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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

is how joyfull and precious a thing Gods mercy in Christ is how exceeding broad wide high and deepe Christs love is Perchance he can talke and Preach of Faith but yet truly in heart he never felt it effectually for if he did once feele this ravishing consolation indeed then would he be so farre from continuing in sinne willingly and wittingly that wholly and heartily he would give over himselfe to that which is contrary I meane to a new life renewing his youth even as the Eagle doth For as we being in the servitude of sinne demonstrate our service by giving over our members to the obaying of sinne from iniquity to iniquity even so we being made free from sinne by faith in Jesus Christ and endued with Gods spirit a spirit of liberty must needs demonstrate this freedome and liberty by giving over our members to the obedience of the spirit by the which we are lead and guided from vertue to vertue and all kind of holinesse As the unbelievers declare their unbeleefe by the working of the evill spirit in them in the outward fruits of the flesh even so the believers declare their faith by the working of Gods Spirit in them outwardly the fruits of the Spirit For as the Divell is not dead in those which are his but worketh still to their damnation so is not God dead in them which be his but worketh still to their salvation The which working is not the cause of the one or the other being in any but only a demonstration a signe a fruit of the same As the Apple is not the cause of the Apple tree but the fruit of it Thus then you see briefely that newnesse of life is not indeed a part of repentance but a fruit of it a demonstration of the justifying faith a signe of Gods good spirit possessing the heart of the penitent as the old life is a fruit of impenitency a demonstration of a lipfaith or unbeliefe a signe of Sathans spirit possessing the heart of the impenitent which all those be that be not penitent For meane I know none He that is not penitent the same is impenitent he that is not governed by Gods spirit the same is governed by Sathans Spirit For all that be Christians are governed with the spirit of Christ which spirit hath its fruits All other that be not Christs are the Divels He that gathereth not with Christ scattereth abroad Therefore my dearely beloved I beseech you to consider this and deceive not your selves If you be not Christs then pertaine you to the Divel of which things the fruits of the flesh doth assure you as whoredome adultery uncleannesse wantonnesse idolatry witch-craft envy strife contention wrath sedition murther drunkennesse gluttony blasphemy slothfulnesse vaine talking slandering c. If such like fruit as these grow out of the trees of your hearts surely surely the Divell is at Inne with you you are his birds whom when he hath well fed he will broach you and eat you chaw you and champ you world without end in eternall woe and misery But I am otherwise perswaded of you all I trust you be all Christ Jesus his people and his children yea and his brethren by faith As you see your sins in Gods Law and tremble and sigh sorrow and sob for the same even so you see his great mercies in his Gospel and free promises and therefore are glad merry and joyfull for that you are accepted into Gods favour have your sins pardoned and are endued with the good spirit of God even the seale and signe Manuel of your election in Christ Jesus even before the beginning of the World The which spirit for that he is the Spirit of life is given to you to work in you with you and by you here in this life sanctification and holinesse whereunto you are called that so ye might be holy even as your heavenly father is holy I beseech you all by admonition and warning of you that you would stirre up the gifts of God given to you generally and particularly to the edifying of his Church that is I pray you that you would not molest the good Spirit of God by rebelling against it when it provoketh and calleth you to goe on forward that he which is