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A04503	An excellent treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen written by the worthy, Saint Chrysostome to Theodorus a friend of his, who by leud liuing, was fallen from the Gospell; fit to read for reclaiming their hearts which are in like case. Englished (out of an auncient Latin translation, written in velume) by R.W. With an annexed epistle of comfort from one friend to another, wherin the Anabaptists error of desperation is briefly confuted, and the sinne against the holy Ghost plainly declared.	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Cottesford, Thomas. Epistle of comfort.; Wolcomb, Robert, b. 1567 or 8.	1609 (1609)	STC 14631; ESTC S121653	61,720	216

backe again open sinners and blasphemers to earnest repentaunce for their owne sinfulnesse and to haue a sure trust in the mercy of God and in the merit of Christs passion and death though they be euen at the departure out of this presēt life for it is neuer too late so long as life lasteth Let vs therefore with all feruentnesse call vpon them and exhort them in any wise with a good courage and a sure and vndoubful faith aske call and cry for Gods mercy for his sweet sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ his sake and vndoubtedly they shall haue it For since the beginning of the world hitherto was there neuer one that in faith asked mercy heartely but he had it through the gratious goodnesse of our aforesaid most mercifull sauiour Iesus Christ vnto whome with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour laude and praise world without end Amen Yours at commaund to his power T. C. Giue all the honor laud and praise to God onely 1. Tim. 1. The prayer of Daniel turned into metre and applyed vnto our time Daniel IX O Lord thou high and fearefull God By whom all things do moue Thy mercies great are sure to such As thy precepts doe loue We sinfull men haue sore transgrest Against thy lawes deuine Full frowardly we haue fled backe From these precepts of thine Thy Prophets deare to speake were prest In setting forth thy name Both rich and poore as bold were bent For to gainesay the same To thee therefore thou Lord of hoastes All iustice doth belong To poure on vs such shame and griefe In this we haue no wrong Our shame is great and due to all Our flight is but in vaine To tread strange lands our sin hath sought Our shame doth still remaine But though such shame a reward iust To all in common be Yet mercy Lord and to forgiue Doth still belong to thee Indeede O Lord as for our selues No lesse confesse wee can But that thy lawes wee set at nought Much lesse haue kept them than Thy Prophets spake wee would not heare Ne of thee stand in awe Strange plagues from time to time we felt For breaking of thy lawe The force whereof so fiercely bent Was such as hath not bene For all the plagues in Moses lawe Fell on this Realme for sinne And yet to thee who made his sute His path way so to guide That flying vice might learne thy lawe And therein to abide Wwerefore thou sawest all would not helpe And couldst not hold thine hand But haste thy curse which now doth fall Vpon this sinfull land For as thou art a righteous God Thy workes doe soe appeare Consuming such as scorne doth take Thy louing voyce to heare But yet O Lord thou broughtest forth Thy flocke from Egipt land Whereby thy name was largely spread So now stretch forth thine hand But we haue sinned more then they Oh Lord yet stay thy rod. As for this land was sometime thine And thou also our God Our sinnes and eke our fathers faultes This day to passe hath brought That all which border vs about They set vs cleane at nought Now then O Lord hide not thy face Oh heare thy seruaunts cry Behold thine house sometime full rich How wast it doth nowe lie Thy truth is fled thy flock fast bound As sheepe led to be slaine Thy foes preuaile and prosper much Though mischiefe they maintaine And wilt not thou thy foes confound That thus thy workes reproue At least yet for thy great names sake Their vile intents remoue For why as for our owne deserts We can no such thing haue It is for thy great mercies sake That we such thinges doe craue Forgiue vs Lord intreated be To heare vs make no stay We beare thy name it is thy cause Oh Lord make no delay A Prayer against Despaire O Eternall God most louing and gratious father in Iesus Christ who art alwaies praysed and magnified by thy children in theyr great deliuerances and preseruation from their perils and daungers but especially when they perceiue themselues freede from the power of Satan death and hell from the which no creature can saue and deliuer them but thou onely O Lorde And because no chaine of the deuill or euill temptation is more strong to fetter the body and soule of man then despaire which is a wilfull forsaking of faith and confidence in thee O God it arising springing from fear and doubt as if thou wert not faithfull in thy promises or able in thy power to preserue vs Helpe Lord I beseech thee and free and deliuer me thy poore seruaunt from this temptation thraldome of Satan and soe strengthen I humbly pray thee my faith and confidence euer more in thee that in al my perils necessities wants sorrowes and griefe in this world I may haue a strong and stedfast hope in thee whereby I may ouercome repell and keepe backe the dangerous and subtill suggestions of Satan the world and the flesh to thy great glory and praise and my eternall and vnspeakable comfort through Iesus Christ my onely Lord and