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A16596	A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing of the Lords Supper. Deliuered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, Iohn Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.; Two notable sermons	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.	1617 (1617)	STC 3503; ESTC S116484	55,784	167

A DOVBLE SVMMONS THE ONE To vnfained REPENTANCE THE OTHER To the worthie receiuing of the LORDS SVPPER Deliuered in two notable Sermons MADE By that worthy Martyr of Christ IOHN BRADFORD Who suffered in Smith-field Ano. Domini 1555. MAT. 4.17 Amend your liues for the Kingdome of Heauen is at hand LONDON Printed by George Purslowe 1617. To the Christian Reader IOHN BRADFORD wisheth the true knowledge and peace of Iesus Christ our alone and sufficient Sauiour GREAT and heauy is Gods anger against vs as the most grieuous plague of the death of our late King a Prince of all that euer was since Christs ascension into Heauen in any Region peerlesse doth Prognosticate For when Gods iudgement hath begun with his Childe let other men thinke as they can I surely cannot be perswaded otherwise but that a grieuous and bitter cuppe of Gods vengeance is ready to be poured out for vs English-men to drinke The whelpe God hath beaten to fray the bandogge Iudgement is begun at Gods house In Gods mercie to him-wards hee is taken away that his eyes should not see the miseries which we shall feele He was too good to tarry with vs so wicked Heb. 11. so froward so peruerse so obstinate so malicious so hypocriticall so couetous vncleane vntrue proud and carnall a generation I wil not goe about to paint vs out in our colours God by his plagues and vengeance I feare me will paint and point vs out Wee haue so mocked with him and his Gospell that we shall feele it is no bourding with him Of long time we haue couered our couetousnesse and carnality vnder the cloake of his Gospell so that all men shall see vs to our shame when he shall take his Gospell away and giue it to a people that will bring forth the fruits of it To let his Gospell tarry with vs he cannot for we despise it contemne it are glutted with it Since his Gospell came amongst vs we say now we had neuer plenty therefore againe let vs goe and worship the Queene of heauen and to prouoke the Lord to anger The earth cannot abide now the words and Sermons of Amos. Amos 7. Acts 17. The cause of all rebellion is Amos and his preaching It is Paul and his fellowes that make all out of order Summa the Gospell is now Panto on peripsema catharma tou cosmou The our-east and curse of the Realme and so are the Preachers therefore out of the dores with them So that I say God cannot let his Gospell tarry with vs but must needes take it away to doe vs some pleasure therein for so shall we thinke for a time as the Sodomitanes thought when Lot departed from them as the old world thought Gen. 19. Gen. 7 when Noe crept into his Arke as the Ieru●olomitanes thought when the Apostles went thence to Peltis Then were they merry then was all pastime When Moses was absent then went they to eating and drinking and rose againe to play But alas Exod. 32 suddenly came the floud and drowned them Gods wrath waxed hot against them Then was lamentation mourning and woe then was crying out wringing of hands renting of clothes sobbing and sighing for the miseries fallen out of the which they could not scape Well if hee take that away for a time perchance we shall be quiet but at length we shall feele the want to our woe at length hee will haue at vs as at them O bee thou mercifull vnto vs and in thine anger remember thy mercy We haue sinned we haue sinned and therefore art thou angrie ô be not angry for euer Giue vs peace peace peace in the Lord set vs to worke against sin against Sathan against our carnall desires and giue vs the victory this way This victory we obtaine by faith This faith is not without Repentance as her Gentleman-Vsher before her This Vsher then Repentance if wee truely possessed wee should be certaine of true faith and so assured of the victory ouer death hell and Sathan His workes then which hee hath stirred vp would quaile God would restore vs politique peace right should be right and haue right Gods Gospell should tarrie with vs Religion should bee cherished Superstition suppressed and so we yet something happy notwithstanding the great losse of our most gracious Liege souereigne Lord. All these would come to passe you see if the Gentleman-Vsher I speake of I meane Repentance were at Inne with vs. As if he be absent we may be certaine that Lady Faith is absent Wherefore we cannot but be vanquished of the world the flesh and the diuell and so wil Sathans workes prosper though not in all things to bleare our eyes yet in that thing which he most of all desireth Therefore to Repentance for our selues priuately and for the Realme and Church publickly euery one shall labour to stirre vp both our selues and others This to the end that for my part I might helpe I haue presently put forth a Sermon of Repentance which had lyen by me halfe a yeere at the least for the most part of it For the last Summer as I was abroad preaching in the Countrey my chance was to make a sermon of Repentance the which was earnestly of diuers desired of me that I should giue it them written or else put it forth in print which I could not doe for I had not written it and so I told them But when no nay would serue I promised to write it as I could at my leisure this leisure I prolonged so long that as I think I offended them so did I please my selfe as one more glad to reade other mens writings then in such sort to publish mine owne for other men to reade not that I would others not to profit by mee but that I knowing how slender my store is would be loth the enemies should therby take occasion of speaking But when I considered this present time to occasion men now to look vpon all things in such sort as might mooue them to godlinesse rather then to any curious questioning I for the satisfying of my promise and profiting of the simple ignorant and rude haue now caused this Sermon to be printed the which I beseech God for his Christs sake to vse as a mean whereby of his mercie it may please him to worke in me and many others true hearty repentance for our sinnes to the glory of his name Thus fare thou well in the Lord The xij of Iuly 1553. To the Christian READER Thomas Samson wisheth the felicity of speedy and full conuersion to the LORD GOdly Learned men doe write publish bookes to profit the age in which they liue and the posterity This desire was in the Authour of this Treatise M. Iohn Bradford who preached published this Sermon of Repentance And now that we which do liue after him and are the posterity may take as much or more profit by it then they did for whom it was first preached

