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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45885	A discourse concerning repentance by N. Ingelo ...	Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.	1677 (1677)	Wing I182; ESTC R9087	129,791	455

be hanged but the hope of Pardon which he obtained and by the Nobleness of Caesar the money too Sure the Report which we have heard of God that he is rich in Mercy should encourage us to bring the Penitent Rebel into his presence and throw him prostrate before his Footstool The Throne is a Seat of Grace and the King who sits upon it is the Father of Mercies If we repent we may come boldly and have a good hope to find favour Princes do invite rebellious Subjects many times to lay down their Arms by offering Acts of Oblivion and it usually prevails but however it may be the Wisdom as well as Clemency of Princes to offer pardon because they know no better way to overcome sturdy Rebels But the Argument is more cogent to make sinners repent when God offers pardon because he is Almighty so needs no Arts to reduce the Obstinate he can destroy them when he pleaseth what he offers is mere Grace he would not have them perish through their foolish wilfulness would he not O then Rebel Heart wilt thou not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Clem. Alexandr Says wilt thou not run away from thy disobedient Party If thou hadst been shut up in Despair as the Devils are imprison'd and made to know that thou wert reserved in Chains without hope till the Judgment of the great Day thou mightest have some colour for the hardness of thy heart but now when Grace is not denied if thou repentest not thou wilt have nothing to say for thy self 2. Especially since God hath assured thee by an Oath That he delights not in the death of sinners nor is pleased with the ruin of such as have rebelled against him As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live According to that of St. Peter He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance And that of St. Paul He would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth It 's true the Heathens painted the Godhead after a wild sort making their Pagods in dismal shapes of grim Monsters armed with Claws and Teeth Pictures not unfit to represent those Devils whom they worshipped Who having shown their Enmity to God in making his Creatures Idolaters declared also their Malice to Men by making Cruelty a great part of their Worship not only whilst they forced them to tear their Skin with their Nails and cut their Flesh with Knives as the Worshippers of Baal did of whom wa read 1 Kings 18. 28. and as other Idolaters did of whom we read in Heathen Authors but made them sacrifice their Sons and Daughters to Devils or as in the next Verse to the Idols of Canaan in whom they were worshipped and whose bloody Rites they appointed They made their Children pass through the Fire to Moloch whether they made them perish miserably in the hollow breast of a burning Image or drew them so long between two Fires that they died the Cruelty was so great that they were fain to stifle the sound of their dreadful Shrieks with the noise of Drums This was the sense and practise of the Eastern World and the West was not unlike to it for to one Idol of America Vitzliputsli they offered in some solemn Sacrifices many thousands of Men and Women flay'd alive their breasts being cut open and their warm hearts taken out and presented to the bloody Idol How far our God is from that temper he hath sufficiently declared since instead of making us all dreadful Examples of just Vengeance in our own persons he gave his own dear Son to die for us That blessed Son was of the same temper too as you may see in that part of his Story which is recorded Luke 18. 41. in which we are told of his approach to Ierusalem not long before his death where foreseeing that great Change which for their sins their then flourishing Estate should in a short time suffer it is said he wept over it Wept over it They had given him cause to insult over them they were as bad as sinners could be They had rejected him the Messiah the great promise of God to their Nation who came to them according to all the prefigurations and predictions which were given to their Fathers they acknowledged Miracles to be a sufficient Testimony of God's mind and yet disbelieved him who gave them that proof they scorned the Doctrine of perfect Goodness which he taught and yet confessed that never man spake as he spake they despised the unparalleld Example of all Vertues which he gave in his life and put him to death who had done them all the good he could whilst he lived yet knowing that for these things in a while they should be punished with inexpressible Miseries the foresight made his tears fall from his eyes and to these he added his blood for he died for those who killed him and joyned his Prayers to it for the pardon of such as had made him as miserable as they could After this how can any sinner be afraid of God if he repent 3. The third Enconragement is That God hath by all manner of Invitations called sinners to Repentance The Scripture abounds with frequent Exhortations to this Duty and Declarations of God's desire of mens Return sometimes it records his Expostulations with the Obstinate whom he also beseecheth by his Servants and Sometimes bad them in his Name to command sinners to save themselves this way Exhortations we find often in the Sermons of the Prophets whom he sent of old rising early and sitting up late to warn sinners of their danger and charged the blood of such as perished upon them if they did not do it This was the first Sermon of our Saviour's Forerunner and his own Repent and believe the Gospel How desirous God was always of this in his Creatures these among many other Expressions give witness Oh that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me that it might be well with them O that they were wise that they would understand O that my people had hearkened to me O that thou hadst known in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace He expostulates with them Why will ye die and by his Servants beseecheth them We are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us We pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God And he commands all men every where to repent 4. To perfect this Encouragement he hath assured pardon to the Penitent by many plain Promises in which God's goodness is obliged by his Truth which being made the Apostle said well that now God is faithful and just to forgive sinners The Benignity of the Divine Nature is a good encouragement but when that hath declared it self in