Sauiour Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Morning O Lord thou which couerest the night with darkenesse and causest man therein to take his rest and by euery day and night doest shew thy great glory in the heauens and also thy wisdome and power by gouerning and preseruing all thy creatures vpon the earth O Lord I thy poore seruaunt and creature doe most humbly thanke thee from the bottome of my heart for my sweete and comfortable rest this night past and for watching ouer mée by thine eye of prouidence and kéeping both my body and soule by thy grace from sinne and death beseeching thée O Lorde God my father Sauiour and comforter to blesse to sanctifie direct and preserue me in this thy new day and that I may become a newe creature vnto thée O God in holinesse and righteousnesse labouring faithfully and painfully in my calling that so my laboures this day may be sanctified and blessed vnto mée and mine and that I may shew forth thy praise in al my waies and declare my loue and charity vnto men in all my works that after the dayes of this my life and pilgrimage finished and ended here in this world I may liue with thee for euer in the world to come throgh Iesus Christ my Lorde and Sauiour who liueth and reigneth with thée and the holy Ghost euer one God world without end Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Euening O gratious and mercifull God I am most bound vnto thy heauenly Maiesty for my preseruatiō this day because I and al men are continually subiect vnto all dangers and perils griefes sorrowes sicknesse and death yea we lie open vnles thy grace and might doe defend vs vnto the temptations tyranny of the world the flesh the deuill which daily seek and desire our hurt and confusion both of body soule for euer Wherefore O gratious and euerliuing God as thy right hand and sauing health hath bene with mée this day and thou hast directed blessed and comforted mee thy poore seruaunt in all my wayes and labours for the which I most hūbly thank thée so I most earnestly entreat thy Maiesty in thy loue and mercy for Christ Iesus sake to keepe mée and al mine in safety this night and to couer vs vnder the shadow of thy winges from all perils and dangers whatsoeuer and that our soules as well as our bodies may take their swéet and comfortable rest and ioy in thée and likewise that thou wouldest grant that whensoeuer thou shalt knocke at the doore of our hearts to call vs vnto thee O God we may with the wise Virgins be watchfull haue oyle in our lamps that we may be receiued into eternall rest through Iesus Christ thy deare sonn and our onely Sauiour Amen FINIS

said saith he after that she hath in all this gone a whooring be thou turned to me and she is not turned And other-where when he had rebuked the transgressions of the people by his Prophet and they had promised amendment hee sheweth how louingly he receiueth the conuersion of sinners who wil grant their heart may be so in them that they may feare me and keepe my commaundements all the daies of their life that it may be well with them and rheir children for euermore Moses likewise when he would teach the people what God requireth of men Deu. 10.12 saith thus And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to feare the Lord thy God to walke in all his wayes and to loue him and to serue thy Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule God then who is desirous that himself be beloued of vs and for this doth all things not sparing his onely begotten for our saluation and the loue he bare towards vs wold faine after what fort soeuer if I may so speake we should be reconciled to him and how can it be that he should not receiue and loue vs being penitents conuerted vnto him and that as cheerefully as he doth his children For in what respect doe you thinke spake hee by the Prophet saying Tell thou thine iniquities first that thou maist be iustified Was it not for that he coueted to reuoke vs to his loue Amantium irae amoris redintegratio est and tender affection He that loueth his friend if perchance he suffer many iniuries at his hands his loue is not for that cooled towards his beloued if in case he will let the wrongs to be opened and discouered and certes he that is iniured doth desire this for no other cause but that their renewing of loue may be of more force and validity Now if the confession of sinnes mattreth so much to attonement how much greater may be our hope of reconciliation if by workes of repenance we blot out the offences we haue committed For if God prohibited the fallen to returne to the right way either none or very few should enter the kingdom of heauen Yea the cheefe Patriarchs whom we haue in admiration after backeslides in sinnes they haue beene restored For they that were earnest in euill being turned to goodnes vse the same forwardnes knowing that their debt is great In the Gospell this is taught of the Lord when he said to Simon of a certaine woman Seest thou this woman I entred into thine house and thou gauest me no water to my feet but she hath washed my feet with teares Luke 7.44 and wiped them with the haires of her head Thou gauest me no kisse but she since the time I came in 45. hath not ceased to kisse my feete My head with oile thou didst not annoint 46. but she hath annointed my feete with oyntment Wherefore I say vnto thee 47. many sins are forgiuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgiuen he doth loue a little 48. And he said vnto her thy sins are forgiuen thee For which cause the diuell knowing