holy might yet be more holy he which is righteous might be more righteous as the evill spirit moveth and stirreth up the filthy to be yet more filthy the covetous to be more covetous the wicked to be more wicked Declare you now your repentance by workes of repentance Bring forth fruits and worthy fruits Let your sorrowing for your evils demonstrate it selfe departing from the evils you have used Let your certainty of pardon of your sins through Christ and your joy in him be demonstrated by pursuing of the good things which Gods word teacheth you You are now in Christ Jesus Gods workmanship to doe good works which God hath prepared for you to walk in For the grace of God that bringeth salvation unto all men hath appeared and teacheth us that we should deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should live soberly righteously godlily in this present world looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ which gave himselfe for us to redeeme us from all unrighteousnesse and to purge us a peculiar people unto himselfe fervently given unto good workes Again Titus 3. For we our selves also were in times past unwise disobedient deceived serving lusts and divers pleasures living in maliciousnesse and envy full of hate and hating one another But after that the kindnesse and love of God our Saviour to man-ward appeared not by the deeds of righteousnesse which we wrought but of his mercy he saved us by the fountain of the new birth and with the renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour that we once justified by his grace should be heires of eternall life through hope This is a true saying But I will make an end for I am too tedious Dearely beloved repent your sinnes that is be sorry for that which is past beleeve in Gods mercy for pardon how deepely soever you have sinned and both purpose and earnestly pursue a new life bringing forth worthy and True fruits of Repentance As you have given over your members from sin to sin to serve the Divel your tongues to sweare to lye to flatter to scold to jest to scoffe to beastly talke to vain jangling to boasting c. Your hands to picking griping idlenesse fighting c. Your feet to skipping going to evill to dancing c. Your eares to heare Fables lyes vanities and evill things c. So now give over your members to godlinesse your tongues to speak your eares to heare your eyes to see your mouthes to tast your hands to worke your feet to goe about such things as may make to Gods glory sobriety of life and love to your brethren and that daily more and more diligently for in this way to stand you cannot either better or worse you are to day then you were yesterday But better I trust you be and will be if you marke my Theme that is repent you The which thing that you would as before I have humbly besought you even so now yet once more I doe again beseech you and that for the mercies of God in Jesus Christ our Lord Repent you repent you for the Kingdome of heaven that is a Kingdome full of riches pleasures mirth beauty sweetnesse and eternall felicity is at hand The eye hath not seen the like the eare hath not heard the like the heart of man cannot conceive the treasures and pleasures of this Kingdome which is now at hand to such as Repent that is to such as are sorry for their sinnes beleeve Gods mercy through Christ and earnestly purpose to lead a new life The God of mercy through Christ his Sonne grant us his holy spirit and work in our hearts this sorrow faith and new life which through his grace I have spoken of both now and for ever AMEN FINIS Marc. 4.33 Lumen orationis perspicuitas Aug. who would call a bone ossum to avoid the ambiguity in os in Psal. 138. secundum Aug. Mr R. Ca. of Tentat 1. Resipiscentia 2 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 3 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Deut. 6.2 Mat. 22. Mark 20. Luke 10. Ioh. 3. Mat. 6. Luke 17. Apoc. 22. Deut. 4.1 Phil. 4. Isai 45. 1 Joh. 2. Iames 2. Rom. 7. Gen. 6. Gen. 19. Gen. 19. Josua Caleb Num. 14. Lev. 24a Num. 13. 1 K. 5. 3 Reg. 21.22 4 Reg. 21. 4 Reg. 10. Isai 31. Mat. 7. Heb. 10.

