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cause_n	death_n	sin_n	suffer_v	2,561	5	6.6311	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29096	The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4106; ESTC R25287	35,398	95

of these examples especially of our late King and this troublesome time will move some teares out of thine heart if thou wilt pray for Gods Spirit accordingly For who art thou think alwaies with thy selfe that God should spare thee more then them whose examples thou hast heard What friends hast thou Were not of these Kings Prophets Apostles learned and come of holy stocks I deceive my selfe think thou with thy selfe if I believe that God being the same God that he was will spare me whose wickednesse is no lesse but much more then some of theirs He hateth sinne now as much as ever he did The longer he spareth the greater vengeance will fall the deeper he draweth his Bow the sorer will his shaft pierce But if yet thy heart be so hardned that all this will not move thee then surely art thou in a very evill estate and remedy now I know none What say I none Know I none Yes there is one which is suresby as they say to serve if any thing will serve You look to know what this is forsooth the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ You know the cause why Christ became man and suffered as he suffered was the sinnes of his People that he might save them from the same Consider the greatnesse of the sore I mean sinne by the greatnesse of the Chyrurgion and the salve Who was the Chyrurgion no Angel no saint no Arch-angel no power no creature in heaven nor earth but only he by whom all things were made all things are ruled also even Gods own Deareling and only beloved sonne becoming man Oh what a great thing is this that could not be done by the Angells Archangels Potentates powers or all the creatures of God without his own sonne who of necessity must come down from heaven to take our nature and become man Here have ye the Chyrurgion great was the cure that this mighty Lord took in hand Now what was the salve certainly of an unestimable value and of many compositions I cannot recite all but rather must leave it to your hearty considerations Thirty three yeares was he curing our sore he sought it earnestly by fasting watching praying c. The same night that he was betrayed I read how busy he was about a plaister in the Garden when he lying flat on the ground praying with teares and that of blood not a few but so many as did flow down on the ground againe crying on this sort Father saith he if it be possible let this cup depart from me That is if it be possible that else the sinnes of man kind can be taken away grant that it may be so Thou heardest Moses crying for the Idolaters thou heardest Lot for the Zoarites Samuel David and many other for the Israelites And deare Father I onely am thine own Sonne as thou hast said in whom thou art well pleased wilt thou not heare me I have by the space of thirty three years done alwaies thy will I have so humbled my selfe that I would become an abject amongst men to obay thee Therefore deere Father if it be possible grant my request save man-kind now without any farther labour salves or plaisters But yet saith he not as I will but as thou wilt But Sir what heard he Though he sweat blood and water in making his plaister for our sore of sinne yet it framed not Twice he cryed without comfort yea though to comfort him God sent an Angel we know that yet this plaister was not allowed for sufficient untill hereunto Christ Jesus was betrayed forsaken of all his Disciples forsworne of his dearely beloved bound like a Theefe belyed on buffeted whipped scourged crowned with thornes crucified racked nailed hanged up be tween two theeves cursed and railed upon mocked in misery and had given up the ghost then bowed downe the head of Christ then God the Father which is the head of Christ allowed the plaister to be sufficient and good for the healing of our sore which is sinne Now would God abide our breath because the stinke damnation guiltinesse was taken away by the sweet savour of the breath of this Lambe thus offered once for all So that here dearely beloved we as in a glasse may see to the bruising of our blockish hard hearts Gods great judgement and anger against sinne The Lord of Lords the King of Kings the brightnesse of Gods glory the Sonne of God the dearling of his Father in whom he is well pleased hangeth betweene two Theeves crying for thee and mee and for us all My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Oh hard hearts that we have who delight in sinne Look on this see the very heart of Christ pierced with a fpeare wherein thou maist see and read Gods anger for sinne Woe to thy hard heart that pierced it And thus much for the first part of Repentance I meane for the meanes of working contrition First use Prayer then look on Gods Law thirdly see his curse fourthly set examples of his anger before thee and last of all set before thee the precious death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ From this and prayer cease not till thou feele some hearty sorrow for thy sin The which when thou feelest then labour for the other part that is faith in this sort As first in contrition I willed thee not to trust to thy free will for the attaining of it so doe I will thee in this Faith is so farre from the reach of mans free-will that to reason it is plain foolishnesse Therefore thou must first goe to God whose gift it is thou must I say get thee to the Father of mercy whose worke it is that as he hath brought thee downe by Contrition and humbled thee so he would give thee Faith raise thee up and exalt thee In this manner therefore with the Apostles and the poore man in the Gospel that cryed Lord increase our Faith Lord help my unbeleefe pray thou and say O mercifull and deare Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in whom as thou art well pleased so hast thou commanded us to hear him for as much as he often biddeth us to aske of thee and thereto promiseth that thou will heare us and grant us that which in his name we shall aske of thee loe gracious Father I am bold to begge of thy mercy through thy Sonne Jesus Christ one sparkle of true and certaine perswasion of thy goodnesse and love towards mee in Christ where through I being assured of the Pardon of all my sinnes by the mercies of Christ thy Sonne may be thankefull to thee love thee and serve thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of my life On this sort I say or otherwise as God shall move thee pray thou first of all and look for thy request at Gods hand without any doubting though forthwith thou feelest not the same for oftentimes we have things of God given us long before we feele them as we would