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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07452	A sermon of repentance. Preached by George Meriton Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1607 (1607)	STC 17839; ESTC S112669	18,865	40

A SERMON OF REPENTANCE Preached By GEORGE MERITON Doctor of Diuinity and one of his Maiesties Chaplaines in Ordinary Imprinted at London for Thomas Clarke and are to be sold at the signe of the Angell in Paules Church-yard 1607. To the Right Honourable the Lord Sheffeild Lord President of Yorke and Knight of the Honorable Order of the Garter increase of Comforts in this life and after death a Crowne of Glory RIght Honourable my desire is to cast my Mite into the Treasury of the Church and for want of Gold Pearle or Pretious stones to bring a Rams skinae or twaine and a little Goats Exod. 35. 23. haire to the building of the Lordes Tabernacle I may seeme perhaps to passe the boundes of modesty in crauing your Honors protection for so smal a thing The smaller it is the more needefull to be protected And sithence you vouchsafed not long since to heare part of it with patience I will now presume vpon your L fauoure for the whole I doe not dedicate it vnto you as doubting of your Honours care in this point of Repentance your loue to Religion Zeale to the Truth practise of Piety haue made you Honourable not in your selfe alone but also as Samuel 1. Sam. 9. 6. was in the heartes of the people Yet giue mee leaue 2. Pet. 3. 1. Ibeseech you to stirre vp and warne your pure mind That as you haue begun to cleaue vnto CHRIST with a good purpose of heart So you would continue to aoe it still and to do it more and more Remember alwayes Noble Lord that bloud vnstayned before Men is stayned bloud before GOD if it be not continually restored by the bloud of CHRIST This Sermon then I commend vnto your Honour and it to the good blessing and holy protection of GOD. Hadleigh in Suffolke May the 26. 1607. Your Honours to bee commanded GEORGE MERITON Except yee amend your lines yee all shall likewise perish Luk. 13. vers 5. OTher Mens afflictions are our instructions and the punishments which are laid vpon some are or should be profitable vnto vs all The Dogge is beaten in the presence of a Lyon that by the stripes and cries of a Dogge a Lyon might bee tamed The Thunder bolt falleth and burneth but in a narrow Iud. vers 7. compasse yet is it terrible to a great number round about so the calamities of a few are set forth for ensamples vnto the rest to worke amendment in them This true vse of iudgements did not many of the Iewish people make Pilate had destroyed some and mingled their blood with their sacrifices The Towre of Siloam fell downe vpon others and bereaued them of Vers 4. their liues Those who escaped these punishments as the Nature of man is fauouring them selues too much beeing wise abroad and fooles at home as the Poet speaketh hauing their eyes in their purses when they should behold their owne deformities like Lamia in the Fable and staring in their heades to gaze vpon the sinnes of others with the proud Pharesie in the Gospell concluded from hence like badde Logitians from weake and slender premises that Therefore they were more righteous and holy then their fellowes Our Sauiour CHRIST to crosse this vaine supposall answereth them heere Laconically 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nay And least that beeing ouer-blinded in themselues they should all fall into the ditch to preuent their ruine hee denounceth out a threatning that Vnlesse they amended they should all likewise perish Threatnings they are forcible meanes to draw sinners vnto GOD For although good promises are alurements vnto good men yet such for the most part is the corruption of our heartes as that wee are more mooued with feare then with loue more with the rodde of Aaron then with heauenly Manna more with seuere threatnings then with friendly promisings Injuries do worke a deeper griefe in vs then benefits do affect vs with delight Sicknesse doth more weary vs then health doth refresh vs and wee are wont to esteeme rightly of prosperity by the harmes of aduersity For this cause therfore are these misdeeming Iews fore-told that vnlesse they amēded their liues their destruction was at hand CHRIST launceth them for to heale them hee threatneth them for to draw them hee denounceth iudgements against them for to saue them his wordes are like the Arrowes of Ionathan which were shot after Dauid not 1. Sam. 20. to wound him but to giue him warning In olde times thus was GOD accustomed to reclaime his people The writinges of the Prophets are euen stuffed with woes Take a booke saith GOD vnto Ier 36. 16. Ieremy and write therein all the euill that I determine to doe vnto the house of Iudah that they may returneeuery man from his euill way and in the same Chapter it is recorded that when they heard the wordes of the booke they were amazed The like course hath GOD vsed in latter times Iohns manner of preaching was as rough as himselfe Now is the Axe saith he laid vnto the rootes of the trees and euery tree that bringeth Mat. 3. 5 6. not forth good fruit shall bee hewen downe and cast into the fire What followed herevpon Ierusalem all Iudea and the region about Iordaine were baptized of him confessing their sinnes CHRIST also in this place threatneth the Iewes and in them euerie one of vs for that which stoode good against them standeth still in force against vs Except we amendour liues we shall all likewise perish How this wrought to the conuersion of these Iewes it is not mentioned in the Scripture how farre it will preuaile for the bettering of vs I am not able to coniecture This am I sure of that in former times threatnings haue preuailed and I beseech our GOD to make them profitable now The partes of my Text are these foure First there is a duty required Amendment of life Secondly the necessity thereof inforced vnlesse Thirdly the time prescribed Amend not haue amended and fallen againe not will amend I know not when but vnlesse you Amend doe it speedily and continually without delaye or interruption sorrow for sin without hope of grace where there is knowledge of guiltinesse without amendment of life where there is a killing of the old mā without a quickning of the newe where there is the sentence of death in the Soule not of life in the Sauiour Though we should recount vnto GOD all our sinnes ouer ouer againe euen in the bitternes of our soules M. ch 1. 8 though we lament with Dragons and mourne like Ostriges yet had we but that part of this grace which euen the wicked and reprobates haue Cain Saul Iudas Heb. 12. 17 were greatly grieued for theyr sinnes Esau lift vp his voice and howled out yet found hee no place to repentance though hee sought a blessing with teares What was the cause of this my beloued but that there was in him penance without desire of repētance griefe