that giveth the more to his enemies will he not give the lesse to his friends God hath given his own Son then which nothing is greater even to us his enemies and we now being become his friends will he deny us faith and pardon of our sinnes which though they be great yet in comparison they are nothing at all to the price given Christ Jesus would give his own selfe for us when we willed it not and will he now deny us Faith if we will it This will is his earnest that he hath given us truly to look indeed for the thing willed And look thou for it indeed for as he hath given thee to will so will he give thee to doe Jesus Christ gave his life for our evils and by his death he delivered us O then in that he liveth now and cannot dye will he forsake us his heart blood was not too deare for us when we asked it not what can then be now too deare for us asking it Is he a changeling Is he mutable as a man is Can he repent him of his gifts Did he not foresee our falls Paid not he therefore the price Because he saw we should fall sore therefore would he suffer sore Yea if his suffering had not been enough he would yet once more come again God the Father I may say if the death of his sonne incarnate would not serve would himselfe and the Holy Ghost also become incarnate and dye for us This Death of Christ therefore look on as the very pledge of Gods love towards thee whosoever thou art how deepe soever thou hast sinned See Gods hands are nailed they cannot strike thee his feet also he cannot run from thee his armes are wide open to embrace thee his head hangs down to kisse thee his very heart is open so that therein looke nay even see and thou shalt see nothing therein but love love love love to thee hide thee there lay thy head there with the Evangelist This is the clift of the Rock wherein Elias stood This is for all aking heads a pillow of downe Anoint thy head with this oile let this oyntment embalme thy head and wash thy face Tarry thou on this firme rock and I le warrant thee Say with Paul What can separate me from the love of God can death can poverty can sicknesse hunger or any misery perswade thee now that God loveth thee not Nay nothing can seperate thee from the love wherewith God hath loved thee in Christ Jesus whom he loveth he loveth to the end So that now where abundance of sin hath been in thee the more is the abundance of grace But to what end Certainly that as sinne hath reigned to death as thou seest to the killing of Gods Sonne so now Grace must raigne to life to the honouring of Gods Sonne who is now alive and cannot dye any more So that they which by faith feele this cannot any more dye to God but to sinne whereto they are dead and buried with Christ As Christ therefore liveth so doe they and that to God to righteousnesse and holinesse The life which they live is In fide Filii Dei in the faith of the Sonne of God whereby you see that now I am slipt into that which I made the third part of repentance namely newnesse of life which I could not so have done if that it were a part of it selfe indeed it is an effect or fruit of the second part that is of faith or trust in Gods mercy For he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded sinne to be such a thing that is the cause of all misery and of it selfe so greatly angreth God that in Heaven nor in earth nothing could appease his wrath save onely the death and precious bloodshedding of the Sonne of God in whom is all the delight and pleasure of the Father he I say that is perswaded thus of his sinne the same cannot but in heart abhorre and quake to doe or say yea to think any thing willingly which Gods Law teacheth him to be sinne Again he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded Gods love to be so much towards him that where through sinne he was lost and made a firebrand of Hell the eternall Father of mercy which is the omni-sufficient God and needeth nothing in us or of any thing that we can doe to deliver us out of Hell and to bring us into Heaven did send even his own most deare Sonne out of his bosome out of heaven into hell as a man would say to bring us as I said from thence into his own bosome and mercy we being his very enemies he I say that is thus perswaded of Gods love towards him and of the price of his redemption by the deare blood of the Lamb immaculate Jesus Christ the same man cannot but love God againe and of love doe that and heartily desire to doe better the which might please God Think you that such a one knowing these things by Faith will willingly insist and wallow in his wilfull lusts pleasures and fantasies Will such a one as knoweth by Faith Christ Jesus to have given his blood to wash him from his sinnes play the Sow to nuzle in his puddle of filthy sinne and vice againe Nay rather then he will be defiled againe by his wilfull sinning he will wash often the feet of his affections watching over the vice still sticking in him which as a spring continually sendeth out poyson enough to drowne and defile him if the sweet water of Christs passion in Gods sight did not wash it and his blood satisfy the rigour of Gods justice due for the same This blood of Christ shed for our sinnes is so deare in the sight of him that beleeveth that he will abhorre in his heart to stamp it and tread it under his feet He knoweth now by his beleefe that it is too much that hitherto he hath set too little by it and is ashamed thereof Therefore for the residue of his life he purposeth to take better heed to himselfe then before he did Because he seeth by his faith the grievousnesse of Gods anger the foulenesse of sin the greatnesse of Gods mercy and of Christs love towards him he will now be heedy to pray unto God to give him his grace accordingly that as with his eyes and tongue hands and feet c. he hath displeased God doing his own will even so now with the same eyes tongue c. he may displease his own selfe and doe Gods will Willingly will he not doe that which might renew the death of the sonne of God He knoweth he hath too much sinne unwillingly in him so that thereto he will not adde willing offences This willing and witting offending sinning whosoever doth flatter himselfe therein doth evidently demonstrate and shew that he never yet indeed tasted of Christ truly He was never truely perswaded or beleeved how foule a thing sinne is how grievous a thing Gods anger