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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20229	A sermon of repentaunce a very godly and profitable sermon preached at Lee in Essex / by Arthur Dent ...	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1582 (1582)	STC 6649.7; ESTC S4601	24,399	66

shuttle which glideth away swiftly Euen so the daies of man passe away no man knoweth how Man is of short continuaunce saith Iob full of trouble Experience teacheth that to day a man to morowe none Hence away we must al here is no abiding place for vs how soone we know not Therefore let vs repent Sixtly the small number of those which shal be saued ought to thrust vs forward to repentance Striue to enter in at the narrow gate for many I say vnto you will séeke to enter in and shal not be able saith Christe Luke 13. 24. And in an other place he saith the gate is straight and the way narrowe that leadeth vnto life and fewe there be that finde it If men would consider of this it would make them looke better about them and trie with them selues whether they be of that small number or no. Seuenthly Death threatneth vs who is very terrible to the flesh and the remembraunce of it very bitter to a man that is soused and soked in the pleasures of this worlde It flattereth no man it regardeth not persons it weigheth not friendship it careth not for rewardes it is very grim vglie and cruel and killeth downe right where it hitteth Therefore let vs repent Eightly the day of iudgement and seconde appearing of the Sonne of man ought to quicken vs. The day of the Lord will come as a Théefe in the night in the whiche the heauens shal passe away with a noyse and the Elements shall melt with heate and the earth with the workes that are therein shal be burnt vp séeing therefore that all these things must be dissolue● what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and Godlines saith S. Pet. 2. 3. The Lorde Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mighty angelles in flaming fire rendering vengeaunce vnto them that know not God and obeye not vnto the Gospell of our Lorde Iesus Christ saith the Apostle 2. Thes 1. I sawe saieth Saint Iohn Apoc. 20. A great white Throne and one that sate on it from whose face fledde away both the earth and the heauen and their place was no more founde And I sawe the deade both great and small stand before GOD and the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life and the dead were iudged of those thinges which were written in the bookes according to their woorkes And the Sea gaue vp her deade whiche were in her and death and hell deliuered vp the deade which were in them and they were iudged euery man according to his woorkes In these places we sée both the sodainnesse the fearefulnesse and glory of Christs comming For he shall not come poorely and contemptuously as in his first visitation but he shall come very princely royally and triumphantly to the great terrour of all his enemies when a consuming fire shall goe before him and ten thousand thousands of Angels waite vpon him at what time the Kinges of the earth the great men and the rich men and the chiefe Captaines and the mightie men and euery bondman and euery fréeman shall hyde themselues in dennes and amongest the rockes of the mountaines and say to the rockes and mountaines fall on vs hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe for the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand Apoc 6. Therfore let vs repent The last thing is Hell tormentes then the which nothing is more vntollerable Therefore saith Christe Marke 9. If thine hand cause thee to offende cut it off It is better for thee to enter into life maymed then hauing two handes to goe into Hell into the fire that neuer shall bee quenched where the worme dieth not and the fire neuer goeth out The Scripture speaketh very terribly to our senses concerning the estate of the damned persons calling it hel fire damnation the lake that burneth with fire brimstone for euer In 30. cha of the prophesie of Esai it is called Tropheth and it is euen prepared of old it is euen prepared for y e king he hath made déepe large y e burning therof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lorde like a Riuer of Brimstone doeth kindle it these spéeches are terrible to our senses may maruellously amaze vs. But if I had the tongue of an hundred men nay of an hundred Angels yet were I not able to vtter them as some shall one day féele them much lesse were you able to conceiue thē If al the tortures and cruel torments that can be deuised by the wit of man were executed vpon some one yet were it nothing to this We poore wretches thinke there is no paine to a Collike or a cruell Ague But if all Collikes Agues and all other strange diseases could possibly light vpon one man yet were it but a fleabiting to that which is to come The pain is endlesse easelesse and remedilesse The daies of their hellish torments shal neuer weare ●ut nor their yeares come to an ende the longer they continue the lesse hope haue they When as many yeres are expired as there be men in the world starres in the heauens when as many thousand yeares are ended as there be stones and sands by the Sea shore yet still there be ten hūdred thousande times so many moe to come Those that wil not now be moued in hearing shall then be crushed to péeces in féeling Al dronkards swearers whoremongers vsurers extortioners liers mockers contemners secure persons iolly felowes roisting ruffians lustie bloudes the braue laddes of this world and all other vnbeleuers shal one day be apprehended and arraigned before the barre of Gods tribunal seate where the Maiesty of GOD shall stand aboue them with a naked sworde of vengeance and a scepter of Iustice The Deuil that olde Satanas shal stand on the one side to accuse them and their own conscience on the other side to condemne thē and the gasping gulfe of Hell vnderneath them ready to swallow them vp for euermore Then shall the dreadfull sentence of eternall woe and damnation procéede against them Go ye cursed into hel fire c. There they shall drinke as a iuste recompence for their iniquitie the bitter cup of Gods eternall wrath and indignation in the kingdom of darknes and in the fearefull presence of Sathan all the cursed enemies of Gods grace where the dolefull Droome of Gods anger shall euer sounde through their eares where shalbe wéeping gnashing of téeth where shall bée confusion woe and endles lamentation Their gripes shall bée so greate their groanes so déepe and their garboiles so vntollerable that they shall grinne like a Dog in their infernall conu●lsions and with howling and yelling crie out woe alas that euer I was borne Oh that I had neuer béene borne or that my mother had borne mee a Tode For then should my condition haue bin better

