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A27606	Evangelical repentance unto salvation not to be repented of upon 2 Cor. 7, 10 ; and as most seasonable, Short considerations on that great context Hebr. 12, 26, \"Yet once more I shake not only Earth, &c.\" : upon the solemn occasion of the late dreadful earthquake in Jamaica and the later monitory motion of the earth in London, and other parts of the nation and beyond the sea ; whereunto is adjoined a discourse on death-bed repentance, on Luc. 22, 39 / by T. Beverly.	Beverley, Thomas.	1693 (1693)	Wing B2148_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; Wing B2140_CANCELLED; ESTC R17858	162,555	326

Evangelical Repentance UNTO SALVATION Not to be Repented of Upon 2 Cor. 7.10 And as most Seasonable Short Considerations on that Great Context Hebr. 12.26 Yet once more I shake not only Earth c. Upon the Solemn Occasion of the Late Dreadful Earthquake in Jamaica and the Later Monitory Motion of the Earth in London and other Parts of the Nation and beyond the Sea Whereunto is Adjoined a DISCOURSE on Death-Bed Repentance On Luc. 22.39 Now God commandeth every one every where to Repent Acts xvii 20. By T. Beverley London Printed by R. Smith for W. Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Church-yard where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with Bound Books of most Sorts Acts of Parliament Speeches and other sorts of Discourses and State-Matters as also Books of Divinity Church-Government Humanity Sermons on most Occasions c. MDCXCIII Licensed and Entred According to ORDER THE Epistle Dedicatory TO THE KING and QVEEN TO Their Majesties is most Humbly presented These Discourses of Repentance extending to National Reformation in order to the Kingdom of Christ Into which are inserted Considerations upon the late Earthquake in Jamaica and the later Motion of the Earth in London and other Parts in the Nation and beyond the Seas And all this on greatest Right and Due For who as Religious Princes are so concerned in Publick Reformation according to all the Precedents of Scripture Who as Protestant Princes are Interested in the Kingdom of Christ of which the Protestation against Papal and Antichristian Abominations and Usurpations was a Preparation even for that Kingdom of Christ tho at the distance of 180 Years styled in Prophecy Half Time near expiring into the Succession of that Kingdom when Reformed Princes truly so shall not lose but highly gain in Glory Who as Good and indeed Gracious Princes are so deeply affected in publick Judgments unhappy Revolutions or general Mercies and happy Revolutions foreboded by Earthquakes or Gentle Moves of the Earth For they are Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers of their People And of what Princes can we hope or promise our selves better than of their so Vnited Majesties Two-One in True Religion As therefore the Supream Majesty was pleas'd to give particular Directions to Themselves of those Tremblings of Earth whether for Judgment and Repentance or for Mercy in their Port in Jamaica styl'd Royal and in this their Capital City and not only so but peculiarly in the Camp Royal in Flanders So All these Discourses upon All are most Humbly and with profound Obeysance first laid at their Majesties Feet as having the first National Episcopacy committed to them from God in Succession to Constantine the first Christian Prince in much greater and truer Right than the Popes have their Primacy from Peter or his Hierarchy their Episcopacy from the Apostles And next it is Presented to the National Episcopacy so Constituted by their Majesties even as an Evangelical Ministry is I hope more immediately committed to them by Christ wherein being near to Christ as in their National Episcopacy to their Majesties they can and I doubt not will Represent to them what is according to his Gospel by this Ministration For wherein have we in the History of Scripture found a greater Configuration of the happiness and stability of Times than when David's and Nathan's Jehosaphat's Micaiah's and Jehaziel's Joash's and Iehoiadah's Zerubbabel's and Joshuah's Nehemiah's and Ezra's have been conjoin'd And in Church History than when Constantine's and Athanasius's Theodose's and Ambrose's the Protestant Princes and Luther's c. and in our Nation than when such as K. Edw. VI. and Cranmer c. or Q. Eliz. Jewel c. have been Vnited in Publick Reformation And oh that at such a time as this General Reformation by Both might be tinctur'd with the Knowledge of the Kingdom of Christ when by the Sure Word of Prophecy deeply to be search'd it is so near How great Honour would be return'd from hence All which is most Humbly Prayed by Their Majesties most Humble and Obedient Subject and Servant in the Kingdom of Christ T. BEVERLY TO THE READER BY A Friend of the Authors WE live in an Age wherein Names and Professions are many Thousands and ten Thousands are distinguished thereby every one saying Lo here is Christ and Lo there that thou hast a Name that thou livest may be said to the National Church and to all the Dissenting Churches among us the Temple the Temple saith the one and saith the other yet may it not be said to the most of these Churches But thou art dead be watchful and strengthen the things