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A18126 A sermon of the nature and end of repentance shadowed in the ministerie of Iohn the Baptist. Preached the Sunday afore Lent. 1613. Case, William, 1584 or 5-1634. 1616 (1616) STC 4767; ESTC S107898 20,795 36

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A SERMON OF THE NATVRE AND END OF Repentance Shadowed in the Ministerie of John the Baptist Preached the Sunday afore Lent 1613. IOHN 3.3 Verely verely I say vnto thee except that a man be borne of water and the Spirit hee cannot enter into the kingdome of God LONDON Printed by T. S. for Edmund Weauer and are to sould at the great South-dore of Pauls 1616. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER in God THOMAS Lord Bishop Elect of CHESTER my very good LORD My Reuerend Lord BEing heretofore moued for some considerations to publish this Sermon I remained somewhat doubtfull in the Dedication thereof vntill the newes of your Lordships aduancement quickly setled my resolution For where better could I haue implor'd Patronage then where both eminent authoritie of Place as also your Lordships particular fauour towards me seemed no lesse enforcedly to inuite by loue then compell by dutie For which respect I haue now presumed vpon your Lordships acceptance trusting the rather to obtaine pardon for this my bold intrusion and also indulgent censure of these my vnworthy labours presented to your learned view as chalenging the goodnesse of your Lordships disposition and freely offered courtesie guiltie of this my attempt and a chiefe cause hereof The Lord God guide and assist your Lordship with the blessed directions of his most holy spirit in the discharge of your high calling in this life and in the life to come giue you the reward of immortalitie and euerlasting glory Your Lordships in all duetie to be commanded WILLIAM CASE OF THE NATVRE AND END OF REpentance shadowed in the Ministerie of IOHN the BAPTIST IOHN 1. Ver. 31. Therefore am I come Baptizing with Water THe life of a Christian in this world is a medlie consisting of much varietie a continuall entercourse of changeable succession Eccles 3.2 c. For there is a time to be borne saith Salomon and a time to die a time to plant and a time to plucke vp a time to kill and a time to heale a time to breake downe and a time to build vp A time to weepe and a time to laugh a time to daunce and a time to mourne Sic tristia secundis secunda tristibus vicissitudo acerba sortis temperat So wise is the euer admirable Creatour in all his workes saith one as to temper the actions of the life of man with such proportion and counterpoyse that no prosperitie shall be without his succeeding inconuenience no aduersitie without his comfort to chase out of mans minde securitie and despaire the onely enemies of all wise and vertuous courses That time beloued is but a small whiles past when there was nothing heard in your gates but the voice of ioy and gladnesse of mirth and solace and that vpon so good a cause as a better the world was neuer made partaker of the memorie of the blessed Incarnation of the worlds Redeemer But now least the proud heart of man should be exalted aboue measure and puffed vp through aboundance of consolations Behold there is a contrary occasion of a contrary affection the sinne of man to counteruaile the grace of God that as afore we haue had cause of reioycing and feasting so now the time approacheth and is at hand wherein we haue inuitation to lamenting and fasting So that hauing already celebrated with mirth and great ioy the memorie of Christs comming into the world it remaines in the next place that now by sorrow and repentance we prepare for his comming vnto vs. For it is the same path which our Euangelist hath trodden out vnto vs in this Chapter Wherein after he had in the beginning thereof Diuinely proposed the comming of that light into the world which the world being shut vp in blindenesse was not able to comprehend in the next place immediately he proceedeth vnto the Ministerie of Iohn Baptist the Ministerie of humiliation and repentance the better to prepare the soules of men to entertaine that heauenly guest for which in that estate they naturally were in they were most vnfit For indeede it was the meere scope of Iohns Ministerie to prepare those by repentance which by the ministerie of Christ were afterwards to be sanctified by faith and other graces of the spirit Which thing as the Baptist vpon occasion diuers times in sundrie passages of this Chapter specifieth and witnesseth of himselfe so specially in this place vpon the sight of Iesus comming towards him as you may see in the coherence he inferreth this same testimonie of his owne Ministerie in the words which I haue now read vnto you Therefore am I come Baptizing with water intimating vnto his Disciples two things which are now also of vs to be considered His Office and the end of his office His Office and Ministerie in these words I am come Baptizing with water and the end of his Office implied and included in the illatiue particle therefore that is to say that Christ might be made manifest vnto Israel therefore am I come Baptizing with water So that in these words now read vnto you I haue occasion giuen to speake of the Office of Iohn Baptist in a twofold respect First of the positiue absolute nature of it what it is and the parts thereof And secondly of the relatiue nature of it how of it selfe it is but a rudiment and a preparatiue to a further degree of perfection and yet notwithstanding so necessarie that the other without it is likewise imperfect The absolute nature of his office and ministerie is here noted out vnto vs to be the Baptisme of water which as it is many times taken figuratiuely in the Scriptures in diuers significations so especially in this place by a synechadoche it is taken for the whole course of Iohns calling and Ministerie Whereof thereare two parts The substance of it which was the doctrine of repentance for the remission of sinnes And secondly the ceremonie of it or the seale of that doctrine the outward administration of the Sacrament of Baptisme To speake therefore properly of the substance of Iohns Baptisme is to speake of Repentance which hee Preached onely in the whole course of his Ministerie Now what repentance is where should we better learne then of him who was the Preacher of Repentance of the Baptist himselfe the precursor of the worlds Sauiour who teacheth it first by Precept secondly by the parts of it and thirdly by Patterne in his owne example By Precept shewing that it must be by parts of it shewing what it must be and by patterne shewing how it must be practised of all that hope to reape benefit by the incarnation of Christ Iesus And first he taught it by precept in the third of Mathew ver 3. When he saith Repent for the Kingdome of God is at hand Which sentence seemeth not so much a precept imposing by commandment a duety necessarily to be performed as a counsell because a reason is annexed for then he might haue said Repent and no more Neither