A44688:170
The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42
The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls a treatise on Luke XIX, 41, 42 : with an appendix wherein somewhat is occasionally discoursed concerning the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and how God is said to will the salvation of them that perish / by J.H.
London: printed by J. Astwood for Thomas Parkhurst, 1684
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.
6. You should therefore in order hereto aggravate to your selves the just causes of your fear. Why are you afraid your day should be over, and the things of your peace be for ever hid from your eyes? Is it not that you have sinned against much light, against many checks of your own consciences, against many very serious warnings and exhortations, many earnest importunate beseechings and entreaties you have had in the Ministry of the Gospel, many motions and strivings of the Spirit of God thereby? Let your thoughts dwell upon these things. Think what it is for the great God, the Lord of glory to have been slighted by a worm! Doth not this deserve as ill things at the hands of God as you can •ear? 'Tis fit you ⟨p. 130⟩should Apprehend what your desert is, th• perhaps mercy may interpose, and avert the deserved dreadful event. And if he have signified his displeasure towards you hereupon, by desisting for the present, and ceasing to strive with you as he hath formerly done; if your heart be grown more cold, and dead, and hard, than sometime it was, if you have been left so as to fall into grosser sin; 'tis highly reasonable you should fear being finally forsaken of the blessed Spirit of God, and greatly fear it, but with an ••ful fear, that may awaken you most earnestly to endeavour his return to you, not with a despairing fear that will bind you up from any further endeavour for your soul at all.
6. You should therefore in order hereto aggravate to your selves the just causes of your fear. Why are you afraid your day should be over, and the things of your peace be for ever hid from your eyes? Is it not that you have sinn'd against much light, against many checks of your own consciences, against many very serious warnings and exhortations, many earnest importunate beseechings and intreaties you have had in the Ministry of the Gospel, many motions and strivings of the Spirit of God thereby? Let your thoughts dwell upon these things. Think what it is for the great God, the Lord of glory to have been slighted by a worm! Doth not this deserve as ill things at the hands of God as you can •ear? 'Tis fit you ⟨p. 130⟩