that they which haue sold themselues to worke iniquity if they reuolt are diligent and serious and as in their transgressions they were hastie so in their amendment they are heedefull because now they know what they haue done he feareth and shaketh least any of them should make the onset to repentance For if they once begin they may not be withstood but kindled with the heat of repentance as it were with fire they make their soules purer than fined gold by the remembrance of their former misdeeds and as it were by the blowing wind of their conscience hauing hope their pilot they ariue in the hauen of health And bicause of the horrours past the circumspecter they are in their iourney so that in this welnigh they may seeme to passe those that neuer faultered because experience maketh them more chary Experientia stultorum mater For I know not how we loue more entirely the things we had and haue lost then the things we haue not and desi●e to get Then a hard thing it is as I said to make a beginning in this lyeth all the difficulty to prepare the way to repentance For straight way at the entrance the enemy bloweth out threats menacings and in his rage driueth vs backe when we would goe forth The smokie puffes and cloude of whose terrours if thou contemne when the way is entred thou shalt see thy self corroborated and obtaining the conquest thou wilt reioyce thine enemy menaced thee and thou shalt perceiue the rest of this combate easie Go too go too in the name of God now let vs enter the path of life let vs returne to the heauenly city seeing we are appointed and inrolled citizens The gates of this Citie despaire shutteth against vs hope and confidence will open them fully the which if we cast behind vs we incurre the crime not of sloath alone but of arrogancy For sathan was made as he is by no other meanes but for that after his sinne first he despaired and n xt fell from despaire into hautines and pride So likewise the soule if it once begin to despaire of saluation it vnderstandeth not into what mischiefes it runneth fearing not to speake or doe whatsoeuer may stop saluation Commonly we see in those that are mad when once they haue lost their wit they feare naught any longer they blush at nothing but licentiously they dare speake and doe euery thing If they fall into the fire they auoid it not if they be going into a headlong place they pull not back their foote After the same manner they that are in despaire commit intollerable actes they range in all the waies of wickednes shame is no let feare hindreth nothing the things present do not refrain them the things to come do not terrifie death only it is that they cannot escape Wherefore I humbly request thee before the poison of this sin more infect thee arise and awake at the last and lay aside this deuellish drunkennes If on the sudden thou canst not gather thy wits together yet doe it leisurely although in my opinion it be the easier way at once to break off all the staies of this euill to sheere it in sunder fully and to begin repentance anew But if this be difficile vnto thee as thou wilt and art able begin a better conuersation and couet eternall life Runne therefore I pray and beseech you deare friend I beseech you for those good deeds you haue done heretofore I pray you for the liberty that first you had let me see you clime vp to the top of vertue as truely a repentant as you were before Yeeld to me thy friend yeeld to all them that are offended through thee and fall because of thy fall yeeld to all them that are in despaire because of thy despaire

and the Monks which were in Chrisostomes dayes Those were continent and sequestred although they should haue had a care of the saluation of their brethren also themselues from the vulgar sort of men to the end they might giue thēselues wholy to contemplation and meditation for this was the cause why Basill the great went to Pontus and inuited his friend Gregory the Diuine to him these are lecherous and lustfull coueting that sort of life for idlenes alone and belly cheere Those a soone as they perceiued their vncleannes this fellow heere alleaged is a witnes fel to repentance without stay these through sensuality committing grosse carnall sins neuer truely repent for it and yet beare men in hand they are the holiest persons vnder the Sunne Of whom it was said rightly though in a rithme O monachi vestri stomachi sunt amphora Bacchi Vos estis Deus est testis turpissima pestis Let none then of the ignorant sort suppose that this example maketh ought for the vprightnes of Moonkes now a daies But I know not how drowsily yeelding to the suggestion and first battery of the diuell he fell into the desire of a woman when as hee neuer saw any sithence he became a Moonke First then he desired his fellow with whom he liued to bring him wine and flesh to feed on who making no hast he threatned him that he would goe downe into the city Which he said not that he might eat flesh but that he might find opportunity to satisfie his lust His companion marueiling at this and fearing least he should doe him more harme if he should deny his request gaue that he asked and fulfilled his will When he saw no way to guile openly and shamelesly he reuealeth his desire and confesseth he will goe downe to the Citie The other by much perswasion not able to retaine him let him goe and followed him a far off to se what he would doe and whither he would go And when a great way behind he saw him entring a brothel-house and to haue cooled his lust with the company