all such notable things as either he did see or heare each day that passed But whatsoeuer he did heare or see he did so pen it that a man might see in that booke the signes of his smitten heart For if hee did heare or see any good in any man by that he found and noted the want thereof in himselfe and added a short prayer crauing mercy and grace to amend If hee did heare or see any plague or misery hee noted it as a thing procured by his owne sinnes and still added Domine miserere mei Lord haue mercy vpon me He vsed in the same booke to note such euill thoughts as did rise in him as of enuying the good of other men thoughts of vnthankfulnesse of not confidering God in his workes of hardnes of heart when he did see other moued and affected And thus he made to himselfe and of himselfe a booke of daily practises of repentance Besides this they which familiarly kept company with him might see how he vsed to fall often into a sudden and deepe meditation in which hee would sit with fixed countenance and spirit moued yet speaking nothing a good space And sometimes in this silent sitting plēty of tears should trickle downe his cheeks Sometime he would sit in it and come out of it with a smiling countenance Oftentimes haue I sate at dinner and supper with him in the house of that godly harbourer of many Preachers and seruants of the Lord Iesus I meane M. Elsyng when either by occasion of talke had or of some view of Gods benefits present or some inward cogitation and thought of his owne he hath fallen into these deepe cogitations and afterward he would tell me of them that I did perceiue that somtimes his teares trickled out of his eyes as well for ioy as for sorrow Neither was hee onely such a practiser of repentance in himselfe but a continuall prouoker of others thereunto not onely in publike preaching but also in priuate conference and company for in all companies where he came hee would freely reproue any sin and misbehauiour which appeared in any person especially swearers filthy talkers and popish praters and this hee did with such a diuine grace and christian maiestie that euer he stopped the mouthes of the gaine-sayers for be spake with power and yet so sweetly that they might see their euill to be euill and vnderstand that it was good indeede to the which hee laboured to draw them in God To be short as his life was such was his death for at his death as the History witnesseth when the flames of fire did fly about his eares in Smithfield his last speech publikely noted heard was this Repent England Thus was our Bradford a Preacher and an example of that repentance which he preached As Ionas preached to Niniue and yet doth hee preach repentance and surely England hath now much more cause to repent then it had when Bradford liued for all states and sorts of persons in England are now more corrupt then they were then Let therefore now Bradfords Sermon his life his death moue thee O England to repent I wish and warne that as in Niniue so in England all from the highest to the lowest doe vnfainedly repent The Court the Church the Citie the Countrey Princes Prelates and people let all and euery one repent and depart from that euill which he hath in hand and turne wholly to the Lord. And I do humbly beseech thy Maiesty O glorious Lord Iesus to worke now by thy Spirit in our hearts the same sound repentance which thy holinesse did first preach to men when thou saydest Repent for the Kingdome of God is at hand This worke in vs O gracious God our Sauiour AMEN A FRVITFVL Sermon of Repentance made by the constant Martyr of Christ Mr. Iohn Bradford 1553. MAT. 4.17 Amend your liues for the Kingdome of Heauen is at hand THe life we haue at this present is the gifte of God in whom we liue moue and are and therefore hee is called IEHOVA For the which life as wée should he thankfull so may we not in any wise vse it after our corrupt fantasies but to the end for which it is giuen and lent vs that is to the setting forth of Gods praise and glory by repentance conuersion and obedience to his good will and holy lawes whereunto his long suffering doth as it were euen draw vs if our hearts by impenitency were no hardened And therefore our life in the Scripture is called a walking for that as the body daily draweth more and more néere his end that is the earth euen so our soule draweth daily more and more néere vnto death that is saluation or damnation heauen or hell Of which thing in that we are most carelesse and very fooles for we alas are the same to day we were yesterday and not better or nearer to God but rather nearer to hell Sathan and perdition being couetous idle carnal secure negligent proud c. I think my labour cannot be better bestowed then with the Baptist Christ Iesus and his Apostles to harpe on this string which of al other is most necessary and that in these dayes most specially What string is that saith one Forsooth brother the string of repentance the which Christ our Sauiour did vse first in his Minestery and as his Minister at this present I will vse vnto you all Mat. 4.17 Repent for the Kingdome of heauen is at hand This sentence thus pronounced and preached by our Sauiour Iesus Christ as it doth command vs to repent so to the doing of the same it sheweth vs a sufficient cause to stirre vs vp thereunto namely for that The kingdome of Heauen which is a kingdome of all ioy peace riches power and pleasure is at hand to all such as doe so that is as do repent So that the meaning hereof is as though our Sauiour might thus speake presently Syrs for that I see you all walking the wrong way euen to Sathan and vnto hell fire by following the kingdome of Sathan which now is coloured vnder the vaine pleasures of this life and foolishnesse of the flesh most subtilly to your vtter vndoing and destruction behold and marke well what I say vnto you The Kingdome of Heauen that is an other manner of ioy and felicitie honour and riches power and pleasure then you now perceiue of enioy is euen at hand and at your backes and if you will turne againe that is Repent you you shall most truly and pleasantly feele see and inherite Turne againe therefore I say that is Repent for this ioy I speake of euen The Kingdome of Heauen is at hand Here we may note first the corruption of our nature in that to this commandement Repent you he addeth a cause For the Kingdome of Heauen is at hand For by reason of the corruption sturdines of our nature God vnto all his commandements commonly either addeth some promise to prouoke vs to