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Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…
Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness of sin. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
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but they are hidden from thine eyes, take notice, every man ⟨p. 285⟩hath a day and a season which is the harvest of salvation, do you not take notice of this, that at some Sermon God opens the eye and pricks the conscience, and sometimes lovingly persuades a man, and the soul is yielding and walking after the Lord, the soul melts lovingly under the hand of God, this is thy day, take heed how thou neglectest it, and as thou goest home, entreat the Lord to make profitable that which thou hast heard, and say this is my day, I am now in the fire, Lord melt me, I am now under the power of thy ordinance, make it effectual to my soul, and take notice of it, if the spirit of God call and you regard it not, and let all go, and all commodities are plucked up, and gone, you may come, and call, and cry, but it is too late; that Spirit which thou hast resisted shall ⟨p. 286⟩never work more, thank thy self, the day is gone, now they are hidden from thine eyes, the day is over, and therefore thou mayest cry, Oh, for a Minister, & oh for a Sabbath, no, no, if all the Angels in heaven should speak, and all the Ministers on earth should preach themselves hoarse, thou wouldest not be affected therewith, therefore take the season and the golden opportunity of grace, and when Christ comes to your souls entertain him, if Christ knocks, open the door, if he awaken thy conscience do not snub it; labour now to see thy sin that thou mayest find mercy at the hand of the Lord. Secondly, as we must seek seasonably, so we must seek with our whole heart, now the whole heart makes known it self in two particulars;
but they are hidden from thine eyes, take notice, every man ⟨p. 285⟩hath a day and a season which is the harvest of salvation, doe you not take notice of this, that at some Sermon God opens the eye and prickes the conscience, and sometimes lovingly perswades a man, and the soule is yeelding and walking after the Lord, the soule melts lovingly under the hand of God, this is thy day, take heede how thou neglectest it, and as thou goest home, intreat the Lord to make profitable that which thou hast heard, and say this is my day, I am now in the fire, Lord melt me, I am now under the power of thy ordinance, make it effectuall to my soule, and take notice of it, if the spirit of God call and you regard it not, and let all goe, and all commodities are plucked up, and gone, you may come, and call, and cry, but it is too late; that Spirit which thou hast resisted shall