of a strumpet tarrying at the dore straightway when he came forth he exhorted him to repentance he imbraced him and louingly kissed him and rebuked him not for his fal but desired him that now his lust being cooled he would returne to his old habitation and to the solitary wildernes But he marking in him such meekenesse and gentlenes was ashamed and stroken thorow with the force of his words and deeds and condemning himselfe for his misdemeaner goeth with his fellow which was so good and humble into the mountaine Whither when they came he entreated of him that when he was shut vp closely in his cell and heremitage he would * G.F.C. dayly euery second day bring him bread and water If any should seeke him he willed him to say that he was * G.F.C. a sleepe dead Which things obtayned he shut vp himselfe and thereabode clensing the foulnesse of his sinne with fasting prayers and weeping Few daies passed ouer when a drowth because of the want of raine had hurte the country neere about him and all the inhabitants of that land lamented much But one of them was warned in a dreame to goe to that man inclosed in a cell that he might pray and that by no other way raine might be procured but by his prayers So departing with some other taken to him he found this Monkes complice alone and demaunded where he was whom the vision admonished him to seek When he heard he was dead he deemed his vision false and they returned all to prayer but the same vision tolde him againe the same things Wherat earnestly entreating him that before had deceiued them they requested him to shew them the man affirming that by the authority of so marueilous a vision they were sent to him being aliue not dead Seeing it was the wil of God he brings them to that godly man and the wall being broken downe because he had shut the doore they enter in and fall before his feete desiring him when the truth of the matter was declared to release the famine by intercession First his excuse was that hee could not demerite so great a thing at which words he burst forth into weeping for the offence he had committed as if he had seene it fresh before his eies At length for the importunitie of the requesters for as much as he perceiued God would haue it so he gaue him selfe to supplication and out of hand there followed great store of raine wherwith both the earth and men were refreshed Read Eusebius hist eccl lib. 3. cap. 23. What should I speake of him which first was the desciple of Iohn the * G.F.C. sonne of Zebidaeus Apostle but after practised robbing for a long time Neuerthelesse afterward the Apostle got hold on him as he came out from the robbers den and brought him again as you will know to his former life so that his beginning was not to be conferred with his end I remember when you read this story you admired the incredible meekenes of this Apostle and among other tokens of his sincere loue towards him which he shewed this you said you most wondered at that he kissed the hand of the young man besmeared with bloud and so with imbracing reclaimed him to euerlasting life when as by all likelihood he was neare to the brinke of death Saint Paule also not onely loued and embraced Onesimus conuerted who was an vnprofitable seruant and fugitiue theefe but maketh petition to his master that he shuld esteeme him as himselfe and that because he recanted Philem. from the 10. verse to the 18. These be the Apostles words I beseech thee for my sonne Onesimus whom I haue begotten in my bonds Which in time past was to thee vnprofitable but now profitable both to thee and to me whom I haue sent againe thou therfore receiue him that is mine owne bowels Whom I wold haue retained with me that in thy stead he might haue ministred vnto me in the bonds of the Gospell But without thy mind would I doe nothing that thy benefite should be as it were of necessity but willingly It may be that he therfore departed for a season that thou shouldest receiue him for euer not now as a seruant but aboue a seruaunt euen as a brother beloued specially to me how much more thē vnto thee both in the flesh and in the Lord If therefore thou account our things common receiue him as my selfe The same Apostle writeth to the Corinthians touching them that haue sinned in this wise 2. Cor. 12.22 least when I come againe I shall bewaile many of them which haue sinned already and haue not repented of the vncleannes 2. Cor. 13.2 and fornication and wantonnes which they haue committed And againe I told you before and tell you before if I come againe I will not spare You see then whom the Apostle bewayleth and

that sinketh shal draw with it the worker Rewardes in the life to come of workes both good and bad If the multitude of euils shal ouer-poyse it will pull the worker to hell but if the good works shall be greater they will resist and repugne against the euils and will bring their worker to the place of the liuing euen from the gates of hell This is not phantastically imagined of my braine the diuine Scriptures disassent not from it for this the word of God speaketh Thou * Psal 62 12. Mat. 16.27 Differēces of ioyes plagues in the life to come Caluin Iustitu lib. 3. cap. 25. sect 10. Bulling in Comment Erasmus in Paraphras in 41 vers cap. 15. 