then it is Cursed was the time I was begot in The houre I was conceiued in and the day that I sucked my mothers paps Cursed I was alwayes cursed I am cursed I shall be for euermore Woe woe howe greate is my tormente whose heart doeth not melte whose eares doe not glowe whose haires doe not stānd vppon his heade to heare these thinges Therefore déere brethren let vs repent If the mercie of God cannot allure vs let his Iudgements scarre vs. If his Iudgementes cannot scarre vs let his woorde moue vs If his woorde cannot moue vs let our sinnes amaze vs If our sinnes cannot amaze vs let the shortnes of our life dampe vs if the shortnes of our life cannot da●●●e vs let the smal number of those that shal be saued affray vs if that cannot affray vs let death terrifie vs if death cānot terrifie vs let the daie of Iudgement shake vs if that cannot shake vs yet let Hell tormentes shudder vs rente vs in yeeres For verily verily my brethrē if none of al those cā preuaile if we wil not for all this repent but be obstinate then wée shall all peri●●e and be damned according to Christs wordes Now let vs procéede to speake of those thinges which let and ●inder vs from Repentaunce whiche indéede although they bée in number infinite yet at this tyme I will laie foorth seuen especiall lettes and hinderances vnto Repentance The first is vnbeliefe that is when men will not beléeue those things thāt are spoken and proued vnto them out of the word of God This is it y t vomiteth vp all good thinges and poysoneth the very intrals of a man kéepeth all good graces from vs. As appeareth Math. 13. 58. Hee did not manye greate woorkes there for their vnbeleefes sake And the 4. to the Hebrues it is saide Vnto vs was the Gospell preached as also vnto them but the worde that they hearde profited not them because it was not mixed with fayth in those that heard it So that here we may sée although we heare neuer so muche yet if wée bringe not faith with vs wée shall neuer profite vnto Repentaunce For vnbeliefe taketh vp our hartes for Sathan and refuseth all the wholesome doctrine of saluation and doth so harden them in the waies of sinne that in the ende they become paste feeling and cānot be touched one whit either with the iudgementes or mercies of God But count the one as blasts of wynd and make the other a couert for their filthinesse You shall note some men who when they haue heard their sinnes straightlie ripped vp by the woord of God and their iust damnatiō proued by the same without spéedie earnest repentance will breake out into these words of vnbeléef If it be as the saith God helpe vs I hope it is not so I trust I shall doe well inough for all this as longe as I haue a good faith in God and doe in bodie no harme shall I leaue my pleasures and my profites for their sayinges What doe they thinke none shalbe saued but such as read the Scriptures and heare Sermons God forbid but those which doe not goe to heare sermons should bée saued as well as they Why may not one serue God as wel at home in his house hauing good Bookes and good Prayers as by comming to the Church to heare sermons and seruice Alas these men stand too much in their own light and betray what folly and ignoranc● is in thē For they do thinke to be saued by any other means thē God hath appointed Or when God hath auouched anie thinge in his word will they accept against it so make God a liar When God hath once set down a thing and proued it to their faces will they yet reply When God hath told vs that the preaching of the worde is the ordinary meanes of our saluation shal we hope to be saued although we contemn it and neuer or verie seldome heare it Is not this plaine infidelity vnbeliefe that when God saith one thing we will say another when God saith yea we will say no I hope not so Yes surely that is it that stoppeth the way vnto Gods graces and barreth vs out from repentance The seconde let is the presumption of Gods mercie for if men be sharply reprooued for their sinnes and exhorted vnto repentance by by they take couert saying God is mercifull God is mercifull as though God were made all of mercie and that ther were no iustice in him at al and thus the wicked make Gods mercie an occasion to sinne which thinge the Prophete Nahum in the first of his Prophesie doeth sharply reproue The Lord saith he is slow to anger but he is great in power and will not surely cleare the wicked But because I haue spoken afore of this presuming and misapplying of Gods mercie I will héere passe it ouer willing you to note it as one special let vnto repentance The third hinderance is the example of the multitude for that doth harden imbolden men vnto sin As when many birdes flicker and flocke together they fall vpon the net without any feare but one or two alone wilbe afraid Euen so the example of manie and many sinne companions do imbolden men to run through y e snares of Sathā without any mistrust Therefore it is said in Exod. 23. Thou shalte not followe a multitude to doe euill This is the thinge that hindreth a great number from God for they neuer looke vp vnto God or to his worde but stare vppon the common doinges of most men and examples of the world thinking if they do as the most men doe as their forefathers haue doone before them they are Cocksure and of an euē groūd And herevpon ariseth their diuelish Prouerbe doe as the moste men doe and y e fewest will speake of you but they haue forgotten S. Paules rule Rom 12. Fashion not your selues like vnto this world These fellows that stand vpon the multitude wil reason thus We sée none of y e great ones of the world none of the noble none of the rich none of the wise and prudent receiue this doctrine but onely a fewe shackrags beggerly rascals and therefore it is a token that it is nothing worth and that it is doubtfull and not for vs to 〈◊〉 withal Lote what thoughts may créep in our head ●es and how slily Sathan maie trumpe in our way blindfold vs and lead vs away in y e darke by doting vs with the example of y e multitude Therfore let vs take héede of those pitfalles which Sathan layeth in out way not be carried away with these thoughtes and reasons The wicked beare themselues in hand that they shal win the game that the goale goeth on their side and there is nothing but crowing long before it bee daye and greate triumphing emongst them before any stroke be striken that because wée be but a handful of people and they a