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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47079	An antidote for troubled soules, or, The fruit of repentance taken out of the word of God, and delivered to Thomas Jones of the city of Hereford ...	Jones, Thomas, of Hereford.	1646 (1646)	Wing J993; ESTC R15721	10,050	23

the Definition is this Repentance is the work of the Spirit of God whereby a sinner mourns for his sin and turns to God in all holy and hearty obedience The use is first for trial Thou hopest to be saved ●nd who doth not But if thou wilt be saved thou must repent Art thou regenerated Hast thou releived the Spirit of grace Art thou become a new ●reature Hast thou mourned in secret with godly ●orrow for sin Is there no sin that thou lovest or ●…lowest Is there no sin but thou hatest no duty but thou doest or desirest to do Then thou hast ●epented else no repentance no hope of salvation The second Vse is for repro●●e and terror to all ●mpenitent persons who had never the grace to mourn for their sinnes or turn from them to God Do we not see that the most live in abominable sins ●wearing drunkennesse whoredome fraud lying ●osenage contempt of Gods word prophaning of the Sabbath drinking iniquity as the Axe drinks wa●er thinking they shall never have enough And ●ow few of these repent If without repentance ●o salvation what will become of these wretches that live in open practise of abominable sins Others ●hink themselves in a good estate because they are not so bad as others they are honest civil men need●ng no repentance they know no hurt they have done what shall they repent of they do no man wrong ●hey keep the Church are good natured bountifull But what are all these but splendida peccata And what is their reward but the wrath of God Others are so pure in their own eyes that they think them●elves past repentance so clean as they need no repentance But Publicans and sinners shall enter into the Kingdome of heaven as soon as they and sooner too And by how much the more cleaner they are in their own eyes by so much more hatefull are their hearts to God Like Baalam they will cry O let me die the death of the Righteous but never let ●e live his life They will fast and put on mourning countenances in time of judgement they will seem to mourn but the oppressed feele no ease from them when the storm is past they are euen as Ahab more wicked then before Some talk of repentance but know no more then brute beasts what repentance means Some yea the most in time of sicknesse ●alk of it O if they should liue then they would become new men if they die then surely because of ●his they must go to heauen charity thinks the best But if they liue with the dog they return to their ●omit and with the swine to her former wallowing ●n the myre Some indéed will mourne and séem to ●epent and make restitution but remember Judas ●ll this he did yet he hanged himself It is either ●hame or to quiet a brawling conscience or the praise ●f men that makes them do s● They sorrow not for ●in because they haue grieued God they return from ●ne sin to another from prodigality to couetousnesse ●f such repentance which is but only a shew were ●rue repentance then we should haue many Repentants But who can find one true Repentant in his day-light of the Gospel But behold thou ●retched sinner the gate of hell opens for thee Gods ●urse hangs ouer thy head thy life i● short and Gods ●●dgement sharp thy conscience shall be ransacked by thoughts and deeds laid open thy self accursed to the pit of Hell where thou shalt haue easelesse endlesse and remedilesse pains If one be rewarded with that curse if one sin deserves the curse what will all thy cursed sins deserue But God is mercifull and Christ died for sinners that is my comfort say many Answ Yea but God is iust likewise mercifull indeed to the Penitent but iust to the impenitent And Christ died only for the penitent God hath been mercifull unto thee he hath giuen thée means of repentance and called thée to repentance but if thou repent not the mercy of God which thou hast abused the blood of Christ which thou hast despised and the Word which thou hast neglected shall rise up in iudgement against thee and a thousand millions that haue not grace giuen to them as it hath béen offered to thée they shall rise up in iudgement against thee Therefore it is better if thou couldst to say Christ did not die for thée and God is not mercifull Know that thou treasurest up wrath against the day of wrath And if thou dost giue us the lie Moses proviseth Deut. 29.19 When he shall heare the words of this curse he shall blesse himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk according to the stubbornesse of mine own heart Thus adding drunkennesse to thirst the Lord will not be mercifull unto him but the wrath of God and his iealousie shall smoke against that man and euery curse that is written in this book shall light upon him and the Lord shall put his name out from under heauen The third Vse is to exhort us as we hope to be saued to apply our selues to the practise of repentance to mourn with hearty sorrow for sinne to returne from all sinne to God to the conscionable practise of all good works Doth not euery soul desire to e●cape the wrath of God without repentance if it were possible Quest But what shall we do to repent Answ It is God that works it in us Therefore seek to him for it Now the means that he useth in working is his Word his Spirit and correction By his word he teacheth and worketh repentance in the heart Thus Paul tels us that his preaching was to turn the Gentiles from darknesse to light The Word is a hammer to break the stony heart it is a fire to purge out drosse and corruption of force to conuert the Soule as David saith Psal 19. It regenerateth sanctifieth and quickneth the soul to newnesse of life Whosoeuer then will repent must lend 〈◊〉 diligent eare to the Word of God and they that despise it must neuer look to repent Did men consider this they would either giue off hope of their repentance or be more constant in hearing the Word then they be Secondly Gods spirit is the means whereby repentance is wrougyt in the heart Repentance is the work and gift of the Spirit Therefore while we hear Gods word we must pray sigh groan and cry unto him for his Spirit acknowledging we can do nothing of our selues but his Spirit must work euery grace in us Thirdly Gods corrections are an ordinary meane not of themselues but by the blessing of his Spirit whereby he works repentance in the heart Thus Manasses brought to chaines was brought to repentance Thus the Thief crucified with our Sauiour learned to repent Hos 6.1 Come say they let us return to the Lord he hath smitten us he hath torn us First therefore if we will repent we must be diligent in attending to the Word and praying for his Spirit so to