1 Cor. rewardest euery one according to his worke For not in hell onely but in the kingdome of God there shall be many differences * Iohn 14.2 In my fathers house saith he are many dweling places And againe * 1. Cor. 15.41 There is another glory of the Sunne and another glory of the Moone What is more wonderfull then that he sheweth how exactly the measure of our deedes shall be weighed One starre saith he differeth from another starre in glory that by it he might shew that amongst all and euery one that shall be in that kingdome there will be a difference Therefore sith wee know all this let vs not withdraw our selus frō goodworks neither yeeld to sloth sluggardie the presence of despaire And admit we cannot attaine to the clearenesse of the Sunne or Moone yet we must desire the brightnes of a starre howbe●t inferior to them let vs seeke at the least for some light by our good deeds let vs labour to be sound worthy to inlarge somewhat the shining of heauen If we cannot be gold if we cannot be precious stones yet let vs be in stead of siluer onely let vs now be turned into that matter which fire may consume that we be not found to be wood hay or stubble let vs be euen the last in goodnes not the first in euill * By often adding a little there will arise a great heape as wittily said Hesiodus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Small good workes conioyned with faith and repentance go not without reward And as worldly riches increase when euery small gaine is regarded so it fareth in heauenly riches in increasing the which no little good deede must be cōtemned Surely it is an absurdity seeing our Iudge doth not deny a reward for * Mat 10 a cup of cold water for vs to say that vnlesse wee doe great things it wil be nothing auaileable Yea this more I ad that he that despiseth not small and little things will by little and little come to great things and * Eccl. 19.1 he that contemneth small things which concordeth with the Scripture shall fall by little and little And therefore I thinke for this cause our Lord and Sauiour did ordaine for small things great rewardes For what is lesse than to visit the sicke And yet for this small worke hee hath laid vp a great reward And againe what is so easie as to giue the hungry bread the thirstie drinke the naked raiment and to seeke out him that is shut vp in prison Yet these things that be so little and small he reckneth so great as that he accounteth them ministred not to man but to himselfe and for them hath promised the celestiall kingdome Wherefore most deerely beloued enter enter the waye to eternall life and put on againe * My yoke is light my burden light This burden is not the weight of him that is loden but the winges of him that flieth For birds haue burdens of their feathers which on earth they beare of them they are borne into the heauen Augustine the yoake of Christ which is easie and his burden which is light recouer the vertues of thy mind make thine end according to thy beginning let not the treasure of spirituall graces gotten by such labour decay and they will verely perish if thou persist in euils exasperate the wrath of God against thy deedes But before thou loose much of thy treasure and before thy manured field be surrounded with hurtfull deluges if thou exclude the entrance and stop the ouerflowing of sinne thou maist bring it againe to his pristine fertility and by husbanding make it very battle Arise therefore arise and shake off the dust from thee arise from the earth and straightway beleeue mee thine enemy will be affraid For he threw thee downe as though thou shouldest neuer rise vp but if he shall see thee to rise from the earth and lift thine eyes towards the heauens incontinent thy boldnes will out-countenance him * Resist the deuil and he will flie ftom you Jam. 4.7 If one flie the deuill he is a Lion if one resist he hath for he is Belzebub that is a God of flies no more power than a weak flie according to the old verse Hostis non laedit nisi cum tentàtus obedit Est leo si cedis si stas quafi musca recedit and the more ready thou art the more fearefull he will be and the more thou presumest the more fraile and infirme thou makest him Thinke also on this that the more hardinesse God shall indue thee withall the more he will weaken both his boldnesse and might If so be thou haue affiance in my wordes me thinketh I see towards thee the mercy and aide of God but thine aduersary to be affrighted by reason of shame and confusion Me thinketh I perceiue now in my mind that with all gratefulnes and fauour euery vertue allureth thee to her hold on then earnestly labour chearefully runne forward willingly Thou shalt find no want of me in that I can but I will still reason with thee in speech I will continually exhort and stir thee vp both present with liuely voice and absent with letters Albeit I perswade my selfe if thou gladly read this I haue now written there will bee no cause why thou shouldest seeke for farther medicines Deo soli sapienti laus gloria TO THE Reader IF the wicked would earnestlie consider the terriblenes of the day of the Lord it must needes bee that they would either wholy renounce sinne or at least not so much bee delighted therewith VVhich Chrisostome right wel perceiued for that so copiously so liuely as it were with a pencile he depainteth that day and time On the other side to ponder equally the rewards that in heauen abide for them who in this life seeke chiefly the setting forth of Gods glory the benefitting of their neighbour who bewailing theyr sinnes with true and vnfayned repentance by the hand of faith lay hold on Gods promises auayleth not a little to the abandoning of sinne and iniquitie VVherefore gentle Reader in the sentences following I haue vsed this order that those which appartaine to the second comming