that remain that are ready to Dye Rev. 3.2 3 4. God hath I am perswaded a few Names in all and every the said Churches who have not defiled their Garments but do indeed repent and turn to the Lord who are born not of Flesh nor of Blood nor of the will of man but of God such to whom the kindness and love of God our Saviour hath appeared not by works of Righteousness which they have done but according to his mercy he hath saved them by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost and for others let them be of the lowest or of the highest form such that have made the first step to Reformation or higher and greater steps thereto they are but the leaves of the Fig Treee that is cursed of Christ and shall soon wither away It is no matter what name you have I would there were not any Name among us but Christian It is the Nature and Power of Christianity What is the Chaff to the Wheat It is said in the Phrophesies of Isaiah and Micah that the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be exalted to the top of the Mountains and all Nations shall flow unto it I do not think by Mountain in these places is meant any one particular Church by what Name soever they be dignified or distinguished But the true Living Mistick and Catholick Church such who having been in the Apostacy with others do Repent and turn to the Lord and that you may the better know them you have these following Discourses to help you in so great a work some Despise this great Grace and stumble at this mighty work of God upon the Heart as too high too hard and too difficult a work but God hath his Fire in Zion and his Furnace in Jerusalem and he will throwly purge his Floor There must be a cutting off a right Hand a plucking out a right Eye and it is better going to Heaven with one Eye and with one Hand maimed and Halt than to go to Hell with both Others say Repentance is a legal work fit only for old Testament Saints There is indeed a sorrow a rapentance that worketh Death but the Repentance here called for and exhorted to is such that is never to be Repented of That which brings the Soul poor and naked trembling and melting to Christ the Prince and Saviour

Eternal Condition to that Unspeakable Hazard AND A full Resolution of the Case how far a Death-Bed Repentance is possible to be Sincere and Effectual By T. Beverley 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Day whilst it is called to Day Lest any one be hardned through the Deceitfulness of Sin Heb. 3.7 13. LONDON Printed by R. Smith for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Church-yard where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with Acts of Parliament Speeches and other sorts of Discourses and State-Matters as also Books of Divinity Church-Government Humanity Sermons on most Occasions c. MDCXCII THE PREFACE TO THE READER IT may seem unseasonable and morose to deny the value of any kind of Repentance in such an Age as this wherein there is a Generation arisen Oh how lofty are their Eyes and their Eye-lids lifted up with Scorn and Disdain of all Religion An Age so irreligious that it seems necessary to gather up all the Fragments tho but of a seeming Piety and make the most of them rather than to call things to so strict a Ballance A thinner and more dilute Repentance than would formerly have admitted a Man into a visible Church may at such a time as this hope for Heaven To all this I must answer First The Looseness of an Age does not slacken or dissolve Eternal Laws Wisdom abates nothing of its price of that timely and early search after it whether Men think good to give it or whether they will forbear It hath no meaner Esteem of it self because Folly that is simple and knoweth nothing sitteth upon the high places of the City full of Noise and Clamor and entices to its Entertainments the Multitude and Grandeur of the World All the Severities of Scripture that make the way to Heaven narrow and the Gate strait stand like a Rock from Generation to Generation alike in all times Nothing that is prodigally loosed on Earth in compliance with a licentious Age will be therefore loosed in Heaven The goodly price of a Death-Bed Repentance at which God is priz'd by Men even then when Religion is at the lowest is rejected oftest with Indignation and the everlasting State purchased by it may be sadly called an Aceldama a Field of Blood If this Severity of Divine Truth offend any one The Resolution is that of our Saviour † Mat. 15.17 Every Plant whether Person or Thing that our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up 2. It is no improbable way of Contesting against Atheism and general Irreligion by the strict Doctrins of Christianity as well as by Arguments of Reason Nay Authoritative Applications of the Truth of God often strike the Conscience within the Reason sooner and quicker than industrious Attempts upon the Reason as Lightning melts the Steel and neglects the Scabbard Pressings of Faith Repentance Holiness Eternal Judgment make Men even Vnbelievers fall down upon their faces when the Secrets of their Hearts are discovered and confess God is there For the Soul of Man is more easily wrought upon by those domestick Rebukes God gives it by his Word than by more solemn Treaties Especially corrupted Reason takes upon it