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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

make good use of corrections to take notice of Gods end and hand in them and learn to see the cause of them which is our sinne That we sorrow for those sinnes which haue brought such correction upon us Secondly if we will repent we must labour for a through knowledge of our own estate What we are of our selues by reason of our sinnes and likewise the curse of God that is due unto us To that purpose we must examine our selues by reason of our sinnes our hearts and liues by the law of God and then we shall sée our sinnes the number of them and the hainous nature of them After I was instructed saith Ephraim that is after I came to the knowledge of my self I repented not till we be brought to the sight of our miserable estate till we be brought to this perplexity with these pricked hearts that we know not what to do can our hearts repent Thirdly labour for faith to apprehend the promises and mercies in Christ Iesus for though Repentance Faith grow together in time yet in nature faith is the mouing cause of repentance Faith and confidence in Gods mercy that he will receiue us is a moving cause of Repentance Till a man belieue the promises of God and apprehend the mercies of God in Christ by faith though he be terrified by iudgement yet he doth grow obstinate and neuer humbleth himself by Repentance Motives to perswade us to Repentance What néeds more then this He that will be saued must repent without repentance nothing can be expected but damnation more particularly consider 1. Motive First Gods mercy and loue God is a mercifull God and that should draw our hearts to repentance Joel 2.12 The Prophet useth this argument Turn unto ●he Lord with all your heart rent your hearts and not your garments c. for he is a mercifull and gra●ious God There is mercy with thee that thou may●st be feared saith David as if he should say if thou wert not a mercifull God to what end were it to ●epent But seeing thou art a mercifull God it is ●o some purpose to repent great is the mercy and ●oue of God to penitent sinners Let the gift of his ●nly begotten Son to the cursed death of the Crosse witnesse Is God so mercifull to us and shall we ●ffend him still by our sinne shall we be so hard ●nd unmerciful to our own souls to whom God hath ●éen so mercifull The second Motive is The consideration of Christs death and passion should moue us to Repentance Was he pierced for our sinnes did he suffer the curse of God for our sins How then should our sinnes that pierced him pierce our hearts with grief Z●ch 12.10 As he did those Beloded hath Christ suffered such things for us and shall we crucifie him afresh with our sinnes Shall we trample his blessed Body and Blood under feet and contemn so great a salvation The third Motiue may be taken from the means and gracious times wee enioy This argument Christ and Iohn Baptist in their preaching used to moue the people to Repentance This is the time of grace and saluation now is Gods grace plentifully powred out if these times and meanes will not moue thée it shall be easier for Tyre and Sydon at the day of iudgement then for thee The fourth Motiue may be taken from the consideration of the Cvils of impenitencie even in this life First Temporall Iudgement that God hath in store for the impenitent and hard-hearted persons that go on in their wickednesse Rev. 2.21 22. I gave her space to repent and she repented not What then Behold I will cast her in a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation except they repent of their deeds And look thou impenitent heart for the like This I will do saith the Lord Amos 4. And because I do thus unto thee prepare thy heart to meet thy Lord O Israel The second evil of impenitencie in this life is either hardnesse of heart or horror of conscience For an impenitent person when hee hath much offended his conscience with long custome of sin must needs be filled with great horror As Cain and Iudas which made them desperately cast away themselues And if he bee not thus filled with horror yet he is possessed with great hardnesse of heart which is the greatest iudgement that he can have inflicted upon him in this life And it followes in the third place why thou after the hardnesse of thy impitent heart treasurest up for thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath The more sin thou committest the longer thou livest in sin and impenitency and the more wrath dost thou treasure up for thy selfe The fifth motive is taken from the benefit of Repentance in this life first it obtaines an assured pardon of all sin which is the cheifest happinesse in this life thy sins shall be washed away by the blood of Christ Thus saith Christ to the penitent woman that washed his féet with her teares Thy sinnes are forgiven Of the penitent Publican he saith This man went home justified So the penitent person ever obtains pardon and remission of all his sinne and is iustified in the sight of God The second benefit is the removall of all afflictions Jer. 18.7 8. I will speak suddenly against a Nation or against a Kingdom to pluck it up and destroy it but if this Nation shall turn from their wickednesse I will repent of the Plague I thought to bring upon them If thou repent God will repent of the evil Thus Ninive found by experience When wicked Ahab did but hypocritically humble himself before the Lord the Lord was pleased to deferre the Iudgement threatned How much more when a man applies with a sincere heart to repent of his sins before God Y●a it will remove Iudgement already fallen This the Lord promiseth Chron. 7.4 If God hath smitten thée in thine estate or otherwise for thy sinne yet humble thy self and the Lord will pardon thée and heale thoo or at least if he remove not thine affliction suddenly it shall be for thy good for he will sanctifie them unto thée Thus did God to David when he had afflictions which because they were scandalous could not be easily and suddenly removed yet saith he it was good for me that I have been afflicted 3. It is a means to obtain temporall blessings Joel 2. The Prophet exhorteth them to repentance adds in the 14. verse who knoweth if God will return and leaue a blessing behind him The Prophet seems to make it doubtfull yet it is without all doubt all question and in the 18. verse he saith If they repent he will be iealous of their land and pitty his people yea behold I will send you Corn Wine and Oyle and ye shall be satisfied therewith and I will make you no more a reproach among th● Heathen So repentance is a means to obtain temporall blessings in this life for the