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A10793	Of the foolishnes of men in putting-off the amendement of their liues from daie to daie a godlie and profitable treatise for the present time; written in the Latine tongue by that reuerend and worthie member of Christ his church in this age, Iohn Riuius. Newlie translated by Thomas Rogers.; De stultitia mortalium, in procrastinanda correctione vitæ. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1582 (1582)	STC 21066; ESTC S105156	60,254	183

of amending their life neither can they be driuen easilie from their pleasaunt fellowship So that although they frequēt godlie Sermōs are admonished by good-men in authoritie yea and them-selues too through the feare of Gods indignation doo desire to reforme their manners and that earnestlie yet I knowe not how they driue off from daie to daie and can neither vnfeinedlie repent nor at any time come home againe In the meane while when they litle thinke thereof sudden death many times striketh them vnawares For as euerie man is sure to die so the houre of death is vncertaine And therefore we are willed in the scripture to watch and to be readie against the last daie of life Hetherto maketh that of our Sauiour in Luke where he saith Be yee prepared therefore for the sonne of man will come in an houre when yee thinke not Cap. 9. ❧ An other cause of deferring repentaunce THere is another cause why many of the common people do prolong and deferre the correctiō of their life For there be some and those verie zelous too for we maie not thinke otherwise yet not circumspect enough in this point which in their Sermons laie open the mercie of God the remission of sinnes and such other thinges tending vnto our redemptiō they vrge full zelouslie but of newnes of life in Christ of holines and quickening of the holie spirit they speake either nothing at all or verie litle For according to the doctrine of Paule he that would be counted a Christiā must die to sinne liue to righteousnes cast off the olde man vvith all his vvorkes and put on the newe and so walke liue proue worthy the Gospel of Christ. Againe God giueth the holie spirit to such as beleeue and call vpon him which maie raise new motions in the heart and as it were regenerate the will of man and driue him vnto all duties of godlines and to all vertues seemelie for a Christian and finallie to a life aunswerable and agreeing to the profession of the Gospell Of which we haue spoken at large in an other place Oh how much are the mindes of simple people offended by these and such like speeches Be thou saie they an adulterer a fornicator a couetous person or defiled with any other vice or wickednes beleeue onlie and thou shalt be saued As for the lawe thou needest not feare it for Christ hath fulfilled the lawe and satisfied for the sinnes of mankinde These wordes without peraduenture doo much offend the eares of the godlie and open a gap to the committing of wickednes and are a cause that men doo not think of amending their manners but perseuere obstinatelie in vice and wickednes yea and to saie the truth animate such as are ill bent vnto all impietie and as I maie saie cut off all occasion of repentaunce How much better did Paule who as Luke in the Actes recordeth did not only preach vnto Felix and to Drusilla his wife the faith which is in Christ but disputed also of righteousnes and temperaunce and of the iudgement to come in so much that Felix trembled therat Yea and the same Paule againe in the Actes witnesseth how that he shewed vnto the Gentiles not onlie that they should repent and turne to God but ouer and besides doo vvorkes vvorthie amendment of life Thus you haue the causes in a manner why we are wont to prolong and deferre the correction of our life Now doo we purpose to shew what remedie maie be found for this mischiefe all be in part we haue it alreadie Cap. 10. ¶ A remedie against incredulitie which is the first cause why man doth not repent Of which afore Chapter second AGainst this incredulity therfore of ours cōcerning the iudgement to come the paines of the wicked and immortall happines of the godlie the authoritie of God our Lord and sauiour Christ vnles we had rather to be counted than in deede be Christians will preuaile out of doubt if we remember and set as it were before the eies of our minde those sayings which are contained in the holie scripture cōcerning this matter As that is of many to recite a few in the 〈◊〉 after Iohn The houre shall come saith he in the which all that are in the graues shall heare his voice And they shall come foorth that haue done good vnto the resurrection of life but they that haue done euill vnto the resurrection of condemnation c. Againe he saith This is the will of him that sent me that euerie one which hath the Sonne and beleeueth in him shall haue euerlasting life and I will raise him vp at the last daie Furthermore in the Gospel after Matthew speaking of the last iudgement among other thinges our sauiour telleth of the sentence he will pronoūce vpon the godlie on this wise Come ye blessed of my Father inherit yee the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world And on the other side of the wicked he saith Depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the Diuell and his Angels And a litle after And they shall goe into euerlasting paine and the righteous into life eternall O horible sentence of the Iudge condemning the wicked vnto euerlasting fire Now if the feare of earthly Iudges doo astonish malefactors how should they stand in feare of the celestiall Iudge or how should their gilty cōscience terrifie them If thou art so afraid of the Iudge in this world from whom notwithstanding thou maist appeale how much more oughtest thou to stand in dread of that Iudge to whose verdict thou must stand Depart from me yee cursed he saith How horrible then wil it be from God him-selfe who is the souereigne and excellēt happines to be seperated from the fellowship of the righteous and holie spirites to be debarred to be excluded from the eternall blessednes of the celestiall kingdome which is such and so great that neither wordes can expresse nor the minde comprehend nor all the cogitations of man cōceaue the same and not onlie so but to be sent vnto extreame tormentes in hell and condemned vnto euerlasting fire the heate whereof is so extreame that our fire in comparison thereof is but ice and so continue worldes without end among the diuels voide of all hope of better state What thinke you that men would liue so wretchedlie as they doo if they remembred these things But they remember not what Peter in the Actes of the Apostles witnesseth that Christ is ordeined of God a Iudge of quicke and dead whereof Paule in like sort vnto Timothie maketh mention Againe vnto the Corinthians he saith For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ that euerie man maie receaue the thinges which are done in the bodie according to that he hath done whether it be good or euill In which iudgement as testifieth the same Paule He will lighten thinges that are done in darknes and make the councels of the