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The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.HThe vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H
The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.H.The vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Was this such a goodly season wherein you might fill your barns full of corn, and your purses full of money? Why then, had we eyes to see and hearts to conceive what is that season, that blessed season of salvation, those good days that have passed over our heads, wherein many have enjoyed the opportunity and means of salvation twenty, thirty, yea forty years; Oh blessed season, the Sun never saw the like, nay the whole world wonders at this marvellous mercy that the Lord hath vouchsafed to us in this Land. Shall we enjoy all these blessings, and yet not be thankful for them, and prise them as we ought, and walk worthy of them as we might; Oh let it not be so with us, but you that can be thankful for a plentiful ⟨p. 173⟩harvest when you may gather money into your coffers; oh be thankful, be thankful for the means of salvation vouchsafed unto you whereby you may fill your souls full of comfort; and therefore go your ways in secret, and be thankful to God that you live, and if you have received grace, bless God that ever you saw that day, if you have not received grace, yet bless God that yet you breathe, and that you may seek unto him and wait upon him in the use of the means, that so you may receive mercy and salvation from him: bless God that thou hast the Sun-shine of the Gospel shining in thy face, that thou hast the day before thee that thou mayst trade therein and receive comfort thereby.
Was this such a goodly season wherein you might fill your barnes full of corne, and your purses full of money? Why then, had we eyes to see and hearts to conceive what is that season, that blessed season of salvation, those good dayes that have passed over our heads, wherein many have injoyed the opportunitie and meanes of salvation twentie, thirtie, yea fortie yeares; Oh blessed season, the Sunne never saw the like, nay the whole world wonders at this marvellous mercy that the Lord hath vouchsafed to us in this Land. Shall we enjoy all these blessings, and yet not be thankefull for them, and prise them as we ought, and walke worthy of them as we might; Oh let it not be so with us, but you that can be thankefull for a plentifull ⟨p. 173⟩harvest when you may gather money into your coffers; oh be thankefull, be thankefull for the meanes of salvation vouchsafed unto you whereby you may fill your soules full of comfort; and therefore goe your wayes in secret, and be thankefull to God that you live, and if you have received grace, blesse God that ever you saw that day, if you have not received grace, yet blesse God that yet you breathe, and that you may seeke unto him and waite upon him in the use of the meanes, that so you may receive mercy and salvation from him: blesse God that thou hast the Sunne-shine of the Gospell shining in thy face, that thou hast the day before thee that thou mayst trade therein and receive comfort thereby.