self to be a lawful Authority when an honourable War is commenced against it by the better Reason on the other side It contemns Laws of Discourse as precarious and makes account it gives Reason for Reason But the Rod of God shaken over it makes it tremble and confess it self a Slave Thus the Slaves in the Story were more easily reduced by the servile Chastisements they were acquainted with than by the force of Armies Atheism grows the prouder generally for being reasoned with It does but dissemble while it pretends its disease to be in the Head which it knows indeed to be in the sensual Heart And therefore is pleased to be struck in the Head but cannot endure to be wounded in the Heart which the Word of God especially aims at Not but that it is indeed a most generous and honourable Atchievement to shew Religion to be the highest Reason and to detect those pretending Sons of Reason of the greatest Irrationality But it is still to be acknowledged the plain preaching of the Gospel which the Apostle calls the Foolishness and Weakness of God is alone wiser and stronger than Men The Reason of that couched under an Heavenly Authority of Truth carries those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those mighty Weapons whereby every high Imagination and Reasoning is to be subdued that lifts up it self against God Vpon this occasion I cannot but bewail those unhappy Divisions that have separated the Preachers of the Gospel one from another and thereby opened a Lane for that Black Troop to advance in and made the Trumpet of the Gospel to sound so incertainly that it hath rather scattered Men than prepared them to the Battel Our Saviour foreseeing the Consequences hereof according to that great Maxim of his ‖ Mat. 12.25 Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to Desolation did so earnestly command Vnity and Love of one another to his Disciples in general and more particularly to the Ministers of his Word as the most effectual Demonstration † Joh. 17.21 He was sent from God and his Doctrin from Heaven From whence it follows where ever this Vnion is broken Christianity is liable to the Imputations of being a great Cheat and Fraud Vpon which advantage loathsome Irreligion enters and spreads it self in those empty spaces begotten by our Distances and removes from one another All divisions in Christianity are Scandals to it and weaken it This we see verified in our days the differences in Religion and the prophane scorn or stupid neglect of it being alike visible and notorious throughout the Nation Yet upon just Accounts the Irreligion consequent upon Divisions in Religion turns to the advantage of Christianity that thus it must be else how should the Scriptures be fulfilled But this abates nothing of the Sinfulness and Vnhappiness or Necessity of Amendment To guide us then into that It is very observable the venom of this Distemper falls not so much upon the several Parties in Religion as upon Religion it self while we wound one another Religion is the Martyr lies a bleeding and even dying And while good Men lament it the Enemies of it make merry and send † Rev. 11.10 gifts one to another in token of Triumph The method of Cure therefore is not for every Party to weigh up it self and press down others but to buoy up Religion it self and that is best done by Preaching and living the very Thing without distinction of Names If we did but yield it its own Integrity and Vniversal Goodness it would soon rise into that Honour it hath lost by being captivated to Opinions For as our human Nature would be much more beautiful and happy if cemented by that Philanthropy or general love of Mankind so indearingly charged upon us by our Saviour who demonstrated that he embraced within

of the Spirit poured out of such a Glorious Kingdom of Christ come into its Succession and at the time when our Lord shall immediately Come in his Kingdom But then at the same time is cut off all possibility of Repentance after this Season of Repentance For as soon as the time of the Vials enters all possibility of Repentance is fore-doom'd as hath been said Now this Late Repentance shall be excited and stirred up to by the Preaching of the Everlasting Gospel and of this there were two great Symbols or Figures given in the very first Appearance of the Gospel viz. the Apostleship of Paul who was as hath been observed Born out of due Time into that High Mission agreeable to which is the Preaching of the Everlasting Gospel and the Repentance of the Dying Malefactor just as Christ was entring into his Kingdom And they are each a Hypotyposis or Pattern for them who shall Hereafter Believe on Him to Life Everlasting and Repent with the Repentance to Salvation never to be Repented of and especially at that Great Futurity of the Coming and Kingdom of Christ or the Coming of Christ in his Kingdom FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by William Miller at the Acorn in St. Paul's Church-yard where Gentlemen or others may be furnished with the best Collections either in whole or in part taking all the State-Matters Church-Government Sermons Divinity or Humanity In Folio ASSemblies Annotations in two Vol. Ainsworth's Annotations Book of Martyrs in three Vol. Ben. 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