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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11949	A catechisme briefly opening the misterie of our redemption by Christ hauing the proues of euery point so annexed, and ioined vnder euery answer, that the ruder sort of people may be much furthered thereby, if they would vse a little diligence and endeuor to commit it to memory, or be much conuersant in reading thereof, or if they cannot read in hearing it read by others, vnto knowledge, and godlinesse.	Settle, Thomas.	1587 (1587)	STC 22267; ESTC S114769	38,264	95

thrée places Paule setteth foorth the power of the Holy ghost in begetting of faith by the outward ministrie of his preaching In the fift chapter to the Galathians Paule saith Galat. 5.22 The fruit of the spirite is loue ioy peace long suffering gentletlenesse goodnesse faith meekenesse temperancie Qu. What men are meet for the planting of faith An. Those onely that haue a féeling of their owne miserie and woe due from Gods instice for their sinnes For those onely dooth Christ call in the eleuenth of Mathew saying Math. 11 28 Come vnto me all yee that are weary and laden and I will ease you In the second of the Acts we read that those that were pricked in their harts and said vnto Peter and the other Apostles Acts. 2. ℣ se 37 38 39. Men and brethren what shall we do immediatly after beléeued Qu. To what head or point of religion do you refer this sorrow and trembling conceiued of the sight of Gods displeasure for sinne An. To the point of Repentance Acts. 2 ●7 as a foregoer thereof in the elect Qu. What is Repentance An. Repentance is a turning frō sin vnto God What Repentance is that is to say a framing of our whole life to obey him And the word that the Scripture vseth most commonly to expresse it by doth signifie a change or alteration of the minde That new birth which our sauiour Christ speaketh of in the 3. of Iohn vnto Nicodemus is nothing but Repētance Iohn 3 3. It is called Regeneration Regeneration or Repentance hath two parts represented in baptisme that is Dying vnto sinne called mortification termed in the Scripture circumcision of the hart And newnesse at life Both these partes of repentance are in sundrie places of the Scriptures expressed As in the 2. chapter vnto Titus in these words Titus 2. ℣ se 11 12. For that grace of God that bringeth saluation vnto all men hath appeared and teacheth vs to deny vngodlines and worldly lusts this is Mortification and to liue sobe●ly righteously and godly in this present world this is Newnesse of life In the 2. to the Collossians these two parts are also expressed where the Apostle saith Coloss 2. ℣ s 11 12. In whom also ye are circumcised with circumcisiō made without hands by putting off the sinfull body of the flesh through the circumcision of Christ in that ye are buried with him thorough baptisme Ephes 4. ℣ se 22 23.24 in whom ye are also raised vp together through the faith of the operation of God In the 6. of the epistle to the Romans Rom. 6.4 and in the 4. of the first epistle of Peter both these parts are manifestly expressed 1. Pet. 4. ℣ se 1 2. the one procéedeth of the force of Christs death the other of his n = * Phil. 3 10. resurrection Qu. How is repentance wrought in mans hart An. By the holy ghost in preaching of the lawes and the gospell John 3 5. Except a man saith Christ be borne of water and the Holy ghost he cānot enter into the kingdome of God Againe Paule saith in the 6. of his first epistle to the Corinthians 1. Cor. 6.11 And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are iustified in the name of the Lord Iesus by the spirit of our God And againe in the 3. chapter of the secōd epistle to the Corinthians 2. Cor. 1 12. But we all behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lord with open face and are chaunged into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord. Qu. You haue proued that Repentance is the worke of the Holy ghost Now proue that it is in the ministry of the law and the gospell An. In the 1. chapter of Titus it is commaunded Titus that he should sharply rebuke the Cretians Titus 1. ℣ se 12 13. because one of their own prophets witnesseth that they were alwaies liers euill beasts slow bellies that they may bée sound in the saith Rom. 3.20 The whole Scripture both the law the gospell saith the same Apostle in the 3. of his 2. Epistle to Timothie 2. Timoth. 3. ℣ se 16 17. is giuen by inspiration from God and is profitable to conuince to correct and to instruct c. thus much for the ministry of the lawe For the gospell Our Sauiour Christ saith in the fiftenth of Iohn Nowe are yee cleane through the word that I haue spoken vnto you Iohn 15 3. Also Peter saith in the 1. chapter of his first epistle Being borne againe not of mortall seede but of immortall 1. Pet. 1.23 by the word of God Lastly in the twenty and six of the Acts it is witnessed that Paule was sent by Iesus Christ by preaching the gospell vnto the Gentiles To open their eies Acts. 26 18. that they might turne from darknes to light and from the power of Satan to God that they might receiue forgiuenes of sinnes inheritance among them that were Sanctified by faith in him Thus it is plaine that Repentance is the worke of the Holy ghost by the ministry of the law and the gospell Qu. Whether is faith before Repentance or Repentance before faith An. The question is busie there is no doubt but faith repentance are very nigh adioined as touching their beginning as is the cause and the effect Let it suffice vs to know that when a sinner thorow the preaching of the lawe is throwne downe to the sight of his deserued damnation by the auenging iustice of God that thē if he be Gods elect faith in Gods promise of saluation in Christ is wrought in him by the preaching of the gospell whervpon followeth an hatred of sinne and care to auoid it a loue of righteousnes and care to doo it which are especiall effects of repentance in token of thankefulnesse for saluation by Christ The Scripture in sundry places doth ascribe sanctification and purging of the hart vnto faith As in the twentie and six of the Acts Acts. 26 18 That they may receiue forgiuenes of sinnes and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in mee Againe in the 15. He put no difference betweene vs and them after that by faith he had purified their harts Now Sanctification regeneration repentance being all one it followeth that they are effects of faith Further because without faith as the Apostle saith in the 11. to the Hebrewes it is impossible to please God Hebr. 11 6. in another place Rom. 14.23 What soeuer is not of faith is sinne We haue most warrant to think that faith is before repentance Notwithstanding some writers are of mind that some part of repentance goeth before faith and some part followeth as an effect therof Qu. When ceaseth repentance in men An. When men cease altogether to sin But sin doth not cease to be in the