the World that this Salvation as great as it is and it is greater than words or thoughts can reach unto yea and the great Saviour to boote with all their riches are freely offered unto us poor wretched worthless wormes upon no other or higher condition than our thankfull willing acceptation of them Iohn 1.12 As many as received him to them gave he power i.e. priviledge to become the Sonns of God even to them which believe on his name Oh that our everlasting doors might now flie open to give entertainment to this King of glory Oh that our understandings and wills could now close with the truth and goodness of this great Salvation that we may with one accord take up that saying of the Apostle 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a true and faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation that Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners THIRD USE 3 Use Serves to reprove the madness of the neglecters or refusers of this great Salvation since it is so great salvation and offered on such easie terms surely the folly and madness of such as are regardless of it is exceeding great and this is the more aggravated and made out of measure sinfull by taking into consideration what toys and trifles are prized and set by while salvation is neglected the Devil World and the Flesh shall be served while Father Son and Holy Ghost are basely neglected mens profits pleasures and honours the perishing vanities of a transitory world shall be sought after with uttermost dilligence while more