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Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether…
Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregational, or a Presbyterial way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all profane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those gross conceits that they have of their children's right to baptism; and of their own right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good counsel to bad men. Or friendly advise (in several particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.
London: printed by M. Simmons for John Hancock, 1653
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GOOD COUNSEL TO Bad Men. OR FRIENDLY ADVICE TO Unfriendly Neighbours, and their Abettors.
GOOD COUNCEL TO Bad Men. OR FRIENDLY ADVICE TO Unfriendly Neighbours, and their Abettors.
YOUR Petitioning against me, to all understanding men, was a compounded evil; an evil made up of pride, envy, malice, discontent, ignorance, &c. 1My counsel to you is to break off your sins by repentance, that it may go well with you for ever; if you will not, justice will be above you, and in the close, you must lye down in sorrow. Tell me, Can you dwell with the devouring fire? Can you dwell with everlasting burnings? 'Twas a good saying of Chrysostom, speaking of hell, (Ne quaeramus ubi sit, sed quomodo illam fugiamus) Let us not seek where it is, but how we shall escape it. Grievous is the torment of the damned for the bitterness of the punishments, but it is more grievous for the diversity of the punishments, ⟨p. 22⟩but most grievous for the eternity of the punishments. Ah, consider before it be too late! what a sad thing tis for souls, at last, to have the gate of Mercy, the gate of Indulgence, the gate of Hope, the gate of Glory, shut upon them, Matth. 25.10. When a sinner is in hell, shall another Christ be found to dye for him? or will the same Christ be crucified again? Oh no; oh that you were so wise and merciful to your own souls, 2as to dwell upon these Scriptures, Joh. 3.3. Jesus answered, and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Except men be first unmade, and new made up again by the Spirit and Word; except the whole frame of their old conversation be dissolved, and a better erected, there is no heaven to be had. Heaven is too holy, and too hot to hold Drunkards, Revilers, Mockers, and such like, as you may plainly see by comparing these Scriptures together,